Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi resolved to forge his own godhood by making heaven and earth his chessboard, and a Heavenly Screen began projecting his life across time. As viewers in Douluo I reacted to the projection, Yu Xiaogang was praised for insulting Lin Yi’s Chess Martial Soul, then challenged by Yun Ming.

• Lin Yi arrived above Mingdu and committed to using the Sun Moon side in a game against God King Tang to create his own godhood.
• The Heavenly Screen began projecting Lin Yi’s past and enabled barrage comments and tipping, while Lin Yi sensed his Martial Soul merging with heaven and earth.
• Yu Xiaogang posted that Lin Yi’s Chess Martial Soul was useless, and viewers praised his comment as Lin Yi watched the projection.
• At Nuoding Academy, Tang San saw the projection and Yu Xiaogang’s comment, then kowtowed and accepted Yu Xiaogang as his master.
• Qian Daoliu considered whether the future projection could reveal useful cultivation secrets, dismissed Yu Xiaogang as an idiot, and Yun Ming posted a comment calling him an impostor.

Yun Ming watched the heavenly screen’s ancient scenes and defended Lin Yi’s board game Martial Soul after Yu Xiaogang called it trash. Their arguments crossed eras, while Lin Yi sensed the broadcast shift to a scene of himself as a filthy young wild man with a bright Soul Ring.

• Yun Ming concluded that the heavenly screen showed events from at least ten thousand years earlier and studied Lin Yi’s apparent path to godhood.
• After seeing Yu Xiaogang mock Lin Yi’s Martial Soul, Yun Ming called him an impostor and defended Lin Yi in a bullet comment.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Yun Ming’s authority on trash Martial Souls and told Tang San he could guide even one to its greatest potential.
• Ya Li laughed at Yu Xiaogang’s retort, and Yun Ming joked that he had never felt like trash because his rivals had always fallen behind him.
• Lin Yi wondered why Yu Xiaogang was disparaging him, then sensed the broadcast change to an image of his younger self standing beside a shining Soul Ring.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi’s first Soul Hunt and later revealed him absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring as his second, challenging the Soul Ring limits accepted in Douluo I. As Yu Xiaogang criticized him and Yun Ming pushed back, Lin Yi watched Xiao Hongchen and Jing Hongchen before the projection left him standing with yellow and purple Soul Rings.

• Lin Yi’s first Soul Hunt moved Soul Masters across both worlds, but Yu Xiaogang called his Space-Escaping Rat Soul Ring dangerous and incompatible.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San about choosing Soul Rings and promised to find him a suitable one after his enrollment ceremony.
• Yun Ming defended Lin Yi’s feat and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that Lin Yi had only succeeded through luck.
• Lin Yi watched three-year-old Xiao Hongchen enter Jing Hongchen’s classroom and considered guiding gifted people on the Sun Moon side.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi kill a thousand-year Soul Beast with an academy teacher’s help and absorb its Soul Ring as his second.
• Yu Xiaogang declared the feat impossible, while Lin Yi appeared with one yellow and one purple Soul Ring, overturning the era’s accepted limits.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi cultivating through a profound chessboard-like insight and absorbing Soul Rings far beyond the limits believed possible. Yu Xiaogang struggled to explain Lin Yi’s ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, and Yun Ming challenged him over the danger of Soul Shock.

• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu wondered how Lin Yi had absorbed a thousand-year Second Soul Ring without a Twin Martial Soul or a God's Trial.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi enter Deep Meditation, merge with heaven and earth, then draw the chess game of the world into his meridians, dantian, and acupoints.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized that Lin Yi's Third Soul Ring came from a seven-thousand-year Soul Beast and watched his beliefs about Soul Ring limits collapse.
• Qiangu Dongfeng dismissed Lin Yi's thousand-year Second Soul Ring as unimpressive compared with the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi absorbing a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to explain it to Soul Masters asking for guidance.
• Yu Xiaogang called Lin Yi's success a lucky snowball effect, but Yun Ming mocked him for not knowing that absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring caused Soul Shock.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi’s extraordinary cultivation and a string of rare opportunities, leaving Soul Masters across the continent astonished. After absorbing a fifty-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring and experiencing another epiphany, Lin Yi’s human-body chessboard evolved into a mysterious, world-like form.

