Chapter Summaries

Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi traveled to the Far North Land, where Di'er Shuang found the Ice Demon Snow Soul King that had betrayed her. Zhu Ziyang killed the newly advanced Ferocious Beast, and Di'er Shuang celebrated its death.

• Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi arrived at the Far North Land with the four Soul Spirits.
• Di'er Shuang led the group to her former lair and found the Ice Demon Snow Soul King resting above the lake.
• Zhu Ziyang fought the Ice Demon Snow Soul King alone, using his domain and soul skills to overwhelm it.
• Zhu Ziyang killed the Ice Demon Snow Soul King before it could establish itself as the Far North Land's new king.
• Di'er Shuang thanked the dead Ice Demon Snow Soul King for bringing her and Zhu Ziyang together.

After absorbing the Ice Demon Snow Soul King's Soul Ring, Zhu Ziyang traveled west with Qian Lingyi to Winter Pole City, where he turned eighteen and reached Rank 80. He prepared to retreat and use the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Core to absorb his eighth Soul Ring and condense his third Soul Core, while Qian Lingyi stayed behind to cultivate.

• Zhu Ziyang absorbed the Ice Demon Snow Soul King's two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and received its skull Soul Bone, which he offered to Qian Lingyi before she declined it.
• Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi left the Far North Land and traveled west, stopping in towns before reaching Winter Pole City.
• Zhu Ziyang celebrated his eighteenth birthday with Qian Lingyi, who gave him his first kiss, and received birthday blessings from Electrolux and the four Soul Spirits.
• Zhu Ziyang reached Rank 80 and decided to absorb the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Core as his eighth Soul Ring while condensing his third Soul Core.
• Qian Lingyi agreed to wait while Zhu Ziyang went into seclusion, then returned to her room to cultivate.

Zhu Ziyang risked his life to absorb the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Core, condensing his third Soul Core before refining the remaining power into a golden eighth Soul Ring. He emerged at level 85, while Electrolux scolded him for nearly dying.

• Zhu Ziyang entered the Holy Law Demigod Plane and swallowed the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Core, but its overwhelming Soul Power began to threaten his body.
• Zhu Ziyang chose to condense his third Soul Core before absorbing the Soul Ring, drawing the invading Soul Power into a vortex in his chest.
• Zhu Ziyang formed the red-and-blue Extreme Cold Bloodline Soul Core and completed the Three Talents Co-located Soul Core Method.
• Zhu Ziyang spent a day and night refining the Dragon Core's remaining power into a golden eighth Soul Ring and reached level 85.
• Electrolux told Zhu Ziyang that his dangerous attempt had nearly frightened him to death, and Zhu Ziyang bragged about his gains.

After receiving three soul skills from his golden eighth Soul Ring, Zhu Ziyang accepted the God of Death’s Seventh Trial to find and subdue the Scythe of the Dead on the Eastern Continent. He set out with Qian Lingyi to seek information about the distant continent and left West Sea City empty-handed, heading south toward Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan before planning to travel to Eastsea City.

• Zhu Ziyang examined his eighth Soul Ring’s three skills: the Heavenly Frost Dragon King's Roar, Heavenly Frost Dragon King's Dance, and Heavenly Frost Dragon Star Cluster.
• Zhu Ziyang claimed the Sixth Trial’s reward, raising his Divine Position Affinity to seventy percent, then learned that the Seventh Trial required him to find and subdue the Scythe of the Dead within five years.
• Xiaobai told Zhu Ziyang that the Scythe of the Dead was on the Eastern Continent and that his Other Shore Flower Mark would alert him when it was near.
• Zhu Ziyang consulted Electrolux and the four Soul Spirits, who discussed the Eastern Continent and agreed that he needed reliable information about the sea before setting out.
• Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi traveled to West Sea City, but after three days without useful information, they left to visit Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan before continuing toward Eastsea City.

Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan completed their lunar trials at sea and received powerful rewards. Their next trials revealed that they had to help Zhu Ziyang complete the Seventh Trial of the God of Death.

• Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan tried to catch the teleporting Silver Moon Spirit Fish, with Zhang Lexuan capturing ten and Jiang Nannan eventually catching all twenty required fish.
• Zhang Lexuan refined her Fifth Trial reward, adding a thousand years to her third Soul Ring and receiving a God-bestowed Soul Ring she chose not to absorb.
• Jiang Nannan completed the Nine Trials of the Lunar God, reached Level 70, and increased her Divine Position Affinity to sixty percent.
• Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan checked their sixth trial contents and discovered that both had to help Zhu Ziyang complete the Seventh Trial of the God of Death.

Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan completed their lunar trials and received powerful rewards, bringing them both to major milestones in their cultivation. Their next trials assigned them the same task: help Zhu Ziyang complete the God of Death’s Seventh Trial.

• Jiang Nannan struggled to catch twenty Silver Moon Spirit Fish while Zhang Lexuan caught ten quickly and completed her Red-level Fifth Trial.
• Zhang Lexuan received a God-bestowed Soul Ring and a thousand years of lifespan for her third Soul Ring, but chose not to absorb the ring yet.
• Jiang Nannan caught all twenty fish just before dawn and completed her Nine Trials of the Lunar God, reaching rank 70 and gaining ten percent Divine Position Affinity.
• Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan examined their sixth trial assignments and discovered they both had to help Zhu Ziyang complete the God of Death’s Seventh Trial.

Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi arrived on Fourth Moon Island, where he reunited with Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan and learned they had reached their soul power bottlenecks. After Jiang Nannan recognized his destination as part of the God of Death’s Seventh Trial, Zhu Ziyang asked how she knew.

• Zhu Ziyang and Qian Lingyi arrived on Fourth Moon Island to meet Elder Song, who told them Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan were on Sixth Moon Island.
• Elder Song explained that Zhang Lexuan had become Princess Xu Tianxuan of the Moon Vein through Xu Jianwei’s alliance with Xu Qianxuan and the second prince Xu Tianci.
• Zhu Ziyang learned Elder Zhu was helping Xu Jianwei bring the Sun Moon Empire’s South Sea Fleet under their control.
• Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan returned to Moon South Marquis's Estate and joyfully reunited with Zhu Ziyang, while Qian Lingyi felt jealous of their closeness.
• Zhu Ziyang said he planned to travel to Eastsea City and that they would return to the academy because Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan had reached their bottlenecks.
• Jiang Nannan asked whether Zhu Ziyang was going to Eastsea City for the God of Death’s Seventh Trial, leaving him surprised and asking how she knew.

Zhu Ziyang learned that Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan’s sixth Lunar God trials required them to help him complete his Seventh Trial of the God of Death, which would take them to another continent. After spending the night with Jiang Nannan, Zhu Ziyang and the others informed Elder Song and set off to return to Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Nannan introduced Qian Lingyi to Zhu Ziyang and learned that she was now a Shrek Academy student traveling with him.
• At the Moon Sacrifice Ground, Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan revealed that their sixth trials involved helping Zhu Ziyang complete his seventh trial, which required a voyage to another continent.
• Zhu Ziyang proposed returning to Shrek Academy to inform their families and teachers, obtain Soul Spirits for Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan, and then gather information at Eastsea City.
• Zhu Ziyang explained Soul Spirits to Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan showed him the rewards from her first five trials.
• Jiang Nannan came to Zhu Ziyang’s room to talk, and the two became intimate; Zhang Lexuan teased them the next morning while Qian Lingyi noticed that they seemed changed.
• Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi informed Elder Song and left the Moon South Archipelago for Shrek Academy.

At Black Mountain City, Zhu Ziyang learned from Xiaobai about the Douluo God Realm’s divine ranks, the Rakshasa God’s fall from God King to Main God, and why the God of Death’s rewards differed from the Lunar God’s. Back at Shrek Academy, the group planned Zhang Lexuan’s Ninth Soul Ring and Soul Spirit, while Zhu Ziyang’s family revealed his younger brother’s promising Martial Soul.

