Chapter Summaries

Su Ming used his accumulated Vow Power to deploy a Heavenly Screen that concealed the Douluo Continent from the Divine Realm and broadcast rankings across the world. The first ranking began to appear, leaving living beings across the continent stunned by the announcement of the Strongest Human Monologue Ranking.

• At the Rose Hotel, Tang San fought Dai Mubai over a room while Su Ming considered his plans for spending his accumulated Vow Power.
• Su Ming deployed the Heavenly Screen, using it to block the Divine Realm’s perception and project images across the Douluo Plane.
• Su Ming, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Dai Mubai left the hotel to look at the vast screen in the sky.
• The Heavenly Screen announced that those who made its rankings would receive rewards.
• Su Ming instructed his assistant to show the first ranking, and the screen announced the rules for the ten-place Strongest Human Monologue Ranking.

The appearance of the Heaven Ranking stirred powerful figures and factions across the Douluo Continent, each wondering who would be named and what the list meant. In Suotuo City, Su Ming silently drew in a growing flow of Vow Power as the screen began to reveal its first entry.

• Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, and the Heaven Dou Academy elders discussed the mysterious ranking and its possible impact on the empire.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong considered the ranking’s source and wondered where they would place.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to watch for people named on the list, while Qian Daoliu, Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Xiao each wondered whether they or their elders would rank.
• The Slaughter City's ruler, the Star Dou Great Forest’s beasts, the Far North’s Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and Bo Saixi watched the screen and reacted to its appearance.
• Su Ming watched the screen with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai as new Vow Power flowed to him from across the continent.
• The golden writing on the screen began to change, and people across the continent waited for the first name.

Qian Daoliu ranked tenth on the Strongest Human Monologue Ranking, shocking powerful Soul Masters across Douluo Continent. He accepted the result with growing excitement, unaware that he had badly underestimated the strength of those ranked above him.

• The sky screen announced Qian Daoliu as tenth, prompting Chen Xin to doubt his own chances of ranking.
• Qian Renxue rejected her grandfather’s placement as a bogus ranking before wondering who else would appear.
• Yu Yuanzhen recalled Qian Daoliu’s reputation and felt embarrassed about his earlier boasts.
• Bo Saixi was surprised by Qian Daoliu’s rank and wondered where she would place, then thought of Tang Chen.
• People across the continent discussed Qian Daoliu’s fearsome past, while Qian Daoliu accepted tenth place and looked forward to testing the experts ranked above him.
• Qian Daoliu assumed everyone above him was a Peerless Douluo and that no one could have reached godhood.

The sky screen revealed Qian Daoliu’s memories of the Six-Winged Angel’s level twenty Innate Soul Power and his early cultivation, while Mu En and Yu Xiaogang reaffirmed their resolve to overcome poor aptitude. Qian Daoliu’s recollections then turned to his rival Tang Chen, whose absence the Clear Sky Sect elders lamented.

• The sky screen revealed that the Qian Family’s Six-Winged Angel awakened with level twenty Innate Soul Power, shocking people across the continent.
• Mu En despaired at the gulf between his own half-level Innate Soul Power and the Qian Family’s talent, but Yu Xiaogang encouraged him to keep pursuing cultivation.
• Qian Daoliu recalled devoting himself to cultivation, leaving Spirit Hall to seek battle and hardship, and believing he could end the continent’s conflicts.
• Qian Daoliu remembered becoming renowned and undefeated among his peers before learning of Tang Chen, whom he regarded as his equal and superior in strength.
• Clear Sky Sect elders mourned Tang Chen’s disappearance and blamed his absence for the sect’s defeat and forced seclusion.

The Heavenly Screen revealed how Tang Chen defeated Qian Daoliu in their youth, then became his rival and friend. As Qian Renxue asked Ci Xue Douluo to explain their history, Qian Daoliu recalled returning to Spirit Hall and learning its greatest secret.

