Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen equipped Luo Chen with soul bones to protect and sustain him, then gave him God-tier Ox Beef that advanced his God Trial. After the group returned from the Apocalypse Earth Plane, Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi came to find Gu Chen.

• Gu Chen gave Luo Chen four ninety-thousand-year Jade Swan limb bones and a Hundred Thousand Year Auspicious Antelope Crown, which Luo Chen absorbed.
• Gu Chen offered Luo Chen God-tier Ox Beef, and Gu Yuena cooked it for him.
• Luo Chen ate the beef, advancing his God Trial, and shared it with Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Xuan Mo before saving the last piece for Feng Xiaoyu.
• Gu Chen led the group back to Douluo Continent after Luo Chen reflected that the zombie crisis could eventually end with the virus source destroyed.
• Ling Xiaojiu completed the Eighth Trial of the Goddess of Forest, and Jin Zi completed the fifth trial of the Mad Beast God before returning to Spirit City.
• After Gu Chen and the others returned, Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi went to find Gu Chen in the imperial study.

Gu Chen and his companions accompanied Ling Xiaojiu to the Goddess of Forest inheritance temple for her final God Trial, while Jin Zi prepared for her own next trial. At the temple, Gu Chen questioned High Priest Kaya Sen about accepting her fate, and she replied that revealed fate would not change by fleeing.

• Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi told Gu Chen they had completed their God Trials, and he explained the Goddess of Forest inheritance and Jin Zi’s upcoming trials.
• Gu Chen promised to temper Jin Zi’s body with his dragon blood after Ling Xiaojiu completed her inheritance, then the group entered Ling Xiaojiu’s planar teleportation gate.
• The Goddess of Forest’s divine pressure slowed Jin Zi, so Gu Chen carried her through the Forest Light before they continued to the inheritance temple.
• Kaya Sen welcomed Ling Xiaojiu and led the group to the temple’s highest level, where the entrance sealed behind them.
• Gu Chen asked Kaya Sen why she accepted her fate, and she said revealed fate would not change simply because someone fled from it.

Kaya Sen sacrificed herself to open the path to the Goddess of Forest’s inheritance, and Ling Xiaojiu began her ninth trial. She entered the Forest Goddess Temple, whose gates were forged from an immense quantity of Living Gold, and was invited inside.

• Kaya Sen sacrificed herself and sent her life force into the emerald crystal, which formed a portal to the inheritance grounds.
• Ling Xiaojiu said goodbye to Gu Chen, Sister Na'er, and Jin Zi, then entered the portal to begin the Goddess of Forest’s ninth trial.
• Ling Xiaojiu emerged in a primeval forest before the Forest Goddess Temple and discovered its enormous gates were made of Living Gold.
• The Goddess of Forest’s voice invited Ling Xiaojiu inside as her soul bones responded to the temple’s surging life force.
• Ling Xiaojiu entered the temple and found a forest-like interior filled with god-level trees and immortal ordinary animals.

Ling Xiaojiu began the Goddess of Forest’s divine inheritance and endured the removal of her External Soul Bone eyes during the Seven Emotions Trial. The Goddess of Forest’s divine power purified them into divine-grade Eyes of the Forest.

• Ling Xiaojiu received guidance from the Goddess of Forest about Forest Qin melodies, then asked to begin the divine trial.
• The Goddess of Forest sent Ling Xiaojiu to the inheritance grounds, where she appeared on a circular platform surrounded by eight smaller platforms.
• The trial suppressed Ling Xiaojiu’s power and began removing her Soul Bones, starting with her External Soul Bone eyes.
• Ling Xiaojiu endured the pain while Jin Zi watched helplessly from the inheritance temple, and the Forest Singing Butterfly Qin helped ease her suffering.
• The Goddess of Forest’s divine power purified Ling Xiaojiu’s removed eyes, transforming them into divine-grade Eyes of the Forest.

Ling Xiaojiu endured the Goddess of Forest inheritance trial as her soul bones were stripped away, then entered an illusion showing a battle from her past life. Gu Chen learned that disordered rules had brought these past-life memories into the trial and reassured Jin Zi that the restored rules would eventually erase them.

