Arc 1The Sleeping Dragon Beneath Douluo

Gu Xian slept through his thirty-day stay while humans, soul beasts, and gods discovered the immense dragon beneath Douluo Star. His growing body shattered the planet, leaving human survivors scattered among its fragments while Gu Yuena's soul beasts clung to his scales.

  • Yue Guan and Gui Mei uncovered an immense dark-gold scale beneath Star Dou Great Forest, and Bibi Dong's investigation established that it belonged to a living creature.
  • Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang led failed expeditions into the forest, while Da Ming and Er Ming brought Xiao Wu to the fissure and told her the underground being might revive her mother.
  • The Angel God attacked Gu Xian's scales with her divine sense, and the backlash killed her and destroyed her divine position.
  • Gu Yuena identified Gu Xian as the sleeping Dragon Ancestor, and Di Tian crippled Tang Hao before sending him away with orders to announce the forest's closure.
  • Tang Hao spread rumors of a god-making treasure, drawing human experts into the forest, where Gu Yuena forced them to flee and they later planned a Beast-Slaying Alliance.
  • Gu Xian shifted and began expanding, devastating the continent, while the Five Great God Kings discovered his enormous body and abandoned Douluo Star after the Asura God's attack recoiled against him.
  • Gu Yuena ordered the soul beasts to cling to Gu Xian's scales as temperatures soared, and Tang San warned Shrek Academy that the growing creature would burst the planet.
  • Gu Xian's expansion broke Douluo Star into floating fragments, scattering human survivors into space while Gu Yuena prepared the soul beasts for his transformation.
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Ch. 1Transmigrated as a Primordial True Dragon, Coiled Around Douluo Star!

Gu Xian, a juvenile True Dragon coiled around Douluo Star, chose to sleep so he would not accidentally destroy the planet. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Yue Guan and Gui Mei uncovered one of his enormous scales and realized it belonged to a creature beyond anything they knew.

  • Gu Xian saw the system’s warning that even a sneeze could destroy Douluo Star, then decided to sleep through his thirty-day stay.
  • Yue Guan and Gui Mei searched the Star Dou Great Forest for an Immortal Herb on the Pope’s orders.
  • Yue Guan blasted a seventy-thousand-year-old Iron-Armored Rhinoceros into a cliff, exposing a dark gold surface beneath the rock.
  • Yue Guan’s Soul Power blade failed to scratch the surface, and Gui Mei’s eighth Soul Skill rebounded against it.
  • Yue Guan illuminated the area, and he and Gui Mei recognized the immense dark gold surface as a single scale and wondered how large its owner was.
  • Gui Mei sensed no Soul Power from the scale, and Yue Guan suggested they fly up to investigate.

Ch. 2Boundless golden scales, eight Titled Douluos descend!

Yue Guan and Gui Mei discovered that the Star Dou Great Forest rested on an enormous dark-gold scale belonging to an unknown creature, then warned Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s strongest available fighters to inspect it, where Golden Crocodile Douluo dismissed the claim that it was alive.

  • Gui Mei and Yue Guan flew up the dark-gold surface and realized it was a scale stretching beyond sight beneath the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Yue Guan and Gui Mei fled to Spirit City and told Bibi Dong that the scale belonged to a creature large enough to support the forest and perhaps Spirit City.
  • Bibi Dong ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo and other Titled Douluos to assemble and accompany her to the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall group arrived above the scale, and its immense size left them stunned and sweating with fear.
  • Golden Crocodile Douluo insisted the scale could not belong to a living creature and claimed he could fight even a legendary hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

Ch. 3Yu Xiaogang set out to study the True Dragon Scale!

Golden Crocodile Douluo failed to damage the enormous dark-golden scale, and Spirit Hall discovered that the mysterious material extended for hundreds of li. As Spirit Hall and other powers moved toward Star Dou Great Forest, Yu Xiaogang led Shrek Academy into its devastated outskirts, where the group found the forest eerily silent.

  • Golden Crocodile Douluo used his Martial Soul Avatar to bite the dark-golden scale, but the impact shattered the phantom and cracked his scales.
  • Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to seal off the area, while Yu Xiaogang convinced Shrek Academy that ancient ruins had caused the tremors and led the group toward Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin sensed that something major had happened and set out to investigate for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
  • Spirit Hall's search teams reported that the dark-golden material continued at least a hundred li east and a hundred and fifty li west, prompting Golden Crocodile Douluo to retract his claim that it was ore or remains.
  • Flender led Shrek Academy through the devastated, silent forest, and Yu Xiaogang stopped to examine a snapped tree.