• Tang Hao watched the Heavenly Screen praise Tang Chen, then killed a ten-thousand-year Serpent Tiger that attacked him in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Hao wondered whether Su Ming could obtain a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring for his fourth ring as he continued searching for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Qian Daoliu remembered how Tang Chen’s rivalry had pushed him to improve, though he regretted never surpassing him and resented that Bo Saixi had loved Tang Chen.
• Qian Renxue learned from Ci Xue Douluo that Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu had been known as the twin peaks of the Soul Master World, and asked to hear more.
• Qian Daoliu recalled overcoming the shock of his first defeat, fighting Tang Chen again, and becoming both his friend and foe.
• Qian Daoliu said he and Tang Chen later returned to their respective homes, and that he gained access to Spirit Hall’s core and its greatest secret.

Qian Daoliu revealed that the Angel God existed and that the Qian Family guarded her inheritance, shocking the continent and intensifying fears about Spirit Hall’s power. Ning Fengzhi ordered extra protection for Ning Rongrong as the revelation left the continent divided and wary.

• Ning Fengzhi feared the Heavenly Screen would give Spirit Hall more influence by revealing its connection to a god.
• Demon Subduing Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo debated whether the revelation would cause trouble or strengthen Spirit Hall, while Qian Daoliu watched silently.
• Sea Delusion Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo condemned Spirit Hall and declared Sea God Island would defeat it again, while Bo Saixi wondered why the Sea God had sent no oracle.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that the Angel God’s inheritance had been guarded by the Qian Family and that he had received the Angel Eight Trials, not the Nine Trials needed to have a chance at godhood.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered his Soul Masters to send more people to protect Ning Rongrong in secret.

The Heavenly Screen revealed Qian Daoliu’s account of his rivalry with Tang Chen, their rise as Peerless Douluo, and Spirit Hall’s dominance. As the account ended, observers concluded that the current Soul Master World was weaker than the era of the Two Peaks.

• Yu Xiaogang grew excited at the revelation of gods, while Bo Saixi reflected on her limits and her feelings for Tang Chen.
• Ming You became interested in the gods as new prey, while Qian Renxue took pride in her family’s mission and Bibi Dong plotted to inherit the Rakshasa God’s position and destroy the continent.
• The Heavenly Screen recounted how Qian Daoliu became Spirit Hall’s adjudication elder, repeatedly competed with Tang Chen, and recognized Tang Chen’s greater potential to reach level one hundred.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen both reached Soul Power Level ninety-nine and became known as the Two Peaks of the Soul Master World.
• With Qian Daoliu and his son leading Spirit Hall, the organization surpassed the empires and Clear Sky Sect before Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen retired.
• Listeners noted that few people remembered Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen and judged the current era inferior because it had no Peerless Douluo.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin reflected on his father’s defeat by Qian Daoliu and found hope in his young disciple Ji Juechen, whom he believed could reach the heights he could not. The chapter left Ji Juechen training under Chen Xin’s guidance, with Ning Fengzhi expecting him and Gu He to bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect renewed glory.

• Chen Xin watched Qian Daoliu display his might and remembered how Qian Daoliu had killed his father, Chen Jianjun, after a hard-fought challenge.
• Chen Xin recalled meeting Ji Juechen, a sword-obsessed boy from the West Li Stone Kingdom, near Giant Sword Mountain three years earlier.
• Ji Juechen had traveled alone to the Douluo Continent, reached level twenty-five at age twelve, and chosen Soul Rings that increased his Soul Power instead of granting other Soul Skills.
• Chen Xin had introduced himself as a level ninety-six Titled Douluo and asked Ji Juechen to become his successor, and Ji Juechen had agreed while continuing to swing his sword.
• Chen Xin later told Ning Fengzhi about Ji Juechen, and Ning Fengzhi predicted that Ji Juechen and Gu He could become two Douluo serving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

The Heavenly Screen revealed how Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen investigated Sea God Island after Spirit Hall’s disastrous defeat, and Qian Daoliu suspected the island held a divine inheritance. Across the continent, people grew eager to seek the Sea God’s blessing, while Su Ming warned Xiao Wu that reaching the island would not be easy.

