Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue and Di Tian witnessed Nuwa create humanity and establish the Human Dao, prompting people and factions across Douluo to honor her. Tang Hao persuaded Tang San to identify with Nuwa’s demon race rather than humanity, and Tang San decided he was done being human.

• Nuwa formed the first humans from mud, created thousands more with a vine, and declared the human race established, earning boundless merit.
• Nuwa noticed Qian Renxue across time; Qian Renxue and Di Tian bowed to her, while Douluo’s people reacted to witnessing humanity’s creation.
• Qian Daoliu, Ning Fengzhi, the empires, and Flender arranged for Nuwa statues and worship, while Yu Xiaogang hoped Nuwa’s support would strengthen his backing.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to worship Nuwa as Empress Wa rather than as humanity’s Holy Mother because Tang San’s mother belonged to the demon race.
• Tang San accepted Tang Hao’s reasoning and decided he was done being human.

Nuwa summoned Qian Renxue and Di Tian, rejected the books Qian Renxue offered, and gave her a novel that alarmed her when she saw its title. After returning to Flower-Fruit Mountain, Qian Renxue considered how to make a Soul Master Tournament interesting to Nuwa, then greeted new arrivals Yang Jian and an imposing woman.

• Yu Xiaogang envied Tang San’s supposed connection to the Demon Race, and Tang San told the others they might discover other powerful beings by watching the livestream.
• Nuwa summoned Qian Renxue and Di Tian and asked them for entertaining stories or fiction from their world.
• Nuwa dismissed Qian Renxue’s books, gave her a novel, and told her to consider holding an interesting Soul Master Tournament.
• Qian Renxue returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, hid the novel’s alarming title, and decided to think about the tournament; Yu Xiaogang began inexplicably squealing and changing.
• Qian Renxue thanked Nezha and prepared to leave with Di Tian, but an auspicious cloud brought Yang Jian and an imposing woman to the mountain.
• Qian Renxue greeted Yang Jian as the Justice Heavenly God and thanked him for recommending her to the Great Heavenly Venerable.

Ao Cunxin recognized Di Tian as a rare, newly ascended dragon and offered him an opportunity tied to a shift in the West Sea Dragon Clan’s fate. After Qian Renxue gave her permission, Di Tian left with Ao Cunxin for the Dragon Palace, where she began explaining the Primordial World’s Dragon Clan.

• Ao Cunxin noticed Di Tian’s extremely diluted Dragon Clan bloodline, while Di Tian felt compelled to submit before her.
• Ao Cunxin sensed a change in the West Sea Dragon Clan’s fortune and offered Di Tian an opportunity that might affect her younger brother’s fate.
• On Douluo Continent, Qian Daoliu reassured the Soul Beasts that Di Tian could pursue the opportunity, while Ning Fengzhi ordered sect disciples who ascended to seek refuge with Qian Renxue.
• At Shrek Academy, Tang San worried that Xiao Wu had not received an opportunity, and Yu Xiaogang encouraged him while showing unusual physical symptoms.
• Qian Renxue told Di Tian to accept the opportunity, and he thanked her before leaving with Ao Cunxin for the Dragon Palace.
• Ao Cunxin told Di Tian that the Dragon Clan governed the waterways across the four seas, with Dragon Kings overseeing the seas, rivers, and wells.

Ao Cunxin explained how the Dragon Clan’s ancient war with the Qilin and Phoenix clans brought immense karma and led Ancestral Dragon to suppress the Sea Eye. She recruited Di Tian to participate in a controlled tribulation for the Dragon Clan, then revealed that the Primordial World had only seven Sages, including Goddess Nüwa.

• Di Tian asked whether the Dragon Kings overseeing rivers and wells were True Dragons, and Ao Cunxin confirmed they were.
• Ao Cunxin recounted how the Dragon Clan, Qilin Clan, and Phoenix Clan once fought for supremacy under their leaders, who had reached the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• Ao Cunxin explained that the three clans’ slaughter brought a tribulation, and Ancestral Dragon preserved the Dragon Clan by swearing to suppress the Sea Eye, leaving the clan burdened with karma.
• Ao Cunxin told Di Tian that the Dragon Clan had secured a place in a manageable tribulation and asked him to participate in place of the Third Prince of the West Sea; Di Tian accepted.
• Di Tian asked what a Sage was, and Ao Cunxin described Sages as comparable to heaven and named Goddess Nüwa as one of the Primordial World’s seven Sages.

