Chapter Summaries

Ye Wuyou began the Death God's final divine inheritance after completing the Eighth Trial, with Great Enshrined Deathly Silence conducting the ritual. The Ninth Trial began as the Death God Crystal poured its energy into Ye Wuyou.

• After the Eighth Trial raised Ye Wuyou's Death God Affinity to one hundred and five percent, Deathly Silence told him he was ready for the final inheritance.
• Ye Wuyou agreed to begin, and Gu Chen stayed nearby despite Deathly Silence warning that the overflowing death energy could harm him.
• Deathly Silence summoned his nine Spirit Rings and enclosed himself and Ye Wuyou within them on the silver platform.
• Deathly Silence produced the previous Great Enshrined's Death God Crystal, which activated the Death God Scythe imprint on Ye Wuyou's forehead.
• Ye Wuyou affirmed that he would honor the Death God's convictions, preserve his original purpose, and uphold the god's dignity.
• Deathly Silence pressed the Death God Crystal to Ye Wuyou's forehead, and the Ninth Trial, Death God Inheritance, began.

Ye Wuyou entered the Death God’s final trial after Great Enshrined Deathly Silence sacrificed himself to open the inheritance gate. He arrived before the vast Death God Temple and prepared to accept the inheritance, while his scythe resonated with the temple doors.

• Great Enshrined Deathly Silence announced the Death God’s final trial and shattered his soul rings and the Death God Crystal to open the gate.
• Deathly Silence told Ye Wuyou that guiding the next Death God was his mission, then vanished in gray ghostfire as Ye Wuyou was engulfed by black light.
• Ye Wuyou vowed not to forget Deathly Silence’s sacrifice and walked through the Death God Inheritance Gate.
• Ye Wuyou descended through a strange black-and-silver world and discovered the enormous Death God Temple below him.
• Ye Wuyou reached the temple doors, bowed with the Death God Scythe in hand, and felt the scythe resonate with the carvings.

Ye Wuyou entered the Death God Temple for the final stage of the inheritance and received the Death God's guidance. The trial began as he was immobilized on a circular platform surrounded by eight smaller platforms.

• Ye Wuyou met the Death God, who said his Death God Affinity had surpassed one hundred percent and that he could offer guidance.
• The Death God asked whether Ye Wuyou resented him for Deathly Silence's sacrifice, and Ye Wuyou said he did not because Deathly Silence had died in peace.
• The Death God revealed that Deathly Silence's soul had been guided to the afterlife of the gods and warned Ye Wuyou to preserve his resolve through eight painful trials.
• The Death God sent Ye Wuyou into the final assessment and watched his progress through a crystal ball.
• Ye Wuyou found himself on a circular platform with eight smaller platforms above it, then was enveloped in black light that suppressed his abilities and left him unable to move.

Ye Wuyou endured the stripping and purification of his Soul Bones during the Death God inheritance trial, narrowly resisting an emotion that nearly made him violate the platform boundary. As his right arm Soul Bone was removed, he was drawn into a vision of the Ye Family Courtyard fifteen years ago, where he confronted Ye Han, the man who killed his family.

• The Death God Scythe and Ye Wuyou's death energy dulled the pain as his left and right palm bones were stripped and transformed into a purplish-black Death God's Claw.
• Gu Chen watched Ye Wuyou's trial in the Death God Inheritance Temple and reflected on how his changes to Tang San's circumstances might affect the final God Trial.
• Ye Wuyou nearly crossed the two-meter boundary after the gauntlet stirred an overwhelming feeling of joy, but he caught himself and remained seated.
• The platform's black mist purified the palm bones, and the newly formed Death God's Claw returned to its place as the second platform approached.
• Ye Wuyou's right arm Soul Bone was stripped, and the trial shifted into a vision of the Ye Family Courtyard where he appeared as he had fifteen years earlier.
• Ye Han appeared and mocked Ye Wuyou, boasting that he had killed Ye Wuyou's parents and younger brother, and Ye Wuyou demanded to know why.

