Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing passed the Bridge of Sighs, became Bai Zhou’s Death God inheritor, and received a boost to his soul and cultivation. He began the second trial, the Path of Soul Echoes, which required him to experience the deepest emotions of the dead.

• Lin Qing crossed the Bridge of Sighs, destroying the Vengeful Spirits with the Nine Yin Divine Claw and gathering soul energy.
• At the Eternal Plaza, Bai Zhou introduced himself as the Death God and confirmed Lin Qing had passed the first trial.
• Lin Qing absorbed the soul energy, raising his Spiritual Power to the peak Spirit Saint level.
• Bai Zhou awarded Lin Qing one level of Soul Power, 5,000 years of cultivation for each soul ring, and 10% Death God Affinity.
• Bai Zhou explained that the second trial required Lin Qing to walk the Path of Soul Echoes and bear the emotions held in its stones.
• Lin Qing stepped barefoot onto the path as the surroundings became a dark void.

Lin Qing faced the Stone of Rebirth trial and relived the grief, regret, and love his parents had felt before their deaths. He accepted their emotions as strength and continued toward the next step of the trial.

• Lin Qing saw his mother’s memories of his childhood mistreatment in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and her regret at being unable to protect him.
• Lin Qing told his mother he was living well, accepted her grief and love, and absorbed the first stone slab’s emotional fragments.
• Lin Qing relived his father’s anger at the clan, guilt over their hardship, and desperate final fight against the Wolf Bandits.
• Lin Qing heard his father urge him to live well and leave the clan behind, then vowed he had become strong enough to protect himself and others.
• Lin Qing’s father’s emotions settled into his dragon soul as a source of protection and power, and Lin Qing took the next step.

Lin Feng returned to his family after leaving Lin Qing to continue the Death God's trial, and a conversation with his parents eased his guilt about being away from home. Hua Jieyu and Lin Lan revealed that they were nearing breakthroughs to the Quasi-Saint realm, though they expected to stabilize there in about a hundred years.

• Lin An grieved over Lin Qing's parents' memories and urged Lin Feng to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Lin Feng said Lin Qing should decide and take revenge himself.
• Lin Feng left Death Valley with his companions and returned to the Lin Family in Heaven Dou City, planning to travel to Sun Moon Continent for Soul Tool technology and talent.
• After dinner, Lin Feng asked Hua Jieyu and Lin Lan what they did while he was away and admitted he felt guilty for spending so little time with them.
• Hua Jieyu reassured Lin Feng that she and Lin Lan lived fulfilling lives of their own and had accompanied him because they loved him.
• Hua Jieyu and Lin Lan said their states of mind were becoming complete and that they expected to reach the Quasi-Saint realm in roughly a hundred years.

Lin Yun Chi and Lin Feng shared a late-night drink and discussed their family’s past, including how their parents’ grief over losing Lin Feng had stalled their cultivation. The brothers ended their conversation grateful for their reunion and hopeful that all four brothers would meet soon.

• Hua Jieyu and Lin Lan explained that they would need to return to the Immortal Realm to break through, but first had to perfect their states of mind.
• Lin Yun Chi and Lin Feng went to the roof of Lin Family Manor to drink and talk about their eldest and second brothers.
• Lin Yun Chi described how their eldest brother had cared for his younger brothers and said their second brother was in deep seclusion.
• Lin Yun Chi explained that the Great War had left their parents unable to protect Lin Feng and caused flaws in their states of mind that stalled their cultivation.
• Lin Feng told Lin Yun Chi that his mortal life had been difficult but that his former parents had loved and supported him.
• Lin Yun Chi and Lin Feng toasted their reunion and hoped to share a drink with their other brothers someday.

Lin Feng visited Sea God Island before setting out for Sun Moon Continent, arranging for Little White to take him across the ocean in exchange for help advancing her cultivation. He left after catching up with his companions and advising them on their trials and future training.

