Chapter Summaries

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress learned about the Divine Son and Divine Maiden’s devotion, then heard how Su Changqing rescued and transformed Gu Xian after his clan crippled him. The account ended as Gu Xian unleashed a secret art against three Primordial Ancient Species clan chiefs, causing his aura to surge tenfold.

• The Divine Maiden accepted the Ice Empress and Snow Empress as attendants, and they began sweeping the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s Main Hall plaza.
• An old sweeping servant warned the two Empresses against pursuing the Divine Son and recounted how he and the Divine Maiden risked everything for each other.
• The Divine Son and Divine Maiden passed the two attendants hand in hand, leaving them terrified and reverent.
• The old servant revealed that Gu Xian’s clan had torn out his Primordial Divine Meridian and killed his mother, and that Su Changqing avenged him by destroying the clan and taking him in as a disciple.
• Su Changqing reforged Gu Xian’s shattered body with Deceive-Heaven Array Runes, while the account of Gu Xian’s achievements shamed Yu Xiaogang and the instructors at Shrek Academy.
• The old servant described how Gu Xian faced three Immortal Grade clan chiefs from the Primordial Emperor Crocodile and Wind God Pterosaur clans and activated a secret art that increased his aura tenfold.

The Sky Screen revealed the Divine Son Gu Xian’s overwhelming power and the Divine Maiden’s mastery of spirit arrays, leaving figures across the Douluo Continent stunned. In the Great Thousand World, Tang San tried to assassinate a young servant for his resources, but his weapons failed and the servant’s casual slap shattered Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and sent him crashing into a mountainside.

• The old servant told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that Gu Xian had defeated three Immortal Grade Ferocious Beast clan chiefs and described the Divine Maiden’s Nine Divine Veins and ability to refine a plane with a spirit array.
• Tang San, Bibi Dong, Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Yu Xiaogang reacted with shock to the Sky Screen’s revelations about the Great Thousand World’s power.
• Tang San struggled under the Great Thousand World’s oppressive laws and decided to steal cultivation resources from a young Outer Sect servant he spotted resting in a marsh.
• Tang San attacked the servant with Dragon Whisker Needles and Yama’s Invitation, but the servant’s protective Spiritual Energy shattered the needles and purified the poison.
• Tang San charged the servant with his Mysterious Jade Hand, but the servant’s casual slap broke Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and hurled him into a mountainside.

After a servant from the Great Desolation Divine Realm crippled Tang San, the Li Family enslaved him in a mine, where he plotted an escape and manipulated the other workers into rebelling. When their revolt was crushed, Tang San betrayed his companions to save himself and was ordered to become the mine’s watchdog.

• A young errand boy from the Great Desolation Divine Realm shattered Tang San’s weapons and left him near death with a single blow.
• The Li Family’s guards sealed Tang San’s remaining Soul Power and sent him to mine black iron, where he secretly collected ore to make Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San deceived Da Niu and the other slave laborers into believing he would help them escape, then used them as bait while planning to flee alone.
• When Da Niu led the revolt, a Li Family steward killed over a hundred laborers with a ripple of Spiritual Energy.
• Tang San kicked away a wounded laborer, blamed Da Niu for the uprising, and killed an old laborer who exposed his lies.
• The steward mocked Tang San for betraying his own kind and ordered him to wear a rune-engraved black iron ring and serve as the mine’s watchdog.

Tang San survived in the Great Thousand World by serving the Li Family steward, secretly cultivating and crafting a spiritual-energy hidden weapon before killing him and escaping. After reaching the early Spirit Movement Realm, he entered the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s recruitment test, confident his talents would earn him a place, and stood before the Spirit-Testing Pillar.

• Tang San spent three months as the Li Family steward’s brutal watchdog while secretly studying the steward’s cultivation and refining a Spirit Burst Needle.
• Tang San used the needle to kill the drunken steward, took his storage pouch and formation token, destroyed the stone house, and fled the Blackwater Mountain Range.
• Tang San spent two months healing his injuries and converting his energy into Great Thousand World spiritual energy, reaching the early Spirit Movement Realm.
• Tang San arrived at the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s recruitment ceremony in Tianluo City, disguised and determined to join its ranks.
• Tang San convinced himself that his Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls would make the Spirit-Testing Pillar shine black, then stepped up to take the test.