Ch. 4Just how old was this soul beast? Hundreds of millions of years?

Yu Xiaogang led Shrek Academy toward the forest’s center, convinced an ancient formation was responsible for the disturbance, while powerful soul masters discovered that the dark-gold wall resisted even sword intent and divine aura. Spirit Hall’s measurements revealed that the vast surface was expanding and contracting like a living creature’s breathing, leaving Bibi Dong and the others wondering what enormous being slept beneath the earth.

  • Yu Xiaogang interpreted the radial pattern of fallen trees as evidence that an ancient formation had activated, then led Shrek deeper into the forest.
  • Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin examined the abyss, but the dark-gold wall crushed Chen Xin’s sword intent and wounded him with its backlash.
  • Bibi Dong tested the wall with a wisp of Rakshasa divine aura, which vanished when it touched the surface.
  • At the Lake of Life, Da Ming and Er Ming felt the overwhelming pressure and ordered ten-thousand-year soul beasts to keep humans away from the underground existence.
  • Tang San noticed that soul beasts were prostrating themselves and that Soul Power was flowing toward the forest’s center, while Yu Xiaogang explained it as an ancient array’s effects.
  • A Spirit Hall archbishop measured the dark-gold surface’s regular expansion and contraction, leading Bibi Dong and the others to realize it was breathing and might be one scale of a living creature.

Ch. 5A soul beast thousands of miles long, its blood like rivers and seas!

Bibi Dong and the others discovered that the colossal dark-gold surface beneath Star Dou Great Forest belonged to a living soul beast, while Yu Xiaogang mistakenly approached it as an ancient array. The creature’s golden blood began flowing faster, and the ground started trembling.

  • Bibi Dong, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the other Titled Douluo realized the enormous scale was part of a living creature whose awakening could destroy the continent.
  • Ning Fengzhi urged Chen Xin to retreat, but Chen Xin said there was nowhere to run if the creature woke.
  • Yu Xiaogang led Shrek Academy toward the abyss, then claimed his Spirit Hall Elder Token and went to negotiate with Bibi Dong.
  • Yu Xiaogang misidentified the creature’s scale and blood vessel as an array and its energy source, until Golden Crocodile Douluo forced him to recognize the truth.
  • Chen Xin noticed the golden blood flowing faster, and Bibi Dong sensed the creature’s blood accelerating as tremors spread through Star Dou Great Forest.

Ch. 6A Ten-Million-Year Soul Beast? Yu Yuanzhen Sets Out to Hunt It!

The upheaval around the sleeping Gu Xian terrified Spirit Hall and Shrek Academy, while rumors of an ancient soul beast spread across the continent. Yu Yuanzhen mistook the reports for a chance to seize a powerful beast and set out with his clan; meanwhile, Gu Xian slept on, unaware of the plans forming above him.

  • Bibi Dong and the other Titled Douluo survived a blast caused by Gu Xian’s quickened blood flow, then Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to investigate his origins.
  • Bibi Dong had Yu Xiaogang thrown out, and he returned to Shrek Academy insisting that the ground beneath them was a living monster.
  • Rumors about the upheaval spread across the continent, though most people believed the creature was only a few hundred meters long.
  • Yu Yuanzhen decided the sleeping beast’s bloodline made it a dragon and ordered his clan to gather its Lock Dragon Formation Artifacts and go after it.
  • Gu Xian continued sleeping beneath Star Dou Great Forest as his system recorded three days of his thirty-day quest.

Ch. 7A Dragon Claw Appears! Poison Douluo Falls Apart!

While Gu Xian slept, the Star Dou Great Forest’s soul beasts guarded the being beneath Abyss Canyon, and Yu Yuanzhen’s attempt to bind it with the Lock Dragon Formation backfired, leaving him terrified. At Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo’s venom was repelled by five dark-gold peaks, and he and Prince Xue Xing froze after learning the peaks were connected underground.

