Chapter Summaries

Xuan Di fought Tang San over the Abyss Plane’s power while the renewed battle against the Abyss claimed the Spirit Emperor’s life. The second Abyss layer collapsed, and Xuan Di kept Tang San from claiming the power released by its destruction.

• Xuan Di blocked Tang San’s attack, overwhelmed him, and demanded that he return the Abyss Plane’s power.
• Little Gu Yue ordered Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts to resume their assault, while the humans joined the battle against the Abyss.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng and Qian Gu Dieting burned their strength to create an opening for Di Tian against the Spirit Emperor.
• Di Tian struck the Spirit Emperor twice with Dragon God Claw, killing him and preventing his recovery.
• Di Tian retrieved Qian Gu Dongfeng and Qian Gu Dieting’s bodies as the Spirit Emperor’s death caused the second Abyss layer to collapse.
• Xuan Di summoned three Little Dragon Riders to attack Tang San and stopped him from competing for the Abyss Plane’s released power.

The Sea God Legion fought the Abyss as Wu Changkong froze the sea, and Tang San unexpectedly fled after Lan Hong noticed something had changed. Xuan Di and Little Gu Yue turned the battle against the Abyss, but the Abyssal Sage King was still trying to escape when Xuan Di sealed the surrounding space.

• Wu Changkong used Absolute Zero to freeze the sea, exhausted his strength, and was rescued from the Abyss creatures by A Ruheng.
• Tang San fled the battle with Xuan Di, and Lan Hong guessed that Tang San's divine consciousness had received orders from his true body, perhaps because the God Realm was returning.
• Xuan Di joined the fight, killed the Devil Emperor, and caused the Abyss's fourth level to collapse and be devoured by the Douluo Continent.
• Little Gu Yue wounded the Abyssal Sage King, who tried to retreat through the Abyss passage as Xuan Di approached.
• Xuan Di cut the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd in two, and Little Gu Yue blasted apart half of the Abyssal Sage King's body with Silver Dragon Elemental Explosion.
• The Abyssal Sage King tried to flee as Xuan Di deployed elemental shields around the space.

Xuan Di and the allied forces defeated the Abyssal rulers, while the Douluo Continent absorbed the Abyss’s planar power and began its ascension. After learning that his Ten-Thousand Year Plan had been ruined, Tang San left the God Realm and rushed back to the continent.

• The Abyssal Sage King failed to break Xuan Di’s shield, and Xuan Di’s armored dragon form destroyed him with Three-State Torrent.
• The first layer of the Abyss began collapsing, and the allied forces blocked Hua Di and the Sage Emperor from returning.
• Tong Yu sacrificed himself to kill the Sage Emperor with Great Five Elements Rotation: Explosion.
• Guan Yue killed the weakened Hua Di with Sky-Piercing Strike while En Ci and the Fierce Beasts fought alongside him.
• Xuan Di and Lan Hong helped the Douluo Continent absorb the Abyss’s planar power, disrupting Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s plan to claim the continent.
• After the seven God Realms escaped the black hole and began discussing an alliance, Tang San learned his plan had been destroyed and rushed back to the Douluo Continent.

After the Douluo Continent ascended by devouring the Abyss, Lan Hong realized that its cultivation system was draining soul beasts and threatening the plane’s future. As humanity celebrated victory, Na'er and Little Gu Yue worried that conflict between humans and soul beasts would return, while Lan Hong prepared to rewrite the continent’s rules.

• Tang San learned that Xuan Di and other abnormalities suggested someone was targeting his Ten-Thousand Year Plan, and he vowed to make them pay if they ruined it.
• Lan Hong helped Xuan Di complete the Douluo Continent’s ascension, causing Abyssal creatures to dissolve into Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and loosening the bottleneck at level one hundred.
• Lan Hong concluded that soul beast deaths had been replenishing the energy consumed by human cultivation, and that the plane would eventually decline unless its system changed.
• Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, Gu Yue, Nana, and Xiao Wu discussed how ascended cultivators could leave the Douluo Continent and cause it to decline again, and Lan Hong asked them to guard him while he rewrote its rules.
• Humanity celebrated its victory over the Abyss, but Na'er worried about the renewed conflict between humans and soul beasts, while Di Tian warned Little Gu Yue that peace might last only a hundred years.

