Chapter Summaries

Toad Tang San learned that his red-grade inheritance showed great potential, then received two trials requiring him to hunt the Toad clan for Essence Blood and soul bones. Convinced the trials would strengthen him and prepare him for the divine throne, he left to build a boat and escape Sea God Island.

• Toad Tang San asked Evil Emperor why the red light at the Sacred Pillar had vanished, and Evil Emperor claimed the light reflected his exceptional potential and that he already had another divine trial.
• Toad Tang San asked what talent was required for Evil Emperor's divine trial, but Evil Emperor dismissed his Spiritual Power as too weak.
• Toad Tang San activated the statue and received trials to collect the Toad clan's Essence Blood and six Toad soul bones.
• Evil Emperor told Toad Tang San that the trials would purify his bloodline and provide soul bones suited to his future Divine Armor, and Tang San eagerly accepted the explanation.
• After Evil Emperor sent him away, Toad Tang San decided to leave Sea God Island and began building a boat by striking trees.

After surviving a year at sea, Toad Tang San returned to Heaven Dou City and ordered a mass hunt for toads to gather materials for his god trials. The hunt began across Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San claimed the soul bones did not need to be old and left Ning Fengzhi puzzled.

• Toad Tang San’s boat capsized, but he used Toad Possession to survive underwater and swam toward shore.
• After nearly a year at sea, Toad Tang San reached land, rested, and traveled to Heaven Dou City.
• Toad Tang San asked Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi to send forces into Star Dou Great Forest to kill toads and collect their Essence Blood and soul bones.
• Heaven Dou and Star Luo troops and several sects began a large-scale toad hunt, while Ah Yin and the others in Shadow Hall continued lying low.
• Toad Tang San told Ning Fengzhi and Yu Xiao Gang that toad soul bones were needed to obtain Divine Armor and said their age did not matter, as the senior overseeing his trial had instructed him.

Toad Tang San’s allies slaughtered toads across the Star Dou Great Forest to gather essence blood and soul bones for his divine trial. After two months, they returned with a barrel of blood and more than a dozen low-aged soul bones, and Toad Tang San said he did not care about their ages.

• Toad Tang San told Ning Fengzhi that the gathered soul bones would become Divine Armor when he completed his divine trial.
• Bone Douluo and Yu Luomian decided to lead their forces deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest and continue hunting toads for Toad Tang San’s trial.
• Ah Rou told Er Ming to leave the toad hunters alone, but to protect any toads that reached the Lake of Life without letting them approach it.
• Heaven Dou and Star Luo forces spent more than two months nearly wiping out the Star Dou Great Forest’s toads and collecting their blood and soul bones.
• Bone Douluo presented Toad Tang San with a barrel of essence blood and more than a dozen soul bones, the oldest only about a hundred years old.
• Toad Tang San eagerly accepted the low-aged soul bones, while Bone Douluo realized he did not intend to absorb them.

Toad Tang San absorbed six low-level soul bones and refined toad Essence Blood in hopes of advancing his Divine Armor trial, while Xu Xin reunited with Gu Yuena and the Snow Empress in Ghost Shadow Kingdom. Toad Tang San received two trial rewards and eagerly awaited the next trial, while Gu Yuena brought the awkward Snow Empress to meet the other sisters.

• Toad Tang San rejected offers of stronger soul bones and chose six weak pieces because he believed they would help him obtain Divine Armor.
• Toad Tang San soaked in toad Essence Blood and absorbed the six soul bones, but neither process strengthened him.
• The Evil Emperor announced that Toad Tang San had completed the third and fourth trials, raising his Toad Heavenly Emperor compatibility by ten percent for each.
• Toad Tang San celebrated reaching forty percent compatibility and anticipated completing the remaining trials so he could revive Xiao Wu.
• After nearly two years, Xu Xin appeared in Ghost Shadow Kingdom and reunited with Gu Yuena and the Snow Empress.
• Gu Yuena teased the Snow Empress about Xu Xin, then took her to meet the other sisters.

