Chapter Summaries

Xu Zi defeated Jin Yu with a single spiritual attack, collected the Golden Crocodile carcass, and then met with Bibi Dong, who asked him to help Hu Liena enter Slaughter City. He refused to go with her now, while revealing his ambition to evolve into the God of Divine Retribution, a power above the Supreme God King.

• Jin Yu challenged Xu Zi again after reaching rank 52, but Xu Zi’s Will of Destruction left him unconscious with one attack.
• Xu Zi collected the ten-thousand-year Golden Crocodile carcass and told Huang Ying to help Jin Yu recover.
• Bibi Dong invited Xu Zi to dine with her and the Golden Generation, then asked him to accompany Hu Liena to Slaughter City and help her earn the title of Slaughter God.
• Xu Zi declined to go to Slaughter City with Hu Liena now, though he said he planned to visit later to seek the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
• Xu Zi resolved to pursue the bloodlines and powers needed to recreate the nine-headed purple dragon and become the God of Divine Retribution.

Bibi Dong explained how the Star Crown Xu Family had seized influence over the Star Luo Empire and urged Xu Zi to use the Giant Strength Meditation Method and the Star Crown Sect as openings to infiltrate it. She also revealed that the sect’s attribute-fusion method might let him use his Great Sun Angel skill at night, then brought him to his new residence on the second floor of Douluo Hall.

• Bibi Dong described the Star Luo Empire’s political structure and explained how Star Crown Douluo’s rise had weakened the Dai, Zhu, and Cheng families.
• Xu Zi deduced that the Giant Strength Cheng Clan wanted his help to challenge Star Crown Douluo, and Bibi Dong proposed that he infiltrate Star Luo while her daughter targeted Heaven Dou.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Zi that the Star Crown Sect’s meditation method reportedly came from the Angel God’s guidance and could fuse light and fire into sun power for nighttime use of a divine skill.
• Bibi Dong took Xu Zi to the residence she had chosen for him on the second floor of Douluo Hall, where he considered his position as a tomb keeper.

Xu Zi explored Douluo Hall and reviewed the rewards from the Soul Master Tournament as he prepared for his journey to the Dragon Tomb. He found that the Spatial Graveyard lay near his old route and uncovered a clue to the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine’s location in Tianyu’s biography.

• Xu Zi sensed the Power of Faith in Douluo Hall, and Zi said it could restore part of her divine sense before Xu Zi hurried upstairs to keep her from absorbing it.
• Xu Zi prepared to open his Sea of Consciousness with the Purple Demon Eye before traveling to the Dragon Tomb.
• Xu Zi studied the map of spatial Soul Beast habitats and discovered that the Spatial Graveyard lay near the route he had taken to the Douluo Continent.
• Xu Zi spread out Tianyu’s biography and used the Purple Demon Eye to scan its pages for useful information.
• Xu Zi found Tianyu’s account of the Zhi Clan’s expedition to Thunderclap Strait in search of a powerful lightning-attribute plant Soul Beast.

Xu Zi learned from Tianyu's chronicle that the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine and Thunder God's burial pit were in Thunderclap Strait, then weighed his next destinations. Zi directed him toward the Spatial Graveyard before the Dragon Tomb, whose location had drifted to the sea between Douluo and Sun Moon, and Xu Zi promised to visit it within three years.

• Xu Zi finished reading Tianyu's chronicle, which placed the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine in Thunderclap Strait and recounted Tianyu's rise and death.
• Xu Zi considered four destinations and their opportunities, weighing a trip to Thunderclap Strait against the Spatial Graveyard because he needed his fifth Soul Ring.
• Zi advised Xu Zi to hunt his fifth Soul Ring in the Spatial Graveyard and then follow the sea route to the Dragon Tomb.
• Xu Zi insisted on pursuing the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine first, then promised Zi he would visit the Dragon Tomb before going to Slaughter City in three years.
• Zi explained that the continents and Dragon Tomb had drifted, placing her remains in the sea between Douluo and Sun Moon, and said she had protected Xu Zi as he crossed the seas.
• Xu Zi brought out a ten-thousand-year Golden Crocodile corpse and asked Zi to extract its bloodline.