  • Da Ming and Er Ming ordered the assembled high-level soul beasts to stop Yu Yuanzhen’s clan from disturbing the being beneath Abyss Canyon.
  • Yu Yuanzhen attacked with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Lock Dragon Formation, but the dark-golden scales destroyed its pillars and sent a backlash that badly injured him.
  • Yu Yuanzhen glimpsed the vast golden blood beneath the dark-golden surface, panicked, and fled as Da Ming ordered the Star Dou Great Forest’s inner region sealed off.
  • At Sunset Forest, Prince Xue Xing proposed mining five dark-gold peaks, and Dugu Bo sent his venom against them.
  • The peaks repelled Dugu Bo’s venom and injured him; then a knight captain reported that all five peaks were connected underground, leaving Dugu Bo and Prince Xue Xing stunned.

Ch. 8A gigantic Soul Beast? Tang San dragged the Peerless Dragon Snake couple into trouble!

Dugu Bo and Prince Xue Xing discovered that the five golden peaks were a gigantic claw and fled, while Yu Xiaogang assembled the Shrek group and the Peerless Dragon Snake couple to investigate what he believed was an ancient array. At the abyss, they found powerful Soul Beasts gathered in terror, but Yu Xiaogang insisted they were only absorbing energy leaking from the array and prepared to press on.

  • Dugu Bo realized the golden peaks formed part of an enormous claw, then fled with Prince Xue Xing and ordered the area sealed off.
  • Yu Xiaogang dismissed Spirit Hall’s warning and persuaded Flender to summon Liu Erlong and Tang San to recruit the Peerless Dragon Snake couple.
  • Tang San brought Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to camp, and Yu Xiaogang convinced them that a gravely injured Soul Beast or ancient ruin lay underground.
  • Liu Erlong arrived, and Yu Xiaogang led the assembled group toward the forest’s center despite Xiao Wu’s fearful pleas to turn back.
  • The group reached the abyss and saw many powerful Soul Beasts, including the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, gathered with their heads lowered.
  • Yu Xiaogang claimed the beasts were trembling from pressure while absorbing energy leaking from an ancient array, and said they could avoid fighting them directly.

Ch. 9Xiao Wu Was Captured, and Tang San Resented Yu Xiaogang!

Yu Xiaogang led the Shrek group into a disastrous confrontation with the soul beasts guarding the fissure, and Er Ming carried Xiao Wu away to protect her. Tang San blamed Yu Xiaogang for Xiao Wu's capture, while Da Ming began explaining that something powerful lay underground.

  • Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang rejected Yu Xiaogang's plan and tried to leave, but Liu Erlong persuaded Flender to join her and Yu Xiaogang in attacking with the Golden Sacred Dragon.
  • Yu Xiaogang sent the Golden Sacred Dragon toward the soul beasts, but Da Ming shattered it with one tail strike, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong badly injured.
  • Er Ming recognized Xiao Wu and carried her to the fissure, while Tang San's hidden weapons and Eight Spider Lances failed to harm him and Er Ming knocked Tang San aside.
  • Tang San blamed Yu Xiaogang for Xiao Wu's capture, and Meng Shu left with Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran after mocking the Shrek group.
  • Xiao Wu asked Da Ming and Er Ming why they had brought her to the fissure, and Da Ming began describing the danger beneath it.

Ch. 10A single dragon whisker shocked the Ice Empress and Snow Empress!

Da Ming revealed that an ancient being of immense age lay beneath the Star Dou Great Forest, while its body parts appeared across the continent and stunned those who encountered them. Tang San entered the forest to rescue Xiao Wu and discovered the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python gathered with countless Soul Beasts.

  • Da Ming told the others that a being beneath the Star Dou Great Forest might be the Soul Beast Clan’s true progenitor, older than a million years.
  • The King of Slaughter mistook Gu Xian’s whisker in the Blood Pool for a source of blood essence, but his attack broke his teeth and sent him crashing into a wall.
  • The Ice Empress attacked a giant spike in the Far North, was thrown back, and learned from the Snow Empress that the spike belonged to a creature whose body might underlie the entire region.
  • Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu found no records of the immense creature, and Qian Daoliu suggested that even the Gods might not know of its existence.
  • Tang San slipped into the Star Dou Great Forest to rescue Xiao Wu and found the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python beside a gathering of obedient high-level Soul Beasts.

