Chapter Summaries

Zhu Ziyang and his companions followed the Other Shore Flower Mark to Eastern Heavenly Peak, learning that the Scythe of the Dead lay in Demon Emperor Valley and that its Demon Emperor was connected to the Death God. After revealing Electrolux and his five powerful followers, Zhu Ziyang prepared to lure and trap the Demon Emperor while he claimed the scythe.

• Zhu Ziyang and the three girls traveled through the Mountain Range of the Dead for five days until the mark led them to Eastern Heavenly Peak.
• Zhu Ziyang confirmed that the Scythe of the Dead was in Demon Emperor Valley and reassured the worried girls that Zhang Weiwei was with them.
• Zhu Ziyang brought the girls through a Spatial Gate to the Holy Law Demigod Plane and introduced them to his teacher, Electrolux.
• Electrolux summoned five Super Douluo-level Light Powerhouses, including Cormac, to help Zhu Ziyang face the Demon Emperor.
• Zhu Ziyang planned to defeat the Three-Headed Golden Lion King, occupy Eastern Heavenly Peak, and lure the Demon Emperor into the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array.

Zhu Ziyang’s group captured the Three-Headed Golden Lion King and used its memories to learn about the Devil Emperor before Zhu Ziyang completed the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array. They prepared to draw the Underworld Demoness out of Demon Emperor Valley, and Zhu Ziyang gained clues about where the Scythe of the Dead might be.

• Cormac and Roger subdued the sleeping Three-Headed Golden Lion King, and Zhu Ziyang sent it into the Holy Law Demigod Plane.
• Zhu Ziyang sent Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi into the Holy Law Demigod Plane before he and the others approached Demon Emperor Valley.
• Zhu Ziyang began constructing the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array while Roger failed to investigate the valley and Electrolux questioned the captured lion.
• The Three-Headed Golden Lion King revealed that the Devil Emperor was an Underworld Demoness with Ultimate Darkness and Death attributes, and had once killed a level-99 Limit Douluo without appearing in person.
• Zhu Ziyang learned that the Devil Emperor was sensitive to divine auras and completed the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array after three days.

Zhu Ziyang used the Death God's aura to lure the Devil Emperor into the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array and capture her. He revealed that he was the Death God's successor and offered her a chance to become his Soul Ring, leaving her astonished by his explanation of the Snow Empress's Soul Spirit state.

• Zhu Ziyang assigned the five Light Powerhouses and Zhang Lexuan their roles before entering the array as bait.
• Zhu Ziyang released the Death God's aura through his Other Shore Flower Mark, drawing the Devil Emperor to Demon Emperor Valley.
• The Devil Emperor appeared and questioned Zhu Ziyang, but he activated the array and stripped her of her power.
• Zhu Ziyang restrained the Devil Emperor and guessed that the Scythe of the Dead was in her Demon Emperor Palace.
• Zhu Ziyang revealed he was the Death God's successor and offered to take the Devil Emperor to the God Realm as his Soul Ring.
• Zhu Ziyang summoned the Snow Empress and explained that she was his Soul Spirit, prompting the Devil Emperor to ask what a Soul Spirit was.

Zhu Ziyang retrieved the Scythe of the Dead from the Demon Emperor Palace, and it fused with his World-Pacifying Death Scythe. He learned that the divine artifact had been made from the Death Ancient Tree, the former God of Death’s true body, and was now preparing to receive the next trial.

• Zhu Ziyang left the Devil Emperor contained in the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array and went with Zhang Lexuan to search Demon Emperor Valley for the Scythe of the Dead.
• Zhu Ziyang opened the Demon Emperor Palace gates with his World-Pacifying Death Scythe and found the Scythe of the Dead on a platform inside.
• Zhu Ziyang pulled the Scythe of the Dead free, causing the valley’s Death Qi to vanish as the artifact fused with his Martial Soul.
• Zhu Ziyang brought Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi into the palace and asked them to check their trials while he claimed his reward and next trial.
• Xiaobai told Zhu Ziyang that the Scythe of the Dead had been made from the Death Ancient Tree, the first God of Death’s true body, and that its fusion would prepare his Martial Soul to bear the Death Law.