Xu Zi absorbed the purified golden bloodline of the ten-thousand-year Golden Crocodile and spent two months cultivating the Purple Demon Eye until his Sea of Consciousness began to emerge. After a brief break and visits with Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Huang Ying, and Ling Yuan Douluo, he returned to Douluo Hall to continue his seclusion.

• Xu Zi absorbed the Golden Crocodile's purified golden bloodline, strengthening his body and purple-gold Dragon Core.
• Xu Zi cultivated the Purple Demon Eye and gradually absorbed the Golden Crocodile's remaining energy.
• After two months, Xu Zi reached the Detailed realm and sensed his Sea of Consciousness beginning to emerge.
• Xu Zi rested, then shared breakfast and attended the Pope Hall's morning governance session with Bibi Dong.
• Xu Zi discussed the light attribute with Qian Daoliu, had lunch with Huang Ying, and later met Ling Yuan Douluo.
• Xu Zi returned to the second floor of Douluo Hall and resumed his seclusion.

Xu Zi opened a purple Sea of Consciousness and freed the Tyrant Dragon's Unyielding Dragon Soul into it. He then refined the sea's turbid seabed and clear clouds with the Purple Sun, completing his Sea of Consciousness as he prepared to pursue greater cultivation.

• Xu Zi opened his Sea of Consciousness after a year and three months of seclusion, forming a vast purple ocean of liquid spiritual power.
• He brought the Tyrant Dragon's Unyielding Dragon Soul out of the Power Dragon Core and let it roam freely in the purple sea.
• Xu Zi considered how to advance the Purple Demon Eye beyond the threshold of the Mustard Seed Realm, then chose to refine his Sea of Consciousness instead of seeking Yearning Heartbroken Red.
• Zi questioned how Xu Zi had cultivated such high-quality spiritual power, and Xu Zi avoided explaining the Purple Demon Eye.
• Xu Zi materialized the Purple Sun and used its radiance to transform the gray Turbid Qi on the seabed and the Clear Qi clouds above.
• After seven days of refining the seabed and three more days illuminating the clouds, Xu Zi completed his purple Sea of Consciousness.

After completing his Sea of Consciousness, Xu Zi gathered Purple Qi and broke through to the third realm of the Purple Demon Eye, gaining Mental Shock strengthened by the Will of Destruction. His year-and-a-half seclusion ended with him setting out toward the Thunder God's tomb and Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine.

• Xu Zi finished refining his Sea of Consciousness by illuminating its pale clouds with the Purple Sun and turning them purple.
• Zi warned Xu Zi that artificial Purple Qi might have drawbacks and advised him to stop using it for eye cultivation after reaching the Mustard Seed Realm; she also refused to teach him the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon cultivation art.
• Xu Zi spent three days gathering sunrise Purple Qi, exhausted his Soul Power, and then began compressing the Purple Qi within his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Zi broke through to the third realm of the Purple Demon Eye and unleashed Mental Shock strengthened by the Will of Destruction, startling Soul Masters on the mountain.
• Xu Zi ended his seclusion and declared that he was coming for the Thunder God's tomb and the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine.

Xu Zi secured Ling Yuan as an escort for his search for Thunderclap Vine, then visited Qian Daoliu to ask about the difference between light and radiance. Qian Daoliu explained the distinction through the Angel God’s secret realm and the origins of the Angel God’s triumph over darkness.

