Chapter Summaries

Su Mu spotted Ye Lingling healing an injured man and recognized her as a possible inheritor of the Goddess of Life's legacy. After losing track of her in Heaven Dou City, he encountered her again in an alley confronting three people.

• Su Mu traveled with Zhu Zhuqing and Ling Yuan to Heaven Dou City, where he considered how to approach a potential heir to the Goddess of Life's legacy.
• Su Mu saw Ye Lingling heal a man's crushed leg with her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul and wondered whether the Aromatic Silk Beauty could give her the ability to neutralize poison.
• Su Mu hurried after Ye Lingling with Zhu Zhuqing and Ling Yuan but lost her in the city.
• As Su Mu and the two women headed back toward their hotel, they heard a woman challenge someone in a nearby alley and found Ye Lingling facing three people.

Su Mu intervened when Bu Le, E Kao, and Tianya harassed Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ling Yuan. After revealing his disguised Soul Emperor strength, he defeated the three and left with the women.

• Bu Le, E Kao, and Tianya cornered Ye Lingling and tried to force her to remove her mask.
• Su Mu arrived with Zhu Zhuqing and Ling Yuan, but the three men leered at them and threatened to claim all three women.
• Ye Lingling introduced herself and urged Su Mu and the others to flee to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for help.
• Bu Le, E Kao, and Tianya released their Martial Souls, and Su Mu revealed his six Soul Rings and the phantom of a Three-Headed Flood Dragon.
• Bu Le and his companions tried to retreat after recognizing Su Mu was a Soul Emperor, but Su Mu struck them down and departed with the women.

Su Mu completed the first trial of the Destruction Divine Test and received rewards, including increased Soul Power, a God-bestowed Soul Ring, and a fragment of the Destruction Scepter. The Asura God then appeared in his spiritual space and altered Su Mu’s Martial Soul, leaving the purple scepter power merged with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.

• Su Mu took Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ling Yuan to a restaurant, then returned to the hotel with Zhu Zhuqing and Ling Yuan after Ye Lingling left for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The God of Destruction confirmed Su Mu had completed the first trial and granted him three Soul Power levels, a God-bestowed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and two thousand years of added age to every Soul Ring.
• The God of Destruction gave Su Mu a complete Destruction Scepter containing two-tenths of its original power, intending to place it in Su Mu’s Martial Soul.
• The God of Destruction discovered Asura’s power inside Su Mu’s Martial Soul, cursed Asura, and left after merging the purple scepter power into the Three-Headed Flood Dragon phantom.
• The Asura God appeared in Su Mu’s spiritual space, slashed at his spiritual body, and caused the Destruction Scepter phantom to merge with Su Mu’s Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.

After the Asura God revealed that Su Mu could begin the Asura God Trial after level 90, Su Mu returned to the room and finished absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching Soul Saint. Ling Yuan learned the truth about his Soul Ring Configuration and insisted on guarding him, so Su Mu took her outside Heaven Dou City to test their strength; both prepared to unleash their Martial Soul Avatars.

• The Asura God told Su Mu that the Asura God Sword had fused with his Beast Martial Soul and that he could begin the Asura God Trial after level 90.
• Su Mu returned to his body while absorbing a Soul Ring as Zhu Zhuqing and Ling Yuan Douluo guarded him.
• The next day, Su Mu revealed his true Soul Ring Configuration of four black and three red rings, and explained his god trial rewards to Ling Yuan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ling Yuan insisted on staying with Su Mu even while he slept, so Su Mu challenged her to spar and took her outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ling Yuan and Su Mu tested each other's strength, then activated their Seventh Soul Skills, the Blazing Spirit Kite Avatar and Martial Soul Avatar.

Su Mu tested his new strength against Ling Yuan, then learned that his Second Divine Trial required him to help Ye Lingling complete hers. He visited Qian Renxue in her Xue Qinghe disguise and went with her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where an unidentified person spotted him and hurried out of the city.

• Su Mu used Martial Soul Avatar to overpower Ling Yuan in their sparring match and confirmed that he could now face the Black-Robed Monster without being helpless.
• Su Mu discovered that his Second Divine Trial required him to help Ye Lingling complete her Second Divine Test, while Ye Lingling studied her own First Trial at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Su Mu slipped into the crown prince's residence, found Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe in her study, and asked her to take him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Qian Renxue reluctantly took Su Mu to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where students greeted her as Xue Qinghe.
• A blue-clothed person in a black robe spotted Su Mu, withdrew from the crowd, and hurried out of the city.