After gathering all nine mask bearers, Xu Xin prepared them to begin their final inheritance trials. He gave them onions and garlic and told them to chant “Demons and monsters, begone!” if they struggled, then sent them into the Ghost Shadow Kingdom.

• Xu Xin recalled how he survived General Minta’s trial by using his father’s “Demons and monsters, begone!” incantation.
• Xu Xin reunited with the women at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, spent a month with them, and accompanied Snow Empress and the others on a trip to the Far North.
• Xu Xin summoned Liu Erlong, bringing all nine mask bearers together at Shadow Hall to discuss their final inheritance trials.
• Xu Xin told the group to arrange their duties before pursuing their inheritances together, and the others went to settle their affairs.
• Xu Xin transported the nine mask bearers to thrones in the Ghost Shadow Kingdom and gave them onions and garlic to use with his incantation if they could not defeat their ninth trials.

Dugu Yan traveled to Sea God Island to find Feng Xiaotian and fought Xiao Bai, while Evil Emperor tricked Toad Tang San into completing 10,000 kowtows to unlock two god trials. The trials required Tang San to acknowledge Tang Hao as kin and absorb a plant Spirit Beast soul ring, setting a trap whose outcome remained uncertain.

• Dugu Xin took charge of Shadow Hall while Xu Xin and the others entered the final god trial, leaving Titled Douluo and the Ghost Shadow Legion to protect the hall.
• Dugu Yan summoned a Ninja Soldier to take her to Sea God Island, where she declared she wanted Shadow Hall to claim the island and asked Xiao Bai to lead her to Feng Xiaotian and the others.
• Xiao Bai attacked Dugu Yan with a wave, and Dugu Yan summoned her Flood Dragon Martial Soul to fight back.
• Evil Emperor told Toad Tang San that 10,000 kowtows would unlock his fifth and sixth trials, then deceived him into believing the ritual improved his Spiritual Power.
• Toad Tang San completed the kowtows and fainted before hearing that his trials required him to acknowledge Tang Hao as kin and absorb a plant Spirit Beast soul ring.

After waking from the Evil Emperor’s trial, Toad Tang San learned that his divine test required him to acknowledge Tang Hao as his father and sought Yu Xiao Gang’s advice. They decided to turn the acknowledgment into a public strategy for revenge and discussed completing the test to add a Plant Spirit Beast soul ring to his Second Martial Soul.

• Toad Tang San woke after three days unconscious and discovered that his divine test required him to acknowledge Tang Hao as his father.
• Toad Tang San went to Yu Xiao Gang, who suggested the test was meant to bring him close enough to Tang Hao to take revenge.
• Toad Tang San agreed with Yu Xiao Gang that he should make the acknowledgment a major public affair so Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect could not reject him.
• Toad Tang San told Yu Xiao Gang that his sixth test required a Plant Spirit Beast soul ring for his Second Martial Soul, and Yu Xiao Gang approved the plan.

Toad Tang San completed his sixth divine trial by absorbing three hundred-year plant spirit beast soul rings after failing to endure stronger ones. Meanwhile, Yu Xiao Gang told Ning Fengzhi that Toad Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and raised the mystery of the Clear Sky Sect fire.

• Yu Xiao Gang sent Toad Tang San to hunt plant spirit beasts with Yu Luomian while he went to speak with Ning Fengzhi.
• Yu Luomian brought Toad Tang San increasingly weaker spirit beasts, but Toad Tang San could not absorb rings older than a hundred years.
• Toad Tang San decided the divine trial must account for his limits and absorbed three hundred-year soul rings successfully.
• The Evil Emperor announced that Toad Tang San had completed his sixth trial and warned that his remaining Second Martial Soul rings must also come from plant spirit beasts.
• Yu Xiao Gang told Ning Fengzhi that Toad Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and asked him to reconsider the old Clear Sky Sect fire.

