Chapter Summaries

After fusing his two Martial Souls and their Spirit Rings, Jiang Ming reached the pinnacle of mortal strength and overwhelmed the War God and Sun God during the Eighth Trial. He passed the trial after injuring them with a strike that bypassed their divine artifacts, and received the God of War Tower and the Sun Wheel as rewards.

• Jiang Ming fused the Golden Body and Book of Spirits Martial Souls, combining their power and eighteen Spirit Rings into a state that surpassed the suppressed War God and Sun God.
• The War God and Sun God acknowledged that they could no longer threaten Jiang Ming and invited him to attack with all his strength.
• Jiang Ming used Heaven and Earth Cage to cut off the gods' energy supply, then struck them with Annihilation Divine Fist, forcing them to restore their divine power and raise their artifacts in defense.
• Jiang Ming used spatial power and Dark Force to bypass the God of War Tower and Sun Wheel, injuring both gods despite their restored divine strength.
• The Sun God declared Jiang Ming had passed the Eighth Trial, and the War God gave him the God of War Tower while the Sun God bestowed the Sun Wheel.

Jiang Ming began the Ninth Trial, which required him to earn the recognition of the Ancient Sun God and Ancient God of War on the real Ancient God Battlefield. Protected by the War God and Sun God’s power, he followed a guiding light to a mountain radiating overwhelming Battle Intent.

• The Sun God and War God sent Jiang Ming straight into the Ninth Trial after he completed the Eighth, while they discussed the risks and their hopes that he could restore their deities to Rank 1.
• The trial transported Jiang Ming through an unfamiliar spatial passage to a desolate battlefield filled with ancient divine power.
• The Sun God and War God announced that Jiang Ming had to obtain the recognition of the Ancient Sun God and Ancient God of War, and he realized he was on the battlefield where they had fallen.
• A burst of residual divine power struck Jiang Ming, but the War God’s Protective Shield protected him as Dai Mubai’s recorded guidance directed him toward the ancient wills.
• Jiang Ming followed the white-gold light to a towering mountain whose Battle Intent far exceeded his own.

Jiang Ming endured the Ancient God of War’s Battle Intent to reach his lingering remnant and strengthen his own Battle Intent. The Ancient God of War then took him to face the Asura God, whose defeat would complete the trial.

• Jiang Ming climbed the mountain against the Ancient God of War’s Battle Intent, using the Sky Piercer Spear to reach a point within a hundred meters of the white-gold light.
• The Sky Piercer Spear’s artifact spirit prompted Jiang Ming to temper his Battle Intent through repeated clashes with the mountain’s suppression.
• Jiang Ming spent a month adapting to the Battle Intent and finally reached the summit, where the white-gold light transformed into the Ancient God of War.
• The Ancient God of War explained that Jiang Ming needed greater strength to restore the War God divine position from Rank 2 to Rank 1, then intensified his Battle Intent training.
• The Ancient God of War took Jiang Ming to find the Asura God’s lingering remnant and told him to defeat it to pass the trial.

The Ancient God of War's lingering remnant led Jiang Ming into the blood mist to confront the Ancient Asura God's lingering remnant, forcing him to withstand and adapt to its killing intent. The remnants of deities across the Ancient God Battlefield poured their power into the two old rivals, and the Ancient God of War then entered Jiang Ming to let him wield a War God's peak strength against Asura.

• The Ancient God of War's lingering remnant rejected Jiang Ming's request to wait until he became a god and took him toward the Asura God's domain.
• Jiang Ming entered the blood mist, nearly succumbed to the Asura God's killing intent, and used his Battle Intent to resist it as he advanced.
• The Ancient God of War's lingering remnant and the Ancient Asura God's lingering remnant met and prepared to fight, recognizing that Jiang Ming carried a Twin Deity Inheritance.
• Lingering deity remnants across the Ancient God Battlefield joined the two sides, pouring their final power into the War God and Asura God.
• The Ancient God of War's lingering remnant took Jiang Ming's Sky Piercer Spear, then entered Jiang Ming's body and filled him with the power of a peak War God.

