Chapter Summaries

Lin Rong crippled Spirit Hall's Third Worship and issued sweeping decrees to purge Spirit Hall, reorganize the Heaven Dou Empire, and prepare a campaign against the Sea God Empire. His public announcement that Tang San had stolen the Heart of the Sea God alerted Sea God Empire spies, who hurried to report the news.

• Lin Rong crippled Third Worship's meridians, offered to spare his life for the Angel Divine Armor pieces, and ordered Jin Wen to keep him alive in custody.
• Lin Rong denounced Spirit Hall and ordered its branches eradicated, its personnel arrested, and its role in awakening martial souls and distributing subsidies transferred to the empire.
• Lin Rong issued decrees reshaping imperial ranks and institutions, including elevating Yu Yuan, Du Qianyuan, and Zhi Ming and renaming Four Elements Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lin Rong ordered a western campaign to reclaim lost territories, appointed Ma Hongjun grand marshal, and placed Tang San and Luo Minghua at the top of the empire's wanted list.
• Sea God Empire spies heard that Tang San had stolen the Heart of the Sea God and decided to report its location to their High Priest.

Spirit Hall’s Fourth Worship arrived in Heaven Dou City to exchange the remaining Angel Divine Armor pieces for Third Worship’s release, then offered a rare tea gift to take Qian Renxue’s remains. Lin Rong accepted the armor and released Third Worship, but demanded another price for the remains; the tea offer interested him, while a battle between gods continued above the clouds.

• Spirit Hall’s party arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Lin Rong received Fourth Worship in the palace gardens.
• Fourth Worship presented the remaining four Angel Divine Armor pieces, which resonated with Lin Rong’s two pieces and became a complete set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Lin Rong pulled Third Worship from the heavenly prison and released him to Fourth Worship, who found him haggard but otherwise unharmed apart from his destroyed meridians.
• Fourth Worship asked to take Qian Renxue’s remains, and Lin Rong demanded a separate price because she had helped kill Heaven Dou’s former imperial family.
• Fourth Worship offered Cloud Mist Golden Hair tea in a Ten Thousand Year Darkwood box, and Lin Rong confirmed through Divine Sense that it was good tea.

Lin Rong returned Qian Renxue’s body to Spirit Hall’s worshipers and learned that Golden Crocodile had secured a stalemate with Old Butler, leaving Lin Rong to face Bo Saixi without help in the coming war. He refused to withdraw the bounty on Luo Minghua after the vice-captain defected to Spirit Hall, and the updated wanted list reached Golden Crocodile in Star Luo City.

• Lin Rong gave Third Worship and Fourth Worship Qian Renxue’s coffin, and they thanked him before leaving Heaven Dou City.
• Old Butler reported that Golden Crocodile had matched his strength by the end of their battle and had agreed not to interfere in the war if Old Butler stayed out of it.
• Lin Rong explained that Golden Crocodile wanted him and Bo Saixi to weaken each other, but said he would fight Bo Saixi himself to build imperial prestige and gather faith.
• Yun Gui told Lin Rong that Luo Minghua had pledged allegiance to Spirit Hall under Golden Crocodile’s protection, while Xu Keming had gone his separate way.
• Lin Rong ordered the clue reward for Luo Minghua canceled but raised the remaining bounty to match Tang San’s, and the change spread across the continent.
• Fourth Worship brought the updated wanted list to Golden Crocodile at Spirit Hall’s new headquarters in Star Luo City.

Golden Crocodile treated Third Worship while Spirit Hall weighed which Divine Legacy successors it could recruit and spread news of Tang San killing the Young Master. Outside Heaven Dou City, Lin Rong learned Xu Keming had joined the Sea God Empire and continued developing a plan to fuse god seats into the Star God Seat, leaving its eventual power and fate undisclosed.

