Chapter Summaries

Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong defeated the Heavenly Evil God's summoned apparition and sealed the spatial rift at the border, ending the invasion. After returning to the Great Desolation Divine Realm, Su Changqing entered seclusion to pursue the Dominator Realm, and the sky screen shifted to a vast fairyland herb garden.

• The Four-Eyed Devil Emperor and the other Devil Emperors sacrificed themselves to summon a fragmentary apparition of the Heavenly Evil God, whose pressure overwhelmed the Great Thousand World's defenders.
• Su Changqing activated his Dharma Form of Heaven and Earth and withstood the apparition's attack, giving Xiao Yan and Lin Dong the chance to strike alongside him and shatter it.
• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong sealed the enormous spatial rift, and the surviving Otherworldly Demons fled after their army was devastated.
• Su Changqing handed the captured two-horned demon king to the Great Thousand Palace elder and warned that the blood sacrifice might be part of a larger scheme.
• Su Changqing realized that his clash with the apparition had brought him close to the Dominator Realm, then entered seclusion to comprehend the Great Thousand World.
• The sky screen showed a vast jade-paved herb garden after the viewers wondered where its next scene would appear.

The sky screen showed Wang Qiu'er exploring Su Changqing’s realm, where she found overwhelming spiritual energy, an ancient turtle, and a potent fruit that nearly killed her. Xiao Bai saved her by revealing her Primordial Heaven-Devouring Beast power, leaving the observers stunned by the little pet’s true strength.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion Wang Qiu'er appeared in the Great Thousand World, and Gu Yuena realized the sky screen had taken the Auspicious Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Qiu'er found the realm’s air and abundant Seven-Leaf Thunderclap Grass astonishingly rich in energy, then was warned away from the lake by an ancient turtle whose yawn cracked space.
• Wang Qiu'er ate a dark-golden fruit and was overwhelmed by its energy, leaving her badly injured and close to death.
• Xiao Bai emerged from the bushes and absorbed the dangerous energy from Wang Qiu'er with a yawn that manifested the Primordial Heaven-Devouring Beast.
• The observers in the Divine Realm and Star Dou Great Forest realized that Xiao Bai was a peerless divine beast, while Wang Qiu'er survived.

Wang Qiu'er evolved into a Great Thousand World spirit beast, and her fortune strengthened the Star Dou Great Forest. In the Great Desolation Divine Realm, a gentle maid revealed herself as a powerful Formation Grandmaster, fashioned a star into a bell for Wang Qiu'er, and then looked toward the sect’s main peak.

• Xiao Bai’s inhalation saved Wang Qiu'er, whose spirit fruit completed her evolution beyond the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast limit.
• Wang Qiu'er's evolution sent golden fortune across the Star Dou Great Forest, healing its beasts, breaking Di Tian's bottleneck, and helping Gu Yuena recover.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang San watched the Sky Screen’s revelations and were shaken by the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s power; Tang San vowed to reach the Great Thousand World.
• A woman in a blue-green dress arrived to feed Xiao Bai scraps of a Void Thunder Dragon and a bead of Earth Core Flame Marrow, revealing her extraordinary resources.
• The woman compressed a distant star into a bell and hung it around Wang Qiu'er's neck as a gift.
• As viewers marveled at the woman’s power, she stood and looked toward the cloud-wreathed main peak of the Great Desolation Divine Realm.

Yu Xiaogang was chosen as one of three new explorers and arrived in the Great Thousand World, where he hoped to cure his Martial Soul Mutation and make a name for himself. He went to apply at the Northern Spiritual Academy, but the instructor found that Yu Xiaogang had no spiritual energy and told him the academy only admitted youths with spiritual meridians.

• The Douluo Continent learned that Great Thousand World exploration had reached 0.5%, and three new explorers were selected: Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived outside an enormous city in the Great Thousand World and felt the rich spiritual energy ease the pain in his meridians.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to find treasures to cure his Martial Soul Mutation and planned to study the Great Thousand World's cultivation system.
• Yu Xiaogang found the Northern Spiritual Academy's entrance assessments and went to the admissions desk, hoping to gain access to its cultivation methods.
• The gray-robed instructor told Yu Xiaogang that the academy accepted only youths under sixteen with spiritual meridians, after finding no spiritual energy in his body.