Jiang Ming fought the Ancient Asura God's remnant with the Ancient God of War's power, using the battle to temper his Battle Intent. As the Asura God unleashed his strongest killing move, Jiang Ming gained insight into the seventh spear of the Nine Spears of the War God.

• The Ancient God of War's remnant gave Jiang Ming his power and sent him to face the dissatisfied Ancient Asura God's remnant.
• Jiang Ming blocked the Asura God's first attack with Golden Guard, then met Asura Slash with the first spear, Unstoppable Advance, but was forced back.
• Jiang Ming used Soul Chaser and thrust through the Asura God's remnant, only to discover that physical attacks had little effect; the Asura God's counter shattered Golden Guard and wounded him.
• At the Ancient God of War's urging, Jiang Ming relied on his battle techniques, using Breaking the Cauldron and Life Burial before activating the God of War Domain against the Asura Domain.
• Jiang Ming's God Slayer pierced halfway into the Asura God, who answered with Asura Blood Sword, and Jiang Ming gained insight into the seventh spear as he faced possible death.

Jiang Ming fought the Ancient Asura God's remnant will, using his newly created Nirvana spear to escape the Asura Blood Sword and unleash the Seven Spears of the War God. He revealed a prototype of Creation Power to withstand Asura Judgment, earned the War God's recognition, and was sent to meet the Ancient Sun God's remnant will.

• Jiang Ming used Nirvana to break free of the Asura Blood Sword's fatal threat, then pressed the Ancient Asura God's remnant will with the first seven spears of the War God.
• Several observing deities' remnant wills joined Jiang Ming, allowing him to replenish his power and continue the battle.
• The Ancient Asura God's remnant will unleashed Asura Judgment, and Jiang Ming transformed into a spear and revealed his prototype of Creation Power to meet it.
• Jiang Ming and the Ancient Asura God's remnant will clashed with Creation Power and judgment power until both the Asura God and the Ancient God of War were nearly exhausted.
• The Ancient Asura God's remnant will acknowledged Jiang Ming's potential and asked the War God to repay him a favor; the War God recognized Jiang Ming and sent him toward the Ancient Sun God's remnant will.

Jiang Ming completed the Sun God trial after gaining the Ancient Sun God's approval, joining his War God approval and completing the Ninth Trial's requirements. The Ancient Sun God then sent him toward another opportunity before his remnant consciousness disappeared, and a powerful dragon roar sounded beside Jiang Ming.

• The remaining divine remnants mourned the disappearance of Asura God and the War God as Jiang Ming flew toward the sun under the War God's protection.
• The Ancient Sun God's remnant consciousness discovered Jiang Ming carried both the War God and Sun God inheritances, then accepted that they would share an inheritor.
• The Ancient Sun God threw Jiang Ming into the sun, where he endured the Sun God Fire's tempering and manifested a more powerful sun.
• The Ancient Sun God approved of Jiang Ming, who confirmed he had completed both sides of his Dual God Trial's Ninth Trial.
• The Ancient Sun God hurled Jiang Ming toward another opportunity, then vanished after expending his final power, as a mighty dragon roar sounded beside Jiang Ming.

Jiang Ming met the Dragon God, who recognized the compatibility between Jiang Ming’s Martial Souls and his own powers and decided to reward him. The Dragon God began strengthening Jiang Ming’s body, Spirit Rings, Spirits, and companions, leaving them transformed and asleep as the gifts took effect.

• The Dragon God examined Jiang Ming, sensed his Golden Dragon aura, and asked to see his Martial Souls.
• After seeing the Golden Body and Book of Spirits, the Dragon God chose to strengthen them but withheld the Dragon God's inheritance because Jiang Ming lacked Dragon Clan blood.
• The Dragon God poured golden-red Bloodline Power into the Golden Body, scorching Jiang Ming and beginning to transform five of his Spirit Rings toward golden-red.
• The Dragon God examined the Book of Spirits, recognized its weak Creation Power, and decided to strengthen it.
• The Dragon God sent Nine-Colored Light to the nine Spirits, gave icy power to Meng Bing, and began transforming their Spirit Rings into colors matching their attributes.