• Golden Crocodile slowly cleared the lingering force from Third Worship's crippled meridians, spending a drop of divine blood to heal his heart meridian.
• Golden Crocodile and Fourth Worship discussed Spirit Hall's need to recruit Divine Legacy successors and confirmed that its Star Luo branch halls had spread news of Tang San killing the Young Master.
• Lin Rong received word that Xu Keming had joined the Sea God Empire and burned the letter after deciding the news saved him the trouble of searching for Xu Keming.
• Lin Rong reasoned that the Angel God Seat could harmonize light and darkness in a fusion that would create the Star God Seat, which he hoped could help Grandpa Yu defeat Golden Crocodile.
• Lin Rong gazed at the autumn night sky as Old Butler placed a cloak over his shoulders and tied it in place.

At a military camp outside Heaven Dou City, Ma Hongjun, Yan Mo, and Shui Bing'er unexpectedly formed a three-person Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Lin Rong recognized it as a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill and suggested finding more Phoenix Soul Masters, but the three declined.

• Ma Hongjun, Yan Mo, and Shui Bing'er gathered with Xu Pan and Wang Shiyu in the command tent before the western campaign, each pursuing military merit or supporting the campaign.
• The three Phoenix Martial Soul owners felt their fire, light, and ice powers resonate as they studied one another.
• Their powers gathered into a dazzling three-headed phoenix, startling the people inside and outside the tent.
• Lin Rong and Old Butler appeared in the tent, and Lin Rong identified the formation as a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill enabled by Yan Mo's Phoenix God inheritance.
• Lin Rong proposed searching for more Phoenix Martial Soul Masters to attempt a seven-in-one fusion, but Ma Hongjun, Yan Mo, and Shui Bing'er refused because fusion required sharing every sensation.

Lin Rong set the military-merit requirements for soul bones and assigned targets as Heaven Dou’s million-strong army marched west to confront the Sea God Empire. The main force reached Sea God City, where Bo Saixi prepared its defenders to fight and preserve a path of retreat for Chen Haitian.

• Lin Rong told Yan Mo, Wang Shiyu, and Shui Bing'er how to earn Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and gave them detailed information on the Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars.
• Lin Rong assigned Dugu Bo and Chen Xin to hold off the Pillar Guardian Douluo, tasked Xu Pan with killing Sea Dragon Douluo, and told Ma Hongjun to target Chen Haitian if an opportunity arose.
• Heaven Dou’s million-strong army set out from Heaven Dou City and reached its former Western Border Province after a month’s march.
• After learning that Sea God Empire forces had withdrawn to Vast Sea City and incited rebellion in other cities, the vanguard commander relayed Lin Rong’s order to execute rebels and massacre cities if necessary.
• Heaven Dou split seven hundred thousand troops into fourteen armies to reclaim the province while three hundred thousand advanced to Sea God City and camped ten li away.
• Sea Dragon Douluo reported the army’s arrival, and Bo Saixi urged the defenders to fight for the Sea God while keeping a way to return Chen Haitian to Sea God Island.

Bo Saixi confronted Lin Rong as Heaven Dou’s army arrived at Sea God City, while Shui Bing’er used the Bottle of Flowing Back to stop Bo Saixi’s water attack. Lin Rong challenged Bo Saixi to a duel, and she gathered the sea’s power into herself to fight.

• After three days of rest, Lin Rong’s three-hundred-thousand-strong army advanced on Sea God City in broad daylight.
• Bo Saixi ordered the city’s defenders to prepare for war and faced Lin Rong when he rose above the walls.
• Lin Rong taunted Bo Saixi and displayed his five-black, three-red Soul Ring Configuration; Bo Saixi restored her youthful appearance and summoned her Sea God Martial Soul.
• Bo Saixi drew the ocean’s currents toward the city and nearly flooded the Heaven Dou army, but Shui Bing’er used the Bottle of Flowing Back to halt the water.
• Lin Rong pointed out that Shui Bing’er, as the God of Water’s inheritor, could control water, and Bo Saixi stopped attacking the army and focused the sea’s power into herself.

