Chapter Summaries

Shui Bing'er and the others tested their endurance against the Sea God's Light, while Little Blue unexpectedly became the first to complete her trial. The chapter ended with Little Blue celebrating in Luo Li's arms as he explained her unusual, newly born soul to Bo Saixi.

• Shui Bing'er climbed to the hundredth step before voluntarily stopping, and Luo Li approved of her performance.
• Huo Wu reached the seventieth step, while Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling each stopped at the thirtieth.
• Little Blue climbed to the sixtieth step and completed her first trial, surprising everyone.
• Bo Saixi withdrew the Sea God's Light so Little Blue could safely reach Luo Li, who praised her for finishing first.
• Luo Li explained to Bo Saixi that Little Blue had a brand-new soul and was not a transformed Soul Beast in the traditional sense.

After reassuring Shui Bing'er and the others about their Sea God trials, Luo Li prepared to return to the Northern Border as the Star Luo Empire fell into chaos. Zhu Tian faced the growing strength of Dai Weisi’s faction until Ghostly Shadow appeared and offered Northern Border assistance.

• Luo Li praised Shui Bing'er and the others’ progress and said he would stay on Sea God Island briefly before returning to the Northern Border.
• The Star Luo Empire descended into conflict after Dai Tianfeng’s death, as princes, generals, Soul Master groups, and aristocratic families pursued their own ambitions.
• Zhu Tian’s forces took control of Star Luo City, but he learned that Dai Weisi had secured the Star Crown Sect’s support.
• Zhu Tian worried that Dai Weisi’s faction would overwhelm the Zhu Family and regretted opposing the Dai Family.
• Ghostly Shadow appeared before Zhu Tian and suggested that the Northern Border could help him.

Ghostly Shadow offered the Zhu Family Northern Border support against Dai Weisi in exchange for becoming a subordinate force led by Zhu Zhuqing. When Zhu Tian rejected the terms, Ghostly Shadow killed him and asked the gathered family members who wanted to become the next head.

• Ghostly Shadow explained that Dai Weisi's growing power threatened the Zhu Family and offered Northern Border support in exchange for their submission, with Zhu Zhuqing taking over.
• Zhu Tian called the offer predatory and tried to negotiate different terms, but Ghostly Shadow attacked and killed him.
• A maid and Zhu Tian's subordinate witnessed the murder, and the maid's scream drew the rest of the Zhu Family to the main residence.
• Ghostly Shadow told the gathered family that Zhu Tian had made the wrong choice and asked who wanted to become the next head of the Zhu Family.

After Zhu Tian’s death, Ghostly Shadow chose Zhu Ming to lead the Star Luo Zhu Family in cooperation with the Northern Border. He made clear that Zhu Zhuqing would control the family, while Zhu Ming managed it on her behalf.

• Zhu Ming and other Zhu Family members competed to claim the vacant family-head position, while Ghostly Shadow watched their quarrel.
• Ghostly Shadow silenced the family and asked Zhu Ming whether he would cooperate with the Northern Border.
• Zhu Ming pledged the Star Luo Zhu Family’s loyalty to the Northern Border and His Majesty.
• Ghostly Shadow declared that Zhu Zhuqing would control the Zhu Family and Zhu Ming would manage it for her, and Zhu Ming accepted.
• Ghostly Shadow said he would help Zhu Ming secure the family’s position, promised future Titled Douluo support against Dai Weisi’s faction, and ordered the family to report intelligence without concealment.

Luo Li returned to Winter City and revealed that Shui Bing'er had been recognized by the Sea God and could become a god. Shui Rou'er then told him that Frost Rime Academy had gained a new genius whose talent might surpass Shui Bing'er's.

• Winter City's gate guards recognized the streak of light as Luo Li, the only person permitted to fly above the city.
• Luo Li arrived at the Prince's Mansion, reassured everyone that Shui Bing'er and the others were safe, and said they would return with a surprise.
• Luo Li told Shui Rou'er that Shui Bing'er had gained the Sea God's recognition and could become a god after completing her trials.
• Luo Li said Huo Wu, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing also had the potential to become gods, and that he would make arrangements for them.
• Shui Rou'er told Luo Li that a new genius had arrived at Frost Rime Academy whose talent might surpass Shui Bing'er's.