• Xu Zi told Bibi Dong he planned to search for Thunderclap Vine at Thunderclap Strait, and she agreed to send Ling Yuan with him.
• Xu Zi thanked Bibi Dong for the escort and went to the Worship Hall carrying the Angel Holy Sword.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Xu Zi’s spiritual power and asked why he had returned to the Worship Hall.
• Xu Zi asked Qian Daoliu how the light attribute differed from the radiance attribute, and Qian Daoliu brought him into the inheritance secret realm to demonstrate.
• Qian Daoliu explained that light emits illumination, while radiance can absorb and command light, and recounted how the Angel God overcame her dark side and defeated the continent’s fallen.

Xu Zi accepted Zi’s invitation to visit the Dragon Tomb and inherit a law, then set out northeast with Ling Yuan Douluo after receiving three Dragon Scale Fruits from the consecrators. After two and a half months of travel, they reached the coast near Thunderclap Strait.

• Zi told Xu Zi that he could inherit one of her younger brother’s nine laws at the Dragon Tomb, and Xu Zi agreed to go there as soon as he could.
• Ling Yuan Douluo brought Xu Zi three Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruits gathered by Qian Jun and Jiang Mo, including one from the Coiling Dragon Gu Family.
• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan left Martial Soul Holy City at night, and Xu Zi reflected on keeping the consecrators’ faith in the Angel God intact.
• Xu Zi used a Soul Tool tricycle to travel with Ling Yuan, who supplied Soul Power to help speed their journey.
• After two and a half months, Xu Zi and Ling Yuan heard waves crashing nearby as they approached Thunderclap Strait.

Xu Zi discovered that the three Dragon Scale Fruits had completed the Purple Gold Dragon Tail and finished developing his third Soul Skill, Purple Gold Dragon Body. During a rest in the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, he went to find ice cream and noticed refugees camping beneath a cliff as if defending against an enemy.

• Xu Zi entered his Purple Sun Martial Soul and saw that Zi had used the three Dragon Scale Fruits to transform the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's tail into a Purple Gold Dragon Tail.
• Zi told Xu Zi to follow her instructions without questioning her, and Xu Zi realized his dragon horns, wings, and tail completed the Purple Gold Dragon Body Soul Skill.
• Xu Zi considered the undeveloped potential of his fourth Soul Skill, Heaven Annihilation Tyrant Power, but decided to seek answers during his travels rather than rely on Zi.
• Ling Yuan Douluo shared that she had bought ice cream from refugees in the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, and Xu Zi went to find some for himself.
• Xu Zi spotted refugees camped beneath a northeastern coastal cliff, with fires and patrols arranged as if they were guarding against an enemy.

Xu Zi learned that the place marked Thunderclap Strait on his map was locally known as Funnel Cliff in Dark Cloud Strait, where lightning had reportedly struck more than a century earlier. Before he could explain his purpose there, a commotion arose at the edge of the camp.

• Xu Zi spoke with an ice cream vendor, who recognized him as a powerful Soul Master because Wolf Bandits roamed the nearby woods.
• The vendor explained that the townspeople were camped outside town while the kingdom’s knight orders fought the Wolf Bandits.
• Xu Zi sampled the vendor’s green-apple and pineapple ice cream and heard why local makers stayed in the kingdom instead of selling their craft elsewhere.
• Xu Zi showed the vendor his map, and the vendor identified its marked location as Funnel Cliff in Dark Cloud Strait, where lightning had reportedly struck over a hundred years ago.
• Xu Zi began to say he was going there to hunt for a Soul Ring, but a disturbance at the edge of camp interrupted him.

Xu Zi and Ling Yuan encountered a Wolf Bandit tribe surrounding a coastal camp, but Xu Zi refused to help the residents because they served kingdoms opposing Spirit Hall. As the bandits attacked, they left by Soul Tool Boat with a small group of townspeople, while the fate of those remaining was uncertain.

• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan learned that Haagen-Dazs’s cavalry had failed to suppress the Wolf Bandits, who had surrounded the camp.
• Xu Zi returned the ice cream maker’s money and refused to help the townspeople, explaining that saving them would strengthen Spirit Hall’s enemies.
• The ice cream maker asked Xu Zi to evacuate five children, but Xu Zi refused and offered to take the ice cream maker instead; the man chose to stay and protect the town.
• As the Wolf Bandits began their attack under the full moon, Xu Zi and Ling Yuan departed aboard a Soul Tool Boat with some of the townspeople.
• Ling Yuan wished the residents lived under Spirit Hall, while Xu Zi hoped they might someday become subjects of Sun Moon.

Xu Zi used the divine skill Crimson Sun Over the Heavens to destroy most of the Wolf Bandits attacking the town, then let the survivors flee to deter future threats. As he prepared to leave for Funnel Cliff to hunt a Soul Beast for his fifth soul ring, an old sailor revealed he had guided the last Soul Master team there 140 years earlier.

• Xu Zi changed his mind about leaving and rose above the shore to unleash Crimson Sun Over the Heavens on the Wolf Bandits.
• The divine skill killed more than two-thirds of the Wolf Bandits, and Xu Zi ordered the surviving alpha wolves to leave.
• Xu Zi explained to Ling Yuan that the attack was a divine skill bestowed by the Angel God, then let the surviving bandits flee so their reputation would protect the town.
• The townsfolk praised Xu Zi as he and Ling Yuan prepared to leave for Funnel Cliff in Thunderclap Strait.
• The old sailor told Xu Zi that he had guided the last Soul Master team to Funnel Cliff 140 years earlier.

Xu Zi traveled toward Funnel Cliff to investigate renewed lightning in Dark Cloud Strait and reflected on how to improve the Angel God's Great Sun Angel divine skill. After lightning struck the same forested cliff twice, he chose to continue to Funnel Cliff first, leaving the cause of the strikes uncertain.

• Xu Zi questioned the mayor and two sailors, learning that lightning had returned to Dark Cloud Strait and that a Spirit Hall group had once seen it strike south of Funnel Cliff.
• Xu Zi took Ling Yuan Douluo and the two sailors by Soul Tool Boat toward the strait, while considering how to refine his fourth Soul Skill using the principles behind Great Sun Angel.
• The group reached the darkened strait, where lightning struck a forested cliff that the sailors said was several bends from Funnel Cliff.
• Ling Yuan asked whether Thunderclap Blue Vine might be where the lightning struck, but Xu Zi decided they should investigate Funnel Cliff first.
• After the Soul Tool Boat submerged and headed deeper into the strait, lightning struck the same spot again.

Xu Zi discovered that a lightning-law secret realm hovered above Funnel Cliff’s thunderclouds and learned that the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine was likely its key. After Ling Yuan left with the sailor, Xu Zi began expanding his nascent Purple Sun Domain to search the area.

• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan inspected Funnel Cliff’s cave and found four cracked corpses but no Thunderclap Blue Vine.
• Xu Zi asked Zi to search for divine remnants, and Zi detected a lightning-law secret realm inside the clouds above them.
• Zi explained that the secret realm likely required a Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine as its key, so Xu Zi realized he still had to find one.
• Zi told Xu Zi to combine his domain with Zi’s divine sense to search the strait, and Xu Zi sent Ling Yuan and the sailor back toward the Soul Tool Boat.
• Xu Zi poured Soul Power into the Purple Sun Martial Soul and began extending his embryonic domain beyond its apparent range.

Xu Zi formed his exclusive Purple Sun Domain, and Zi located the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine near Thunderclap Strait. Xu Zi and Ling Yuan reached the vine, leaving Xu Zi determined to claim it and explore the Thunder God Secret Realm after becoming a Soul Saint.