Ch. 11The Angel God Descends! Nothing but a Bigger Soul Beast

Tang San tried to rescue Xiao Wu from Da Ming and Er Ming, but Xiao Wu sent him away to avoid disturbing the being beneath the Star Dou Great Forest. As golden light from the fissure healed the forest and helped Xiao Wu break through her cultivation bottleneck, Qian Daoliu summoned the Angel God's Divine Sense, which dismissed the colossal creature as an illusion and silenced Bibi Dong.

  • Tang San fired his Silent Sleeve Arrow at Er Ming and then aimed his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, while Da Ming and Er Ming urged Xiao Wu to stop him from making noise near the fissure.
  • Da Ming and Er Ming told Xiao Wu that the being beneath the fissure was the Soul Beast Clan's ancestor and might revive her mother, so Xiao Wu ordered Tang San to leave.
  • Tang San accepted Xiao Wu's rejection and staggered away, while Xiao Wu wept but remained with Da Ming and Er Ming.
  • Golden light rose from the fissure, restored the damaged plants, and helped Xiao Wu break through her Soul Power bottleneck.
  • At the Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu summoned the Angel God's Divine Sense and explained the threat beneath the Star Dou Great Forest, but the Angel God called the creature an illusion and forced Bibi Dong to her knees.

Ch. 12The Angel God Falls!

The Angel God's divine sense tried to uncover and attack the enormous being beneath Douluo Star, but touching Gu Xian's scales exposed her to his terrifying aura and destroyed her. The backlash killed the Angel God in the Divine Realm, where Asura God and Sea God arrived to find her dead.

  • The Angel God's divine sense dismissed the underground presence as a million-year soul beast and expanded her perception across Douluo Star to find it.
  • When the Angel God could not encompass the vast dark golden surface, she condensed her divine consciousness into a needle and struck Gu Xian's scales.
  • Tang San returned to Flender and Liu Erlong, blamed Yu Xiaogang for Xiao Wu's capture, and vowed to gain the strength to take her back.
  • The Angel God's divine sense touched the aura of Gu Xian's golden blood, shattered, and triggered a tremor across Douluo Star that cracked the Angel statue and left Qian Daoliu badly injured.
  • The backlash crossed into the Divine Realm and killed the Angel God, destroying her Godhood and divine position.
  • Asura God and Sea God reached the Angel Temple and found the Angel God dead on her throne.

Ch. 13The Dragon God Revived? The Divine Realm Was Shocked!

The Asura God and Sea God discovered that an ancient Dragon Clan aura from Douluo Star had overwhelmed the Angel God, while the Rakshasa God severed contact with Bibi Dong to avoid attracting the monster. Tang San forced his way into Slaughter City despite its lockdown and reached the Blood Pool, where he froze at what he saw.

  • The Asura God sensed Dragon Clan blood vitality from Douluo Star, judged it ten thousand times more terrifying than the Dragon God’s, and realized it had destroyed the Angel God.
  • Bibi Dong sought help from the Rakshasa God, but the god sealed her statue, suspended her Divine Examination, and cut off contact.
  • Tang San arrived at the town outside Slaughter City, killed several men when the tavern server refused to give him a Bloody Mary, and learned that the city was locked down.
  • Tang San ignored Scott’s warnings and charged into the inner-city passage as the black-armored knights sealed it with Dragon-Breaking Stones.
  • Tang San endured the heat and oppressive blood-soaked air, reached the edge of the underground Blood Pool, and froze at the sight before him.

Ch. 14Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang brutally!

Tang San damaged himself trying to strike the formation’s dragon whisker in Slaughter City, while Tang Hao confronted Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Academy teachers over Tang San’s dangerous expedition into the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter ended with Tang Hao dismissing the threat of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as he stood over Yu Xiaogang.

  • Tang San mistook the dragon whisker in Slaughter City for a formation hub, struck it with his Clear Sky Hammer, and suffered severe injuries from the recoil.
  • The King of Slaughter rushed in and berated Tang San for attacking the dragon whisker.
  • Tang Hao arrived at the inn, seized Yu Xiaogang, and accused him of risking Tang San’s life with his theories.
  • Liu Erlong attacked Tang Hao, but he defeated her with one swing of his Clear Sky Hammer and then struck Yu Xiaogang.
  • Zhao Wuji told Tang Hao that Tang San had entered the forest alone to save Xiao Wu, prompting Tang Hao to condemn the Shrek teachers.
  • Liu Erlong threatened Tang Hao with Yu Xiaogang’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan ties, but Tang Hao said he would fight Yu Yuanzhen too.