Su Mu went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Qian Renxue to find Ye Lingling and help her complete her first Divine Test. After Ye Lingling revealed that her trial required kissing him for half a minute, Su Mu drew her close and began to kiss her.

• Qian Renxue brought Su Mu to the Heaven Dou Royal Team's training ground, where he spotted Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
• Su Mu found Ye Lingling alone outside the dining hall and asked about her first Divine Test.
• Ye Lingling shyly kissed Su Mu for half a minute, believing that would complete her trial.
• When no completion notification appeared, Ye Lingling accused Su Mu of lying and explained what her Divine Test required.
• Su Mu told Ye Lingling she had done it the wrong way, pulled her close, and began to deepen the kiss.

Su Mu's kiss with Ye Lingling completed their divine trials, but Dugu Yan and the Heaven Dou Royal Team mistook the scene for an assault. Ye Lingling denied being forced, then fled in embarrassment, leaving Su Mu alone with Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe.

• Su Mu and Ye Lingling completed the second Destruction Divine Test trial and the first Life Divine Test trial while kissing, and Su Mu received rewards that strengthened his Soul Rings and Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan attacked Su Mu, but Yu Tianheng restrained her before she could unleash her Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom.
• Ye Lingling awakened in golden light, and Su Mu noticed that her Soul Power had risen to level forty and that she appeared to have received a God-bestowed Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan accused Su Mu of forcing a kiss on Ye Lingling, but Ye Lingling said he had not forced her.
• Ye Lingling ran away after the others kept questioning her, Dugu Yan chased after her, and the Heaven Dou Royal Team left Su Mu alone with Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe.

Su Mu returned to Sunset Forest with Ye Lingling to help her complete her Divine Trial and reunited with a weakened Gu Yuena, who explained that the Soul Bone from the Black-Robed Monster belonged to a rare set. The next morning, Su Mu’s system detected Tang San cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and offered him a chance to intercept it.

• Su Mu brought Ye Lingling back to Sunset Forest because her Second Divine Trial and his Third Divine Trial required him to help her obtain a suitable Soul Ring.
• Su Mu returned to the courtyard with Zhu Zhuqing, Ling Yuan, and Ye Lingling and found Gu Yuena looking deathly pale.
• Gu Yuena told Su Mu that the Soul Bone from the Black-Robed Monster was a very old skull bone from a set that also included a torso bone and two External Soul Bones.
• Su Mu went to bed beside Zhu Zhuqing after setting aside his questions about Gu Yuena and the Soul Bone.
• The next morning, Su Mu heard the system offer to intercept Tang San cultivating the Purple Demon Eye.

Su Mu discovered that Tang San had come to the Sunset Forest seeking the Immortal Herbs and followed him as he met Dugu Yan. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo emerging from the poisonous miasma to greet his granddaughter.

• Su Mu intercepted Tang San’s cultivation details, learned he had reached level 43 and advanced his Purple Demon Eye, and counted 250 Interception Points.
• Suspecting Tang San was targeting the Immortal Herbs, Su Mu disguised himself and entered the Sunset Forest.
• Tang San waited with a Black-Robed Monster, planning to recruit Dugu Bo or kill him if necessary.
• Su Mu secretly followed Dugu Yan to Tang San, where she questioned whether his claims about improving her condition were true.
• Dugu Yan led Tang San toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while a Black-Robed Monster followed them and Su Mu tracked the group.
• Dugu Bo emerged from the poisonous miasma and excitedly greeted Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo tested Tang San by poisoning him and bringing him into the valley, where Tang San sought the herbs that could counter the poison. Su Mu intercepted and upgraded the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, while Tang San recovered and began harvesting the medicinal garden before Dugu Bo confronted him.

• Dugu Yan brought Tang San to Dugu Bo, who tested Tang San by having a green snake bite him with poison and throwing him into the valley.
• Su Mu followed them and intercepted Tang San's Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, enhancing both into god-grade herbs and refunding newborn versions.
• Tang San swallowed the weakened herbs he had gathered, collapsed, and was revived by the black-robed figure, who helped him suppress the poison.
• Tang San realized the herbs were weaker than expected and began collecting the medicinal plants in the garden as Su Mu intercepted more items.
• Dugu Bo roared and charged toward Tang San as he harvested the herbs.

Su Mu secretly intercepted and enhanced the Immortal Herbs while Tang San plundered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then watched Dugu Bo and a mysterious black-robed Titled Douluo fight. After Tang San discovered his herbs were ruined and the black-robed man gravely wounded Dugu Bo, the man spotted Su Mu and vanished toward him, forcing Su Mu to summon his Three-Headed Black Dragon Martial Soul.