Yu Xiaogang was mocked and driven away after the Northern Spiritual Academy instructor dismissed his theories, so he decided to study spirit arrays instead. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong awakened her fire dragon bloodline in the Blazing Flame Continent, defeated a Lava Fire Crocodile, and was invited to join the Endless Fire Domain.

• Yu Xiaogang applied to become a guest instructor at the Northern Spiritual Academy, but the gray-robed instructor refuted his theories and guards shoved him away.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to pursue spirit array research and headed to the city's marketplace to find manuals.
• Liu Erlong awakened in the Blazing Flame Continent and absorbed its fire spiritual power, transforming her stagnant Soul Power.
• Liu Erlong killed a Lava Fire Crocodile with her physical strength and took its crystal core.
• Two deacons from the Endless Fire Domain recognized Liu Erlong's fire dragon bloodline and invited her to come with them.

Liu Erlong joined the Endless Fire Domain, where Xiao Xiao recognized the flaw in her Fire Dragon Bloodline and gifted her a cleansing treasure. The sky screen then showed Tang Yuehua arriving at the Great Sound Immortal Sect, where a woman recognized her Noble Ring domain.

• Liu Erlong accepted the stewards’ invitation and traveled with them to the Endless Fire Domain.
• Liu Erlong toured the domain and watched Xiao Xiao refine a Level Seven Pagoda Pill.
• Xiao Xiao identified impure Lower Plane energy locking Liu Erlong’s bloodline and gave her Marrow-Cleansing Flame Dragon Liquid.
• Viewers on the Douluo Continent envied Liu Erlong’s good fortune, while Flender and Zhao Wuji contrasted it with Yu Xiaogang’s rejection.
• Tang Yuehua awoke in a waterside pavilion among immortal mountains and realized that music could form formations.
• A woman from the Great Sound Immortal Sect recognized Tang Yuehua’s mutated aura as a domain, and Tang Yuehua confirmed it was Noble Ring.

Tang Yuehua learned that her Noble Ring could let her begin training in Sonic Wave Formations, while Yu Xiaogang, stranded and penniless in the Hundred Spirits Continent, tried to impress Lin Jing by presenting Luo Sanpao as a future Golden Divine Dragon. Lin Jing found Luo Sanpao amusing, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to win her favor unresolved.

• A woman accepted Tang Yuehua as a nominal disciple of the Great Sound Immortal Sect and gave her three years to form a basic musical array rune.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao rejoiced that Tang Yuehua had a chance to cultivate, while Douluo’s observers were struck by the gap between the worlds.
• Yu Xiaogang failed to gain entry to the Ten Thousand Volumes Bookshop after its shopkeeper demanded a fee and mocked his lower-plane knowledge.
• Yu Xiaogang spotted Lin Jing at a spirit beast stall and approached her, hoping to earn the Martial Realm princess’s favor.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and claimed his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline could transform him into a Golden Divine Dragon, but Lin Jing laughed and called him a funny-looking little pig.

Lin Jing fed Luo Sanpao a pill that severed his soul bond with Yu Xiaogang and transformed him into an independent spirit beast. After Lin Jing adopted Luo Sanpao and dismissed Yu Xiaogang, he followed her through the market, determined to convince her he was valuable.

• Lin Jing gave Luo Sanpao a Fire Dragon Body Tempering Pill, which transformed him and broke his connection to Yu Xiaogang, leaving Yu Xiaogang severely injured and without his Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed his theories had caused Luo Sanpao's transformation and asked Lin Jing to take him to the Martial Realm as an adviser, but Lin Jing laughed at him, claimed Luo Sanpao as her pet, and tossed him a low-grade spirit stone.
• Yu Xiaogang picked up the spirit stone, convinced himself Lin Jing would eventually recognize his worth, and followed her through the market.
• Lin Jing bought candied Crimson Flame Fruit and fed some to Luo Sanpao while Yu Xiaogang watched bitterly.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Lin Jing that the pill might harm Luo Sanpao's foundation and offered his guidance, but Lin Jing dismissed his theories and continued on.
• Yu Xiaogang kept trailing Lin Jing and tried to draw her attention by commenting on items at the market stalls.

