Chapter Summaries

Li Xun carried Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong through their Seagod trials, helping them complete the crossings and receive their rewards. Ning Rongrong was disappointed by her 2.5% Seagod Affinity, but the sky suddenly darkened.

• Li Xun carried Zhu Zhuqing up 263 steps, completing her trial and raising her Soul Power to rank sixty-eight while improving her spirit rings.
• Li Xun carried Ning Rongrong up the stairs, using his domain and spirit ability to shield her from the pressure as they crossed the final steps together.
• Ning Rongrong and Li Xun completed the crossing and each received a 2.5% increase in Seagod Affinity.
• Ning Rongrong complained that her reward brought no obvious improvement, while Dugu Yan teased her and Zhu Zhuqing tried to reassure her.
• Dark clouds suddenly covered the sky.

Li Xun used Wood Style and a Wooden Golem to get himself and his companions across the Ring Sea, completing the second trial without defeating Xiao Bai in a direct fight. After they received their rewards, the group began Tidal Body Tempering as storms brewed across the continent.

• Li Xun used Wood Style to send vines across the Ring Sea, but Xiao Bai countered with a massive wave that destroyed them and harmed weaker Sea Spirit Beasts.
• Li Xun regathered the vines and used a Wooden Golem to launch Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong across the blockade, then followed them himself.
• Xiao Bai accused Li Xun of cheating, but accepted his victory and transformed into a human girl.
• Li Xun and his companions received 2.5% more Seagod Affinity, bringing their total to 5%, and Dugu Yan showed off her upgraded spirit rings to Ning Rongrong.
• Li Xun helped Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan endure the grueling Tidal Body Tempering as storms began brewing across the continent.

Qian Renxue passed her first Angel trial while Tang San completed his second Rakshasa trial and received a task that forced him to confront his feelings about Yu Xiaogang. Tang San chose to leave his former teacher behind, while Yu Xiaogang struggled alone in Fallen Phoenix Town.

• Qian Renxue reached the final stair of the Angel inheritance and passed her first trial, gaining three Soul Power levels and five percent Angel God's affinity.
• Tang San completed the task of devouring five hundred Spirit Beasts, raised his Soul Power to level seventy, and increased the age of his first two Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings.
• The Rakshasa God judged Tang San's task completion as low quality, then assigned him to defeat Yu Xiaogang without using his martial soul and walk his own path.
• Tang San wrestled with the task and his memories of Yu Xiaogang before deciding that their relationship had run its course and that he did not blame his former teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang remained in Fallen Phoenix Town, isolated and struggling to make progress with his research after losing his former allies.

Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang, then challenged him to a fight to resolve the regret and doubts Yu Xiaogang’s teachings had left him with. After knocking Yu Xiaogang unconscious, Tang San felt his guilt and lingering inferiority disappear and believed he had understood the purpose of the God Examination.

• Yu Xiaogang ignored the ridicule at the academy while worrying that a promising child’s parents would not let him teach their son.
• Tang San arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory, and the two caught up after years apart.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to fight him without Soul Power, Soul Rings, or Martial Souls, prompting Yu Xiaogang to accuse him of seeking humiliation.
• Tang San explained that Yu Xiaogang’s teachings had led him to choose the wrong Soul Rings and described how his Blue Silver Grass was tied to his mother and had mutated.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the challenge with his eyes closed, and Tang San knocked him unconscious with a hand chop.
• Tang San’s guilt and inferiority faded as he reflected on the fight, and he concluded that the encounter revealed the purpose of the God Examination.

Tang San humiliated Yu Xiaogang again before the story shifted to Heaven Dou's invasion of Star Luo and Clear Sky Sect's decision to join the war. As the elders agreed to participate, Seventh Elder called on Tang Hao to fight despite his diminished strength.

• Tang San discovered that the God Examination had not ended, then drained Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power until Yu Xiaogang fell to level nineteen.
• Nearly a year later, Qian Renxue ordered Heaven Dou's forces to invade Star Luo after ministers reported that provisions and troops were ready.
• Heaven Dou's five hundred thousand advance troops swiftly occupied Chris Kingdom, shocking the Star Luo court and prompting the emperor to order a military response.
• Tang Xiao returned to Clear Sky Sect and argued that the sect had nowhere left to retreat, persuading Tang Ming and the other elders to join the war.
• Seventh Elder urged Tang Hao to take part in the war despite his reduced strength.

