Chapter Summaries

Lu Yan absorbed a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, reached Title Douluo, and learned that the Chess God's inheritance temple lay in a hidden world entered through a portal in the Star Dou Great Forest. Gu Chen returned to the Spirit Hall Empire with his companions and went with Gu Yuena to inspect the first batch of Artificial Soul Spirit production equipment.

• Lu Yan absorbed the God-bestowed Spirit Ring, broke through to Level 94 Title Douluo, and received the title Chess God Douluo.
• Lu Yan told Gu Chen that her next trial required her to find the Heaven and Earth Chessboard in the Chess God's Inheritance Temple, whose hidden portal was in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Chen revealed his plans and his past actions to Zhang Haisheng, who accepted them because he hoped Marcia Aguilar could be revived.
• Gu Chen led Ye Wuyou, Lu Yan, and Zhang Haisheng through the Hexagram Teleportation Array back to the Douluo Continent and offered Zhang Haisheng a position as his guardian.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Chen that Tang San had finished the first batch of Artificial Soul Spirit production equipment, and Gu Chen left with her to inspect it.

Gu Chen inspected Tang San’s new Artificial Soul Spirit production line and ordered more lines for higher-rank spirits. He then went to the God of Food Inheritance Temple, where Luo Chen advanced to a brewing trial and began preparing to make Ask Immortal Wine.

• Tang San showed Gu Chen and Gu Yuena a working production line for ten-year Artificial Soul Spirits, and Gu Chen loaded soul beast samples and activated it.
• After the first Artificial Soul Spirit was produced, Gu Chen told Tang San to build three production lines for each higher age category.
• Gu Chen left the Forge Room with Gu Yuena, then told Lu Yan he would take her to the Chess God Inheritance Temple after retrieving Luo Chen and Feng Xiaoyu.
• At the God of Food Inheritance Temple, Gu Chen found Feng Xiaoyu at level eighty-five and Luo Chen on the one hundred and sixth step of the God of Food Stairway.
• Luo Chen completed a master-level Stir-fried Lobster, advanced to the one hundred and seventh step, and received an assessment to brew Ask Immortal Wine.

Luo Chen reached the final step of the God of Food Stairway after mastering Ask Immortal Wine, where he realized the test required him to recreate a fruit platter he had once seen Gu Chen make. He built a miniature fruit castle for Feng Xiaoyu, while Gu Chen warned her that another creation was still to come.

• Luo Chen brewed Ask Immortal Wine repeatedly for six hours and reached grandmaster-level skill.
• Luo Chen stepped onto the final stair and found ordinary fruits, plates, and goblets, but no recipe.
• Luo Chen recalled Gu Chen making a fruit platter and mixed fruit juice for Gu Yuena at Spirit Academy.
• Luo Chen used Soul Power to carve and arrange the fruits into a miniature castle called the Rainbow Castle.
• Luo Chen dedicated the fruit castle to Feng Xiaoyu, who was moved and eager to welcome him back.
• Gu Chen told Feng Xiaoyu to keep watching as Luo Chen set the finished castle aside and picked up a goblet.

Luo Chen completed the God of Food Stairway’s second trial by creating a fruit platter and five mixed juices, raising his cultivation to level eighty-six and earning the right to take the food with him. Back at the temple, he reunited with Feng Xiaoyu and offered her the treats, while Gu Chen teased them about their PDA.

• Luo Chen prepared Rainbow Castle and five mixed fruit juices, completing the second trial and increasing his God of Food affinity to twenty percent.
• The trial rewarded Luo Chen with three Soul Power Levels and five thousand years added to the age of all his soul rings, raising his cultivation to level eighty-six.
• Luo Chen learned that he could take the food from the final stairway trial, then carried it through the portal to the God of Food Inheritance Temple.
• Luo Chen reunited with Feng Xiaoyu and Gu Chen and placed the fruit platter and juices on a table for Feng Xiaoyu.
• Feng Xiaoyu pounced on Luo Chen to thank him, and Gu Chen teased them before leaving to talk with the Great Enshrined.
• Feng Xiaoyu ate Rainbow Castle and tasted Purple Phantom, praising the juice as delicious.