Ao Cunxin explained to Di Tian that Sage Tongtian had shattered the original Primordial World while fighting four other Sages, and that the Great Heavenly Venerable and Goddess Nüwa had stopped the destruction. She brought Di Tian to the West Sea and told him he would be given the origins of the West Sea Dragon Race before entering the Dragon Palace.

• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong read Ao Cunxin’s account of the Sages, while Ning Fengzhi feared the Great Heavenly Venerable could read his thoughts.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned the Sages for unleashing Tribulations and destroying lives, then imagined his theory being enforced across the Primordial World.
• Ao Cunxin told Di Tian that the Primordial World had once been one landmass and that Sage Tongtian shattered it while fighting four Sages in the previous Tribulation.
• Ao Cunxin explained that the Great Heavenly Venerable and Goddess Nüwa stopped the battle, leaving the Four Great Continents and countless smaller worlds behind.
• Ao Cunxin lowered her cloud at the West Sea and told Di Tian that he would enter the Dragon Palace with the origins of the West Sea Dragon Race.

Ao Cunxin brought Di Tian to the West Sea Dragon Palace, where Ao Run adopted him and promised to help him become a True Dragon. Ao Run then summoned the Dragon Gate to begin Di Tian’s transformation.

• Ao Cunxin led Di Tian into the Dragon Palace, where he learned that its residents absorbed dragon aura and saw its immense wealth and splendor.
• Ao Run told Di Tian he would enter the Tribulation in Ao Yu’s place and that the West Sea Dragon Palace would help him become a True Dragon.
• Ao Run adopted Di Tian, making him a member of the Dragon Clan and giving him the name Little Black Dragon of the West Sea.
• Ao Run presented Di Tian with treasures, armor, and weapons to support his transformation.
• Ao Run commanded the Dragon Clan to summon the Dragon Gate and help Di Tian become a dragon.

Ao Run opened the Dragon Gate in the West Sea and encouraged Di Tian to leap through it, while aquatic creatures across the Four Seas and viewers on Douluo Continent watched. As Ao Run sent Di Tian toward the gate with a surge of waves, Di Tian saw countless West Sea creatures striving to leap alongside him.

• Ao Run summoned the Dragon Gate, and aquatic creatures across the Four Seas gathered as a golden portal rose above the West Sea.
• Li Xuanji dismissed the Dragon Clan's actions as an internal affair, while people throughout the Primordial World watched the gate open.
• On Douluo Continent, Bi Ji and the other soul beasts worried about Di Tian's chances, while Yu Xiaogang hoped Luo Sanpao could become a dragon too.
• Ao Run encouraged Di Tian by reminding him of the Dragon Clan's history and urging him to go forward.
• Ao Run sent Di Tian upward on a surge of waves, and Di Tian saw koi, shrimp, crabs, turtles, and other aquatic creatures charging toward the Dragon Gate.

Di Tian risked his life leaping through the Dragon Gate and transformed into a true dragon, declaring that he would lead the Soul Beasts and ally them with Spirit Hall. His celebration was interrupted when the Thunder God and Lightning Mother arrived to arrest him for summoning rain without the Heavenly Court’s approval.

• Di Tian joined the aquatic creatures leaping toward the Dragon Gate, and the pressure tore his body apart as he struggled upward.
• Inspired by the creatures’ persistence and his Dragon Clan pride, Di Tian understood that he needed a true dragon’s conviction and made a final leap through the gate.
• The Dragon Gate transformed Di Tian into a thousand-meter black dragon, while two koi that followed him also became golden dragons.
• Di Tian tested his inherited Wind Summoning and Rain Commanding abilities, then proclaimed through the live broadcast that he would lead the Soul Beasts and ally them with Spirit Hall.
• The Thunder God and Lightning Mother arrived with Heavenly soldiers and generals and ordered Di Tian to surrender for bringing rain without the Heavenly Court’s approval.