The Dragon God granted Jiang Ming and his companions powerful enhancements, and Jiang Ming endured the painful transformation from a mortal body into a Divine Body. Afterward, the Dragon God sent him back toward the Douluo Continent and asked him to look after the surviving Dragon Clan and divine beasts.

• The Dragon God considered the Dragon Clan's disappearance and decided not to burden Jiang Ming with reviving them, though he planned to ask him to look after them later.
• Jiang Ming, his Spirits, Meng Bing, and Little Jade absorbed the Dragon God's power, strengthening their Spirit Rings, bloodlines, and abilities.
• Jiang Ming's body began transforming into a Divine Body, and he endured intense pain while blocking Snow Empress from feeling it through their shared soul perception.
• Jiang Ming completed the transformation and awoke with a sacred, golden-red aura and greatly increased power.
• The Dragon God sent Jiang Ming away after asking him to look after the surviving Dragon Clan and divine beasts once the War God and Sun God regained their Rank 1 Deity positions.
• Jiang Ming thanked the Dragon God, agreed to help, gathered his companions, and returned toward the Douluo Continent plane.

After completing the Ninth Trial in the Ancient God Battlefield, Jiang Ming returned to Douluo Continent with a Divine Body, while Zhang Lexuan and the others continued investigating a mysterious source of powerful Evil Soul Masters. He encountered an unknown Evil Soul Master in the mountains and discovered that the threat remained active.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Ma Xiaotao whether she had found any leads on the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul, but Ma Xiaotao reported no progress.
• Zhang Lexuan decided to ask Jiu Jiu, Vina, and the Sun Moon Empire to help search for the hidden Evil Soul Masters.
• The Sun God and the War God sensed that Jiang Ming had emerged from the Ancient God Battlefield with a Divine Body and began preparing to pass their Deity Inheritances to him.
• Jiang Ming fell into a mountain range on Douluo Continent and was confronted by a black-robed Evil Soul Master who accused him of interfering with his soul collecting.
• Jiang Ming struck the Evil Soul Master down and burned his Myriad Beast Banner, but the man’s Sea of Consciousness exploded when Jiang Ming tried to search it.

Jiang Ming returned to Shrek Academy after suspecting that the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul was behind a powerful Evil Soul Master, while the empires began searching for the remnant soul. He discovered the remnant soul was close to reviving as the Rakshasa God, then left the academy after spotting a dark green streak heading toward Sea God Island.

• Jiang Ming killed an Evil Soul Master whose Sea of Consciousness exploded before Jiang Ming could search his memories, and he collected the man's six Spirit Bones.
• Zhang Lexuan's warning spread through the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce, and Xu Jiu Jiu and Vina persuaded their emperors to order searches for the Evil God remnant soul.
• Ju Zi hesitated over whether to order a search in the Sun Moon Empire, but Kong Deming argued that Xu Tianran was no longer their emperor, so Ju Zi ordered a nationwide search.
• The Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul, occupying Xu Tianran's body, used the Rakshasa God's Divine Artifact and the souls of Evil Soul Masters to prepare to complete the divine inheritance.
• Jiang Ming returned to Shrek Academy, was mistaken for an outsider at the gate, and entered the Outer Court, where two junior girls flirted with him.
• Jiang Ming spotted a dark green streak flying toward Sea God Island and left the girls to pursue it.

Jiang Ming returned to Sea God Island and planned to draw out the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant by making his dual inheritance of the War God and Sun God positions public. With a vast force of deities and powerful Soul Masters assembled to protect him, Jiang Ming began his ascension to godhood.