Tang San’s Spirit-Testing Pillar examination exposed his twin martial souls as parasitic energies and his supposedly full soul power as blocked meridians, humiliating him and getting him expelled. After waking near Tianluo City, he decided to travel to the Endless Fire Domain and use his Tang Sect poison arts and hidden weapons to win recognition and take revenge.

• Tang San poured his energy into the Spirit-Testing Pillar, whose analysis branded him a parasitic waste body with congenital meridians sclerosis, and the steward had guards throw him out.
• The Sky Screen showed Shrek Academy’s spectators reacting in disbelief to the steward’s judgment of Tang San’s talents.
• Tang San woke in a ditch outside Tianluo City, cursed the Great Desolation Divine Realm, and insisted that its Spirit-Testing Pillar could not understand his abilities.
• Tang San recalled that Oscar had entered the Endless Fire Domain and decided that his Tang Sect poison arts and hidden weapons would earn him a place there.
• Tang San used his Lower-grade Spirit Stones to plan a journey toward the Endless Fire Domain and vowed to make the Great Desolation Divine Realm pay.

Tang San arrived in Red Fire City convinced that his poison-making and pill-refining surpassed the Great Thousand World’s arts, then presented his supposedly lethal poison to the Alchemist Guild. Elder Liu drank it without harm, called it cooling herbal tea, and crushed Tang San beneath his cultivation pressure.

• Tang San entered Red Fire City and disparaged its alchemy while believing his Tang Sect Secret Arts could make him supreme.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders praised Tang San’s arrogance on the Sky Screen, while ordinary Soul Masters mocked him and predicted the Endless Fire Domain would defeat him.
• Tang San went to the Alchemist Guild’s Main Hall and told Elder Liu he had come to demonstrate his skill as a Poison Master.
• Tang San presented Yama’s Invitation and claimed one drop could kill even a Divine Soul Realm powerhouse, but Elder Liu drank the entire bottle without ill effect.
• Elder Liu explained that the poison’s cold yin energy had soothed his fire toxin and called it cooling herbal tea, then forced Tang San to his knees and shattered his kneecaps with his pressure.

Tang San’s poisons and hidden weapons failed against the Great Thousand World’s cultivators, leaving him injured, starving, and destitute. He encountered Oscar, now a powerful Food Dao master, and swallowed his charitable bowl of spirit cuisine despite his wounded pride.

• Elder Liu dismissed Tang San’s poison as ordinary herbal tea and had guards drag him out of the Alchemist Guild, worsening his injuries.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders and Soul Masters in Heaven Dou Imperial City watched Tang San’s humiliation and mocked his failed poison.
• Starving in a slum, Tang San tried to rob an apothecary’s apprentice with a Sleeve Arrow, but the apprentice’s defensive robe stopped it and he kicked Tang San’s broken leg.
• A Spirit Cuisine Hall carriage arrived, and Tang San recognized Oscar inside as the carriage’s powerful and respected master.
• Oscar mistook Tang San for a beggar and sent him a bowl of nourishing soup; Tang San overcame his pride and devoured every drop, even licking broth from the muddy ground.

Tang San tried to win Princess Xiao Xiao’s favor by demonstrating his hidden weapons, but his Sleeve Arrow shattered against a maid’s protective pendant and he was beaten and thrown outside Red Fire City. There he reunited with the crippled Yu Xiaogang and, unwilling to lose face before his teacher, claimed his injuries were self-inflicted.

• Tang San recovered from his earlier injuries by eating Oscar’s leftover spirit cuisine broth, then spotted Princess Xiao Xiao arriving above Red Fire City and saw a chance to gain her favor.
• Tang San offered Xiao Xiao his hidden-weapon blueprints and demonstrated his Sleeve Arrow, but it broke against the maid’s Low-Grade Heart-Cleansing Jade Pendant.
• Xiao Xiao dismissed Tang San as a fraud, and the guards beat him, broke his right leg again, and threw him into a ditch outside the city.
• Tang San encountered Yu Xiaogang in the ditch and learned that his former teacher had lost an arm and his Martial Soul after arriving in the Great Thousand World.
• When Yu Xiaogang questioned how Tang San had been injured, Tang San insisted that he had inflicted the injuries on himself.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to survive in the Great Thousand World by inventing grand credentials and passing Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation theories off as expertise. Their scheme collapsed at the Zhao Family estate, where a Guest Elder Guard exposed them and Zhao Fugui ordered them beaten to death.