Ch. 15Dragon Ancestor!

Tang Hao charged into Star Dou Great Forest to rescue Xiao Wu, but a trace of the Dragon Ancestor’s blood qi shattered his Clear Sky Hammer and left him helpless before Di Tian. As Tang Hao fled, Di Tian watched him go, and a hand reached out of the void ahead of him.

  • Tang Hao injured Shrek Academy’s teachers, spared Yu Xiaogang, and headed for Star Dou Great Forest to rescue Xiao Wu and claim a soul bone for Tang San.
  • Di Tian sensed the Dragon Ancestor’s aura, and Gu Yuena explained that Douluo Star and the surrounding cosmos lay upon the sleeping progenitor’s body; she ordered the Soul Beast Clan to worship the Dragon Ancestor and sent Di Tian to stop Tang Hao.
  • Tang Hao arrived at the Lake of Life and mistook the kneeling soul beasts for a surrender before attacking Da Ming and Er Ming with the Great Sumeru Hammer.
  • The Dragon Ancestor’s golden blood qi shattered Tang Hao’s hammer, and Di Tian appeared, identified himself, and overwhelmed Tang Hao with his pressure.
  • Tang Hao burned his remaining soul power and life essence to flee, while Di Tian let him escape; then a fair-skinned hand reached out of the void in Tang Hao’s path.

Ch. 16Eight-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Exposed!

Di Tian spared Tang Hao at Xiao Wu’s request but crippled his cultivation and ordered him to warn humanity away from Star Dou Great Forest. After learning that a giant dragon’s whisker lay beneath Slaughter City, Tang San was thrown out, while Tang Hao decided to lure powerful humans into the forest by spreading rumors of its treasures.

  • Di Tian stopped Tang Hao’s escape, but halted his killing blow when Tang Hao mentioned Xiao Wu and begged for mercy.
  • Xiao Wu pleaded for Tang Hao’s life, so Di Tian spared him, crippled his cultivation, and ordered him to announce that Star Dou Great Forest was closed to humans.
  • Xiao Wu refused to leave with Tang Hao and told him to tell Tang San that the Xiao Wu he knew was dead.
  • At Slaughter City, the King of Slaughter revealed that the dark-gold pillar in the Blood Pool was a dragon’s whisker, then threw the defiant Tang San into a wall and ordered the passage sealed.
  • After reaching the forest’s outskirts, Tang Hao resolved to spread exaggerated rumors about Di Tian and a god-making treasure to draw human experts into Star Dou Great Forest.

Ch. 17Ten Titled Douluo Join Forces!

Tang Hao’s false rumor about Di Tian and a godhood-granting treasure drew the great sects toward the Star Dou Great Forest, while Bibi Dong tried to keep them out to protect the being beneath it. Gu Yuena ordered the beasts to let the humans enter, and the invading forces reached the Lake of Life, where they found two enormous beasts.

  • Tang Hao spread a rumor that Di Tian guarded a treasure capable of granting godhood, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare for the forest.
  • Bibi Dong learned that the rumor was false and ordered Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo and knights to seal the forest’s entrances.
  • Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen gathered the great sects outside the blockade, mistook Spirit Hall’s warning for greed, and prepared to force their way inside.
  • Gu Yuena told Di Tian to line up Da Ming, Er Ming, and the ferocious beasts along the core’s edge and let the humans enter.
  • The forest’s miasma parted into a clear passage, and Yu Yuanzhen led the human forces toward the Lake of Life despite Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s warnings.
  • The human forces reached a clearing near the Lake of Life and saw two colossal beasts lying beside an enormous fissure.

Ch. 18Di Tian's Terror!

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Yu Yuanzhen, and the other human Soul Masters entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s core and discovered that Di Tian and four ancient ferocious beasts guarded the fissure. When golden radiance emerged from it, Di Tian and the beasts all knelt, leaving the humans to realize that something even more powerful than Di Tian lay beneath the fissure.

  • Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen found Di Tian surrounded by kneeling Soul Beasts, and Chen Xin warned that Di Tian’s aura surpassed any Super Douluo’s.
  • Di Tian summoned Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, and Zi JI, who joined him as the Star Dou Great Forest’s powerful guardians.
  • Ning Fengzhi ordered the humans to retreat, but Xiong Jun attacked, and Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Yu Yuanzhen fought him together before he overpowered them.
  • Golden light and pressure poured from the fissure, forcing Xiong Jun, the other ferocious beasts, and Di Tian to kneel toward it.
  • Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that Tang Hao had misidentified Di Tian and the treasure, and the humans suspected that the fissure held a being beyond a million years, possibly the Dragon God.

Ch. 19Gu Yuena Revealed! The Entire Continent Was Shocked!

Gu Yuena drove the human forces from the Star Dou Great Forest, while their leaders mistook her for the greatest threat and formed a Beast-Slaying Alliance. As the alliance prepared to announce its founding, Gu Xian shifted in his sleep and a catastrophic tremor tore through Douluo Star.

  • A golden dragon apparition forced the human experts in the Star Dou Great Forest to their knees, and Gu Yuena emerged as Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts called her their lord.
  • Gu Yuena ordered the humans to crawl away and warned them that the Star Dou Great Forest was sealed; Ning Fengzhi and the others fled and later formed plans for an alliance against the beasts.
  • Tang San discovered that the dark gold object in Slaughter City's Blood Pool was a living dragon whisker, and the King of Slaughter ordered him imprisoned and silenced.
  • Bibi Dong learned that Ning Fengzhi was organizing a Beast-Slaying Alliance and ordered Spirit Hall to withdraw rather than join its campaign.
  • Gu Xian shifted slightly in his sleep, triggering a planetary tremor as the Beast-Slaying Alliance prepared to announce its founding in Heaven Dou Imperial City; the ground split open and Imperial Knights fell into the chasm.

Ch. 20The Asura God descends (I)

A sleeping Gu Xian’s slight movement devastated the Heaven Dou Empire and began heating and expanding Douluo Star. While Gu Yuena prepared the Soul Beasts for the planet’s destruction, the Divine Realm’s gods mistook the catastrophe for her attempt to restore her power, and the God of Destruction set out for the lower realm.

  • Gu Yuena and the ferocious beasts realized that the destruction across the continent came from the Dragon Ancestor shifting in his sleep, while Gu Xian’s countdown showed ten days remained before his body’s final expansion phase.
  • Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong surveyed the ruins of Heaven Dou Imperial City and blamed the disaster on the silver-haired woman, while Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to retreat and prepare for a natural disaster.
  • A day later, Gu Yuena explained that the Dragon Ancestor’s expanding body was forcing Douluo Star’s crust outward, and she ordered the Soul Beasts to gather near a fissure and cling to his scales when the planet broke apart.
  • The God of Destruction showed the Asura God and Sea God a projection of the cracked, enlarged Douluo Star, and they wrongly concluded that Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena was behind the catastrophe.
  • The God of Destruction left for the Lower Realm Orbit to confront Gu Yuena.

Ch. 21The Five Great God Kings Descended!

The God of Destruction discovered a colossal dragon coiled around Douluo Star and barely escaped after its sleeping breath shattered his armor. The other God Kings dismissed his account as an illusion and descended together to confront Gu Yuena, where they arrived in a terrifying silence.

  • The God of Destruction found Douluo Star nestled among the coils of an enormous dark gold dragon and fled when its breath blasted him into a spatial rift.
  • The God of Destruction returned to the Divine Realm injured and warned the Asura God and Sea God that a living dragon encircled Douluo Star.
  • The Asura God, Sea God, Evil God King, and Goddess of Life insisted the dragon was an illusion created by Gu Yuena using the Dragon God's Heart.
  • The Asura God persuaded all Five Great God Kings to descend together and expose Gu Yuena's supposed bluff.
  • The Five Great God Kings opened a passage to the space outside Douluo Star and emerged into a motionless starfield.
  • The God of Destruction sensed an eerie stillness and urged Asura God to look down.

Ch. 22The giant dragon coiled around a planet!

The five God Kings discovered that Douluo Star lay between the scales of a colossal sleeping dragon, and Asura God was grievously injured when his attack triggered the dragon’s passive recoil. The Divine Realm severed its connection to Douluo Star, while Gu Yuena concluded the gods would not return.