• Zhang Lexuan told Du Busi that Xu Tianran had used more than three hundred thousand lives to awaken the Rakshasa God Remnant, which she suspected was behind the new Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters.
• Jiang Ming returned and proposed using the power of his public divine inheritance to lure out the hidden Rakshasa God Remnant.
• Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and experts from Shrek Academy and the Body Sect prepared to guard Jiang Ming during his ascension.
• A month later, three deities, three Limit Douluo, and more than a dozen Super Douluo gathered around Jiang Ming above the Golden Ancient Tree on Sea God Island.
• The Sun God and War God sent down their combined inheritance power, and Jiang Ming began inheriting both divine positions.

Shrek Academy prepared to defend Jiang Ming as he underwent the Sun God and War God inheritances, while the fully restored Rakshasa God took the bait and launched an assault. The chapter ended with thousands of Evil Soul Masters surrounding Shrek Academy and Shrek City.

• Shrek Academy evacuated students below Soul Saint cultivation and placed its powerful fighters on guard while Jiang Ming began his two deity inheritances.
• The Rakshasa God revealed that he had recovered his full strength and amassed an army of Evil Soul Masters, including over twenty Titled Douluo.
• The Rakshasa God led his army toward Shrek Academy, while the Sun God told Jiang Ming to focus on his inheritance and assured him that allies were watching from the God Realm.
• Qian Duoduo detected the approaching black mist, and Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen's side attacked as the Evil Soul Masters reached the Academy.
• Thousands of Evil Soul Masters and some Soul Beasts emerged from the black mist and surrounded Shrek Academy and Shrek City.

Shrek Academy and Shrek City faced an invasion by thousands of Evil Soul Masters and corrupted Soul Beasts as Shrek’s forces activated a new defensive array and fought back. The battle turned in Shrek’s favor with powerful support from Gongyang Mo and Ning Tian, but two unexpected figures appeared behind them, prompting Mu En’s alarm.

• Xian Lin'er led Shrek’s Titled Douluo into battle while Fan Yu and Jing Hongchen activated the Soul Tool Defense Array around Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er engaged a Bone Dragon, while other Evil Soul Masters attacked the shield and forced Qian Duoduo to confront a mountain-sized Zombie.
• Elder Song rescued Qian Duoduo from a deadly ambush and went to hold off the nearly level-ninety-eight attacker as Mu En warned that stronger enemies remained hidden.
• Gongyang Mo and Ning Tian boosted Shrek’s fighters with their Rainbow Dragon and Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Souls, allowing them to suppress the Evil Soul Masters.
• Two figures appeared behind Gongyang Mo and Ning Tian, and Mu En and Du Busi intercepted them before Mu En recognized them in shock.

Shrek Academy’s forces fought Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and the Rakshasa God while Jiang Ming continued receiving divine inheritance. The battle took a disastrous turn when the Evil Soul Masters and then Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui self-destructed, gathering death energy above Shrek Academy around a forming shadow.

• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui attacked Shrek Academy with the power of Rakshasa God, forcing Elder Mu and Du Busi to fight them while Xuan Zi joined the battle.
• Xuan Zi wounded Long Xiaoyao, who burned his essence blood and transformed into his Dark Holy Dragon Avatar to clash with Elder Mu.
• The Rakshasa God confronted Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen as they blocked his path, while Jiang Ming urged the Sun God and War God to speed up his inheritance.
• The Rakshasa God grew anxious and caused the Evil Soul Masters at Shrek Academy to self-destruct in succession, inflicting severe casualties until Elder Zhuang used the Tree of Life to shield the defenders.
• Elder Mu realized Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui had also self-destructed, and their deaths gathered streams of death energy above Shrek Academy around a massive emerging shadow.

After Jiang Ming completed his dual deity inheritance, he confronted the Rakshasa God, who had summoned the God of Death to hold back Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen. Jiang Ming defeated and cremated the Rakshasa God, then destroyed the God of Death’s avatar and severely wounded his true form.

