Chapter Summaries

After the Rakshasa God alerted Bibi Dong that the God King's Relic had opened outside Spirit City, she sent Spirit Hall's gifted youths to enter it. Bi Zihan awoke alone in a primeval forest inside the relic and suspected the group had been scattered.

• The Rakshasa God told Bibi Dong that the God King's Relic had opened and that exceptionally talented people under fifteen could enter.
• Bibi Dong summoned Bi Zihan, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, Xie Yue, Yan, and others, then told them about the relic and let them choose whether to enter.
• When none of the youths refused, Bibi Dong instructed Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm to take them to the relic and warned them to stay united.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm brought the youths and Hall Guard Knights to the black light curtain, and the youths entered before being pulled inside and losing consciousness.
• Bi Zihan awoke alone in a primeval forest, wondered whether the others had been sent elsewhere, and climbed a tree to survey the area.

Bi Zihan entered a Small World and headed toward its presumed central exit, where he encountered a roughly ten-thousand-year-old Crimson Blood Thorn. He discovered that the apparent target was a decoy, and the real thorn pierced his shoulder from behind.

• Bi Zihan reasoned that the Small World's exit was likely in the center and set off through the forest with Doomsday Judgment.
• Bi Zihan sensed a Crimson Blood Thorn attack, cut through its vines, and identified the soul beast by its dark-red sap and thorny growths.
• Bi Zihan used his Fallen Angel Left Arm Bone skill, Dark Lightning, to attack the surrounding area and reveal a thorn shield behind an ancient tree.
• Bi Zihan used his third soul skill, Dark Demonic Sword, to cut down the tree, but found only decoy vines and realized the Crimson Blood Thorn's true body was elsewhere.
• The Crimson Blood Thorn attacked from behind and pierced Bi Zihan's shoulder, drawing pale golden blood.

Bi Zihan fought and killed a ten-thousand-year Crimson Blood Thorn after it injured his shoulder. He bandaged the wound and continued toward the primeval forest’s central region, weakened and uncertain how common powerful soul beasts were there.

• The Crimson Blood Thorn ambushed Bi Zihan with a false position and wounded his shoulder, but he pulled out the thorn and stayed alert.
• Bi Zihan used the Rakshasa Demon Scythe to expose the Crimson Blood Thorn’s main body, then pierced it with Doomsday Judgment and destroyed it with his nine scythes.
• Bi Zihan bandaged his shoulder and considered whether ten-thousand-year soul beasts were common in the primeval forest.
• Bi Zihan continued toward the forest’s central region, lamenting that without Ye Lingling’s healing, his wound had reduced his strength by at least twenty percent.

Bi Zihan rushed toward Qian Renxue after seeing her Angel Domain illuminate the forest, where powerful spirit beasts were gathering. He struck down the golden eagle attacking her, and Qian Renxue recognized his voice.

• Bi Zihan rested in a tree through the night after observing the forest’s dangerous spirit beasts.
• Bi Zihan saw Qian Renxue’s Angel Domain shining in the distance and flew toward it, spotting a seventy-thousand-year Mandala Snake among the beasts heading there.
• Qian Renxue, injured and nearly out of Soul Power, struggled to fend off a twenty-thousand-year golden eagle inside Angel Domain.
• Bi Zihan used his Third Soul Skill, Infernal Judgment, to pin the golden eagle in midair and smash it into the ground.
• Qian Renxue turned toward Bi Zihan after recognizing his voice.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue fled through the forest while weakened, pursued by a large group of Soul Beasts. They could not use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill reliably, leaving their escape uncertain as the Evil God King considered seeking multiple potential successors.

• Bi Zihan told Qian Renxue to withdraw her Angel Domain, and they fled as Soul Beasts gathered around the glow of her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Bi Zihan lifted Qian Renxue and told her to hide her Martial Soul because its light was attracting the Soul Beasts.
• Bi Zihan sent his Rakshasa Demon Scythe against the flying Soul Beasts, but the attack barely slowed the ten-thousand-year pursuers.
• Qian Renxue suggested using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but neither she nor Bi Zihan knew how to perform it intentionally.
• The Evil God King doubted Bi Zihan could reach the forest’s central region and considered casting a wider net to find a suitable successor.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue fled a pack of soul beasts into a cave and made a desperate stand. Bi Zihan’s attack killed or drove off most of the beasts, but a seventy-thousand-year Mandala Snake remained as he ran out of Soul Power.

• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue chose to enter a cave and fight rather than keep fleeing until their Soul Power ran out.
• Qian Renxue released Angel Domain inside the cave while Bi Zihan used their tenfold attribute boost to prepare an attack.
• Bi Zihan unleashed Starfall, killing weaker soul beasts, injuring stronger ones, and driving many away from the cave.
• The seventy-thousand-year Mandala Snake resisted the attack and advanced toward them after Bi Zihan exhausted his Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue and Bi Zihan acknowledged they could not defeat the Mandala Snake in their condition, and Bi Zihan summoned Doomsday Judgment rather than wait for death.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue fought the Mandala Snake, and Bi Zihan awakened Guardian Sword Intent to unleash his newly comprehended Self-Created Soul Skill, Immortal Slayer. The attack badly wounded the snake, but both fighters were left exhausted and unable to continue.

• The Mandala Snake knocked Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue into the cave walls, and Bi Zihan hurled a Butterfly Knife into its mouth while it held him in its tail.
• Bi Zihan signaled Qian Renxue to escape, but she attacked the snake instead, and it flung him into a rock wall.
• Bi Zihan drew the Guardian Sword Intent from the ground in his consciousness after memories of Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue appeared to him.
• Bi Zihan merged with the Guardian Sword Intent and unleashed Immortal Slayer, cutting a long wound into the Mandala Snake.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue collapsed as their enhancement faded, both injured and drained of their strength and Soul Power.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue fused their martial souls into the Seraphim, which fought the Mandala Snake. Meanwhile, Hu Liena and the others debated whether to investigate the light before choosing to stay hidden for the night.

• The Mandala Snake lunged at the exhausted Bi Zihan, but black and golden light appeared around him and Qian Renxue.
• Their martial souls, bodies, and soul rings fused into the Seraphim, which wielded Doomsday Judgment and the Sword of Angels.
• The Mandala Snake fled the cave, but the Seraphim pursued it through a Space Rift and wounded it with the Sword of Angels.
• The Seraphim blocked the Mandala Snake's attacks and traded blows with it, cutting into its scales as it fought back with venom and fangs.
• Hu Liena suggested that she and the others investigate the light, but Xie Yue and Yan urged caution.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, Ye Lingling, and the others decided to remain hidden in a tree hollow for the night.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue unleashed the Seraphim’s devastating Martial Soul Fusion Skill, which destroyed the forest and killed the Mandala Snake and the bat before leaving them unconscious. The Evil God King watched the aftermath, concealed the scene from the other gods, and decided to keep Bi Zihan under close observation as a possible successor.

• The Mandala Snake restrained the Seraphim while a bat attacked and drank the snake’s blood.
• The Seraphim invoked “Heaven's Punishment and God's Retribution,” creating a domain of swords and elemental forces that killed the Mandala Snake and engulfed the bat in flames.
• Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, Xie Yue, and Yan remained trapped in a tree hollow as the domain battered the forest around them.
• The domain vanished, leaving Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue unconscious in a lifeless clearing.
• The Evil God King assessed the fusion skill’s power and drawbacks, then erased the scene to keep other gods from discovering Bi Zihan.

Bi Zihan woke in a barren area with Qian Renxue unconscious, then found shelter and food while they recovered. Qian Renxue woke and ate the fish he prepared as they planned to regain their strength before heading to the forest’s center.

