Chapter Summaries

After Feng Xiaoyu completed the Wind God's first trial, Gu Chen created a teleportation route to the Hurricane Grand Canyon so her companions could help her with the next trial. They arrived inside a powerful Wind Rock Python's lair, and Gu Chen fled with the group when its attack overwhelmed his defense.

• Feng Xiaoyu recovered and discovered that completing the Wind God's first trial had increased the age of each of her Spirit Rings by five thousand years.
• Feng Xiaoyu learned that her second trial required her to cross the Hurricane Grand Canyon, and Gu Chen used a Spatial Key to create a Teleportation Array to it.
• Gu Chen, Feng Xiaoyu, Luo Chen, and the others traveled through the array while Gu Yuena stayed behind to look after Xue Youyou and Xuan Mo.
• The group appeared in the Hurricane Grand Canyon inside a Wind Rock Python's lair, and the demon shattered Gu Chen's defensive soul skill with a wind blade.
• Gu Chen grabbed and carried his companions as he spread his Golden Dragon Wings and fled from the Wind Rock Python.

Gu Chen and Feng Xiaoyu fled a Wind Rock Python and reached the Wind God Inheritance Temple, where the priests drove the demon away. Feng Xiaoyu learned she held the temple’s highest status as the Wind God’s inheritor, while Luo Shiyu explained that the creature was a Great Demon, not a soul beast.

• Gu Chen carried Feng Xiaoyu toward the cyan fortress while the Wind Rock Python pursued them, and Feng Xiaoyu identified it as the Wind God Inheritance Temple.
• Feng Xiaoyu revealed her Wind God Imprint to the temple’s priests, and High Priest Luo Shiyu recognized her as an inheritor and let her group inside the barrier.
• Luo Shiyu and the Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Priests formed the Five Laws Expulsion Array, wounded the Wind Rock Python, and drove it away.
• Luo Shiyu told Feng Xiaoyu that she held the highest status in the temple after the Wind God and promised to help her complete her divine trials.
• Luo Shiyu explained that Feng Xiaoyu’s trial required her to cross Hurricane Grand Canyon alone and identified the Wind Rock Python as a Great Demon formed from rock and gale.

Feng Xiaoyu prepared to cross Hurricane Grand Canyon for her second divine trial, with Luo Chen supplying food that strengthened and sustained her. Less than a tenth of the way through the canyon, she encountered a Wind Nightmare Beast and its Wind Monster tribe blocking the only route forward.

• Luo Shiyu explained the ranks of demons and said that no Demon God had appeared on the continent for ten thousand years.
• After resting and recovering, Feng Xiaoyu set out for Hurricane Grand Canyon, where Luo Shiyu warned that crossing its million-meter stretch would be dangerous.
• Feng Xiaoyu confirmed that Luo Chen's food would count as permitted supplies, and Luo Chen prepared thirty-six bowls of fried rice for her.
• Feng Xiaoyu ate the fried rice and flew into the canyon while Luo Chen wished her success.
• Feng Xiaoyu was wounded by the canyon's fierce winds, then encountered a tribe of Wind Monsters led by a Wind Nightmare Beast blocking the only path through.

Feng Xiaoyu fought the Wind Nightmare Beast and its pack in the Hurricane Grand Canyon, using close-range attacks to defeat them after her ranged attacks failed. She recovered in the pack’s lair and trained her spiritual power before preparing to continue the God Trial.

• Feng Xiaoyu used Death Hurricane Crescent Moon against the Wind Nightmare Beast, but the monsters’ wind blades neutralized it while killing many lesser Wind Monsters.
• Feng Xiaoyu countered the Wind Nightmare Beast’s attack with Hurricane Wind Blade Array, then used Hurricane Thrust to close the distance and shattered the beast with Hurricane Cutting Array.
• Feng Xiaoyu used her remaining Soul Power to kill the surviving Wind Monsters, then collapsed and restored her strength with Delicious Fried Rice.
• Feng Xiaoyu recovered in the Wind Nightmare Beasts’ lair, cultivated her spiritual power, and recognized that stronger Elemental Control could let her use Spirit Abilities without spending Soul Power in the canyon.
• Feng Xiaoyu stood up after fully recovering her spiritual power, still sore from the strain of moving at ten times the speed of sound.

