Chapter Summaries

Feng Xiaoyu became the Wind God and agreed to help manage the Spirit Pagoda, while Gu Chen arranged for Luo Chen to obtain a herb needed for his divine trial. Mo Yun completed the Scorpion God's Fourth Trial, and Gu Chen suggested that he take Tang San as his master to prepare for the next trial.

• Feng Xiaoyu recalled her Wind God Divine Armor, greeted the eight priests, and asked them to continue guarding the inheritance temple.
• Gu Chen told the group that Xuan Mo had reached the Earth God's Eighth Trial, then suggested Feng Xiaoyu help Qian Renxue manage the Spirit Pagoda.
• Gu Chen told Luo Chen that Snow Empress had found a Shapeshifting Grass in the Far North, and Luo Chen set out to meet her.
• Mo Yun told Gu Chen that he had completed the Scorpion God's Fourth Trial and that his Fifth Trial required Spirit Domain-level spiritual power.
• Gu Chen suggested that Mo Yun take Tang San as his master so Tang San could teach him the techniques needed for his divine trials.

Xue Youyou emerged from seclusion as a Level 93 Ice God Douluo and revealed that her fourth divine trial required the faith of seventy percent of the Far North’s creatures. Gu Chen saw the trial as an attempt by the Ice God to claim his believers’ power of faith and set out with Xue Youyou and Gu Yuena to counter it.

• Mo Yun agreed to become Tang San’s disciple and went to find him at the Shadow Guard Base.
• Gu Chen learned that Xue Youyou had emerged from seclusion, and he and Gu Yuena joined Ye Wuyou to welcome her.
• Xue Youyou told them that completing the Ice God’s third trial had raised her Soul Power to Level 93, strengthened her soul rings, and evolved her martial soul into the Ice God Sword.
• Xue Youyou revealed that her fourth trial required her to obtain faith from at least seventy percent of the Far North’s creatures, angering Gu Chen because he believed the Ice God sought to share his believers’ power of faith.
• Gu Chen planned to have the Far North’s soul beasts believe in Xue Youyou as herself rather than as the Ice God’s inheritor, then left with Xue Youyou and Gu Yuena for the Far North.
• Luo Chen met the Ice and Snow Emperors in the city outside the Far North, but Gu Chen’s order made them wait there for his arrival.

Gu Chen gathered the Far North Soul Beast Legion and instructed its members to believe in Xue Youyou as their companion, helping her meet the Ice God's fourth-trial requirement. The faith of the assembled soul beasts flowed to Xue Youyou, and her Soul Power Level began to rise before the Ice God announced any reward.

• Gu Chen asked the Ice Empress to assemble the Far North Soul Beast Legion and sent Snow Empress with Luo Chen to collect the Shapeshifting Grass.
• The Ice Empress gathered hundreds of thousands of soul beasts, and Gu Chen revealed his Golden Dragon God bloodline as their sovereign.
• Gu Chen told the soul beasts that the Ice God was trying to claim his believers through Xue Youyou's trial, then asked them to believe in Xue Youyou as their companion.
• The assembled soul beasts added Xue Youyou to those they believed in, sending faith power toward her.
• Gu Yuena sensed that Xue Youyou now had the faith of ninety percent of the Far North's living beings, and Xue Youyou's Soul Power Level began to rise.

Xue Youyou completed her fourth Ice God trial and reached rank ninety-six, while Luo Chen completed his fourth Food God trial and learned that his next task was to cook a God-tier delicacy. Gu Chen decided to display his strength in the Far North to draw more soul-beast faith away from the Ice God.

• Xue Youyou gained the faith of the Far North's soul beasts, completed her fourth Ice God trial, and rose to rank ninety-six.
• Xue Youyou learned that her fifth trial required three Ice-only Self-Created Soul Skills, and Gu Yuena offered to share her knowledge of Ice Element techniques.
• Luo Chen completed his fourth Food God trial and revealed that his fifth trial required cooking a God-tier dish from three God-tier ingredients.
• Gu Chen promised to take Luo Chen somewhere with God-tier flames, then planned to make the Ice God pay by redirecting soul-beast faith toward himself.
• Gu Chen chose to display his strength in the Far North and released his Soul Power and Bloodline Power.