• Flender wondered whether Lin Yi’s unusually powerful Soul Rings came from talent or a method, but the Heavenly Screen continued showing scenes of Lin Yi’s transformation.
• Dugu Bo recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as his medicinal field and realized Lin Yi had found an opportunity there.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress identified Lin Yi’s next opportunity as a Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Cavern and considered the value of its Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Yu Xiaogang called Lin Yi a Fallen Soul Master, but Qian Daoliu recognized the sinister carving knife as Gold of Life once its evil power faded.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi absorbing a fifty-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring and entering Deep Meditation for another epiphany.
• Lin Yi’s human-body chessboard reached a limit as silver threads formed a figure that shifted into a chessboard and seemed to merge with the world.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi awakening his Chess Martial Soul a second time, absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his Sixth Soul Ring, and condensing a Soul Core, astonishing Soul Masters across two eras. Tang Hao recognized Lin Yi’s Seventh Soul Ring as Ah Yin’s, while the broadcast ended with Lin Yi displaying an impossible array of red Soul Rings.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao watched in disbelief as Lin Yi fused with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Yun Ming doubted the Heavenly Screen’s images, while Mu Ye recognized Lin Yi’s silver light and shadow as a Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Lin Yi condensed a Soul Core, and Qian Daoliu hoped its method would help Xiao Xue break through to the ninth ring.
• Tang Hao recognized Lin Yi’s Seventh Soul Ring as the Blue Silver Emperor’s and realized Lin Yi had killed Ah Yin.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi surrounded by a heaven-and-earth chessboard as red Soul Rings appeared one after another, horrifying Soul Masters in both eras.

The Heavenly Screen’s display of Lin Yi with only Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings shocked Soul Masters across both eras. Gu Yue realized he had used his Seventh Soul Ring and Martial Soul Avatar to experience cultivation as a Soul Beast, while Lin Yi considered how much to alter Xiao Hongchen and the others’ fates before sensing a strange presence in the sky.

• Qiangu Dongfeng recognized Lin Yi’s all-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings as a method that could undermine the Spirit Ascension Platform and resolved to have the Spirit Pagoda master it.
• Gu Yue inferred that Lin Yi had reversed his human form after gaining his Martial Soul Avatar and experienced a Soul Beast’s cultivation, leaving her uncertain about the boundary between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Bo Saixi, Tang Hao, and others watched Lin Yi’s Soul Rings in disbelief, while Tang San’s newly formed understanding of Soul Ring progression collapsed.
• Lin Yi considered how far to change Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the others’ fates.
• Lin Yi sensed a strange fluctuation, looked toward the sky, and saw a chessboard reflected in his eyes.

Lin Yi realized the Heavenly Screen’s projection of his Spirit Ascension Ritual had gathered a small amount of faith from the Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III eras. Seeing a way forward for his cultivation, he decided his Heaven and Earth Chess Game might reach across time and place pieces in Douluo I.

• Lin Yi traced the faint golden light gathering above him to the Heavenly Screen’s projection of his Spirit Ascension Ritual and recognized it as faith rather than Godhood.
• Lin Yi recalled how the ritual had let him relive his cultivation through his Martial Soul’s perspective, mutate his Soul Rings, and deplete much of his Gold of Life.
• Lin Yi concluded that the projected ritual had earned him faith from both eras, though the Heavenly Screen’s incomplete explanation meant the faith was too weak to condense Godhood.
• Lin Yi decided to draw out Xiao Hongchen’s potential by guiding him toward Spirit Forging, hoping the forging system could advance Soul Master cultivation and earn more faith.
• Lin Yi imagined placing Xiao Hongchen as a piece in his Heaven and Earth Chess Game and using the Heavenly Screen to extend the game across time into Douluo I.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi meditating and then fleeing the Sea God’s attack, before he died and returned through the Heaven and Earth Chess Game with his seven red Soul Rings shattered. The viewers learned that Tang San had sent Lin Yi’s pursuers after he trespassed into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Qiangu Dongfeng accused Yun Ming of defending an enemy of the Sea God.