Feng Xiaoyu endured Hurricane Grand Canyon’s deadly hazards and overcame the Wind Rock Python blocking its exit, completing the Wind God’s second trial. She received a doubled reward, reached forty percent Wind God affinity, and her Hurricane Bird martial soul evolved into the Ultimate Wind—Azure Bird.

• Feng Xiaoyu crossed a narrow gorge of uncontrolled wind blades, survived the destruction of her Wind Barrier, and recovered with Luo Chen’s Secret Fried Rice.
• Feng Xiaoyu spent nearly six hours traversing the remaining dangers of Hurricane Grand Canyon while Luo Shiyu led Gu Chen and the others around its outer perimeter.
• Feng Xiaoyu found the Wind Rock Python blocking the canyon exit, and her companions worried that she could not defeat the Great Demon.
• Feng Xiaoyu used Hurricane Thrust to pass through the Python’s wind blade array and escape the canyon, suffering severe wounds in the process.
• The Wind God’s trial declared Feng Xiaoyu successful, doubled her reward, and raised her Wind God affinity to forty percent as divine power healed her.
• Feng Xiaoyu’s martial soul transformed from the Hurricane Bird into the Ultimate Wind—Azure Bird.

After Feng Xiaoyu’s second Wind God trial, she awakened the Ultimate Wind Azure Bird Martial Soul and learned that her next trial required her to earn the Azure Bird’s approval. The group returned to Spirit Academy, where Gu Chen and Gu Yuena recognized the Azure Bird as the Wind God’s former Divine Beast companion, though it had lost its memories.

• Feng Xiaoyu refused to abandon the Wind God inheritance trial, and Luo Chen left to improve his Soul Power after caring for her.
• After recovering, Feng Xiaoyu discovered that her Soul Power had reached Rank 76 and her Martial Soul had evolved into the Azure Bird with Ultimate Wind.
• Feng Xiaoyu learned that her third trial required her to gain the Azure Bird’s approval and reach the Soul Douluo level, so Gu Chen decided the group would return after she recovered.
• The group returned to Spirit Academy, where Gu Yuena told Gu Chen that Xue Youyou and Xuan Mo had completed their first divine trials.
• Feng Xiaoyu summoned the Azure Bird, which demanded that its master command the Law of Wind, while Gu Yuena recognized it as a Divine Beast that had joined the human deities and Gu Chen noted it had lost its memories.

Xue Youyou and Xuan Mo learned the requirements of their Second Trials, and Gu Chen sent Xuan Mo to Five Mountains to train under divine pressure. Meanwhile, Hua Bu Luo passed his Second Trial and evolved his Cherry Blossom Martial Soul into Myriad Flowers.

• Xue Youyou said her Second Trial required her to reach the Ice God Palace in the Far North, and Gu Chen planned to travel there during the coming war against the Star Luo Empire.
• Xuan Mo asked Gu Chen to send him to Five Mountains to cultivate, and Gu Chen used a world-spanning Teleportation Array to transport him there.
• Xuan Mo climbed to the 5,981st step of Five Mountains, where divine pressure halted him, and began cultivating under it as his Soul Power growth accelerated.
• Gu Chen put away the costly space-patterned key and sent the others to the training ground for combat practice.
• Hua Bu Luo passed his Second Trial, gained ten percent Flower God Affinity, and evolved his Cherry Blossom Martial Soul into Myriad Flowers.
• Hua Bu Luo thanked Bi Ji and the Myriad Demon King, who had guarded and guided him.

Hua Bu Luo began his Flower God's Third Trial, and Gu Chen gave him a year to learn one hundred thousand kinds of flowers using learning-speed cards. A year later, Spirit Hall founded the Spirit Hall Empire and expanded its power, while Gu Chen secretly took control of its military.

