Chapter Summaries

Tang San and his companions joined Da Ming and Er Ming in fighting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Dugu Yan killed it after being trapped in its Life and Death Arena. Tang San recovered the Evil God Pearl, and Dugu Yan began absorbing the tiger’s Soul Ring as its violent energy coursed through her body.

• Tang San told Dugu Yan and the others about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Life and Death Arena and urged them to use his Hidden Weapons if trapped.
• Tang San, Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Ye Lingling joined Da Ming and Er Ming’s attack on the tiger.
• The tiger trapped Dugu Yan in the Life and Death Arena, where she used Tang San’s Hidden Weapons to kill its six-year-old form.
• Dugu Yan returned to the valley as the Life and Death Arena collapsed, and Tang San caught the Evil God Pearl before it vanished into a spatial rift.
• Dugu Yan began absorbing the tiger’s Soul Ring, struggling to control its immense, clashing energies.

Tang San recovered a Soul Bone from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and discussed a possible path to the Divine Realm with Da Ming and Er Ming. After Dugu Yan reached level seventy-two by absorbing the tiger's Soul Ring, Tang San offered her the Evil God Pearl, and she chose to risk refining it.

• Tang San found and stored the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's intact left arm Soul Bone, while Da Ming explained that the tiger had challenged him over the Lake of Life.
• Tang San told Da Ming and Er Ming that Soul Sacrifice could let him resurrect them in the Divine Realm if he survived his Divine Examination, and both agreed to become his Soul Rings if that day came.
• Dugu Yan completed her Soul Ring absorption, reached level seventy-two, and gained her seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tang San explained that the Evil God Pearl might earn Dugu Yan the Evil God's recognition but could also overwhelm her with evil thoughts.
• Dugu Yan decided to swallow and refine the Evil God Pearl, confident she could master its power.

Dugu Yan devoured the Evil God Pearl, evolved her Martial Soul, and began the Evil God Nine Trials as Tang San and the others left the Star Dou Great Forest. In Spirit City, Qian Renxue received the Angel Nine Trials, while Bibi Dong continued working to restore her strength for the Rakshasa inheritance.

• Dugu Yan completed the five-day absorption of the Evil God Pearl, evolving her Jade Phosphorous Flood Dragon into the Jade Phosphorous Evil Dragon and triggering the Evil God Nine Trials.
• Dugu Yan's Eight Spider Lances evolved, and she told Tang San that she must defeat nine enemies in the Life and Death Arena to become the next Evil God.
• Tang San and the four girls thanked Da Ming and Er Ming and left the Star Dou Great Forest; along the way, Dugu Yan absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's left arm bone, raising her Soul Power to level seventy-four.
• After resting in a town near the forest, Tang San and the girls set out for Vast Sea City.
• Qian Renxue received the Angel Nine Trials in the Worship Hall, and Qian Daoliu told her she could begin the trials without first hunting for her eighth Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong emerged from the Rakshasa Secret Realm and continued cultivating toward level ninety-nine, which her Eighth Trial required her to regain on her own.

Tang San and the four girls reached Vast Sea City, secured passage to Sea God Island, and spent their five-day wait enjoying the beach and city. Before their ship departed, Shui Bing'er absorbed a powerful water-attribute Soul Bone and gained a new Soul Skill.

• Tang San and his companions arrived in Vast Sea City and found a ship to Sea God Island scheduled to leave in five days.
• Tang San took the four girls to the beach, where they swam, relaxed, and ate seafood together.
• Tang San exchanged three Wolf Bandit Soul Bones and a million Gold Soul Coins for a water-attribute left-leg Soul Bone over forty thousand years old.
• Shui Bing'er absorbed the Soul Bone, raised her Soul Power to level sixty-seven, and gained the area attack Soul Skill Ice Crystal Rain.
• Tang San and the four girls spent the remaining days enjoying themselves in Vast Sea City.

Tang San and the four girls completed a month-long voyage to Sea God Island, where Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu prepared to take the Sea God Trial. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan stepping forward to be tested by Sea Horse Douluo.

• Tang San and the four girls boarded Captain Bulus's ship and sailed from Vast Sea City toward Sea God Island.
• The month-long voyage passed peacefully, and the group reached the island beneath its seven-colored halo.
• A yellow-robed Soul Master escorted them from the docks to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and explained they had to cross the Sea Within the Sea to qualify for the trial.
• Shui Bing'er created an ice bridge across the pool, allowing the five of them to reach Sea Horse Douluo.
• Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu volunteered to take the Sea God Trial, and Dugu Yan stepped forward first.

Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu received Top-Tier Seven Trials, while Shui Bing'er received the Sea God's Nine Trials and its golden trident mark. Bo Saixi arrived and learned that Shui Bing'er was Tang San's wife and Tang Chen's descendant, then asked whether Tang San and Ye Lingling would also take the trial.

• Sea Horse Douluo tested Dugu Yan, whose trial became a Top-Tier Seven Trial.
• Xiao Wu received another Top-Tier Seven Trial, astonishing Sea Horse Douluo.
• Shui Bing'er underwent the test, and seven red pillars converged to grant her the Sea God's Nine Trials and a golden trident mark.
• Bo Saixi arrived at the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and recognized Shui Bing'er's golden mark as a Godhood Inheritance.
• Tang San introduced himself as Tang Chen's great-grandson and identified Shui Bing'er as the recipient of the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi asked Tang San and Ye Lingling whether they would also undergo Lord Sea God's trial.

Tang San and Ye Lingling entered the Forest of Life to begin their secret realm trial while Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu remained on Sea God Island for their own trials. Tang San began merging his consciousness with the forest’s roots.

• Bo Saixi instructed Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya to accommodate Tang San and his companions, and warned Shui Bing'er to complete a Sea God trial each year.
• Sea Horse Douluo settled the group in a courtyard in Seahorse City and explained where the women would begin their First Trials.
• Tang San told the women he would enter the secret realm with Ye Lingling, and they spent their last night together before separating.
• Tang San gave Xiao Wu the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Purse containing her needed Seventh Soul Ring, then entered the secret chamber with Ye Lingling.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling activated their Divine Imprints and arrived in the Forest of Life, where the forest guided them to two hollows.
• Roots wrapped around Tang San and Ye Lingling as Tang San let his consciousness travel through them and begin merging with the forest.

Tang San and Ye Lingling deepened their affinity with life, purified a darkness that was draining the forest, and then entered a graveyard of dead trees to understand the cycle of life and death. The chapter left them meditating among the stumps as they listened to the trees’ memories.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling completed their fusion with the forest’s life force, improving Ye Lingling’s healing ability and Tang San’s sensitivity to living things.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling searched a corrupted forest for the source of its draining life force, and Ye Lingling found darkness parasitizing an ancient tree on the fifty-sixth day.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Life Judgment, to purify the darkness and restore the ancient tree and surrounding vines.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling continued through the forest and reached a barren graveyard of dead plants and tree stumps.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling meditated in the graveyard, sensing the trees’ memories and learning how their remains nourished new life.

Tang San and Ye Lingling chose to save a dying ancient tree instead of taking its Soul Ring, then continued through the Forest of Life toward its final trial. They entered Paradise Road, defeated a powerful Soul Beast, and came face-to-face with a strange golden sunflower blocking the way.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling rejected the temptation to kill a three-hundred-thousand-year-old ancient tree and spent three months restoring it with their vitality.
• After healing the tree, Tang San and Ye Lingling continued through the forest and reached a valley called Paradise Road.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling entered the valley, where Tang San defeated a forty-thousand-year-old Plant-type Soul Beast with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling advanced into a bright clearing and found an enormous golden sunflower with a rotating sphere of light blocking their path.

Tang San helped Ye Lingling defeat an eighty-thousand-year-old Sunflower, allowing her to gain a Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, and higher Soul Power. As they crossed Paradise Road, its overwhelming life energy trapped them in a two-month state of union until Tang San regained his senses and carried Ye Lingling toward the exit, where the ancient tree from the previous stage blocked their way.

• Tang San restrained the Sunflower with Blue Silver vines, and Ye Lingling plucked it and absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level seventy-four and gaining her seventh Soul Ring.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Sunflower's left leg Soul Bone, reached level seventy-five, and gained the Solar Radiance Foot skill.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling succumbed to Paradise Road's life energy and remained united for two months, losing track of their Divine Examination.
• Tang San remembered Qian Renxue, Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu, realized Paradise Road was consuming them, and pulled Ye Lingling away.
• Tang San used the Blue Silver Domain to shield them from the valley's life energy and carried Ye Lingling toward the exit.
• Tang San reached the end of the valley, where the ancient tree they had revived in the previous stage stood in their path.

Tang San defeated the three-hundred-thousand-year-old ancient tree in the Forest of Life, then absorbed its Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone. After reaching Soul Power level eighty-five and gaining powerful new abilities, he sensed the ancient tree’s lesson about balancing the giving of life.