Gu Chen used his Golden Dragon God bloodline to overwhelm the Far North’s soul beasts and win their faith, draining faith power from the Ice God. After his cultivation rose to Rank 97 Super Douluo, he and Gu Yuena prepared to return to Spirit City with Xue Youyou and Luo Chen.

• Gu Yuena shielded the Ice God Inheritance Temple while Gu Chen spread his Golden Dragon’s Berserk Domain across the Far North and demanded the soul beasts submit to him.
• The Far North’s soul beasts and Ice God believers feared Gu Chen and turned their reverence toward him, sending faith power into his body.
• The Ice God discovered that she was losing faith power from Douluo Continent but could not investigate because its heavenly secrets were concealed.
• Gu Chen absorbed the faith power and rose to Rank 97 Super Douluo, while Gu Yuena returned to his side after withdrawing her barrier.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to guard the Far North and returned to the city with Xue Youyou and Luo Chen.

Gu Chen brought Luo Chen to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to borrow the Fire Dragon King's God-tier flames so Luo Chen could refine three God-tier ingredients. Luo Chen melted the ingredients into distinct liquids, but their tempering was still underway.

• Gu Chen and Luo Chen traveled from Sunset City into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Xiong Jun and Scarlet King confirmed they had cared for it.
• Gu Chen used his spiritual power to control Space Element particles and teleport himself and Luo Chen into the underground space beneath the well.
• The Fire Dragon King agreed to release God-tier flames for half a shichen, and Luo Chen took out the Dragon Phoenix Fruit, Nightmare Flower, and Shapeshifting Grass.
• Luo Chen tempered the Shapeshifting Grass into three drops of deep yellow liquid and the Nightmare Flower into five pinkish-purple droplets that absorbed its purple mist.
• The Dragon Phoenix Fruit melted last, forming ten streams of blood-red liquid marked with dragon and phoenix patterns.

Luo Chen refined the three God-tier ingredients into the Blood Qi Soul-Urging Profound Yellow Pill and completed the Food God’s Fifth Trial, earning increased affinity, Soul Power, and a pill-refining skill. Back in Spirit City, he went to find Feng Xiaoyu while Gu Chen headed to the ice-covered training grounds, where Gu Yuena and Xue Youyou stood.

• Luo Chen compressed the extracted essences of the Dragon Phoenix Fruit, Nightmare Flower, and Shapeshifting Grass in God-tier flames until they formed a golden pill.
• The Food God declared the Fifth Trial complete and rewarded Luo Chen with increased affinity, two Soul Power Levels, older Soul Rings, and Beginner Pill Refining.
• Luo Chen named the pill the Blood Qi Soul-Urging Profound Yellow Pill and explained its benefits and aphrodisiac side effect to Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen and Luo Chen left the Dragon Kings, returned to Spirit City, and went their separate ways, with Luo Chen heading to the Spirit Pagoda and Gu Chen to Spirit Academy.
• Gu Chen found the training grounds covered in ice and snow, with Gu Yuena and Xue Youyou standing at its center.

Xue Youyou demonstrated her new self-created soul skill, Frost Assault, before Gu Chen, who recognized its remarkable penetrating power. Gu Chen then took Gu Yuena and Xue Youyou to the Apocalypse Earth Plane, where he gave Xuan Mo six soul bones before Xuan Mo began fusing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear right palm bone.

• Xue Youyou used Frost Assault on Gu Chen, and its icy power penetrated his defenses despite his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Xuan Mo told Gu Chen that he had completed the Earth God Eighth Trial and was ready to begin the final trial.
• Gu Chen took Gu Yuena and Xue Youyou through the Hexagram Teleportation Array to the Apocalypse Earth Plane, where High Priest Tu Xingkong led them to Xuan Mo.
• Gu Chen gave Xuan Mo six soul bones, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear right palm bone.
• Xuan Mo spent two hours fusing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear palm bone, then shattered the air within five meters with a light strike.