• Zhu Ziyang asked Xiaobai about the connected divine assessments and learned that the Lunar God was a First-Rank God while the God of Death was a God King.
• Xiaobai revealed that the Rakshasa God had once been a God King but became a Main God after its divine position was damaged in the calamity that claimed the Gods of Creation and Death.
• Zhu Ziyang complained about the God of Death’s rewards, and Xiaobai explained that the God-Locking Pillar was valuable and that the God of Death lacked the Lunar God’s Power of Faith.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhang Lexuan reported that she had reached rank 90, and Zhu Ziyang proposed seeking suitable immortal herb Soul Spirits for her and Jiang Nannan at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhu Ziyang told the elders that he had reached rank 85 at eighteen, shocking them, and he and Zhang Lexuan kept their coming sea voyage secret from all but Xuan Zi.
• Zhu Ziyang visited his family and learned that his six-year-old brother, Zhu Ziguang, had awakened a mutated Golden Sacred Scythe with innate rank-eight soul power.

Zhu Ziyang brought Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Jiang Nannan formed a Soul Spirit Contract with Moon Laurel Immortal Tea. As Zhu Ziyang searched for a suitable herb for Zhang Lexuan, the ancient Jade Emperor Purple Lily introduced herself.

• Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, and Zhang Lexuan entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Beautiful Silk Tulip confronted Zhu Ziyang for taking Kuaikuai and Bingbing.
• Beautiful Silk Tulip attacked the group, but Zhu Ziyang used the Power of Death to destroy her vines and warn her off.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot revealed that a Tang Sect member could remove the Sea God's divine sense from Beautiful Silk Tulip, then argued with her about the promise of becoming a god.
• Zhu Ziyang helped Jiang Nannan form a Soul Spirit Contract with Moon Laurel Immortal Tea, while Beautiful Silk Tulip watched helplessly.
• Zhu Ziyang asked the immortal herbs to assess Zhang Lexuan's Martial Soul, and Luer identified the purple lily that approached her as Yuyu, the Jade Emperor Purple Lily.

Zhu Ziyang helped Zhang Lexuan form a Soul Spirit Contract with Jade Emperor Purple Lily and questioned Beautiful Silk Tulip about Sea God Tang San. Jiang Nannan awakened as a level 73 Soul Saint with Moon Laurel Immortal Tea, while Zhang Lexuan continued fusing with her Soul Spirit.

• Jade Emperor Purple Lily learned that Zhang Lexuan was a princess who might become empress of the Sun Moon Empire and agreed to form a Soul Spirit Contract with her.
• Zhu Ziyang questioned Beautiful Silk Tulip, who revealed that Tang San had entrusted her with a book for a future Tang Sect descendant and promised to take her to the God Realm.
• Beautiful Silk Tulip insisted that Tang San would keep his promise, prompting Zhu Ziyang to wonder about Tang San's position as the Asura God.
• Jiang Nannan awakened with two purple, four black, and one red Soul Rings and reached level 73 as a Soul Saint, with Moon Laurel Immortal Tea beside her.
• Zhu Ziyang explained that Jade Emperor Purple Lily could give Zhang Lexuan an emperor's pressure and evolve her Lunar Martial Soul into an emperor Martial Soul.

Zhang Lexuan became a Titled Douluo after forming a Soul Spirit Contract, while Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan prepared to leave Douluo Continent for their Divine Position Assessments. After informing Xuan Zi, the four departed Shrek City for what could be several years.

• Zhang Lexuan reached Rank 92, evolved her Martial Soul into the Emperor's Moon, and received a head Soul Bone from the Jade Emperor Purple Lily.
• Zhu Ziyang told Jiang Nannan to seek the two arm Soul Bones she needed to complete her set for inheriting a divine position.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot confirmed she would become Qian Lingyi's Soul Spirit, and told the Beautiful Silk Tulip that Zhu Ziyang was undergoing a Divine Position Assessment.
• Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan told Xuan Zi that they and their companions were undergoing assessments and would leave Douluo Continent; Xuan Zi promised to keep the matter secret and support them from Shrek.
• Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi left Shrek City, expecting to be away for years.

Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan secured the Moon God Shuttle, a tenth-rank Soul Tool with a lost sea chart, for their voyage to find the Eastern Continent. Zhu Ziyang told Qian Lingyi that the voyage was also part of his God of Death's Seventh Trial, and that Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan would join him to assist.

• Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan asked Xu Jianwei for help with their planned voyage to the Eastern Continent.
• Xu Jianwei gave Zhang Lexuan the Moon God Shuttle, explaining its capabilities and that its lost sea chart once showed directions to every continent around the Sun Moon Continent.
• Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan found Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi preparing supplies, and Qian Lingyi became upset that Zhu Ziyang had told her about the voyage last.
• Zhu Ziyang apologized to Qian Lingyi, then revealed that the voyage was part of his God of Death's Seventh Trial.
• Zhu Ziyang explained that Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan were also involved because their trials required them to assist him, leaving Qian Lingyi stunned.

Zhu Ziyang, Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, and Qian Lingyi prepared to travel toward the Eastern Continent aboard the Moon God Shuttle. After discovering its controls, an ancient sea chart, and an unexpectedly suggestive resting cabin, they set sail across the unknown sea.

• Qian Lingyi learned that Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan were helping Zhu Ziyang complete his seventh divine trial, and the group gathered to prepare for the journey.
• Zhang Lexuan activated the Moon God Shuttle on Fourth Moon Island, revealing the enormous Class 10 Soul Tool.
• Zhu Ziyang and the others discovered the shuttle's controls, automatic sailing functions, and ten-thousand-year-old sea chart, which showed no sign of the Eastern Continent near Douluo Continent.
• The group found a luxurious resting cabin with one enormous bed, leaving Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi embarrassed.
• Zhu Ziyang took the helm as Zhang Lexuan supplied Soul Power and Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi activated the instruments, and the Moon God Shuttle sped out to sea.

After three months at sea, Zhu Ziyang and his companions discovered an enormous, seemingly uninhabited island and explored its forested mountains. They captured a newly advanced hundred-thousand-year soul beast that revealed the island was home to a Holy Emperor.

• The Ice Empress spotted a vast island, and Zhu Ziyang steered the Moon God Shuttle toward it.
• Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi circled the island, found no signs of people, and landed to explore its highest peak.
• The group followed a river inland and saw unfamiliar soul beasts, none of which appeared to be ten-thousand-year beasts.
• A speaking Heavenly Thunder Luo Tiger confronted the group on the mountainside and accused them of disturbing the Holy Emperor's slumber.
• Zhu Ziyang attacked while Zhang Lexuan used her ninth soul skill, Imperial Seal of the Moon, to subdue the tiger for questioning.

Zhu Ziyang's current information listed his Rank 85 Soul Power, two martial souls, soul skills, soul bones, Soul Spirits, and other abilities. The chapter provided a status overview without advancing the story.

• Zhu Ziyang had Rank 85 Soul Power, the World-Pacifying Death Scythe with seven soul rings, and the Heavenly Frost White Dragon King with eight soul rings.
• Zhu Ziyang possessed five five-hundred-thousand-year soul bones and the Million-Year Ice Dragon King Torso Bone, granting abilities including Frozen Time, Death Puppet, and Ice Azure Imperial Dragon.
• Zhu Ziyang had four Soul Spirits: Heavenly Snow Woman Snow Empress, Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Ice Empress, Heavenly Frost Holy Silver Dragon Di'er Shuang, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass Luer.
• Zhu Ziyang possessed self-created soul skills and three soul cores: Spiritual Destiny Soul Core, Light-Death Soul Core, and Extreme Cold Bloodline Soul Core.
• Zhu Ziyang's other abilities included Silver Right Eye (Time Stop), Golden Left Eye (spatial transfer), King's Descent, Necromantic Magic, and two uses of Law Attack.

Zhu Ziyang's group learned about Four Symbols Island's four powerful Soul Beast Kings and its mysterious Dragon King, then chose to leave rather than confront the Great Benevolent Tree Emperor. As the Moon God Shuttle fled across the sea, a group of enormous sea beasts surrounded it, and Zhu Ziyang prepared to fight.