• Bi Zihan checked Qian Renxue and found that she had only overdrawn her Soul Power, then carried her toward the nearest forest.
• Bi Zihan found an approximately eighty-thousand-year-old Dark Golden Bat Left Leg Bone, stored it in his Soul Tool, and continued on.
• Bi Zihan found a hidden tree hollow beside a river, caught two fish, and prepared them over a fire.
• Qian Renxue woke, ate the grilled fish, and agreed that they should recover before heading toward the forest’s center.
• Bi Zihan gave Qian Renxue the second fish and ate wild fruits because she had eaten both fish.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue rested and recovered in a tree hollow, sharing fish and trading playful remarks as they waited out their weakened state. After half a month without encountering any spirit beasts, they regained their strength, and Bi Zihan teased Qian Renxue by presenting her with a chive and a basin as his promised “nine dishes and a soup.”

• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue took turns keeping watch and recovering their Soul Power through the night.
• Bi Zihan caught fish in the morning, saved some for Qian Renxue, and flirted with her while they ate.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue spent half a month peacefully in the tree hollow, regaining their peak condition without meeting any spirit beasts.
• Qian Renxue complained about eating fish again, so Bi Zihan joked that he had prepared nine dishes and a soup.
• Bi Zihan gave Qian Renxue a fresh chive and a wooden basin, claiming they were her chive and soup while he kept the grilled rabbit.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue rescued Hu Liena’s group from a pursuing Iron-Armored Giant Rhinoceros. After they wounded it and cut off its horn, the beast turned away and fled, leaving the group to wonder why it had targeted Yan.

• Qian Renxue ate the roasted rabbit Bi Zihan had prepared, and Bi Zihan teased her before they set off toward the forest’s center.
• Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, Xie Yue, Yan, and the others fled from a blood-eyed rhinoceros that smashed through trees as it chased them.
• Hu Liena spotted Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue and called for help, interrupting their roughhousing.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue faced the charging Iron-Armored Giant Rhinoceros, while Hu Liena used her soul skill to slow it.
• Bi Zihan severed the rhinoceros’s horn, and Qian Renxue wounded its head; the beast glared at Yan and fled.

After Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue reunited with Hu Liena’s group, Yan threatened Bi Zihan over Hu Liena and continued opposing him. The group agreed to travel together toward the forest’s center, but Yan’s hostility persisted when Bi Zihan chose to detour around a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

• Ye Lingling healed Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue while Yan watched Bi Zihan with open hostility.
• Xie Yue urged Yan to greet their rescuers, and Yan privately warned Bi Zihan to stay away from Hu Liena; Bi Zihan threatened him in return.
• Ye Lingling, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue agreed to travel with Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue toward the forest’s center.
• Bi Zihan chose to detour around a sleeping ten-thousand-year soul beast, but Yan objected and urged the group to fight it.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue backed Bi Zihan’s decision and followed him, while Yan concealed his anger and continued glaring at him.

Bi Zihan asked Hu Liena and Xie Yue about the conditions for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill while the group rested near the forest’s center. After spending the night on watch and recovering, the group entered the unusually quiet central region at dawn.

• Hu Liena explained that a Martial Soul Fusion Skill required extreme compatibility and spiritual resonance between its users.
• Bi Zihan arranged watch shifts, but Yan volunteered to stay awake so Hu Liena could rest.
• Bi Zihan draped clothing over Qian Renxue during the cold night, and she smiled as she noticed his gesture.
• At sunrise, Bi Zihan led the rested group toward the forest’s central region.
• The group entered the center and found it eerily quiet, with no soul beasts or ordinary animals in sight.

Bi Zihan climbed the god’s temple steps as the pressure forced the others to stop below him. On the eighth tier, his Fallen Angel bloodline awakened, restoring his strength and granting him a domain that suppressed Qian Renxue.

• A voice from the temple told the group to climb its nine tiers to receive rewards or be sent out of the Small World.
• Bi Zihan reached the fifth tier, while Qian Renxue stopped at the third, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan at the second, and Ye Lingling at the first.
• Bi Zihan released his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel martial soul, External Soul Bone, Guardian Sword Intent, and Doomsday Judgment to climb to the eighth tier.
• As Bi Zihan struggled toward the ninth tier, the seven fallen angels in his Consciousness Sea awakened and unleashed the power of his Fallen Angel bloodline.
• Bi Zihan recovered his strength, gained a black domain infused with the seven sins, and began suppressing Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel.