• Ling Xiaojiu resisted the Eye of the Forest's temptation and watched it return to the first inheritance platform.
• The trial stripped Ling Xiaojiu's right arm soul bone, and she was transported to a valley where two unfamiliar men were fighting with power unlike Soul Power.
• Gu Chen learned from the system that Ling Xiaojiu's illusion showed memories from her past life because the inheritance site's rules had become disordered.
• The higher-cultivation man knocked his opponent unconscious, and Ling Xiaojiu felt intense anger and killing intent toward him.
• Gu Chen told Jin Zi and Gu Yuena that restored rules would erase Ling Xiaojiu's past-life memories after she inherited the Goddess of Forest's divine position.

Ling Xiaojiu unleashed her Grass Character Sword Art to kill the enemy in her illusion while remaining inside the trial’s boundary, then passed the trial of anger. Back on the platform, she had her right arm bone purified to divine quality and entered the next trial, which she knew would test sorrow.

• Ling Xiaojiu summoned her Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and used her ninth Spirit Ring to unleash the Grass Character Sword Art, tearing the higher-cultivation man apart with nine sword-like leaves.
• The Goddess of Forest watched Ling Xiaojiu’s attack and recognized it as a trump card powerful enough to match an ordinary divine officer’s full-strength strike.
• Ling Xiaojiu shattered the illusion and passed the trial because she had attacked without leaving the two-meter radius around herself.
• The Goddess of Forest’s divine power purified Ling Xiaojiu’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Branch Tree Demon Right Arm Bone and raised it to divine quality.
• Ling Xiaojiu endured the pain of her right leg being stripped of its soul bone and entered the next illusion, which tested sorrow.

Ling Xiaojiu passed the trials of Sorrow and Fear amid the inheritance site's disorder, while divine power upgraded her Blue Silver Emperor leg bones. As the correction power altered her and her companions' memories, she began enduring the removal of her head spirit bone for the next trial.

• Ling Xiaojiu passed the Sorrow trial because memories in its illusion seemed unreal to her, and the Goddess of Forest's divine power upgraded her right leg bone to divine grade.
• Ling Xiaojiu's Fear trial was forcibly shattered when the inheritance site's rules were repaired, and correction power erased her previous-life memories and implanted replacement events.
• Correction power altered Gu Yuena and Jin Zi's memories, but the system protected Gu Chen, who realized what had happened and kept the truth to himself.
• The Goddess of Forest's divine power upgraded Ling Xiaojiu's left leg bone to divine grade after she passed the Fear trial.
• Ling Xiaojiu began having her head spirit bone removed and endured the sudden, blinding agony without crying out.

Ling Xiaojiu completed the Seven Emotions trials, endured the stripping and purification of her Golden Tortoise Carapace Trunk Bone and final left arm bone, and broke the last illusion. The Forest Singing Butterfly Qin moved to the eighth platform as the Seven Emotions platforms circled Ling Xiaojiu and flooded her with life energy.

• Jin Zi awakened Ling Xiaojiu from the Love trial illusion, and she shattered it with his help.
• Ling Xiaojiu endured the painful stripping of her Golden Tortoise Carapace Trunk Bone and dismissed the Evil trial illusion because she knew it could not possess a soul spirit.
• Ling Xiaojiu's trunk bone reached god-grade quality, and she then endured the stripping of her Spirit Branch Tree Demon Left Arm Bone.
• Ling Xiaojiu laughed at the forceful Jin Zi in her Desire trial illusion, causing the final illusion to shatter.
• After Ling Xiaojiu passed all Seven Emotions trials, the Forest Singing Butterfly Qin flew to the eighth platform and the seven trial platforms encircled her, releasing life energy around her.

Ling Xiaojiu began forming the Goddess of Forest Divine Outfit as her soul bones transformed into divine garments and restored her strength. The chapter left her being reshaped by immense divine power as the emerald dress settled over her body.