• The continent reacted to the revelation that Spirit Hall had lost thousands of people and two Titled Douluo in its failed expedition to Sea God Island.
• Sea Spear Douluo and the other Sacred Pillar Guardians angrily objected to Spirit Hall calling their home Devil Island, unaware that Spirit Hall greatly surpassed them in strength.
• Qian Daoliu recounted that he and Tang Chen questioned coastal residents, learned of Sea God Island’s trials and lifelong restrictions, and concluded that the Sea God stood behind its inheritance.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Mu En to pursue the Sea God’s inheritance, but Mu En doubted his chances now that everyone knew about it.
• Xiao Wu asked Su Ming to take her to Sea God Island, and Su Ming cautioned that they could not easily find or enter it; Tang San agreed with him, prompting Xiao Wu to demand that he call her Sister Xiao Wu.

Qian Daoliu recounted how he and Tang Chen visited Sea God Island, where both fell in love with Bo Saixi and Tang Chen left determined to become a god. Their rivalry continued after they returned to the mainland, and Qian Daoliu eventually wished Tang Chen success in reaching godhood.

• Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen visited Sea God Island and challenged Bo Saixi, who defeated them with the advantage of the sea.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that he and Tang Chen both fell in love with Bo Saixi, who chose Tang Chen and told him she would accept the feelings of whoever reached level one hundred.
• Tang Chen left Sea God Island, declaring that he would not return until he became a god.
• Tang Xiao praised Tang Chen’s talent as the Clear Sky Sect watched the Heavenly Screen, while Tang Hao recalled his own visit to Sea God Island.
• Tang Chen later fought Qian Daoliu on a mountain cliff, and Qian Daoliu promised that no one from Spirit Hall below Tang Chen’s level would enter the peak until he defeated him.
• Qian Daoliu realized Tang Chen intended to leave the Clear Sky Sect to seek godhood and wished him success.

Qian Daoliu recounted his duel with Chen Jianjun, the Seven Kill Sword heir who challenged him at Giant Sword Mountain. Qian Daoliu defeated and gravely wounded him, while Chen Xin watched the account with tearful eyes.

• Tang Xiao hoped the Heavenly Screen would reveal that Tang Chen had succeeded and was still alive.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Qian Daoliu describing how Chen Jianjun challenged him to a duel at Giant Sword Mountain.
• Qian Daoliu suppressed his power at first, but Chen Jianjun asked him to fight at full strength so he could witness the world's highest peak.
• Qian Daoliu unleashed his Peerless Douluo power and blocked Chen Jianjun's nine attacks, then injured him so severely that his survival was uncertain.
• Chen Jianjun left Giant Sword Mountain to deliver his final words to his descendants, and Chen Xin watched with reddened eyes as Gu Rong tried to comfort him.

The Heavenly Screen revealed that Tang Hao’s beloved Ah Yin was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, explaining Spirit Hall’s pursuit and the war with the Clear Sky Sect. It ended with Qian Xunji ordering Spirit Hall to denounce the sect and demand Tang Hao and Ah Yin be handed over.

• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Spirit Hall had confirmed Ah Yin was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast after a Titled Douluo encountered her and Tang Hao.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the revelation explained the conflict, while Tang Xiao mourned the fate of Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• Tang San wondered whether the Tang Hao on the screen was his father, then hurried to ask Su Ming about it.
• Xiao Wu remembered her mother, and Su Ming comforted her as Yu Xiaogang reflected on his past and his training with Mu En.
• Di Tian condemned Ah Yin for loving a human and suspected the Heavenly Screen was connected to the Divine Realm.
• Qian Xunji ordered Spirit Hall to denounce the Clear Sky Sect and demand that it surrender Tang Hao and Ah Yin.