After completing his second trial, Luo Chen stayed at the God of Food Hotel to distribute porridge for a month, while Feng Xiaoyu returned to Spirit City with Gu Chen. Gu Chen helped Feng Xiaoyu identify her Azure Wind Staff as a barrier to advancing her magic, and they searched the empire’s treasury for a stronger wind-element weapon, finding ten dust-covered weapons with powerful auras.

• Luo Chen told Feng Xiaoyu and Gu Chen that his third Food God trial required him to distribute porridge at the God of Food Hotel for a month, so Feng Xiaoyu agreed to return to Spirit City without him.
• The Food God Great Enshrined ordered the Ninth Enshrined to teach Luo Chen how to distribute porridge before taking a month of paid leave.
• On the way to the Teleportation Array, Gu Chen suggested Feng Xiaoyu’s Azure Wind Staff might be preventing her from reaching the Great Magician realm, and her Wind Blade test confirmed that the staff could not bear her magic’s full power.
• Gu Chen took Feng Xiaoyu to the Spirit Hall Empire treasury to find a wind-element weapon capable of withstanding Great Magician-level energy.
• At the deepest part of the wind-element weapon vault, Gu Chen and Feng Xiaoyu found ten dusty weapons on a crystal rack, each radiating a powerful aura.

Feng Xiaoyu claimed the Wind Vortex Sword, which greatly amplified her magic and let her unleash a strike comparable to a Limit Douluo’s. Gu Chen then took Feng Xiaoyu, Gu Yuena, Lu Yan, Jin Zi, and Di Tian to the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest to begin Jin Zi’s trial.

• Feng Xiaoyu chose the longsword that responded most strongly to her wind magic, and it absorbed her blood before revealing itself as the Wind Vortex Sword.
• Feng Xiaoyu tested the sword at Spirit Academy and unleashed a Wind Blade over five hundred meters long, nearly breaking Gu Chen’s Golden Dragon’s Restraint.
• Gu Chen told Feng Xiaoyu to stabilize her magical cultivation before having her Nascent Soul cultivate her Soul Power.
• Gu Chen invited Gu Yuena, Lu Yan, and Jin Zi to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they would help Jin Zi complete the first trial of the Mad Beast God inheritance.
• Di Tian identified the shore of the Lake of Life as the center of Douluo Continent, and the group flew there.

Gu Chen sent Lu Yan and Gu Yuena through a portal for Lu Yan’s seventh Chess God trial, while Di Tian took Jin Zi to the Myriad Beast Prison for her first Mad Beast God trial. Jin Zi chose a Golden Crocodile King as her opponent and struck back with a powerful spirit ability.

• Lu Yan opened a portal, and Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lu Yan entered to complete Lu Yan’s seventh Chess God trial.
• Di Tian carried Jin Zi to the Myriad Beast Prison and explained that it held disloyal soul beasts captured by the Star Dou Soul Beast Legion.
• Di Tian brought Jin Zi down into the prison, where numerous Hundred-Thousand-Year Vampire Bats guarded the bound soul beasts.
• Di Tian told Jin Zi to choose a Ten-Thousand-Year soul beast, and she selected a thirty-thousand-year Golden Crocodile King.
• Jin Zi fought the Golden Crocodile King, overpowering its first attack and firing her Golden Crocodile Sky Breaker at it.

Jin Zi completed the Mad Beast God’s first trial, gained the Beast Taming Talisman, and began practicing it while awaiting permission to tame more soul beasts. Meanwhile, Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lu Yan reached the Chess God’s inheritance trial and discovered they had to play International Chess, which Gu Chen did not know how to play.