Lin Rong struck Bo Saixi out of the aerial battlefield, then used three Divine Artifacts to trap her in a storm waterspout. Below, Ma Hongjun's battlefield skill bolstered Heaven Dou's army as its forces engaged Sea God Island's more numerous high-ranking soul masters.

• Lin Rong froze Bo Saixi with his time and space powers and blasted her into the moat with the True Form of the Thunder Dragon.
• Bo Saixi rose from the moat, summoned the ocean tide, and took up the Sea God's trident.
• Lin Rong summoned the Eye of Storm, Bottle of Flowing Back, and Thunder God's Hammer, wrested control of the tide from Bo Saixi, and trapped her in a storm waterspout.
• Ma Hongjun's Heavenly Phoenix Profound Sound amplified Heaven Dou's troops, healed their wounds, and removed enemy battlefield control skills.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Xin occupied Sea God Island's Pillar Guardian Douluo while Yan Mo and Shui Bing'er assessed the enemy soul masters as potential military merit.

Shui Bing'er, Yan Mo, and Wang Shiyu swept through the battlefield while Chen Xin and Dugu Bo restrained the Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars' Pillar Guardian Douluo. Lin Rong used Tang Chen's keepsake and promised letter to provoke Bo Saixi, who ignited her Martial Soul Origin and began fusing her nine Soul Rings.

• Shui Bing'er suggested eliminating the enemy Soul Saints quickly, and she, Yan Mo, and Wang Shiyu used their domains to cut through enemy soldiers and Soul Masters.
• The six Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars' Pillar Guardian Douluo watched their elites die but held back under the threat of Chen Xin and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo overheard the Pillar Guardian Douluo acknowledge that he and Chen Xin could restrain all six of them.
• Lin Rong showed Bo Saixi Tang Chen's Clear Sky Sect Chief Token and told her he had a letter from Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi's desire to read the letter rekindled her will to live, and she burned her Martial Soul Origin and fused her nine Soul Rings.

Lin Rong killed Bo Saixi with Guanyin Has Tears after she unleashed her desperate Sea God: Endless Torrent, and her falling body crushed Sea Witch Douluo. The remaining five Pillar Guardian Douluo then joined the battle against Chen Xin and Dugu Bo, giving Yan Mo and his companions a chance to intervene.

• Lin Rong discovered that Chen Haitian was hiding underwater near Sea God City's western gate and secretly informed Ma Hongjun of his location.
• Ma Hongjun slipped away from the ground battlefield and traveled to the western shore while Bo Saixi prepared her ultimate move.
• Bo Saixi shattered her fused nine Soul Rings and unleashed Sea God: Endless Torrent against Lin Rong.
• Lin Rong used Guanyin Has Tears to pierce Bo Saixi's heart and kill her.
• Bo Saixi's falling body crushed Sea Witch Douluo, and the other five Pillar Guardian Douluo began fighting Chen Xin and Dugu Bo.
• Yan Mo and his companions welcomed the chance to pick up military merit as the battle intensified.

Ma Hongjun attacked Chen Haitian with the Fire God Artifact while Lin Rong gave Heaven Dou’s army fifteen more minutes to earn military merit before ending the war. Yan Mo, Wang Shiyu, and Shui Bing’er rushed to steal kills from the remaining Soul Douluo so they could meet their reward target.

• Ma Hongjun used the Heavenly Burning Divine Scepter to draw Chen Haitian from his underwater hiding place and challenged him to fight.
• Lin Rong descended over the battlefield, healed Heaven Dou soldiers with his Vine Dragon Domain, and announced that he would end the war in fifteen minutes.
• Yan Mo, Wang Shiyu, and Shui Bing’er realized they were short of the military merit needed for two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and planned to target the Sea God Empire’s remaining Soul Douluo.
• Yan Mo and Wang Shiyu set out to steal kills from Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo, while Shui Bing’er agreed to help corner Soul Douluo and deliver the final blows.

