Chapter Summaries

Di Tian reluctantly accepted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s decision to travel, and Heavenly Screen transported her, Dai Mubai, and Li Dan to the Shrouding the Heavens World. Dai Mubai appeared in a prison beneath White Emperor City, where a ragged prisoner broke his arm with one punch.

• Di Tian warned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to protect herself and distrust humans, and she promised to be careful.
• Heavenly Screen sent Dai Mubai, Li Dan, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to separate locations in the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Dai Mubai found himself locked in a prison cell beneath White Emperor City and shouted for someone to let him out.
• A ragged prisoner threatened Dai Mubai after he disturbed the cell, and Dai Mubai challenged him.
• The prisoner struck Dai Mubai with overwhelming force, sending him into a wall and breaking his right arm.

Dai Mubai attacked a slovenly old prisoner in a strange cell, but the old man effortlessly beat him despite his strongest Soul Skill. The old man then cowered before a passing soldier, leaving Dai Mubai baffled about the prisoner's true strength.

• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Weisi watched the heavenly screen in disbelief as the old man punched Dai Mubai aside with physical strength alone.
• Dai Mubai dismissed his first defeat as carelessness, activated White Tiger Possession and White Tiger Vajra Transformation, and charged the old man again.
• The old man casually slapped Dai Mubai into the cell bars, leaving him badly injured with his Martial Soul Possession and Soul Rings dispelled.
• The old man warned Dai Mubai to be quiet, then immediately apologized to a soldier who came to investigate the noise.
• After the soldier left, the old man returned to his impatient manner, while Dai Mubai lay stunned and wondered whether he had encountered a hidden top-tier expert.

Dai Mubai learned that he had been imprisoned in the Heavenly Court and that the old man who beat him was a Bitter Sea Realm cultivator. He resolved to survive and grow stronger than Lin Hao, while Yu Xiaogang confidently guessed that the Bitter Sea Realm was an extremely rare, powerful level.

• Dai Mubai and the people watching the Heavenly Screen were shocked when the old man bowed respectfully to a prison guard, and Flender speculated that even low-ranking guards in the Shrouding the Heavens World might be extraordinarily powerful.
• The old man told Dai Mubai that the man in black armor was a low-ranking guard of the Heavenly Court and warned him not to cause trouble or provoke the guards.
• Dai Mubai realized he was in Lin Hao's Heavenly Court prison, learned that his important enemy had ensured no one else would kill him, and promised the old man he would behave.
• The old man said he was a Bitter Sea Realm cultivator who had been imprisoned for thirty years, then told Dai Mubai to sleep before their labor the next morning.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San and the others that the Bitter Sea Realm sounded like a profound level attained by exceptionally rare experts.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived in the Shrouding the Heavens World at the edge of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and feared its time-stripping power would kill her. As Di Tian and the people of Douluo watched in alarm, a little girl walked unharmed out of the forbidden land and called the Golden Lion a pretty little doggy.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion found herself on barren ground before the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and recognized it from Long Aotian's deadly encounter.
• At Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Xian Lin'er worried that the Golden Lion would die and that Di Tian would retaliate.
• Di Tian learned the Golden Lion was in the forbidden land and vowed to slaughter his way into the Shrouding the Heavens World if she fell.
• A barefoot little girl walked unharmed out of the forbidden land, crossing the time-stripping terrain and picking up a black stone.
• The little girl reached the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, called her a pretty little doggy, and left the Golden Lion embarrassed and annoyed.

Xiao Nannan met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Qiu'er in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and said she was going to White Emperor City to find Lin Hao. As Xiao Nannan led Qiu'er across the dangerous land unharmed, the observers on the Douluo Continent wrongly concluded that the forbidden land posed no real threat.

• Xiao Nannan introduced herself to Qiu'er and said someone had told her to find Lin Hao in White Emperor City.
• Qiu'er excitedly agreed to go with Xiao Nannan, then worried they could not escape the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Xiao Nannan took hold of Qiu'er's fur and led her across the forbidden land, where neither of them suffered the passage of time.
• Qiu'er followed Xiao Nannan through the dead forest and began to believe the forbidden land was not as dangerous as it seemed.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, Xian Lin'er, and the others watched from the Douluo Continent and speculated that the forbidden land was not deadly.

Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts reconsidered the danger of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and feared the power of Lin Hao and the Shrouding the Heavens World. The Heavenly Screen then showed Li Dan appearing on modern-day Blue Star, leaving viewers on Douluo Continent confused about where he had arrived.