• Tang San lied to Yu Xiaogang that the Great Desolation Divine Lord and the Flame Emperor had fought over him, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly believed him.
• As hunger and rain wore them down outside Red Fire City, Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to seek food by lecturing in Azure Rock Town.
• Tang San convinced Zhao Fugui to welcome the two beggars into the Zhao Family estate for a banquet by claiming they were renowned experts.
• After eating, Yu Xiaogang lectured Zhao Fugui and his household, claiming that no spirit veins were useless and that fire cultivators could absorb water-attribute demon cores.
• The Zhao Family’s Guest Elder Guard denounced Yu Xiaogang’s theories as dangerous nonsense, and Zhao Fugui ordered his guards to beat Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to death.

Tang San betrayed and killed Yu Xiaogang to survive, then was thrown into the Myriad Snake Cave, where he accepted a Blood Demon General's offer and became a demon. After devouring Yu Xiaogang and gaining power, Tang San emerged from the cave and attacked the Zhao Family mansion.

• Tang San stabbed Yu Xiaogang, blamed him for controlling and coercing him, and begged the Zhao Family guards to spare his life.
• Zhao Fugui ordered the guards to throw Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's corpse into the Myriad Snake Cave, where venomous snakes attacked Tang San and devoured part of Yu Xiaogang's body.
• A Blood Demon General awakened in the cave and offered Tang San demonic power; Tang San agreed to merge with it and demonized his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San used his Demon Vines to drain the venomous snakes and consume Yu Xiaogang's remains, reaching the late Spirit Movement Realm.
• Tang San climbed out of the cave, went to the Zhao Family mansion, and killed the two night guards with his Demon Vines.

Tang San massacred the Zhao family, then killed Zhao Yang and broke through to the Spirit Wheel Realm. After the Mad Lion Sect learned of Zhao Yang’s death, sect master Tie Batian sent a force to hunt Tang San, who began ambushing the pursuers.

• Tang San stormed the Zhao estate, killed its guards and servants, and drained Zhao Fugui and more than a hundred people to reach the peak of the Spirit Movement Realm.
• Zhao Yang used the Blood-Seeking Spirit Disk to track Tang San, confronted him in a wilderness cave, and was drained after Tang San defeated his Mad Lion Sword Art.
• Tang San absorbed Zhao Yang’s essence blood and broke through to the Spirit Wheel Realm, despite Zhao Yang warning him about the Mad Lion Sect’s Third-Grade Supreme sect master.
• After Zhao Yang’s soul lamp went out, Tie Batian ordered three Heaven Fusion Realm elders and ten Divine Soul Realm stewards to hunt Tang San.
• Tang San laid traps with poisoned bone needles and concealed Blue Silver Demon Vines, killing two separated Divine Soul Realm stewards by the third day.

After devouring Tie Batian and reaching the First Grade Sovereign realm, Tang San discovered that the Blood Demon General had used him as a vessel to cultivate its power. The General seized control of Tang San’s body and began devouring his soul, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Tang San killed the Mad Lion Sect’s pursuit squad and raised his cultivation to the peak of the Heaven Fusion Realm.
• Tie Batian attacked Tang San in Desperate Fate Valley, but Tang San used an ancient talisman to survive and contaminated Tie Batian’s Supreme Sea with his demonic blood.
• Tang San drained and devoured Tie Batian, regrew his body, and broke through to the First Grade Sovereign realm.
• After Tang San tried to summon his Supreme Dharma Body, the Blood Demon General’s dormant origin awakened inside his Supreme Sea and took control of his body.
• The Blood Demon General revealed that it had raised Tang San as blood livestock, severed his control over his martial souls, and began devouring his soul as Tang San begged for his life.

