Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming prepared to face the five hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation while Evil Lord tried to persuade him to become a Soul Spirit. Jiang Ming refused because he did not trust Evil Lord, then met the limit-level lightning head-on with his Martial Soul released and stood unharmed amid the thunder.

• The Snow Empress warned Jiang Ming that the five hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation rivaled a Limit Douluo, and Jiang Ming prepared to use his Martial Soul.
• Jiang Ming mocked Evil Lord, who urged him to become a Soul Spirit and promised to strengthen his soul, but Jiang Ming refused because their past conflicts had destroyed his trust.
• Jiang Ming spent three days preparing and exchanging Soul Tool ideas with the Snow Empress as the tribulation clouds gathered and the spectators retreated.
• The five hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation arrived, and Jiang Ming charged into it with his Golden Armor and Spirit Rings released.
• Jiang Ming remained standing in the lightning, and Evil Lord cursed that the Heavenly Tribulation could not strike him dead.

Jiang Ming endured the fifth heavenly tribulation and spent several days comprehending its Lightning Laws while Evil Lord’s cultivation continued to rise. As the sixth tribulation descended, Jiang Ming awakened and used six Spirit Skills, including the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s Body of Lightning, to test whether his lightning could resemble the tribulation.

• Evil Lord watched Jiang Ming survive the fifth heavenly tribulation and resented him for refusing to make him a soul spirit.
• Jiang Ming sat on the icy mountain and comprehended the Lightning Laws, while Snow Empress guarded his Sea of Consciousness and Little Prison and Rongrong studied the lightning through the Spirit Bone.
• The tribulations kept Shrek City and Shrek Academy under dark clouds for more than ten days, prompting Zhang Lexuan to announce a one-month suspension of normal activities.
• Mu En warned that the sixth heavenly tribulation was approaching as Evil Lord’s converted Soul Power Cultivation reached eight hundred and sixty thousand years.
• Jiang Ming awoke just before the sixth tribulation and activated six Spirit Skills, including Body of Lightning, to test whether his transformed lightning would resemble the heavenly tribulation.

Jiang Ming endured Evil Lord’s heavenly lightning tribulation, barely restraining himself from charging into the thunderclouds after Snow Empress warned him. As Evil Lord approached a breakthrough to nine hundred thousand years, Di Tian warned that he might break the seal and self-destruct, putting everyone in Shrek City at risk.

• Jiang Ming transformed into lightning to test his insights, but the tribulation struck him directly and forced him out of his lightning form.
• Jiang Ming’s bloodline power battled the lightning as he tempered his body, and Snow Empress stopped him from charging into the thunderclouds.
• Jiang Ming meditated in midair to keep the lightning around him from loosening Evil Lord’s iceberg seal.
• Di Tian sensed Evil Lord nearing an eight-hundred-seventy-thousand-year cultivation and predicted that he could reach nine hundred thousand years during the eighth tribulation.
• Di Tian explained that Evil Lord could break the seal and self-destruct if the stronger tribulation made death inevitable, killing everyone nearby except Di Tian, Mu En, Niu Tian, and Jiang Ming.
• Lei Yaoyang and other experts urged their leaders to leave before the situation turned deadly.

As Evil Lord’s seventh heavenly tribulation approached, the empires and sects debated whether to flee or remain, while Shrek Academy evacuated the city. Jiang Ming prepared to face the tribulation with the Snow Empress, determined to help her overcome the trial she had once failed.

• The Dou Ling prince wanted to leave, but Heavenly Sun Douluo persuaded him to stay through the seventh lightning tribulation before departing.
• Xu Jiu Jiu and Princess Vina chose to remain as representatives of their empires, while Ning Jie sent Ning Tian away and decided to stay himself.
• Di Tian watched the factions’ reactions and revealed that he believed he could stop the wounded Evil Lord if necessary.
• Zhang Lexuan evacuated Shrek Academy’s defensive lines and the residents of Shrek City, while Yan Shaozhe stayed with Jing Hongchen and played Go as they awaited the tribulation.
• Jiang Ming absorbed the restorative energy in the thunder and prepared to help the Snow Empress shatter the Seven Hundred-Thousand-Year heavenly tribulation.
• As the seventh lightning tribulation began to gather, Jiang Ming activated his Martial Soul Avatar, Golden Heart Second Awakening, and Golden Battle Body.

