Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiao stopped himself from losing his sense of self while comprehending the Dao, then created a rudimentary Sword Dao that the Snow Empress could also see. He and the Snow Empress entered Mingdu as Ye Xiao planned to strengthen the Sword Dao and prepare for a future level reset.

• The Snow Empress intervened when Ye Xiao’s uncontrolled comprehension nearly caused him to merge with the Dao, and he explained that he needed to build up his knowledge before letting his thoughts wander again.
• Ye Xiao checked his Teaching Panel and saw that his comprehension had risen to 15 and his Sword Dao inheritance had expanded.
• Ye Xiao manifested a Sword Dao panel, named himself its Dao master, and added Ye Guyi and the Snow Empress to its first-level authorization and the Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and Wu Qingyao to its second level.
• Ye Xiao told the Snow Empress that the Sword Dao currently controlled Sword Qi and sword-attribute Soul Power, and that he planned to raise Soul Ring ages and create a manual for cultivating unaligned Sword Qi.
• Ye Xiao led the Snow Empress into Mingdu, believing the Sword Dao could eventually make him powerful even if levels were reset.

Ye Xiao reunited with Gu Yuena and the Soul Beasts after they helped capture Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, then confronted the pair over their attack on his family. He revealed that Long Xiaoyao had a child with Ye Xishui and now had a grandson, leaving Long Xiaoyao to choose what to do with that knowledge.

• Gu Yuena kept Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao bound while the Ice Empress complained about Ye Xishui.
• The Snow Empress brought Ye Xiao to the group, and Ye Xiao thanked the Demon Empress and Myriad Demon King for their help.
• Ye Xiao confronted Ye Xishui, rejected her offer to serve him, and watched Gu Yuena knock her unconscious.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Ye Xiao whether he would let them go, and Ye Xiao questioned him about the attack on Uncle Ye's grave.
• Ye Xiao told Long Xiaoyao that Ye Xishui had borne his child and that he had a grandson, then asked Long Xiaoyao to choose.

Ye Xiao forced Long Xiaoyao to reveal who had arranged Uncle Ye’s death, then killed him after learning Yan Shaozhe had tried to kill him. He planned to turn Ye Xishui into a cultivation aid before the sky screen began again, showing a scene of him leaving a bathroom while the Ice and Snow Emperors slept nearby.

• Ye Xiao pressured Long Xiaoyao into confessing the people involved in Uncle Ye’s death by threatening his blood descendant, Yan Shaozhe.
• After Long Xiaoyao revealed the details, Ye Xiao said Yan Shaozhe had already tried to kill him, and the Snow Empress killed Long Xiaoyao with an icy strike.
• Ye Xiao proposed having Ye Guyi repeatedly kill Ye Xishui so she could undergo nirvana and devour Evil Soul Masters, and the Snow Empress offered to seal excess Soul Power inside Ye Guyi.
• As the sky screen started, Ye Xiao asked the Demon Empress to keep everyone in the Sun Moon Imperial Palace from escaping, while Gu Yuena raised stone chairs for the group.
• The sky screen showed Ye Xiao leaving a private bathroom and taking his clothes while the Ice and Snow Emperors slept together beneath a quilt.

The Heavenly Screen showed Ye Xiao’s future self meeting Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu’er, while his narrated thoughts enraged Gu Yuena by imagining her as his mount. In the present, Ye Xiao hid behind the Snow Empress as the gathered Soul Beasts tried to calm their furious lord.

• Ye Guyi panicked at the Heavenly Screen’s glimpse of Ye Xiao and the Snow Empress alone together, but the Snow Empress’s barrier kept her inside the cave.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Jing Ziyan telling Ye Xiao that a gold-haired girl resembling Wang Qiu’er and a silver-haired girl were waiting for him.
• The Ice Empress confronted Ye Xiao over the Heavenly Screen’s intimate scene, and the Snow Empress soothed her while Ye Xiao played along.
• In the future scene, Gu Qiu’er asked Ye Xiao for help establishing order among the Soul Beasts, and Gu Yuena offered him the Soul Beast Clan’s friendship.
• Ye Xiao rejected Gu Yuena’s offer as insufficient and privately considered making her his mount in exchange for helping the Soul Beasts.
• In the present, Gu Yuena rose in fury at the narration, while Ye Xiao hid behind the Snow Empress and Di Tian, Bi Ji, and the Myriad Demon King pleaded with her to calm down.

Gu Yuena suppressed her anger at Ye Xiao after his subordinates persuaded her not to attack him, while the sky screen showed Ye Xiao demanding that she become his mount. Gu Yuena left to subdue the Evil Emperor, and the screen then showed Ye Xiao making Gu Qiu'er the same offer and promising to help her bloodline evolve.