At the Martial Realm’s Hundred Spirits Branch Pavilion, Yu Xiaogang tried to impress Qingzhi by claiming his clan’s dragon bloodline could purify the Azure Dragon King’s. Qingzhi revealed his Ancient Azure Dragon true form, leaving Yu Xiaogang and the entire Hundred Spirits City overwhelmed by its draconic might.

• Lin Jing reached the Hundred Spirits Branch Pavilion, where the guards welcomed her while barring Yu Xiaogang from entering.
• Qingzhi emerged from the pavilion, and Yu Xiaogang tried to win his favor by boasting about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and his research into dragon bloodlines.
• On the Douluo Continent, Yu Yuanzhen angrily condemned Yu Xiaogang for disgracing the clan before a true ancient dragon.
• Qingzhi challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim by summoning a projection of his Ancient Azure Dragon true form above Hundred Spirits City.
• The dragon’s overwhelming presence silenced the city and terrified its cultivators, including experts of the Supreme and Earthly Sovereign Realms.

The Ancient Azure Dragon's phantom appeared on the Sky Screen, terrifying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and prompting the Five Great God Kings to compare its bloodline with the Dragon God. The Asura God rejected their caution and declared that he would cut the Azure Dragon down with one slash if it came to the Divine Realm.

• The Ancient Azure Dragon's phantom made the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls across the clan tremble and collapse, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered his clan to stop boasting that their Martial Soul was closest to a true dragon.
• The Five Great God Kings gathered in the God King Council Hall and watched the Azure Dragon's phantom on the Sky Screen.
• The Goddess of Life judged that the Azure Dragon's bloodline was purer than the Dragon God's had been at his peak, though she could not measure its true strength.
• The God of Kindness and the God of Evil voiced concern about the Great Thousand World, while the God of Destruction questioned the Goddess of Life's assessment.
• The Asura God recalled that he had delivered the final slash that split the Dragon God in two and declared that he would cut down the Azure Dragon with one slash if it came to the Divine Realm.
• The Goddess of Life held back her doubts, and the God of Destruction told the Asura God he hoped he would always keep his confidence.

After Qingzhi frightened Yu Xiaogang with the Ancient Azure Dragon phantom, Yu Xiaogang decided to seek recognition from the Endless Fire Domain instead. Xiao Jiu, a low-ranking member of the Xiao Family, offered him passage to Red Sun City in exchange for hauling medicinal herbs.

• Qingzhi dismissed Yu Xiaogang and left the Martial Realm Branch Pavilion with Lin Jing, while Yu Xiaogang remained shaken on the steps.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to join the Endless Fire Domain and asked a cultivator how to reach it, learning the journey could take thirty to fifty years on foot.
• Xiao Jiu approached Yu Xiaogang, showed him a token bearing the character “Xiao,” and introduced himself as an errand runner for the Fire Domain’s External Affairs Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Xiao Jiu to take him to the Endless Fire Domain and offered his pill-refining insights.
• Xiao Jiu agreed to take Yu Xiaogang to Red Sun City if he worked as an unpaid laborer hauling medicinal herbs along the way.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to travel to the Endless Fire Domain as Xiao Jiu’s laborer, hoping to prove his worth through alchemy. On the road, Xiao Jiu revealed that the Domain Lord had fused more than twenty Heavenly Flames, while observers across the Douluo Continent worried about the Great Thousand World’s power.