Jiang Ming caught the seventh heavenly tribulation with his Qi and Blood Manifestation, endured its assault while advancing his Body Sect secret technique, then joined Snow Empress to tear the lightning apart. As the eighth tribulation gathered, Jiang Ming recovered and then rushed toward the sealed Evil Lord instead of confronting the next lightning strike.

• Jiang Ming used his Qi and Blood Manifestation to seize the purple seventh tribulation, and the lightning ravaged both the manifestation and his body.
• Jiang Ming asked Snow Empress to control the manifestation while he cultivated the Body Sect innate secret technique under the lightning's assault.
• As the tribulation weakened, Jiang Ming and Snow Empress joined forces to tear the purple lightning apart.
• Jiang Ming recovered as the eighth tribulation gathered, while the watching powerhouses departed and Evil Lord's cultivation neared Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year.
• Jiang Ming reached peak condition, then dove toward Evil Lord sealed within the iceberg.

Jiang Ming revealed that he had never planned to endure Evil Lord’s eighth tribulation and instead unleashed Evil Lord’s Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year aura to provoke an enhanced heavenly tribulation. He interrupted Evil Lord’s attempted Self-Destruction, then destroyed his consciousness as the lightning struck, leaving Evil Lord dead and Jiang Ming poised to claim his Spirit Ring.

• Jiang Ming opened the iceberg seal, exposing Evil Lord’s Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura and causing the heavenly tribulation to grow stronger and retarget him.
• Ning Jie, Lei Yaoyang, Wang Xian'er, and other observers watched from a hundred li away while discussing the courage of the Princesses and the power of the Clear Sky Sect and Wang Qiuer’s father.
• Evil Lord despaired at the enhanced tribulation, gathered Heaven and Earth Yuan Power, and tried to build up a Self-Destruction that would take Jiang Ming with him.
• Jiang Ming used Black Tortoise Suppresses Sea and Fire Phoenix Roars at Heavens to interrupt Evil Lord’s charge, then used White Tiger Mirror Image to alter the tribulation’s strike.
• The heavenly tribulation struck Evil Lord and scattered his accumulated power, after which Jiang Ming stacked Spiritual Seal with the Soul Cultivation Transfer Array and destroyed Evil Lord’s Sea of Consciousness.

Jiang Ming killed Evil Lord during the beast’s tribulation, secured his Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, and waited out the lingering tribulation clouds. As he prepared to absorb the ring, he learned that his seventh Deity Trial was complete.

• Jiang Ming used hidden safeguards to prevent Evil Lord from self-destructing and pulled the beast’s body away before the eighth tribulation lightning bolt struck.
• Evil Lord died, leaving a shattered corpse and a Spirit Ring marked with nine golden stripes, proving it had reached Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation.
• Jiang Ming gathered the remaining lightning into a gemstone for Snow Empress, intending to use it to repair the Sky Piercer Spear.
• Jiang Ming and the watching Shrek Academy experts braced for another strike, but the tribulation clouds parted and the sky cleared.
• Di Tian questioned Wang Qiuer about Jiang Ming’s schemes, and Wang Qiuer admitted that she had pursued him.
• As Jiang Ming prepared to absorb Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring, a voice announced that his Seventh Trial of Deity was complete.

After the Thunder God confronted the Sun God and War God over Jiang Ming’s interference with Evil Lord’s tribulation, they agreed to let the matter go and discussed the risks and rewards of Jiang Ming’s inheritance trials. Jiang Ming completed the Seventh Trial and prepared to absorb Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring, which Dai Mubai revealed would be upgraded to a Million-Year Spirit Ring.

• The Thunder God explained that Jiang Ming had violated the rules by using Evil Lord’s tribulation to temper his body, but he spared him after the Sun God and War God intervened.
• The Sun God and War God discussed their worries about Jiang Ming’s reckless behavior and reaffirmed their decision to make him their inheritor.
• The Sun God and War God struggled to choose rewards for Jiang Ming’s Seventh Trial before settling on two rewards.
• Jiang Ming waited for his trial reward, then sat down to absorb Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring as Zhang Lexuan, Elder Mu, and Xuan Zi guarded him.
• Dai Mubai warned Jiang Ming about the Thunder God and announced that the Seventh Trial was complete, with God of War Affinity among the rewards.
• Dai Mubai said he would raise Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring from Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year to a Million-Year.