• The Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, and Di Tian warned Gu Yuena that attacking Ye Xiao would ruin their plans, and Gu Yuena agreed to let the matter go while warning him against betrayal.
• Ye Xiao reassured Gu Yuena that he would remember her help, and the gathered group returned their attention to the sky screen.
• The sky screen showed Ye Xiao asking Gu Yuena to become his mount in exchange for help restoring order among the Soul Beasts, but Gu Yuena refused.
• Gu Yuena left to subdue the Evil Emperor, demanded his submission, and attacked him when he tried to surrender.
• The sky screen showed Ye Xiao proposing that Gu Qiu'er become his mount, cut ties with the Soul Beast Clan, and receive cultivation techniques and the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

Ye Xiao negotiated with Gu Yuena and the Soul Beasts, offering help with their future calamity in exchange for cooperation. After Gu Qiu'er's fortune suddenly fell, Gu Yuena agreed to his terms, and Di Tian offered Ye Xiao dragon body-tempering methods to aid his God Trial.

• Ye Xiao considered asking Gu Yuena to teach him a cultivation method and offered the possibility of trading for the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Gu Yuena grew furious at Ye Xiao's offer, while the beaten Evil Emperor volunteered to capture him and Gu Yuena warned the Evil Emperor against defying his superior.
• Gu Qiu'er suddenly spat blood as her fortune dropped by thirty percent, prompting Gu Yuena to agree to Ye Xiao's terms and suspect that a major event had struck the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Xiao assured Di Tian that the Soul Beast Clan would not suffer the future fate shown on the sky screen and revealed that his God Trial might let him rewrite the rules governing Soul Rings and Heavenly Tribulations.
• Di Tian explained that Soul Rings could be aged by infusing them with a Soul Beast's origin and offered Ye Xiao dragon body-tempering methods to help with his First Trial.

The sky screen showed Di Tian and Xiong Jun defending Star Dou from the True Sting Swarm before being devoured, deepening Gu Yuena’s fear of the coming disaster. As Shrek Academy considered the threat, Mu En ordered a delegation to Mingdu to seek the return of Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan and possibly improve relations with Ye Xiao.

• The sky screen showed Di Tian saving Xiong Jun from the True Sting Swarm, and Xiong Jun vowed to follow Di Tian and defend Star Dou.
• The Swarm devoured Di Tian and Xiong Jun, then evolved new True Stings with black dragon scales and dark golden claws.
• Gu Yuena heard the Evil Emperor argue that Ye Xiao might be the only one able to save the future, then left to see Ye Xiao.
• Ye Xiao told the Snow Empress that his current strength could defeat the Swarm, though the Ye Xiao on the sky screen might struggle because he had not fully integrated his power.
• Xuan Zi and Mu En reacted with alarm to Star Dou becoming a desert, and Mu En decided to send Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Zhang Lexuan to Mingdu to seek Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan and approach Ye Xiao.
• Yan Shaozhe asked to bring Ma Xiaotao instead of Zhang Lexuan, believing Ye Xiao’s Ultimate Ice attribute would benefit her.

Ye Xiao traveled to investigate the insect swarm threatening the Star Dou Great Forest while the Divine Realm gods feared it could spread across the Douluo Continent. He found the insects had already reached the Star Luo Empire and continued toward Star Dou, leaving the swarm’s full extent unknown.

• Destruction and Ji Dong warned that the insects could devour and evolve rapidly, while the Goddess of Life mourned the destruction of the Star Dou Forest and Destruction blamed Tang San.
• Gu Qiu'er collapsed in Gu Yuena’s arms, and Ye Xiao stabilized her with Soul Power before agreeing to help investigate Star Dou.
• Ye Xiao left alone using Earth-Traversing Sword Light after warning Gu Yuena to prepare for the worst.
• The Divine Realm observers debated whether Ye Xiao could defeat the swarm, and Ye Xiao suggested the Far North might still be safe.
• After two days of travel, Ye Xiao reached the Star Luo Empire, found insects had already spread there, and sped on toward the Star Dou Great Forest while his sword lights slew nearby insects.

Ye Xiao struggled to fight the Swarm Disaster alone, then devised the Sword Qi Loan to give people throughout Star Luo City the power to fight back. As the city’s residents received Sword Qi and the Proliferating Sword Art, Ye Xiao began using their response to develop a way for his Sword Qi to propagate.

• Ye Xiao considered several ways to fight the bugs more efficiently, then decided to imitate Propagation by making his Sword Qi reproduce.
• Ye Xiao tried to copy the bugs’ origin power but found it inaccessible, so he deduced his own method from what he had observed.
• Ye Xiao spread Sword Qi across Star Luo City and offered its residents a Sword Qi Loan along with the Proliferating Sword Art.
• Xu Jiujiu and Wang Xian'er received the loan offer, and Wang Xian'er chose the maximum amount of Sword Qi.
• Ye Xiao sensed the Sword Qi spreading through the city and focused on developing a way to make it propagate, while the people of Douluo began to fight back against the Swarm.