Chapter Summaries

Nan Li met Ning Fengzhi at the Heaven Dou Auction House and accompanied him to the palace, where Emperor Xue Ye asked her to teach Princess Xue Ke. After demonstrating her immense strength, Nan Li advised Xue Ye to use the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction to consolidate imperial power and bring Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen under the Empire’s authority; she then began teaching Xue Ke.

• Nan Li met Ning Fengzhi at the auction house, and he invited her to meet Princess Xue Ke after explaining that he had returned to the palace.
• Nan Li showed Emperor Xue Ye nine Soul Rings and answered his questions about the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction.
• Nan Li advised Xue Ye to strengthen imperial authority and ennoble Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen, then declined a princely title for herself.
• Nan Li met Princess Xue Ke and began teaching her, while Xue Ke grew comfortable enough to call her Sister A’li.
• Zhu Zhu Lang told Nan Li that Xue Ke considered her impressive because she was her master’s daughter.

Nan Li learned more about Zhu Zhu Lang’s loyalty to Nan Yin and reconsidered her plan to destroy Spirit Hall, deciding instead to protect Heaven Dou and preserve a balance among the powers. Meanwhile, Xue Ye’s title grants to Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen took effect, and Nan Li began considering how to strengthen Xue Ke’s position.

• Zhu Zhu Lang praised Nan Yin, revealed her level ninety-eight cultivation, and explained that she had chosen to serve Xue Ke in Heaven Dou while remaining loyal to her master and homeland.
• Nan Li reflected on Nan Yin and Dong Yun’s efforts to protect Sun Island and changed her goal from destroying Spirit Hall to preserving Heaven Dou and balancing the major powers.
• Zhu Zhu Lang accidentally snapped Nan Li’s forehead band, saw her God Trial mark, and hurriedly covered it before Nan Li replaced the band.
• Xue Ye secretly tested Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen’s reactions to their titles, and both accepted the grants and became princes.
• Nan Li pointed out that Xue Ke had not yet reached three rings at seventeen and hinted that she would next help address the princess’s weak cultivation and position.

In Spirit City, Ning Xinxin considered how to quickly reach Soul Sage while Bibi Dong investigated Ghost Leopard Douluo’s killer. Dong Yun’s arrival with Qian Renxue matched the killer’s description, but Qian Renxue vouched for him, and Dong Yun suspected Nan Li had framed him.

• Ning Xinxin planned to accelerate her cultivation after her system urged her to draw on others’ power.
• Bibi Dong waited for Qian Renxue’s return while thinking about the black-haired, blue-eyed Soul Douluo who had killed Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• Qian Renxue entered the Pope’s Palace with Dong Yun and introduced him to Bibi Dong and the assembled Spirit Hall members.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Dong Yun’s appearance and Soul Rings matched Ning Xinxin’s account, and Qian Renxue said he had helped destroy the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xie Yue recounted Ghost Leopard Douluo’s death, but Qian Renxue insisted Dong Yun had been with her for months and could not have been in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dong Yun suspected Nan Li had arranged the accusation against him.

Dong Yun’s Life God Trial was revealed, and Qian Daoliu kept her in the Worship Hall alongside Qian Renxue. Meanwhile, Nan Li trained Xue Ke until she reached Level 30, then prepared to take her to the Sunset Great Forest for a Soul Ring.

• Qian Renxue defended Dong Yun before Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall bishops, then brought her back to the Worship Hall.
• The Angel God statue revealed Dong Yun’s Life Seven Trials, and Qian Daoliu told her to stay with Qian Renxue and avoid the Pope’s Palace.
• Dong Yun spent her days reading and cultivating in the Worship Hall, while privately resolving to leave Qian Renxue’s side once Spirit Hall withdrew from Heaven Dou.
• Nan Li tied Xue Ke to herself and dragged her through training runs, using Red Cloud’s beast form to spur the princess onward.
• After months of training brought Xue Ke to Level 30, Nan Li arranged to take her to the Sunset Great Forest for her third Soul Ring, with Zhu Zhu Lang accompanying them.

Nan Li guided Xue Ke in choosing a support-focused path for her Martial Soul and took her to Star Dou Great Forest to find a Jade Swan. The chapter ended with a nearly three-thousand-year-old Jade Swan voluntarily sacrificing itself for Xue Ke, leaving Zhu Zhu Lang wondering what Nan Li had done.

• Nan Li advised Xue Ke to develop healing and enhancement abilities, and encouraged her to choose the Soul Beast she wanted rather than settle for an easier option.
• Nan Li searched Sunset Great Forest with her Spirit Power, found no Jade Swans, and led Xue Ke and Zhu Zhu Lang toward Star Dou Great Forest.
• On the way, Nan Li met a flock of Flame Feather Sparrows and the Xumi Raven, then continued on with Xue Ke and Zhu Zhu Lang.
• Nan Li returned from a quiet part of Star Dou Great Forest with a Jade Swan that had nearly three thousand years of cultivation, despite Zhu Zhu Lang and Xue Ke warning it was too powerful for Xue Ke.
• The Jade Swan voluntarily sacrificed itself for Xue Ke, and Zhu Zhu Lang asked Nan Li what she had done.

