Chapter Summaries

Tang San lost the auction for the Deep Sea Mother Gold when Ning Xian bid ten million Gold Soul Coins, then watched Ning Xian leave with Dugu Yan. At Dugu Manor, Ning Xian began fusing the metal into the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda, explaining that it would connect the third floor’s Stars Pattern with its Water Vein.

• Tang San bid seven million Gold Soul Coins for the Deep Sea Mother Gold, but Ning Xian raised the price through Dugu Yan and ultimately won it for ten million.
• Ning Xian paid for the metal, and the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda responded as the Dragon Kings’ power marked it with xuanhuang patterns.
• Tang San admitted he could not afford another bid, then watched Ning Xian leave with Dugu Yan and vowed that the Deep Sea Mother Gold should have been his.
• Dugu Yan brought Ning Xian to Dugu Manor and showed him the East Courtyard, where she invited him to stay near her room.
• Ning Xian brought out the Deep Sea Mother Gold and began fusing it into the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda’s third floor to connect the Stars Pattern with the Water Vein.

Ning Xian reshaped Dugu Yan’s bloodline, drawing the poison back into her Martial Soul and giving her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor signs of dragon transformation. As the Powerhouse Ranking revealed its fifth place, Bo Saixi of Sea God Island was named, and the islanders celebrated their Great Enshrined.

• Ning Xian merged deep sea mother gold into the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda, creating a starlit lake on its third tier that Dugu Yan planned to bathe in.
• Ning Xian used the Jadeite Snakeheart Orchid, icy dew, and Xuanhuang Power to reshape Dugu Yan’s bloodline, returning her poison to her Martial Soul and giving it horns and signs of dragon transformation.
• Dugu Yan bathed in the pagoda’s lake while Ning Xian continued refining its Array Patterns, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang speculated about Ning Xian before the ranking resumed.
• Ning Xian told Dugu Yan that Bo Saixi, Sea God Island’s Great Enshrined, was fifth in the Powerhouse Ranking.
• The Sky Screen revealed Bo Saixi before Sea God Hall, and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardian Douluos and Sea God Island’s residents congratulated her.

The Sky Screen revealed Bo Saixi’s level 99 strength and her ability to briefly wield god-level power by drawing on Sea God Island and the sea. It showed her defeating Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen in her domain, while the four powerhouses ranked above her remained unknown.

• The Sky Screen ranked Bo Saixi fifth and revealed that she was a level 99 Sea God Douluo who could command the sea, prompting Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Tang Xiao, Gu Yuena, and the Snow Empress to assess her power.
• Dugu Yan watched Bo Saixi with Ning Xian and tried to coax him into revealing the four higher-ranked powerhouses, but he refused.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King acknowledged that Bo Saixi had been stronger than him before he became a god, then declared that she could no longer stop him.
• The Sky Screen revealed Bo Saixi’s rapid rise to level 99 and her ability to reach god level briefly by drawing on Sea God Island’s power.
• In the Sky Screen’s account, Bo Saixi used the Sea God Domain and Sea God’s Twilight to defeat Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, earning the title of strongest among the three Peerless Douluos within Sea God Island.

The Heavenly Dao ranked Bo Saixi fifth after revealing how she defeated Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen on Sea God Island, where she could wield god-level power. It then rewarded her with Sea God origin and an evolved divine domain, leaving her empowered as a giant Sea God phantom appeared above the island.

• The Sky Screen revealed that Bo Saixi had defeated Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen in succession and named her fifth on the Douluo Continent Powerhouse Ranking.
• Bo Saixi and the residents of Sea God Island reflected on her strength and her long wait for Tang Chen, while Qian Daoliu, Gu Yuena, the Snow Empress, and others discussed the limits and source of her power.
• Dugu Yan told Ning Xian that she wanted to grow stronger and enter the fourth floor sooner.
• The Heavenly Dao began Bo Saixi's reward, raising her divine body completion to eighty percent and bringing her soul power to the peak of Level 99.
• The Heavenly Dao evolved Bo Saixi's Sea God Domain into the Sea-Heaven Divine Domain, which covered Sea God Island and let her command the origins of the ocean, sky, and island.
• Bo Saixi raised her scepter as a thousand-zhang Sea God phantom appeared above the Sea God Hall.