  • The Asura God and the other four God Kings saw Douluo Star wedged between the dark-gold scales of a dragon that filled the surrounding starry expanse.
  • The Goddess of Life probed a scale and was struck by its overwhelming blood vitality, while the Asura God insisted the dragon might be a corpse.
  • The Asura God struck a scale with Asura Judgment, but its passive recoil shattered his hands and right arm and damaged the Asura Blood Sword.
  • The God of Destruction led the God Kings back to the Divine Realm, destroyed the passage formation, and agreed with the Asura God to abandon Douluo Star and forbid mention of it.
  • Gu Yuena told Di Tian that the Divine Realm’s gods had attacked the Dragon Progenitor like insects and predicted they would seal every passage rather than return.
  • At Spirit City, Bibi Dong listened to a subordinate’s report.

Ch. 23The giant dragon stirred, and the entire Douluo Continent was transformed!

As Gu Xian’s final bodily expansion approached, the Douluo Star overheated and began to collapse, driving people and soul beasts toward desperate shelters. Tang San survived the underground disaster and reunited with Shrek Academy, but the chapter left him badly injured in a refugee camp as the planet’s crisis worsened.

  • Bibi Dong learned that the Divine Realm had severed its connection to the continent and abolished worship of the Angel God, declaring that Spirit Hall would worship itself.
  • The Douluo Star’s temperature soared: Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen found boiling rivers, while Gu Rong reported that the seas were boiling and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had been stranded and cooked on shore.
  • Di Tian led hundreds of thousands of soul beasts down the fissure to cling to Gu Xian’s dark gold scales, while Gu Yuena warned that the crust could soon burst apart.
  • Bibi Dong refused to evacuate Spirit City’s civilians, judging that there was nowhere safe as magma and volcanic ash spread.
  • Tang San crawled out of a boiling river with both arms shattered, realized the underground monster’s movement was causing the rising heat, and was found by Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang.
  • At Shrek Academy’s refugee camp, Tang San received basic treatment as Yu Xiaogang asked who had injured him.

Ch. 24The Continent Was Gone, and Tang San Proved Yu Xiaogang Wrong!

Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that a colossal living creature beneath Slaughter City was causing the disaster, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed him and invented a theory about an Earthcore Demonic Vine. The ground then began losing gravity and breaking apart, and Flender saw the continent disintegrating as it rose into the sky.

  • Flender told Tang San that Heaven Dou Imperial City had vanished, the Star Luo Empire had suffered a massive earthquake, and the continent's temperatures were soaring.
  • Yu Xiaogang claimed a million-year soul beast beneath the Star Dou Great Forest was drawing up magma and causing the disasters.
  • Tang San revealed that he had seen a living whisker beneath Slaughter City and said the creature was growing until the planet burst, but Yu Xiaogang insisted it was an Earthcore Demonic Vine.
  • Water droplets, cliffs, stones, and people began floating as gravity failed, and Zhao Wuji's Gravity Enhancement could not keep a slab of earth from rising.
  • Flender flew above the camp and saw cities, forests, and mountains breaking into slabs that drifted upward before telling the others, "The continent... is gone."

Ch. 25The True Dragon Crushed Douluo Star (I)

Douluo Star’s crust and atmosphere were torn apart as Gu Xian expanded, leaving people, Soul Masters, and soul beasts stranded amid rising debris and the vacuum of space. The chapter ended with Gu Xian coiled at the center of the shattered planet while Gu Yuena warned the Soul Beast Clan that its transformation was only beginning.

  • Yu Xiaogang saw Gu Xian’s dark-gold body beneath the fissure and accepted Tang San’s claim that the world’s inhabitants lived on a creature’s back.
  • Flender tried to lead the refugees to safety, but an overhead continent and growing antigravity currents trapped them and sent people and debris hurtling upward.
  • Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong were flung into outer space as Gu Xian’s rising back ridges scattered the floating land fragments.
  • Bibi Dong watched Spirit City break away from the ground and doubted that the Divine Realm could save them.
  • Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian and the soul beasts clinging to Gu Xian’s scales to suppress their auras and protect themselves as the creature prepared to transform.
  • Gu Xian remained coiled at the center of Douluo Star’s scattered remains.
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