Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, Gu Rong, and Chen Ming began climbing the Azure Cloud Road, where the pressure and mental force tested their limits. Yu Xiaogang’s effortless ascent shocked Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming, who prayed for the two exceptional climbers to help change Silver Moon City’s future.

• Yu Xiaogang worried about finding powerful spirit rings for his eighth and ninth levels and considered asking the Sea God for help as a last resort.
• Chen Ming warned Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Gu Rong not to push themselves too far on the Azure Cloud Road.
• Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Gu Rong stepped onto the road, and Chen Ming followed them.
• Yu Xiaogang climbed rapidly past one hundred steps while using Little Dragon’s spirit skill without stopping.
• Xu Aoxin halted at the fiftieth step, stunned by Yu Xiaogang’s pace, while Chen Ming compared their progress with a talented climber he had known.
• Chen Ming realized Yu Xiaogang and Xu Aoxin surpassed the Silver Moon City genius and prayed for their success.

Yu Xiaogang climbed Azure Cloud Road beyond the six hundredth step, astonishing Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming with strength that seemed to rival Tier 9 powerhouses. At the six hundred and twentieth step, he realized his Mental Power was limiting his progress and resolved to break through his mental realm.

• Yu Xiaogang climbed past the six hundred and first step while Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming watched in disbelief.
• Chen Ming recalled the records of Azure Cloud Road and wondered whether Yu Xiaogang’s six-ring cultivation concealed Tier 9 strength.
• Yu Xiaogang reached the six hundred and twentieth step and judged that its physical pressure was insufficient, though its mental pressure was immense.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to overcome the Mental Power holding him back and focused his attention on his mind.
• Yu Xiaogang’s Mental Power surged violently around him as he began attempting a breakthrough.

Yu Xiaogang endured the Azure Cloud Road’s mental pressure, shattered and rebuilt his Sea of Consciousness, and created a small Mental World. As his Mental Power broke through, he considered forming a Second Soul Core focused on the mind.

• Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi sensed Yu Xiaogang approaching a Mental Power breakthrough and recognized that a Mental Domain could place him among the continent’s strongest.
• Yu Xiaogang resisted the Azure Cloud Road’s mental pressure as his Sea of Consciousness shook and began to break apart.
• Yu Xiaogang deliberately let his Sea of Consciousness shatter, then used Mental Power to gather and fuse its fragments.
• Yu Xiaogang considered condensing a Second Soul Core focused on the mind, despite the challenge of making two Soul Cores coexist.
• Yu Xiaogang’s fused Sea of Consciousness expanded into a sphere of black and white, forming a small Mental World in his brain.

Yu Xiaogang broke through to a new realm of Mental Power, transforming his Sea of Consciousness into a blank Mental World that he would need to develop further. Watching the display, he urged Tang San to pursue the same breakthrough, leaving Tang San and the others uncomfortable with the pressure.

• Yu Xiaogang formed a small Mental World divided between light and darkness and realized he would need to fill it out to strengthen his Mental Power.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled that Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi possessed Mental Power at his previous level, and reasoned that Tang Chen likely did as well.
• In the Dark World, Qian Daoliu watched Yu Xiaogang reach his realm of Mental Power and reflected on Yu Xiaogang's extraordinary progress at age twenty-one.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether he could reach the same level, and Tang San doubted he could match the rare achievement of Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and Tang Chen.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San had to break through to fulfill his talent and prove his theories, while Tang San and the others reacted with discomfort and sympathy.

After breaking through his Mental Power and gaining a Mental Domain, Yu Xiaogang climbed Azure Cloud Road to the seven hundred and first step and advanced to Level Eighty. He was then transported to a great hall, where he faced the true god behind the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.

• Yu Xiaogang opened his Mental Domain, eased the pressure on Azure Cloud Road, and continued climbing while unseen observers on Azure Cloud Summit praised his talent.
• Yu Xiaogang combined his Mental Domain with his other domain and reached the seven hundred and first step, where he endured pressure equivalent to a Level Ninety-Six Titled Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang sat down to meditate, while Gu Rong, Xu Aoxin, and Chen Ming watched from below.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through the barrier to Level Eighty and felt his Soul Power settle.
• Yu Xiaogang suddenly found himself in a great hall like the divine temple in Illusory Spirit Valley, facing the true god behind the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions were brought before Ers, a god who had relinquished his divine position hundreds of thousands of years ago. Ers praised Yu Xiaogang and asked about the Divine Realm, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Chen Ming stunned by his age and status.

• Yu Xiaogang found himself in a temple with Gu Rong, Xu Aoxin, and Chen Ming, facing a powerful being seated on a divine throne.
• Gu Rong recognized the chance to meet a god and felt excited, while Chen Ming remained unable to move or speak and Xu Aoxin recognized the room's resemblance to her father's meditation hall.
• Ers introduced himself and praised Yu Xiaogang for resisting temptation in the illusion array.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed he had met the Sea God, and Ers said he had not followed the Divine Realm for several hundred thousand years.
• Ers wondered how many of his old acquaintances remained, while Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming realized he was a genuine god who had surpassed Tier 9.