Yu Xiao Gang told Ning Fengzhi that Tang Hao’s cursed Ninth Soul Ring and the fire at Clear Sky Sect had left Xiao San alive with A Jing, revealing that Xiao San was Tang Hao’s son. Ning Fengzhi gathered powerful allies and confronted Tang Hao at Clear Sky Sect, where Yu Xiao Gang announced the truth.

• Ning Fengzhi pressed Yu Xiao Gang about the fire at Clear Sky Sect and learned that Tang Hao’s Ninth Soul Ring was a white ten-year ring, not a hundred-thousand-year one.
• Yu Xiao Gang claimed a curse had affected Tang Hao and A Jing’s child, Xiao San, and that A Jing had escaped the fire with him.
• Ning Fengzhi considered whether Tang Hao would acknowledge Xiao San and agreed to help force the matter into the open.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Xiao Gang brought Sect Master Yu, Star Luo, and Qinghe’s representatives to Clear Sky Sect to meet Tang Hao and the sect leaders.
• Yu Xiao Gang told Tang Hao, Tang Zhan, and Tang Xiao that Xiao San was Tang Hao’s son.

Yu Xiao Gang claimed that Toad Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and a blood test confirmed the relationship. Tang Hao refused to accept him and struck him, leaving the Clear Sky Sect’s reaction unresolved.

• Yu Xiao Gang announced that Toad Tang San was Tang Hao’s child, citing his mutated Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Hao’s Ninth Soul Ring, and a divine trial.
• Tang Zhan and Tang Xiao questioned Yu Xiao Gang’s claim, while Tang Hao denied having a child and resisted believing the gods.
• Yu Xiao Gang insisted that A Jing had survived and urged Tang Hao to test his blood against Toad Tang San’s.
• Yu Luomian brought Toad Tang San to the Clear Sky Sect, where he struggled to suppress his killing intent toward Tang Hao.
• Toad Tang San and Tang Hao’s blood fused in Ink-Silver Water, confirming they were related.
• Tang Hao rejected Toad Tang San as his son and slapped him, sending him flying.

Tang Hao abused Toad Tang San before acknowledging him as his son to complete the divine trial, then insisted that he stay at the Clear Sky Sect. Toad Tang San agreed reluctantly, and Yu Xiao Gang chose to stay with him.

• Tang Hao slapped Toad Tang San and dismissed Yu Xiao Gang when he protested.
• Tang Hao struck Toad Tang San again and blasted Yu Xiao Gang away when he tried to intervene.
• Tang Hao announced that he acknowledged Toad Tang San, completing the fifth divine trial and increasing Toad Heavenly Emperor compatibility by 10%.
• Tang Zhan invited Toad Tang San to stay at the Clear Sky Sect for an ancestral recognition ceremony, but Toad Tang San initially refused.
• Tang Hao urged Toad Tang San to stay so they could build their relationship, and Yu Xiao Gang offered to stay as his teacher.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested that everyone stay to witness Toad Tang San's return to his ancestral roots.

Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and the others stayed at the Clear Sky Sect to protect Toad Tang San, while Tang Hao and Tang Zhan privately discussed doubts about his parentage. Toad Tang San poisoned the sect grounds to get revenge on Tang Hao, but the Evil Emperor summoned him for his trial before he could deal with the consequences.

• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Xue Qinghe, and Dai Weisi insisted on staying at the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Zhan agreed to host them.
• Tang Zhan questioned Tang Hao about whether Toad Tang San was really his child and what Yu Xiao Gang had meant about his ninth soul ring, but Tang Hao dismissed both questions.
• Yu Xiao Gang invited Toad Tang San to stay with him for safety and urged him to prepare for his remaining divine trials.
• After Yu Xiao Gang left, Toad Tang San took a poisoned silver needle and discreetly flicked it into a patch of earth, intending to make Tang Hao pay.
• The Evil Emperor pulled Toad Tang San into the inheritance space and ordered him to continue kowtowing, leaving him anxious that the poison would be discovered while he was away.

