Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi sensed a powerful new wave of faith connected to his plans to establish Heaven and Earth Chess Games, and concluded that it came from Douluo I. He decided to influence that era without taking either side, leaving himself as a witness while he continued to play for godhood in Douluo II.

• Lin Yi sensed that his Heaven and Earth Chess Game had been reinforced by a new wave of faith tied to his Martial Soul and his plans to establish chess games across time.
• Lin Yi traced the new faith to Douluo I, where the Heavenly Screen had likely shown him searching for divine inheritances.
• Lin Yi realized that the Heavenly Screen's projections had let events in Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King affect him through faith.
• Lin Yi decided to pay attention to both eras and make arrangements there, despite not knowing how far their plots had changed.
• Lin Yi resolved to remain a witness in Douluo I rather than join either side, while continuing to pursue godhood and oppose Tang San in Douluo II.

Lin Yi continued searching for a Godhood Inheritance, while Yun Ming watched the Heavenly Screen and reflected on the vanished Divine Realm. Lin Yi reached level ninety-nine but found every path to godhood blocked, leaving people in both eras to suspect the Sea God had turned the deities against him.

• Lin Yi considered ways to influence Douluo I, including visiting Shrek Academy, then set off again.
• Yun Ming watched Lin Yi's cultivation and wondered whether the Heavenly Screen showed a simulation or a person from the future.
• Yun Ming reflected on the lost Divine Realm and concluded that its absence had left him striving to create a new one.
• Lin Yi reached level ninety-nine while searching for a Godhood Inheritance, opening passages to other planes and even hunting a demon lord.
• Lin Yi failed to gain recognition from any deity, and viewers in both eras blamed the Sea God for blocking his path to godhood.

The Heavenly Screen’s prologue fueled outrage across two eras as viewers suspected the Sea God had blocked Soul Masters from inheriting godhoods. Lin Yi reached Qiankun Asking Love Valley but turned away from the God of Love’s inheritance, and the Heaven and Earth Chess Game appeared as the main event began.

• Viewers condemned the Sea God for allegedly preventing Soul Masters from inheriting godhoods, while Yun Ming questioned whether the accusation was true.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi facing the mist-shrouded Qiankun Asking Love Valley and identified it as the place where the God of Love fell.
• Yun Ming recognized the valley and wondered whether Lin Yi had come seeking the God of Love’s inheritance.
• Lin Yi sighed, turned away from the valley, and abandoned the inheritance within it.
• A phantom chess game formed behind Lin Yi as the golden words “Heaven and Earth Chess Game” appeared, signaling the main event’s start.

As Lin Yi began the Heaven and Earth Chess Game, viewers in multiple eras tried to understand his strategy. The chapter revealed that he had chosen the Sun Moon Empire as his first piece, while Qian Daoliu noticed that its capital was built around Soul Tools.

• Yun Ming and Qian Daoliu recognized Lin Yi's game as a challenge against a God King and hoped he would succeed.
• Lin Yi adjusted the Heavenly Screen so its livestream could be delayed before showing his current actions in real time.
• Yun Ming saw Lin Yi arrive in Mingdu and realized he had chosen the Sun Moon Empire, whose eventual unification seemed inevitable.
• Douluo I viewers argued with Yu Xiaogang after he disparaged blacksmiths and their craft.
• Qian Daoliu observed the metal buildings, neon lights, and Soul Tool shops in the city and suspected it had been built with Soul Tools.

Qian Daoliu realized that Lin Yi's future era had mass-produced Soul Tools and possibly an entirely new Soul Engineer system that could overturn the continent's power balance. The Heavenly Screen showed Lin Yi replacing Ji Juechen's iron sword with Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron, while Yu Xiaogang held back his judgment and waited to see what Ji Juechen would achieve.

• Qian Daoliu concluded that the abundance of Soul Tools in Mingdu pointed to a future Soul Engineer inheritance and worried that it would transform the continent's balance of power.
• The Heavenly Screen shifted to Lin Yi's Heaven and Earth Chess Game and identified Xiao Hongchen as not yet awakened.
• Lin Yi visited the Ji Clan and placed a piece of pitch-black Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron in the sleeping Ji Juechen's arms in place of his iron sword.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Ji Juechen had an Iron Sword Martial Soul, innate Soul Power level 3, and devotion to the sword.
• Yu Xiaogang resisted calling Ji Juechen a failure and decided to wait for time to prove his judgment.