Zhu Ziyang learned that the Eighth Trial of the God of Death required him to make the Demon Emperor his Soul Spirit, and he began the contract with her. As the contract cocoon formed, Roger and Behemothstein fought the Earth Tyrant Dragon King nearby.

• Zhu Ziyang learned that his Eighth Trial was to subdue the Demon Emperor and make her the Soul Spirit of his first martial soul.
• Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan shared their assessment rewards and new trials, which required them to return to Douluo Continent.
• Zhang Weiwei told Zhu Ziyang that Roger was fighting in the south, and Zhu Ziyang sent Behemothstein to support him.
• The Snow Empress told Zhu Ziyang that she had persuaded the Demon Emperor, who agreed to become his Soul Spirit.
• Zhu Ziyang began the Soul Spirit Contract with the Demon Emperor, enclosing them in a cocoon as Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi waited outside.
• Roger and Behemothstein fought the Earth Tyrant Dragon King, whose five-hundred-thousand-year cultivation gave it the advantage against either of them alone.

Zhu Ziyang reached level 91, gained Demon Emperor Quan'er as a Soul Spirit, and completed the God of Death's Eighth Trial. After learning that his final trial required him to reach level 99, he left Martial Soul Continent with Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi.

• Zhu Ziyang summoned Demon Emperor Quan'er, gave her a name, and introduced her to Xue Bingshuanglu.
• Zhu Ziyang discovered that the God of Death's Ninth Trial required him to raise his Soul Power to level 99 to claim the divine inheritance.
• Zhu Ziyang told Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi that he had completed the Eighth Trial and ordered Zhang Weiwei to recall Cormac and the others.
• Zhu Ziyang reunited with the Light Powerhouses, heard that Zhang Weiwei had helped Roger and Behemothstein drive off the Earth Tyrant Dragon King, and sent the group back to the Holy Law Demigod Plane.
• Zhu Ziyang and the three girls left the Mountain Range of the Dead and sailed away from Martial Soul Continent with Quan'er.
• Two years later, the Earth Tyrant Dragon King discovered that Quan'er had vanished from the Demon Emperor Palace.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions met the Silver Moon Spirit Fish King, Shui Yue, and learned that a pod of mixed demon whales was attacking her clan. They agreed to help and set out to find the whales, which could also advance Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan’s trials.

• Zhu Ziyang, Qian Lingyi, Jiang Nannan, and Zhang Lexuan followed a Silver Moon Spirit Fish to Shui Yue, the Silver Moon Spirit Fish King.
• Shui Yue explained that a pod of demon whales had driven her clan from its territory and regularly devoured its members.
• Zhu Ziyang realized that the pod contained several different whale species and suspected a powerful leader was coordinating them.
• The group discussed whether defeating the pod would complete Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan’s trials, and Zhu Ziyang chose to take the initiative.
• Shui Yue led the four companions toward the demon whale pod’s territory.

Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan led their Soul Spirits in defeating the demon whale group that had terrorized the Silver Moon Spirit Fish Clan, but the five-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale escaped. As they searched the battlefield, a furious woman emerged from the sea and confronted them.

• Zhu Ziyang rejected the Silver Moon Spirit Fish King's suggestion to flee and ordered Jiang Nannan and Qian Lingyi to stay aboard the Moon God Shuttle while Zhang Lexuan joined him in battle.
• Zhu Ziyang's Soul Spirits attacked the demon whales, with Snow Empress engaging the five-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale and Devil Emperor, Ice Empress, and Di'er Shuang fighting the other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• The Deep Sea Demon Whale sank beneath the sea to escape Snow Empress, while the other Hundred-Thousand-Year demon whales were killed and Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan slew most of the remaining whales.
• Zhang Lexuan and the Soul Spirits began searching the corpses for Soul Bones and Whale Rubber as Zhu Ziyang prepared to gather their Life Force.
• A thousand-meter-high wave surged around the group, and a furious woman's voice declared that the humans deserved to die as an enormous figure rose from the sea.

Zhu Ziyang and his Soul Spirits battled the nine-hundred-thousand-year Demon Empress and weakened her with his Ninth Soul Ring skill, Life-Reaping Dark Heaven. As he prepared to kill her, the Demon Whale Girl begged him to spare her mother, and a mysterious voice also appealed to him.