Ers, an ancient god who had returned to the Divine Realm after passing on his divine position, examined Yu Xiaogang’s unusual martial soul and praised the fortune he had earned through hardship. When Ers asked to see Yu Xiaogang’s spirit rings, Yu Xiaogang accidentally revealed his disguise before restoring their true, astonishing colors.

• The Shrek Academy group and the gods of the Divine Realm discussed Ers’s age, past injuries, and return to their level of power.
• Ers recognized Yu Xiaogang’s special martial soul, Little Dragon, and remarked on how the two shared a soul and spirit rings without betraying each other.
• Ers reviewed Yu Xiaogang’s past and admired how he had fought to gain the immense qi luck he now possessed.
• Ers asked Yu Xiaogang to show his spirit rings, and Yu Xiaogang instinctively revealed a disguised yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black configuration.
• Yu Xiaogang removed the disguise, revealing purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red spirit rings and leaving Xu Aoxin and Chen Ming stunned.

Yu Xiaogang revealed a spirit ring configuration that stunned Xu Aoxin and convinced Chen Ming he could reshape Silver Moon City’s future. Ers studied Yu Xiaogang’s rings, formed a black God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and prepared to discuss business.

• Yu Xiaogang showed his spirit rings, and Xu Aoxin was shocked by his thousand-year first ring, Ten Thousand Year third ring, and Hundred Thousand Year sixth ring.
• Xu Aoxin compared Yu Xiaogang’s power with her own and concluded that no one on the Sun Moon Continent deserved to be called a genius beside him.
• Chen Ming realized Yu Xiaogang’s strength could let him influence the Sun Moon Continent and change Silver Moon City’s situation.
• Ers examined Yu Xiaogang’s sixth and seventh rings, condensed a pitch-black God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and remarked that only gods from Douluo Planet would study that martial soul system.
• Ers stopped the idle chatter and said it was time to discuss business.

Ers explained that the divine beast auras on Yu Xiaogang would make the Divine Realm reject him and that removing them would mean destroying Little Dragon. Yu Xiaogang refused to give up Little Dragon, and Ers warned that his remaining path to godhood could face a divinely backed rival.

• Ers told Yu Xiaogang that the auras came from divine beast leaders who had started a bloody war, leaving the Divine Realm hostile to them.
• Ers explained that Yu Xiaogang could replace his bloodline to remove one aura, but removing the aura from Little Dragon would erase its soul and destroy it.
• Yu Xiaogang firmly refused to sacrifice Little Dragon, even if that meant never becoming a god.
• Ers said Yu Xiaogang would not pass the Divine Realm's review for a godhead inheritance, but could try to establish a new divine position.
• Ers warned that a god might cultivate a rival with extraordinary support to seize Yu Xiaogang's luck and faith and take the divine position for himself.

Ers discussed Yu Xiaogang’s prospects for godhood and asked about his Eighth Spirit Ring, then introduced Gaius, a 590,000-year-old Black Dragon who could not survive his next lightning tribulation. Gaius revealed that Ers had found him a chance to live.

• Ers explained that Yu Xiaogang could create a Divine Position or reach godhood through sheer strength, and estimated his potential strength.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed that he had just reached Tier 8, surprising Xu Aoxin, who overheard him mention Soul Douluos.
• Ers asked Yu Xiaogang about his Eighth Spirit Ring, and Yu Xiaogang admitted he needed one older than his Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Ers introduced Gaius as a 590,000-year-old Black Dragon and recounted how he had rescued Gaius as a damaged dragon egg.
• Gaius explained that he could not survive the 600,000-year lightning tribulation, but said his father had found him a chance to live.

Ers proposed that Gaius sacrifice himself to Yu Xiaogang as an eighth spirit ring, allowing Gaius’s soul to become divine when Yu ascended. Yu accepted the arrangement, which promised him a powerful spirit ring and spirit bone as well as Ers’s support, leaving both sides satisfied.

• Soul beasts and soul masters watching the Heavenly Screen envied Gaius’s opportunity and Yu Xiaogang’s good fortune.
• Ers explained that Gaius could retain his soul in Yu Xiaogang’s spirit ring and undergo the divine baptism when Yu became a god.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the benefits of the bargain, including Gaius’s spirit ring and spirit bone and Ers’s favor.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to the arrangement, and Ers promised to help him in the future.
• Yu Xiaogang swore to honor the agreement as long as Gaius did nothing detrimental to him, and both sides expressed satisfaction.

Yu Xiaogang and Ers agreed that Yu Xiaogang would receive Gaius's sacrifice and spirit bone while protecting Gaius's soul until Ers could take him away after his purification. Gaius explained his Red-Eyed Black Dragon heritage and two of its signature abilities, then began introducing the third.