Nan Li obtained a willing Jade Swan’s sacrifice for Xue Ke’s Third Soul Ring and arranged for Xue Ke to return to the palace with Qing Ya. She then sent Red Cloud to find Dan Hong and prepared to go to the Lake of Life on her own.

• Nan Li asked Bi Ji for a Jade Swan, and a clan member nearing the end of its lifespan volunteered to sacrifice itself in exchange for power for Bi Ji.
• Nan Li gave Bi Ji the power she needed, then took the Jade Swan to Xue Ke and explained to Zhu Zhu Lang that a friend had given it to her.
• Xue Ke finished absorbing the Jade Swan’s Soul Ring and thanked Nan Li for helping her.
• Nan Li asked Red Cloud to find Dan Hong, who was searching for a Soul Beast with Qing Ya.
• Nan Li told Xue Ke and Zhu Zhu Lang that Qing Ya would escort them to the palace while she went to the Lake of Life.

Nan Li agreed to relocate Da Ming and Er Ming before Spirit Hall could hunt them, using her Chongming domains to connect the Star Dou Great Forest with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. While she stayed with Xiao Wu and prepared the transfer, Xiao Wu asked about the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San and broke down after hearing the news.

• Dan Hong promised Nan Li she would escort Xue Ke and Zhu Zhu Lang home, while Qing Ya planned to deliver them before returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dong Yun sent word that Bibi Dong intended to hunt the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and asked Nan Li to move them to safety.
• Nan Li marked Red Cloud with her domain imprint and sent him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so she could connect the two forests and transfer Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Nan Li stayed by the Lake of Life with Xiao Wu, splitting her power between cultivation and maintaining the domain connection while preparing to control the Southern Bright Leaving Fire.
• Xiao Wu asked Nan Li about the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San, and Nan Li told her the sect had been destroyed and Tang San might have entered Moonlight Pavilion before it burned.
• Xiao Wu lowered her head and burst into tears.

Nan Li moved Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming from the Lake of Life to Sunset Forest, where they settled near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Back at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, she discussed Qian Renxue’s forces with Zhu Zhu Lang and Luo Gu, then learned she had to find the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for Dong Yun’s Seventh Life Trial.

• Nan Li comforted Xiao Wu and arranged for Da Ming and Er Ming to relocate to Sunset Forest; Xiao Wu explained that Dan Hong had told her about Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Nan Li brought Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Red Cloud rested and Dan Hong dispersed the poisonous mist.
• Xiao Wu said she would return to Shrek Academy to find Liu Erlong after condensing her sixth Soul Ring, while Nan Li returned to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace with Red Cloud.
• Nan Li praised Xue Ke’s cultivation progress and discussed how to uproot Qian Renxue’s forces without implicating Dong Yun with Zhu Zhu Lang and Luo Gu.
• Nan Li learned that Dong Yun was preparing for her Seventh Life Trial and needed Nan Li to locate the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Nan Li left for Vast Sea City to search the waters between the city and Sea God Island for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before Dong Yun arrived. After reaching the port city, she combined local nautical charts and identified the dangerous waters called Demon Whale Sea as her next destination.

• Nan Li agreed to help with Dong Yun's Seventh Life Trial and asked Qing Ya to look after Dan Hong, leaving Red Cloud in his care.
• Red Cloud suspected Qing Ya was hiding something, demanded to join him, and then regretted learning what Qing Ya had planned.
• Nan Li returned to the imperial palace before setting out, then traveled at full speed and reached Vast Sea City within a few days.
• Nan Li rested in the city and bought nautical charts to locate the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory.
• Nan Li combined the chart markings and identified Demon Whale Sea as the area she needed to search.

Nan Li traveled by ship toward the Demon Whale Sea while worrying that Dong Yun was attempting a dangerous Life God Trial before she was strong enough. In Spirit City, Qian Renxue prepared to return to Heaven Dou City, and Qing Luan Douluo agreed to accompany Dong Yun to her trial site.

• Nan Li boarded the Wavebreaker in Vast Sea City and accepted a ride toward the waters near the Demon Whale Sea.
• Nan Li recalled Poseidon's past conflict with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the extinction of the Wave-Chasing Jiaoren clan.
• Nan Li worried that Dong Yun was unprepared to face a million-year opponent for her Seventh Life Trial and wondered why she had chosen to go now.
• After completing her Angel Sixth Trial and reaching Rank 90, Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu she needed to return to Heaven Dou City to manage the royal family's affairs.
• Qing Luan Douluo offered to accompany Dong Yun to the northwestern sea, while Light Ling agreed to escort Qian Renxue to Heaven Dou City.