The Clear Sky Sect agreed to send Tang Hao into battle after he volunteered, while Heaven Dou’s army rapidly captured the Chris Kingdom and prepared to advance farther into Star Luo territory. At Sea God Island, Li Xun completed his trial and treated Ning Rongrong and the others before Dugu Bo arrived.

• Tang Hao volunteered to fight, and Tang Xiao reluctantly agreed while warning him to protect himself.
• Heaven Dou captured the Chris Kingdom in seven days, and Ning Fengzhi ordered reinforcements to advance toward the Yun Luo Duchy.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo discussed Yang Wudi’s campaign and Sword Douluo’s unreturned mission.
• Ning Fengzhi worried whether Li Xun and Poison Venerable had received news of Heaven Dou’s attack.
• Li Xun finished his daily trial at Sea God Island and massaged Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo walked over to Li Xun and the others.

Dugu Bo told Li Xun that the war between Heaven Dou and Star Luo had begun, then returned to the front after Li Xun urged him to spare ordinary people. After the tidal body tempering trial ended, Li Xun planned to help Zhu Zhuqing hunt an Evil Spirit Orca spirit ring before leaving Sea God Island, while his flirtation with Ning Rongrong hinted at a change in their relationship.

• Dugu Bo told Li Xun that Heaven Dou had deployed troops against Star Luo and was heading back to help the war effort.
• Li Xun urged Dugu Bo to target powerful fighters rather than civilians, and Dugu Bo secretly gave Dugu Yan a mysterious little bottle before leaving.
• Li Xun planned to help Zhu Zhuqing hunt an Evil Spirit Orca spirit ring and then return to the continent with the others.
• The tidal body tempering trial ended, and Li Xun and Ning Rongrong split its fifteen percent Seagod Affinity reward while Dugu Yan reached rank sixty-nine.
• Li Xun teased Ning Rongrong and asked her to leave her door open that night, while Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan watched his growing boldness.

Li Xun visited Ning Rongrong in her room and spent the night with her, insisting he would treat her and Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan equally. At noon, he came downstairs to find Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan avoiding his gaze after hearing the sounds from Ning Rongrong’s room.

• Li Xun slipped into Ning Rongrong’s room and coaxed her out from beneath her blanket.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Li Xun about Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan, and he said he would treat everyone equally.
• Li Xun used his healing abilities to restore Ning Rongrong, and they spent the night together until she fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Li Xun covered Ning Rongrong with a fresh blanket, lay beside her, and fell asleep.
• At noon, Li Xun went downstairs, where Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan looked away after being kept awake by the sounds from his room.

Li Xun tried to reassure Zhu Zhuqing after he had been with Ning Rongrong, then went to Zhuqing’s room and used concern for her health as a pretext to get into bed with her. The chapter ended as he slipped beneath her blanket, while Zhuqing remained nervous and uncertain.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Li Xun how Ning Rongrong was, and he said she was fine but tired.
• Li Xun rested on Zhu Zhuqing’s lap and hinted that he had another difficult battle ahead that night, leaving her anxious about what he meant.
• Dugu Yan quietly left after recalling the sounds from the previous night and worrying about the medicine her grandfather had given her.
• Zhu Zhuqing retreated to her room and waited for Li Xun, growing disappointed when he did not come for hours.
• Li Xun found Zhu Zhuqing’s door locked, knocked, then entered after adding Soul Power to his voice; he told her he needed to discuss something important.
• Li Xun undressed Zhu Zhuqing under the guise of checking her health, then slipped under her blanket and called their intimacy the important matter.

Li Xun reunited with Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing after spending the evening with Zhu Zhuqing, then set out with Xiao Bai to face the Evil Orcas for their trial. He began preparing an attack on the Evil Orcas’ territory beneath the sea.

• Li Xun spent the evening with Zhu Zhuqing, who escaped to the bathroom before joining Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan for dinner.
• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan discussed the sounds from upstairs, then quietly ate with Li Xun and Zhu Zhuqing when they came down.
• Li Xun went to the beach and summoned Xiao Bai, asking her to lead him to the Evil Orcas.
• Xiao Bai warned Li Xun that the Evil Orcas were dangerous and asked him to wait another year, but he insisted he was ready.
• Li Xun, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Bai traveled underwater to the Evil Orcas’ gathering place, where Li Xun summoned his Martial Soul and used his Fifth Spirit Ability to raise a forest of Azure Blue Spears.

Li Xun used his Martial Soul Avatar and ice abilities to devastate the Evil Orca pod and capture its king. After the battle, he ordered Xiao Bai to summon her clan and take the frozen king ashore.