• Lin Feng offered Little White a cultivation breakthrough in return for a ride to Sun Moon Continent, and she accepted after he explained that Sea God Island could withstand attacks without her clan.
• After the group completed their day's Tidal Body Refining trial, Lin Feng reunited with his companions and told them about Sun Moon Continent and its advanced Soul Tools.
• Lin Feng promised to take the group to Sun Moon Continent after their trials and said he would help them find other godhood legacies.
• Lin Feng advised Zhu Zhuqing to train in the City of Slaughter after finishing her trials, and considered possible godhood paths for Ning Rongrong, Jixiang, and Ye Lingling.
• Lin Feng checked on everyone's progress, said farewell, and left Sea God Island without visiting Bo Saixi.

Lin Feng and his companions traveled across the sea toward the Sun Moon Continent, where Little White was badly outmatched by a newly advanced hundred-thousand-year crab Soul Beast. Lin Yun Chi extracted the crab’s spirit ring and spirit bone, Little White ate its Crab Roe, and its cultivation rose to roughly 150,000 years as the journey continued.

• Lin Feng and his companions rode Little White across the sea for seven days toward the Sun Moon Continent.
• A giant crab Soul Beast blocked their path, and Little White attacked but was struck by its powerful pincers and forced to retreat.
• Lin Feng checked Little White’s minor injuries and teased it, while recognizing that the crab’s strength came partly from its mastery of Space Power.
• Lin Yun Chi restrained the crab and extracted its spirit ring and spirit bone as light orbs for Lin Feng to store.
• Lin Feng let Little White eat the crab’s Crab Roe, and Little White quickly refined some of it, increasing its cultivation to roughly 150,000 years.

Lin An followed a faint summons to an underwater chamber and received a powerful boost and a God-grade metal fragment left by Evil God Ji Yuan. After Lin Feng explained the fragment’s use, the group resumed its ocean journey.

• Lin An sensed a familiar summons beneath the sea, and Lin Feng had Little White carry the group down to an ancient stone door.
• Lin An opened the door and found a note from Evil God Ji Yuan, a jar of origin energy, and a gray ring inside the empty chamber.
• The origin energy merged into Lin An and raised his Soul Power by three levels without destabilizing his foundation.
• Lin An found a God-grade metal fragment in the ring, and Lin Feng explained that it could strengthen Lin An’s Flowing Light Sword Feather.
• Lin An fused the fragment into his Flowing Light Sword Feather, and the group returned to its journey across the ocean.

Lin Feng and his companions weathered a violent sea storm that Little White traced to a Sea Bottom Lotus undergoing its hundred-thousand-year transformation. After waiting three days for the transformation to finish, Lin Feng found the lotus and prepared to take it away for study.

• Lin Feng and his companions rode out a fierce storm aboard Little White, then entered the calm center of a sea tornado.
• Little White identified glowing seabed plants as Sea Bottom Lotuses and explained that one was causing the unnatural storm as it transformed.
• Lin Feng decided to wait for the Sea Bottom Lotus to complete its transformation, and Lin Yun Chi suggested taking it back to study.
• After three days, Little White led the group to the transformed lotus, which Lin Feng examined and found to possess only faint instinctive intelligence.
• Lin Feng tried to communicate his wish to take the lotus, but when it could not give a clear answer, he prepared to take it anyway.

Lin Feng and his companions reached the Sun Moon Continent, where they defeated a band of pirates and learned the local language. Before going ashore, they helped Little White reach 300,000 years of cultivation and sent her safely back toward Sea God Island.