Bo Saixi received the Sea-Heaven Divine Domain and Sacred Staff, gaining control of Sea God Island and the ability to briefly wield First-Level God combat power there. At Dugu Manor, Dugu Yan tested her transformed bloodline and poison control, while Tang San brooded over losing deep sea mother gold at auction to Ning Xian.

• The Sky Screen gave Bo Saixi Sea God origin, an evolved domain, and the Sea-Heaven Sacred Staff, uniting Sea God Island's power under her control.
• Bo Saixi and the Sky-Devouring Demon God held their divine domains against each other across the sea without attacking.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian discussed how Bo Saixi's rewards strengthened her without granting her a Divine Position outright.
• Dugu Yan demonstrated that her transformed Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor could contain and recall its poison, then asked Ning Xian about reaching the fourth floor at Level 60.
• Ning Xian agreed that Dugu Yan could enter the fourth floor once she reached Level 60, and she planned to cultivate twelve hours each day.
• Tang San remembered losing the deep sea mother gold auction to Ning Xian and resented that he had been unable to afford the winning bid.

Tang San and Zhao Wuji planned to steal the deep sea mother gold from Ning Xian, who left Dugu Manor alone to buy wine. When Zhao Wuji attacked him in an alley, Ning Xian’s Mystic Yellow Radiance suppressed his martial soul and Soul Rings, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tang San decided he would reclaim the deep sea mother gold, and Zhao Wuji agreed to help him despite Yu Xiaogang’s warning about Dugu Bo.
• Tang San and Zhao Wuji waited outside Dugu Manor, then followed Ning Xian when he left alone to buy wine.
• Zhao Wuji blocked Ning Xian in a deserted alley and demanded the deep sea mother gold and his Storage Soul Tool while Tang San hid nearby.
• Ning Xian set down his wine jars and warned Zhao Wuji that he would get no further chance to speak.
• Ning Xian’s Mystic Yellow Radiance stopped Zhao Wuji’s attack, destroyed his Great Strength Vajra Bear manifestation, and darkened his seven Soul Rings.

Ning Xian killed Zhao Wuji after he tried to take the Deep Sea Mother Gold, then returned to Dugu Yan and continued supporting her cultivation. The Golden Ranking revealed Qian Daoliu in fourth place as a Level 99 Peerless Douluo who was invincible in the sky, leaving the Worship Hall wondering what his Sky Authority meant.

• Ning Xian crushed Zhao Wuji's Martial Soul Avatar and killed him, while Tang San watched and later sent up a signal flare to summon help.
• Ning Xian returned to Dugu Manor, told Dugu Yan what had happened, and let her enter the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda to cultivate.
• Ning Xian and Dugu Yan discussed the Golden Ranking's impending fourth-place reveal, and Ning Xian identified Qian Daoliu.
• The Sky Screen named Qian Daoliu fourth, listing his Level 99 Soul Power, Angel Domain, Sky Authority, and strength that increased across the board in the sky.
• The enshrined at Spirit Hall congratulated Qian Daoliu, while Golden Crocodile Douluo wondered whether he could harness the power of the sky.

The Sky Screen revealed Qian Daoliu's power over the sky and ranked him fourth on the Douluo Continent Powerhouse Ranking before granting him three rewards. His Divine Body reached eighty percent completion, his Angel Domain evolved into the Firmament Divine Domain, and his Angel Holy Sword became the Firmament Sacred Sword, leaving him able to briefly wield First-Level God combat power within his domain.

• The Sky Screen showed Qian Daoliu using his Six-Winged Angel martial soul and sky authority, and named him fourth on the Douluo Continent Powerhouse Ranking.
• Tang Xiao judged that Qian Daoliu could not overpower Bo Saixi on Sea God Island, while Dugu Bo and Ning Xian discussed how Qian Daoliu compared with Bo Saixi and the Sky-Devouring Demon God.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Qian Daoliu with Angel God Origin, raising his Divine Body completion to eighty percent and his soul power to the peak of Level 99.
• The Angel Domain evolved into the Firmament Divine Domain, allowing Qian Daoliu to wield sky origin and briefly unleash First-Level God combat power within it.
• The Angel Holy Sword evolved into the Firmament Sacred Sword, which gave Qian Daoliu core control of the Firmament Divine Domain and the ability to wield sun origin.