The Blood Demon General possessed Tang San’s body, secretly fed on cultivators, and discovered a map to the Firmament Heavenly Tomb as the Great Desolation Divine Realm dispatched disciples to explore it. The Sky Screen then went dark, leaving the Clear Sky Sect elders stunned by what they had witnessed.

• The Blood Demon General took over Tang San’s body and vowed to grow stronger before confronting the Great Thousand World’s major powers.
• The Great Desolation Divine Realm announced the discovery of the Ancient Firmament Heavenly Sovereign Ruins and offered a Peerless Sacred Artifact to the disciple who returned with its core inheritance.
• In Blackwater City, the Blood Demon General killed the Black-Hearted Old Monster, consumed his essence, and advanced to Third Grade Supreme.
• The Blood Demon General found a sealed map to the Firmament Heavenly Tomb and set out for the border of Great Desolation Province, planning to prey on the powerful disciples drawn there.
• The Sky Screen went dark, and the Clear Sky Sect elders sat in stunned silence.

After Tang San was devoured, the Great Thousand World’s powerhouses gathered at the Soul-Severing Mountain Range for a Heavenly Sovereign’s tomb. The Otherworldly Demon, disguised as a weak wandering cultivator, watched the arriving factions as Gu Xian and the leaders of the major powers prepared to compete for the tomb’s treasures.

• The Clear Sky Sect elders mourned Tang San’s death, while Soul Masters in the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall reacted with shock and fear at his fate and the Great Thousand World’s dangers.
• The Otherworldly Demon concealed his scales and Demonic Energy, took the appearance of a frail low-ranking cultivator, and joined the crowd at the Soul-Severing Mountain Range.
• The Endless Fire Domain and the Martial Realm arrived with their forces, led by Elder Yan Ling and Elder Wu Lie, both Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Gu Xian of the Great Desolation Divine Realm arrived on a vast sword, displaying Deceive-Heaven Array Runes and exchanging greetings with Yan Ling and Wu Lie.
• The gathered cultivators discussed the three powers’ leaders and Gu Xian, speculating about the Heavenly Sovereign’s tomb and hoping to profit from the dangers and ensuing chaos.

The Firmament Heavenly Tomb opened, and the cultivators entered its ancient ruins, where the three major forces split up to pursue different opportunities. Elder Yan Ling found three preserved ancient pills in the Pill Pavilion, but unaffiliated cultivators ambushed him just as he moved to claim them.

• The Blood Demon General disguised as Tang San watched Gu Xian and planned to use the tomb’s chaos and ancient restrictions to devour powerful cultivators.
• The tomb opened at the full moon, and Yan Ling and Wu Lie broke its hall-guarding formation after it killed dozens of cultivators who rushed the doors.
• The cultivators were transported into an independent world, where Yan Ling headed for the Pill Pavilion, Wu Lie pursued weapons east, and Gu Xian led his disciples north toward the first level’s formation core.
• The unaffiliated cultivators scattered through the ruins, while the Blood Demon General slipped into the tomb among the crowd.
• Yan Ling’s group found three intact ancient pills, including an Eighth-Grade Nirvana Pill and a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Merging Pill, but more than a dozen unaffiliated cultivators attacked him from hiding.

The Asura Puppet awakened when a Bronze Altar rose from the first level of the great tomb, killing thousands and resisting attacks from Elder Wu Lie and Elder Yan Ling. Gu Xian discovered its power came from the altar’s formation and briefly severed the connection, giving the elders three breaths to strike its chest core.

• The Blood Demon General drained two Great Desolation Divine Realm disciples and learned that Gu Xian was heading to the Spirit Gathering Main Hall.
• A Bronze Altar and the Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign-level Asura Puppet emerged at the tomb’s center, and the puppet crushed thousands of cultivators with one blow.
• Elder Wu Lie’s punch forced the puppet back, while Elder Yan Ling’s Heavenly Flame Cauldron failed to contain it because it absorbed energy from the tomb’s formation.
• Gu Xian explained the puppet’s energy link to the altar and used the Deceive-Heaven Array to sever it for three breaths.
• Elder Wu Lie and Elder Yan Ling charged the temporarily weakened puppet to destroy the Core Crystal in its chest.