The Heavenly Screen revealed how Qian Xunji died after Tang Hao's attack and Spirit Hall retaliated against the Clear Sky Sect and its subordinate clans. Qian Renxue concluded that her mother, Bibi Dong, had killed her father, leaving her furious and devastated.

• The Second Elder and Seventh Elder recalled how Tang Hao's actions led to the Clear Sky Sect's decline and the deaths of members of the sect.
• Qian Xunji led two Titled Douluo and other experts to hunt Tang Hao, but returned with heavy losses and died soon afterward.
• Spirit Hall retaliated against the Clear Sky Sect, which expelled Tang Hao and abandoned its subordinate factions; Yang Wudi condemned the sect for the Breaking Clan's losses.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Xunji's killer might not have been Tang Hao, and that Qian Renxue's grandmother suspected Bibi Dong but chose not to pursue the truth.
• Qian Renxue learned the revelation and blamed Bibi Dong for killing her father to gain the papal throne.

The Heavenly Screen revealed that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji and that Tang Hao had been framed, provoking outrage across the continent. Qian Daoliu kept the reason for his guilt secret, while Su Ming gained more Vow Power from the revelations.

• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong recognized how the revelation could damage Spirit Hall and questioned what had made Qian Daoliu feel guilty.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders reconsidered their blame of Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao cried out that his brother had been framed.
• Tang Hao raged against Bibi Dong for ruining his life and harming the Clear Sky Sect, then returned to helping Su Ming find a fourth Soul Ring for Ah Yin’s sake.
• Bibi Dong remained outwardly calm in the Pope’s Palace, while Golden Crocodile Douluo tried to confront her and Qian Daoliu stopped him without explaining his guilt.
• Su Ming felt a surge of Vow Power and was pleased that exposing secrets strengthened the world’s faith in the Heavenly Screen.

The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Renxue's Nation-Stealing Plan would fail because of Su Ming, whom she would later love, leaving her furious and determined to change the future. As kingdoms searched for Spirit Hall's target and Su Ming's identity, Xiao Wu nervously asked Su Ming whether he was the man shown on the screen, and he denied it.

• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Renxue would fall in love with Su Ming, the man who caused her Nation-Stealing Plan to fail, and she vowed to change the outcome.
• Emperor Xue Ye suspected Spirit Hall would target a small country but ordered the crown prince summoned so Heaven Dou could investigate.
• Dai Heng summoned his fifth prince, Dai Xuanyu, confident that the heir to the Evil Eye Holy King's inheritance could protect the Star Luo Empire.
• The kingdoms and duchies began investigating whether they were Spirit Hall's target, while people speculated about Su Ming's identity.
• Xiao Wu anxiously asked Su Ming if he was the Su Ming from the Heavenly Screen, and he denied having the background attributed to that man.

Su Ming reassured Xiao Wu about the mysterious person who shared his name, while Tang San and Tang Hao speculated that Su Ming’s family might come looking for him. The Heavenly Screen then revealed that Qian Xue would begin the Angel Nine Trials, leaving Qian Daoliu and the Worship Hall excited by the prospect of her becoming an Angel God.

• Su Ming reassured Xiao Wu, while Tang San wondered whether someone from Su Ming’s family had come to Douluo Continent.
• Tang Hao hoped Su Ming’s family might help him resurrect Ah Yin sooner.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall branches to heighten their vigilance and told Ghost Douluo to watch the Worship Hall.
• Qian Daoliu decided to send Qian Xue more support and accepted that the exposed nation-stealing plan might fail.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Xue would begin the Angel Nine Trials and that Qian Daoliu would sacrifice himself to help her complete the Ninth Trial.
• Qian Daoliu and the other Offerings celebrated the revelation that Qian Xue could become the next Angel God.