Dai Mubai raised Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring to a million years, and Jiang Ming prepared to absorb it despite the immense danger. The transformation succeeded, leaving a black-gold Million-Year Spirit Ring before him.

• Dai Mubai offered to raise Evil Lord’s Nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring to a million years, and Jiang Ming judged that his spiritual and physical strength could withstand absorbing it.
• Dai Mubai’s divine light struck the Spirit Ring, awakening Evil Lord’s remnant soul, which raged against Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming used Fiery Golden Eyes and Ruler of the World to drag Evil Lord’s remnant soul into karmic fire while he prepared himself.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that Evil Lord’s preserved Origin Power and resistance would make the Spirit Ring dangerous to absorb, and Electrolux agreed it would be difficult.
• After half an hour, Dai Mubai’s divine light faded and Evil Lord’s blood-colored Spirit Ring became a black-gold Million-Year Spirit Ring with ten golden patterns.

Jiang Ming began absorbing Evil Lord’s black-gold Million-Year Soul Ring, enduring its overwhelming origin power while his Soul Spirits guarded his Sea of Consciousness. As the power battered his body and meridians, he gathered it to break through the level ninety-eight bottleneck.

• The Elders, Niu Tian, Titan, Di Tian, Princess Jiujiu, Princess Vina, and Huo Yuhao were stunned by Evil Lord’s newly elevated Million-Year Soul Ring.
• Niu Tian and Titan recognized Dai Mubai’s divine power in the golden light and concluded that Jiang Ming had become the God of War’s inheritor.
• Jiang Ming prepared to absorb the black-gold Spirit Ring, released his Martial Soul, and drew its power into his body.
• Snow Empress, Little Prison, and Rongrong blocked Evil Lord’s soul backlash while Jiang Ming focused on enduring the Spirit Ring’s immense origin power.
• Jiang Ming coughed up blood as the origin power surged through his body, then guided it toward his two Soul Cores to challenge the level ninety-eight bottleneck.
• Jiang Ming’s meridians neared their limit as he accumulated the Spirit Ring’s power, preparing to smash through the bottleneck.

Jiang Ming absorbed the Evil Lord’s Million-Year Black-Gold Soul Ring and broke through to level ninety-eight, while the ring’s aura tempted nearby observers and forced the Sea God Pavilion Elders to keep them back. After a day of absorption, his level-ninety-eight reservoir filled, and he began attacking the Level Ninety-Nine bottleneck.

• Jiang Ming used the Evil Lord’s Spirit Ring power to charge directly at the level-ninety-eight bottleneck and hoped to break through the Level Ninety-Nine bottleneck as well.
• Ning Jie, Xu Jiu Jiu, Princess Vina, and the Prince of the Dou Ling Empire were drawn toward the Black-Gold Soul Ring, but the Elders stopped them and Mu En warned everyone to keep their distance.
• Jiang Ming shattered the level-ninety-eight bottleneck, and Mu En kept only Xuan Zi, Little Song, Little Lin, and Zhang Lexuan to guard him while the others left.
• Di Tian told Wang Qiuer to decide her own feelings and asked her to bring Jiang Ming back for a proper talk, then opened a spatial passage and departed.
• Jiang Ming absorbed the ring for a day as his aura rose, filled his level-ninety-eight reservoir, and began assaulting the Level Ninety-Nine bottleneck.