Luo Li watched the New Student Chief defeat a senior at Frost Rime Academy and recognized her as Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King's incarnation. After Gu Yuena noticed him, he ordered Shui Rou'er to bring her to his lounge.

• At Frost Rime Academy, Shui Rou'er learned that the New Student Chief had gone to the Spirit Dueling Arena to face a fifth-year student, and Luo Li went to watch.
• Gu Yuena defeated the four-ring Soul Ancestor with precise control of elemental forces, ending the match without using soul rings or Martial Soul Possession.
• Luo Li recognized Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King's incarnation and realized she had entered the human world to find him.
• Luo Li asked Shui Rou'er to bring Gu Yuena to him, and Gu Yuena told Shui Rou'er to take her to Luo Li.

Gu Yuena met Luo Li in private and revealed that she had awakened to seek his help, offering him a path beyond the gods in exchange for abandoning his pursuit of the Asura God’s full inheritance. She claimed he alone could take that path, and the chapter ended with her preparing to explain why he should trust her.

• Shui Rou'er introduced Gu Yuena to Luo Li, then left them alone at his request.
• Luo Li identified Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King, one half of the Dragon God, and asked why she had approached an Asura inheritance heir.
• Gu Yuena said Luo Li had correctly guessed that she was waiting for him to offer a reason not to report her to the Asura God.
• Gu Yuena offered Luo Li a way to surpass Asura and every god in the current God Realm, claiming only he could take that step.
• Gu Yuena warned Luo Li that completing the Asura God Trials would constrain him and said he should stop at the eighth trial.
• When Luo Li questioned her motives and credibility, Gu Yuena said she would give him her reasons.

Gu Yuena explained how divine inheritance could limit a god’s growth and offered Luo Li access to the Dragon God’s ownerless divinity in exchange for helping the soul beast clan. Luo Li negotiated new terms, promising to secure the soul beasts a place to live but refusing to fight or kill human gods for them.

• Gu Yuena told Luo Li that inheritors who became gods through divine inheritance were usually bound by the limits of their predecessors’ god positions.
• Gu Yuena described Luo Li’s Martial Soul as embodying ultimate holiness, life, the sun, the Bright Moon, day, and night, and said it represented supremacy.
• Luo Li revealed that his two longswords had already begun to release incomplete divinity, showing he had reached the threshold of godhood without Gu Yuena’s help.
• Gu Yuena offered Luo Li access to the Dragon God’s ownerless divinity if he agreed to help revitalize the soul beast clan.
• Luo Li refused to attack human gods and offered instead to carve out living space for the soul beasts after he became a god.

Gu Yuena accepted Luo Li’s proposal to help him obtain a divine position in exchange for finding the spirit beast race a place to survive. Elsewhere, Tang San, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang reached a coastal city in the Star Luo Empire and bribed the guards to enter.

• Gu Yuena offered to make Luo Li king of the spirit beast race, but he refused and said he would not report her to the God Realm.
• Gu Yuena accepted Luo Li’s earlier terms, agreeing to help him obtain a divine position in exchange for a place where the spirit beast race could survive.
• Luo Li agreed to accompany Gu Yuena to see the item she had offered as proof of her sincerity.
• Tang San, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang arrived at a remote coastal city after more than ten days of travel and hiding from Spirit Hall and the Northern Border.
• Tang Xiao paid the city guards with Gold Soul Coins, and they let the disguised group pass through the gate.

Tang San, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang traveled to the docks to find passage to Sea God Island, while Tang San brooded over those he hated. After Tang San killed the boatman who demanded more money for the trip, Tang Xiao took the helm and steered them toward Sea God Island.

• Tang San asked why Tang Xiao had paid two men Gold Soul Coins, and Tang Xiao explained that they needed to avoid attracting attention from the Northern Border and Spirit Hall.
• Tang San vowed revenge on the Northern Border, Spirit Hall, and the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python for keeping him from Xiao Wu.
• Tang Xiao decided they needed to find a ship, and the three went to the docks to arrange passage.
• Tang Xiao offered the boatman two hundred Gold Soul Coins upfront and promised the remaining three hundred upon reaching an island overseas.
• After the ship left the docks, Tang Xiao clarified that their destination was Sea God Island, and Tang San killed the boatman when he demanded additional payment.
• Tang Xiao took control of the ship and steered it toward Sea God Island.

Tang San, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang reached Sea God Island to undergo Sea God’s trials. Yu Xiaogang was denied an assessment and ordered to leave, while Tang San tried to secure an exception for him.