Lin Rong learned that Ma Hongjun had killed Chen Haitian, helped destroy the Sea God Empire's forces, and hunted down Xu Keming to take the God of Darkness's Divine Legacy. He planned to wait until he reached Title Douluo before confronting Golden Crocodile for the Angel God Divine Legacy.

• The Sea God's Trident revealed that Chen Haitian had died, and Ma Hongjun returned carrying his captive as the quarter hour ended.
• Lin Rong unleashed Blood Fiend: Dragon Slaughter, wiped out the remaining Sea God Empire forces, and ordered the battlefield cleaned up.
• Lin Rong searched Sea God Island and found Xu Keming meditating on the 144th step before the Sea God Temple.
• Lin Rong struck Xu Keming with lightning, killed him, and recovered the God of Darkness's Divine Legacy and two Soul Bones.
• Lin Rong decided to wait until he had nine rings before challenging Golden Crocodile for the Angel God Divine Legacy.

Bibi Dong hid in a manor in the Balak Kingdom while completing the eighth Rakshasa God trial, and learned that Hu Liena had extracted Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye. Bibi Dong ordered Tang San killed and warned Hu Liena to keep their group hidden until she became a god.

• After the Heaven Dou Empire reclaimed its territories, Bibi Dong secretly continued her Rakshasa God trials in a hidden palace near Suotuo City.
• Hu Liena reported that she had used the Eye of Desire to charm Tang San and obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye, but his mind resisted further questioning.
• Bibi Dong studied the two techniques, found that she had six of her Eight Extraordinary Meridians open, and quickly advanced her Purple Demon Eye to Mustard Seed.
• Bibi Dong agreed to kill Tang San rather than pursue the remaining Tang Sect arts, and refused to contact Moon Guardian and Ghost Guardian.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena to keep herself, Yan, and Yu Xiaogang inside the Manor until Bibi Dong became a god.

Lin Rong used the Heart of the Sea God as bait to lure the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to the surface. He demanded that the whale serve as his temporary mount and help him search for a suitable Ninth Soul Ring, while Old Butler’s divine power surrounded it.

• Lin Rong fished from the Floating Island Sea Turtle’s shell, using the Heart of the Sea God to draw the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King out of the abyss.
• Lin Rong threatened the trembling Floating Island Sea Turtle into staying still as he strengthened the Sea God aura from the bait.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King awoke, recognized Poseidon’s aura, and rushed toward the surface, believing Poseidon’s successor had come to provoke him.
• Lin Rong retrieved the Heart of the Sea God before the whale emerged in a massive tsunami and demanded to know whether Lin Rong was Poseidon’s successor.
• Lin Rong rejected the idea that he was Poseidon’s successor and ordered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to serve as his temporary mount and help find a Ninth Soul Ring.
• Old Butler appeared and surrounded the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with the divine power of the God of Light.

Lin Rong forced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to submit and made him his mount, naming him Bubbles. After restoring the whale king’s injured eye and dangling the possibility of the Sea God’s position, Lin Rong tasked him with finding a Ninth Soul Ring for the Nine Bend Vine Dragon.

• Lin Rong gave the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King a deadline to submit, and the whale king chose to become his mount.
• Lin Rong healed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s blind left eye and learned his name was Lan Long before renaming him Bubbles.
• Lin Rong showed Bubbles the Heart of the Sea God and suggested he might one day claim the Sea God’s position if he served well.
• Bubbles eagerly offered to find a suitable Ninth Soul Ring for Lin Rong’s martial soul, and Lin Rong placed the Nine Bend Vine Dragon on his head.

Lin Rong searched the sea with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for a suitable Ninth Soul Ring and found an Azure Sting Dragon whose destiny power made it exceptionally compatible. After Lin Rong broke through to rank ninety, he had the Azure Sting Dragon killed and gained a blood-red soul ring and an External Soul Bone.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King showed Lin Rong a two-hundred-thousand-year Flying Fish, but Lin Rong judged it less suitable than the whale king.
• Over the next year, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King searched with Lin Rong and brought him more than twenty sea spirit beasts, none of which matched the Nine Bend Vine Dragon well enough.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King found an Azure Sting Dragon with a faint Power of Destiny just before Lin Rong reached rank ninety.
• Lin Rong broke through to rank ninety, and the Nine Bend Vine Dragon killed the Azure Sting Dragon under his command.
• The Azure Sting Dragon formed a blood-red soul ring with three Gold Patterns and an External Soul Bone shaped like a dragon scale.