• Di Tian concluded that powerful humans, rather than the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land itself, had likely caused Long Aotian's time to be stripped away.
• Bi Ji and Di Tian recognized that controlling time and other fundamental forces surpassed the Soul Skills they knew.
• Di Tian doubted that even the Silver Dragon King at her peak could defeat Lin Hao's heavenly waterfall of Sword Qi, and the Ferocious Beasts resolved not to offend the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Screen split between Xiao Nannan safely leaving the forbidden land and Li Dan appearing on a busy street on Blue Star.
• Li Dan marveled at the moving iron vehicles, flying iron birds, and towering buildings, while Shrek's viewers questioned whether his surroundings were the Shrouding the Heavens World.

Li Dan appeared in a modern city, where he met Ye Fan after a Mercedes nearly hit him, leaving Douluo Continent’s observers unsure whether he had reached the Shrouding the Heavens World. In White Jade Capital, a white-haired man anticipated Ye Fan’s journey to the Big Dipper and wondered whether to investigate the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.

• Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others concluded that Li Dan’s unfamiliar surroundings might be another world, while Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall elders debated whether the Heavenly Screen was mistaken or the Shrouding the Heavens World contained such a place.
• A Mercedes stopped just short of Li Dan, and Ye Fan got out to check whether he was hurt.
• Li Dan asked Ye Fan if this was the Shrouding the Heavens World, but Ye Fan said he did not know what that meant and gave him his phone number before driving away.
• A uniformed man approached Li Dan as his livestream gradually went dark.
• In White Jade Capital, a white-haired man predicted that Ye Fan would attend a class reunion before being taken to the Big Dipper by nine dragons pulling a coffin, and considered going to see the Three-Life Bronze Coffin.

Lin Hao left the Heavenly Court to witness the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and observe Ye Fan’s journey without interfering. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai woke in his cell, was ordered to take a pill and prepare for labor, and dared not resist his powerful fellow prisoner.

• Lin Hao told Tantai Guyue he would be away for a few days to a little over a month and reassured her that Gai Jiuyou and the Undying Heavenly Empress could guard the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Lin Hao left the Heavenly Court to see the Three-Life Bronze Coffin encounter Ye Fan during the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, while choosing not to interfere with Ye Fan’s rise.
• Dai Mubai woke when the old prisoner nudged him and swallowed his anger after remembering how badly the old man had beaten him.
• The old prisoner pointed Dai Mubai to a pill and water outside the cell, saying Dai Mubai had to take the medicine and report for reform through labor.
• Dai Mubai accepted the order despite his broken arms and privately resented the Heavenly Court’s treatment of him.

Dai Mubai swallowed a plain-looking pill that healed his broken arms in moments and sent his Soul Power surging. As observers across the continent watched in shock, he broke past level forty without absorbing a Soul Ring.

• Dai Mubai swallowed the pill and watched his broken arms mend completely within a few breaths.
• The pill's remaining medicinal power surged into Dai Mubai's dantian, prompting him to begin cultivating.
• Tang San and the Shrek Academy students noticed Dai Mubai's chaotic Soul Power fluctuations and wondered what the pill was doing.
• Bibi Dong told Gui Mei that the pill's most important effect was not its healing, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin saw Dai Mubai's Soul Power climbing.
• Dai Mubai reached level thirty-nine and continued rising past level forty to level forty-one without absorbing a Soul Ring.

Dai Mubai discovered that a Bone-Knitting Pill had raised his Soul Power to level forty-five, while the old man dismissed the pill as an ordinary healing remedy. The sight drove factions across the Douluo Continent to seek the Shrouding the Heavens World, and Dai Mubai followed the old man toward his labor assignment in the Heavenly Court prison.

• Dai Mubai broke through to level forty-five after taking the Bone-Knitting Pill, shocking Yu Xiaogang and Soul Masters across the Douluo Continent.
• Dai Weisi resented Dai Mubai’s sudden rise, while the old man told Dai Mubai that the pill was merely an ordinary remedy and described the power of true cultivation medicines.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to investigate ways to reach the Shrouding the Heavens World, and Ning Fengzhi agreed with Chen Xin and Gu Rong that its resources could overturn the continent’s balance of power.
• Dai Mubai followed the old man through a passage in the Heavenly Court prison and asked what reform through labor meant.
• The old man explained that Heavenly Emperor Hao required prisoners to work and reflect on their crimes, then opened a heavy iron door.