The Heavenly Screen stopped broadcasting after showing Lin Yi leave Ji Juechen with the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron, and Soul Masters across the continent began digesting what they had seen. At Shrek Academy, Flender soothed Lu Qibin over Yu Xiaogang’s insult to Chess Martial Souls, while Yu Xiaogang found Tang San in Nuoding City; Lin Yi then shut off the livestream because the screen was labeling people he wanted to keep as pieces in his plans.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin noticed Ji Juechen’s sword obsession and praised his perfectly clear sword heart before the Heavenly Screen stopped broadcasting.
• Lu Qibin confronted Flender over Yu Xiaogang calling Chess Martial Souls Trash Martial Souls, and Flender explained that Yu Xiaogang belittled others out of jealousy.
• Flender wrote to Yu Xiaogang, urging him to come to Shrek Academy and offering to help him reunite with Liu Erlong if he faced trouble.
• Yu Xiaogang searched for Tang San around Dorm Seven, the cafeteria, and the training grounds before Tang San appeared behind him and addressed him as Teacher.
• Lin Yi turned off the Heavenly Screen’s livestream because it kept labeling people he was watching and might disrupt his plans for Douluo I.

Lin Yi speculated that the Heavenly Screen labeled people he intended to support as pieces in the Heaven and Earth Chess Game, then traveled to South Abyss City to find a promising Soul Engineer. He began his first delayed livestream to test the theory, and the broadcast resumed with him entering the imperial city after leaving the Ji Clan.

• Lin Yi wondered whether the Heavenly Screen labeled people he planned to make pieces so viewers could follow the game.
• Lin Yi traveled from Mingdu to South Abyss City and searched the city for a suitable person to support.
• Lin Yi chose Wang Xin of the Wang Family, believing his potential could make him a Level 9 Soul Engineer if he received help.
• Lin Yi started his first delayed livestream and set it to resume from when he had given Ji Juechen the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron sword.
• Viewers in Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King watched the broadcast resume as Lin Yi entered the imperial city after leaving the Ji Clan.

Lin Yi verified that the Heavenly Screen revealed information about people he had placed in the Heaven and Earth Chess Game, then traveled to South Abyss City to approach Wang Xin. He offered Wang Xin a chance to work for him, and Wang Xin appeared tempted by the proposal.

• Lin Yi watched the Heavenly Screen show that neither the Sun Moon Emperor nor Xu Tianran's father had a golden label, while viewers discussed the empire's factions and the history of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Lin Yi sped up the broadcast as he traveled from Mingdu to South Abyss City, where the Heavenly Screen displayed Wang Xin's golden label and confirmed Lin Yi's hypothesis about placed pieces.
• Lin Yi wondered whether Tang San could also sense the Heavenly Screen and enter the chess game, then concluded Tang San would have acted already if he intended to stop him.
• Lin Yi entered the Wang Family's secret chamber and interrupted Wang Xin while he crafted a Level 8 Soul Tool.
• Lin Yi introduced himself as Chess God and asked Wang Xin to work for him, and Wang Xin considered the offer.

Lin Yi recruited Wang Xin to help influence the Sun Moon Empire’s future war and gave him a way to refine his Soul Power despite medicinal toxins. After Lin Yi left, Wang Xin tested the method and discovered that he could cultivate again.

• Wang Xin questioned Lin Yi’s purpose, suspecting he planned to rebel against the empire.
• Lin Yi explained that he wanted to control the pace of the Sun Moon Empire’s future war to unify the continent.
• Lin Yi offered to help Wang Xin advance and revealed his extraordinary Soul Ring Configuration, convincing Wang Xin of his power.
• Lin Yi used black and white Qi to guide Wang Xin’s Soul Power, explaining that meditation would help him expel medicinal toxins over time.
• After Lin Yi vanished, Wang Xin meditated and found that his Soul Power could grow again and was being purified by the black and white Qi.

Wang Xin resolved to strengthen the Wang Family and unite South Abyss City for Lin Yi, who recruited more influential figures and moved on toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Elsewhere, Tang Hao urged Yu Xiaogang to reunite the Golden Iron Triangle and train Tang San quickly, while Qian Daoliu decided to bring Qian Renxue back from Heaven Dou City before the Heavenly Screen exposed her identity.

• Wang Xin accepted that he had to serve Lin Yi and resolved to dominate South Abyss City by bringing its five major forces together.
• Lin Yi recruited key figures in several nearby cities to support Wang Xin in forming a southwestern alliance, then headed toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Tang Hao entrusted Tang San to Yu Xiaogang and ordered him to accelerate the boy’s training, prompting Yu Xiaogang to propose Shrek Academy.
• Tang Hao told Yu Xiaogang to reunite the Golden Iron Triangle so they could train Tang San and keep watch for opportunities revealed by the Heavenly Screen.
• Qian Daoliu asked Golden Crocodile to retrieve Qian Renxue from Heaven Dou City because the Heavenly Screen might expose her impersonation of the crown prince.

