Chapter Summaries

Tang San defeated nine contestants in Slaughter City and absorbed the Soul Power released by his crimson token, while another soul inside him absorbed Asura Divine Power. In Heaven Dou Imperial City, Xue Qinghe learned that the Clear Sky Sect's return had been falsely reported for the wrong date.

• Tang San dodged the contestants' attacks, spotted their lack of coordination, and defeated all nine with his hidden weapons.
• The contestants' corpses became blood Qi that entered Tang San's token, changing its count from zero to one and sending Soul Power into him.
• Tang San absorbed the Soul Power and felt his physique grow stronger, unaware that another soul inside him was absorbing Asura Divine Power.
• Xue Qinghe waited with Yu Xiaogang for news of the Clear Sky Sect's return on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.
• A cavalry messenger told Xue Qinghe that the Papal Palace had confirmed the return date was the eighteenth and that the earlier report was false.

Xue Qinghe responded to reports that Prince Xue Xing's household had been destroyed, secretly concealing that he had arranged the attack. In the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao and Ning Fengzhi agreed to investigate the suspected spy by discussing future plans privately.

• Xue Qinghe apologized to the gathered Soul Masters for inaccurate rumors and offered to cover the lodging costs of those waiting for the Clear Sky Sect's return.
• A bloodied messenger reported that Prince Xue Xing's household had been wiped out, and Yu Xiaogang urged everyone to hurry to the residence.
• Xue Qinghe and the guards found the residence destroyed, and a hidden imperial retainer reported that everyone there, including Prince Xue Xing, had perished.
• The retainer suspected Spirit Hall had used a Titled Douluo, so Xue Qinghe ordered Xuejun Pavilion to send covert troops and monitor the city.
• At a meeting in the Clear Sky Sect, Ning Fengzhi warned that a spy was likely among those who knew of the sect's return, including himself.
• Tang Xiao agreed to discuss Ning Fengzhi's future plans with him alone while they searched for the spy.

Ning Fengzhi accepted the Clear Sky Sect’s offer to ally with the Heaven Dou Empire against Spirit Hall, then visited Xu Rong’er’s grave and spoke of abandoning the sect for her. On Xu Rong’er’s death anniversary, Bibi Dong visited her grave with Jun Yi, mourned her younger sister, and said she wanted those responsible to suffer before they died.

• Tang Xiao asked Ning Fengzhi to tell Emperor Qinghe that the Clear Sky Sect was willing to ally with the Heaven Dou Empire against Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to bring the message to the emperor.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Xu Rong’er’s unmarked grave and said he had abandoned the sect for her, remaining there until morning.
• Bibi Dong woke Jun Yi and took him to Heaven Dou Cemetery on Xu Rong’er’s death anniversary.
• Bibi Dong laid lilies and pastries at Xu Rong’er’s grave, wept in Jun Yi’s arms, and told her younger sister that she and Jun Yi loved each other.
• Jun Yi offered to avenge Xu Rong’er, but Bibi Dong refused and said she wanted those responsible to suffer and die in pain and unwillingness.

Tang Xiao led the Clear Sky Sect out of seclusion and brought its disciples to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Qinghe welcomed him and arranged for Yu Xiaogang to escort them to their new grounds. As Tang Xiao, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Fengzhi prepared to enter the palace, Bishop Salas arrived with a bundle and a jade box, claiming Spirit Hall had brought congratulatory gifts.

• Tang Xiao announced the Clear Sky Sect's emergence, declared its alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and led the disciples toward Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi watched the Clear Sky Sect approach and welcomed Tang Xiao at the city wall.
• Xue Qinghe invited Tang Xiao to the imperial palace and assigned Yu Xiaogang to guide the disciples to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's former grounds.
• Tang Xiao told his disciples to follow Yu Xiaogang and then prepared to enter the palace with Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi.
• Bishop Salas appeared carrying a bundle and a jade box, saying Spirit Hall had come to offer congratulatory gifts.

Salas presented the Clear Sky Sect with Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor rootstock and Tai Tan’s head, provoking Tang Xiao into a deadly confrontation. Tang Xiao killed Salas, leaving the conflict between Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect on the brink of escalation.

• Salas gave Tang Xiao the Blue Silver Emperor’s rootstock, which Tang Xiao recognized as Ah Yin’s and placed in his Soul Tool.
• Salas revealed Tai Tan’s head and admitted that Spirit Hall had slaughtered the Strength Clan.
• Tang Xiao condemned Spirit Hall’s actions and warned Salas that the Clear Sky Sect would no longer show mercy.
• Tang Xiao used his Level 97 pressure to overwhelm Salas, then summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and killed him.