The Heavenly Screen’s revelation that Qian Renxue would inherit the Angel God’s position alarmed Spirit Hall’s enemies and stirred conflicting reactions among those connected to the divine trials. Qian Renxue learned that Qian Daoliu would have to sacrifice his life, while Bibi Dong rejected his hopes that she and Qian Renxue would unite.

• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin feared that Spirit Hall would dominate the continent if Qian Renxue became a god and discussed finding the woman behind the Nation-Stealing Plan.
• Bo Saixi reflected on Qian Daoliu finding an Angel God inheritor and her own conflicting duties and hopes regarding Tang Chen.
• Qian Renxue celebrated her qualification for the Angel Nine Trials, then grieved when she learned Qian Daoliu had to die for her to complete the Ninth Trial.
• Bibi Dong resented how easily Qian Renxue could inherit the Angel God’s position, rejected Qian Daoliu’s appeal for her and Qian Renxue to work together, and guarded the secrecy of her Rakshasa trials.
• Di Tian lamented that humans could become gods while deciding not to risk drawing the Divine Realm’s attention.
• Qian Renxue criticized Qian Daoliu’s mercy toward Bibi Dong and asked Ci Xue what he thought, leaving him unsure how to answer.

The Heavenly Screen awarded Qian Daoliu the Heart of Holy Light, which could transform his Angel Martial Soul and spare him from sacrificing his life in the Angel's Ninth Trial. When a fabricated Titled Douluo tried to seize the reward, the Heavenly Screen erased him and warned that only ranked individuals could claim their rewards.

• Qian Renxue celebrated that the Heart of Holy Light could save Qian Daoliu from sacrificing himself, while Bo Saixi hoped to receive a similar reward.
• Yu Xiaogang and Mu En speculated that the Heart of Holy Light came from beyond Douluo Continent, as some people feared Spirit Hall would grow more powerful and considered stealing it.
• Su Ming controlled his fabricated persona, Shi Lihao, as the Heavenly Screen sent the Heart of Holy Light across the sky.
• Shi Lihao seized the reward, prompting Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall's Worships to react angrily and other factions to rush toward him.
• The Heavenly Screen reduced Shi Lihao to dust and announced that anyone who seized another person's reward would be erased.

After Qian Daoliu received the Heavenly Screen’s reward, people across the world hoped to make the list themselves, while Bibi Dong also began anticipating her own reward. In Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu’s Heart of Holy Light appeared before him, and the worshippers sensed its power of light, purification, acceptance, hope, and new life.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong hoped that other lists would give the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a chance to evolve its Martial Soul, while Yu Xiaogang and Mu En discussed Mu En’s chances of making the list.
• Xiao Wu excitedly asked Su Ming about his likely rank and reward, and Su Ming said his hometown was not on this planet.
• Ming You killed Hu Jiawei after Hu Jiawei tried to take his Thousand-Year Soul Bone, then swallowed the bone and praised the Food Path inheritance.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King hoped a Soul Beast list would help him become a god, while Di Tian remained wary and decided to keep watching before awakening his lord.
• Bibi Dong abandoned her plan to intercept Qian Daoliu’s reward and began looking forward to receiving one herself.
• The Heart of Holy Light appeared before Qian Daoliu in the Worship Hall, and the worshippers sensed the meanings of its holy runes.

Qian Daoliu took the Heart of Holy Light into seclusion and began fusing with it, confronting doubts about his faith in the Angel God. As its power transformed his wings and weakened the chamber’s oracles, the fusion remained underway.

• The Offerings urged Qian Daoliu to fuse with the Heart of Holy Light, while Guang Ling watched it with intense desire.
• Qian Daoliu sensed that the crystal’s light was independent of the Angel God and hesitated after hearing the message, “Light needs no authorization.”
• Qian Daoliu announced that he would enter the innermost secret chamber and ordered the Offerings not to disturb him.
• Alone in the chamber, Qian Daoliu accepted the Heart of Holy Light and released his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu poured Soul Power into the crystal, and pure holy light spread through him, changing his wings as the Angel God’s oracles began to flicker.