Dai Mubai was assigned to sew clothes in prison and accepted the work after an old prisoner warned him that the mines were far more dangerous. He learned that the clothes were distributed to poor mortals and orphans by order of Heavenly Emperor Hao, leaving him stunned by the Heavenly Court’s care for ordinary people.

• An old man led Dai Mubai into a prison sewing workshop and told him his reform labor would be making clothes.
• Dai Mubai resented being made to sew, while the people watching from Shrek Academy laughed at his predicament.
• The old man warned Dai Mubai that prisoners who worked in the mines faced deadly ancient creatures, so Dai Mubai agreed to sew instead.
• Dai Mubai learned that prisoners’ clothes were distributed unconditionally to impoverished mortals and homeless orphans before winter.
• The old man praised Heavenly Emperor Hao’s compassion, and Dai Mubai was shocked that the Heavenly Court cared for mortals.

Shrek Academy and people across Douluo Continent reconsidered Heavenly Emperor Hao after hearing that he gave winter clothing to mortals without conditions, while Zhu Zhuqing continued learning the Heavenly Court’s rules and heard she would soon serve its ruler. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing asking Jiang Wanwan whether the Heavenly Court would send troops against the Primordial Ancient Mine.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang discussed whether Heavenly Emperor Hao’s benevolence toward mortals meant they had misjudged his harshness toward the ancient races.
• Poor villagers in the Dou Ling Empire longed for a ruler like Heavenly Emperor Hao, and some privately imagined him overthrowing Douluo Continent’s nobles.
• Zhu Zhuqing studied the Heavenly Court’s rules and noticed that its mortal fruit subtly expanded the Bitter Sea within her.
• Jiang Wanwan told Zhu Zhuqing that Empress Guyue was occupied with the Primordial Ancient Mine and that Zhu Zhuqing would soon learn duties attending His Majesty.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Jiang Wanwan whether the Heavenly Court was really going to send troops against the Primordial Ancient Mine.

Jiang Wanwan took Zhu Zhuqing to the Heavenly Court’s prison workshops to collect her maid’s dharma robes and explained Heavenly Emperor Hao’s responsibility toward all living beings. Zhu Zhuqing entered the women’s workshop, where Dai Mubai spotted her.

• Jiang Wanwan explained that newly appointed maids received protective, dust-repelling dharma robes sewn by skilled female prisoners.
• Jiang Wanwan told Zhu Zhuqing that prisoners’ work also produced warm clothes distributed free to poor mortal commoners, and described the Heavenly Emperor’s duty to care for all living beings.
• Zhu Zhuqing reflected on the Star Luo Empire’s harshness and eagerly followed Jiang Wanwan toward the prison workshops.
• Jiang Wanwan requested two of the best dharma robes, and a heavenly soldier led them into the orderly women’s prison workshop.
• Dai Mubai struggled to use a sewing machine in a clothing workshop, then froze when he saw Zhu Zhuqing.

Dai Mubai spotted Zhu Zhuqing outside the prison workshop, but the guards dismissed his claim that she was his fiancée and Wang Lao'er punished him with fifty slaps. Zhu Zhuqing left with Jiang Jiang Wanwan, while Lin Hao appeared on Earth after nearly ten thousand years away, accompanied by his great-grandchild.

• Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing outside the workshop and shouted for her, drawing the black-armored guard’s attention.
• The guard rejected Dai Mubai’s claim that Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée and ordered Wang Lao'er to give him fifty slaps.
• Wang Lao'er beat Dai Mubai, who returned to work and asked him to help contact Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing wondered whether she had heard someone calling her, then followed Jiang Jiang Wanwan to choose her styles.
• Lin Hao stood on Earth after nearly ten thousand years away, and his great-grandchild asked whether this was the Earth he had described.

Lin Hao brought Ji Ziyue to Earth, where they encountered Ye Fan and Lin Hao secretly nudged him into attending his class reunion. Lin Hao and Ji Ziyue then headed for Mount Tai, while Ye Fan picked up Li Dan and planned to take him to the hospital.

• Lin Hao confirmed that they were on Earth and explained cars to Ji Ziyue as she explored the unfamiliar modern city.
• Lin Hao overheard Ye Fan telling Pang Bo that he might miss their class reunion, then used a wisp of golden light to make Ye Fan agree to go.
• Ye Fan briefly saw Lin Hao and Ji Ziyue outside his car, but they vanished when he looked again.
• Lin Hao told Ji Ziyue they were going to Mount Tai, and the pair disappeared from the city.
• Ye Fan picked up Li Dan and said he would take him somewhere before bringing him to the hospital.