• Lin Yi decided to wait until the Heavenly Screen stabilized before attempting to move across time and space.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi meditating as he made up the energy shortfall from raising all his Soul Rings to Hundred Thousand Year quality.
• Lin Yi fled a blue-gold figure wielding the Sea God Trident, and viewers on Sea God Island recognized the attacker as the Sea God.
• The scene revealed that Tang San had sent Clear Sky Sect members after Lin Yi for trespassing into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Lin Yi had killed them before Tang San pursued him personally.
• The Sea God pierced Lin Yi, whose body exploded; Lin Yi then returned through the Heaven and Earth Chess Game as his seven red Soul Rings shattered.
• Qian Daoliu and Yun Ming marveled that Lin Yi had escaped a god as a Soul Sage, while Qiangu Dongfeng accused Yun Ming of defending the Sea God’s enemy.

Lin Yi secretly searched Mingdu for talented Soul Masters and gave the young Ji Juechen the meteoric iron that would shape his future as a swordsman. He then overheard a dispute over whether the Sun Moon Empire should wage war, but decided not to interfere with its succession or timing.

• Lin Yi used his concealed spiritual power to search Mingdu and found the sleeping Ji Juechen, whose family’s flying-sword Martial Soul had a history of Soul Engineering.
• Lin Yi placed a piece of meteoric iron beside Ji Juechen’s bed, and Ji Juechen woke to find it and embraced it as his destined sword.
• Lin Yi secretly listened as the Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianran’s father argued over whether to invade the Douluo Three Kingdoms or delay and build the empire’s strength.
• Lin Yi considered interfering in the succession but decided that delaying war would give the Douluo Three Kingdoms time to develop and preserve his plans.

Lin Yi explained why he had avoided changing events that did not affect his growth and why the Heaven and Earth Chess Game was his route to creating his own Godhood after every inheritance path failed. He resurrected in secrecy after surviving the Sea God’s pursuit, while Soul Masters across two eras watched his return.

• Lin Yi decided to change only events that threatened his growth, preserving the original story as an advantage in his Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
• After reaching the limit of his cultivation, Lin Yi failed to receive a Godhood or even a trial from the God of Space, and gave up on inheriting one.
• Lin Yi continued perfecting the Heaven and Earth Chess Game and sensed the birth of a child of fortune, prompting him to begin setting up the game against a God King.
• The Heavenly Screen showed that Lin Yi had escaped the Sea God’s pursuit, and Soul Masters in Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King recognized the feat.
• Lin Yi resurrected in a remote corner of the continent, restored his strength, and concealed his presence behind the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.

The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi recovering from his resurrection before challenging the Evil Emperor for his Eighth Soul Ring. The Evil Emperor’s overwhelming mental attacks killed Lin Yi again, leaving Yun Ming wondering how Lin Yi could possibly defeat him.

• Qian Daoliu recognized the blue-gold figure as the Sea God and was astonished that Lin Yi had survived the deity’s attack.
• Lin Yi rebuilt the foundation consumed by his resurrection through years of cautious cultivation, then chose to hunt the Evil Emperor for his Eighth Soul Ring.
• The Evil Emperor struck Lin Yi with Mental Shock Blast, destroying his Sea of Consciousness and killing him.
• Lin Yi revived by drawing on his prepared foundation and the power of heaven and earth, while his chessboard-like space mended.
• The Evil Emperor attacked again with Mental Ray, and Lin Yi was swallowed by the blow as Yun Ming questioned how he could defeat such a powerful foe.