Ye Wuyou endured the second soul-bone trial by rejecting an illusion of Ye Han, then entered a third trial that made him relive a deadly ambush alongside a boy who called him brother. The boy defeated the attackers but died after going berserk in cultivation, leaving Ye Wuyou overwhelmed with grief.

• Ye Wuyou resisted the illusion of Ye Han and completed the trial that empowered his Ten-Thousand-Year Right Arm Bone.
• Ye Wuyou had his Ten-Thousand-Year Shadow Demon Wolf right leg bone removed and was pulled into another illusion.
• Ye Wuyou saw a boy wielding the Purple Winged Angel defend him against dozens of Night Clan youths sent by Ye Han.
• The boy killed the attackers but collapsed after going berserk in cultivation, confessing that killing his clansmen had created inner demons.
• Ye Wuyou watched the boy die and wept in boundless grief.

Ye Wuyou resisted an illusion during the Death God inheritance and passed the skull trial without having a beloved in his heart. As the torso soul bone was stripped from him, the Four-winged Evil Shadow Lion King’s phantom seized the chance to challenge him for the Death God inheritance.

• Gu Chen secretly used a Communication Talisman Stone to alert Ye Wuyou, who recognized the illusion of the boy and withdrew from the boundary.
• Ye Wuyou passed the repeated illusion during the left leg bone trial, and his two Shadow Demon Wolf leg bones transformed into god-grade soul bones.
• The Death God declared that Ye Wuyou had passed the fifth trial because he had no beloved, and his skull bone appeared on the fifth platform.
• Ye Wuyou endured the agony of having his torso soul bone stripped away, and the Hundred Thousand Year Four-winged Evil Shadow Lion King’s phantom emerged from it.
• The Four-winged Evil Shadow Lion King entered the Death God’s divine power and announced that it would take the Death God’s position in Ye Wuyou’s stead.

Ye Wuyou passed the final Death God tests of the seven emotions and began fusing his soul bones into divine armor. The fusion restored his strength and formed armor over his right arm, while the remaining soul bones had yet to be incorporated.

• The Four-winged Evil Shadow Lion King’s illusion tried to claim the Death God’s power, but Ye Wuyou exposed it as false because an artificial soul bone could not contain a soul beast’s soul spirit.
• Ye Wuyou endured the removal of his left arm bone and rejected an illusion of Gu Chen by realizing that Gu Chen had already conquered Douluo Continent.
• The eighth platform arrived, and the Death God Scythe leaped onto it as the seven platforms representing the emotions began revolving around Ye Wuyou.
• The Death God Claw Sheath fused with Ye Wuyou’s hands, restoring his death aura and relieving his exhaustion.
• Ye Wuyou’s Ten Thousand Year Blood Shadow Bat right arm bone transformed into black-crystal armor marked with red patterns and covered his right arm.

Ye Wuyou completed the Death God Ninth Trial as his soul bones fused into the Death God Divine Armor and his Death God aura transformed into divine power. He gained perfect compatibility with the Death God divine position and returned to the empty Death God Temple as the new Death God.

• The Blood Shadow Bat and Shadow Demon Wolf soul bones fused with Ye Wuyou, forming armor on his limbs and storing Death God divine power in black gemstones.
• The Four-winged Evil Shadow Lion King torso bone and Ye Wuyou’s head soul bone became armor that completed his full-body Death God Divine Armor.
• Ye Wuyou’s Death God Scythe transformed as the armor and scythe absorbed the vortex’s Death God divine power.
• The Death God Ninth Trial was declared complete, granting Ye Wuyou perfect compatibility with the divine position and increasing the cultivation of his death energy Spirit Rings by fifty thousand years.
• Ye Wuyou returned to the empty Death God Temple, bowed to the vacant throne, and flew out through the gray ghostfire gate.