• The Eye of the Forest returned to Ling Xiaojiu, restoring her vision and expanding her sea of consciousness until her spiritual power transformed into divine sense.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Branch Tree Demon Right Arm Bone became a sleeve, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor leg bones became stockings that channeled divine power into her.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Branch Tree Demon Left Arm Bone became a matching sleeve with ribbons and crystals that stored reserve Goddess of Forest divine power.
• The soul bones of Ling Xiaojiu's limbs completed their transformations, and a massive vortex flooded her body with power that remade her toward true god-level quality.
• The ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years Golden Tortoise Carapace Trunk Bone transformed into an emerald dress, and Ling Xiaojiu's pupils turned emerald-green.

Ling Xiaojiu completed the Goddess of Forest's Ninth Trial, fused with the godhood, and returned to Douluo Continent as the new Goddess of Forest. Back in the Imperial Study, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena realized they had left Hua Bu Luo in Hundred Flower Valley for a month.

• Ling Xiaojiu fused the Goddess of Forest Crown, transformed the Forest Singing Butterfly Qin, and absorbed the Goddess of Forest's divine power and godhood.
• The trial's voice announced that Ling Xiaojiu had completed the Ninth Trial and that all her soul rings had gained fifty thousand years of cultivation.
• Ling Xiaojiu returned to the Forest Goddess Temple, then left the inheritance ground and reunited with Jin Zi.
• Ling Xiaojiu opened a plane teleportation gate, bringing Gu Chen and the others back to Douluo Continent.
• Gu Yuena reminded Gu Chen that a month had passed, and Gu Chen realized they had left Hua Bu Luo in Hundred Flower Valley.

Gu Chen and his companions visited the Flower God Inheritance Temple to collect Hua Bu Luo, only to discover he had disguised himself as a beautiful girl to pass the Flower God’s Sixth Trial. After his disguise fooled them, Hua Bu Luo completed the trial, gained power, and asked to change back.

• Gu Chen gave Jin Zi a liter of golden dragon blood to temper her body, then agreed to bring her and Ling Xiaojiu to Hundred Flower Valley.
• Gongsun Die emerged from the Flower God Inheritance Temple with a short-haired, pale pink-haired girl who seemed familiar to Gu Chen.
• Gongsun Die revealed that the girl was Hua Bu Luo, who had disguised himself and changed his voice for the Flower God’s Sixth Trial.
• Hua Bu Luo’s deception completed the Sixth Trial, raising his Flower God Affinity to eighty percent, increasing his soul power by two levels, and advancing him to Level 95 Super Douluo.
• Gu Chen congratulated Hua Bu Luo, who asked to change out of his women’s clothes before beginning the Seventh Trial.

Hua Bu Luo entered the Flower God’s dream realm to face his inner demon, while Gu Chen received the Nightmare Flower from Gongsun Die. In the dream, Hua Bu Luo confronted memories of his previous trial and destroyed the figures tormenting him.

• Gongsun Die explained that Hua Bu Luo had to defeat his inner demon in the Flower God’s dream realm to obtain the inheritance artifact, then put him to sleep with a Nightmare Flower.
• Gu Chen recognized the Nightmare Flower, and Gongsun Die gave it to him so it could help one of his companions.
• Hua Bu Luo entered the dream realm with his memories intact and discovered he had again become a girl like he had during the Flower God’s fourth trial.
• A man and a woman from Hua Bu Luo’s earlier illusion approached him, and he attacked them with After I Bloom, All Flowers Die.
• Hua Bu Luo killed the two figures and roared that he was a man.

Hua Bu Luo met the Flower God after completing the Seventh Trial, received the unsealed Flower God Umbrella as compensation for the flawed Fourth Trial, and learned that he had advanced to Level 97. Back outside the Flower God Inheritance Temple, he told his companions what had happened, and Ling Xiaojiu laughed that he was a girl too.