Jiang Ming absorbed the Evil Lord’s Million-Year Soul Ring and pushed his cultivation to the peak of level ninety-eight, aiming to reach Level Ninety-Nine by forming a third Soul Core. He devised a way for three Soul Cores to coexist and began separating his Spiritual Soul Core and Blood Qi Soul Core, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Jiang Ming broke through to level ninety-eight and continued absorbing the Million-Year Soul Ring’s power, prompting Xuan Zi and the Elders to worry about how he could form a third Soul Core.
• Mu En reasoned that a Soul Core could be formed in each of the body’s three dantians, while warning that Jiang Ming’s failure to absorb the Ring could put him in danger.
• Jiang Ming realized his first two Soul Cores could not bear the Ring’s energy alone and decided to form a third Soul Core in his lower energy center.
• Jiang Ming devised a method for three Soul Cores to coexist and absorbed the Ring’s energy until he reached the peak of level ninety-eight.
• Jiang Ming pulled at the white-gold Spiritual Soul Core and crimson-gold Blood Qi Soul Core to break their Yin-Yang Complementarity, then roared, “Open!”

Jiang Ming condensed a third Soul Core from the black-gold Spirit Ring’s power and struggled to integrate it with his existing two. With help from the nine Spirits, he stabilized a Three Talents formation and broke through to Level Ninety-Nine Limit Douluo.

• Jiang Ming slowed his white-gold and crimson-gold Soul Cores while compressing the Spirit Ring’s origin power into a black-gold third Soul Core.
• Jiang Ming adjusted the three Soul Cores until they matched in rotational frequency, then arranged them in a triangular formation to create a Three Talents system.
• The three Soul Cores began resonating and spinning together, but the newly formed black-gold Soul Core cracked under the strain.
• Jiang Ming summoned the nine Spirits, who combined their powers to stabilize the collapsing black-gold Soul Core.
• The Elders rushed toward Jiang Ming after the Spirits’ energy burst, then saw the stable three-Soul-Core formation as Jiang Ming declared that he had broken through the limit.

Jiang Ming completed his breakthrough to Level Ninety-Nine after forming three Soul Cores, leaving him at the peak of Soul Master combat strength and one step from godhood. As Zhang Lexuan prepared to enter seclusion for her remaining trials, the Sun God delivered his reward for Jiang Ming’s Seventh Trial: Evil Lord’s purified Heavenly Eye.

• Jiang Ming drew his three Soul Cores into his body, unleashed an aura that overwhelmed Mu En and the others, and confirmed he had reached Level Ninety-Nine.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi left to continue training, while Elder Lin and Elder Song departed to help restore Shrek Academy and Shrek City.
• Jiang Ming teased Zhang Lexuan after dressing, then explained that his three Soul Cores were still absorbing the remaining energy from Evil Lord’s Million-Year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Ming that she, Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen had two Moon God trials left and wanted to enter seclusion to complete them.
• Jiang Ming asked the Sun God about his Seventh Trial reward, and the Sun God compressed and purified Evil Lord’s corpse into a crystal-clear Heavenly Eye.

After completing the Seventh Trial, Jiang Ming received the Sun God's Heavenly Eye, which began merging with his spiritual power as a third Martial Soul. The final two trials remained unknown, and the chapter ended with the Heavenly Eye opening on Jiang Ming's forehead and unsettling Zhang Lexuan.

• The Sun God explained that he had refined Evil Lord's corpse into a Heavenly Eye that could become Jiang Ming's third Martial Soul and grow with his strength.
• Jiang Ming asked Zhang Lexuan to guard him while he absorbed the Heavenly Eye, then asked the Sun God and Dai Mubai about the Eighth and Ninth Trials.
• The Sun God and Dai Mubai gave Jiang Ming one year to settle matters on Douluo Continent and warned that his final trials would be difficult even for him.
• The Heavenly Eye connected with Jiang Ming's Spiritual Soul Core and sank into his forehead, gradually changing his Sea of Consciousness.
• A slit opened between Jiang Ming's brows and emitted golden-red light; Zhang Lexuan felt exposed as the light swept over her, while Jiang Ming's body reacted despite his closed eyes.

After surviving his month-long tribulation, Jiang Ming reunited with Zhang Lexuan and discussed their approaching godhood, a shared wedding, and visits to their loved ones. Zhang Lexuan sent him to Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, while Jiang Ming learned that Wang Qiuer's father was a formidable Limit Douluo and planned to visit him and the Sea Princess.