Little Gu Yue met with humanity’s representatives to negotiate the spirit beast race’s recovery and protection, but their proposed terms convinced her that humans still viewed spirit beasts as resources. She left the negotiations after Tang Wulin’s appeal failed, and heavenly pressure interrupted the confrontation as Di Tian threatened him.

• Little Gu Yue chose to let the spirit beast race recuperate for a hundred years and agreed to consider Bi Ji’s suggestion of leaving the plane.
• Little Gu Yue, Di Tian, and Bi Ji arrived at the Sea God Legion’s flagship, where Guan Yue welcomed them to the gathering of humanity’s factions.
• Little Gu Yue demanded that humans restore spirit beast habitats and stop disturbing the beasts, while promising that spirit beasts would not attack humans who left them alone.
• Humanity proposed protecting the habitats in exchange for spirit beast materials, and Little Gu Yue condemned the arrangement as treating her people like livestock.
• Tang Wulin urged Little Gu Yue to believe in peaceful coexistence, but she rejected his appeal and left with Di Tian after Ya Li defended him.
• Di Tian threatened Tang Wulin as he tried to stop Little Gu Yue, but heavenly pressure and the sound of a bell and war drum suddenly struck everyone.

Lan Hong’s changes to the Douluo Continent’s rules freed soul beasts from their shackles and established heavenly punishment and reincarnation. Tang San’s true body returned, confronted Tang Wulin, then attacked Lan Hong’s group, leaving Lan Hong’s sword strike bearing down on him.

• Lan Hong’s completed rule changes removed soul beasts’ Spirit Rings and established a reincarnation system using the Demon Plane.
• Little Gu Yue left with Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts, who confirmed that a dead sea soul beast no longer produced a Spirit Ring.
• Tang San returned to the Douluo Continent, found Tang Wulin, and questioned him about his seal and the Golden Dragon King's Divine Core.
• Lan Hong’s group appeared, and Tang San attacked them before accusing Xiao Wu and Zhuqing of being impostors.
• Xiao Wu deflected Tang San’s Sea God's Trident, and Lan Hong swung the Bright Sword at him with the surrounding space sealed by sword intent.

Lan Hong overwhelmed Tang San in their battle, destroying the Sea God's Trident and Sea God's Eight Wings before Tang San switched to his Asura God power. Tang San began looking for a way to escape and asked whether Lan Hong came from another God Realm.

• Lan Hong's sword qi shattered Tang San's Sea God's Divine Power and cut half of the Sea God's Trident, while Xiao Wu mocked Tang San.
• Lan Hong overpowered Tang San in an aura contest as the Sea God Legion withdrew and the watching gods recognized the danger he posed.
• Lan Hong sealed Tang San's Sea God's Eight Wings and broke the Sea God's Trident, then drove Tang San into the seabed and shredded his wings.
• Tang San emerged wearing the Asura God Outfit and attacked Lan Hong with an Asura Blood Slash, but Lan Hong's Heavy Rain Flying crushed it.
• Tang San realized he might die if he kept fighting and asked Lan Hong whether he was a god from another God Realm.

Lan Hong confronted Tang San over the Douluo Continent and used Tang Hao and Ah Yin to test whether Tang San would fight or flee. After Lan Hong wounded Tang Hao, Tang San attacked, then abandoned his parents and escaped by detonating the Asura Demon Sword.

• Lan Hong told Tang San that the Douluo Continent no longer belonged to him or the God Realm, then released the bound Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• Lan Hong challenged Tang San to choose between risking his life to save his parents and running away, while Tang Hao urged him to return with help.
• Lan Hong slashed Tang Hao and erased part of his body and soul, enraging Tang San into attacking with his Asura True Form.
• Lan Hong shattered Tang San's Asura True Form and accused him of caring more about his family than the people harmed by the Abyss.
• Tang San chose to flee and promised to return for Tang Hao and Ah Yin, but Lan Hong sealed his escape with a sword strike.
• Tang San detonated the Asura Demon Sword, tore open space, and escaped.