• The little Flower God told Hua Bu Luo she had brought his consciousness to the God Realm and apologized for the Fourth Trial’s five illusion segments.
• The little Flower God offered Hua Bu Luo the fully unsealed Flower God Umbrella as compensation, and he accepted the divine artifact through blood recognition.
• The little Flower God explained the umbrella’s powers and told Hua Bu Luo that the Eighth Trial required him to break through the human limit and become a Limit Douluo.
• The little Flower God revealed that Hua Bu Luo had already reached Level 97 after completing the Seventh Trial, then sent him back.
• Hua Bu Luo showed Gu Chen, Ling Xiaojiu, and the others the Flower God Umbrella and recounted his Fourth Trial ordeal.
• Ling Xiaojiu burst into laughter and teased Hua Bu Luo, saying he was a girl too.

Gu Chen prepared the five soul bones Hua Bu Luo lacked, hoping their fusion would raise Hua Bu Luo's Soul Power and help him advance toward the Limit Douluo realm required by his Flower God's Eighth Trial. Hua Bu Luo began absorbing the Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull while Gu Chen laid out the skills provided by the other bones.

• Hua Bu Luo explained that his Flower God's Eighth Trial required him to reach rank ninety-nine, despite his current rank of ninety-seven.
• Gu Chen said that fusing the remaining five soul bones could raise Hua Bu Luo's cultivation and gave him a Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull to absorb.
• Gu Chen prepared a Ten Thousand Year Ghost-Shaped Wolf Ape Right Leg Bone that granted Shifting Form and Shadow, allowing Hua Bu Luo to teleport.
• Gu Chen prepared two Ten Thousand Year Shadow Cat Demon arm bones that granted Night Assault, a lethal close-range attack with a three-day interval.
• Gu Chen prepared a Ten Thousand Year Demon Eye Magic Tree Torso Bone that increased plant affinity and mental strength and granted Quench Poison.

Hua Bu Luo completed a set of soul bones and reached Level 98, while Gu Chen learned that Feng Xi had left to help Feng Xiaoyu with her divine trial. Su Bai emerged from seclusion as a Level 95 Super Douluo and explained how his God of Emotion inheritance had strengthened him.

• Hua Bu Luo absorbed several ten-thousand-year soul bones, breaking through to Level 98 Super Douluo.
• Gu Chen gave Hua Bu Luo the Ten Thousand Year Demon Eye Magic Tree torso bone, and Hua Bu Luo spent two hours absorbing it.
• Luo Chen told Gu Chen that Feng Xi had left to help Feng Xiaoyu complete the Nine-Colored Goddess's divine trial.
• Gu Chen gave Luo Chen a Nightmare Flower from Gongsun Die, and Luo Chen agreed to cook stir-fried cured pork with it.
• Su Bai told Gu Chen that he had emerged from seclusion days earlier and had become a Title Douluo with the Sword of Emotion martial soul.
• Su Bai explained that his martial soul evolution and divine rewards had raised his Soul Power to Level 95.

Su Bai discovered that his Sword of Emotion could absorb emotional power from Luo Chen’s Clown Fried Rice and convert it into cultivation, prompting Gu Chen and Gu Yuena to leave Luo Chen assisting Su Bai. The group also helped Luo Chen complete the God of Food’s Sixth Trial, and the chapter ended as he received its rewards after serving Nightmare Flower Stir-Fried Cured Pork.

• Su Bai explained that his Sword of Emotion absorbed nearby emotional power and converted it into Soul Power.
• Luo Chen summoned Clown Fried Rice, and Su Bai recognized it as a mass of sorrowful emotional power before absorbing it with his Sword of Emotion.
• Su Bai said Luo Chen’s Clown Fried Rice could help him reach Rank 98 within a month, and Gu Chen agreed to have Luo Chen assist his cultivation.
• Gu Chen proposed that Luo Chen first complete the God of Food’s Sixth and Seventh Trials, so Luo Chen prepared Nightmare Flower Stir-Fried Cured Pork.
• Luo Chen’s dish completed the Sixth Trial and raised his God of Food affinity to 70%, increased his soul ring Years by 5,000, and improved his Soul Power compression by 5%.

