Chapter Summaries

Toji brutally carved into Niu Tian, then stopped the Titan Giant Ape's desperate punch with one hand and tore off his left arm. The brothers remained at Toji's mercy as the battle continued on shattered Clear Sky Peak.

• Toji slashed Niu Tian's neck and carved through his scales, flesh, and bones as Niu Tian writhed in agony.
• The Titan Giant Ape pulled himself from the collapsing mountain and attacked Toji with a final, strength-burning punch to save his brother.
• Toji caught the Titan Giant Ape's punch with one hand and crushed the bones in his fist.
• Toji yanked the Titan Giant Ape forward and tore his left arm from the shoulder.

Toji mutilated the Titan Giant Ape and effortlessly turned aside Niu Tian’s desperate counterattack. He then began brutally pounding the fallen ape, leaving it close to death beneath a torrent of golden blood.

• Toji tore off the Titan Giant Ape’s remaining arm and laughed as it crashed to the ground.
• Niu Tian burned through his remaining strength and attacked Toji in a desperate rage.
• Toji casually slapped Niu Tian’s claw aside, sending him crashing through mountain peaks.
• Toji climbed onto the Titan Giant Ape’s chest and battered its body and head with a relentless series of punches.

Toji taunted Tai Tan into withdrawing the divine power that briefly revived him, then used the Chain of a Thousand Miles to tear off his remaining forelimb. Tai Tan lay helpless and near death as Toji brought out his blood-enriched blade again.

• Tai Tan's bloodline awakened divine power, but Toji warned him that using it could expose him to the God Realm Committee and eternal imprisonment.
• Tai Tan withdrew the golden light in fear and made a final desperate lunge at Toji, who dodged it easily.
• Toji used the Chain of a Thousand Miles to bind Tai Tan's left forelimb and rip it off with his strength.
• Tai Tan collapsed in agony while Niu Tian struggled helplessly to rise from the ruins.
• Toji recalled the chain, put it away, and drew his dark-red blade, now gleaming with the golden divine blood it had absorbed.

Toji cleaved the Titan Giant Ape Er Ming in two, driving Niu Tian into grief and fury. Niu Tian burned his life and soul to enter the Pseudogod Realm and attacked Toji, who met the blow with a fist blazing with golden blood Qi.

• Toji raised his great blade and split the Titan Giant Ape in two with a single stroke.
• Niu Tian saw Er Ming fall and focused all his grief and fury on taking revenge on Toji.
• Niu Tian burned his Soul Power, life, and soul origin to force his way into the Pseudogod Realm.
• Niu Tian attacked Toji with a claw imbued with spatial confinement and destructive energy.
• Toji drove his great blade into the ground, unleashed golden blood Qi, and punched Niu Tian’s claw head-on.

Toji defeated Niu Tian and killed the Sky Azure Bull Python with a single saber stroke, after already killing Tai Tan. The two divine beasts’ remains dissolved into light, leaving Toji alone amid the blood-soaked former grounds of the Clear Sky Sect.

• Toji shattered Niu Tian’s spatial confinement and punched through his claw, overwhelming his false god power.
• Toji struck Niu Tian again and sent his wounded body crashing beside Tai Tan’s remains.
• Toji teleported onto the Sky Azure Bull Python’s head and cleaved its body from head to tail with his great saber.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python split in two and died, sharing Tai Tan’s fate.
• Light gathered above the beasts’ corpses as their peaceful apparitions appeared to bid farewell to the land and Toji.
• The apparitions and remains dissolved into light, leaving divine blood and a lingering sacred presence across the land.

Toji returned to the Divine Realm’s attention after massacring the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang San chose Huo Yuhao as a pawn against him. Years later, Toji reached Level 98 and learned that the Sun Moon Empire had conquered Heaven Dou and Dou Ling, while Huo Yuhao had saved Star Luo.