Lan Hong explained to Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, Xiao Wu, and Gu Yue how the God Realm Alliance might form and how the God Realm drained energy from material planes. Meanwhile, Tang San returned to the God Realm badly wounded by Lan Hong’s sword qi, and Oscar rushed to treat him.

• Lan Hong recovered the cracked Asura Demon Sword and told Qian Renxue that Tang San had escaped after sacrificing it.
• Lan Hong explained that several God Realms had met after escaping the Space-Time Turbulence and were discussing an alliance that could merge their central hubs.
• Gu Yue and the others discussed the proposed alliance, while Lan Hong described the God Realm as a parasite that drained energy from the planes it governed.
• Tang San traveled back to the God Realm with a chest wound that Lan Hong’s sword qi kept from healing.
• Oscar found Tang San, fed him healing sausages, and tried to inspect his wound despite Tang San’s attempt to stop him.

Tang San blamed Lan Hong for his severe injury, while Rong Nianbing and Dai Yuhao considered turning the conflict into a common enemy to advance the God Realm Alliance. Back at Jade Sea Manor, Little Gu Yue asked Lan Hong to honor his promise to help the soul beasts leave for another plane, and he agreed.

• Oscar's fingers were shredded when he tried to treat Tang San, and Ning Rongrong's healing helped Oscar but could not heal Tang San's sword-inflicted wound.
• Xiao Wu, Tang Wutong, Dai Yuhao, and Rong Nianbing arrived; Tang San claimed Lan Hong had wounded him in a sneak attack and went into seclusion to recover.
• Rong Nianbing and Dai Yuhao discussed using the threat of Lan Hong and a possible unknown God Realm as a common enemy to accelerate the God Realm Alliance.
• Little Gu Yue told Lan Hong she wanted to lead the soul beast race to another plane because she no longer trusted humanity and feared the returning God Realm.
• Lan Hong affirmed his promise and told Little Gu Yue to gather the soul beasts who would leave with her.

After the Abyss War, Little Gu Yue and the Fierce Beasts prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang Wulin reunited with his adoptive parents. The dead returned to visit loved ones, and Yun Ming and others explained that they would serve in the Underworld Office before entering reincarnation.

• Little Gu Yue and the Fierce Beasts thanked Lan Hong, returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, and began preparing to evacuate.
• Tang Wulin visited Lan Hong, learned that Tang San had survived, and was sent to the home of Tang Ziran and Lang Yue.
• Tang Wulin reunited with Tang Ziran and Lang Yue, learned they had been told he would come after the war ended, and vowed to protect them and Na'er.
• Yun Ming appeared to Ya Li as a spirit, explained his role in the Underworld Office, and asked her to keep living until they met again.
• Chen Xinjie and Long Yeyue returned to Guan Yue, entrusted him with the War God Hall, and explained that the dead could not freely visit the living.
• The people who died on the Abyss battlefield were allowed to return home and see their loved ones.

Little Gu Yue gathered the soul beast clan and, with Lan Hong’s help, moved them through a Space-Time Tunnel to an era twenty thousand years in the past. Meanwhile, Tang San recovered and began plotting to recruit other God Kings against Lan Hong.

• Souls returning on Soul Returning Night spread word of the Underworld Office, whose judgment and afterlife gave people both fear and hope.
• Little Gu Yue gathered most of the soul beasts near the Star Dou Great Forest and told Na'er she planned to take the clan away; Na'er chose to stay with Tang Wulin.
• Lan Hong brought Gu Yue and Nana to the Star Dou Great Forest and sent the soul beasts, Little Gu Yue, Di Tian, and the other Fierce Beasts through a Space-Time Tunnel to the era twenty thousand years earlier.
• Lan Hong warned Little Gu Yue that her soul beasts must not attack humans without cause, and she promised they would not strike first.
• After recovering from his injuries, Tang San told Chang Gongwei that a powerful fiend had harmed him and suggested a God Realm might be behind her.
• Once Chang Gongwei left, Tang San planned how to draw the other God Kings into a fight against Lan Hong.

Lan Hong entered the God Realm alone to confront Tang San, interrupting the God Realm Alliance negotiations and fighting the gods who tried to stop him. After Lan Hong overwhelmed several opponents, Tang San arrived with Chang Gongwei, who warned that Lan Hong’s strength was difficult to gauge.