Ye Wuyou inherited the Death God position and learned that the God Realm wanted him to search Douluo Continent for the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King. Meanwhile, the Kindness God King and Evil God King approached the newly ascended Darkness God, Feng Xi, to ask for his help.

• The former Death God celebrated Ye Wuyou’s succession, then left the Death God Temple to travel the universe.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen that the Kindness God King and Evil God King had ordered him to search for the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King, and they discussed the danger of another God Realm deity coming to Douluo Continent.
• Ye Wuyou thanked the eight Great Enshrined for guarding the Death God Inheritance Temple and left with Gu Chen.
• The Kindness God King and Evil God King visited Feng Xi, the newly ascended Darkness God, in his fortress and confirmed that he came from Douluo Continent.
• Feng Xi demonstrated his martial soul and agreed to hear the God Kings’ request, promising to do what he could to complete their task.

Feng Xi accepted the God Realm Committee’s mission to investigate Yuwen Zhuo’s death and the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings on the Douluo Continent. Meanwhile, Gu Chen and his companions traveled with Luo Chen to the God of Food Inheritance Temple, where they learned of a drought-stricken town and its costly God of Food Hotel.

• The God of Evil and the Kindness God King sent Feng Xi to investigate Yuwen Zhuo’s death and the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, and Feng Xi accepted.
• Feng Xi wondered whether the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings were connected to Gu Chen before departing for the Douluo Continent.
• Ye Wuyou showed the group that he had obtained the Death God Divine Armor, while Luo Chen reported his progress in his God of Food trial and demonstrated his Clown Fried Rice skill.
• Luo Chen told Gu Chen that his second trial required him to master 108 dishes at the God of Food Inheritance Temple, and Gu Chen used a Teleportation Array to take the group there.
• Gu Chen found drought-ravaged farmland near the temple and learned from an old farmer that the God of Food Hotel had fed disaster-stricken people but was usually affordable only to nobles.

Gu Chen and his companions visited the God of Food Hotel and discovered that its free porridge contained valuable spirit rice that gently strengthened Soul Power. When a greedy Soul Douluo tried to seize the pot, the middle-aged chef moved to stop him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• An old man led Gu Chen and his companions into town and explained that the God of Food Hotel had distributed porridge during the drought.
• Gu Chen's group joined the long line for porridge and learned that nobles also waited for it because it was made with spirit rice from Heavenly Mountain.
• Gu Chen and his companions tasted the porridge and felt its gentle energy replenish their strength and slightly stir their Soul Power.
• A bare-chested Soul Douluo demanded a second bowl, revealed his eight Soul Rings, and tried to take the pot for himself.
• Gu Chen prepared to intervene, but the middle-aged chef swept his ladle toward the Soul Douluo's reaching arm.

A chef at the God of Food Hotel crippled a troublemaking Soul Douluo, revealing the hotel’s formidable hidden strength. Gu Chen and the others entered to eat, where they learned the furnishings and dishes carried astonishing value, and the chapter ended with the chef explaining the million-Gold-Soul-Coin price of a rare Blood Lobster.

• The middle-aged chef struck the Soul Douluo, crippled his cultivation, and warned the crowd against causing trouble.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou identified the Soul Douluo as a Rank 98 Super Douluo and suspected the hotel concealed the Food God's Inheritance Temple.
• Gu Yuena covered Luo Chen's Food God mark, and the group entered the hotel to eat.
• Ling Xiaojiu recognized the tables and chairs as Clear Cloud Wood and explained its rarity and benefits.
• The group saw that Boiled Cabbage cost one hundred Gold Soul Coins and Stir-fried Lobster cost one million, and the chef claimed the lobster was a thousand-year Blood Lobster from the deep sea.

Gu Chen and his companions ordered every dish at the God of Food Hotel and tried its Ask Immortal Wine, which proved to be a powerful cultivation aid. The group gained Soul Power, and Mo Yun completed his divine trial.