Bi Zihan awakened the Fallen Angel bloodline and gained the Seven Deadly Sins domain before completing the divine hall’s trials. The Evil God King gave him two Seeds of Life, and Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue left the Small World after the divine hall vanished.

• Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, Xie Yue, and Yan were thrown from the steps, while Qian Renxue descended and Bi Zihan remained on the staircase.
• Bi Zihan discovered that the Fallen Angel bloodline had strengthened him and granted him the Seven Deadly Sins domain.
• Bi Zihan climbed the final step and entered the divine hall, where the Evil God King’s phantom praised him and gave him two Seeds of Life.
• The Evil God King explained that Bi Zihan’s saturated body would gain little from the Seeds of Life and opened the exit from the Small World.
• An invisible force pushed Bi Zihan out of the hall, which sank underground, and Qian Renxue asked about his reward.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue walked toward the Small World’s exit.

Bi Zihan returned to the Pope's Palace with the Seed of Life he had found in the ruins and offered it to Bibi Dong, who told him to keep it. He then described his gains from the ruins and demonstrated his Seven Deadly Sins Domain for her.

• Hu Liena told Yue Guan that Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue were still climbing the steps in the Small World, and Yue Guan waited with the others.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue emerged from the Small World, and Yue Guan led Hu Liena and the others back toward the Pope's Palace while Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue went ahead.
• Bi Zihan gave Bibi Dong the Seed of Life, but she said it would not help her at her current level and told him to keep it.
• Bi Zihan recounted his experiences in the ruins and revealed that he had awakened his bloodline and gained an Innate Domain.
• Bi Zihan released his Seven Deadly Sins Domain, and Bibi Dong let its power enter her Spiritual Sea to examine how the seven sins affected them.

Bibi Dong heard the Golden Generation recount their gains from the ruins, then Bi Zihan practiced controlling his newly awakened power. Qian Daoliu revealed that he once planned to kill Bi Zihan because of his ominous birth, but now recognized him as part of the Angel Lineage and invited him to undertake the Nine Trials of Guardianship.

• Bibi Dong praised Bi Zihan’s Innate Domain and warned him not to become arrogant about it.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Ye Lingling reported their improvements from the ruins to Bibi Dong, who dismissed them after criticizing those who gained little.
• Bi Zihan practiced in the garden to control the strength released by his bloodline awakening.
• Qian Daoliu sparred with Bi Zihan and revealed that he had once ordered Spirit Hall to find and eliminate him.
• Qian Daoliu told Bi Zihan that his Fallen Angel martial soul belonged to the Angel Lineage and invited him to seek the Nine Trials of Guardianship when they began.

After four months, Bi Zihan reached the level-forty Soul Power bottleneck and gained a fourth Fallen Angel soul ring, a right arm bone, and the Key of Hellfire. On New Year’s Day, he reunited with Qian Renxue and gave her two Seeds of Life as a gift.

• Bi Zihan’s Soul Power reached the level-forty bottleneck, and Desire Angel became his fourth soul ring, granting him a Fallen Angel Right Arm Bone and the Key of Hellfire.
• Bi Zihan rose to Soul Power level forty-one and learned that the Key of Hellfire could release flames he could not currently extinguish.
• Bi Zihan went to meet Qian Renxue in the garden, where she demanded a New Year’s gift.
• Bi Zihan gave Qian Renxue two Seeds of Life, explaining that they could increase Soul Power and might raise her Martial Soul by a level.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue spent a cheerful day walking through Spirit City before discussing their upcoming missions to the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire. When they returned to Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong and immediately left for the Worship Hall.

• Qian Renxue accepted Bi Zihan's gifts and agreed to stroll through Spirit City with him.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue talked about their missions, with Bi Zihan describing the Star Luo Empire as especially difficult to infiltrate.
• Qian Renxue reassured Bi Zihan that he could join her in the Heaven Dou Empire if his mission failed.
• Bi Zihan bought all the candied hawthorns from a street vendor, and he and Qian Renxue continued their walk together.
• Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue returned to Spirit Hall, where Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong and went straight to the Worship Hall.