• Lan Hong went alone to the God Realm while Tang San and Rong Nianbing planned to provoke him into threatening the seven God Realms.
• Ji Dong and Lie Yan confronted Lan Hong, and he struck Ji Dong down with a slash from the Bright Sword.
• Rong Nianbing and Dai Yuhao arrived, but Lan Hong declared his intention to settle accounts with Tang San and challenged the God Realm to fight him.
• Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun arrived, and Lan Hong’s slash forced several gods to defend Xiao Wu.
• Tang San attacked Lan Hong with a phantom Asura sword, but Lan Hong shattered it and kicked him away.
• Chang Gongwei caught Tang San and warned that they should be careful because he could not gauge Lan Hong’s current strength.

Lan Hong confronted Tang San and the Douluo God Realm’s allies, challenging their trust in Tang San and provoking the Shrek Seven Devils. After Tang San ordered everyone to capture him, the group powered up and prepared to fight Lan Hong.

• Chang Gongwei offered to mediate between Lan Hong and Tang San, but Lan Hong questioned his trust in Tang San and appealed to the watching God Realms.
• The Asura Sword Sheath defended Tang San, and Chang Gongwei blocked Lan Hong’s sword strike with Teleportation, Holy Halo, and Light Shield.
• Lan Hong taunted Ning Rongrong about Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, triggering a mental attack that Dai Yuhao calmed with the Eternal Eye.
• Lan Hong released overwhelming Dragon Might and sword intent across the Douluo God Realm, forcing Tang San and Chang Gongwei to protect the others.
• Tang San ordered his allies to capture Lan Hong, and they activated their divine boosts, transformations, and weapons for battle.

Tang San and the other gods attacked Lan Hong together, but his sword techniques overwhelmed them and left several fighters badly injured. Rong Nianbing’s Seven Forbidden Absolute Curses and Chang Gongwei’s ambush failed to defeat Lan Hong, who countered with spatial power and sent Chang Gongwei flying; Tang San caught him as Chang Gongwei prepared another spell.

• Tang San, Dai Mubai’s Hell White Tiger, and Ma Hongjun’s Nine-Headed Phoenix attacked Lan Hong, but his Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon shattered their techniques and badly injured Dai Mubai, his wife, and Ma Hongjun.
• Dai Yuhao blocked one crimson divine dragon, while Chang Gongwei protected Oscar and Ning Rongrong; Tang San and Xiao Wu joined forces to destroy another, and Rong Nianbing’s Seven Forbidden Absolute Curses broke the remaining dragons and engulfed Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong emerged unharmed behind his Golden Bell Shield, and Chang Gongwei teleported behind him to use Great Dimensional Slash.
• Lan Hong used Space Annihilation to erase Chang Gongwei’s Spatial Rift, then teleported behind Chang Gongwei and struck him with Changhong Pierces the Sun.
• Chang Gongwei’s Robe of Light was torn and he was sent flying; Tang San caught him, and Chang Gongwei said he was fine before casting Heart of Holy Light.

Lan Hong overwhelmed Tang San's allies, survived three forbidden spells by transforming into a dragon, and turned the battle back in his favor. He summoned the Sixth Dragon Rider and pinned Tang San to the ground, then said he wanted everyone present and the hidden observers to hear him out.

• Chang Gongwei healed himself and Tang San, then proposed casting a forbidden spell while Tang San and the others held Lan Hong back.
• Lan Hong incapacitated Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Dai Yuhao, destroying their divine artifacts and leaving Dai Yuhao temporarily blind.
• Tang San and Rong Nianbing fought Lan Hong while Chang Gongwei trapped him with a formation and cast Time-Space Rift Seal; Chang Gongwei and Rong Nianbing followed with two more forbidden spells.
• Lan Hong endured the attacks in his dragon-transformed form, broke free, and summoned the Sixth Dragon Rider.
• Lan Hong used the Sword Control Technique to pin Tang San to the ground, and Tang San left Dual God Integration as the Asura Sword Sheath fainted.
• Lan Hong told Rong Nianbing he meant to defeat them so they and the hidden observers would listen to him.