• Tang San, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang arrived on Sea God Island and told its soul masters they had come for Sea God’s trials.
• A purple-robed soul master escorted the three to the Seahorse Sacred Pillar, where Seahorse Douluo agreed to assess them.
• Yu Xiaogang volunteered first, but the light of the Sacred Pillar vanished without granting him a trial.
• Seahorse Douluo told Yu Xiaogang his talent was too limited for an assessment and ordered him to leave the island.
• Tang San asked Seahorse Douluo to assess him first, hoping Sea God might allow Yu Xiaogang to stay.

Tang San received only the Black-tier Six Trials at the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and learned that the Sea God already had an inheritor. When Shui Bing'er arrived with the Northern Border group, Tang San discovered she had received the Sea God Nine Trials and grew resentful.

• Seahorse Douluo gave Tang San the Sea God's Light trial, which stopped at the Black-tier Six Trials.
• Tang San demanded another attempt and protested that he should receive the Sea God Nine Trials, but Seahorse Douluo refused and said the Sea God already had an inheritor.
• Shui Bing'er and the Northern Border group arrived at the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and recognized Tang San and his companions.
• Tang San asked whether Shui Bing'er had received the Sea God Nine Trials, and Shui Yue'er confirmed that Shui Bing'er was the Sea God's inheritor.
• Tang San blamed Shui Bing'er for taking the inheritance he believed should have been his and grew resentful.

Tang Xiao tried to attack Shui Bing'er, but the Sea God's Holy Pillars intervened and Sea Dragon Douluo struck him down. Facing death, Tang Xiao claimed his grandfather knew Great Priest Bo Saixi and demanded to see her, prompting her to appear.

• Tang Xiao mistook Luo Li's absence for an opportunity and prepared to attack Shui Bing'er and her companions.
• Seahorse Douluo shielded Shui Bing'er, and the other Holy Pillars arrived after sensing the disturbance.
• Sea Dragon Douluo confronted Tang Xiao, while his pressure forced Yu Xiaogang to his knees and left Tang Xiao struggling to stand.
• Sea Dragon Douluo struck Tang Xiao with a water dragon, knocking his Clear Sky Hammer away and making him spit blood.
• Tang Xiao demanded to see Great Priest Bo Saixi, claiming his grandfather knew her, and Bo Saixi appeared before the Holy Pillars could send for her.

Bo Saixi confronted Tang Xiao and Tang San after they showed hostility toward Shui Bing'er, the Sea God Inheritance bearer. She crippled Tang Xiao and stripped Tang San of his trial mark, then ordered them to leave Sea God Island.

• Tang Xiao invoked his grandfather Tang Chen and asked Bo Saixi for help, but she revealed that Tang Chen had died in the City of Slaughter.
• Bo Saixi refused to excuse Tang Xiao's disrespect toward Shui Bing'er, despite her old ties to Tang Chen.
• Tang Xiao apologized to Shui Bing'er, but Bo Saixi bound him with water chains and destroyed his meridians, leaving him an ordinary man.
• Bo Saixi declared Tang San unqualified for the divine trials and erased his trial mark.
• Tang San carried the crippled Tang Xiao and Yu Xiaogang toward their ship as Shui Yue'er mocked them.

Gu Yuena led Luo Li to a distant continent, where she found the anchor point for entering the Dragon Tomb and planned to offer him the Heart of the Dragon God. Luo Li cut off the Asura God’s connection to his inheritance, opened the passage himself, and entered the Dragon Tomb with Gu Yuena while Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts held the rift open.

• Gu Yuena brought Luo Li to an unfamiliar continent and identified the place as the anchor point to the Dragon Tomb.
• Luo Li confirmed that he had temporarily severed the Asura God’s connection to his inheritance, reassuring Gu Yuena that the Asura God would not learn what had happened through it.
• Gu Yuena summoned the Fierce Beasts and ordered Di Tian to keep the passage open while she entered the Dragon Tomb.
• Luo Li used the Sun Eclipse Sword to tear open a spatial rift, and Gu Yuena stabilized it with her spatial power.
• Gu Yuena and Luo Li entered the rift as Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts maintained it, arriving in a desolate landscape.

Luo Li and Gu Yuena reached Dragon Valley, where Gu Yuena gave him the Heart of the Dragon God to help him understand divine power. The Mountain Dragon King appeared and questioned whether Gu Yuena had given up on the dragon race’s revival.