• Jin Zi defeated the Golden Crocodile King and forced it to submit, completing the first trial and raising her Soul Power to Rank 87.
• Jin Zi created an Elite-grade Beast Taming Talisman and used it to make the Golden Crocodile King obedient.
• Di Tian told Jin Zi she could practice the talismans but needed his lord’s permission before enslaving other soul beasts.
• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lu Yan reached the Chess God’s small world and found an International Chess board guarding the inheritance temple.
• Gu Chen took the king’s position, Gu Yuena took the queen’s, and Lu Yan took the pawn’s before the rules of the trial were announced.
• Gu Chen realized he did not know how to play International Chess.

Gu Chen used the Smart Chess AI Assistant to win the match that opened the Chess God's Inheritance Temple, where Lu Yan began her Seventh Trial by touching the sealed Heaven and Earth Chessboard. She was transported into a battlefield vision with five thousand soldiers surrounded by more than three hundred thousand enemies.

• Gu Chen chose to cheat and used the Smart Chess AI Assistant to direct his chess moves, switching to a plan with fewer casualties before winning the match.
• The temple gates opened, and Great Enshrined Bai Xin welcomed Lu Yan and her companions inside.
• Bai Xin learned that Lu Yan had completed the Chess God's first six trials and showed her the Heaven and Earth Chessboard sealed above the altar.
• Lu Yan touched the chessboard, triggering a golden chain and sending her into a vision of a battlefield between five thousand soldiers and an army of more than three hundred thousand.

Lu Yan passed the Heaven and Earth Chessboard’s first trial by leading her outnumbered army through a weakness in the enemy encirclement. She then entered a new trial as Lin Rou and faced her younger brother, Lin Hong, who was urging her to drink a cocktail.

• Lu Yan used her Square Chessboard martial soul to find a way through the Sunhawk Empire’s encirclement and led her soldiers northwest.
• Lu Yan’s army broke through the enemy lines, suffering over a thousand deaths while inflicting more than five thousand casualties.
• Lu Yan headed north toward the Hanlan Empire’s main army, but the trial ended before she could see the man who came to meet her.
• Lu Yan returned to the Chess God’s Inheritance Temple and saw one golden chain sealing the Heaven and Earth Chessboard break apart.
• Lu Yan entered a new trial as Lin Rou and met Lin Hong, who asked her to drink a cocktail.
• Lu Yan asked Lin Hong to wait while she went to the restroom.

Lu Yan used a Cherry Blossom Listening Device to uncover Lin Hong's scheme with Young Master He to drug and deliver her to him. When she confronted them in the bar, Young Master He surrounded her with armed men, while Lin Hong tried to pressure her by invoking their hospitalized parents.

• Lu Yan hid a Cherry Blossom Listening Device beneath the table and listened to Lin Hong and Young Master He plot against her.
• Young Master He threatened Lin Hong and revealed that dozens of armed men stood ready in the bar.
• Lu Yan returned, exposed the plot, and challenged Young Master He after he admitted he would not let her escape.
• Lin Hong urged Lu Yan to submit to Young Master He and said he had been promised one million to help pay their parents' hospital bills.

Lu Yan completed the Chess God’s Seventh Trial by winning a life-choice game, though she questioned the cost her actions imposed on Lin Rou’s family. The Heaven and Earth Chessboard accepted her soul, became her martial soul, and raised her Chess God affinity to 95%.

• Lu Yan incapacitated Young Master He’s men with Hypnotic Pollen and crushed his ability to carry on his bloodline.
• Lu Yan witnessed visions of Lin Hong’s death and the He Clan’s retaliation that killed Lin Rou’s parents, then returned to the Chess God’s Inheritance Temple.
• Lu Yan reflected on whether winning the life-choice game at the cost of those around her could truly count as victory.
• The final golden chain shattered, and the Heaven and Earth Chessboard recognized Lu Yan’s soul as its master.
• The Heaven and Earth Chessboard swallowed Lu Yan’s Square Chessboard martial soul and became her new martial soul, completing the Seventh Trial and increasing her Chess God affinity by 15% to 95%.

Lu Yan completed the Chess God's Seventh Trial, gained the Heaven and Earth Chessboard and reached rank 97, then learned the requirements of her Eighth Trial. After returning to the Star Dou Great Forest, Gu Chen approved Jin Zi’s plan to use the traitors in the Myriad Beast Prison for her Beast Taming Talisman trial, and she tested a newly completed talisman on a black-armored crocodile.