• Xu Zi created the Purple Sun Domain and briefly expanded it across thousands of meters under Zi's guidance.
• Zi swept the surrounding area and found the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine southwest of Thunderclap Strait.
• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan flew to the vine's location, where they saw it draw down lightning before curling against the scorched ground.
• Xu Zi identified the vine and learned that it had recently matured enough to summon lightning and reveal its location.
• Xu Zi declared that he would claim the vine, obtain a powerful divine-grade Soul Skill, and pursue the Thunder God's legacy.

Xu Zi and Ling Yuan captured a thousand-year Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine, which Xu Zi wanted to raise into a key to the Thunder God's inheritance. After rejecting a costly shortcut that would consume Angel Divine Power, he planned to replant it at Funnel Cliff, but Zi suggested he could enter the Thunder God Secret Realm immediately.

• Xu Zi identified the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine and estimated that it had around a thousand years of cultivation.
• Ling Yuan used her Martial Soul Avatar to break through the vine's electrical barrier, suppress it, and spit it out for Xu Zi.
• Xu Zi considered absorbing the vine as his fifth Soul Ring, but Ling Yuan warned that it was much younger than his existing fourth ring.
• Zi explained that Angel Divine Power could rapidly increase the vine's Soul Ring age, but Xu Zi refused to waste so much power or harm Qian Daoliu.
• Xu Zi decided to replant the vine at Funnel Cliff and bring it to the Thunder God Secret Realm after reaching Soul Saint, but Zi said he could go there now.

Xu Zi flew into the thunderclouds to cultivate the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine and discovered the hidden entrance to the Thunder God Secret Realm. He entered the realm and saw the words “Azure Thunder Divine Thunderclap Realm!”

• Xu Zi followed Zi’s advice to fly above the clouds and let the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine absorb lightning derived from thunder laws.
• Xu Zi asked Ling Yuan Douluo to take the others back to town, then flew toward the thunderclouds with the vine.
• Xu Zi searched the cloud sea and used the lightning appearing from nowhere to trace the hidden secret realm’s outline.
• Xu Zi touched the outline with the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine and was pulled into a transparent space.
• Xu Zi emerged in a realm filled with towering lightning and heard the name “Azure Thunder Divine Thunderclap Realm!”

Xu Zi endured the Thunder God Secret Realm’s lightning until his physique reached Soul Saint level and the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine grew close to ten-thousand-year cultivation. As he prepared to leave, his Purple Sun Martial Soul began devouring the secret realm’s Thunder God power, nourishing the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and the Progenitor of Sub-Dragons.

• Xu Zi let the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine grow as lightning coursed through his body and fed it pure lightning power.
• The lightning tempered Xu Zi’s body and Martial Soul, helping him realize that Zi had sought the Thunder God Secret Realm’s power to awaken her Thunderclap Law bloodline.
• Xu Zi broke through to a Soul Saint-level physique, which he recognized would help him survive Slaughter City, where Soul Skills were suppressed.
• Xu Zi decided to preserve the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine’s sentience after absorbing its Soul Ring.
• As Xu Zi prepared to leave the lightning waterfall, the Purple Sun Martial Soul devoured the Thunder God power and strengthened the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and Zi’s divine consciousness.

Xu Zi met the Thunder God's heroic spirit after the Progenitor of Sub-Dragons absorbed much of the secret realm's divine power. The Thunder God invited Xu Zi to undergo a divine trial and inherit his mantle.

• The Progenitor of Sub-Dragons devoured enough Thunder God's power to extinguish one of the secret realm's eighty-one lightning pillars, while Xu Zi let her continue.
• The Thunder God's remnant soul appeared as a purple-armored man and confronted Xu Zi for consuming his divine power.
• Xu Zi guessed the man was the Thunder God's heroic spirit and explained how he had obtained the Angel Holy Sword without accepting the Sunlight God's inheritance.
• The Thunder God clarified that the Sunlight God was not a true Sun God, then asked Xu Zi how he would repay him for the lost divine power.
• The Thunder God said he had taken a liking to Xu Zi and invited him to undergo a divine trial to inherit his mantle.