Chapter Summaries

Yu Yuanzhen killed Ye Xingzhi and pursued Lu Leng as he fled through the forest with Ye Lingling. Yu Yuanzhen caught up using his Fifth Soul Skill, leaving Lu Leng facing a powerful enemy with few options.

• Ye Xingzhi sacrificed himself with a Soul Tool, but Yu Yuanzhen contained the blast and killed him.
• Lu Leng carried the grieving Ye Lingling through the forest while she healed his wounds, and Yu Yuanzhen chased them.
• Lu Leng realized he could neither hurt Yu Yuanzhen nor escape for long, while Yu Yuanzhen resolved to kill him to protect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen used Fifth Soul Skill, Thunderous Quadruple, to close the distance by eight hundred meters in four flashes.

Lu Leng shielded Ye Lingling from Yu Yuanzhen’s attack and escaped down a cliff, hiding with her in a concealed hollow. He was bleeding heavily, and Ye Lingling had to choose between healing him and risking their discovery.

• Lu Leng used Spirit Destruction Arrow to interrupt Yu Yuanzhen, but Yu Yuanzhen’s Thunder Dragon Claw tore off his wings and badly wounded his back.
• Lu Leng shattered a boulder with Drawing Sword Slash and fell over the cliff while Yu Yuanzhen recovered and ordered a search.
• Lu Leng hid with Ye Lingling beneath weeds and dirt, using Spatial Concealment to evade Yu Yuanzhen’s Spiritual Power.
• Ye Lingling discovered Lu Leng was losing blood rapidly, but he warned her not to use a Soul Skill because the searchers might detect them.
• Ye Lingling saw Lu Leng was still holding himself up to avoid crushing her, so she carefully lowered his arms and let him rest against her.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling survived the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s search by healing in hiding and moving through areas after patrols had cleared them. Once the searchers’ numbers dwindled, Lu Leng left Ye Lingling in a safe spot and ambushed a patrol disciple, keeping another captive while concealing the struggle.

• Ye Lingling healed Lu Leng in their hiding place, and the two waited until the nearby searchers had moved on.
• Lu Leng explained that they would evade the patrols by tracking their patterns and moving into places that had just been searched.
• Using Spatial Concealment, Lu Leng and Ye Lingling repeatedly changed hiding spots and avoided the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s searches.
• As the clan transferred searchers away and their numbers fell, Lu Leng told Ye Lingling to wait while he went out alone.
• Lu Leng ambushed one isolated disciple and subdued another, then told a nearby patrolman that they had encountered a snake.

Lu Leng used Evil Thought Power to control a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple and learned of a forbidden land nearby, then took Ye Lingling there to hide. As they prepared to enter the storm-struck place, Ye Lingling said she had nothing left to fear after losing her parents.

• Lu Leng compelled a disciple to reveal that they were in the clan’s back mountain and that its Forbidden Land lay less than two kilometers away.
• Lu Leng controlled the disciple with Evil Thought Power, then told Ye Lingling they could trust him and decided they should seek shelter in the Forbidden Land.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered a wider search for Lu Leng, despite the clan’s preparations for its family tournament.
• The disciple led Lu Leng and Ye Lingling to the Forbidden Land’s overgrown entrance and explained that people who entered had never returned.
• Lu Leng sent the disciple away and chose to enter the Forbidden Land with Ye Lingling rather than risk being discovered.
• Ye Lingling told Lu Leng that, with her parents gone and no ties left, she had nothing to fear.

After Ye Lingling blamed Lu Leng for her father's death, his self-doubt allowed the evil power within him to take control, and he attacked her. Repeated lightning strikes suppressed the power, leaving Lu Leng unconscious as night fell.

• Ye Lingling broke down and blamed Lu Leng for Ye Xingzhi's death and their danger, while Lu Leng accepted her blows and questioned his own arrogance.
• Lu Leng's evil power surged as he doubted himself, and he knocked Ye Lingling into the Stone Gate, injuring her.
• Lu Leng pursued Ye Lingling with his blade as dark clouds gathered over the Forbidden Land.
• Lightning repeatedly struck Lu Leng, briefly restoring his awareness and interrupting his attack on Ye Lingling.
• Lu Leng resisted the evil power with his Soul Power as lightning suppressed it, then shouted at the sky and was knocked unconscious by another strike.
• Lu Leng woke after night had fallen.