Lin Yi marked the Three Ghosts of the Huang Family as his chess pieces, then searched the Star Luo Empire for people he could awaken. He found the gifted but nine-year-old Xiao Huo and gave him Black and White Energies.

• Lin Yi searched the Ming Dou Mountain Range and chose the Three Ghosts of the Huang Family as potential allies.
• Lin Yi sent Black and White Energies into the three brothers, and the Heavenly Screen marked them with golden characters.
• Lin Yi entered the Star Luo Empire and found that most soldiers lacked Martial Souls, so he decided to seek chess pieces in the rear.
• Qian Daoliu wondered whether the Spirit Hall should still establish an empire, then decided to continue the plan until he learned why it fell.
• Lin Yi awakened Martial Souls among villagers in mountain settlements and found Xiao Huo, a nine-year-old with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Lin Yi sent Black and White Energies into Xiao Huo, hoping he could influence the next generation.

Lin Yi surveyed the Dou Ling and Heaven Dou Empires, seeking ways to weaken resistance to the coming political changes, while Qian Daoliu learned that Spirit Hall had played no part in Heaven Dou’s future division. In Nuoding City, Tang Hao mistook the Heavenly Screen’s images for proof that he had destroyed Spirit Hall and urged Yu Xiaogang to prepare for their next move, as Lin Yi headed for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Lin Yi passed through the Dou Ling Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, where he found Soul Tools widely rejected and turned a few Dou Ling nobles.
• Qian Daoliu saw that Heaven Dou’s royal family had no ties to Spirit Hall and realized its empire had been defeated without Spirit Hall causing the division.
• Tang Hao escorted Yu Xiaogang in Nuoding City, where Yu read Flender’s letter about Chess Martial Soul Soul Masters’ hostility toward him.
• Tang Hao took the Heavenly Screen’s absence of Spirit Hall as proof that his revenge had succeeded and pressed Yu Xiaogang to pack his books and materials.
• Lin Yi avoided certain areas of Heaven Dou City and went directly to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Lin Yi arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, revealing that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s flaw had eventually been overcome. The Heavenly Screen’s comments exposed Yun Ming’s connection to Yu Xiaogang and showed that it reached both the past and the future, leaving people in both eras asking how far apart they were.

• Ning Fengzhi saw the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s signboard and realized that a future sect member must have awakened a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Lin Yi studied the signboard and watched the livestream comments to gauge Ning Fengzhi’s reaction and identify which era the broadcast reached.
• Yun Ming realized that the Heavenly Screen was broadcasting to eras both before and after Lin Yi’s, and wondered whether the Yu Xiaogang he had criticized was the historical Grandmaster.
• Qiangu Dongfeng accused Yun Ming of insulting his own ancestor, while Yun Ming privately insisted he had only objected to Yu Xiaogang’s comments.
• People in both eras recognized that the Heavenly Screen linked their times, and someone in Douluo I asked Yun Ming which era he came from and how many years separated them.

Lin Yi discovered that the Heavenly Screen forbade Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King from exchanging certain information, preserving his advantage. He then entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Yuan acknowledged him as the Chess God Douluo and explained why the sect had withdrawn from the world.

• Lin Yi watched the comments and concluded that the Heavenly Screen blocked cross-era discussion of matters such as history, cultivation methods, and the Divine Realm.
• Lin Yi decided that the communication restrictions preserved his information advantage, which he needed to establish Heaven and Earth Chess Games in other eras.
• Lin Yi entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect unseen, startling Ning Yuan as he tended to baby Ning Tian.
• Ning Yuan recognized Lin Yi as the Chess God Douluo and asked why he had come.
• Lin Yi asked Ning Yuan to compare the strength of the Sun Moon Empire and the Douluo Three Kingdoms and to predict the winner of a war.
• Ning Yuan said the Sun Moon Empire would prevail if the conflict dragged on, and Lin Yi concluded that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had withdrawn because it recognized the imbalance between them.

Lin Yi pressured Ning Yuan into sealing the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and warned that it should stay out of the coming war, while offering it a chance to gain influence after unification. Ning Fengzhi realized the Heavenly Screen’s account had also exposed the future sect’s choice to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and Lin Yi inferred the era of the Douluo I world from the sect’s name change.

• Lin Yi revealed his Peerless Douluo pressure and warned Ning Yuan not to interfere when the Sun Moon Empire went to war.
• Ning Yuan released his Martial Soul, which had only seven levels, and then declared that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would seal itself off.
• The Heavenly Screen announced the sect’s closure, and Lin Yi explained that it could still compete for a voice after the continent’s unification if it stayed out of the conflict.
• Ning Fengzhi saw hostile bullet comments about the sect’s choice and realized that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family could view it as abandoning the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Lin Yi left the sect and concluded that its name change had helped him estimate the period of the Douluo I era.