Qian Daoliu received divine rewards that strengthened his power in the sky, while observers compared him with Bo Saixi and the Sky-Devouring Demon God. After the ranking announcement ended, Dugu Yan shared wine, pastries, and a failed meal with Ning Xian, then asked him to shop for clothes and help transplant a begonia seedling.

• Qian Daoliu gained the Angel God's origin essence, the Firmament Divine Domain, and the Firmament Sacred Sword, bringing him closer to a Divine Position.
• Di Tian, Snow Empress, the Sky-Devouring Demon God, and Dugu Yan discussed how Qian Daoliu's strength depended on fighting in the sky, while Ning Xian said he needed no territory.
• Dugu Yan asked Ning Xian for wine, shared pastries with him, and requested rewards for her bloodline reshaping and rise to rank twenty-eight.
• Dugu Yan cooked salty, undercooked noodles for Ning Xian, and he used Xuanhuang Power to remove the excess salt and finish cooking them.
• Dugu Yan asked Ning Xian to shop for clothes with her and help plant a begonia tree on the third level, then led him outside and began digging up a seedling.

Dugu Yan planted a begonia sapling beside Starry Lake, spent the night with Ning Xian, and learned to separate Star Power from the lake water. As the Golden Ranking began revealing third place, Ning Xian said the ranked being was a Soul Beast, and Dugu Yan waited to see it appear.

• Dugu Yan planted a begonia sapling beside Starry Lake and claimed the lakeshore as her cultivation spot.
• Ning Xian carried Dugu Yan back to his room, helped her recover from her bloodline reconstruction, and stayed beside her as she slept.
• In the morning, Ning Xian gave Dugu Yan spiritual liquid from Starry Lake and combed her hair before they returned to the third floor.
• Dugu Yan practiced separating Star Power from the lake water until she gathered a bowl of spiritual liquid herself.
• The Golden Ranking appeared over Starry Lake, and Ning Xian told Dugu Yan that a powerful Soul Beast would take third place.

The golden ranking revealed Di Tian, the 890,000-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and Beast God of Star Dou Great Forest, as third place and the strongest combatant below godhood. As the continent reacted to his power, Ning Xian and Dugu Yan watched from Dugu Manor, where the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ aura let her resist his bloodline suppression.

• Ning Xian told Dugu Yan that third place was Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and Beast God of Star Dou Great Forest.
• The ranking revealed Di Tian’s 890,000 years of cultivation, pureblood dragon form, command of darkness and space, and unmatched head-on strength below godhood.
• Soul beasts across the continent submitted to Di Tian’s presence, while Yu Yuanzhen’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul lowered its head in fear.
• Tang San, Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, the Sky-Devouring Demon God, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress assessed Di Tian’s power and standing.
• At Dugu Manor, Di Tian’s bloodline suppressed Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, but Dugu Yan resisted the effect through the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ aura in the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda.

Di Tian’s ranking as third on the Douluo Continent Powerhouse Ranking was revealed, along with his extraordinary strength and Dragon God Claw. The Heavenly Dao began distributing his rewards, evolving his bloodline into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon Emperor and raising his cultivation to nine hundred thousand years and his divine body completion to ninety percent.

• Ning Xian told Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo that Di Tian could not break the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda, even with the Dragon God Claw.
• The sky showed Di Tian overpowering Xiong Jun and several Ferocious Beasts, then revealed that he ranked third on the continent and could defeat an ordinary Demigod.
• Gu Yuena explained that Di Tian lacked a divine position because soul beasts could not condense one under the Divine Realm’s restriction.
• The Heavenly Dao’s first reward gave Di Tian Dragon God origin, completed his bloodline into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon Emperor, raised his cultivation to nine hundred thousand years, and completed his divine body to ninety percent while bearing his ninth tribulation.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Qian Daoliu, and the Sky-Devouring Demon God witnessed Di Tian’s transformation and assessed his strengthened power.
• Di Tian absorbed the essence of the ninth tribulation, and Gu Yuena said his bloodline and divine body could now bear more of the Dragon God’s Power.