Xuan Mo began the final Earth God trial as High Priest Tu Xingkong activated the inheritance temple’s ritual and tested his resolve. Tu Xingkong started the Earth God inheritance, bathing the temple and Five Mountains in yellow-brown light.

• Xuan Mo finished fusing his five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and told Gu Chen he was ready for the divine trial.
• Tu Xingkong led Xuan Mo to the temple’s central rune array, revealed his Earth Element power, and arranged more than a hundred enchanted weapons around them.
• Tu Xingkong activated the temple formation with a massive Earth Element Condensation Crystal, causing Xuan Mo’s Earth God Heavy Shield Mark to glow.
• Tu Xingkong asked Xuan Mo to safeguard peace, uphold his homeland, preserve the Earth God’s light, and protect the god’s majesty, and Xuan Mo accepted each charge.
• Tu Xingkong pressed the crystal to Xuan Mo’s mark, and the voice of the divine seat announced the start of the Ninth Trial and Earth God inheritance.
• Yellow-brown light filled the Earth God Inheritance Temple and illuminated all of Five Mountains.

Xuan Mo entered the Earth God's land of inheritance after High Priest Tu Xingkong sacrificed himself to open the Sacred Gate. He arrived at the enormous Earth God Temple and prepared to seek the inheritance, puzzled by an image of the first-generation Earth God wielding a giant axe.

• High Priest Tu Xingkong began the final trial and shattered the Earth Element Condensation Crystal and more than a hundred enchanted weapons to open the Earth God Inheritance Gate.
• Xuan Mo realized Tu Xingkong was sacrificing himself, bowed to him, and watched him vanish as he used his remaining power to send Xuan Mo through the gate.
• Xuan Mo entered a world of sand and soil, steadied himself with Earth Element Soul Power, and spotted a colossal palace he believed was the true Earth God Temple.
• Xuan Mo descended to the temple, summoned the Earth God Heavy Shield, and approached its enormous doors, which showed the first-generation Earth God holding a shield and a giant axe.
• Xuan Mo bowed to the Earth God Temple and declared that he had come to receive the inheritance as the shield resonated with the patterns on the gates.

Xuan Mo entered the Earth God Temple and learned that the first-generation Earth God’s Sky-Opening Axe had been shattered during the Dragon God War. After the Earth God Godhood Spirit began his inheritance, Xuan Mo disappeared into its radiance, while the spirit hoped he would restore the axe and the Earth God’s power.

• Xuan Mo entered the Earth God Temple and met the Earth God Godhood Spirit, who explained that the previous Earth God had perished in the Dragon God War.
• Xuan Mo learned that the first-generation Earth God had wielded both the Earth God Heavy Shield and the Earth God Sky-Opening Axe, which the Dragon God’s attack had shattered into 108 fragments.
• The Earth God Godhood Spirit explained that Xuan Mo could restore the godhood’s cracks through inheritance, but repairing the axe would require its scattered fragments and the vanished Heart of the Earth God.
• Xuan Mo vowed to repair the Earth God Sky-Opening Axe if he obtained the Earth God’s position.
• The Earth God Godhood Spirit warned Xuan Mo to resist pain and illusions, then enveloped him in radiance to begin the inheritance.

Xuan Mo began the Earth God inheritance’s final trial, enduring the removal of his soul bones as Earth God divine power transformed his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear palm bone into the Earth God's Grip. During the second trial, an illusion placed him in Spirit City before the soul beasts ruled the continent, where he saw Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and the long-dead Yuwen Zhuo facing off in the sky.

• Xuan Mo was restrained on a circular platform as the final trial began and his External Soul Bone was stripped away.
• Earth God divine power transformed Xuan Mo’s Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear right palm bone into the Earth God's Grip, while the trial tested his joy.
• Xuan Mo began the second trial, and the Ten Thousand Year Steel Bristle Porcupine right arm bone was stripped away.
• Xuan Mo found himself in an illusion of Spirit City before the soul beasts ruled the continent and saw Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Yuwen Zhuo confronting one another overhead.