Di Tian became a True Dragon, accepted a heavenly decree, and was sent to Eagle Sorrow Ravine to complete his merit. His transformation strengthened the Soul Beasts’ alliance with Spirit Hall and inspired Tang San to consider leaping through the Dragon Gate, while Ning Fengzhi contemplated a marriage alliance with Soul Beasts; the chapter ended with the appearance of the Ancestor of Earth Immortals in Zhu Zhuqing’s livestream.

• Ao Run arrived and helped Di Tian accept punishment from the Thunder Department for bringing rain without authorization.
• Di Tian was banished to Eagle Sorrow Ravine until he completed his merit, while Ao Run took the two newly transformed golden dragons into the Dragon Palace.
• The Silver Dragon King recognized Di Tian as Soul Beast Co-Ruler, and Qian Daoliu ordered a banquet to celebrate the Soul Beasts’ alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao suggested that Tang San could become a dragon through the Dragon Gate, and Tang San eagerly agreed to try.
• Ning Fengzhi considered arranging a marriage alliance with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast so his descendants might become demons.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples called out as the Ancestor of Earth Immortals appeared in Zhu Zhuqing’s livestream.

Zhu Zhuqing left Wuzhuang Temple after Zhen Yuanzi told her that her destined opportunity lay elsewhere, but a demonic beast killed her just beyond the mountain. Back in Douluo Continent, Dai Mubai and Flender mourned her while Yu Xiaogang blamed Zhen Yuanzi and Zhu Zhuqing for the loss.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Zhu Zhuqing that her destined opportunity lay beyond Wuzhuang Temple, and she decided to explore outside.
• Zhu Zhuqing walked beyond the immortal mountain and was killed by a black demonic beast.
• Dai Mubai and Flender reacted to Zhu Zhuqing's death, while Tang San tried to comfort them.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Zhen Yuanzi for sending Zhu Zhuqing away, then called Zhu Zhuqing foolish for not insisting on joining Wuzhuang Temple.

After dying, Zhu Zhuqing awakened as a Three-Eyed Nether Cat in the Underworld and began patrolling Yellow Springs Road by disciplining departed souls and devouring their yin energy. Her transformation stirred speculation across the Douluo Continent, while Oscar noticed a departed soul who resembled Zhao Wuji.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke beneath the Ghost Gate, discovered she had become a Three-Eyed Nether Cat, and learned that her species helped ghost officers manage departed souls on Yellow Springs Road.
• A ghost officer picked Zhu Zhuqing up and placed her on Yellow Springs Road, where she began eating the yin energy of unruly souls to cultivate.
• A stronger Three-Eyed Nether Cat beat Zhu Zhuqing to a misbehaving soul, prompting her to resolve to grow stronger, venture deeper into the Underworld, and eventually take human form.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong concluded that Zhu Zhuqing's opportunity had come in the Underworld, while the Star Luo Imperial Family speculated about its own Martial Soul bloodlines.
• Yu Xiaogang recorded that some opportunities might come after death, and Tang San and Dai Mubai wondered about their own bloodlines and possible paths.
• Oscar snapped out of his daze and told Dai Mubai that a departed soul on Yellow Springs Road looked like Zhao Wuji.

After Zhao Wuji died, his livestream followed him through the Primordial World's Underworld as he traveled along the Yellow Springs Road. He reached the Pavilion of Homesickness and saw Flender, Tang Hao, and the others, exposing their presence to viewers across the Douluo Continent.

• Zhao Wuji appeared in the Underworld carrying provisions and a mourning staff as underworld officers led him and other dead souls along the Yellow Springs Road.
• Zhao Wuji encountered Zhu Zhuqing, who followed him briefly before the Three-Eyed Nether Cats drove her away.
• After seven days on the road, Zhao Wuji reached the Pavilion of Homesickness, where an underworld officer said the dead could view their loved ones for the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Zhao Wuji saw Flender, Tang Hao, and the others at Blue Tyrant Academy, and their startled reactions were broadcast live across the Douluo Continent.
• Zhao Wuji laughed and cursed Tang Hao and Tang San as the group realized their faces had been seen by viewers.

