Chapter Summaries

After Ye Wuyou completed his trial and grew stronger, Gu Chen and his companions left the Nameless Mountain Range and defeated a gathering of high-ranking Abyss creatures. Gu Chen revealed that he had sealed the Abyss rift, and several Great Wall Guard Army generals volunteered to spend their lives maintaining the seal.

• Ye Wuyou reached level 87 after completing his Fifth Trial, and he told Gu Chen he would support him.
• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Wuyou killed a gathering of high-ranking Abyss creatures weakened by Ye Wuyou's Death God Domain.
• After returning to the military camp, Gu Chen summoned the Great Wall Guard Army's commander and generals to a meeting.
• Gu Chen explained that he had sealed the spatial rift and that a Title Douluo would need to supply the Oblivion Spirit Sealing Array with energy once each year.
• General Meng and several other generals volunteered to guard the array for the rest of their lives.

Gu Chen accepted the Great Wall Guard Army’s allegiance, assigned General Meng and the other generals to guard the Oblivion Spirit Sealing Array, and arranged for the army to clear the remaining Abyss creatures and train with the Starfall Army. He then traveled alone through the golden key to the otherworldly continent, where humans mistook his golden wings for those of a powerful corpse beast.

• The Great Wall Guard Army commander pledged allegiance to Gu Chen, who accepted and ordered the army to eliminate the low-level Abyss creatures remaining in the Nameless Mountain Range.
• Gu Chen assigned General Meng and the other four generals to take turns supplying Soul Power to the Oblivion Spirit Sealing Array, while the commander continued leading the Great Wall Guard Army.
• Gu Chen incorporated the Great Wall Guard Army into the Spirit Hall Empire’s Starfall Army and told Luo Chen and Little Nine to train the modernized army for six months.
• Luo Chen explained that his first Food God trial required him to reach Soul Douluo cultivation and create three Fried Rice-based Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Gu Chen told Gu Yuena to stay behind while he visited the otherworldly continent, then entered it through the golden key’s six-pointed star formation.
• Gu Chen sensed Earth Element energy and flew toward a human bastion, where its residents mistook him for a golden-winged eighth-rank beast corpse.

Gu Chen arrived in a parallel Earth ravaged by zombies and discovered that people there wielded Earth Element energy. At Earthwalk Barrier, he introduced himself as an Otherworld Traveler and obtained perfume to take back to his partner.

• The system revealed the parallel world's history, and Gu Chen used Elemental Vision to see Earth's abundant Earth Element energy and terrestrial veins.
• Gu Chen descended toward Earthwalk Barrier, where residents mistook him for a mutant eagle corpse before realizing he was human.
• Gu Chen introduced himself as an Otherworld Traveler to Hao Xinren, commander of the Earthguard Knights.
• Gu Chen asked for a suitable gift for his partner, and Hao Xinren arranged for a soldier to bring him plant-based perfume.
• Gu Chen sampled the perfume and found its scent sweet and comfortable.

Gu Chen gave Hao Xinren a Raptor Egg that was immune to the zombie virus, then learned that a corpse tide was besieging Earthwalk Barrier. He flew to the failing southern wall and began fighting the zombies.

• Gu Chen gave Hao Xinren a Raptor Egg infused with Soul Power and explained that it could resist the zombie virus.
• Soldiers reported that Earthwalk Barrier was under siege, and Hao Xinren hurried to command the defense at the northern gate.
• After an hour of fighting, soldiers warned that the southern wall was close to falling under an attack led by a seventh-rank demonic tiger corpse.
• Gu Chen spread his Golden Dragon Wings and flew to the southern wall to help the barrier residents.
• The demonic tiger corpse smashed through the reinforced wall as residents tried to hold the breach against the advancing zombies.
• Gu Chen landed outside the barrier, blasted nearby zombies with Golden Dragon Shakes the Earth, and raised his Golden Dragon Spear against the corpse tide.