After Ye Xingzhi’s death, Ye Lingling helped Lu Leng confront his guilt and renew his resolve to protect her and grow stronger. The next day, they found a sealed door deeper in the forbidden land, but Lu Leng’s blood activated only one of its many runes before dark clouds gathered overhead again.

• Lu Leng woke in an abandoned stone house, where Ye Lingling told him she had carried him deeper into the forbidden land after he collapsed.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling apologized to each other, and Ye Lingling reassured him that he was not to blame for her father’s death.
• Ye Lingling embraced Lu Leng, and he resolved never to let her be hurt again and to become strong enough that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would fear him.
• The next day, Lu Leng examined a sealed door and discovered that his blood lit one of its runes, though he estimated that more than a thousand runes remained.
• Dark clouds gathered over the forbidden land again as Lu Leng considered how to open the door.

Lu Leng used the Forbidden Land’s thunderclouds to power the Stone Gate, while Ye Lingling let go of her resentment toward him. They entered the gate and found a desolate realm under endless thunderclouds, unaware that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan believed they would never return.

• Lu Leng drew Lightning Element from the thunderclouds to light every rune on the Stone Gate, and the gate opened.
• Seeing Lu Leng’s wounded, remaining wing still protecting her, Ye Lingling felt her resentment disappear and entered the gate with him.
• Yu Yuanzhen learned someone had entered the Forbidden Land and ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to stop searching, believing the intruders were doomed.
• Lu Leng passed through the gate with Ye Lingling, recovered from the disorienting journey, and found himself in a barren realm filled with black, brittle stones beneath thunderclouds.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling explored a strange lightning-filled realm, following traces through a desert until they reached an abandoned military city. As they entered, a sickly, gaunt man suddenly appeared and stared at them with excitement.

• Lu Leng found Ye Lingling vomiting after they arrived in the realm, helped her recover, and guessed they were in a Secret Realm.
• The two followed traces across the desert, discovered a dried corpse, and later found a strange black river lined with vivid plants.
• After walking for nearly a day, Lu Leng and Ye Lingling spotted a black city and found soul beast footprints, fur, and a scale along the way.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling entered the damaged city through its open gates, where a gaunt, diseased man suddenly emerged and looked at them with a sharp gleam in his eyes.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling entered a strange, seemingly deserted city where men with lightning abilities attacked Ye Lingling in a mindless frenzy. Lu Leng killed the attackers, but worried that the city might be full of them as he and Ye Lingling considered whether to continue.

• A man charged at Ye Lingling while muttering about a woman, and Lu Leng killed him with Zhan Luo.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling entered the city and found dilapidated stone houses and empty streets.
• A second man attacked Ye Lingling, and Lu Leng cut him in half, drawing a crowd of men.
• The gathered men rushed at Ye Lingling with unnatural speed, and Lu Leng discovered that they all wielded the Lightning Element.
• Lu Leng killed the dozen attackers in under a minute while Ye Lingling endured the bloody scene.
• Lu Leng worried about how many more attackers were in the city, and Ye Lingling asked whether they should continue.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling entered Thunder Pool, where guards admitted them but kept other outsiders out. They learned the city was part of the Land of Thunder Punishment and agreed to meet its clan chief to find out more.

• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling reached Thunder Pool and were admitted through its guarded gate, while guards drove back a group trying to enter from outside.
• Inside the city, Lu Leng killed a man who rushed toward Ye Lingling, and the other residents backed away.
• A middle-aged man and a woman asked Lu Leng and Ye Lingling their names; Lu Leng identified himself, and Ye Lingling gave her name.
• The middle-aged man told Lu Leng and Ye Lingling that they were in the Land of Thunder Punishment and said their entry meant they had gained a fortuitous opportunity.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling followed the pair deeper into Thunder Pool to meet the clan chief.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling met the Titled Douluo who led the clan in the Land of Thunder Punishment and learned that no one had ever escaped. He brought them to the Thunder Pillar to undergo God's Assessment, leaving their prospects uncertain.

• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling entered the wooden palace and told the white-haired old man they did not belong to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The old man said no one had ever escaped the Land of Thunder Punishment, but he knew of a possible way out and ordered Yuan Xin to take them to the Thunder Pillar.
• After Lu Leng and Ye Lingling left, Yuan Hao questioned the old man's decision to let outsiders take the assessment, and the old man told him to protect them and prepare to make use of their talent.
• Yuan Xin led Lu Leng and Ye Lingling to a plaza where a black pillar stood, and the old man explained that anyone who entered the Land of Thunder Punishment could undergo God's Assessment.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling discovered that the Land of Thunder Punishment was the Thunder God's inheritance site. Ye Lingling received Black Level Five Trials, while Lu Leng hesitated over pursuing the inheritance because he doubted the Thunder God's power could defeat Tang San.

• Lu Leng recognized the Land of Thunder Punishment as a divine inheritance site and asked the old man whose assessment it was.
• The old man questioned Lu Leng about his knowledge of gods and his master, but Lu Leng stayed guarded.
• Ye Lingling placed her hand on the Thunder Pillar and received Black Level Five Trials, marked by a red lightning insignia on her forehead.
• The old man revealed that the inheritance belonged to the Thunder God after Lu Leng insisted on knowing.
• Lu Leng recalled that the Thunder God was a First-Rank God and wondered whether inheriting his power could let him defeat Tang San.

Lu Leng chose to accept the Thunder God’s trial and unexpectedly received the Thunder God's Nine Trials. The golden power transformed him and strengthened his lightning abilities, leaving the old man astonished.

• Lu Leng weighed the Thunder God’s trial against the Sea God, Asura God, and other options, then decided he had no better choice.
• Lu Leng pressed his hand against the Thunder Pillar, and its light surged through black and crimson as nine beams of blood-red light unleashed violent lightning and shook the Thunder Pool.
• The red light turned golden, calming the storm and revealing that Lu Leng had obtained the Thunder God's Nine Trials.
• Golden light transformed Lu Leng’s body and left a lightning emblem on his forehead.
• Lu Leng tested his enhanced powers, summoning golden-tinged Thunderclaps as the old man watched in amazement.

Yu Ruyi explained Lu Leng and Ye Lingling’s first trials, then discussed how Lu Leng’s Thunder God’s Nine Trials might help the Thunder Pool Clan escape the Land of Thunder Punishment. That night, Lu Leng began explaining gods and the God Realm to Ye Lingling.

• Lu Leng learned that his first trial was to cross the true Thunder Pool within one year, while Ye Lingling’s trial was to gather ninety-nine strands of Thunder Silkworm Golden Silk with no time limit.
• Yu Ruyi introduced himself as chief of the Thunder Pool Clan and arranged lodging for Lu Leng and Ye Lingling before their trials began.
• Yuan Hao asked whether Lu Leng’s Thunder God’s Nine Trials changed the clan’s plan, and Yu Ruyi said Lu Leng must not die because his success could free them from the Land of Thunder Punishment.
• Yu Ruyi told Yuan Hao to continue the clan’s plan cautiously and privately lamented that their chance to succeed was running out.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling chose to share a room for safety, and Lu Leng explained that soul masters could become gods at level one hundred and enter the God Realm.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling discussed their divine trials and began the challenges assigned to them at the Thunder Pool. Lu Leng examined the lake he had to cross, while Ye Lingling prepared to collect Thunder Silkworm Golden Silk and raise silkworms.

• Lu Leng explained that his Thunder God's Nine Trials could let him inherit godhood, while Ye Lingling's Black Level Five Trials could not.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling agreed to be wary of the strange people in the Thunder Pond Clan and spent the night in separate beds.
• Yuan Xin led Lu Leng and Ye Lingling to the Thunder Pool and explained their trials before leaving to arrange meals.
• Lu Leng examined the purple lake he had to cross without flying, while Ye Lingling gathered wood to repair a nearby house and raise Thunder Silkworms.

Lu Leng repeatedly tried to cross the Thunder Pool while using its lightning to strengthen his body and cultivate, and Ye Lingling built a room to raise Thunder Silkworms. By the next day, Lu Leng had reached Soul Power Level forty-five but remained unable to pass the thirty-meter barrier, while Yu Ruyi and Yuan Hao quietly discussed their concealed plan.