• Gu Yuena led Luo Li through Dragon Valley to the Heart of the Dragon God.
• Gu Yuena gave Luo Li the Heart of the Dragon God, and he sensed its powerful Dragon God energy.
• Gu Yuena reflected on the fallen dragon race and her inability to avenge it, resolving to seek a future for the soul beasts with Luo Li.
• The Mountain Dragon King appeared before Gu Yuena and Luo Li and expressed hope that the dragon race could rise again.
• Gu Yuena explained that her injuries remained and that the dragon race could not overcome the five God Kings, prompting the Mountain Dragon King to ask if she had given up.

Gu Yuena told the Mountain Dragon King that she had chosen a partnership with Luo Li rather than a war against the God Realm. The Mountain Dragon King accepted her decision and gave Luo Li its origin power, leaving the divine bone for Gu Yuena to arrange.

• The Mountain Dragon King sensed the Asura God's aura on Luo Li and demanded to know why Gu Yuena had brought an Asura inheritor to Dragon Tomb.
• Gu Yuena explained that Luo Li was the Asura God's inheritor but had not betrayed the soul beast race or joined the God Realm.
• The Mountain Dragon King speculated that Gu Yuena planned to make Luo Li the new Asura God and use him to help overthrow the God Realm, but Gu Yuena said he would not cooperate with that plan.
• Gu Yuena explained her partnership with Luo Li, and the Mountain Dragon King accepted that finding the soul beast race a place to survive was the best available course.
• The Mountain Dragon King praised Luo Li's potential, gave him its origin power, and left the divine bone for Gu Yuena to arrange.

Luo Li and Gu Yuena left the Dragon Tomb after the Mountain Dragon King entrusted them with his source power and divine bone and asked Gu Yuena to lead the soul beasts to a good ending. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong began the eighth Rakshasa God Trial, which required her to gain the Rakshasa Scythe’s recognition.

• The Mountain Dragon King gave Luo Li his source power and divine bone, then asked Gu Yuena to bring the soul beast race to a good ending before his body dissolved.
• Gu Yuena buried the fallen dragons and left the Dragon Tomb with Luo Li.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, and the other Fierce Beasts maintained the spatial passage until Gu Yuena returned and stabilized it.
• Gu Yuena told Di Tian that everything had been taken care of and ordered the group to return to the continent.
• Bibi Dong received the eighth Rakshasa God Trial: obtain the Rakshasa Scythe’s recognition, then seized the scythe and was engulfed by its negative power.

Qian Renxue completed the Angel God's Seventh Trial and prepared to seek the Angel Sacred Sword's recognition in the eighth trial. As she flew toward the trial's heart, Qian Daoliu reflected that she and the woman in Pope's Hall were both nearing their final transformation into gods.

• Qian Renxue completed the Angel God's Seventh Trial, reaching eighty percent Angel affinity and gaining a deeper connection to divine laws.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Renxue, who said she was ready to begin the next trial and hoped to catch up to Luo Li.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the eighth trial required the Angel Sacred Sword to recognize her and warned that failure could destroy her soul and spirit.
• Qian Renxue declared that she would prove her convictions and wield the Angel Sacred Sword, then flew toward the heart of the inheritance space.
• Qian Daoliu watched Qian Renxue go and looked toward Pope's Hall, thinking that two gods were nearing their final stage of gestation.

Luo Li began secluded cultivation in the Northern Border, using the Heart of the Dragon God and the Mountain Dragon King's source power to temper his twin sword martial souls and comprehend their laws. Gu Yuena guided and protected him as his power began a profound transformation.

• Luo Li entrusted the Northern Border's military command to Shen Bei and internal affairs and academy liaison to Shui Rou'er, ordering them not to disturb him except in a catastrophe.
• Gu Yuena sealed Luo Li's cultivation chamber and brought forth the Heart of the Dragon God and the Mountain Dragon King's source power.
• Luo Li absorbed the two proud dragons' forces under Gu Yuena's guidance, enduring their assault on his body and will.
• The Sun Eclipse Sword and Moon Devourer Sword emerged and used their powers of life and erosion to meet and transform the dragons' energies.
• Luo Li adapted to the forces and gained new insight into laws as Gu Yuena watched, increasingly certain he could reach godhood.