Di Tian received the Heavenly Dao’s rewards, evolving into a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon Emperor with a Black Dragon Divine Domain and Dragon God Heavenly Claw, granting him First-Level God combat power. Dugu Yan asked Ning Xian about Di Tian’s strength and the Dragon God Claw, then stayed in his room overnight before their planned shopping trip.

• Di Tian’s Black Dragon Domain evolved into a nine-layer Black Dragon Divine Domain that let him continuously wield First-Level God combat power and suppress space.
• Di Tian received dragon god true blood, which evolved his Dragon God Claw into the Dragon God Heavenly Claw, capable of tearing through first-level divine domains and wounding First-Level Gods.
• Bo Saixi and Snow Empress assessed Di Tian’s new strength, while the Ferocious Beasts congratulated him and Gu Yuena ordered him to master his new power.
• Dugu Yan asked Ning Xian whether Di Tian could defeat the Sky-Devouring Demon God and whether she could learn the Dragon God Claw, and Ning Xian said she could not use it yet.
• Dugu Yan stayed in Ning Xian’s room, asked him to wake her at dawn for their planned clothes shopping, and fell asleep holding his sleeve.

Dugu Yan spent the morning shopping for clothes with Ning Xian, then returned to Dugu Manor to cultivate with him. Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang arrived to demand justice for Zhao Wuji, but Ning Xian overwhelmed Flender and Liu Erlong, leaving Yu Xiaogang to offer Liu Erlong up to save himself.

• Dugu Yan bought seven dresses, chose a white one to wear, and bought Ning Xian an ink-black robe.
• Dugu Yan told Ning Xian she wanted to cultivate harder because Di Tian was already nine hundred thousand years old and she was still rank twenty-eight.
• Dugu Bo informed Ning Xian and Dugu Yan that Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang had come to demand an explanation for Zhao Wuji's death.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Ning Xian hand over the Deep Sea Mother Gold and apologize, while Dugu Yan defended Ning Xian and refused to let the visitors threaten him.
• Flender and Liu Erlong attacked, but Ning Xian suppressed their Soul Power and shattered Flender's eight Soul Rings.
• With Flender incapacitated and Liu Erlong unable to stop Ning Xian, Yu Xiaogang offered to hand Liu Erlong over.

Yu Xiaogang tried to save himself by offering Liu Erlong to Ning Xian, but she rejected him and watched as Ning Xian killed him. Liu Erlong chose to stay at Dugu Manor, where she began settling into her new life serving Ning Xian and Dugu Yan.

• Yu Xiaogang offered Liu Erlong to Ning Xian to spare his life, but Liu Erlong refused to be his bargaining chip and ended their relationship.
• Ning Xian pinned Yu Xiaogang down and killed him despite his attempts to bargain with Soul Bones, secret manuals, and Tang San's secret.
• Liu Erlong told Ning Xian she would not avenge Yu Xiaogang and asked to stay at Dugu Manor to protect it and follow his orders.
• Ning Xian allowed Liu Erlong to stay, while Flender left the manor alone after she refused to go with him.
• Dugu Yan assigned Liu Erlong kitchen duties and invited her to train; Liu Erlong went to the kitchen and asked what Senior liked to eat.

Liu Erlong cooked lunch with Dugu Yan, then joined her and Ning Xian in cultivating at Starry Lake. After Ning Xian healed Liu Erlong’s hidden injuries, she affirmed that she had chosen to stay, while Dugu Yan arranged for her to live near the east courtyard and cultivate with them.

• Liu Erlong taught Dugu Yan to cook, and the two prepared lunch for Ning Xian.
• Ning Xian praised Liu Erlong’s fish soup and tasted Dugu Yan’s overcooked vegetables as the group ate together.
• Liu Erlong told Dugu Yan that she called Ning Xian “Master” to remind herself she had chosen to stay, and Dugu Yan encouraged her to begin living anew.
• Ning Xian led Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong into the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda, where Dugu Yan tested her transforming Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor against Liu Erlong’s Blazing Fire Dragon.
• Ning Xian healed Liu Erlong’s hidden injuries and restored Dugu Yan’s Soul Power, while Dugu Yan asked Liu Erlong to cultivate with her and teach her to cook.
• Dugu Yan decided to cultivate with Ning Xian every day and arranged for Liu Erlong to stay in an empty room near the east courtyard.