Dong Yun hurried to Vast Sea City after learning that Nan Li had gone to sea alone to find the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. She reunited with Nan Li, learned that she had found the target and been injured, and heard someone calling out nearby.

• Dong Yun learned from Qing Ya that Nan Li had misunderstood her instructions and gone to sea alone, so she rushed toward Vast Sea City with Qing Luan.
• Nan Li sensed Dong Yun arriving at the inn and jumped down from the rooftop to greet her.
• Dong Yun caught Nan Li and asked whether she had gone out to sea and been hurt.
• Nan Li said she had confirmed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's location and admitted she was not entirely unharmed.
• Nan Li heard a pleasant voice calling nearby and asked who it was.

Nan Li reunited with Dong Yun and discussed her recent clash with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. Qing Luan learned that Dong Yun’s Seventh Life Trial targeted the whale and was stunned to discover Nan Li had fought it despite being only level ninety-four.

• Dong Yun apologized to Qing Luan for making him chase her, while Nan Li awkwardly greeted him as Senior Qing Luan.
• Qing Luan brought Nan Li and Dong Yun to an inn, where Dong Yun asked whether Nan Li had been injured.
• Nan Li explained that she had tested the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s strength and warned Dong Yun that the whale’s Spirit Power was nearly as formidable as a level ninety-nine Titled Douluo’s.
• Dong Yun said she had prepared for the Seventh Life Trial for over half a year and believed she could defeat the whale and complete it.
• Qing Luan was shocked to learn the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was Dong Yun’s trial target and that Nan Li had fought it.
• Qing Luan asked Nan Li’s cultivation level, and Nan Li told him she was level ninety-four.

Nan Li and Dong Yun prepared to face the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, with Qing Luan Douluo joining them for the journey. As Dong Yun asked how Nan Li had approached the whale, Nan Li recalled that it had attacked her after rejecting her request to admit defeat.

• Nan Li reassured Dong Yun that she could handle the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Qing Luan Douluo insisted on accompanying them.
• Dong Yun, Nan Li, and Qing Luan boarded a ship at the western docks and set out toward the Demon Whale Sea.
• Dong Yun questioned Nan Li about her confidence in defeating the whale, prompting Nan Li to recount her earlier attempt to negotiate with it.
• Nan Li summoned the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and asked it to admit defeat for her and the Golden Crow's sake.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King refused, declared its million-year cultivation superior, and attacked Nan Li with waves and blue-violet lightning.

Dong Yun confronted Nan Li about the Emperor Whale's Lingering Sound and deduced that Di Yan had given her Soul Rings to help him. After warning her to conceal her strongest abilities from the Spirit Hall members aboard their ship, he left their next steps unspoken as they headed toward the Demon Whale Sea.

• Nan Li hid beneath the blanket rather than explain the Emperor Whale's Lingering Sound, but Dong Yun guessed that Di Yan had given her Soul Rings.
• Nan Li stayed awake through the night while Dong Yun followed his usual pre-sunrise routine and cultivated.
• Nan Li slept until sunset as Dong Yun cultivated, then he brought her dinner after greeting Qing Luan Douluo.
• Nan Li fed Dong Yun until he was full, and Dong Yun warned her not to use her Domain Skill, especially Chongming, in front of the Spirit Hall members near the Demon Whale Sea.

Nan Li provoked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, which stayed hidden after clashing with the Deep Sea Emperor Whale’s projection. Nan Li discovered the whale feared her and Dong Yun because it believed they planned to kill it and take its Soul Ring and Soul Bone, but another painful mental attack struck it before it could relax.

• Nan Li provoked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and used her Torso Soul Bone to summon the Deep Sea Emperor Whale’s projection, which collided with the whale’s attack.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King retreated into its trench instead of appearing, leaving Nan Li, Dong Yun, and Qing Luan Douluo puzzled.
• Nan Li used her Double Pupils to look into the sea and learned the whale had been frightened by her past attacks and her power fused with Chong Yang’s.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King saw Dong Yun and feared Nan Li would let the Golden Crow take its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• A familiar pressure descended, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King suffered another piercing mental attack.