• Lu Yan received the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, whose power raised her cultivation from rank 94 to rank 97, and she suspected the final game might be her entire life.
• Lu Yan told Gu Chen that her Eighth Trial required defeating Great Enshrined Bai Xin while losing fewer than half her pieces, with the Chess God guiding her in nightly dreams.
• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lu Yan left the Chess God's Inheritance Temple and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian reported that Jin Zi had completed her First Trial.
• Di Tian asked whether Jin Zi could enslave traitors in the Myriad Beast Prison for her Second Trial, and Gu Chen approved the plan.
• Gu Chen and the others visited Jin Zi, who completed a Beast Taming Talisman and sent it into a black-armored crocodile.

Jin Zi tested her Beast Taming Talisman and learned how its powers could improve her abilities as she prepared to tame the soul beasts in the Myriad Beast Prison. Back in Spirit City, Ling Xiaojiu reported that her Goddess of Forest Third Trial seemed to require only absorbing a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and Gu Chen warned her to guard her mind during the breakthrough.

• Jin Zi explained that her Beast Taming Talismans could control soul beasts, copy one of their abilities, and let her equip up to ten copied abilities, though stronger beasts could break free if their cultivation surpassed hers by too much.
• Gu Chen asked Jin Zi to spend a month taming the soul beasts in the Myriad Beast Prison, and he left with Gu Yuena and Lu Yan after arranging for Di Tian to look after her.
• Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lu Yan returned to Spirit City and learned that Tang San had completed equipment for hundred-year Artificial Soul Spirits and expected to finish the higher-grade equipment within a month.
• Lu Yan went to cultivate beneath the imperial palace, while Gu Chen and Gu Yuena went to the Imperial Study.
• Ling Xiaojiu told Gu Chen that she had completed the Goddess of Forest Second Trial, reached Soul Power Level ninety, and received a compatible God-bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Ling Xiaojiu explained that her Third Trial required her to absorb the God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and Gu Chen cautioned her to guard her mind if the breakthrough brought an environment.

Feng Xiaoyu revealed that her Nascent Soul had gained its own consciousness, and Gu Chen named the little spirit Paimon. The group traveled to Hurricane Grand Canyon for Feng Xiaoyu’s Wind God trial, where she began her battle against the Ninth Priest.

• Feng Xiaoyu showed Gu Chen her independently conscious Nascent Soul, which bit him and called him Big Dummy.
• Gu Chen named Feng Xiaoyu’s Nascent Soul Paimon, then led Feng Xiaoyu and Gu Yuena through a teleportation array to Hurricane Grand Canyon.
• Luo Shiyu summoned the Ninth Priest, who opened the Wind God Arena and brought himself and Feng Xiaoyu there.
• Feng Xiaoyu sent Paimon outside the arena and attacked the Ninth Priest with Wind Demon Slash, but he blocked it with an energy barrier.

Feng Xiaoyu fought the Ninth Priest, using enchantment magic to strengthen her Wind Vortex Sword and turn the battle in her favor. Her attack shattered his shield and damaged his staff, but the fight remained unresolved.

• The Ninth Priest blocked Feng Xiaoyu’s Wind Demon Slash with Azure Wind Shield, then attacked with Radiant Cross Slash.
• Feng Xiaoyu countered with Heavenly Wind Dance and a stream of spells, forcing the Ninth Priest to focus on defense.
• Feng Xiaoyu realized the Wind Vortex Sword was her advantage and changed to a close-combat style, using Wind Wings to rush the Ninth Priest.
• Feng Xiaoyu enchanted the Wind Vortex Sword with sharpness, hardness, magic-breaking, and explosion, then shattered the Ninth Priest’s Wind God’s Shield.
• The Ninth Priest’s Azure Crystal pendant broke to protect him from Feng Xiaoyu’s blow, but her next strike cracked his Wind Spirit Staff.