• After three months at sea, Lin Feng and his companions encountered pirates near the Sun Moon Continent, and Lin An defeated them and confiscated their Soul Tools.
• Lin Feng gave Little White Water Attribute Immortal Grade pills, helping her break through to 200,000 years of cultivation while Lin Yun Chi dispersed the remaining tribulation lightning.
• Little White broke through to 300,000 years after enduring another bolt of tribulation lightning, and Lin Yun Chi concealed the breakthroughs from people on shore.
• Lin Feng asked Little White to watch over his friends during their trial against the Evil Orca Clan and warned her to avoid the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Little White departed for Sea God Island, and Lin Feng, Lin An, and Lin Yun Chi learned the Sun Moon Continent's language and gathered information from the pirates.
• Lin Feng killed the pirates after learning what he needed about the continent.

Lin Feng learned that the Sun Moon Continent’s rival powers were preparing for war, with the Sun Moon Empire pressuring the neutral Tiangong Institute to join it. He saw a chance to obtain Soul Tool materials and researchers, and considered reducing the harm war would cause ordinary people.

• Lin Feng learned that the Sun Moon Empire dominated the continent, while the Chenxing Kingdom, Tianhe Federation, smaller duchies, and Tiangong Institute held other positions of power.
• Lin Feng studied the continent’s Soul Tool technology and learned that the Tiangong Institute led research, with the Sun Moon Empire possessing the next-strongest capabilities.
• Lin Feng learned that the Sun Moon Empire was building its military strength and pressuring the Tiangong Institute to join it, while other powers might try to destroy the institute rather than let the empire control its research.
• Lin Feng decided the turbulent situation could let him acquire Soul Tool materials and recruit talented researchers.
• Lin Feng considered preventing war but instead resolved to follow his heart and try to lessen its harm to ordinary people.

Lin Feng and his companions landed on the Sun Moon Continent, explored a coastal city, and gathered news about the Tiangong Institute before heading north. The Sun Moon Empire had sent its Prime Minister to make another recruitment attempt, and Lin Feng expected the Institute to refuse and the empire to pursue other means.

• Lin Feng and his companions left the pirates behind, landed near the Nanxing Principality, and planned to travel north to Tiangong Town after resting.
• Lin Feng explored the city’s Soul Tool infrastructure and observed a public school teaching practical subjects related to Soul Tool Technology.
• Lin Feng and his companions checked into an inn using money taken from the pirates, then ate in a restaurant and listened to local conversations.
• A diner reported that the Sun Moon Empire’s Prime Minister had led its fifth delegation to invite the Tiangong Institute to join the empire.
• Lin Feng learned that the Chenxing Kingdom and Tianhe Federation had also sent delegations, while powerful figures gathered in Tiangong Town hoping to exploit any ensuing turmoil.
• Lin Feng judged that the Tiangong Institute had probably refused the empire again and decided there was no need to hurry north, since the empire would not act immediately.

Lin Feng joined the Tiannan Merchant Team as a temporary guard while traveling toward Tiangong Town and discovered that two of its members were concealed Soul Douluo from the Chenxing Kingdom. He overheard their plan to seize Tiangong Institute during any chaos and secretly bring it under Chenxing's control.

• Lin Feng and his companions met the Tiannan Merchant Team in Chenxing Kingdom and joined it as guards bound for Tiangong Town.
• Lin Feng learned that the team had suffered casualties in a rogue cultivator attack while its two disguised Soul Douluo concealed their strength.
• Lin Feng monitored the two Soul Douluo, Chen He and Chen Shi, as they spoke privately inside their tent.
• Chen He and Chen Shi revealed that Chenxing's king had ordered them to take control of Tiangong Institute if disorder gave them an opportunity.
• Chen He and Chen Shi planned to secretly transfer Tiangong Institute to Chenxing and kill anyone who discovered their identities.

Lin Feng and his companions arrived in Tiangong Town, where he shopped for Soul Tools and gifts while keeping track of the two Soul Douluo from the Chenxing Kingdom. He gave gifts to his companions and revealed that he had also prepared another present for Lin Yun Chi.