Gu Chen fought through the zombie siege at the Earthwalk Barrier and killed its seventh-tier demon tiger corpse leader. The corpse tide’s fate was left uncertain after Gu Chen destroyed the threat capable of breaching the barrier.

• Gu Chen slaughtered waves of zombies and beast corpses with his Golden Dragon Spear and Golden Dragon Claw, while his scales repelled a fifth-tier porcupine beast corpse’s attack.
• Gu Chen used Forbidden Heaven and Earth: Dragon Emperor Battle to unleash tens of thousands of fighting spirit phantoms against the horde.
• Gu Chen activated Prohibition of the Ordinary · Dragon Emperor Charge and carved a path through the corpses to reach the seventh-tier demon tiger corpse.
• Gu Chen shattered the demon tiger corpse’s claw, then devoured the deadly black mist it released with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• The seventh-tier demon tiger corpse fled, but Gu Chen caught it with Forbidden Universe: Dragon Emperor Annihilation and pierced through its head, annihilating it.

Gu Chen saved the Earthwalk Barrier by killing a Rank Seven Demon Tiger Corpse, causing the zombie tide to retreat. After Hao Xinren thanked him, Gu Chen collected three crates of Earth Element Condensation Crystals, remembering that they might help Xuan Mo.

• Hao Xinren was injured while fighting a Rank Six Demon Bear Corpse and nearly died before it abruptly fled as the zombie tide retreated.
• A soldier told Hao Xinren that Gu Chen had killed the Rank Seven Demon Tiger Corpse in two strikes, and Hao Xinren concluded Gu Chen had likely reached Rank Nine.
• Gu Chen landed before Hao Xinren, who bowed and thanked him for saving the Earthwalk Barrier.
• Soldiers presented Gu Chen with three crates of Earth Element Condensation Crystals gathered from the battlefield.
• Gu Chen stored the crystals in his System Backpack after remembering that Xuan Mo possessed Earth Element energy.

Gu Chen shared Yangzhou Fried Rice with Hao Xinren, then left Five Mountains and broke through its Earth Element barrier. Inside, he encountered a Rank Nine powerhouse who ordered him to come along.

• Hao Xinren took Gu Chen to a local restaurant, where Gu Chen tasted Yangzhou Fried Rice and remembered his distant homeland.
• Gu Chen spent the night in Five Mountains, packed fifteen portions of fried rice, and promised Hao Xinren he would return.
• Gu Chen flew to the barrier surrounding Five Mountains and struck it with Forbidden Universe: Dragon Emperor Annihilation until he opened a gap.
• Gu Chen entered Five Mountains and approached the 9,999 steps of Xuan Mo's second Earth God divine trial.
• An old man in an earthen-yellow robe appeared before Gu Chen, identified as a Rank Nine powerhouse, and told him to come along.

Gu Chen met High Priest Tu Xingkong at the Earth God Inheritance Temple and watched Xuan Mo push through the final steps of his divine trial. Xuan Mo completed the second trial while unconscious, received a God-bestowed Spirit Ring that reached three hundred thousand years, and remained unconscious as the ring was absorbed.

• Gu Chen followed High Priest Tu Xingkong to the Earth God Inheritance Temple and explained that he had come to see Xuan Mo.
• High Priest Tu Xingkong showed Gu Chen a crystal ball displaying Xuan Mo’s climb to the 9,998th step of Five Mountains.
• Xuan Mo endured the Earth God’s pressure and lunged onto the 9,999th step before fainting.
• The Earth God declared Xuan Mo’s second trial complete and increased his Earth God Affinity by 15%, bringing the total to 25%.
• The trial awarded Xuan Mo a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, which automatically began absorbing as his existing Spirit Rings gained five thousand years of age.
• The God-bestowed Spirit Ring stabilized at three hundred thousand years as the Earth God’s power subtly changed Xuan Mo’s Mountain Shattering Shield.

Gu Chen helped Xuan Mo recover inside the Earth God Inheritance Temple and learned that Xuan Mo’s third trial required thirty thousand Earth Element Condensation Crystals. Gu Chen provided nearly fifty thousand crystals he had collected during a zombie tide, allowing Xuan Mo to complete the trial and receive powerful rewards.