Lin Yi used the Evil Emperor’s attacks to sever and merge a space around his Heaven and Earth Chessboard, then let the space collapse with the Evil Emperor caught inside. After Lin Yi resurrected at the forest’s edge, dark clouds and thunder gathered over the Evil Demon Forest, leaving Gu Yue to wonder whether he had exploited a loophole.

• The Evil Emperor killed Lin Yi twice, but Lin Yi then blocked another spiritual ray by merging the surrounding space with his Heaven and Earth Chessboard.
• Qian Daoliu deduced that Lin Yi had used the Evil Emperor’s power to separate the space from its original plane and make the chessboard realm absorb some of the damage.
• The Evil Emperor unleashed the Light of Destruction, shattering the chessboard space and killing Lin Yi while being caught in the collapse himself.
• Lin Yi resurrected at the edge of the Evil Demon Forest with his strength nearly restored, though his resurrection and Seventh Soul Rings were badly damaged.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized Lin Yi for challenging an opponent beyond his strength, while Yun Ming watched the scene and questioned whether the battle had truly ended.
• Dark clouds and giant bolts of lightning gathered above the Evil Demon Forest, and Gu Yue remarked that Lin Yi was skilled at exploiting loopholes.

Lin Yi used his death to push the Evil Emperor past 800,000 years of cultivation, then defeated him through heavenly tribulation and began absorbing his Soul Ring before a blue-gold pillar annihilated him. Years later, the Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi alive with two Soul Cores as he began a Soul Hunt for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and demanded its cooperation.

• Lin Yi sacrificed himself three times to push the Evil Emperor over the 800,000-year threshold, triggering heavenly tribulation that destroyed the Evil Emperor.
• Lin Yi connected to the Evil Emperor’s Soul Ring, but a blue-gold pillar struck him during its absorption and annihilated him as the resurrection Soul Ring shattered.
• Soul Masters watching the Heavenly Screen condemned the Sea God’s ambush, while the projection continued and revealed that Lin Yi had resurrected in peak condition.
• Several years later, Lin Yi appeared with two Soul Cores and began his Soul Hunt for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm at the Lake of Life.
• Lin Yi ordered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to cooperate in breaking its seal, and a white-gold pillar rose from the lake as the two joined forces.

Lin Yi forced Tian Meng to break free of the seal and help him escape Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts, threatening him with death unless he sacrificed himself. They used Lin Yi’s Soul Skill to teleport away, while viewers across the continent reacted to the spectacle and Qian Renxue speculated about Tian Meng’s power.

• Lin Yi’s arrival and demand forced Tian Meng to break the seal early and cooperate to escape.
• Lin Yi threatened Tian Meng into sacrificing himself and revealed that all eight of his Soul Rings were blood-red.
• Tian Meng poured his spiritual power into Lin Yi’s Soul Skill, and the two vanished as the eight Soul Rings shattered.
• Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts were left baffled by the sudden escape.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao questioned the Ferocious Beasts’ presence and nature as viewers watched the Heavenly Screen.
• Qian Renxue guessed that Tian Meng’s Soul Ring would give Lin Yi nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

After using Spatial Teleportation, Lin Yi had Tian Meng sacrifice himself to provide a Million-Year Ninth Soul Ring, and he survived the dangerous absorption by sealing away its excess origin. The Heavenly Screen revealed the ring’s true nature to Soul Masters across eras, while Yu Xiaogang’s dismissive comment drew widespread scorn and made Tang San question his choice of teacher.

• Lin Yi arrived with Tian Meng in a scarlet valley and urged him to sacrifice himself despite his shattered Soul Rings.
• Tian Meng sacrificed himself as a Spiritual Soul Ring, forming a white-gold ring with ten golden patterns around Lin Yi.
• As Lin Yi’s body began to collapse under the Million-Year Soul Ring’s pressure, he told Tian Meng to seal away the excess origin, and the absorption healed and reforged him over three days.
• Qian Renxue and Soul Masters across the continent recognized that Lin Yi had gained a Million-Year Ninth Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the white-gold ring was the weakest kind of Million-Year Soul Ring, and an anonymous Soul Master publicly mocked him for never absorbing even a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San watched the attacks on Yu Xiaogang and began questioning whether taking him as his teacher had been the right choice.

Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang as his teacher for the theoretical knowledge, despite doubts about his expertise, and vowed revenge on Yun Ming for insulting him. Lin Yi completed his Ninth Soul Ring and discussed using Tian Meng’s sealed foundation to strengthen his other rings, but Tian Meng balked at giving up his origin.

• Tang San decided that Yu Xiaogang’s knowledge was worth learning, while planning to seek objective information elsewhere about Soul Rings and Soul Shock.
• Tang San remembered Yun Ming’s insult and swore that he had chosen a path to death.
• Lin Yi completed his Ninth Soul Ring, gained the title Chess God Douluo, and communicated with Tian Meng about releasing his sealed foundation to strengthen his other Soul Rings.
• Lin Yi calculated that his Eighth Soul Ring needed more foundation to reach a million years, and Tian Meng resisted giving away his Soul Ring origin.

Lin Yi raised his Eighth Soul Ring to a genuine golden million-year ring while Tian Meng learned that Lin Yi had enough Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to restore his foundation. The Heavenly Screen showed Tian Meng eagerly eating the marrow, but the chapter left the ring’s further changes unexplained.

• Tian Meng chose to regard the Evil Emperor’s million-year ring as one he had helped create, then learned Lin Yi had more than forty pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to restore his foundation.
• Viewers across Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III watched Lin Yi stand with eight red Soul Rings and one platinum Soul Ring, awed by his presence.
• Golden patterns spread across Lin Yi’s Eighth Soul Ring until it became a pure golden million-year ring, shocking the world.
• Viewers mocked Yu Xiaogang over the ring’s grade, and Yu Xiaogang refused to explain what a pure golden Soul Ring meant.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi bring out Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and Tian Meng appeared and eagerly ate a piece.

Lin Yi used Tian Meng’s ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow reserves to replenish the Evil Emperor’s Soul Ring while keeping his Ninth Soul Ring pure as a safeguard. The Heavenly Screen then showed Lin Yi searching for Godhood Inheritances, leaving Qian Daoliu alarmed by the prospect that the revelations could spark a dangerous rush to find them.

• Lin Yi had Tian Meng absorb ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and transfer its reserves into the Evil Emperor’s Soul Ring to strengthen his control over it.
• Lin Yi chose not to distribute Tian Meng’s reserves among his other Soul Rings, preserving his Ninth Soul Ring as a pure fallback in case the others were corrupted.
• After Tian Meng consumed more than thirty pieces of profound ice marrow, Lin Yi’s Ninth Soul Ring shone with fused platinum-gold radiance, marking the end of the hunt shown on the Heavenly Screen.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi traveling in search of Godhood Inheritances, and Qian Daoliu realized that many such inheritances existed across Douluo Continent.
• Qian Daoliu feared that public knowledge of Godhood Inheritances would drive Soul Masters to seek them and wondered whether someone with a genuine God's Trial might emerge.

Lin Yi searched across the continent for divine inheritances, revealing their locations to the Soul Master World while being rejected by them. As the scenes stirred Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Tang Hao, and Tang San, Lin Yi left Mingdu to recruit and train Soul Engineers for the Sun Moon Empire.

• Lin Yi searched the continent's divine inheritance sites, entered the God of Fire's site, and emerged with a new energy fluctuation after being rejected.
• Qian Daoliu decided to bring Qian Renxue back and train her to inherit the Angel God as soon as possible.
• Bibi Dong blamed the Rakshasa God's inheritance for her misfortunes, while Tang Hao resolved to train Tang San to inherit a god's position instead of relying on his own revenge.
• Tang San wondered which divine inheritance might suit him, then was suddenly transported to another part of Nuoding Academy and found Tang Hao there.
• Lin Yi left Mingdu to recruit high-level Soul Engineers, focusing on Level 9 Soul Engineers and promising Level 8 Soul Engineers he could help advance.