Toad Tang San accepted the Evil Emperor’s demand and spent fifteen days kowtowing until he awakened two divine trials, while poison from his hidden silver needles spread through the Clear Sky Sect. After waking, he concealed his involvement and learned that his new trials called for revenge against the sect and for Yu Xiao Gang to remain with Dai Mubai.

• Toad Tang San chose to continue the divine trials and completed 99,999 kowtows, awakening his seventh and eighth trials after fifteen days.
• Poison from Toad Tang San’s silver needles spread through the Clear Sky Sect, killing insects and threatening to contaminate its territory.
• Yang Wudi identified the poisoned area and warned Tang Xiao that the poison was spreading, prompting Tang Xiao to order the area sealed and an antidote developed.
• Toad Tang San awoke after more than two weeks unconscious and told Yu Xiao Gang that he had been undertaking divine trials.
• Tang Xiao questioned Toad Tang San about his collapse, and Toad Tang San claimed ignorance while revealing the trials’ goals of ravaging the Clear Sky Sect and keeping Yu Xiao Gang with Dai Mubai.

Toad Tang San pretended to offer help with the Clear Sky Sect’s poisoning while privately plotting to use it to complete his divine trial and destroy the sect. He asked Yu Xiao Gang to gather materials for a plan to make the poison spread again after they left.

• Tang Xiao and the others learned that Toad Tang San’s divine trials were nearing completion and told him the Clear Sky Sect had been poisoned.
• Toad Tang San offered to inspect the poison, and Tang Xiao agreed to let Elder Yang take him to investigate after he rested.
• After the others left, Yu Xiao Gang asked whether Toad Tang San had poisoned the sect, but Toad Tang San denied it.
• Toad Tang San told Yu Xiao Gang that his seventh trial required them to persecute the Clear Sky Sect, and they agreed to seek its destruction.
• Toad Tang San said Snowy Swan Kiss could kill even Titled Douluo and asked Yu Xiao Gang to have Grandpa Yu secretly gather materials for a poison plan.

Toad Tang San planned to use his venom to make the Clear Sky Sect poison even more lethal, while pretending to help investigate it. After Yu Xiao Gang brought him herbs, Toad Tang San completed his poison and waited for a chance to use it.

• Toad Tang San asked Yu Xiao Gang to obtain ingredients, then sent him to ask Grandpa Yu when Yu Xiao Gang did not recognize them.
• Yang Wudi visited Toad Tang San with a sample of the poison afflicting the Clear Sky Sect, and Toad Tang San identified it as a mixture of dozens of poisonous insects.
• Toad Tang San asked Yang Wudi for medicinal herbs, claiming he needed them to study the poison and find a remedy.
• Toad Tang San secretly requested different herbs from Yang Wudi and Yu Xiao Gang, planning to combine the poison with his own venom.
• Yu Xiao Gang returned the next evening with the herbs, and Toad Tang San spent the night making poison from the pus collected from his wounds.
• Toad Tang San finished the poison and waited for an opportunity to poison the Clear Sky Sect.

Toad Tang San helped Yang Wudi prepare an antidote, then secretly added more poison to the Clear Sky Sect before being named its Young Sect Master and leaving. A week later, the poison erupted across the sect, killing many members overnight.

• Yang Wudi told Toad Tang San that a poisoned silver needle had caused the sect’s poisoning, and they spent three days preparing an antidote.
• Toad Tang San and Yang Wudi cleared the poison, but Toad Tang San secretly scattered more of his poison across the area Yang Wudi had handled.
• Tang Zhan named Toad Tang San the Clear Sky Sect’s Young Sect Master after the ceremony to acknowledge his return to the clan.
• Toad Tang San told Yu Xiao Gang that the poison would erupt in a week, then left the sect three days later.
• Tang Hao searched Toad Tang San’s former quarters but found no evidence of his suspicions.
• After nightfall, Toad Tang San’s poison spread through the Clear Sky Sect, and members across the sect convulsed, vomited blood, and died.