• Gu Chen ordered every dish on the menu and a jar of Ask Immortal Wine for the group.
• Sixth Brother brought the undiluted wine and explained that its medicinal effects suited powerful cultivators.
• After Luo Chen poured the wine, Gu Chen and the others drank it and felt its energy take effect.
• Jin Zi gained a Soul Power level, while Mo Yun completed his Scorpion God divine trial and rose three levels.
• Most of the group gained Soul Power levels, while Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, Xuan Mo, and Ye Wuyou gained none.

Gu Chen and his companions ate a feast at the God of Food Hotel, where several Soul Masters gained a level from the Blood Lobster. After Gu Chen asked to meet the head chef about the Food God's inheritance, Luo Chen revealed his Food God Mark, and the Great Enshrined recognized him as the Young Master.

• Gu Chen and his companions devoured the hotel's dishes, which offered various benefits, while Luo Chen and Gu Chen picked food for Feng Xiaoyu and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Chen directed Jin Zi, Mo Yun, Xuan Mo, Dongfang Po, Su Bai, and Xue Youyou to eat the body-strengthening Blood Lobster, and each of the six raised their Soul Power by one level.
• Old Six charged the group fifteen million eight hundred and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins, including five million for the Ask Immortal Wine.
• Gu Chen asked to meet the head chef, then privately asked whether the hotel was the Food God's inheritance ground and whether the chef was the Food God's Great Enshrined.
• Luo Chen revealed his glowing Food God Mark, and the Food God's Great Enshrined and the Sixth Enshrined bowed to him as the Young Master before the Great Enshrined ordered Old Six to summon the others.

Luo Chen entered the Food God Inheritance Temple beneath the God of Food Hotel to begin his second trial, while the Great Enshrined revealed that the God of Cookery Inheritance Temple was connected next door. As the God of Food Stairway opened, the Kitchen God’s Enshrined Ones learned that their deity had also chosen an inheritor.

• The Great Enshrined summoned Luo Chen and his companions to the hidden Food God Inheritance Temple and waived their hotel bill.
• The Great Enshrined recognized Ye Wuyou as the Level One Death God, then led the group through a dark passage to the underground hall.
• The Great Enshrined explained that the linked God of Cookery Inheritance Temple belonged to the Kitchen God, a Level Three Deity under the Food God.
• Luo Chen stood in the Food God formation, and the Great Enshrined summoned his steamed bun Spirit to open the God of Food Stairway.
• The Kitchen God’s Enshrined Ones heard the stairway open, and their Great Enshrined said the Kitchen God had chosen an inheritor who might soon arrive.

Luo Chen began the Food God's Stairway trial and mastered Boiled Cabbage before advancing to the second step. Meanwhile, Gu Chen returned to Spirit City with the others, and Xuan Mo traveled to the Apocalypse Earth Plane to continue his Earth God trial.

• Luo Chen used the God of Food Heart talent to raise his Boiled Cabbage to grandmaster level and stepped onto the orange second stair to learn Boiled Sliced Meat.
• Luo Chen called to Gu Chen, asking him to return in about a month, while Feng Xiaoyu chose to stay at the inheritance temple and wait for him.
• Gu Chen and the others returned to the Spirit Empire Imperial Palace, where Xuan Mo explained that his fifth trial required him to cultivate Earth Element power and perform a Sixth-tier Enchantment.
• Ye Wuyou showed Xuan Mo his New Death Energy, and Xuan Mo recognized it as similar to the energy he needed to cultivate.
• Gu Chen opened a Teleportation Array, and Xuan Mo traveled to the Apocalypse Earth Plane, where High Priest Tu Xingkong greeted him.

Gu Chen discussed the divine trials of his companions and helped Su Bai find a possible way to complete the God of Emotion’s assessment. He decided to wait for Tang San to obtain the King of Hell’s Sticker for Mo Yun’s Scorpion God trial, while Tang San stood before Bo Saixi at the Sea God Inheritance Temple.