• Hua Bu Luo told Myriad Demon King and Bi Ji that his third trial required studying the Flower Codex and learning about one hundred thousand flowers and herbs.
• Hua Bu Luo returned to Spirit Academy and showed Gu Chen his evolved martial soul, which could reproduce the medicinal effects of spiritual herbs when infused with enough Soul Power.
• Gu Chen bought twelve Tenfold Learning Speed Boost Cards and sent Hua Bu Luo to train for a year in Exclusive Training Room No. 0413.
• One year later, Spirit Hall held a reselection conference for the Seven Great Sects, whose new members were all loyal supporters of Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall founded the Spirit Hall Empire under Qian Xunji, expanded into territory belonging to both great empires, and built up its armies and soul master forces.
• Gu Chen gained control over the Spirit Hall Empire's military through his loyal followers and the Title Douluo in the Elder Hall.

Gu Chen tested Feng Xiaoyu’s improved wind attack and checked Mo Yun’s progress on the Scorpion God’s trial, while Hua Bu Luo returned after completing the Flower God’s Third Trial. Qian Xunji summoned Gu Chen and Gu Yuena to announce that the Spirit Hall Empire was about to wage war against the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, with Gu Chen serving as commander-in-chief.

• Feng Xiaoyu’s Death Hurricane Crescent Moon cracked Gu Chen’s Golden Dragon’s Restraint, and Gu Yuena advised her to master her emotions and the laws.
• Mo Yun reported that his strength had reached 8,702 tons toward the Scorpion God’s First Trial, and Gu Chen offered him Hua Bu Luo’s remaining body-tempering medicines.
• Hua Bu Luo returned after completing the Flower God’s Third Trial, gaining five thousand years on each soul ring, ten percent more affinity, and a divine skill.
• A messenger summoned Gu Chen and Gu Yuena to meet Qian Xunji at the Spirit Hall Palace.
• Qian Xunji told Gu Chen that the Spirit Hall Empire would wage war against the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires and ordered him to participate as commander-in-chief.

Qian Xunji ordered Gu Chen and Gu Yuena to lead one of the Spirit Hall Empire’s armies in its coming wars against the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. Gu Chen chose to lead the Starfall Army, accepted the mission to conquer the Star Luo Empire, and obtained a Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon and its God-Slaying Heaven-Destroying Earth-Annihilating shell.

• Qian Xunji described the strength of both armies and assigned their invasion of the empires to begin in a month.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Chen that the armies were named the Heaven Punishing Army and the Starfall Army.
• After the system presented rewards for either campaign, Gu Chen chose to lead the Starfall Army against the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Xunji split the Starfall Army’s Tiger Tally between Gu Chen and Gu Yuena and ordered them to march in three months.
• The system confirmed Gu Chen’s choice and mission, and he opened a Mysterious Weapon Pack containing a Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon and a God-Slaying Heaven-Destroying Earth-Annihilating shell.

Gu Chen recruited Jin Zi to help bring Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Xie, his father, under his command. Jin Xie doubted that Qian Renxue had become Gu Chen’s servant, but she arrived and knelt before Gu Chen, confirming Jin Zi’s claim.

• Gu Chen accepted Gu Yuena’s half of the Tiger Tally and asked her to call Jin Zi out of Spirit Academy.
• Gu Chen told Jin Zi that he wanted Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Xie to join him, and Jin Zi agreed to lead him to his father.
• Jin Zi urged Jin Xie to support Gu Chen, but Jin Xie refused because of his loyalty to the Qian Clan and the Angel God.
• Jin Zi revealed that Qian Renxue had become Gu Chen’s servant, and Jin Xie reacted with disbelief and anger.
• Gu Chen summoned Qian Renxue, who arrived and knelt before him as his servant while Jin Xie watched in shock.

Gu Chen secured Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Xie's complete loyalty and tasked him with monitoring Qian Xunji and White Armor Douluo Miao Yuheng. At the Starfall Army garrison, Gu Chen equipped three hundred Shadow Guards with modern weapons to form a powerful special operations force.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Xie to submit to Gu Chen, and Jin Zi told him that five of Gu Chen's companions had received divine inheritances.
• Gu Chen ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Xie to watch Qian Xunji and White Armor Douluo Miao Yuheng and report discoveries using a Communication Talisman Stone.
• Gu Chen left for Spirit Academy with Jin Zi, then set out seven days later with Gu Yuena, Luo Chen, and others for the Starfall Army garrison near the Star Luo Empire.
• Ye Wuyou reported that the Shadow Guards numbered one thousand, with three hundred transferred into the Starfall Army as its Special Operations Brigade.
• Gu Chen announced that he would arm the three hundred Shadow Guards with modern weapons, then spent 210,000 System Points on rifles, pistols, grenades, and ammunition.