The Clear Sky Sect, the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Star Luo Empire formed an alliance against Spirit Hall after Tang Xiao declared war. Bibi Dong prepared for the coming conflict, then received an anonymous letter revealing the alliance’s leaders and Tang San’s path to godhood.

• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect would no longer tolerate being bullied, and Xue Qinghe pledged the Heaven Dou Empire’s support.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed bringing the Star Luo Empire into the alliance, and Xue Qinghe agreed to help persuade its crown prince.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded the Star Luo Empire to cooperate with the Heaven Dou Empire and the Clear Sky Sect, prompting Spirit Hall to impose martial law and prepare for war.
• Bibi Dong welcomed the alliance as an opportunity to defeat its members and wondered when Jun Yi would return from his breakthrough.
• Bibi Dong received an anonymous letter stating that Yu Xiaogang would serve as state preceptor, Ning Fengzhi would help make decisions, Tang San had begun his path to godhood, and the Clear Sky Sect was searching for Tang Chen.

Jun Yi confronted Beast God Di Tian at the Lake of Life after killing the Star Dou Great Forest’s gatekeepers and demanded Di Tian’s ultimate power. Their battle escalated, and the chapter ended with them still clashing.

• Jun Yi absorbed a Soul Ring to reach level 91, then froze and contained two blood-red Soul Rings in separate ROOM spaces.
• Jun Yi threatened to slaughter the Soul Beasts unless Di Tian appeared, and Di Tian confronted him at the Lake of Life.
• Jun Yi attacked Di Tian, wounded him with his light sword, and declared that he would take Di Tian’s ultimate power.
• Di Tian summoned a dragonbone longsword and fought back, but Jun Yi eventually struck him into the ground.
• Di Tian unleashed Dragon God Claw, and he and Jun Yi continued exchanging attacks as their battle raged on.

Jun Yi defeated Di Tian and, with the help of the Light Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, began extracting Di Tian’s Ultimate Darkness to awaken his own power. Di Tian was left weakened as the dark elements flowed into Jun Yi’s blood-red God Ring.

• Jun Yi stopped time, struck Di Tian with overwhelming force, and left him gravely wounded when time resumed.
• Jun Yi told Di Tian he lacked the strength to face gods and urged him to surrender his Ultimate Darkness.
• Jun Yi summoned the Light Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, who revealed themselves to Di Tian and explained that they needed his darkness attribute for Jun Yi.
• Jun Yi offered Di Tian Divine Power to strengthen his body, then took control of him despite his hesitation.
• Jun Yi stripped the dark elements from Di Tian, leaving him weak as the elements merged into Jun Yi’s God Ring.

Jun Yi absorbed the Dark-Dark Fruit, then used Asura Divine Power to restore Di Tian and increase his cultivation. As Di Tian's eight-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation began, Jun Yi stepped in to face it and charged into the dark clouds.

• Jun Yi gathered the darkness attribute in his dantian and formed the Dark-Dark Fruit, then absorbed it and tested his ability to become golden light.
• Jun Yi sent Asura Divine Power into Di Tian, then guided the darkness-free Soul Power out of his body and restored him.
• Di Tian recovered with purer Soul Power and fifty thousand years of added cultivation, but Jun Yi warned that he had lost Ultimate Darkness.
• Di Tian's eight-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation began, and Jun Yi blocked the first bolt with a punch.
• Jun Yi absorbed the next three bolts into a dark vortex, then transformed into golden light and charged into the clouds.

Jun Yi protected Di Tian from his eight-hundred-thousand-year Lightning Tribulation, devouring its bolts and destroying the clouds before recovering from the strain. He revealed that his power had reached the threshold of godhood and decided he could not rely on the Silver Dragon King to awaken in time, leaving Di Tian to recuperate while he pursued another way forward.

• Jun Yi faced Di Tian’s Lightning Tribulation and countered its first strikes with his strength and darkness powers.
• Jun Yi entered the dark clouds, devoured the remaining lightning—including the final bolt—and scattered the tribulation clouds, though the effort left him depleted.
• Di Tian checked on Jun Yi, who recovered while asking how soon his lord would awaken; Di Tian admitted he did not know.
• Jun Yi said he had at most two years and could not rely on the Silver Dragon King, then told Di Tian to return and continue recuperating.
• Jun Yi’s power was revealed to have reached the threshold of godhood, with his Dark-Dark Fruit and Op-Op Fruit letting him absorb and process Divine Power.