Lan Hong exposed Dai Yuhao’s and the other gods’ past actions, stripped Dai Yuhao of his fortune and divine power, and turned him back into a mortal. He then woke Dai Mubai, his wife, and Ma Hongjun and prepared to expose their secrets.

• Lan Hong called Dai Yuhao Tang San’s dog and accused him of benefiting from Wang Qiu’er’s sacrifice and the soul beast race’s fortune.
• Lan Hong challenged Dai Yuhao’s claims of innocence, citing the Spirit Pagoda’s treatment of soul beasts and the Mingdu Great Explosion.
• Lan Hong removed Dai Yuhao’s Power of Destiny, then shattered his divine power and divine core, reducing him to a mortal.
• Rong Nianbing tried to intervene, but Lan Hong struck him into a crater with Sunlight Illuminates the Nine Provinces.
• Lan Hong woke Dai Mubai, his wife, and Ma Hongjun, then announced that he would expose their secrets, beginning with Ma Hongjun.

Lan Hong confronted the God Realm’s former heroes over their past conduct and stripped Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing of their divine power and bloodlines. He then awakened Oscar and Ning Rongrong, whose panicked reaction left Oscar confronting how little she seemed to care for him.

• Lan Hong accused Ma Hongjun of using his evil fire as an excuse to frequent brothels and of failing to do everything he could to bring Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm.
• Lan Hong extracted Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Bloodline and cast him down into mortality.
• Lan Hong challenged Dai Mubai over his past and the Dai Family’s White Tiger legacy; when Dai Mubai attacked, Lan Hong broke his limbs, stripped his White Tiger Bloodline, and made him mortal.
• Lan Hong offered Zhu Zhuqing the choice to kill Dai Mubai or lose her divinity, but she could not decide, so he stripped away her divine power.
• Lan Hong awakened Oscar and Ning Rongrong, and Oscar tried to protect her as she screamed for him to kill Lan Hong or sacrifice himself to save her.

Lan Hong crippled Ning Rongrong and confronted Tang San after Xiao Wu awoke, exposing Tang San’s past life and the selfish reasons behind his destruction of the City of Slaughter. Tang San’s account changed Chang Gongwei’s view of him, while Lan Hong continued the public reckoning.

• Lan Hong destroyed Ning Rongrong’s divine power and divine core with sword qi, leaving her aged and unconscious.
• Lan Hong freed Tang San from the Bright Sword, and Xiao Wu rushed to help him when she woke.
• Lan Hong revealed that Tang San had been a Shushan Tang Sect traitor who died after jumping from Ghost’s Worry, then had his soul guided to Douluo Continent by the Asura God.
• Lan Hong challenged Tang San’s claims of respecting Yu Xiaogang and questioned why Yu Xiaogang had not been brought to the God Realm.
• Lan Hong forced Tang San to admit that he destroyed the City of Slaughter to prevent others from obtaining Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Lan Hong blamed Tang San’s destruction of the City of Slaughter and Spirit Hall for the later spread of Fallen Ones and Evil Soul Masters, and Chang Gongwei began to reconsider Tang San.

Lan Hong exposed Tang San’s exploitation of Dugu Bo and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, making the leaders of other God Realms reconsider aiding him. He then turned to Tang San’s treatment of Tang Wutong and the soul beast race, leaving Tang San furious as Lan Hong accused Ah Yin of betraying her people.

• Lan Hong challenged Rong Nianbing over whether he believed Tang San was as selfish as Lan Hong claimed.
• Lan Hong accused Tang San of taking nearly all the immortal herbs from Dugu Bo’s garden and giving nothing back, even when Dugu Bo risked his life as Tang San’s guardian.
• Tang San remembered refusing Dugu Bo’s plea to cure Dugu Yan, while the leaders of the major God Realms reconsidered whether to help him.
• Ye Yinzhu warned the other leaders that Lan Hong could threaten them next, and A’Dai urged them to wait until Lan Hong finished speaking.
• Lan Hong accused Tang San of using Tang Wutong and harming the soul beast race, prompting Tang San to defend his mother and Xiao Wu.
• Lan Hong called Ah Yin’s sacrifice a betrayal of the Blue Silver Grass race and began questioning Tang Hao’s role.