Gu Chen armed the three hundred Shadow Guards with modern firearms and grenades, then taught them how to use the weapons by demonstrating their power. The Shadow Guards finished collecting their equipment and began learning to operate the AKM assault rifles.

• Gu Chen issued one hundred selected Shadow Guards Kar-98k sniper rifles, P9 pistols, grenades, and ammunition, then explained how the sniper rifles worked.
• Gu Chen demonstrated the Kar-98k and P9 pistol by shooting an iron gate and an earthen wall, impressing the Shadow Guards with their power.
• At Gu Chen’s direction, Ye Wuyou prepared a dirt mound and straw men, and Gu Chen demonstrated how fragmentation and high-explosive grenades worked.
• The remaining two hundred Shadow Guards collected AKM assault rifles, P9 pistols, grenades, and ammunition.
• Gu Chen explained the AKM’s features and taught all three hundred Shadow Guards how to operate it.

Gu Chen armed and renamed the Spirit Empire Starfall Army’s modernized force and began preparing for its campaign against the Star Luo Empire. Feng Xiaoyu chose to cultivate a dangerous technique from another world, while Ye Wuyou proposed using the modernized force to launch a rapid attack.

• Gu Chen demonstrated an AKM assault rifle, ordered ammunition samples sent to blacksmiths, and renamed the Special Operations Brigade the Spirit Empire Starfall Army Modernized Army.
• Gu Chen offered his companions a dangerous cultivation technique, and Feng Xiaoyu accepted it; its runes entered her mind and the scroll burned to ash.
• Gu Chen gave Luo Chen and Little Nine rifles and grenades for protection during the coming campaign.
• Gu Chen and his companions debated attacking the Star Luo Empire through Shimo City, Minglu City, or Yunze City.
• Ye Wuyou suggested that the modernized force rapidly capture cities while the other troops prevented the Star Luo Empire from encircling it, and Gu Chen welcomed the plan.

Gu Chen proposed a Blitzkrieg strategy to break through the Star Luo Empire's defenses and lead the Spirit Empire's forces toward the enemy's heart. After finalizing the invasion plan, he trained Luo Chen, Ling Xiaojiu, and the Shadow Guards to use firearms as the army prepared to advance.

• Gu Chen explained Blitzkrieg tactics, and the commanders spent a day refining a plan to attack the Star Luo Empire.
• Gu Chen's modernized army was assigned to break through at Yunze City, while other forces attacked Shimo City and Minglu City, followed the breach, and cleared captured areas.
• Gu Chen asked Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu to train the modernized army, and they chose to specialize in the AKM assault rifle and Kar-98k sniper rifle respectively.
• Gu Chen used firearm mastery cards to teach Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu, then guided them as they practiced over the next three days.
• The first batch of locally made bullets arrived, and Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu organized the three hundred Shadow Guards into sniper and assault companies under Gu Chen's command.

Gu Chen led the Shadow Guards to attack Yunze City, using sniper rifles, assault rifles, and grenades to overwhelm its defenders. The gates were destroyed and the shielded soldiers were caught in a fragmentation-grenade blast as the assault continued.

• After three months of ammunition production and training, Gu Chen led two hundred Shadow Guards toward Yunze City while Ling Xiaojiu and a hundred snipers took position on a nearby hill.
• Ling Xiaojiu ordered the snipers to shoot the defenders, and their first volley killed every guard on the city wall.
• Gu Chen's Shadow Guards fired their AKM rifles at the replacement defenders and killed six Soul Emperors with coordinated sniper shots.
• Luo Chen ordered fifty Shadow Guards to throw high-explosive grenades, which blasted apart Yunze City's gates and killed hundreds of defenders.
• When Star Luo Empire soldiers advanced behind heavy shields, Luo Chen ordered another fifty Shadow Guards to throw fragmentation grenades, whose shrapnel tore through the shields and soldiers.