• Gu Chen carried the injured Xuan Mo through the divine pressure and into the Earth God Inheritance Temple with High Priest Tu Xingkong.
• High Priest Tu Xingkong healed Xuan Mo, who awoke and described his improved strength and the third trial’s requirement to collect thirty thousand Earth Element Condensation Crystals.
• High Priest Tu Xingkong warned that the trial was nearly impossible, but Gu Chen revealed three chests containing nearly fifty thousand crystals from the zombie tide he had fought at the Earthwalk Barrier.
• Xuan Mo submitted the crystals and completed the third trial, earning increased Soul Ring ages, two Soul Power levels, and a full Martial Soul evolution in exchange for all the crystals.

After completing the Earth God’s third test, Xuan Mo returned with Gu Chen to the military camp and learned how much had changed during his two-year absence. A meal of food from Gu Chen’s homeland stirred his homesickness and left him wondering whether he could return after defeating the God Realm.

• Xuan Mo’s Mountain Shattering Shield evolved into the god-tier Earth God Heavy Shield, and he explained that his fourth test required gaining one million believers.
• Gu Chen and Xuan Mo left Five Mountains and returned to the military camp outside the Nameless Mountain Range, where Gu Chen told Xuan Mo about the war and the sealed Abyss Plane rift.
• Ling Xiaojiu and Luo Chen welcomed Xuan Mo back and learned that he had completed the Earth God’s third test and reached level eighty-four.
• Gu Chen invited everyone to dinner and served Yangzhou Fried Rice, which he said might inspire Luo Chen’s Self-Created Soul Skill divine test.
• As the others ate, Gu Chen recited a poem about longing for home and quietly wondered whether he could return to his original world after defeating the God Realm.

After savoring Yangzhou Fried Rice, Gu Chen went alone to the Great Wall and struggled with thoughts of returning to Earth and the parents he had left behind. Gu Yuena joined him, and he chose to cherish the life and person before him as they watched the moon together.

• Gu Chen finished his Fried Rice and asked his companions to leave him alone; Luo Chen led the others to continue training the modern army.
• Gu Chen climbed to the deserted Great Wall and wondered whether he could return to Earth, thinking of the parents he had left behind.
• Gu Yuena found Gu Chen, and he reassured her before giving her perfume from another world.
• Gu Yuena bathed with the perfume and returned two hours later in a pale purple dress.
• Gu Chen drew Gu Yuena into his embrace, and they sat together on the Great Wall to watch the moon.

Luo Chen created his first Self-Created Soul Skill, Longing Fried Rice, after thinking of Feng Xiaoyu. Gu Chen and Gu Yuena returned to the Ice God Inheritance Temple, where they learned that Xue Youyou’s progress in her second divine trial depended on using her ice-element control to withstand the divine pressure.

• Luo Chen’s longing for Feng Xiaoyu inspired him to create Longing Fried Rice, a Soul Skill that used food to spread emotions as spiritual power and influence others.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena returned at dawn and told the group they would meet again in Gui Xu City in half a year.
• Luo Chen showed Gu Chen his new Soul Skill, and Gu Chen praised its month-long duration and potential to work with Su Bai’s God of Emotion inheritance.
• Hua Bu Luo received a God-bestowed Spirit Ring from Gu Chen and explained that his fifth Flower God trial required him to spar with the temple’s High Priest without harming any plants.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena returned to the Ice God Inheritance Temple and learned from Third Guardian Tian Yin that Xue Youyou had reached the fifty-second icy step.
• Third Guardian Tian Yin explained that Xue Youyou needed to use her ice-element control to offset the Ice God’s divine pressure and reach the final steps of her trial.

Xue Youyou completed the Ice God's second trial by using her control over the ice element to withstand the pressure on the hundred-first step, then absorbed a 250,000-year God-bestowed Spirit Ring. She learned that her third trial required becoming a Title Douluo with Ice God as her title, and she, Gu Chen, and Gu Yuena set off for Gui Xu City.