Zhao Wuji watched the villagers mourn him and learned that departed souls faced three trials, then reached the Three-Lives Stone and discovered it showed no romantic bonds for him. He continued onward, determined that his next life would pray to the Old Man of the Moon.

• Zhao Wuji saw the villagers hold his funeral and learned they prayed for him to pass the three trials safely.
• Spirit Hall, Ning Fengzhi, and others realized departed souls could be destroyed, while Yu Xiaogang resolved to avoid dying and Tang Hao mocked Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji left the Pavilion of Homesickness and followed the procession to the Three-Lives Stone.
• Zhao Wuji saw only emptiness in the stone, and the underworld officers laughed at his lack of romantic bonds.
• The underworld officers told Zhao Wuji that the Old Man of the Moon had forgotten to tie a red thread for him, so Zhao Wuji ordered his next life to pray to the Old Man of the Moon.

Zhao Wuji entered the Underworld’s Evil Dog Ridge, where departed souls faced attacks from vicious dogs and their chances of survival depended on their Dog-Beating Sticks. He discovered the sticks had limited uses, forced himself to leave others behind, and pressed onward through the deadly pass.

• An underworld officer explained that departed souls had to pass Evil Dog Ridge, Golden Rooster Mountain, and Wild Ghost Village before reaching the Soul-Confusing Hall, and warned that merit and karma affected the trials.
• An officer threw a refusing soul into Evil Dog Ridge, where vicious dogs killed him, frightening the other souls and making Zhao Wuji worry about his own merit and karma.
• Zhao Wuji entered Evil Dog Ridge and used his mourning staff as a Dog-Beating Stick to fend off a lunging vicious dog.
• After saving two nearby souls, Zhao Wuji noticed his Dog-Beating Stick had shortened and realized it had a limited number of uses, possibly tied to merit.
• Zhao Wuji abandoned attempts to help others and hurried onward as the dogs overwhelmed the souls he had saved and those whose sticks had run out.

Tang San decided to worship the Three Pure Ones in hopes of gaining their favor and avoiding the underworld’s trials. Meanwhile, Zhao Wuji survived Evil Dog Ridge and Golden Rooster Ridge, then entered Wild Ghost Village and learned that incomplete souls could not leave.

• At Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu wondered whether the trials were limiting reincarnation, while Yu Xiaogang angrily condemned them and Tang San calmed him.
• Tang San resolved to worship the Three Pure Ones and planned to make spirit tablets for them, keeping his intentions secret from Yu Xiaogang.
• Zhao Wuji used the shrinking Dog-Beating Stick to fight through Evil Dog Ridge and reached the exit with the other surviving souls.
• Zhao Wuji crossed Golden Rooster Ridge by dodging the golden roosters and using his dry rations to lure them away.
• Zhao Wuji entered Wild Ghost Village, saw many incomplete souls, and realized they could not leave the village until they became whole.

Zhao Wuji faced the terrifying third trial on Yellow Springs Road, prompting Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare funeral supplies in advance. Tang San tried to worship the Three Pure Ones, interpreted Shangqing’s unbroken tablet as acceptance, and received a three-trial gift package from Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang.

• Zhao Wuji entered Wild Ghost Village, paid an armless soul with Yin Money, and hurried onward to avoid being surrounded.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall members to receive the same funeral preparations Zhao Wuji had, so they could preserve their chance at reincarnation.
• Ning Fengzhi distributed mourning staffs, pouches, and dry rations to Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo, and the three prepared for the trials.
• Tang San set up tablets to the Three Pure Ones and worshipped them; Yuqing’s tablet disintegrated, Taiqing’s cracked, and Shangqing’s remained intact.
• Tang San believed Shangqing had accepted him because his name included the number three, and prayed to be brought to the Primordial World.
• Tang Hao gave Tang San a three-trial gift package, while Yu Xiaogang noticed Tang San’s swollen forehead and asked what had happened.