• Toji left the ruined Clear Sky Peak after killing Tai Tan and Niu Tian, then reached Level 98.
• Tang San rescued the faint remnants of Tai Tan and Niu Tian and decided to use Huo Yuhao against Toji.
• Toji returned to the Body Sect and learned that its sect master had been badly wounded while covering the retreat after Heaven Dou fell.
• A disciple told Toji that the Sun Moon Empire had also conquered Dou Ling and that Star Luo was the continent’s last surviving empire.
• The disciple revealed that Huo Yuhao had stopped the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion of Star Luo by freezing more than seventy percent of its Soul Tools.

Toji learned of Huo Yuhao’s overwhelming strength and left for the Sun Moon Empire after receiving Ju Zi’s urgent summons, intending to use Huo Yuhao as the final test before his ascent to godhood. At the rebuilt Shrek site, Huo Yuhao’s peaceful moment with Tang Wutong was interrupted when a vast will invaded his soul.

• A disciple told Toji that Huo Yuhao had routed the Sun Moon Empire’s army and gravely injured Kong Deming, leading Toji to see him as the key to breaking through his Level 99 bottleneck.
• Di Qiu'er and Zhang Lexuan reunited with Toji and told him the continent was in crisis and Ju Zi urgently wanted him to come to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Toji asked them to care for Du Busi, then set off for Mingdu with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, declaring that Huo Yuhao would be his final and most difficult stepping stone to godhood.
• At the ruins of Shrek City, Huo Yuhao shared roasted Soul Beast meat with Tang Wutong while the rebuilt settlement took shape around them.
• A powerful will pierced space and entered Huo Yuhao’s soul, leaving him frozen as colored runes appeared in his eyes.

The God of Emotion ordered Huo Yuhao to defeat and kill Toji as the trial for inheriting the Godhood of Emotion. Huo Yuhao accepted the challenge with Tang Wutong’s support, while the chapter ended by revealing that Kong Deming lay on life support in the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial palace.

• The God of Emotion summoned Huo Yuhao and declared that he must prove himself the world’s strongest to inherit the Godhood of Emotion.
• The God of Emotion ordered Huo Yuhao to kill Toji and return with his head.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Tang Wutong and told her they had a new opponent; she recognized that he meant Toji and promised to face the challenge with him.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to confront Toji, despite his fear and the weight of fighting his former idol.
• The story shifted to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial palace, where Kong Deming lay on a life-support bed in a guarded medical chamber.

Toji appeared in Ju Zi’s room while Kong Deming lay gravely ill, and his return shattered Ju Zi’s composure with relief and longing. Ju Zi kissed Toji passionately, leaving the urgent matter she had mentioned in her letter unexplained.

• Toji bypassed the room’s defenses and appeared beside the bed where Kong Deming lay gravely injured.
• Ju Zi recognized Toji, broke down in tears, and rushed into his arms.
• Ju Zi clung to Toji and kissed him fiercely, and he returned her kiss.
• After they parted, Toji teased Ju Zi about whether the kiss was the urgent matter she had written about.

Ju Zi reunited with Toji and took him to her bedchamber, then later asked him to help save Kong Deming, whose spirit and body had been shattered by Huo Yuhao. Toji began treating Kong Deming by placing his hand over the old man's chest.

• Ju Zi clung to Toji and asked him to carry her to her bedchamber, where they shared an intimate moment.
• Later, Ju Zi struggled to stand, and Toji caught and supported her as she returned to Kong Deming's hospital room.
• Ju Zi explained that Huo Yuhao had destroyed Kong Deming's rank-ten Silver Moon Divine Light Shield with one strike, badly damaging his Spiritual Origin and Soul Core.
• Ju Zi told Toji that Kong Deming had woken twice, called the defeat impossible, and then fallen unconscious again.
• Toji reassured Ju Zi, approached Kong Deming's life-support pod, and placed his hand over the old man's chest.

Toji used his vitality and words to revive Kong Deming, convincing him that his Soul Tool path had not been wrong and claiming he could prove its potential himself. Ju Zi identified Toji as the Heavenly Tyrant, and Kong Deming recognized him from a top-secret file.