• Xue Youyou advanced to the hundredth step and refined her ice element control to overcome the pressure on the hundred-first step.
• Xue Youyou completed the Ice God's second trial, raised her Ice God affinity to twenty percent, and absorbed a 250,000-year eighth Spirit Ring.
• Xue Youyou told Gu Chen and Gu Yuena that her third trial required her to become a Title Douluo and take Ice God as her title.
• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Xue Youyou said goodbye to Tian Yin and Bing Aotian, then used Gu Chen's silver light to travel to the outskirts of the Far North.
• The three reunited with their four horses and began traveling by carriage toward Gui Xu City.

Gu Chen returned to Gui Xu City and learned that the Star Luo Empire was nearly conquered, while Feng Xiaoyu described her Wind God trial and planned to fight using wind magic alone. In Spirit City, Miao Yuheng warned Qian Xunji to prepare to face Gu Chen as the war neared its end.

• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Xue Youyou reached Gui Xu City, where Luo Chen and the others welcomed them.
• Luo Chen told Gu Chen that the Spirit Empire's armies had nearly taken control of the Star Luo Empire and expected to capture its last three resisting cities within seven days.
• Feng Xiaoyu told Gu Chen she had completed her fourth Wind God trial, received the Ten Thousand Miles of Imprisonment Wind God Ring, and planned to rely on wind-element magic for her next trial.
• Feng Xiaoyu explained the ranks of magicians and said she had reached Five-star Magician, with the goal of becoming a Great Magician capable of contending with the Ninth Priest.
• Luo Chen held a welcome feast for Gu Chen and his companions, and Hua Bu Luo said he had advanced to an eighty-second-level Soul Douluo.
• Miao Yuheng showed Qian Xunji a dossier bearing Gu Chen's name and warned him to prepare to face the Holy Son as the war approached its end.

Qian Xunji ordered Gu Chen back to Spirit City under the pretext of punishing him, secretly intending to seize his weapon and kill him. After receiving the decree during the Starfall Army’s victory celebration, Gu Chen recognized the trap and ordered his forces to prepare to march on Spirit City.

• Miao Yuheng warned Qian Xunji that Gu Chen’s weapon could threaten his life and proposed luring Gu Chen to Spirit City to disarm and kill him.
• Qian Xunji issued a decree accusing Gu Chen of destroying Spirit City and ordering him to return, relinquish his post, and accept punishment.
• Seven days after the Star Luo Empire’s conquest, Gu Chen and his companions celebrated their victory in Gui Xu City.
• A palace eunuch delivered Qian Xunji’s decree, and Gu Chen’s Shadow Guards responded with fury when they heard its contents.
• Gu Chen exposed the plan to secretly kill him, ordered the eunuch killed, and told his forces to prepare to march on Spirit City.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena prepared to break through after seven years of suppressing their cultivation, while their allies reorganized the army to oppose Qian Xunji. Gu Chen condensed a million-year seventh Spirit Ring and, sensing he had reached level eighty, began releasing his eighth seal.

• After a gunshot ended the eunuch's scream, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena vanished to break through, and Ye Wuyou ordered Luo Chen, Ling Xiaojiu, and Feng Xiaoyu to prepare the army.
• Feng Xiaoyu told Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo that Qian Xunji had moved against Gu Chen and that they needed to reorganize the army and march on Spirit City.
• Ten kilometers outside Gui Xu City, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena released their suppressed Soul Power and prepared to condense their seventh Spirit Rings.
• Gu Chen released his seventh seal, absorbed the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power, and condensed a golden million-year Spirit Ring as his human body became his true form.
• Gu Yuena's seventh Spirit Ring began developing golden patterns, while Gu Chen sensed he had reached level eighty and decided to release his eighth seal.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena broke their eighth seals, gained golden million-year Spirit Rings, and reached level eighty-nine. After returning to Gui Xu City, they set out with their armies to bypass intervening cities and march directly on Spirit City to defeat Qian Xunji.