• Li Xun detected the Evil Orca pod with his Spiritual Power as Xiao Bai and the others hid nearby.
• Li Xun summoned his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked the Evil Orcas with Azure Blue Spears, provoking the bloodthirsty pod into chaos.
• The Evil Orca King rallied its remaining kin and fought back, but Li Xun used ice to block their retreat and overwhelm them.
• Li Xun froze the Evil Orca King in an ice sphere after its energy ran low.
• Li Xun dismissed his Martial Soul Avatar, told Xiao Bai to summon her clan, and had her drag the captured king ashore.

Li Xun helped Zhu Zhuqing defeat the Evil Orca King’s attempted self-destruction and absorb its hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring. He gave the resulting soul bone to Ning Rongrong, then considered a new idea that could strengthen himself and his allies.

• Xiao Bai brought the frozen Evil Orca King ashore, and Li Xun chose it as Zhu Zhuqing’s next Spirit Ring.
• The Evil Orca King began to self-destruct, but Li Xun and Tian Meng disrupted its mind, weakening the barrier around it.
• Zhu Zhuqing slipped through the barrier and killed the dazed Evil Orca King, then smoothly absorbed its crimson Spirit Ring and rose to level seventy-six.
• Li Xun gave the Evil Orca King’s left leg soul bone to Ning Rongrong, recalling his childhood promise to obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul bone for her.
• Li Xun thought of a new plan that might benefit himself, Teacher, Sword Grandfather, and the others.

After Bo Saixi asked Li Xun to learn what had become of Tang Chen, Li Xun told her the continent believed Tang Chen was dead and left her with that news. Meanwhile, the war between Heaven Dou and Star Luo remained deadlocked, and Tang San arrived at the Star Luo command camp with a possible way to stabilize the front.

• Bo Saixi asked Li Xun to inquire about Tang Chen through the Clear Sky Sect, and Li Xun told her that Tang Chen was widely believed to be dead.
• Bo Saixi thanked Li Xun and warned him to be careful when leaving Sea God Island and to remember his examination deadline.
• Heaven Dou's weapons gave its army an advantage, but Star Luo's powerful Soul Masters and shifting reinforcements kept the battles at a stalemate.
• At the Star Luo command camp, Seventh Elder urged the Clear Sky Sect to prepare for defeat, while Tang Xiao insisted they defend Antonio City.
• Tang Hao proposed that the elders cultivate the Great Sumeru Hammer's Ring Burst technique, prompting Tang Ming to warn of its dangers.
• Tang San entered the command tent and said he might have a way to stabilize the situation.

Tang San promised the Clear Sky Sect elders that he could bring powerful experts to aid the Star Luo Empire, though he refused to reveal who they were. Meanwhile, Li Xun returned to the Heaven Dou camp with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan, and the gathered leaders noticed his close ties with the two young women.

• Tang San reflected on the elders' past treatment of Tang Hao, then told Tang Xiao he could recruit powerful experts to help the Star Luo Empire.
• Yang Wudi explained that Bai He refused to join Heaven Dou while the Defense Clan remained undecided, and Dugu Bo offered to handle both clans himself.
• The Heaven Dou commanders discussed how to deal with the Speed Clan and its alliance with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Li Xun arrived at the camp with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan, carrying tokens from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo welcomed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while the commanders noticed the girls' closeness with Li Xun.

Li Xun proposed using his Second Martial Soul’s Tracking ability to deal with the Speed Clan, then confronted Bai He as Heaven Dou’s army prepared to move. Bai He refused Li Xun’s offer to abandon Star Luo, leaving their conflict poised to escalate.

• The elders teased Li Xun, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing about marriage and grandchildren, prompting the two girls to flee and Dugu Yan to follow.
• The group discussed how to remove the Speed Clan from the Clear Sky Sect’s influence, and Li Xun offered to track its members with his Second Martial Soul.
• Bai He watched Heaven Dou’s camp from the air and saw its soldiers dismantling tents, so he sent signals to Star Luo’s forces.
• Sword Douluo and Li Xun approached Bai He, and Li Xun asked whether he intended to live and die alongside Star Luo.
• Bai He questioned Li Xun’s authority to speak for Heaven Dou, and Li Xun took his response as a refusal.

Li Xun pursued Bai He by flying on the Water Cold Sword, catching him near the Star Luo defense line as he tried to lure Li Xun into the Clear Sky Sect’s camp. Surrounded by Tang Xiao and the sect members, Li Xun summoned his Martial Soul Avatar, True Several Thousand Hands, and brought down an enormous Thousand Hands Buddha Statue.