Liu Erlong settled into Dugu Manor, where Dugu Yan helped her choose a new dress and later learned to cook with her. As Dugu Yan cultivated beside Ning Xian, Tang Hao learned of the deaths at Dugu Manor and decided to investigate Ning Xian that night; dinner preparations then began at the manor.

• Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong nurtured the crabapple sapling, and Liu Erlong used her Soul Power to help it grow.
• Dugu Yan showed Liu Erlong her new room and red dress, helped her dress and combed her hair, and Liu Erlong thanked her.
• Dugu Yan spent time with Ning Xian, had him regulate her bloodline, and cultivated until she was close to a breakthrough.
• Tang Hao learned that Zhao Wuji and Yu Xiaogang had died and Flender had been gravely injured at Dugu Manor, then decided to seek out Ning Xian that night.
• Dugu Yan finished cultivating and asked Ning Xian to promise he would eat the food she learned to cook; Liu Erlong brought dinner and agreed to teach her how to simmer soup.

Tang Hao confronted Ning Xian outside Dugu Manor, but Ning Xian overwhelmed him and destroyed his Clear Sky Hammer and cultivation. Tang Hao lay defeated at Ning Xian’s feet, still refusing to accept what had happened.

• Tang Hao watched Dugu Manor through the night and challenged Ning Xian outside its gates the next morning.
• Ning Xian stopped Tang Hao’s attacks, forced him to kneel, and temporarily suppressed his Soul Power.
• Tang Hao refused to leave and attacked again, so Ning Xian shattered the Clear Sky Hammer and reduced Tang Hao’s Soul Power to Level 30.
• Ning Xian destroyed Tang Hao’s red Soul Ring and struck him against the manor wall, leaving him prostrate and still defiant.

Ning Xian killed Tang Hao and returned to Dugu Manor, where he ate with Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong before taking them to Starry Lake. Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong cultivated beside a growing begonia seedling while Ning Xian drank nearby.

• Ning Xian disintegrated Tang Hao with Mystic Yellow Radiance, and Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong discussed the possible response from Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Xian, Dugu Yan, and Liu Erlong shared fish soup and wine, and Dugu Yan agreed to focus on reaching level fifty before comparing herself to Di Tian.
• Dugu Yan helped Liu Erlong wash dishes, and Liu Erlong said she no longer felt sad about Yu Xiaogang and still called Ning Xian her master to remind herself of her place.
• Ning Xian took Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong through a Xuanhuang Light Gate to Starry Lake, where Liu Erlong nourished the begonia seedling with her Soul Power.
• Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong cultivated beside the seedling as Ning Xian drank, and the Soul Power within Dugu Yan continued to grow through the night.

The Golden Ranking revealed Gu Yuena as second place on the Douluo Continent, above Di Tian, and showed her immense power as the Silver Dragon King. The ranking’s rewards restored her divine body, granted her the Silver Dragon Divine Domain and Dragon God memories, while first place remained unknown.

• Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts wondered who could rank above Di Tian, and Gu Yuena appeared on the sky screen as second place.
• The ranking identified Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King, described her command of seven elements, and showed that she could fight a God King head-on after recovering her full strength.
• Soul Masters across the continent, including Bo Saixi, Qian Daoliu, the Sky-Devouring Demon God, and the Snow Empress, reacted to Gu Yuena’s ranking and questioned who held first place.
• The ranking began distributing Gu Yuena’s rewards, and the Seven Elemental Origins repaired her damaged origin and restored her divine body.
• Gu Yuena received the Silver Dragon Divine Domain, which let her control space and the elements within its range.
• Gu Yuena received the Dragon God’s inheritance memories and told Di Tian that they would not change her current choice; the Ferocious Beasts remained gathered around her.