Xuan Mo endured the anger, sorrow, and fear trials as his soul bones were stripped and purified by Earth God divine power. After confronting memories of his family and mother, he emerged from the final illusion on the circular platform.

• Xuan Mo resisted the anger trial when Yuwen Zhuo tried to destroy Spirit City, and his Ten Thousand Year Steel Bristle Porcupine right arm bone advanced to divine-grade quality.
• Xuan Mo rejected the Xuan Family patriarch’s accusation in the sorrow trial, recalling how he had been expelled and later learned the family had been executed.
• Earth God divine power purified Xuan Mo’s Ten Thousand Year Great Strength Vajra Bear right leg bone to divine-grade quality, and the stripping of his left leg bone began.
• Xuan Mo saw his dying mother in a rainy-night illusion and heard her voice warn him that there was no extra life to waste.
• Xuan Mo realized the scene was an illusion, which shattered and returned him to the circular platform.

Xuan Mo endured the Earth God's trials as his soul bones were purified, and the Love trial revealed that he had secretly loved Xue Youyou. After recognizing and overcoming an Evil trial, he faced a final illusion that showed him a naked girl who looked exactly like Xue Youyou.

• Gu Yuena explained that the fragment of Xuan Mo's mother's soul had exhausted its power after helping him escape the Fear illusion, leaving him forever.
• Xuan Mo endured the stripping of his Ten Thousand Year Titan Giant Ape skull bone and saw Xue Youyou confess her love to him in the Love trial.
• Xuan Mo realized that the Love trial was an illusion, confessed that he wished it were real, and the skull bone reached god-grade quality.
• Xuan Mo recognized the Evil trial's talking Eleven Hundred Year pangolin as an illusion and completed the purification of his torso bone.
• Xuan Mo entered the final trial and saw a naked girl who looked exactly like Xue Youyou, while Gu Yuena and Xue Youyou told Gu Chen to turn around.

Xuan Mo passed the final illusion in the Earth God Inheritance Trial and began transforming his purified soul bones into Earth God armor. The trial's remaining platforms continued to fuse armor onto him, and his right leg was next.

• Xue Youyou's illusion urged Xuan Mo to give himself to her, but Gu Chen activated the Communication Talisman Stone and jolted him awake at Gu Yuena's request.
• Xuan Mo rejected the illusion, which shattered, and his Ten-Thousand-Year Steel Bristle Porcupine Left Arm Bone was purified to god-grade quality.
• The Earth God Heavy Shield flew to the eighth platform as the seven emotion platforms began circulating Earth Element energy around Xuan Mo.
• Earth God's Grip fused with Xuan Mo's right palm, restoring his strength and filling him with Earth God divine power.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Steel Bristle Porcupine Right Arm Bone transformed into heavy, spiked Earth God Right Arm Armor that joined Earth God's Grip.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Great Strength Vajra Bear Right Leg Bone began fusing into Xuan Mo's right leg as golden armor.

Xuan Mo completed the Earth God Ninth Trial as the full Earth God armor fused with him and his Earth God Heavy Shield transformed into a divine artifact. The Earth God divine position merged with Xuan Mo, making him Earth God Xuan Mo and increasing all his soul rings by fifty thousand years.

• The Earth God Right Leg Armor, Earth God Left Leg Armor, and Earth God Left Arm Armor fused with Xuan Mo, while an earthy-yellow crystal formed in his left palm as reserve energy.
• The 1,100-Year Thousand-Year Pangolin Torso Bone transformed into massive torso armor, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape skull bone became the Earth God Helmet.
• The Earth God Heavy Shield transformed into a crystalline shield weighing one million kilograms and gained a layer of stone skin.
• Xuan Mo used his Earth God Heavy Shield to absorb the raging Earth God divine power, and the Earth God's divine core fused into his body.
• An ancient voice declared the Earth God Ninth Trial complete, the Earth God divine position perfectly fused, and all of Xuan Mo's soul rings increased by fifty thousand years.