Gu Chen’s Shadow Guards massacred Yunze City’s defenders with their rifles, then entered the city while Jin Zi stayed behind to face Soul Douluo Hong Feng. Jin Zi defeated and killed Hong Feng despite his higher rank, leaving the city’s strongest defender dead.

• The Shadow Guards killed the Star Luo Empire soldiers outside Yunze City with sustained rifle fire, and gunmen on a nearby hill cut down those who fled.
• Hong Feng arrived too late to save the defenders and attacked the Shadow Guards, so Gu Chen ordered Jin Zi to hold him off while the others entered Yunze City.
• Jin Zi used her Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul and Spirit Abilities to withstand Hong Feng’s attacks and shatter his staff with Golden Crocodile Annihilation Kill.
• Hong Feng launched his last-ditch attack with his steel staff, but Jin Zi countered with Golden Crocodile Sky Breaker, destroyed his Martial Soul, and killed him.

Jin Zi reached Yunze City after exhausting herself, while Gu Chen's Modernized Army fought through the occupied city. Gu Chen used an Armed Drone to destroy the eastern defenders, then led the Shadow Guards out before Thousand Jun Douluo's army arrived.

• Jin Zi withdrew her martial soul and hurried toward Yunze City as Gu Chen's troops entered and Ling Xiaojiu's sniper company rejoined them.
• Gu Yuena detected hidden Star Luo Empire attackers, and the Shadow Guards killed them with pistols and grenades while Ling Xiaojiu shot a wounded Soul King.
• Gu Chen launched an Armed Drone that bombed a building and swept the route to the eastern gate with machine-gun fire, then killed a Soul Sage with an armor-piercing round.
• Gu Chen led the Shadow Guards through Yunze City and out its eastern gate after they blasted it open with high-explosive grenades.
• Thousand Jun Douluo arrived two quarters of an hour later and ordered twenty thousand soul masters to search the city and kill the remaining Star Luo Empire rebels.

Gu Chen’s Shadow Guards advanced toward the Star Luo capital while Feng Xiaoyu used the Law of Wind to speed their march. At Shimo City, the Spirit Empire’s Northern Expeditionary Force engaged the city’s defenders, and Dongfang Po began fighting its Soul Douluo city lord, Leng Yumming.

• Thousand Jun Douluo ordered the Star Luo Spirit Masters and soldiers killed while enforcing strict discipline among his troops.
• Feng Xiaoyu used the Law of Wind to increase the Shadow Guards’ speed, and Gu Chen urged them to capture three cities that day.
• Shimo City’s defenders prepared for the approaching Spirit Empire army, and Dongfang Po and Su Bai discussed their divine inheritances.
• Fifteen Star Luo experts flew out to meet the Northern Expeditionary Force, and Su Bai assigned its generals to fight them.
• Dongfang Po introduced himself to Leng Yumming and attacked, but Leng Yumming parried his spear and countered with a thrust toward his armpit.

Dongfang Po battled Leng Yumming and, despite being wounded by his opponent’s Martial Soul Avatar, defeated him with his hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ability, Dragon Soaring from the Heavens. Dongfang Po returned to the Northern Expeditionary Force as Su Bai finished killing another Soul Douluo.

• Dongfang Po countered Leng Yumming’s sword attacks, wounded him, and destroyed two of his Blood Shadow Clones with Unrivaled Chaos Dance.
• Dongfang Po pressed Leng Yumming with successive spear strikes, badly injuring his chest, but Leng Yumming’s Martial Soul Avatar knocked away Dongfang Po’s enlarged spear and wounded him.
• Dongfang Po activated Dragon Soaring from the Heavens and crashed down from a hundred meters, engulfing Leng Yumming in flames and leaving the surrounding ground scorched and molten.
• Dongfang Po forced himself back to the Northern Expeditionary Force, drank water from a soldier, and watched Su Bai fight another Soul Douluo.
• Su Bai exploited the Soul Douluo’s unstable state after Seven Emotions Piercing Heart and killed him with a sword strike to the throat.