Nan Li and Dong Yun confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose attacks tested Nan Li’s defense and failed to harm Dong Yun. Dong Yun countered with lightning and fire, ending the chapter as she unleashed her Flame Burning Heaven attack.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King rejected negotiation and sent a massive wave and a lightning blast at Nan Li and the others.
• Nan Li used the Heart Protecting Dragon Bone to shield the group, but the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s attack shattered the barrier early.
• Dong Yun struck with the Great Sun Burning Gold Spear, but the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s protective energy stopped it.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King filled its domain with lightning spheres, and Nan Li took Azure Luan outside the core area while Dong Yun stayed to fight.
• Dong Yun absorbed the surrounding lightning with her Sky Burning Profound Thunder left-arm Soul Bone and endured the spheres in her Golden Crow True Body.
• Dong Yun unleashed her eighth Soul Skill, Flame Burning Heaven, making the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King wary of the Great Sun Golden Flame.

Nan Li, Dong Yun, and Azure Luan fought the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, using control skills, a trapping net, poison, and coordinated attacks to weaken him. As Nan Li prepared her Ninth Soul Skill, Azure Luan intervened to shield the women from the whale’s lightning attack and urged them to finish the exhausted enemy together.

• Nan Li used Void Bright Pupils and Myriad Beasts Without Borders to disrupt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while Azure Luan trapped him with Azure Sky Cloud Sea Sound and Dust Absolute.
• Dong Yun emerged from the sea and ensnared the whale with Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare, which tightened around him and released corrosive poison.
• Nan Li and Dong Yun attacked the whale’s wounds and exposed eye socket, but he transformed into human form and broke free of the net.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King charged with twin hammers, and Dong Yun used Great Sun Xumi Slash while Nan Li vanished to charge her Ninth Soul Skill.
• The whale attacked with lightning spheres as Dong Yun tried to hold him off, but Azure Luan descended and scattered the attack with Doomsday Wind Ball.
• Azure Luan stayed beside Dong Yun and said the exhausted whale could be killed if they fought together.

Nan Li used her Ninth Soul Skill, Kunpeng Ten Thousand Miles, to defeat the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then purified the poison corroding her hand. Dong Yun passed her Seventh Life Trial and received its rewards.

• Dong Yun used Golden Crow Devouring Sun to plunge the battlefield into darkness while Azure Luan helped contain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Nan Li unleashed Kunpeng Ten Thousand Miles, and Azure Luan blocked the demon whale’s escape before the roc pierced his body.
• Nan Li seized the wounded demon whale, and Dong Yun finished him with her spear as he spoke of Di Yan and the Deep Sea Emperor Whale clan.
• Nan Li purified the poison on her hand and the battlefield, while Dong Yun blamed herself for not warning Nan Li about its danger.
• Nan Li revealed Dong Yun’s God Trial imprint, and Dong Yun passed her Seventh Life Trial and heard a second voice before the Goddess of Life finished announcing the rewards.

Dong Yun completed the Goddess of Life’s trials and received a Soul Bone and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s black-gold Soul Ring, while the Gods of Life and Destruction debated whether Nan Li might inherit Destruction’s divine position. After Dong Yun absorbed his rewards, he worried that his new Devouring Sun soul skill would frighten Nan Li, who answered with a mock threat to fight him.

• Vermilion Bird Ling Guang and the Goddess of Life argued while Dong Yun awaited his divine oracle, and Nan Li invited Azure Luan to wait.
• The Goddess of Life granted Dong Yun an auxiliary reward, drawing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone to him for absorption.
• Dong Yun absorbed the purple Torso Soul Bone and black-gold million-year Soul Ring, while his sixth Soul Ring briefly flickered with black qi.
• In the God Realm, the Goddess of Life noticed the Rakshasa-tainted Soul Ring, but the God of Destruction stopped her from intervening so he could test Nan Li’s potential as a successor.
• Ling Guang mocked the God of Destruction for tying divine inheritance to marriage, and the two gods began to quarrel.
• After absorbing his rewards, Dong Yun asked Nan Li if his Devouring Sun soul skill frightened her, and she jokingly challenged him to a fight.

Nan Li refined the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's body, helping Dong Yun and Azure Luan advance their Soul Power before they returned toward Vast Sea City. There, Nan Li realized Dong Yun had orchestrated events to draw her away from Heaven Dou City and enable Xiao Wu to expose Qian Renxue, and she confronted Dong Yun about the danger of her plan.

• Nan Li refined the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's body and shared its extracted power with Dong Yun and Azure Luan.
• After absorbing the power, Dong Yun reached rank ninety-five and a half, Azure Luan neared rank ninety-eight, and Nan Li rose to rank ninety-six.
• The three boarded a cargo ship bound for Vast Sea City, where Dong Yun and Azure Luan let Nan Li sleep through the journey.
• Nan Li connected Dong Yun's God Trial, Xiao Wu's discovery of Tang San's death, and the relocation of the two great Soul Beasts, concluding that Dong Yun had arranged events to expose Qian Renxue and keep Nan Li away from Heaven Dou City.
• Dong Yun revealed that she had sent word of the Clear Sky Sect's destruction to Tang Chen, and Nan Li asked how many lives Dong Yun had if the truth came out.