Chapter Summaries

A sky-screen portal opened between Douluo and Martial Universe, and the first five explorers were selected. Zhang Hu entered Martial Universe and was killed by a Fire Python Demon within forty-one seconds, leaving Douluo’s observers stunned by the world's danger.

• A mysterious voice announced that selected explorers could enter Martial Universe and return after surviving a year or reaching the Nirvana Realm.
• Yu Xiaogang, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, Bibi Dong, and the God Kings reacted to the announcement, with some dismissing the new world and Bibi Dong sensing danger.
• The sky screen selected Zhang Hu, Wang Er, Huyan Li, Gale Demon Wolf, and Yu Tianming as the first explorers.
• Zhang Hu arrived in an ancient forest, struggled against Martial Universe’s pressure, then released his Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
• A Fire Python Demon appeared and effortlessly broke through Zhang Hu’s strongest Soul Skill, burning him to ash within forty-one seconds.

The Douluo Continent watched two explorers die in the Martial Universe, while Yu Xiaogang and others dismissed the danger as coincidence. Huyan Li then faced a young cultivator, whose punch shattered his strongest defenses and struck his chest.

• The Douluo Continent, Spirit Hall, and the Divine Realm reacted with alarm after the Fire Python Demon killed Zhang Hu, and the sky screen announced Explorer One's elimination.
• Wang Er landed in a town, struggled under the Martial Universe's pressure, and was killed by a young boy's punch.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Wang Er's death reflected the harsh environment rather than the strength of the Martial Universe, and Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, and Tang San accepted his reasoning.
• The sky screen showed Huyan Li arriving in a square, and Huyan Zhen confidently praised his grandson's defenses and Soul Bone.
• Huyan Li charged at a young cultivator, who struck him with Stone Shattering Fist and shattered his Diamond Barrier and Soul Bone defense before hitting his chest.

Lin Tao defeated Huyan Li with one punch and captured him as a slave at the Lin Family’s Ironwood Manor, where Huyan Li learned that the Great Yan Dynasty’s cultivation realms far surpassed his understanding. The chapter ended as an old woodcutter named Young Master Lin Dong as the Lin Family’s true pride.

• Lin Tao knocked Huyan Li unconscious, shattered his Soul Bone, and had him chained and taken to Ironwood Manor.
• Huyan Zhen collapsed in grief, while Yu Xiaogang, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun claimed Lin Tao was an old powerhouse in disguise; Bibi Dong recognized him as a genuine boy.
• Huyan Li woke in the timber camp, found his Soul Power suppressed and his injuries preventing him from summoning his Martial Soul, and was whipped into chopping ironwood.
• Overseers said Lin Tao belonged to a side branch of the Qingyang Town Lin Family and praised Young Master Lin Dong, who had helped the family dominate local rivals.
• An old woodcutter explained the cultivation realms to Huyan Li and said Lin Tao had only just entered the early Earth Origin Realm.
• Huyan Li asked who the Lin Family’s strongest member was, and the old man declared that its true pride was Young Master Lin Dong.

The Douluo Continent’s factions reacted to Huyan Li’s account of Lin Dong and the Martial Universe, with some dismissing the other world and Bibi Dong taking its strength seriously. The sky screen then switched to the Gale Demon Wolf, which was transported into Yuan Sect territory and swiftly killed by a Nirvana Realm expert.

• The old man described Lin Dong’s Lin Family background and his coming battle against Lin Langtian in the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Huyan Zhen grieved that Huyan Li had become a slave, while Yu Xiaogang, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong belittled the Martial Universe; Tang San privately considered its cultivation system and his hidden weapons.
• Bibi Dong judged the Martial Universe’s power formidable, while the Destruction God King dismissed its people as ignorant and Lin Dong as a mere mortal.
• The sky screen suspended Huyan Li’s broadcast and switched to the Gale Demon Wolf, which arrived on a floating mountain peak in Yuan Sect territory and struggled under the dense Yuan Power.
• A white-robed Nirvana Realm expert appeared, burned away the Gale Demon Wolf’s wind-blade attack and body with Nirvana Golden Flame, and collected the bead it left behind.