• Su Mu exchanged the Frostblood Berry for Interception Points, enhanced several Immortal Herbs, and stored the rest in his system space as Tang San picked herbs and prepared to consume Ink Jade Divine Bamboo.
• Dugu Bo unleashed poisonous fog, and Su Mu used the Divine Aromatic Silk Beauty to clear it from around himself while Tang San was poisoned.
• Tang San opened his bundle and discovered that his selected Immortal Herbs had withered or reverted to their initial state, while his poison erupted again and the black-robed man suppressed it.
• The black-robed man used black spikes on himself and Tang San to boost his strength, then overpowered Dugu Bo and pierced his abdomen.
• The black-robed man noticed Su Mu hiding in the shadows and disappeared from view; Su Mu instinctively summoned the phantom of his Three-Headed Black Dragon and covered himself in black scales.

Su Mu killed the man in black with the Asura Sword and claimed an External Soul Bone from the set Gu Yuena had described. He found no sign of Tang San, then helped Ye Lingling save Dugu Bo as Dugu Yan accused him of attacking her grandfather.

• The man in black attacked Su Mu and revealed he had come to reclaim the skull Soul Bone that Number Five had been nurturing.
• Su Mu summoned the Asura Sword, wounded the man in black repeatedly, and pierced his heart before the man's ninth Soul Skill could pull him into a black vortex.
• Su Mu searched the body, found an External Soul Bone attached to the man's tailbone, and added it to the skull he already possessed.
• Su Mu found blood and herbs where Tang San had been, decided not to pursue him, and began channeling Soul Power into the badly wounded Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan accused Su Mu of attacking Dugu Bo, but Ling Yuan knocked her down and arrived with Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal Dugu Bo's wound and steady his breathing.

Su Mu confronted Dugu Bo after saving him and explained that the poison from his Martial Soul was killing both him and Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo pledged himself to Su Mu if he could save his granddaughter, and Su Mu presented one possible cure before Dugu Bo asked about the second.

• Dugu Bo woke in the cave, and Su Mu explained that he had not been with the black-robed man who attacked him.
• A Nine-Section Jade burst from Dugu Bo, and Su Mu killed it despite Dugu Yan's anger.
• Dugu Bo threatened to use his life-bound poison pill if Su Mu harmed Dugu Yan, then collapsed when he could no longer suppress his poison.
• Su Mu used his Soul Power to suppress Dugu Bo's poison and warned that Dugu Yan suffered from the same Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor poison.
• Dugu Bo promised his life to Su Mu if he saved Dugu Yan, and Su Mu offered a herb-based cure that would cost them their Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo asked Su Mu to explain the second method of curing their poison.

Su Mu tried to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison, gave Ye Lingling a Divine-Grade Delicate Silk Immortal, and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb its energy. Two days later, the well’s energy turned violent, and Ling Yuan plunged toward the fire well to save him as Gu Yuena sensed the disturbance.

• Su Mu told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to force their toxins into a Soul Bone, then promised he had a way to deal with the poison in Dugu Bo’s marrow.
• Su Mu gave Ye Lingling a Divine-Grade Delicate Silk Immortal that could remove poison and might change her Martial Soul.
• Su Mu consumed the divine-grade Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb its energy.
• As Su Mu cultivated for two days, the Three-Headed Flood Dragon absorbed ice and fire energy and began to transform.
• The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s energy turned violent, and Dugu Bo warned Ling Yuan that he could not safely enter.
• Ling Yuan ignored Dugu Bo’s warning and plunged toward the fire well, while Gu Yuena sensed the disturbance from the courtyard.

Su Mu’s Three-Headed Flood Dragon absorbed the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ energy, becoming a Three-Headed Black Dragon as Su Mu was transformed and grew much stronger. After emerging from his breakthrough, he found Ling Yuan unconscious and unclothed in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and dove in to reach her.

• Ling Yuan’s Martial Soul was suppressed by the fire spring’s heat, and she lost consciousness as her clothes burned away.
• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings sent their energy into the left and right heads of Su Mu’s Three-Headed Flood Dragon, which absorbed it despite their attempts to stop.
• The Flood Dragon grew a fifth claw with five toes and gained red and blue markings, becoming a Three-Headed Black Dragon rather than a Golden Dragon.
• Energy from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well transformed Su Mu, covered his body in dragon scales, and rapidly increased his Soul Power.
• Su Mu’s Three-Headed Black Dragon released pressure across the Treasure Bowl Basin, forcing the Soul Beasts to prostrate and making Dugu Bo feel its bloodline suppression.
• Su Mu noticed Ling Yuan unconscious in the well, plunged in to reach her, and realized her clothes were gone.