• Tang San laid the dazed Ye Lingling on the grass, and the ancient tree explained that he had to kill it to leave the trial and learn the lesson of balance.
• Tang San fought the ancient tree for a day and a night, pierced its trunk with the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, and received its final acknowledgment as a victor.
• Ye Lingling woke, remembered what had happened on Paradise Road, and healed Tang San after he told her he needed her help.
• Tang San absorbed the ancient tree’s three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power to level eighty-five and greatly increasing his vitality and Spiritual Power.
• Tang San examined his eighth Soul Skill and learned that Myriad Wood Dominion let him control nearby plants, while Myriad Wood Assimilation let him reconstitute himself through plants within a hundred li.

After a year in the Forest of Life, Tang San and Ye Lingling returned to Sea God Island with new domains and reunited with Xiao Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Dugu Yan. The women described their progress in the Sea God trials, while Tang San prepared to take them to train in the Abyss of Destruction.

• Tang San gained the Life Prediction and Life Insight skills, then left the Forest of Life with Ye Lingling through its gate of light.
• Tang San discovered that his Blue Silver Domain had become the Life Domain, while Ye Lingling awakened the Healing Domain.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling returned to Sea God Island and reunited with Xiao Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Dugu Yan.
• Shui Bing'er reported reaching level seventy-six, gaining her Ice Phoenix True Body and Ice Phoenix Domain, and completing her first trial.
• Dugu Yan reported reaching level eighty and receiving a God-Given Soul Ring, while Xiao Wu described absorbing a Three-Eyed Demon Fox Soul Ring and reaching level seventy-five.
• Tang San proposed that the group enter the Abyss of Destruction to train.

Dugu Yan began absorbing a God-Given Soul Ring on Sea God Island while Tang San considered moving ahead with the next trial if the process took too long. In Slaughter City, Zhang San poisoned the blood pool, and the wounded Tang Chen escaped to Sea God Island, where he reunited with Bo Saixi near the end of his life.

• Dugu Yan crushed the God-Given Soul Ring and began absorbing it as Tang San planned to rest and wait, though he would proceed with Ye Lingling if she was not finished after a month.
• Zhang San poured his compound poison into Slaughter City's blood pool, and the poison spread through the city, killing fallen ones.
• The King of Slaughter attacked Zhang San and Hu Liena, but Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo intervened and gravely wounded him, taking the Asura Demon Sword.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King abandoned the dying King of Slaughter, allowing Tang Chen to regain control of his body and flee toward Sea God Island.
• Three days later, Tang Chen arrived on Sea God Mountain, where Bo Saixi recognized and embraced him as he apologized for keeping her waiting.

Tang San and Ye Lingling used their Life Blessing Martial Soul Fusion Skill to resurrect Tang Chen after he died on Sea God Island. The power left both of them unconscious, while Tang Chen recovered his strength and joined Bo Saixi in taking them to Seahorse City.

• Bo Saixi summoned Tang San after Tang Chen arrived on Sea God Island.
• Tang Chen told Tang San how he had escaped Slaughter City, then died from his injuries.
• Tang San offered to resurrect Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi promised to protect him and help with his Divine Examinations.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling used Life Blessing, restoring Tang Chen's health and strength while exhausting themselves.
• Tang Chen and Bo Saixi carried the unconscious Tang San and Ye Lingling to Seahorse City, where Xiao Wu stayed by Tang San's bedside.

After returning from Slaughter City, Zhang San and Hu Liena reported to Bibi Dong, who explained the city’s role and ordered them to master Divine Slaughter’s Domain. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue advanced through the Angel Nine Trials and privately longed for Tang San.

• Tang Chen reunited with Bo Saixi after his great-grandson helped bring him back to life.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo helped Zhang San and Hu Liena obtain their Sixth Soul Rings on the way to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong rebuked Zhang San for destroying Slaughter City, explained its function as a prison, and gave him and Hu Liena a year to master Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Bibi Dong planned to send Soul Master legions into the principalities near Slaughter City and considered the Asura Demon Sword a potential opportunity.
• Qian Renxue completed the First Trial of the Angel Nine Trials, raised her God-Given Soul Ring to the hundred-thousand-year level, and reached level eighty-seven.
• Qian Renxue began the Second Trial and privately longed for Tang San as she watched the sunset.