• Jiang Ming carried Zhang Lexuan back to their house, then filled the huge pit left by the eighth tribulation lightning.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan spent the afternoon together and discussed their upcoming Deity Trials and reluctance to leave for the God Realm.
• Zhang Lexuan proposed that Jiang Ming hold a joint wedding with her, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen after their secluded cultivation, and urged him to win over Liya and Wang Qiuer without attracting anyone else.
• Snow Empress appeared and joined Zhang Lexuan in warning Jiang Ming not to pursue other women.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Ming that Wang Qiuer's father, Wang Tian, was stronger than Mu En, and that he had invited Qiuer to visit him with Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming planned visits to Wang Tian, the Sea Princess, and Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen's families, then Zhang Lexuan sent him to the returning Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.

After Zhang Lexuan sent Jiang Ming away to rest, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen fought over him until he brought them to an empty room to share a bed. He chose to let the nervous women sleep, but his potent aura kept them awake and left Ma Xiaotao growing dazed.

• Zhang Lexuan tied Jiang Ming with a Moonlight Rope and threw him out of her room so she could sleep.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen began fighting, and Jiang Ming sealed their Extreme Fire and Extreme Ice Soul Power with one word.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen argued over whose room Jiang Ming should go to, so he took them both to the vacant bedroom.
• Jiang Ming brought their quilts, drew the hesitant women onto the bed, and told them to sleep when he saw how nervous they were.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen stayed awake beside Jiang Ming, and Ma Xiaotao slowly leaned toward his chest as his aura affected her.

Jiang Ming planned to spend his year before the final Deity Trials visiting his loved ones’ families and fulfilling his promise to take Liya back to the Ice Sea. As he mapped out a northern journey, he realized he still did not know where Wang Qiuer’s reclusive family lived.

• Ma Xiaotao’s lingering Evil Fire reactions led Jiang Ming to spend the night with her and Ling Luochen, while Wang Qiuer meditated undisturbed.
• In the morning, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen hurried to hide what had happened, leaving Wang Qiuer puzzled by their behavior and the faint scent in an unused bedroom.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan made breakfast, and Zhang Lexuan suspected Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen had shared an unusually intense night with Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming considered his year of rest before the Eighth and Ninth Trials and began listing visits to Clear Water City, the Ice Sea, and his companions’ families.
• Jiang Ming mapped a northern route through the families’ homes and the Far North, then wondered where Wang Qiuer’s reclusive family was located.

Jiang Ming planned to break Xu Tianran’s spirit by turning his allies against him before killing him, while also preparing a Soul Tool Defense Array for Shrek Academy and Clear Water City. He then traveled with Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, Liya, and Wang Qiuer toward Heaven Dou City, where they would visit the Evil Fire Phoenix Family and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Jiang Ming assessed the Sun Moon Empire’s weakened high-level Soul Master forces after the Holy Spirit Cult’s collapse and added Xu Tianran to his must-kill plans.
• Jiang Ming planned to make Xu Tianran abandoned by his ministers, the Imperial Clan, Kong Deming, Ju Zi, and others before killing him within a year, while resolving to limit harm to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen.
• Jiang Ming noted that he would work on the Soul Tool Defense Array for Shrek Academy and Clear Water City, then sensed that the Book of Spirits was close to returning to normal.
• Jiang Ming left Shrek City by carriage with Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, Liya, and Wang Qiuer, using his clone to drive while he relaxed with the women.
• Jiang Ming’s group headed for Heaven Dou City to visit the Evil Fire Phoenix Family and the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Jiang Ming and his companions traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the women saw its wonders and Jiang Ming reunited with Youyou. The chapter ended with Youyou recognizing Jiang Ming and reacting in surprise.

• Jiang Ming and Snow Empress crafted Rank 8 Core Magic Arrays while Zhang Lexuan reviewed the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce’s accounts and considered successors.
• Jiang Ming’s group reached the area near Heaven Dou City and flew to Sunset Forest instead of entering the city.
• Rongrong recalled the powerful Soul Beasts and remarkable places she had encountered while traveling with Jiang Ming, and planned to impress Youyou with her stories.
• Jiang Ming used the Power of Heaven and Earth to open a path through the strengthened poisonous mist and led the group into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Ming stopped Liya from approaching the Cold Spring and greeted Youyou, who woke and exclaimed in surprise at seeing him.