The Douluo Continent’s observers watched a Nirvana Realm expert casually kill and refine a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast before the sky screen switched to Yu Tianming. In Martial Universe, Yu Tianming confronted a Thunder-Horned Flood Dragon pulling a carriage and attacked it to defend his clan’s pride, but the creature merely regarded him with mockery.

• A Nirvana Realm expert killed the Gale Demon Wolf with Nirvana Golden Flame, refined it into a bead, and discarded it.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the expert’s power was equivalent to a Titled Douluo, while Tang San, Bibi Dong, and the God Kings recognized the danger of his abilities.
• The sky screen eliminated Explorer No. 4 and revealed Explorer No. 5, Yu Tianming, a level forty-eight Soul Ancestor from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Tianming arrived in a bustling Martial Universe city and saw a Thunder-Horned Flood Dragon pulling a luxurious carriage.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan reacted furiously to the dragon being used as a beast of burden.
• Yu Tianming summoned his Martial Soul and Soul Rings, then ordered the Thunder-Horned Flood Dragon to submit through bloodline suppression; it stopped and looked at him mockingly.

Yu Tianming’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul was shattered by a single roar from Young Master Wang’s Thunder-Horned Flood Dragon, and he was taken to the imperial capital’s underground arena as beast fodder. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan dismissed the strange arrivals in the Martial Universe as harmless spatial anomalies and turned his attention to the coming Hundred Dynasties War.

• Young Master Wang’s Thunder-Horned Flood Dragon roared at Yu Tianming, shattering his martial soul and leaving him severely injured.
• Young Master Wang ordered his guard to take Yu Tianming to the underground arena, where he would be fed to ferocious beasts.
• Yu Yuanzhen collapsed in grief, while Yu Xiaogang insisted the scene was fake and Tang San and Bibi Dong worried over the Martial Universe’s power.
• Ying Xuanzi told Gu Yuan about a strange spatial fluctuation and a wild beast without a demon crystal appearing in Yuan Sect territory.
• Gu Yuan reassured Ying Xuanzi that spatial rifts sometimes brought people and objects into the world, then asked who might win the upcoming Hundred Dynasties War.

Gu Yuan told Ying Xuanzi that an unknown genius from a low-tier dynasty might overturn the Eastern Xuan Region’s balance of power as the Douluo Continent awaited the second selection. Dai Mubai was chosen and transported to the Dao Sect, where he tried to molest Ying Huanhuan and was defeated by her Guqin attack.

• Gu Yuan suggested to Ying Xuanzi that a nameless prodigy from a low-tier dynasty could disrupt the Eastern Xuan Region’s power balance.
• The sky screen selected Dai Mubai, Gui Mei, Ning Fengzhi, and the Titan Giant Ape as the second group of explorers.
• Dai Mubai arrived in the Dao Sect’s mountain sanctuary and spotted Ying Huanhuan practicing the Guqin in a peach blossom grove.
• Dai Mubai approached Ying Huanhuan and tried to grab her, ignoring her demand to explain who he was.
• Ying Huanhuan struck her Guqin and sent an ice-blue sound wave into Dai Mubai, blasting him through peach trees and freezing his hands.
• Yu Xiaogang and Ma Hongjun watched in shock as Ying Huanhuan defeated Dai Mubai with one attack.

Ying Huanhuan's sister had Dai Mubai imprisoned after Huanhuan defeated him, while Ning Rongrong dismissed the Dao Sect as insignificant. The sky screen then followed Gui Mei as he infiltrated the Yin Puppet Sect, where Teng Sha captured him and began refining his soul into a puppet.

• Ying Xiaoxiao arrived, heard Ying Huanhuan's account of Dai Mubai's behavior, and ordered Dao Sect disciples to drag him away.
• The sky screen reported Dai Mubai's injuries and imprisonment in the Dao Sect's Cold Ice Prison, prompting Ning Rongrong to insult the Dao Sect and its princess.
• The sky screen switched to Gui Mei, who used his Martial Soul Avatar to infiltrate the Yin Puppet Sect's headquarters.
• Teng Sha sensed Gui Mei, seized him with Spiritual Power, and identified him as a valuable remnant soul.
• Teng Sha began refining Gui Mei in black flames, and the sky screen reported that he had been captured and was being turned into a puppet.