• Gu Chen learned that Dongfang Po was on the Gun God’s fourth trial, Lu Yan was solving the Chess God’s fifth trial, and Su Bai lacked one emotion needed for his inheritance.
• Gu Chen suggested Su Bai create a soul skill to control his missing emotion, and Su Bai agreed to try after reaching Title Douluo.
• Gu Chen sent Ye Wuyou to take Xue Youyou, Hua Bu Luo, Su Bai, and Dongfang Po to the imperial treasury to choose cultivation treasures.
• Mo Yun explained that his second Scorpion God trial required him to refine a poison combining more than a hundred poisons, and Gu Chen decided to wait for Tang San and the King of Hell’s Sticker.
• At the Sea God Inheritance Temple, Tang San stood before Bo Saixi as Xiao Wu and the others watched; Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing bore marks for the Kitchen God and God of Speed inheritances.

Tang San began the Sea God’s final inheritance trial, which required Bo Saixi to sacrifice herself to open the crimson-gold gate. Meanwhile, Gu Chen anticipated Tang San’s return and discussed helping Mo Yun and Jin Zi with their divine trials.

• Bo Saixi questioned Tang San about protecting his people and using the Sea God’s power justly, and Tang San vowed to uphold those duties.
• Bo Saixi activated the Sea God’s Ninth Trial, and her sacrifice created the crimson-gold inheritance gate for Tang San.
• Tang San entered the Sea God Inheritance Gate while grieving Bo Saixi’s death.
• Gu Chen told Mo Yun that Tang San had hidden abilities and was inheriting the Sea God’s divine seat, and promised to obtain poison to help Mo Yun complete her trial.
• Jin Zi explained that his first Mad Beast God trial required him to suppress and enslave a ten-thousand-year soul beast, then offered to abandon it if it troubled Gu Chen.

Gu Chen announced his plan for soul beasts to rule the continent while keeping humanity from being destroyed, and sent his allies into protected cultivation. After Gu Yuena raised concerns about the God Realm discovering their plans, the System offered Gu Chen two choices for strengthening Heavenly Secret Concealment.

• Gu Chen summoned ten ferocious beasts to Spirit City and told Jin Zi he would help complete her divine trial after disloyal soul beasts were eliminated.
• Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and Gu Chen’s companions gathered in the Imperial Study, where Gu Chen explained his plan to bring the continent under soul-beast rule.
• Gu Chen ordered Hua Bu Luo, Xue Youyou, Dongfang Po, and Su Bai to cultivate until they became Title Douluo, and Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong sealed their chambers with barriers.
• Ling Xiaojiu and Lu Yan entered secluded chambers to undertake their divine trials, and Ye Wuyou’s group sealed those chambers as well.
• Gu Yuena warned Gu Chen that the God Realm might discover the soul beasts’ rule, so Gu Chen asked the System whether it could strengthen Heavenly Secret Concealment.
• The System offered Gu Chen two plot choices: conceal only him and Gu Yuena from deities, or hide all of Douluo Continent from the God Realm for five years.

Gu Chen spent 100,000 system points to conceal Douluo Continent from the God Realm for five years, giving his forces time to act without surveillance. After the God Kings failed to restore contact, Gu Chen gathered his allies and announced that he wanted soul beasts to rule Douluo Continent.

• Gu Chen chose to enhance Heavenly Secret Concealment, which blocked the God Realm’s surveillance of Douluo Continent for five years.
• Gu Yuena learned the concealment had a five-year limit, and Gu Chen said it would be enough time.
• The God of Destruction discovered that the God Realm could no longer monitor Douluo Continent and convened the Five Great God Kings.
• The God Kings found that the unknown power also blocked their message to Darkness God, so they decided to await his news rather than leave the God Realm unguarded.
• Gu Chen met with Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and the ten fierce beasts, including the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and declared that he wanted soul beasts to rule Douluo Continent.