• Yu Xiaogang accepted Xiao Jiu’s offer and spent the night at a shabby inn, resolving to find a place for himself in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed the Martial Realm, the Endless Fire Domain, and the Great Desolation Divine Realm, while Tang San worried about Yu Xiaogang’s fate.
• Yu Xiaogang joined Xiao Jiu’s Red-Horned Horse carriage outside Hundred Spirits City and questioned him about the medicinal herbs they were transporting.
• Xiao Jiu explained that the Endless Fire Domain’s Domain Lord possessed more than twenty Heavenly Flames and had risen from a Lower Plane to found the domain.
• Xue Qing and Bibi Dong reacted to the revelation, and Bibi Dong considered what the Fire Domain’s pills could mean for the Douluo Continent.

Yu Xiaogang reached Flame City with Xiao Jiu and found a recruitment notice offering him a chance to become an alchemy apprentice in the Endless Fire Domain. As they arrived, he saw the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler hovering above the city, and Xiao Jiu revealed that both had grown alongside the Domain Lord.

• Yu Xiaogang endured three days of hauling medicinal ingredients while Xiao Jiu secretly gave him extra food and useful herbs.
• In Red Sun City, Yu Xiaogang found an Endless Fire Domain notice recruiting alchemy apprentices regardless of background, cultivation, or age, and declared that it was his destined path.
• Xiao Jiu used a Fire Domain passage token to take Yu Xiaogang through teleportation arrays to Central Province and then toward Flame City.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived in Flame City and was stunned by the endless magma sea surrounding it and the strange flames burning atop its walls.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about the giant lotus and black ruler above Flame City, and Xiao Jiu identified them as the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler, saying they had grown alongside the Domain Lord.

Xiao Jiu explained that the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler held immense power accumulated by the Domain Lord, leaving Yu Xiaogang and viewers on the Douluo Continent shaken. In Flame City, Yu Xiaogang glimpsed the woman riding in a golden carriage drawn by nine Scarlet Flame Qilin and learned that she was Lady Xun'er.

• Xiao Jiu told Yu Xiaogang that the Domain Lord's flame lotus and ancient ruler had grown with him and could threaten even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Viewers across the Douluo Continent reacted with alarm, while Bibi Dong, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Tang San considered what the Domain Lord's power meant.
• Yu Xiaogang followed Xiao Jiu through Flame City toward the External Affairs Subhall and saw the street clear for a procession.
• A golden carriage drawn by nine Scarlet Flame Qilin passed, and Yu Xiaogang briefly glimpsed the woman inside.
• Xiao Jiu identified the woman as Lady Xun'er.

Yu Xiaogang failed every stage of the Fire Domain alchemy apprentice examination and was laughed at after his attempt to challenge a basic ingredient pairing. As he left the exam hall, a powerful man was blasted through three walls, and Yu Xiaogang saw the attacker was connected to the Xiao family.

• Xiao Jiu told Yu Xiaogang that Lady Xun'er was the Domain Lord's powerful wife and that she had gone out to handle trouble caused by her youngest son, Xiao Changge.
• Yu Xiaogang took the preliminary alchemy apprentice examination, but he could not read the written test, identified only three ingredients correctly, and failed to light the furnace.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned the use of Red Flame Grass and Azure Flame Lotus Heart together, but the examiner explained that their supposed conflict was disproven ancient knowledge, prompting the candidates to laugh at him.
• As Yu Xiaogang left the examination room, a powerful middle-aged man crashed through a restaurant and a Spirit Artifact shop before striking a stone wall.
• The injured man begged Young Master Xiao, saying he had meant no disrespect.

Xiao Changge defeated an Earthly Sovereign, then tried to flee home until Little Doctor Immortal intercepted him with poison laid across his escape routes. On the Douluo Continent, Dugu Bo recognized her poisonwork as a skill beyond his own and began examining the gap between them.

• Xiao Changge punched an Earthly Sovereign into a restaurant wall, dismissed him, and noticed Yu Xiaogang outside the External Affairs Subhall.
• The Fire Domain Enforcement Squad told Xiao Changge that Xun'er wanted him home, so he fled across Flame City.
• Little Doctor Immortal trapped Xiao Changge with poison on the bell tower and made him surrender, explaining that she had prepared traps along seventeen routes.
• Viewers across the Douluo Continent reacted to Xiao Changge's strength and Little Doctor Immortal's methods, while Tang San recognized her poisonwork as resembling the Tang Sect's theoretical pinnacle.
• Dugu Bo watched Little Doctor Immortal's poisonous mist and realized she had laid poison along Xiao Changge's escape routes in advance, a feat beyond his own abilities.