• Li Xun revealed his two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings and used Mental Lock and Tracking to pursue Bai He on the Water Cold Sword.
• Bai He fled toward the Star Luo Empire’s Antonio Defense Line while Li Xun steadily caught up and Sword Douluo followed behind.
• Bai He fired a signal and flew to Tang Xiao, who ordered the Clear Sky Sect members to prepare for battle after Bai He identified Li Xun.
• Li Xun kept flying toward the assembled sect members, then summoned True Several Thousand Hands and descended in the form of a gigantic Thousand Hands Buddha Statue.

Li Xun used his enormous Martial Soul Avatar to devastate the Clear Sky Sect and kill Bai He and the Fifth Elder. Tang Xiao led the survivors out of its reach, and the chapter ended with Sword Douluo arriving as Li Xun dismissed the avatar.

• Li Xun summoned the Thousand Hands Buddha Statue and struck the Clear Sky Sect with a storm of fists.
• Bai He, the Fifth Elder, an eightieth-level Soul Douluo, and more than a dozen younger disciples died in the assault.
• Tang Xiao and the elders formed Clear Sky Body Protection, then withdrew beyond the statue's attack range.
• Tang Xiao considered attacking Li Xun while he was weakened, but Sword Douluo arrived before the sect could act.
• Li Xun dismissed True Several Thousand Hands and asked Sword Douluo where Bone Douluo and Dugu Bo were.

After Li Xun shattered the Star Luo defensive line, Tang Xiao ordered a retreat while Heaven Dou prepared to advance on multiple fronts. Li Xun began researching Natural Power and new cultivation methods, while Tang San concealed his contempt for the Spirit Beasts confronting him.

• Tang Xiao ordered the Star Luo forces to regroup in Antonio City and fall back toward Gengxin City, acknowledging that Li Xun’s strength made defeating him increasingly difficult.
• Li Xun and Sword Douluo descended after Tang Xiao and the elders withdrew, and Li Xun considered developing Sage Arts and ways to evolve Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Poison Douluo and Bone Douluo arrived after the Star Luo front had collapsed, and Heaven Dou divided its advancing army into three forces.
• Li Xun created three doppelgangers to research blocking Martial Souls from absorbing Natural Power and developing a new meditation method.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San hid his killing intent and acted aggrieved as he faced Bi Ji and the other Spirit Beasts.

Tang San tried to persuade Bi Ji and the Star Dou Great Forest to ally with the Star Luo Empire, but Di Tian exposed his schemes and Bi Ji refused. In Antonio City, the Clear Sky Sect argued over its losses and Tang Hao’s failures, while Tang Xiao tried to restore order.

• Tang San offered Bi Ji a protected sanctuary for soul beasts in exchange for the Star Dou Great Forest’s support against Heaven Dou, and used Da Ming’s grief to strengthen his appeal.
• Bi Ji consulted Di Tian, who warned her that Tang San was calculating and untrustworthy, so she rejected his proposal and left.
• Tang San urged Da Ming to help avenge Xiao Wu and Er Ming before their opportunity disappeared.
• In Antonio City, the Seventh Elder blamed Tang Hao for the Clear Sky Sect’s losses and accused him of failing to kill Li Xun when he had the chance.
• Tang Hao summoned his hammer and Soul Rings as the Seventh Elder prepared to fight him, but Tang Ming intervened and Tang Xiao ordered everyone to sit down.

After Li Xun killed Bai He, news of his victory lifted Heaven Dou’s morale while the Clear Sky Sect ordered a retreat and began its Kindling Plan. At Antonio City, Li Xun rallied Heaven Dou’s army and revealed a colossal Martial Soul Avatar that sent Star Luo’s soldiers fleeing.

• Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect to abandon Antonio City, withdraw the Speed Clan, and begin the Kindling Plan.
• News of Li Xun killing Bai He spread through Heaven Dou, inspiring its people and prompting Feng Xiaotian to head for the front lines.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi she would return to Spirit City to continue her God Examination, and Ning Fengzhi asked about Bibi Dong.
• At Antonio City, Li Xun displayed his three red Soul Rings before Heaven Dou’s 150,000 soldiers, who shouted his name as Star Luo’s troops panicked.
• Li Xun used Martial Soul Avatar, True Several Thousand Hands, manifesting a colossal Buddha beside the city walls.