Jun Yi asked the system to teleport him to the Divine Realm, but arrived in the Land of Fallen Gods, where the Light Dragon King explained the danger zone’s history. Jun Yi concealed his presence and entered the area where fallen gods’ bodies wandered, intending to gather their Divine Power and grow stronger.

• Di Tian promised to aid Jun Yi if war broke out, and Jun Yi told him to reach God Level first.
• Jun Yi asked the system to teleport him to the Divine Realm, and the system sent him to the Land of Fallen Gods.
• The Light Dragon King explained that fallen gods’ bodies had developed incomplete consciousnesses and wandered beyond the main Divine Realm.
• Jun Yi realized the divine bodies might contain useful Divine Power and hid his presence with ROOM space.
• Jun Yi crossed the mountain and approached more than a thousand wandering divine bodies, planning to fight without releasing his God Rings.

Jun Yi found the Light Dragon King's corpse in the Land of Fallen Gods, allowing the Light Dragon King to restore his strength by merging with it. While Jun Yi continued absorbing the fallen gods’ remaining power, Spirit Hall established the Spirit Hall Empire and began expanding its territory.

• The Light Dragon King's corpse attacked Jun Yi, but its golden light could not harm him, and the dragon body entered his body.
• The Light Dragon King thanked the God of Destruction for preserving his remains and merged with his corpse to reunite his Divine Soul and physical body.
• The Ice Dragon King told Jun Yi to give the dead gods a dignified end after absorbing their remaining power, and Jun Yi continued through the gray world.
• A year passed in the lower realm, and Spirit Hall declared itself the Spirit Hall Empire after the two great empires and Clear Sky Sect formed an alliance.
• The Spirit Hall Empire expanded into provinces of both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire without large-scale battles.
• Spirit Hall ordered Soul Masters across the continent to join the empire, threatening to brand those who refused as heretics.

Tang San won his hundredth battle in Slaughter City and entered Hell Road, where he fought his way to a cave and escaped. He awoke back on the Douluo Continent with his Soul Power at rank 71 and the killing aura gone, and wondered where the Divine Slaughter's Domain was.

• Tang San defeated the brute in his hundredth battle and was acclaimed as the Asura King.
• The King of Slaughter granted Tang San the title of Slaughter God and permission to enter and leave Slaughter City, but Tang San chose to challenge Hell Road.
• Tang San crossed the dangerous path above the lava and fought off a pack of hellhounds.
• Tang San climbed a cliff and rushed through a cave after hearing eerie laughter, then fell unconscious outside Hell Road.
• Tang San awoke on the Douluo Continent with his Soul Power returned to rank 71 and asked where the Divine Slaughter's Domain had gone.

The Asura God sought permission from the Seven Deadly Sins Gods to send Divine Power to address a problem with Tang San’s God Trial. After they inspected the weak strand and found nothing abnormal, the Asura God prepared to resolve his successor’s problem.

• The Asura God sensed that something had gone wrong with Tang San’s God Trial and asked to check on his successor.
• The God of Pride challenged the Asura God’s request, but the God of Sloth allowed him to send a strand of harmless Divine Power for inspection.
• The Asura God gave the strand to the God of Pride, who confirmed it was valid but questioned why it was so weak.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods examined the Divine Power and found nothing abnormal.
• The Asura God announced that he would now resolve Tang San’s problem, and the God of Sloth permitted him to proceed.

The Destruction God King searched for Jun Yi while weighing the Asura God's actions, unaware that Jun Yi was secretly absorbing divine power in the Land of Fallen Gods. On the Douluo Continent, Tang San returned from Slaughter City and traveled with Ning Fengzhi toward the Clear Sky Sect's new territory to learn what had happened.

• The Asura God warned the God of Pride before leaving the Asura God Temple, while the God of Sloth confirmed that the faint divine power sent to the lower realm had seemed normal.
• The Destruction God King sent more divine senses to search the Douluo Continent for Jun Yi and decided not to tell the other God Kings about the Asura God's actions yet.
• Jun Yi secretly absorbed residual divine power from corpses in the Land of Fallen Gods using the Op-Op Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Tang San arrived in Heaven Dou City after more than a year in Slaughter City and encountered Ning Fengzhi, who told him the continent's situation had changed.
• Ning Fengzhi took Tang San by carriage toward the Clear Sky Sect's new location, saying his aunt could help calm his lingering killing intent.

Tang San returned from Slaughter City and learned that Divine Slaughter's Domain had not yet manifested, but Tang Yuehua soothed his killing intent and welcomed him to the Clear Sky Sect. She explained that the Alliance was preparing to oppose Spirit Hall as tensions between the empires grew.