• A nearly two-hundred-meter Deep Sea Demonic Whale emerged, and Zhu Ziyang identified her as a nine-hundred-thousand-year beast.
• The whale transformed into Demon Empress and fought Zhu Ziyang and the four Soul Spirits, who gradually forced her toward the sea.
• Zhu Ziyang trapped Demon Empress with Life-Reaping Dark Heaven, draining most of her Life Force and Soul Power.
• Zhu Ziyang prepared to deliver the final blow while the Soul Spirits surrounded the weakened Demon Empress.
• The Demon Whale Girl appeared and pleaded for her mother's life, as a mysterious voice asked Zhu Ziyang to spare the beast.

Zhu Ziyang encountered the World Will of the Douluo World, which offered him two divine sparks in exchange for sparing the Demon Empress and the Demon Whale Girl. He accepted, left the demon whales alive, and departed with the Soul Spirits as the mother and daughter fled into the deep sea.

• The World Will froze time, revealed itself to Zhu Ziyang, and asked him to spare the Demon Empress and the Demon Whale Girl.
• The World Will offered Zhu Ziyang the damaged Rakshasa God King Divine Spark and Angel God Divinity as compensation.
• Zhu Ziyang accepted the offer after learning the World Will hoped he would oppose the Sea God's ambitions in the God Realm.
• Zhu Ziyang absorbed the divine sparks into the Divine Position Inheritance Land and ordered the demon whales never to return to those waters.
• The Demon Whale Girl and the weakened Demon Empress escaped into the deep sea, fearing Zhu Ziyang would return.

After the Demon Whale battle, Zhu Ziyang’s group collected the spoils and learned that Qian Lingyi was a strong candidate to inherit the Angel God Divinity. Xiaobai warned Zhu Ziyang that the damaged Rakshasa God Divinity could further destabilize the Asura God, so he left it in Xiaobai’s care and took the Angel God Divinity.

• Zhu Ziyang absorbed the Life Force of sixteen Demon Whales, raising the World-Pacifying Death Scythe’s Soul Rings to nine red rings, while the group collected nine Soul Bones.
• Jiang Nannan asked the Silver Moon Spirit Fish King to become her Soul Spirit, and the king requested time to return to her clan and make arrangements.
• Zhang Lexuan completed her seventh red-level assessment, gaining one Soul Power level and increasing all her Soul Ring lifespans by a thousand years.
• Zhu Ziyang left the Demon Whale corpses for the Silver Moon Spirit Fish clan and entered the Divine Position Inheritance Land to consult Xiaobai about the Angel God and Rakshasa God Divinities.
• Xiaobai explained that Qian Lingyi had a strong chance of activating the Angel God inheritance, while the damaged Rakshasa God Divinity could worsen the Asura God’s imbalance.
• Zhu Ziyang left the Rakshasa God Divinity with Xiaobai and took the Angel God Divinity.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions returned to the Moon South Archipelago after completing their trials, and learned that Zhang Lexuan’s eighth trial required her to become emperor of the Sun Moon Empire. After hearing news of the continent and the growing threat from Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult, they agreed to split up: Zhang Lexuan would pursue the throne while Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, and Qian Lingyi returned to Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Nannan completed her seventh trial, and she and Zhang Lexuan learned their eighth-trial requirements: completing Jiang Nannan’s Soul Bones and making Zhang Lexuan emperor of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Nannan promised to return to the Silver Moon Spirit Fish King when she reached the Soul Douluo realm, then the group traveled back to the Moon South Archipelago.
• Elder Song welcomed the returning group and was astonished to learn that Zhu Ziyang had become a Titled Douluo at nineteen.
• Elder Song reported that Shrek’s Heavenly Origin Plan was expanding, Xu Tianran had seized control of much of the Sun Moon Empire’s military and likely allied with the Holy Spirit Cult, and sects could now enter the upcoming tournament.
• Xu Jianwei said the Moon Vein controlled two-fifths of the empire’s military and had prepared for Zhang Lexuan’s bid for the throne.
• Zhang Lexuan stayed with Elder Song and Xu Jianwei to carry out the Empress Plan’s final step, while Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, and Qian Lingyi prepared to return to Shrek Academy.

Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy, became the Heavenly Origin Pavilion Master, and received the title Jing Tian. Months later, he brought Qian Lingyi to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where her Soul Spirit Contract with the Infernal Delicate Apricot awakened her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

• Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi convened the Heavenly Origin Pavilion Elders to fulfill Mu En's final wish.
• The Elders unanimously made Zhu Ziyang the Heavenly Origin Pavilion Master and bestowed on him the title Jing Tian.
• Zhu Ziyang spent time with his family and friends, then learned that Xu Jiujiu had returned to the Star Luo Empire and Huo Yuhao had uncovered Sun Moon Imperial Family collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Four months after Qian Lingyi reached Rank 70, Zhu Ziyang took her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to fulfill her promise to the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Zhu Ziyang began the Soul Spirit Contract ritual, and Qian Lingyi emerged from the cocoon with three pairs of angel wings, revealing her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

After Qian Lingyi’s Martial Soul evolved into the Six-Winged Angel, Zhu Ziyang gave her the Angel God Divine Position, which acknowledged her and set her three requirements for inheritance. They headed for her family’s home in the Northern Mountain Range so she could tell her grandmother about the inheritance.

• Qian Lingyi absorbed her seventh Soul Ring and evolved her Martial Soul into the Six-Winged Angel.
• Zhu Ziyang gave Qian Lingyi the Angel God Divine Position, and she received its acknowledgment as a God-Favored One.
• Qian Lingyi explained that she had to complete an Angel Soul Bone Set, reach Rank 99, and recover or reforge the Angel God Sword to inherit the Divine Position.
• Zhu Ziyang promised to help Qian Lingyi find Soul Bones and reassured her that they could address the Angel God Sword later.
• Qian Lingyi asked to visit her grandmother, and Zhu Ziyang accompanied her to her family’s home in the Northern Mountain Range.

Qian Lingyi brought Zhu Ziyang to her family’s village in the Northern Mountain Range and revealed her extraordinary strength and Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul to her grandmother and second uncle. Her family learned about her time at Shrek Academy, and the chapter ended with Zhu Ziyang formally introducing himself to Qian Zhiya.

• Qian Lingyi brought Zhu Ziyang to the Qian Clan village and reunited with her grandmother, Qian Zhiya.
• Qian Lingyi told Qian Zhiya and Qian Zhenyu that she had reached Rank 74 and revealed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, seven soul rings, and red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Qian Lingyi recounted her experiences, including joining Shrek Academy and bringing its prized disciple Zhu Ziyang home.
• Qian Zhiya and Qian Zhenyu reacted with mixed feelings to Qian Lingyi’s choice of academy, and Qian Lingyi challenged their resentment toward Shrek Academy.
• Qian Zhiya accepted that Qian Lingyi could make her own decisions, then recognized Zhu Ziyang from their earlier meeting at Heavenly Radiance Grand Canyon.
• Zhu Ziyang formally introduced himself to Qian Zhiya as the Shrek Academy Heavenly Origin Pavilion Pavilion Master.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Zhu Ziyang agreed to let Tang Ya and Beibei represent the Tang Sect in the upcoming tournament if Tang Ya made future sect leaders graduates of the academy’s Inner Court. Months later, Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan met a striking red-haired girl at the academy gates, just as Ma Xiaotao arrived and called to her.

• Qian Lingyi returned to Shrek Academy with Zhu Ziyang after reuniting with her family, then fused with left and right leg Soul Bones.
• Tang Ya asked Zhu Ziyang to let her and Beibei compete for the Tang Sect in the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Tournament, and he agreed on the condition that future sect leaders graduate from Shrek Academy’s Inner Court.
• Tang Ya planned to recruit Xu Sanshi, Xue Weiwei, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to complete the Tang Sect’s team.
• Three months after returning to the continent, Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan encountered an unfamiliar red-haired girl at Shrek Academy’s gates.
• The girl asked who Zhu Ziyang was, and Ma Xiaotao arrived and told Huan'er to come with her.

Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy with Fifth Huan'er and reunited with Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan, revealing that she had received a divine inheritance. After learning of Mu En’s death and the academy’s changes, Ma Xiaotao grieved while Jiang Nannan confronted Zhu Ziyang about his closeness with her.

• Ma Xiaotao embraced Zhu Ziyang at the academy gates and revealed that she had returned to cheer him on for the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Tournament.
• Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan noticed Ma Xiaotao’s divine flame mark, while Ma Xiaotao discovered Jiang Nannan’s Osmanthus Mark.
• Ma Xiaotao introduced Fifth Huan'er and said she had arranged for her to join Shrek Academy’s Inner Court.
• Zhu Ziyang explained the academy’s changes and Mu En’s death as they walked to Heavenly Origin Island, and Ma Xiaotao wept beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.
• After Ma Xiaotao left to arrange Huan'er’s room, Jiang Nannan demanded compensation from Zhu Ziyang for his closeness with Ma Xiaotao, and he carried her away.

While speaking with Zhu Ziyang, Ma Xiaotao recounted how she found the Fire God Temple and was chosen to undergo the Fire God’s inheritance trials. In the God Realm, the Fire God and Water God discussed their plans for passing down their Divine Positions.

• Ma Xiaotao told Zhu Ziyang that she had received the Fire God’s inheritance and began recounting how it happened three years earlier.
• On Red Minister Mountain, Fifth Huan'er chose and absorbed a seventy-thousand-year Heavenly Sun Fire Ape Soul Ring, gaining her sixth ring.
• Ma Xiaotao and Fifth Huan'er took shelter from the volcano’s eruption and discovered the Fire God Temple inside a cave.
• The Fire God captured the two women with crimson-gold light, then offered Ma Xiaotao the chance to undergo nine trials and inherit his Divine Position.
• In the God Realm, the Fire God told the Water God that Ma Xiaotao had accepted the assessment and that the Death God’s inheritor’s presence made passing down his position possible.

Ma Xiaotao told Zhu Ziyang about receiving the Fire God's inheritance and advancing through six of the God of Fire's Nine Trials with Fifth Huan'er's help. After hearing about Zhu Ziyang's Death God inheritance and his recent adventures, Ma Xiaotao decided to travel with him and the others.

• Ma Xiaotao received the Fire God's inheritance, and Fifth Huan'er received a trial requiring her to help Ma Xiaotao complete all nine trials.
• Over three years, Fifth Huan'er helped Ma Xiaotao complete the first six trials, raising her strength to level 88 and improving her Soul Rings.
• Ma Xiaotao told Zhu Ziyang that the Fire God had urged her to stay close to him, and Zhu Ziyang explained that the Death God was a God King while the Fire God was a Main God.
• Ma Xiaotao agreed to bring Fifth Huan'er with her to the God Realm, and Zhu Ziyang explained Qian Lingyi's God of Angels inheritance.
• After Zhu Ziyang recounted his experiences since they parted, Ma Xiaotao decided to stay with him and travel with the group.

Xing Cai emerged from a four-year cocoon as an adult King of Unicorns, and her recognition of Fifth Huan'er led Zhu Ziyang to suspect she was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. At the cafeteria, Zhu Ziyang discussed the Tang Sect team with his friends and revealed that he already knew the news Jiang Nannan had shared.

• Xing Cai broke out of her cocoon with nearly fifteen thousand years of cultivation, having absorbed the King of Unicorns inheritance, and asked Zhu Ziyang to take her running.
• Zhu Ziyang rode Xing Cai across the Outer Court grasslands before they returned to the Inner Court and met Ma Xiaotao and Fifth Huan'er.
• Xing Cai said Fifth Huan'er's aura felt familiar, and Zhu Ziyang connected her Suanni Martial Soul and their shared familiarity to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Zhu Ziyang decided to investigate Fifth Huan'er later, then left Xing Cai beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and went to the cafeteria.
• Tang Ya told Zhu Ziyang that Xu Sanshi and Xue Weiwei had agreed to join the Tang Sect Team, while Xiao Xiao said she would wait for Huo Yuhao before deciding.
• Jiang Nannan whispered news to Zhu Ziyang, who said he already knew it, surprising Tang Ya and the others.