• Chen He and Chen Shi planned to observe Tiangong Town and create chaos near Tiangong Institute if an opportunity arose, while Lin Feng decided to claim the Institute’s information and people for himself.
• Lin Feng and the others arrived in Tiangong Town with the Tiannan Merchant Team, completed their escort mission, and checked into a hotel in the Tianhe Federation’s district.
• Lin Feng left tracking auras on the two Soul Douluo and then took Lin Yun Chi, Lin An, and Xiao Qing around town to shop for Soul Tools.
• Lin Feng spent his money and medicinal herbs on Soul Tools, explaining that many of them were gifts for family and friends back home.
• Lin Feng gave Xiao Qing a spatial ring with a cultivation array, and Lin Yun Chi improved its array before Lin Feng planted seeds and stored fruit inside.
• Lin Feng presented Soul Tools for Eldest Brother and Second Brother, teased Lin Yun Chi with a Hundred Illusions Mask, and then brought out another gift for him.

Lin Feng gave Lin Yun Chi a longsword he had forged himself, then went alone to scout Tiangong Institute at night. After slipping past its layered defenses and discovering hidden guards, he entered the courtyard, where a sudden volley of crossbow bolts targeted him.

• Lin Feng explained that the longsword he gave Lin Yun Chi was his second forged sword, and Lin Yun Chi accepted it gratefully.
• After returning to the hotel, Lin Feng changed into black night clothes and set out alone to investigate Tiangong Institute.
• Lin Feng studied the institute’s perimeter defenses, identified Soul Guidance Devices and mutated owl sentries, and concealed himself as he crossed the detection zone.
• Lin Feng discovered a hidden Soul Douluo in the gate and three guards underground, including a Soul Douluo disguised as a Spirit Saint.
• Lin Feng climbed over the courtyard wall and approached the institute’s main building, but eight crossbow bolts suddenly shot toward him from every direction.

After being detected and forced to abandon his attempt to enter the Tiangong Institute's Research Institute, Lin Feng investigated the plans of the factions gathering in Tiangong Town. He learned that the Sun Moon Empire and Tianhe Federation were awaiting reinforcements, while the Federation appeared intent on creating chaos; the factions' plans remained incomplete and uncertain.

• Lin Feng evaded the Tiangong Institute's bolts and experts, waited in the courtyard, then left without discovering how its hidden defenses had detected him.
• At breakfast, Lin Feng admitted to Lin An and Lin Yun Chi that his investigation had failed, and he resolved to try again without relying on Lin Yun Chi's help.
• Lin Feng observed that countries had quietly sent experts into their strongholds, then split up with Lin An to investigate the factions that night.
• At the Sun Moon Empire's stronghold, Lin Feng learned its infiltrators were waiting for more experts to arrive before beginning an undisclosed plan.
• Lin Feng found the Chenxing Kingdom's people apparently resting, while Lin An learned that the Tianhe Federation was awaiting experts for an assassination plan and might seek to cause chaos.

Lin Feng discovered that hidden resonant-force devices had exposed him and infiltrated the Research Institute while its leaders discussed leaving for an overseas base. The director decided to announce the plan in three days, leaving Lin Feng expecting conflict over who would leave and what would happen to the institute’s materials.

• Lin Feng tested the alarm-triggering spot with pebbles and discovered a hidden device that produced resonant force when pressed.
• Lin Feng found twelve such devices in the courtyard while the Tiangong Institute staff searched for the intruder.
• Lin Feng entered a villa and overheard the director and five other leaders discuss the Sun Moon Empire’s growing pressure and the recent infiltrations.
• The leaders planned to move the Research Institute’s materials and loyal staff to a fortified overseas base, while identifying spies and those who opposed the move.
• The director postponed announcing the decision to the entire staff for three days so they could organize the materials and reduce the risk of chaos.

Lin Feng and Lin An monitored the major factions as they prepared to disrupt the Tiangong Institute’s assembly after learning that the Research Institute planned to leave the continent. The Sun Moon Empire, Chenxing Kingdom, and Tianhe Federation each formed plans to seize the Institute’s people, research, or Soul Tools.