• Ning Fengzhi told Tang San that passing through Hell Road granted Divine Slaughter's Domain, but it would take time for him to master it.
• Tang San and Ning Fengzhi arrived at the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Yuehua greeted them and was introduced as Tang San's aunt.
• Tang Yuehua's gentle presence calmed Tang San's killing intent, and she promised to help him overcome its effects.
• Tang Yuehua led Tang San and Ning Fengzhi through the sect and explained that the Alliance united the Clear Sky Sect and both empires against Spirit Hall.
• Tang Yuehua said border clashes had begun and warned that the entire continent could be at war within a few years.

Tang San learned that the alliance was preparing to oppose Spirit Hall and that his strength was seen as essential to the conflict. After Spirit Hall wiped out alliance teams near the Star Luo Empire, Ning Fengzhi and the others convened to plan a response, while Tang San encouraged Tang Yuehua to pursue her feelings for Ning Fengzhi.

• Tang Yuehua explained that the alliance aimed to preserve peace and destroy Spirit Hall, and she reassured Tang San about his role in the coming war.
• Tang Hao reunited with Tang San, urged him to strengthen himself, and reported that Spirit Hall had wiped out alliance Soul Master teams along the Star Luo Empire's border.
• Tang Yuehua suspected an insider had leaked the alliance's plans, and Tang Hao and Ning Fengzhi left to discuss retaliation in the council hall.
• Tang San told Tang Yuehua that she and Ning Fengzhi cared for each other and encouraged her to pursue a new beginning with him.
• At the council hall, Yu Xiaogang urged Ning Fengzhi and the alliance representatives to find Spirit Hall's weakness rather than simply retaliate.

Ning Fengzhi pushed the alliance council to destroy Spirit Hall’s branches, but the alliance found them already abandoned and suspected a mole. He proposed shifting from covert plans to overt strategies that Spirit Hall could not avoid, leaving the alliance to prepare its next move.

• Ning Fengzhi called for the alliance to destroy Spirit Hall’s branches, and the council approved the plan over Yu Xiaogang’s objections.
• The alliance’s Soul Masters found every Spirit Hall Branch empty, reinforcing suspicions that someone had leaked their plans.
• Ning Fengzhi recalled earlier operations that Spirit Hall had anticipated and struggled to identify the mole within the alliance.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested screening alliance members, but the Star Luo Empire representative accused the Heaven Dou Empire of being infiltrated.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that the alliance should devise overt plans Spirit Hall would have to face, even if it learned of them beforehand.

Tang San completed the Asura Sixth Trial and received the qualification to wield the Asura Demonic Sword, then tested his Divine Slaughter's Domain. Ning Fengzhi visited him, and Tang San explained the path to godhood and claimed the Asura God was far stronger than the Angel God.

• A streak of red energy entered Tang San, and the trial announcement declared his 100 consecutive victories, passage through Hell Road, and acquisition of the Divine Slaughter's Domain complete, rewarding him with the qualification to wield the Asura Demonic Sword.
• Tang San absorbed the pure Soul Power into his internal power and tested the Divine Slaughter's Domain, sensing living beings and drawing on nearby killing intent within a hundred meters.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Tang San and asked why he had not seen Ning Rongrong; Tang San said his killing aura might frighten her until he controlled it.
• Tang San explained to Ning Fengzhi that people could inherit Godhood by passing divine trials, and said he had completed the Sixth Trial and expected to inherit the Asura God's Godhood in a few years.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether the Asura God was stronger than the Angel God, and Tang San said the Asura God was one of the Divine Realm's Five Great God Kings and far surpassed the Angel God.

Tang San told Ning Fengzhi that the Asura God would make him a formidable opponent to Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong discovered that Ning Rongrong had been the alliance’s informant. Ning Fengzhi confronted Rongrong, who defended her betrayal by arguing that the alliance was too divided to defeat Spirit Hall.

• Tang San assured Ning Fengzhi that the Asura God was among the Divine Realm’s strongest gods and that Spirit Hall’s future god would not threaten him.
• Bibi Dong met the masked alliance informant, learned who it was, and heard that the visitor wanted to borrow the Death Spider Emperor’s poison.
• Ning Fengzhi woke from a nightmare about Xu Rong'er warning him that Ning Rongrong was about to make another foolish choice.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Ning Rongrong and urged her to face her pain over Jun Yi and her marriage to Tang San.
• Ning Fengzhi accused Ning Rongrong of leaking alliance information to Spirit Hall, and she admitted it.
• Ning Rongrong argued that the alliance was weak and divided, and Ning Fengzhi worried about what his daughter might do next.