Lin Rong absorbed the Azure Hibernating Dragon’s ninth spirit ring and reverse-scale spirit bone, then entered a trial space to break through to the fourth realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture. Outside, his body appeared dead, leaving Old Butler to fear that Lin Rong would not survive the breakthrough.

• Lin Rong discovered that the Azure Dragon Scale was a reverse-scale spirit bone with illusion as its primary attribute and destiny as its secondary attribute.
• Lin Rong absorbed the Hibernating Dragon’s ninth spirit ring and spirit bone, while the energies of illusion and destiny merged with his elemental powers.
• Lin Rong found himself alone in a space resembling outer space, unable to use his martial soul, spirit rings, or spirit bones.
• Lin Rong realized the space was a trial for the fourth realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, which promised transcendence beyond time’s restraints.
• Lin Rong’s absorption ended, but his breathing and pulse stopped, and Old Butler silently prayed that he would complete the breakthrough.

Lin Rong endured centuries of solitude to pass the Marrow Cleansing Scripture’s fourth-realm trial, then returned to his body as Old Butler watched over him. Reunited with Grandpa Yu, Lin Rong’s heartfelt moment was interrupted by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, drawing his killing intent.

• Old Butler’s voice reached Lin Rong in the timeless realm and stirred memories that helped him recover his sense of self.
• Lin Rong regained his youth, passed the fourth-realm trial, and walked through a door of light.
• Old Butler sensed Lin Rong’s heartbeat and breath return, then wept with relief as Lin Rong awoke.
• Lin Rong comforted Old Butler and wiped away his tears.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King splashed in the pool, and Lin Rong turned toward it with murderous intent.

After breaking through to Titled Douluo and the final realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, Lin Rong examined the changes to his power and gained the ability Return to Source. The ability fused his Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones into him, raising his confidence in creating a fused God Position to one hundred percent and benefiting the Old Butler’s future God Position as well.

• Lin Rong sat with the Old Butler by the floating island’s shore, pleased after beating the shrunken Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and noticing his Soul Power approaching level 95.
• Lin Rong released his Nine Bend Vine Dragon and saw that it now radiated the Power of Destiny, while his Fourth Soul Ring had become a hundred-thousand-year ring and his Seventh Soul Ring had turned pale gold.
• Lin Rong assessed his new divine power and Divine Sense, which had increased greatly after his breakthrough to Titled Douluo.
• Lin Rong gained Return to Source, which fused his Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones into his own body and would also fuse his future God Position with him.
• Lin Rong concluded that Return to Source made his Fused God Position certain to succeed and could also help the Old Butler fuse the God Positions of Light, Darkness, and Angel into the Star God Seat.

Lin Rong reviewed the Heaven Dou and Star Luo empires’ changing fortunes and sent the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to spread his faith through the ocean in exchange for the Sea God’s Divine Legacy. The whale king flew to Sea God Island, destroyed the Sea God Temple, and renewed his vow to take revenge on Poseidon.

• Lin Rong read reports about the Heaven Dou Empire reclaiming territory, Spirit Hall tightening its hold over the Star Luo Empire, and Spirit City becoming a fortified border.
• Lin Rong decided to spread his faith through the ocean and gave the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King the Heart of the Sea God as an advance reward.
• Lin Rong ordered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to make his true name known throughout the ocean within half a year in exchange for the Sea God’s Divine Legacy.
• Lin Rong slapped the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for transforming into human form, and the whale king left to carry out the mission.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King reached Sea God Island, destroyed the Sea God Temple and the mountain beneath it, and swore revenge on Poseidon.