After inheriting the Earth God’s divine position, Xuan Mo recovered the thirty-six fragments of the Earth God Sky-Opening Axe and learned they might form a super divine artifact. Xue Youyou confessed that she wanted to date him, and they left hand in hand as Xuan Mo prepared to search the Apocalypse Earth Plane for the remaining fragments.

• Xuan Mo used Earth God's Grip to reveal and gather the thirty-six quasi-divine-artifact fragments of the Earth God Sky-Opening Axe, then stored them in his divine armor.
• Xuan Mo told Gu Chen and the others about the shattered axe, and Gu Chen agreed the complete weapon might be a super divine artifact.
• Xue Youyou asked whether Xuan Mo meant his words from the illusion and told him she wanted to date; Xuan Mo embraced her and agreed.
• Xuan Mo and Xue Youyou left the temple holding hands, and Gu Chen kept the Teleportation Array in place while Xuan Mo planned to search the plane for the axe fragments.

After returning to Spirit City, Gu Chen learned that Hua Bu Luo had emerged from seclusion and broken through to Title Douluo. He accompanied Hua Bu Luo to Hundred Flower Valley for his fifth Flower God trial, where the High Priest recognized his inheritance mark and was baffled that the chosen inheritor was a man.

• Gu Chen returned to Spirit City and joined Ye Wuyou in the imperial court, where officials reported that the empire remained peaceful under its rule.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen that Hua Bu Luo had emerged from seclusion and was resting at Myriad Flowers Hall.
• Gu Chen visited Hua Bu Luo with Gu Yuena, Xue Youyou, and Ye Wuyou, and learned that Hua Bu Luo planned to call himself the Flower God Douluo and attempt his fifth trial.
• After three days of consolidating his cultivation, Hua Bu Luo traveled with Gu Chen and the others through a teleportation array to Hundred Flower Valley.
• The Flower God High Priest saw Hua Bu Luo's Flower God Mark and realized he was the inheritor, but wondered how a man could be chosen when the inheritance rules required a woman.

Hua Bu Luo met Gongsun Die, the Flower God's High Priest, and learned that she had five God-bestowed Spirit Rings despite reaching Limit Douluo strength. After hearing how this continent's soul masters cultivated and obtained Spirit Rings, Hua Bu Luo prepared to attempt the fifth divine trial with greater confidence.

• Hua Bu Luo confirmed that the Flower God had chosen him as its inheritor, despite the original rule that only girls could inherit the position.
• Gongsun Die introduced herself and learned that Hua Bu Luo had reached the fifth trial, which required him to spar with her without harming any plants for the time an incense stick burned.
• Gongsun Die explained that soul masters on her continent could reach Title Douluo without Spirit Rings, but received God-bestowed rings by joining an Inheritance Temple and passing trials.
• Gongsun Die told Gu Chen about the Water God, Fire God, and God of Attack Inheritance Temples and described how priests earned additional God-bestowed Spirit Rings.
• Gongsun Die disclosed the effects of all ten soul skills of her Cherry Blossom Umbrella martial soul, and Hua Bu Luo grew more confident because his own martial soul was also cherry blossoms.

Gongsun Die began Hua Bu Luo’s divine trial in Hundred Flower Valley, and the two fought in the air as he tested her with cherry blossom attacks. After surprising her with hidden Cherry Blossom Time Bombs, Gongsun Die summoned multiple clones, and Hua Bu Luo rose higher and unleashed the Flower God’s power.

• Gongsun Die lit an incense stick to begin the divine trial, and Hua Bu Luo flew above Hundred Flower Valley using his Light Goddess Butterfly wings.
• Hua Bu Luo and Gongsun Die exchanged cherry blossom attacks, with Gongsun Die overwhelming his attack in strength and number.
• Hua Bu Luo concealed Cherry Blossom Time Bombs among the blossoms, forcing Gongsun Die to retreat from their explosion.
• Gongsun Die used her fourth hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring to create sixteen clones and confuse Hua Bu Luo about which one was real.
• Hua Bu Luo rose higher, summoned flowers around himself, and unleashed “After I Bloom, All Flowers Die!”