Tang San introduced Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang to the Three Pure Ones Ancestors; Tang Hao’s offerings shattered, but Yu Xiaogang’s offering to Yuqing remained intact. Meanwhile, Perfected Huanglong received news of a rare dragon, and Zhao Wuji arrived at the Underworld’s Soul-Confusing Hall to face judgment.

• Tang San made spirit tablets for Taiqing and Yuqing and told Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang about the Three Pure Ones Ancestors.
• Tang Hao’s spirit tablets shattered when he paid homage, but Yuqing’s tablet remained intact when Yu Xiaogang bowed.
• At the Jade Void Palace, a Sage identified a rare Huanglong-blooded dragon and sent a voice transmission to Perfected Huanglong, who planned to claim it.
• Zhao Wuji reached the Soul-Confusing Hall, where Underworld Constables questioned souls about their earthly crimes.
• Zhao Wuji drank Truth Serum and lost control of his speech as the judges prepared to hear his confession.

Zhao Wuji faced judgment in the underworld and learned he would avoid the Eighteen Levels of Hell, though he had to wait in the City of Wrongful Deaths until his allotted lifespan ended. The visions of hell then terrified people across the Douluo Continent, including Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Tang Hao, Tang San, and Liu Erlong.

• Zhao Wuji confessed his evil deeds before the Judge, who weighed his merits and faults and showed him visions of the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• The Judge ruled that Zhao Wuji would avoid hell and the Animal Realm, but sent him to the City of Wrongful Deaths until his allotted lifespan was exhausted.
• Zhao Wuji joined the line for the City of Wrongful Deaths, resolved to obey its rules, and left the other departed souls wary of punishment.
• People across the Douluo Continent panicked after seeing the hells, while Yu Xiaogang feared his deeds qualified him for several levels and Flender expected to enter at least three.
• Tang Hao dismissed the judgment as a matter of perspective, and Tang San convinced himself that his past crimes would not send him to hell.
• Liu Erlong embraced Yu Xiaogang and said she would go to hell to stay with him, but Yu Xiaogang objected.

As the Eighteen Levels of Hell made leaders across the Douluo Continent fear the consequences of their factions’ deeds, the Joyful Buddha appeared at Nalanda Temple and chose Ma Hongjun as a cultivation candidate. Yu Xiaogang and Tang San prayed for ascension, and the chapter ended with an announcement that the third selection of ascenders was about to begin.

• Yu Xiaogang feared death and hell, so he bowed to the Yuqing spirit tablet rather than tell Liu Erlong the truth.
• Qian Daoliu worried Spirit Hall’s past harms would be counted against him, while the Silver Dragon King considered wiping out Soul Beasts before agreeing to pursue Golden Immortality instead.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth to help the poor, and Bone Douluo left to do good deeds to make amends for his past crimes.
• The Joyful Buddha visited Nalanda Temple, gave Ma Hongjun a special cultivation method, and told him he was only a candidate who needed to cultivate diligently.
• Yu Xiaogang lamented that the Joyful Buddha had overlooked him, while Tang San prayed to ascend and reunite with Xiao Wu.
• An announcement declared that the third selection of ascenders would begin soon.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang prepared for the announced third ascension, while Tang San planned how to find Xiao Wu and establish himself in the Primordial World. The chapter showed Xiao Wu enduring the Scarred Rose King’s demands, Ning Rongrong seeking a better cultivation method, and Qian Renxue summoning the Will of Douluo Planet.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San believed the Three Pure Ones had arranged the third ascension, stocked up on supplies, and assured Liu Erlong they would ascend together.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he planned to learn the Joyful Buddha’s cultivation method, find Xiao Wu, establish a faction, and seek the Dragon Palace’s help with the Dragon Gate.
• At Bai Ze Ridge, Xiao Wu joined the Black Rhino King and the Scarred Rose King, intending to use the Black Rhino King to obtain the Nine-Colored Gauze and escape.
• Ning Rongrong ordered her followers to worship the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and prayed for help finding a stronger qi-refining method.
• After offering incense at Five Finger Mountain, Qian Renxue commanded the Will of Douluo Planet to appear.