After the Asura puppet fell, the cultivators entered the tomb’s second level and discovered an ancient battlefield where the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s disciples and Heaven-Swallowing Sacred Lion had been buried. As the crowd battled over their treasures, the Blood Demon General secretly regained strength by harvesting the dead, while Gu Xian identified a weakness in the ancient restriction and attacked it.

• Elder Wu Lie and Elder Yan Ling destroyed the Asura puppet with Gu Xian’s formation support, opening the passage to the second level.
• The cultivators found a battlefield steeped in Otherworldly Demons energy and learned it held the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s three disciples and the Heaven-Swallowing Sacred Lion.
• The crowd charged toward the disciples’ inheritance jade slips and the Sacred Lion’s inner core, while the Blood Demon General lingered to absorb the fiendish energy.
• As cultivators fought over the treasures and died, the Blood Demon General used demon vines to drain their corpses and restored his cultivation to the peak of Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Gu Xian searched the ancient restriction for a flaw, found its array foundation in the southeast corner, and struck it with Immortal Light Sword Qi.

The cultivators broke the restriction around the Heaven-Swallowing Sacred Lion and fought over its inner core and three Inheritance Jade Slips. As the second level began collapsing, Gu Xian discovered the passage to the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s true resting place, while the Blood Demon General secretly began absorbing a broken Great Pagoda Demon Pillar underground.

• Gu Xian and the elders shattered the ancient restriction, and the cultivators rushed to seize the lion’s inner core and three Jade Slips.
• Gu Xian secured the sword inheritance Jade Slip, Elder Yan Ling claimed another, Elder Wu Lie took the inner core, and the final Jade Slip changed hands amid a deadly struggle.
• The Blood Demon General absorbed a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign’s blood, broke through to Lower Earthly Sovereign, and discovered a hidden chamber beneath the battlefield.
• The Blood Demon General found half of the Great Pagoda Demon Pillar, began absorbing its demonic energy, and sealed himself inside a blood cocoon to pursue Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign strength.
• The second level began collapsing after its sealing array lost its energy sources, revealing a starry vortex that Gu Xian identified as the passage to the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s third level.
• Elder Wu Lie, Elder Yan Ling, and Gu Xian led their forces toward the vortex.

On the tomb’s third level, Gu Xian realized the floating treasures were array cores sealing a demonic force, but the cultivators kept taking them and the seal began to crack. Meanwhile, Tang San emerged transformed from the blood cocoon after absorbing the remaining power of the Great Pagoda Demon Pillar.

• The cultivators entered the starry expanse and found the remains of the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign seated on a jade throne, surrounded by countless treasures.
• Gu Xian deduced that the treasures were array cores, but Elder Wu Lie and Elder Yan Ling seized them despite his warning, weakening the seal and opening a fissure that leaked demonic energy.
• The Profound Sky Sect’s master and nearby cultivators reached for the jade throne and the seated remains after Gu Xian warned that they were the formation’s core.
• Blood threads drained the last demonic energy from the half of the Great Pagoda Demon Pillar, which crumbled into powder.
• Tang San tore out of the blood cocoon transformed, covered in dark-gold scales and bearing eight demonic-fire vines.

The Blood Demon General reached Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and entered the third floor, hoping to devour the weakened Saint Grade Heavenly Demon Emperor. As the emperor overwhelmed the cultivators, Gu Xian summoned the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s remains, whose sword strike wounded the emperor.

• The Blood Demon General devoured the Great Pagoda Demon Pillar’s origin energy, reached Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and decided to seize the weakened Heavenly Demon Emperor’s power.
• The Blood Demon General broke out of the underground space, disguised himself as an unaffiliated cultivator, and entered the third floor through the starry vortex.
• The Saint Grade Heavenly Demon Emperor broke free of the chains beneath the jade Throne and attacked the cultivators, while Yan Ling and Wu Lie used their trump cards and Gu Xian protected the Great Desolation Divine Realm disciples with an array.
• The Blood Demon General concealed himself and waited for the emperor and the defenders to weaken one another, while the Flame Emperor’s and Martial Ancestor’s protections began to fail.
• Gu Xian drew on Wu Lie and Yan Ling’s remaining Spiritual Energy to awaken the Firmament Heavenly Sovereign’s remains, which struck the emperor across the chest with a powerful sword attack.