Dugu Bo marveled at Little Doctor Immortal’s poison mastery, while Yu Xiaogang accepted his failure and found a way to remain in Flame City by washing cups and listening for information. On the fourth day, a vast rift opened above the city and released an overwhelming draconic aura.

• Dugu Bo recognized that Little Doctor Immortal could command poison in ways he had never imagined and wished he could learn from her.
• Bibi Dong deduced that Little Doctor Immortal was closely connected to Xun’er and the Endless Fire Domain’s inner circle.
• Little Doctor Immortal removed the poison from Xiao Changge’s legs and took him home to accept his mother’s punishment.
• After failing the alchemy apprentice assessment, Yu Xiaogang stayed in Flame City by finding work washing cups at a spirit fruit tea stall and listening to cultivators’ conversations.
• On the fourth day, a massive rift appeared above Flame City, and an immense draconic aura surged out of it.

A scarlet-gold Dragon Clan powerhouse arrived over Flame City and challenged Zi Yan, the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor. Zi Yan met the Heavenly Sovereign Middle Stage challenger in battle, and their clash damaged the city as they charged at each other again.

• A scarlet-gold dragon tore open a rift above Flame City and called Zi Yan out to fight.
• A tea stall woman told Yu Xiaogang that Zi Yan was the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor, a powerful Dragon Clan figure and an old friend of the Fire Domain’s Domain Lord.
• The scarlet-gold dragon fired Dragon Flame toward the city, but Zi Yan stopped it with one hand and emerged from the northern clouds.
• The challenger revealed it had reached the Heavenly Sovereign Middle Stage, and Zi Yan summoned her Ancient Void Dragon phantom before they collided above Flame City.
• Their shock waves damaged the city’s protective formation and destroyed the tea stall, while both fighters suffered minor damage.
• The scarlet-gold dragon charged again, and Zi Yan met it head-on.

Xiao Lin stopped Zi Yan and the Crimson-Gold Elder from continuing their battle by inviting them to a feast and promising wine brewed with Heavenly Flames. After the fight damaged a tea stall, Yu Xiaogang decided to leave his work there and head toward Dragon Nest Mountain in northern Flame City.

• Xiao Lin arrived between Zi Yan and the Crimson-Gold Elder and persuaded them to pause their fight by offering a feast and Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame-brewed wine.
• Zi Yan and the Crimson-Gold Elder withdrew from battle and followed Xiao Lin deeper into Flame City, while cultivators surveyed the damaged walls and streets.
• People watching the Sky Screen discussed Xiao Lin's composure and the Fire Domain's use of Heavenly Flames to brew wine, while Tang San silently compared himself to him.
• Yu Xiaogang helped the tea-stall auntie clear the wreckage and learned that the stall would be closed for three to five days.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to seek a place closer to Flame City's center and headed north toward Dragon Nest Mountain, where Zi Yan lived.

After Yu Xiaogang survived more than ten days in the Great Thousand World, the Sky Screen opened three random slots for a second batch of explorers from the Douluo Continent, Soul Beasts, and the Divine Realm. The first selected explorer was the million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, leaving everyone wondering how his strength would fare in the Great Thousand World.

• Yu Xiaogang continued toward Flame City's northern district, determined to pursue dragon research if pill refining failed.
• The Sky Screen announced three random explorer slots and began a two-hour countdown, prompting humans, Soul Beasts, and gods to weigh the risks of going.
• The Five Great God Kings discussed the selection; the God of Destruction said he would go if chosen, while the Asura God hoped to be selected so he could challenge the Great Thousand World's dragons.
• The countdown ended, and the Sky Screen named the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, a million-year-old Ancient Sea Beast, as the first explorer.
• Bibi Dong and others reacted to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's selection and wondered how his million years of cultivation would rank in the Great Thousand World.