• Lu Leng entered the Thunder Pool, endured increasingly strong electric shocks, and was blasted back when he tried to cross the thirty-meter barrier; Ye Lingling helped him recover.
• Yu Ruyi dismissed Yuan Hao's comparison between Lu Leng's trial and the Black-Level Four Trials, then checked that their plan was proceeding without being discovered.
• Ye Lingling finished building a silkworm-rearing room and caught Thunder Silkworms, including one that spun a powerful strand of golden energy thread.
• Lu Leng trained at the thirty-meter threshold, gradually increasing his tolerance and condensing his Soul Power until he broke through from level forty-four to level forty-five.
• Two young members of the Thunder Pond Clan delivered food to Lu Leng and Ye Lingling, and Lu Leng thanked them for bringing meals.

Lu Leng continued the Thunder Pool trial and pushed deeper into its increasingly dangerous depths. By the end, he had reached the ninety-fifth meter, where the Zhan Luo Blade absorbed the golden energy in a divine bolt of lightning.

• Yu Man'er and Yu Zhilang delivered lunch to Lu Leng and Ye Lingling, and Yu Man'er offered Lu Leng more fruit juice for the next day.
• Ye Lingling grew jealous of Yu Man'er's attention to Lu Leng, then left in a huff after he laughed at her sulking.
• Lu Leng continued his trial, and six months later he had reached level forty-seven and entered the Thunder Pool's ninety-meter range.
• Lu Leng struggled against the force at the ninety-first meter, then used the Zhan Luo Blade to anchor himself and absorb lightning as he advanced to the ninety-fourth meter.
• A bolt containing golden light struck the Thunder Pool, and the Zhan Luo Blade absorbed its energy, glowing like a golden weapon.

Lu Leng pushed through the Thunder Pool trial to the ninety-five-meter mark, discovering that the final stretch tested mental strength as well as physical endurance. As Yu Man'er tried to care for him, Ye Lingling grew jealous and disrupted her advances, leaving the two women competing over Lu Leng.

• Lu Leng used the Zhan Luo Blade to cross ninety-five meters, then blacked out and was thrown from the trial.
• After recovering, Lu Leng realized the pressure beyond ninety-five meters tested his mental strength and resolved to complete the remaining five meters within half a year.
• Yu Man'er arrived with food, supported Lu Leng, and insisted on feeding him while he felt too weak to sit unaided.
• Ye Lingling rebuked Yu Zhilang for calling her Lingling, then pretended to stumble into Lu Leng's arms and pushed Yu Man'er away.
• Yu Man'er returned to Lu Leng's side and resumed feeding him, but Ye Lingling snatched the chopsticks and told her to prepare better food instead.

Lu Leng continued the Thunder Silkworm trial while Ye Lingling and Yu Man’er competed for his affection. On the final day of the one-year deadline, Ye Lingling needed one more strand of golden silk, and Lu Leng prepared to face the last meter of the trial.

• Ye Lingling warned Lu Leng to keep Yu Man’er at a distance, while Lu Leng avoided confronting his uncertain feelings for Ye Lingling.
• Lu Leng resumed the trial at ninety-five meters and slowly strengthened his body and Spiritual Power under the pressure.
• Yu Man’er intensified her advances toward Lu Leng, worsening the rivalry between her and Ye Lingling.
• Lu Leng reached ninety-nine meters a week before the deadline, after spending half a year overcoming the final four meters.
• On the last day of the deadline, Ye Lingling stood beside Lu Leng with ninety-eight strands of Thunder Silkworm Golden Silk, while Lu Leng prepared to attempt the final meter.

Lu Leng pushed through the Thunder Pool’s final trials, enduring its physical and spiritual torment until golden lightning restored his Thunderclap Wings. He crossed the hundred-meter mark and completed the trial, standing at the lake’s edge as the storm fell silent.

• Lu Leng entered the Thunder Pool and advanced to ninety meters as lightning struck around him.
• He endured the escalating force and bodily tempering at ninety-six and ninety-seven meters, using Drawing Sword Slash to reach ninety-eight meters.
• Lu Leng resisted the illusions at ninety-eight meters with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger skull bone and reached ninety-nine meters.
• Golden lightning engulfed Lu Leng at the final stretch, and his Thunderclap Wings drew it in as his broken wing regrew.
• Lu Leng spread his restored wings, crossed the hundred-meter mark, and completed the trial as the storm stopped.