The sky screen showed Ning Fengzhi arriving in Yan City, where the Myriad Gold Merchant Association dismissed his Soul Bone and support abilities as worthless, then broke his legs and sold him into slavery. The broadcast switched to the Titan Giant Ape at the Ancient Battlefield, where it roared confidently before the sky suddenly darkened.

• Yue Guan begged Bibi Dong to save Ghost Douluo, but Bibi Dong said the attacker’s mental power was beyond their understanding.
• The sky screen switched to Ning Fengzhi, and Ning Rongrong confidently claimed her father’s wealth and social skill would keep him safe.
• Ning Fengzhi offered a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone at the Myriad Gold Merchant Association, but the steward called it worthless and knocked him back with Yuan Power.
• Ning Fengzhi demonstrated his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and offered its seventy-percent boosts, but the steward mocked his ability and ordered guards to seize him.
• The guards broke Ning Fengzhi’s legs and dragged him away to be sold as an ornamental pet, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Ning Rongrong devastated.
• The broadcast switched to the Titan Giant Ape at the Ancient Battlefield; it roared arrogantly, then the sky abruptly darkened.

The Titan Giant Ape encountered the Back-Arm Demon Ape in the Martial Universe, where a Nirvana Realm Ancient Heavenly Demon Tiger ruled the mountains, and became the demon ape’s laboring underling. The sky screen then switched to the commoner Li Si, who landed at a Crazy Blade Sect recruitment ground and was told to drink Body Tempering Soup and practice basic fist techniques.

• The Back-Arm Demon Ape mistook the Titan Giant Ape for a fellow ape, gave him a Fire Yuan Fruit, and revealed that a Nirvana Realm Ancient Heavenly Demon Tiger ruled the mountain range.
• After the Titan Giant Ape roared, the Back-Arm Demon Ape warned him that the noise could awaken the Ancient Heavenly Demon Tiger and offered him work hauling timber.
• The sky screen identified the Titan Giant Ape as the Back-Arm Demon Ape’s laboring underling and paused his broadcast.
• The sky screen switched to Li Si, a commoner who landed at the Crazy Blade Sect’s recruitment ground in Yan City, where Yu Xiaogang predicted he would quickly die.
• A Crazy Blade Sect instructor gave the trembling Li Si Body Tempering Soup and ordered him to practice basic Through-Back Fist with the other recruits.

Li Si entered cultivation in the Martial Universe after drinking Body Tempering Soup, inspiring commoners and alarming Douluo’s powerful factions. Tang Hao was selected among the third batch of explorers, and he arrived in the Great Desolate Ancient Plain, where he resisted the realm’s gravity with his Clear Sky Hammer and nine Soul Rings.

• Li Si drank Body Tempering Soup, reached Body Tempering First Stage, and became an outer disciple of the Crazy Blade Sect.
• The explorers’ results showed that nine had died or been captured and Li Si alone had entered cultivation; the screen then selected five explorers for the third batch.
• Tang Hao, Dugu Bo, Zhu Zhuyun, Ma Hongjun, and an unnamed fallen one were selected, alarming their allies and factions.
• Tang Hao entered the Great Desolate Ancient Plain and used his Soul Power and Clear Sky Hammer to withstand its intense gravity.
• Tang San recognized Tang Hao as his father, while Yu Xiaogang celebrated Tang Hao’s display of strength.

Tang Hao was badly wounded by a Three-Horned Demon Rhino, then watched a Nirvana Realm Heavenly Demon Tiger kill the beast with one swipe before flying away. The sky screen switched to Dugu Bo, who landed in the Poison Gas Swamp and confidently attacked a Jade Poison Demon Toad, only for it to swallow his poison.