• Toji poured his Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life's Watch's vitality into Kong Deming to heal his body and spirit.
• Toji told Kong Deming that his defeat by Huo Yuhao came from his limited cultivation, not from the failure of the Soul Tool path.
• Kong Deming awoke, rekindled by Toji's words, and demanded to know who could wield Soul Tools to defeat Huo Yuhao.
• Toji said he could prove it, and Kong Deming wondered why Toji's face seemed familiar.
• Ju Zi introduced Toji as the Heavenly Tyrant who had killed Xu Tianran and saved the empire from tyranny.
• Kong Deming recognized Toji from a top-secret file and reacted with shock and bitter realization.

Toji convinced Kong Deming to upgrade four Soul Tools to Level 10 so he could use them to defeat Huo Yuhao and prove the power of Soul Tools. After Kong Deming agreed, Toji’s Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life’s Watch restored him enough to leave his life-support pod and begin work in his laboratory.

• Kong Deming realized Ju Zi had used him to secure the throne and that Toji was a deterrent against his power.
• Toji asked Kong Deming to upgrade four of his Soul Tools to Level 10, declaring that he would use them to kill Huo Yuhao before the world.
• Kong Deming enthusiastically agreed to devote his knowledge and the empire’s resources to forging Toji a set of Level 10 Soul Guidance armaments.
• Toji’s Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life’s Watch rapidly restored Kong Deming, who left his life-support pod after three days and returned to his laboratory.
• Kong Deming prepared to work on Toji’s Chain of a Thousand Miles, Playful Cloud, Soul Liberation Blade, and fourth Soul Tool.

Toji explained to Kong Deming why he supported the Sun Moon Empire rather than the Heaven Dou Empire, arguing that unification and technological progress mattered more than national loyalty. He then asked Kong Deming to help upgrade the Soul Liberation Blade into something closer to a divine artifact.

• Kong Deming discovered that Toji's Soul Tools were powered by Bloodline Power and learned their cores self-destructed to prevent anyone from studying them.
• Kong Deming asked why Toji, despite his ties to the Heaven Dou Empire and the Body Sect, supported the Sun Moon Empire and had stayed out of previous wars.
• Toji said he felt no loyalty to the Heaven Dou Empire and believed the Sun Moon Empire had a better chance of unifying the continent and advancing Soul Guidance Technology.
• Toji explained that the Soul Liberation Blade had absorbed his Bloodline Power and the life essence of powerful beings, including divine beasts.
• Toji asked Kong Deming to help modify the Soul Liberation Blade so it could become more versatile and approach the level of a true divine artifact.

Kong Deming agreed to upgrade Toji’s weapons into peak Level 10 masterpieces, while Ju Zi told Toji that Huo Yuhao’s strength was turning the war against the Sun Moon Empire. Toji teased Ju Zi about his own power and kissed her in the imperial study.

• Kong Deming examined the Soul Liberation Blade and promised to upgrade it and three other Soul Tools into weapons capable of slaying gods.
• Ju Zi reviewed the Star Luo Empire’s advances and told Toji that Huo Yuhao had turned the tide of the war.
• Ju Zi said she trusted Toji to be stronger than Huo Yuhao despite Huo Yuhao’s Level 99 cultivation.
• Toji held Ju Zi’s hand and lifted her chin as she argued that his fighting strength had little to do with his Level 98 rank.
• Toji stopped pretending to be uncertain and kissed Ju Zi.

Toji and Ju Zi gave in to their passion in the imperial study. At the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the Sun Moon Empire withdrew after Huo Yuhao turned the battle around, and Dai Hao thanked him for saving the Star Luo Empire.

• Toji kissed Ju Zi and carried her to the imperial couch, where they became intimate.
• The Sun Moon Empire's army dismantled its Soul Tool arrays and withdrew from the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao watched the retreat from the fortress tower beside Tang Wutong.
• Dai Hao thanked Huo Yuhao for defeating the enemy and recovering the lost territory, while Huo Yuhao looked at him with complicated emotions.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong met Emperor Xu Jiawei after helping defend Star Luo, and Huo Yuhao was appointed the empire’s Nation-Protecting Imperial Preceptor. He accepted the honor as a means to protect those he cared for, leaving Star Luo’s rulers hopeful that he would help the empire resist the Sun Moon Empire.