• Heavenly Thunder Luo Tiger told Zhu Ziyang's group about Four Symbols Island, its four Soul Beast Kings, and the Dragon King who guarded the surrounding seas.
• Heavenly Thunder Luo Tiger explained how the Great Benevolent Tree Emperor survived a century of lightning strikes and became a powerful lightning-attribute tree.
• Zhu Ziyang, Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, and Qian Lingyi decided to leave the island and knocked Heavenly Thunder Luo Tiger unconscious before departing.
• Zhu Ziyang summoned Di'er Shuang, and Zhang Lexuan piloted the Moon God Shuttle at full speed away from Four Symbols Island.
• More than ten enormous sea creatures surfaced and encircled the Moon God Shuttle, prompting Zhu Ziyang to tell Zhang Lexuan to stop so they could fight.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions encountered the Sky Blue Dragon Whale King, Violet Gold Chiwen Ninth Ling, while sailing near Four Symbols Island. After learning of a possible continent to the northeast, they changed the Moon God Shuttle’s course to search for it.

• Zhu Ziyang, Zhang Lexuan, and Di'er Shuang emerged from the Moon God Shuttle as a school of dragon whales surrounded them.
• Zhu Ziyang revealed his Ice Dragon King aura, and Ninth Ling, the thousand-meter-long Sky Blue Dragon Whale King, appeared and identified herself.
• Di'er Shuang displayed her own Dragon King aura, and Zhu Ziyang used their presence to persuade Ninth Ling to let the group pass.
• Zhu Ziyang asked Ninth Ling about the Eastern Continent, and she described a continent northeast of Four Symbols Island mentioned by a Black Armored Swordfish King.
• Zhu Ziyang and his companions agreed to follow Ninth Ling’s lead and steered the Moon God Shuttle northeast.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions reached the Eastern Continent, which was called Martial Soul Continent, and learned about its nations and Soul Beast territories. The Other Shore Flower Mark directed Zhu Ziyang toward the Mountain Range of the Dead, while the Dimensional Library opened a section containing books from the new continent.

• Zhu Ziyang's group encountered a fishing boat, and its captain told them that Violet Port of the Milan Empire was about a day's voyage southeast.
• The group avoided entering Violet Port and landed on a remote shore, where Zhu Ziyang's Other Shore Flower Mark identified the land as the Eastern Continent and pointed him toward the Mountain Range of the Dead.
• Zhu Ziyang discovered that the Dimensional Library had opened a new section with books from the continent, including histories of the Milan Empire and the Violet Family.
• Zhu Ziyang used the library to explain that Martial Soul Continent had eight nations divided between the Northern and Southern factions, which had fought for centuries before joining against Beast Tides.
• Zhu Ziyang explained that the Mountain Range of the Dead was the continent's largest Soul Beast habitat, divided its northern and southern halves, and was also known as the Sacred Mountain.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions traveled to the Mountain Range of the Dead, where they planned to seek the God of Death's Artifact and possibly confront the Devil Emperor. After spending the night at the mountain's foot, they prepared to enter the range the next morning.

• Jiang Nannan, Qian Lingyi, and Snow Empress compared the Devil Emperor's power with Ditian's, while Ditian wondered why he felt someone was talking about him.
• Zhu Ziyang suspected the Devil Emperor was connected to his trial, and Snow Empress offered to hold it back if they faced it; Zhu Ziyang recalled his Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array as a trump card.
• Zhu Ziyang and the three girls changed into local clothes in Plum Blossom Town and traveled to the Milan Empire's section of the Mountain Range of the Dead.
• Around their campfire, Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, and Qian Lingyi discussed possible Titled Douluo names, and Zhu Ziyang chose Jing Tian Douluo for himself.
• The next morning, Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan emerged from their tent looking content, while Qian Lingyi appeared tired and resentful; Zhu Ziyang called for breakfast before they entered the mountains.