Luo Chen began the Food God Seventh Trial and met the Food God in the Inheritance Grounds, where he learned he could choose any kitchen utensil or piece of tableware as his divine artifact. The Food God and Nine-Colored Goddess discussed Luo Chen’s potential and Feng Xiaoyu’s progress, while the Food God hoped Luo Chen would find his own path.

• Luo Chen explained that his Soul Power had reached the Level 100 Demigod limit and had been compressed to support more Fried Rice soul skills.
• Luo Chen activated his Food God Mark and was transported alone to a vast kitchen in the Inheritance Grounds.
• The Food God told Luo Chen that any utensil or piece of tableware in the kitchen could become his divine artifact, depending on his choice.
• The Food God returned to the God Realm and told the Nine-Colored Goddess that Luo Chen was already a Level 100 Demigod.
• The Food God admitted that his own choice of a wok and spatula had left him able to wield only sixty percent of the first-generation Food God’s power.
• The Nine-Colored Goddess confirmed that Feng Xiaoyu had inherited the Wind God’s godhood and completed two of her divine trials.

Luo Chen reconsidered what it meant to be the Food God and realized that he must enjoy fine food while also knowing how to prepare it, rather than follow the Kitchen God's path of cooking alone. He chose the knife and fork as his divine artifacts and confirmed them without hesitation.

• Luo Chen examined the kitchen utensils and picked up the God of Food's Pot and God of Food's Spade, but hesitated when asked to confirm them.
• Luo Chen reflected on the difference between the Food God and the Kitchen God and concluded that the Food God should enjoy the world's finest food.
• Luo Chen understood that his trials had taught him both to cook delicacies and to enjoy them, and that he needed both abilities to walk the true path of the Food God.
• Luo Chen chose the silver knife and fork and confirmed the God of Food Mountain Sea Saber and God of Food Jade Bead Fork as his divine artifacts.

Luo Chen completed the Seventh Trial by choosing the God of Food Mountain Sea Saber and God of Food Jade Bead Fork, earning doubled rewards and learning the Food God’s true path. Gu Chen helped him prepare to complete the Eighth Trial while assisting Su Bai’s cultivation, and the others also headed into seclusion to advance.

• Luo Chen returned to the Imperial Study with the God of Food Mountain Sea Saber and God of Food Jade Bead Fork, and the Seventh Trial doubled his rewards, raising his God of Food affinity to 100%.
• Luo Chen explained to Gu Chen, Ling Xiaojiu, and the others that the Food God enjoyed delicacies, while cooking them belonged to the Kitchen God, so he had chosen a knife and fork instead of a frying pan and spatula.
• Luo Chen described the Eighth Trial, which required him to exhaust his Soul Power and break his limit a hundred times, and Gu Chen bought one hundred Soul Power Replenishment Cards to speed up the process.
• Su Bai eagerly took Luo Chen to the seclusion chamber to use his Clown Fried Rice for cultivation, while Luo Chen reluctantly agreed to help him pursue Rank 98.
• Hua Bu Luo went to cultivate toward Limit Douluo, and Jin Zi joined her to temper her body with dragon blood and attempt the Mad Beast God's Sixth Trial.

Gu Chen used his last God-tier Lottery Wheel draw and obtained twenty-five Unclaimed Godhoods that would make their recipients completely loyal to him. He summoned twelve powerful ferocious beasts to the Imperial Study to discuss assigning the godhoods.

• Gu Chen reviewed his system inventory and decided to save his two God-tier Enslavement Talismans for a future crisis involving a deity.
• Gu Chen used his final God-tier Lottery Wheel chance and won the Unclaimed Godhood Set, containing five Level One, ten Level Two, and ten Level Three godhoods.
• Gu Chen realized the godhoods could form a vital foundation for his future battle against the God Realm and began considering who should receive them.
• Gu Chen summoned Di Tian, Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord, Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, Myriad Demon King, and Yao Ling to the Imperial Study within an hour.
• The twelve ferocious beasts sensed Gu Chen's summons, took human form, and set off for Spirit City.