After recovering from the resurrection, Tang San and Ye Lingling prepared to leave Sea God Island for the Abyss of Destruction while Shui Bing'er, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan continued their trials. Dugu Yan emerged from seclusion with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and a powerful new Soul Skill, and Tang San said farewell to the group before departing.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling fully recovered, while Shui Bing'er and Xiao Wu practiced crossing the Ring Sea and Dugu Yan remained in seclusion.
• Tang Chen recovered and reunited with Bo Saixi, and he told Tang San he would wait until Tang San finished his trials before returning to the continent.
• Dugu Yan emerged from seclusion with eight Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and reached level eighty-three with the Soul Skill Evil Dragon Annihilation Strike.
• Tang San told Dugu Yan about the past two months and announced that he and Ye Lingling would set off for the Abyss of Destruction.
• Shui Bing'er and Xiao Wu promised to continue preparing for their trials, and Tang San embraced the four women before they went into the bedroom together.

Tang San and Ye Lingling entered the Abyss of Destruction, where its energy steadily corroded Tang San’s body and consciousness. After months of enduring the trial and fighting Soul Beasts, Tang San learned to guide destruction energy through himself, but the passage ahead began to attack his mind.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling activated their Divine Imprints and arrived in a vast underground passage filled with destruction energy.
• As they traveled deeper, the energy damaged Tang San’s skin, muscles, bones, meridians, and Soul Power, while Ye Lingling used the Nine Heart Begonia Emperor to heal him.
• Tang San fought the frenzied Soul Beasts to release the destruction energy accumulating inside him, and their fragments were absorbed into his body.
• By the sixtieth day, Tang San’s body and Soul Power had begun adapting to the destruction energy.
• By the ninetieth day, Tang San could guide the energy into his Clear Sky Hammer, and he discovered that accepting and directing it reduced its corrosive effects.
• In the sixth month, Tang San defeated the last Abyss Giant Python, then found that the destruction energy ahead was beginning to invade his consciousness.

Tang San endured the Abyss of Destruction’s assault on his emotions with Ye Lingling’s support, then bound its destructive power to his Clear Sky Hammer and awakened the Destruction Domain. After a year and a month, they returned to Sea God Island with stronger cultivation and a new balance between Tang San’s powers of life and destruction.

• The abyss stirred Tang San’s anger, fear, and urge to destroy, but Ye Lingling steadied him and helped him resist losing control.
• Tang San learned to master his destructive emotions as he and Ye Lingling traveled through the abyss for nearly a year.
• At a cavern altar, Tang San spent a month merging the accumulated power of destruction into his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San awakened the Destruction Domain, which weakened enemies and strengthened him, and balanced its power with the Life Domain.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling returned to the secret chamber on Sea God Island; Tang San reached level eighty-seven, and Ye Lingling reached level seventy-eight.

Tang San and Ye Lingling received their second divine trials, requiring them to experience six full lives in the Reincarnation Realm. After visiting Shui Bing'er, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan during their Sea God trials, Tang San and Ye Lingling began the Cycle of Life and Death assessment.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling passed their first trials and received second trials requiring six complete lives in different worlds.
• Tang San concluded that the reincarnations would strengthen his soul for the powers of life and destruction, then left the secret chamber with Ye Lingling.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling found Shui Bing'er, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan undergoing Tidal Body Tempering at the Raging Waves Desperate Realm.
• Shui Bing'er, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan told Tang San about passing their second trials and enduring six months of grueling body tempering.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling rested for five days, then began the Cycle of Life and Death assessment.

Bibi Dong formally anointed Zhang San and Hu Liena as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and Saintess, angering Qian Renxue, who believed the papacy should be hers. Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong and left vowing to prove her claim to Spirit Hall, but Bibi Dong ordered her to stop.

• After more than a year of training, Zhang San and Hu Liena mastered Divine Slaughter's Domain and reached Soul Power Levels 64 and 65.
• Bibi Dong anointed Zhang San as Holy Son and Hu Liena as Saintess, naming them heirs to the papacy.
• Qian Renxue heard the news after completing her Angel Body Tempering trial and became furious that Bibi Dong had chosen heirs without her.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong at the Pope's Palace, calling Zhang San and Hu Liena unworthy and challenging Bibi Dong's authority to choose the next Pope.
• Bibi Dong defended her decision, while Qian Renxue declared that the Worship Hall would reject the appointments and that she would prove who was Spirit Hall's true master.
• As Qian Renxue turned to leave, Bibi Dong ordered her to stop.