• The God of Death descended at the Rakshasa God’s request and used his domain to trap Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen.
• Jiang Ming completed his inheritance of the Sun God and War God deities and refused the Sun God and War God’s offer to help.
• The Rakshasa God tried to flee, but Jiang Ming used the Sun Wheel and Soul Chaser to lock him down and began their battle.
• Jiang Ming fought the Rakshasa God for half a day, severely wounded him with Nirvana, then pierced his head with Creation and burned his body in the Sun Wheel.
• Jiang Ming struck the God of Death’s avatar with God Slayer, destroying it and severely damaging the God of Death’s true form.

After the Rakshasa God’s defeat, Jiang Ming healed the survivors, helped purge Evil Soul Masters, and ascended to the God Realm with Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen. He began the trial to restore the Sun God and War God Deities to Rank 1 by facing Tang San, and the chapter ended as their domains clashed.

• The wounded God of Death sealed his temple and went into seclusion after his avatar was destroyed.
• Jiang Ming and Little Spirit healed the surviving fighters, while Mu En arranged burials for the dead.
• Jiang Ming and the others searched the continents and seas, eliminating the remaining Evil Soul Masters.
• Jiang Ming promised Wang Qiuer and Liya he would bring them to the God Realm after restoring both deities to Rank 1, then ascended with Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen.
• The God Realm Committee approved the restoration trial, and Jiang Ming arranged to face Tang San three days later.
• Jiang Ming and Tang San released their domains; Jiang Ming moved easily within Tang San’s Asura Domain.

Jiang Ming completed the ninth spear of the War God, restored the Sun God and God of War Deities to Rank 1, and later defeated Tang San to become the God Realm’s Sixth God King. After creating a Minor God Realm and reuniting with Wang Qiu'er and Liya, he ended by asking Tang San which dynasty he had come from.

• Jiang Ming entered a state of enlightenment during his trial and created the ninth spear, War, forcing Tang San to restore his God King-level strength to withstand it.
• Tang San acknowledged Jiang Ming’s victory and restored the Sun God and God of War Deities to Rank 1, greatly increasing Jiang Ming’s power.
• Five years after ascending, Jiang Ming visited Wang Qiu'er in the Star Dou Great Forest and Liya in the Extreme North Ice Sea, then reunited with his friends in Clear Water City.
• Jiang Ming studied Fate Power, perfected Creation Power, and created a Minor God Realm, but Old Nie, Aunt Lan, Mu En, and the others chose not to enter it.
• Jiang Ming later defeated Tang San in a full-power rematch and became the God Realm’s Sixth God King.
• Jiang Ming sat with Tang San on a sea of clouds and asked whether Tang San had come from the Ming Dynasty.

Teachers and Outer Court students gathered at Sea God Lake for the Inner Court Assessment, waiting anxiously for the Chief Examiners. Seven examiners crossed the lake and arrived before them, leaving the crowd astonished by the unusually large lineup and their imposing presence.

• Old Zhang and Li Fugui discussed how many students might pass the Inner Court Assessment, and Li Fugui warned Old Zhang not to tease him about his name.
• Teachers prepared students from five classes for the assessment as the students grew increasingly nervous while waiting.
• The students and teachers spotted the Chief Examiners walking across Sea God Lake.
• The seven examiners, consisting of a man and six strikingly beautiful women, crossed the lake without displaying any soul power and reached the shore.

Jiang Ming and the others served as Chief Examiners for the Inner Court Assessment and watched Lu Yi face its new method over Sea God Lake. After he blocked the opening Soul Tool attacks, a Soul Beast beneath the lake struck his Sea of Consciousness at the same time as another barrage approached.

• Li Fugui and Old Zhang wondered who the seven unfamiliar Chief Examiners were before greeting them.
• Jiang Ming confirmed that the group would begin the assessment, and Old Zhang called Lu Yi forward as the first examinee.
• Lu Yi introduced himself as a Level 45 Soul Ancestor and Rank 3 Soul Engineer, then flew toward Sea God Lake on a Flying Sword.
• A Rank 3 Soul Ray struck Lu Yi, and he blocked it with his Vajra Mace but wobbled on his sword.
• Several more Soul Rays attacked as a Soul Beast beneath Sea God Lake sent a mental fluctuation into Lu Yi's Sea of Consciousness.