• Gu Chen shattered his eighth seal, absorbed the released power into his Spirit Rings, and formed eight golden million-year rings as his Golden Dragon King bloodline reached two hundred percent strength.
• Gu Chen waited while Gu Yuena completed her absorption; she revealed that her Silver Dragon King bloodline had reached two hundred and twenty-five percent strength and that her Elemental Control had greatly increased.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena reached level eighty-nine and resolved to eliminate Qian Xunji, take control of the Spirit Hall Empire, and unite the continent.
• Gu Yuena used Space Teleportation to take Gu Chen back outside Gui Xu City, where they met Luo Chen, Ling Xiaojiu, Ye Wuyou, and the assembled armies.
• Gu Chen ordered the modernized army and soul master army to bypass the cities between them and Spirit City, explaining that the civilians and soldiers there were innocent and avoiding them would reduce casualties.

Gu Chen led his armies toward Spirit City after Li Zhiying secretly deserted, and Qian Xunji ordered a force to intercept them. When Gu Chen’s army spotted the blockade, Thousand Jun Douluo discovered Li Zhiying was the missing traitor, and the two armies prepared to clash.

• A Soul King named Li Zhiying secretly left the Starfall Army and fled toward Spirit City after the battle.
• Spirit Speech Douluo Liao Junxiang warned Qian Xunji that Gu Chen was marching on Spirit City, and Qian Xunji ordered him to lead the imperial soul master force to kill Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen ordered his army to accelerate as they approached Spirit City, but Feng Xiaoyu spotted an opposing force five kilometers ahead.
• Gu Chen announced that a traitor had exposed their plans and ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle.
• Thousand Jun Douluo searched the Starfall Army and learned that Li Zhiying was the only member missing since they left Gui Xu City.

Gu Chen faced the Spirit Hall Empire’s Royal Imperial Soul Master Army and its three Title Douluos after Li Zhiying’s betrayal left the enemy blocking his force. He revealed his million-year Spirit Rings and used Golden Dragon Hegemony to absorb and reflect Sun Shooting Douluo’s attack, leaving the opposing army shaken and Sun Shooting Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar cracked.

• Thousand Jun Douluo raged over Li Zhiying’s betrayal as Gu Chen’s force encountered the Royal Imperial Soul Master Army.
• Demon Subduing Douluo identified the elite enemy corps, and Gu Chen saw its three Title Douluos: Sun Shooting Douluo, Liao Junxiang, and Nine-tailed Douluo.
• Sun Shooting Douluo demanded Gu Chen’s surrender, but Gu Chen displayed eight golden Spirit Rings and claimed they were million-year Spirit Rings, boosting his own forces’ morale and frightening the enemy.
• Sun Shooting Douluo fired his eighth soul skill at Gu Chen, who used Golden Dragon Hegemony to absorb the attack without injury.
• Gu Chen reflected the absorbed golden energy back at Sun Shooting Douluo, cracking his Sunset Divine Bow Martial Soul Avatar and leaving him severely wounded.

Feng Xiaoyu and the modernized army battled the Royal Imperial Soul Master Army, using Wind Wings, bullets, and wind magic to break its defenses. She and her allies killed all five enemy Soul Douluos, leaving the battle turning in their favor.

• The Royal Imperial Soul Master Army blocked the modernized army’s bullets with its Defense System Soul Masters as Feng Xiaoyu gave the Shadow Guards Wind Wings to attack from the air.
• Feng Xiaoyu summoned an Illusory Wind Dragon to break the enemy formation, and the Shadow Guards killed nearly a hundred more Soul Masters with gunfire.
• A Soul Douluo destroyed the wind dragon and attacked Feng Xiaoyu, but she used Heavenly Dance of Wind to disperse his saber phantom.
• Feng Xiaoyu teleported Ye Wuyou and Jin Zi behind the enemy lines, where they fatally stabbed two Soul Douluos.
• Feng Xiaoyu restrained the remaining two Soul Douluos with wind rings and killed them with Radiant Cross Slash.