• Tang Wutong eased the tension between Huo Yuhao and Dai Hao by praising Star Luo’s soldiers for their bravery.
• An imperial guard summoned Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong to the palace, where Xu Jiawei thanked them for saving Star Luo.
• Xu Jiawei bestowed on Huo Yuhao the title of Nation-Protecting Imperial Preceptor, authority equal to a regent, a fief, a share of imperial revenue, and access to the treasury.
• Huo Yuhao said that titles and status mattered less to him than protecting his people and preserving his path, but accepted Xu Jiawei’s trust.
• The ministers congratulated Huo Yuhao, and Star Luo’s leaders took hope from his appointment.

Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Jiawei’s appointment as imperial preceptor, giving the Star Luo Empire hope while preparing for his final battle. In Mingdu, Kong Deming spent six months transforming Toji’s Soul Tools with his Bloodline Power and revealed their new abilities, leaving two weapons still to be explained.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Jiawei’s appointment as imperial preceptor and resolved to prepare himself for the battle ahead.
• Kong Deming spent half a year reforging four Soul Tools in the Sun Moon Empire’s core laboratory.
• Kong Deming showed Ju Zi and Toji the transformed Playful Cloud, whose power increased with the wielder’s strength.
• Kong Deming explained that the Chain of a Thousand Miles could connect to other Soul Tools and extend its attacks across theoretically infinite distances.
• Kong Deming revealed that the Soul Liberation Blade could cut through defenses and tear apart souls.

Kong Deming completed four Level 10 Soul Tool armaments for Toji, including the Inverted Spear of Heaven, and Toji set his sights on Huo Yuhao. On the Subduing Dragon Plain, Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong pushed back the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, but Huo Yuhao sensed an unfamiliar, overwhelming Bloodline Power as he prepared to attack.

• Kong Deming explained that the Inverted Spear of Heaven could interrupt and annihilate active energy-based skills and effects.
• Kong Deming credited Toji’s Bloodline Power with making his ultimate Soul Tools possible, while Toji inspected the finished armaments and vowed to defeat Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong held back the Sun Moon Empire’s army and prepared to break through its final defensive perimeter.
• Huo Yuhao detected a vast, ferocious Bloodline Power at the edge of his Spiritual Power perception as he gathered Ultimate Ice for an attack.

Toji ambushed Huo Yuhao with the Blade of Life's Watch, nearly killing him, and Tang Wutong retaliated with the Golden Dragon Spear. Toji survived her attack and destroyed her golden dragon, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Toji appeared behind Huo Yuhao and stabbed him through the spot where his heart had been with the Blade of Life's Watch.
• Huo Yuhao shifted his vital organs to survive, then struck Toji with a blast of Spiritual Power.
• Tang Wutong summoned the Golden Dragon Spear and sent a golden dragon after Toji, slamming him into the ground.
• Huo Yuhao realized Toji had survived Tang Wutong's attack as dark red blade lights erupted from the dust.
• Toji shredded Tang Wutong's golden dragon and stood amid its golden energy, resting the Soul Liberation Blade on his shoulder.

Toji wounded Huo Yuhao with a surprise attack, lifting the Sun Moon Empire’s morale and frightening the Star Luo Empire’s troops. Though injured, Huo Yuhao insisted on facing Toji alone as a trial of strength and a step toward ascending to the Divine Realm.

• Toji emerged from the smoke after piercing Huo Yuhao’s chest with his emerald blade and tearing apart the golden dragon.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s soldiers cheered Toji’s attack and renewed their offensive, while the Star Luo Empire’s soldiers panicked at Huo Yuhao’s injury.
• Marshal Dai Hao recognized that Huo Yuhao had met a formidable opponent in Toji.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Wutong to leave Toji to him, explaining that he had moved his heart to limit the damage and that his wound was minor.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Toji to a contest of strength and skill with his God Level Spiritual Power, and Tang Wutong understood he needed to face the trial alone.