• Lin Feng predicted the major factions would learn of the Research Institute’s planned departure, and the factions began mobilizing experts for the assembly.
• The Sun Moon Empire commander ordered a decapitation plan to kill the Institute’s hardliners and seize its research materials during the assembly.
• Chen Shi and Chen He tasked Chen Yu with drawing attention at the assembly while their forces secretly escorted Elder Yang to Chenxing Kingdom.
• The Tianhe Federation leader ordered his people to exploit the assembly’s chaos to steal Soul Tools, eliminate Soul Engineers, and later pursue the other factions.

At Tiangong Institute’s assembly, the director announced that the institute would leave the Sun Moon Continent to escape pressure from the Sun Moon Empire and other powers. As staff chose whether to leave or stay, a level-seven Soul Engineer challenged the restrictions imposed on those who remained, and the Purple Robed Woman denounced his motives.

• Lin Feng and Lin An hid in the auditorium rafters and watched the assembly, while the director announced that Tiangong Institute would relocate to an overseas base and stay away from the Sun Moon Continent for a hundred years.
• The director offered staff who stayed money and set conditions requiring them to keep institute secrets and limit their work with powerful Soul Tools; the six leaders onstage chose to leave.
• Staff divided between those leaving and staying, while some remained in the middle and a level-seven Soul Engineer rallied them against the restrictions.
• The director defended the limits on high-level Soul Tool dealings as necessary to uphold Tiangong Institute’s ideals and protect ordinary people from the effects of war.
• The Purple Robed Woman accused the level-seven Soul Engineer of greed and hypocrisy, and he angrily insisted that his talent entitled him to wealth and status.

The director of Tiangong Institute tried to make those who stayed swear an oath, while Lan Yi and the director clashed with representatives from the Sun Moon Empire and the Chenxing Kingdom over whether former members could use their research for their homelands. The rival factions recruited members openly, leaving Tiangong Institute divided as many people changed sides.

• A Level 7 Soul Engineer challenged Lan Yi and the director, but the director insisted that those who stayed must swear an oath.
• Marquis Xu and Grand Princess Chen Yu entered the assembly and argued that members should be free to return home and use what they had learned.
• Lan Yi accused Chen Yu of disguising espionage as patriotism, while the director clarified that members could keep researching but could not sell advanced Soul Tools or materials to outside factions.
• Marquis Xu and Chen Yu invited attendees to join their factions, and many people moved to stand behind them, including the Level 7 Soul Engineer who had stirred up trouble.
• The assembly revealed that most of Tiangong Institute’s external-affairs staff had already chosen to remain on the Sun Moon Continent.

Dean Han rejected Marquis Xu’s offer to join the Sun Moon Empire and denounced the defectors’ justifications for betraying the Tiangong Institute. As the factions tried to secure Elder Yang and the Institute’s secrets, Dean Han threatened to trigger the Institute’s self-destruct mechanism, which could kill a Titled Douluo.

• Marquis Xu urged Dean Han and the other Tiangong Institute members to join the Sun Moon Empire, but Dean Han refused.
• Zhou Qing announced that he would stay, while Elder Yang explained that he was leaving for the sake of his newly discovered descendants and joined Chen Yu’s camp.
• Zhou Qing and Elder Yang’s disciples followed them, and Dean Han vowed to uphold the Tiangong Institute’s principles despite the defections.
• Marquis Xu accused the Institute of forcing members to abandon their homelands, and Dean Han accused the factions of seeking the Institute’s research for their own ambitions.
• Marquis Xu demanded that the remaining eighth-rank Soul Engineers hand over their materials, while Chen Yu arranged for Chen Shi and Chen He to escort Elder Yang away.
• Dean Han refused to surrender the materials or let anyone leave and warned that the Tiangong Institute’s self-destruct mechanism could kill a Titled Douluo.