• Tang Hao used his Great Sumeru Hammer against a Three-Horned Demon Rhino, cracking its horn but spending thirty percent of his Soul Power.
• The Three-Horned Demon Rhino counterattacked with Yuan Power, shattered Tang Hao's domain, and severely injured him.
• A Nirvana Realm Heavenly Demon Tiger arrived, crushed the Three-Horned Demon Rhino, and flew away without helping Tang Hao.
• The sky screen marked Tang Hao unable to fight and switched to Dugu Bo, who landed in the Poison Gas Swamp and believed his poison gave him the advantage.
• Dugu Bo used his eighth Soul Skill against a Jade Poison Demon Toad, but the toad swallowed his poison and began puffing out its cheeks.

Dugu Bo was overwhelmed by the Jade Poison Demon Toad’s venom, then captured by Great Demon Gate disciples and forced into service as poison-testing cannon fodder. The sky screen switched to Zhu Zhuyun, whose speed was easily defeated by a fighter using a third-grade movement Martial Art, leaving the Douluo Continent stunned by the other world’s cultivation and combat systems.

• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Divine Light failed to stop the Jade Poison Demon Toad’s venom, and he shed his skin to dodge before cutting off his corroding left arm.
• A spear-wielding disciple killed the Jade Poison Demon Toad, then identified Dugu Bo as a poison tester and bound him to explore a Nirvana Realm expert’s tomb with the Great Demon Gate group.
• The sky screen paused Dugu Bo’s footage and switched to Zhu Zhuyun, who appeared in an arena in the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Zhu Zhuyun attacked a lecherous fighter with her Nether Civet Martial Soul, but he dodged her and used Clear Wind Step to place a dagger at her throat.
• The fighter explained that Clear Wind Step was a common third-grade movement Martial Art, prompting Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to recognize how thoroughly the other world’s systems surpassed theirs.

Zhu Zhuyun willingly submitted to a powerful Martial Universe warrior in exchange for martial arts, while Ma Hongjun landed in a volcanic region and was rescued from a Fire-Devouring Suanni by Hall of Darkness disciples. The disciples took him away as a fire-tending servant for their future Saintess.

• Zhu Zhuyun withdrew her Martial Soul and became a warrior’s personal maid, hoping to gain strength from his martial arts.
• Dai Weisi saw Zhu Zhuyun’s submission on the sky screen, raged at her, and fainted after spitting blood.
• Ma Hongjun landed near a volcano and believed his Evil Fire Phoenix would help him survive there.
• A Fire-Devouring Suanni emerged from the lava and swallowed Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Fire Line before attacking him.
• Two Hall of Darkness disciples killed the Suanni and decided to take Ma Hongjun back as a fire-tending boy for their future Saintess.
• Ma Hongjun eagerly agreed to serve and followed the disciples away from the volcanic crater.

Ma Hongjun tried to assault Qing Tan in the Hall of Darkness's fire room, but her Fiend Demon Body overwhelmed him and froze the room. Qing Tan escaped before the enforcement disciples arrived, leaving Ma Hongjun to accuse her while the deacon concealed her identity.

• Ma Hongjun tended the saintess's medicinal cauldron for three days and fantasized about spying on her bath.
• Qing Tan sneaked into the fire room, and Ma Hongjun mistook her for an insignificant maid and made advances on her.
• Ma Hongjun attacked Qing Tan with his Phoenix Fire Line, but Qing Tan released Yin Fiend Qi that extinguished his flames and froze him and the room.
• Qing Tan prepared to strike Ma Hongjun, then fled through the back door when she heard the enforcement disciples approaching.
• The enforcement deacon recognized Qing Tan's Fiend Demon Qi and concealed her involvement, while Ma Hongjun begged him to punish the girl.

Ma Hongjun was blamed and punished after Qing Tan’s escape, while Tang Hao was dragged to a Nirvana Realm ruin and used as cannon fodder by Lin Langtian. The chapter left Tang Hao dead, reduced to ash by the ruin’s sealing formation, as Tang San watched in horror.