Li Dan traveled with Ye Fan to Mount Tai, while viewers on the Douluo Continent recognized Lin Hao passing through Li Dan’s world and wondered what connected it to the Shrouding the Heavens World. The chapter left Ye Fan and Li Dan arriving at Mount Tai and meeting Pang Bo.

• Viewers on the Douluo Continent saw Lin Hao briefly pass by Li Dan’s moving car, and Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong recognized him.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Lin Hao’s presence meant Li Dan’s world was not as ordinary as it appeared and might be connected to the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• At Mount Tai, Li Dan insisted on leaving the car with Ye Fan rather than waiting alone.
• Ye Fan explained Mount Tai’s landmarks as he and Li Dan walked through the crowds toward the mountain.
• Pang Bo called out to Ye Fan, who hurried over to greet his university friend.

Ye Fan and his companions climbed Mount Tai as strange cloud trails appeared overhead, then witnessed nine enormous black dragons hauling an ancient bronze coffin from the cosmos. The coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, leaving the tourists in chaos and viewers across the Douluo Continent stunned by the dragons.

• Ye Fan reunited with Pang Bo and introduced Li Dan to his university classmates as the group began climbing Mount Tai.
• Ye Fan grew increasingly uneasy, and the group noticed strange cloud trails crossing the sky.
• Darkness and fierce winds overtook Mount Tai as nine black dragons appeared, dragging an ancient bronze coffin toward the summit.
• Tourists panicked as the bronze coffin slammed into Jade Emperor Peak and shook the mountain.
• At Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang watched the Heavenly Screen in shock at the dragons' overwhelming presence.

The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin stunned people across the Douluo Continent, and Gu Yuena sensed that the black dragons belonged to a more ancient and purer kind of dragon than she did. On Mount Tai, the enormous bronze coffin began to open, releasing a presence that made every viewer feel insignificant.

• Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek group watched the nine black dragons and bronze coffin in shock, while Xiao Wu felt their oppressive might.
• Bibi Dong sensed that the dragons and coffin came from a higher, more primordial order and wondered whether she could master their power.
• Di Tian’s bloodline submitted to the dragons’ overwhelming rank, while the other Soul Beasts reacted with fear and unease.
• Gu Yuena told Tang Wulin that the beings were not Soul Beasts or dragons as they understood them, and sensed that they were truly dragons of a more ancient kind.
• On Mount Tai, the bronze coffin’s lid opened a tiny crack, releasing a wisp of ancient, deathly presence that chilled viewers across the Douluo Continent.

Lin Hao used his Double Pupils to glimpse the laws within the Three-Life Bronze Coffin as the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin departed Mount Tai, then took Ji Ziyue to Mars. In Douluo Continent, the sky screen revealed that their world was a planet, prompting Bibi Dong to see the Shrouding the Heavens World as a chance to discover the truth.

• Lin Hao watched Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Dan, and the others enter the Bronze Coffin, then used his Double Pupils to glimpse its universe-like structure and fragments of its laws.
• Lin Hao took Ji Ziyue to Mars and the Great Thunderclap Temple by using spatial Dao resonance.
• At Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Yu Xiaogang reacted with disbelief as the sky screen showed Douluo Continent as a blue planet in space.
• At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei acknowledged how little they knew about their world.
• Bibi Dong decided that they should seek a way to reach the Shrouding the Heavens World and uncover the truth.

Lin Hao and Ji Ziyue arrived at Yinghuo Ancient Star and visited the ruined Great Thunderclap Temple, where Lin Hao concealed the danger he sensed beneath the ruins. As they waited for the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, Ji Ziyue asked to search for food, and a scaled creature began emerging from the sand.

• Lin Hao used his Double Pupils to sense damaged Dao patterns, a baleful presence, and faint Buddhist light on Yinghuo Ancient Star.
• Lin Hao and Ji Ziyue reached the ruined Great Thunderclap Temple, where Lin Hao studied the dead bodhi tree.
• Ji Ziyue said the ancient star seemed harmless, and Lin Hao agreed while a sealed creature underground recognized his presence and stayed hidden.
• Ji Ziyue asked when the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin would arrive, and Lin Hao said it would take a little while.
• Hungry, Ji Ziyue urged Lin Hao to look for local food and Demonic Beasts, just as a scaled creature emerged from the red sand.