Toad Tang San poisoned the Clear Sky Sect, killing nearly all its members, while Tang Hao blamed him and Tang Zhan went to seek him. At Shadow Hall, Tang Yuehua learned of the catastrophe and was shaken by the report.

• Poison gas spread through the Clear Sky Sect, killing most of its members, and Tang Xiao ordered the survivors evacuated while he contained the toxins.
• Yang Wudi recognized the poison as exceptionally dangerous, and Tang Hao accused Toad Tang San of causing the attack before Tang Xiao and Tang Zhan stopped him.
• Tang Zhan headed to Heaven Dou City to find Toad Tang San, who celebrated with Yu Xiao Gang and admitted his poison had crippled the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ye Qinglong summoned Tang Yuehua and gave her the intelligence report about the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, alarming her.

Tang Yuehua sent Clear Sky Sect a final letter explaining the poisoning and making clear that she would not return, while Tang Hao set out to confront Tang San. Tang San and Yu Xiao Gang remained unaware that Tang Hao was coming, and Tang San considered how to fulfill his eighth trial.

• Tang Yuehua asked Ye Qinglong to deliver a letter to Clear Sky Sect, then let go of her resentment and returned to Shadow Hall.
• A Ninja Soldier delivered Tang Yuehua’s letter to Tang Xiao, who read it aloud to Tang Hao; both understood that she would not come back.
• Tang Hao blamed Tang San for the poisoning and, despite Tang Xiao’s warning, left for the Heaven Dou Empire to make Tang San suffer.
• Tang San celebrated with Yu Xiao Gang and predicted Clear Sky Sect would soon ask him to cure the poison.
• Tang San thought about his eighth trial and concluded that death was the way for two people to remain together forever.

Toad Tang San and Yu Xiao Gang secretly poisoned the Clear Sky Sect again, but Tang Hao confronted them before they could reach it. He seized Toad Tang San and produced a letter accusing his grandson of wrongdoing, then turned his murderous attention toward Yu Xiao Gang.

• Toad Tang San told Yu Xiao Gang that his eighth trial was connected to him, but Tang Zhan arrived and reported that the Clear Sky Sect's poison had returned and bodies were everywhere.
• Toad Tang San and Yu Xiao Gang pretended to be alarmed and set out with Tang Zhan, while Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Bone Douluo joined them.
• Tang Hao appeared on the way and attacked Toad Tang San with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Yu Yuanzhen and Bone Douluo stopped the blow.
• Tang Hao grabbed Toad Tang San by the neck as Yu Xiao Gang, Ning Fengzhi, and Tang Zhan demanded that he stop.
• Tang Hao gave Tang Zhan a letter accusing Toad Tang San of what he had done, tightened his grip, and turned his murderous gaze toward Yu Xiao Gang.

Tang Hao and Tang Zhan punished Toad Tang San and Yu Xiao Gang after Tang Zhan read a letter blaming them for what happened to the Clear Sky Sect. Ning Fengzhi kept the two alive to preserve Tang San’s divine trial, leaving Tang Hao and Ning Fengzhi trading accusations.

• Tang Hao seized Yu Xiao Gang, and Tang Zhan read a letter that convinced him Tang San and Yu Xiao Gang had harmed the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Zhan slapped Yu Xiao Gang and threatened Yu Yuanzhen, who read the letter and ultimately chose not to intervene.
• Tang Hao shattered Toad Tang San’s limbs, while Tang Zhan crushed Yu Xiao Gang’s arms, and both injected Killing Intent into their hearts.
• Tang Hao shattered every bone in both men’s bodies, but Ning Fengzhi used his support ability to keep them alive.
• Tang Hao accused Ning Fengzhi of protecting a ruthless man for the sake of his divine trial, and Ning Fengzhi retorted that Tang Hao was worse than a beast for denying his son.