• A steward struck Ma Hongjun, blamed him for the medicinal bath’s near-disruption, and ordered him whipped before sending him back to tend the fire.
• The Douluo Continent’s observers condemned the supposed maid, unaware that she was Qing Tan, the future Saintess of Darkness.
• The heavenly screen resumed Tang Hao’s broadcast and showed him captured and dragged to a newly revealed Nirvana Realm ruin in the Great Desolation Ancient Plain.
• Lin Langtian arrived on a Six-Winged Golden-Scaled Eagle, crushed the unaffiliated cultivators with his pressure, and seized them and Tang Hao to test the ruin’s sealing formation.
• The formation’s backlash shattered the cultivators and destroyed Tang Hao, turning him and his Soul Bones to ash while Tang San watched helplessly.

After Tang Hao and Dugu Bo died in the Martial Universe, the sky screen announced that five new explorers would be selected, including Ah Yin. Ah Yin was transported to a dangerous mountain range, where an Earth Origin Realm Red-Armored Pig charged toward her as Tang San watched helplessly.

• Wang Yan, Qin Shi, and the Huangpu Clan's prodigy arrived at the tomb after Tang Hao died, while Tang San collapsed in grief on Douluo Continent.
• The Great Demon Gate's young man forced Dugu Bo into Nirvana poison gas, killing him, and the sky screen reported three explorers dead and two captured.
• The sky screen announced that five explorers would be selected in three days, including the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin.
• Three days later, the screen named Ah Yin among the new explorers, horrifying Tang San and prompting the Blue Silver King and Blue Silver Grass across the continent to mourn her departure.
• Ah Yin was teleported to a cliff in a primeval mountain range, where an Earth Origin Realm Red-Armored Pig spotted her and charged to eat her.

Ling Qingzhu saved Ah Yin from a Red-Armored Pig but mistook the hundred-thousand-year soul beast for a medicinal herb and took her to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. The sky screen then showed Zhao Si being offered a chance to become a Talisman Master, revealing a second cultivation system that left Tang San alarmed about his own spiritual-power techniques and hidden weapons.

• Ling Qingzhu killed the Red-Armored Pig with a sword strike and discovered Ah Yin’s immense life essence.
• Ling Qingzhu took Ah Yin, whom she considered a rare spirit herb, to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace’s Spirit Medicine Garden.
• The sky screen revealed that Ah Yin had been taken as an ornamental plant and reserve medicinal ingredient, leaving Tang San humiliated and distressed.
• The sky screen switched to Zhao Si, whom a gray-robed elder offered to teach as a Talisman Master because of his spacious Niwan Palace.
• The sky screen explained the Talisman Master cultivation system, and Tang San feared its practitioners could counter his hidden weapons with spiritual power.

Zhao Si awakened spiritual power in another world, but an evil Talisman Master erased his mind and made him a puppet. Yu Xiaogang was then transported to Martial Universe, where his Soul Master abilities failed against a mine overseer and he was forced to work as a miner.

• Zhao Si moved a stone with newly awakened spiritual power, but the gray-robed old man revealed he had only wanted a vessel and turned him into a Talisman Slave.
• The sky screen reported the fourth batch’s outcomes and selected Yu Xiaogang, Ning Rongrong, and others for the next exploration.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at a Yang Yuan Stone mine and tried to impress its overseer with his Soul Master rank and martial theory.
• The overseer dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s claims, ordered him to mine, and defeated Luo Sanpao with a First-Grade Martial Art.
• The overseer slapped Yu Xiaogang and threw him into the mining pit, forcing the theoretical Grandmaster to become a laborer.

Yu Xiaogang tried to impress the Lin Family with his theories about helping Lin Dong defeat Lin Langtian, but the family dismissed him and the mine overseer beat him. He escaped to the Mad Blade Martial Hall seeking a new patron, only to be cornered by its Fire Python Tiger as the disciples rushed in.

• Yu Xiaogang overheard Lin Zhentian and Lin Xiao worrying about Lin Dong's coming clan competition and offered to train him, but they dismissed Yu Xiaogang as a mad vagrant.
• The mine overseer beat Yu Xiaogang for speaking out, and Yu Xiaogang later escaped the mine and headed for the Mad Blade Martial Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang crawled into the Mad Blade Martial Hall's backyard and encountered its Fire Python Tiger.
• The Fire Python Tiger lunged at Yu Xiaogang, and a leading disciple rushed in and shouted for it to stop.