Su Mu rescued Ling Yuan from the fire spring, where she had absorbed too much of the Fire Dragon King’s power, and the two became intimate before her Martial Soul transformed. He then gave Dugu Bo blood as part of a plan to remove the poison from his bones and waited for Ye Lingling to finish absorbing her Immortal Herb before leaving for his Third Trial.

• Su Mu revived Ling Yuan with his Soul Power, but she clung to him while suffering from the fire spring’s heat.
• A red seed warned Su Mu that Ling Yuan would die if she entered the water spring, so he gave her his blood to help counter the heat.
• Ling Yuan and Su Mu became intimate in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and afterward Ling Yuan’s Martial Soul had grown stronger.
• Su Mu returned to Dugu Bo’s residence and gave him instructions to absorb the poison in his body into his Soul Bone, then drink Su Mu’s blood.
• Su Mu saw Ye Lingling still absorbing her Immortal Herb and decided to wait before leaving to complete his Third Trial.

Su Mu helped Ye Lingling absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, while both received progress on their divine trials. Gu Yuena then entered Su Mu’s spiritual space and took the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ seeds before returning to her room.

• Su Mu’s Three-Headed Flood Dragon evolved into a Three-Headed Black Dragon, and Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia mutated after she absorbed the Divine-Grade Delicate Silk Immortal.
• Su Mu found a ten-thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beast in Sunset Forest, and Ye Lingling absorbed its Soul Ring as her fourth ring.
• Su Mu completed his third Destruction Divine Test and received a fourth trial requiring him to kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with the Goddess of Life’s inheritor.
• Su Mu returned to the courtyard and considered his plans, while Ye Lingling and Ling Yuan went to their rooms.
• Gu Yuena entered Su Mu’s spiritual space, broke the seal on the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ seeds, swallowed them, and returned to her room.

Su Mu returned to Spirit City, gave Golden Crocodile Douluo a Divine-grade Aromatic Silk Beauty to help him advance, and then went to find Ling Yuan. The chapter ended with Ling Yuan lying on Su Mu’s shirt when he knocked at her door.

• Ling Yuan hugged Su Mu from behind while they flew, apologized to him, and returned to drive the carriage.
• After reaching Spirit City, Ling Yuan took Ye Lingling to arrange her lodging, while Su Mu went to see Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Su Mu revealed his level 77 cultivation and asked Golden Crocodile Douluo whether he wanted to become a god.
• Su Mu gave Golden Crocodile Douluo the Divine-grade Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Golden Crocodile Douluo swallowed it.
• Su Mu went to Ling Yuan’s residence and knocked as she lay on his shirt.

Su Mu gave Ling Yuan a Divine-Grade Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, then three days later witnessed Golden Crocodile Douluo’s transformation after absorbing an Immortal Herb. Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed that he had gained the God of War Inheritance and evolved his Martial Soul into the Crocodile Dragon.

• Su Mu gave Ling Yuan the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and left after urging her to eat it, while she wondered whether he had given it to her because he had saved her.
• Three days later, Su Mu sensed a powerful presence from Golden Crocodile Douluo and went to his residence, where Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Ghost Douluo, and Yue Guan had gathered.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo emerged in the air as his Martial Soul evolved and his Soul Rings changed to eight black rings and one red ring.
• Qian Daoliu led Golden Crocodile Douluo and Su Mu to the Worship Hall, where Golden Crocodile Douluo said he had reached level ninety-nine and received the God of War Inheritance.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that his Martial Soul had evolved into the Crocodile Dragon and that his Soul Rings had each gained ten thousand years of age.

Ling Yuan emerged from her fiery transformation with a younger appearance and red hair, while Su Mu got drunk and mistook her for a dream. The next day he searched for the red-haired woman but failed to find her, unaware that Ling Yuan was watching him from afar.

• Ling Yuan shattered her fiery-red cocoon, controlled her Phoenix-shaped Martial Soul, and discovered that she had become younger with long red hair.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo drank with Su Mu, then carried the drunken young man back to his room.
• Su Mu saw Ling Yuan in his drunken haze and embraced her, believing she was part of a dream.
• Su Mu woke sore and exhausted, then later spotted a red-haired woman near the Elder Hall and followed her into the crowded plaza, where he lost sight of her.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Su Mu that Ling Yuan had left on a mission and relayed Na'er's request for him to return quickly.
• Ling Yuan watched Su Mu from the roof of Spirit City's tallest building, her red hair blowing in the wind.