Lin Yi found the Yu Family and used his power to guide young Yu Mengdi, whose Angel Martial Soul had awakened, toward a stronger future. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Screen exposed Qian Renxue’s identity as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden and her impersonation of the Heaven Dou Crown Prince, leaving Ning Fengzhi to place the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on high alert.

• Lin Yi located the Yu Family, traced its Angel Martial Soul lineage, and guided Yu Mengdi with his Black and White Energies.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Renxue had posed as the Heaven Dou Crown Prince, shocking Qian Daoliu and viewers across the continent.
• Xue Ye ordered Qian Renxue killed, but Golden Crocodile arrived and declared that no one could harm Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden.
• Ning Fengzhi faced public accusations that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was colluding with Spirit Hall, then denied the charge and ordered the sect to its highest alert.
• Lin Yi shut down the livestream and concluded that the events were taking place before the Heaven Dou Palace Coup.

Lin Yi returned to the Sunset Forest to harvest the remaining treasures in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before Tang San’s followers could claim them. As the Heavenly Screen revealed the forest’s poisonous miasma, Dugu Bo realized the danger to his hidden medicinal field and rushed there to salvage what he could.

• Lin Yi reasoned that Tang San had blamed the Clear Sky Sect for failing to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then headed back to the Sunset Forest.
• Lin Yi planned to take the remaining heavenly treasures and Immortal Herbs so Tang San’s subordinates could not use them to strengthen themselves.
• Dugu Bo saw the ruined Sunset Forest on the Heavenly Screen and recognized that its poisonous miasma resembled the poison he had laid around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Bullet comments identified Dugu Bo as the source of the miasma, prompting him to hurry from Heaven Dou City to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo suspected that toxins from dead Soul Beasts had worsened the poison and prepared to follow Lin Yi’s example to gather useful herbs before others arrived.

Lin Yi discovered that Tang San had just awakened his Martial Soul in the Douluo I era and decided to use him as a target for the Heaven and Earth Chess Game. Dugu Bo and Tang Hao both reacted to Lin Yi’s words, while Lin Yi planned to alert Spirit Hall to hunt Tang San.

• Lin Yi reached the valley hidden by Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers, and Dugu Bo realized his Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been exposed as Tang San’s treasure ground.
• Dugu Bo and others wondered who Tang San was, while Tang San feared that Lin Yi had identified him and urged Tang Hao to kill anyone who knew his background.
• Lin Yi saw a bullet comment identifying Tang San as a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, and Su Yuntao confirmed he had recently awakened Tang San’s Martial Soul in Holy Soul Village.
• Lin Yi concluded that Tang San was still vulnerable and decided to remotely direct people in Douluo I to hunt him, hoping to influence the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
• Lin Yi considered notifying Spirit Hall and warned himself that Tang San’s Tang Sect Secret Arts could still make him difficult to deal with.

Lin Yi revealed that Tang San had seized the body of Tang Hao’s son and would later monopolize the path to godhood, turning Soul Masters against him. Tang Hao accepted Tang San as his son despite the doubts between them, and the two prepared to flee while Yu Xiaogang hesitated over whether to follow.

• Lin Yi revealed Tang San’s origins and future actions, prompting Soul Masters across the continent to want him dead.
• Tang Hao questioned Tang San’s identity, and Tang San admitted he had survived as an adult-minded outsider after receiving no care from his father.
• Tang Hao accepted Tang San as his son and embraced him, but Tang San felt a chill and a new rift between them.
• Tang San warned Tang Hao that they needed to flee because the Soul Master World now regarded them as enemies.
• Yu Xiaogang hesitated over whether to join Tang Hao and Tang San, while Tang San noticed his uncertainty.

Tang San nearly acted against Yu Xiaogang after suspecting his teacher had betrayed him, but Tang Hao stopped him and the three fled Nuoding City. Meanwhile, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect weighed the danger of helping Tang San, while Lin Yi judged that his revelations had damaged Tang San’s standing but had not yet brought him down.

• Tang San’s resentment toward Yu Xiaogang grew into killing intent, but Tang Hao stopped him to prevent him from becoming known as a teacher-killer and because Yu Xiaogang could help protect and teach him.
• Yu Xiaogang decided Tang San was in danger and urged him and Tang Hao to leave Nuoding City; as they departed, many people in the city died for unknown reasons.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi rejected contacting Tang San because association with him could damage the sect’s reputation and business.
• At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao argued that Tang San’s potential to become the Sea God gave the sect a reason to help him, but the elders worried that supporting him would put the whole sect at risk.
• Lin Yi watched the Heavenly Screen’s hostile comments about Tang San and concluded that his revelations had stirred up trouble but would not be enough by themselves to defeat Tang San.