Feng Xiaoyu completed the Wind God’s Fifth Trial, reached Title Douluo rank, and began the Sixth Trial to kill the Wind Rock Python. She drew the beast out of its lair and faced its first attack.

• Feng Xiaoyu defeated Ninth Enshrined, completing the Fifth Trial and raising her Wind God affinity to seventy percent.
• Feng Xiaoyu absorbed the Wind God’s God-bestowed Spirit Ring and reached Title Douluo rank.
• Feng Xiaoyu learned that her Sixth Trial required her to kill the Great Demon Wind Rock Python, so Gu Chen obtained a map to its lair.
• Gu Yuena teleported Gu Chen and Feng Xiaoyu to the Hexagram Teleportation Array, where Gu Chen and Gu Yuena concealed themselves nearby.
• Feng Xiaoyu summoned the Azure Bird, flew toward the lair, and blasted it apart with Death Hurricane Crescent Moon.
• The Wind Rock Python emerged and attacked Feng Xiaoyu with hundreds of wind blades.

Feng Xiaoyu used her Wind God Domain and divine skills to defeat the Wind Rock Python, whose wind attacks were suppressed by her superior command of the element. She imprisoned the fleeing beast with the Ten Thousand Miles of Imprisonment Wind God Ring, then struck it with the Thousand Mile Enemy Slaying Wind God Sword.

• Feng Xiaoyu activated her Wind God Domain, nullifying the Wind Rock Python's wind blades and turning them back against it.
• The Wind Rock Python switched to rock attacks, but Feng Xiaoyu shattered its boulders and charged the Thousand Mile Enemy Slaying Wind God Sword through her Wind Vortex Sword.
• The Wind Rock Python fled beyond the Wind God Domain, and Feng Xiaoyu sent the Ten Thousand Miles of Imprisonment Wind God Ring ahead of it.
• The Wind Rock Python crashed into the ring, which imprisoned its energy-based body.
• Feng Xiaoyu's Thousand Mile Enemy Slaying Wind God Sword pierced the imprisoned Wind Rock Python from brow to tail.

After Feng Xiaoyu completed the Wind God's Sixth Trial and gained the Universe Swift Wind God Fan, she learned that the Wind God's three inheritance artifacts were sealed in the Azure Crystal. Activating her Wind God Imprint drew her inside, where she found the Wind God Sword and faced its fierce sword intent and gales.

• Feng Xiaoyu slew the Wind Rock Python, completed the Sixth Trial, rose to Soul Power Level 95, and received the Universe Swift Wind God Fan.
• Feng Xiaoyu returned to the Wind God Inheritance Temple with Gu Chen and Gu Yuena and asked High Priest Luo Shiyu about the Wind God's inheritance artifacts.
• Luo Shiyu explained that the Wind God Sword, Wind God Ring, and Wind God Fan were sealed within the Azure Crystal above the temple.
• Feng Xiaoyu activated her Wind God Imprint and was drawn into the Azure Crystal, which transported her to a Crystal Palace.
• Feng Xiaoyu recognized the sword above the altar as the Wind God Sword, but its sword intent and fierce gales attacked when she approached.

Feng Xiaoyu endured the Wind God Sword’s sword energies, seized the divine artifact, and made it acknowledge her as its master. After the sword spirit healed her and fused with her Wind Vortex Sword, it sent her through a teleportation array toward the Wind God Ring.

• Feng Xiaoyu pushed through the Wind God Sword’s attacks despite having her powers sealed and suffering severe wounds.
• Feng Xiaoyu grasped the Wind God Sword, then offered her blood essence to make it acknowledge her as its master.
• The Wind God Sword’s sword spirit used its origin power to heal Feng Xiaoyu’s wounds and explained its healing was not normally possible.
• Feng Xiaoyu gave the Wind Vortex Sword to the Wind God Sword, which fused the two weapons and grew stronger.
• The Wind God Sword revealed a teleportation array leading to the Wind God Ring, and Feng Xiaoyu entered it and arrived in another Crystal Palace.