• Yu Xiaogang and Ers agreed that Yu Xiaogang would receive Gaius's 590,000-year spirit ring and spirit bone, while Ers would later retrieve Gaius's purified soul.
• Gaius explained that Yu Xiaogang's martial soul resembled the Red-Eyed Black Dragon Lineage and said their attributes would match perfectly.
• Gaius described Dark Abyss as a powerful single-target mental-control technique and revealed that it had caused the group's loss of control in the mountains.
• Ers explained that the brain fog around the Spirit Sea Mountain Range was his imperfect imitation of Dark Abyss.
• Gaius described Shadow Prison Abyss, which sent enemies into a prison containing the shadows of those the Black Dragon race had slain, including gods.
• Gaius began describing the Red-Eyed Black Dragon Lineage's third signature ability, Destruction Abyss, as an exceptionally powerful offensive skill.

Gaius explained the terrifying power of Destruction Abyss, one of the Red-Eyed Black Dragon Lineage's Threefold Abyss skills, and Yu Xiaogang decided to retain all three techniques. Gaius then revealed that he had another ultimate technique, the Sword of Annihilation, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned by the scale of his windfall.

• Gaius described Destruction Abyss as a supreme darkness attack that could let a mortal severely wound a God Level Powerhouse, and Yu Xiaogang was shaken by its power.
• The soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest compared Destruction Abyss with Di Tian's Dragon God Claw and learned that Dragon God Claw was a divine skill especially effective against soul beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to keep all three of the Red-Eyed Black Dragon Lineage's Threefold Abyss skills, including Destruction Abyss, Dark Abyss, and Shadow Prison Abyss.
• Gaius announced that he had another ultimate technique, and Yu Xiaogang checked that he was neither dreaming nor under an illusion.
• Ers reflected that the gifts Yu Xiaogang had received cost him little, while Gaius introduced the ultimate technique he had perfected with Ers's help: the Sword of Annihilation.

Gaius questioned Yu Xiaogang’s dark-attribute expertise, but Yu Xiaogang revealed that darkness came from a Spirit Skill that converted his primary light attribute. Ers vouched for the skill’s perfection and offered to upgrade Yu Xiaogang’s fourth Spirit Ring to a hundred-thousand-year level, easing Gaius’s doubts and delighting Yu Xiaogang.

• Gaius asked Yu Xiaogang how he understood darkness, and Yu Xiaogang described it as devouring, corrosion, curses, and negativity.
• Ers revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s primary attribute was light, and Yu Xiaogang used his fourth Spirit Skill to restore his light-aligned appearance and Little Dragon’s golden form.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that his Spirit Skill perfectly converted light into darkness, though he had never tested whether he could absorb dark-attribute Spirit Rings and convert them back.
• Ers confirmed that the conversion worked perfectly even with ultimate attributes, but Gaius remained wary of the Spirit Ring’s low age.
• Ers offered to raise Yu Xiaogang’s fourth Spirit Ring to a hundred-thousand-year level, and Gaius accepted while Yu Xiaogang eagerly welcomed the unexpected reward.

Bibi Dong and other powerful figures considered what godhood would let them do, while the Divine Realm gods debated whether Ers had broken the rules by granting Yu Xiaogang a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Gaius explained his view of darkness as the end of all things and how that understanding shaped his ultimate technique, the Sword of Annihilation.

• Bibi Dong resolved to complete the Rakshasa God Trial and become powerful enough to control her own fate.
• Powerful figures across the Douluo Continent grew more determined to pursue the chance to become gods.
• The Divine Realm gods argued over Ers granting Yu Xiaogang a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, then agreed to overlook the rule-breaking.
• Gaius told Yu Xiaogang to study darkness alongside light and described darkness as the eventual end of all things.
• Ers explained that his friend, the Light Dragon King, understood light as the origin of life and civilization.
• Gaius revealed that his understanding of darkness had inspired his ultimate technique, the Sword of Annihilation.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Gaius's Sword of Annihilation imposed the concept of an ending on its targets, and chose to preserve it at full power as a spirit skill despite its enormous cost. He also settled on four skills to receive and asked Ers to make Gaius's spirit bone freely movable, leaving Ers amused by his greed.

• Gaius explained that the Sword of Annihilation used his understanding of darkness to impose the end of all things on whatever it struck, and Ers said it ranked among the most formidable divine skills.
• Gaius warned Yu Xiaogang that using the Sword of Annihilation at full power would drain nearly all of his soul power, but Yu Xiaogang chose the full-power version.
• Yu Xiaogang chose Sword of Annihilation and Destruction Abyss for the Spirit Ring, and Dark Abyss and Shadow Prison Abyss for the spirit bone.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ers to make Gaius's spirit bone freely movable like his God-Bestowed Spirit Bone, and Ers teased him for asking for more benefits.
• Yu Xiaogang defended his request by saying it was foolish to miss an opportunity to save face, and Gu Rong agreed that the potential gains were worth asking for.

Yu Xiaogang recovered before Gaius’s sacrifice while Gaius instructed his son Damon, the ruler of the Spirit Sea Mountain Range. Gaius and Damon revealed the Sun Moon Emperor’s connection to the Soul-Tempering Hammer, and Gaius explained that the range’s cursed, poisonous environment suited their dark-attribute nature.

• Gaius told Damon to wait in the Spirit Sea Mountain Range until he could take him away from Douluo Planet, then offered Damon’s treasure as a reward to Yu Xiaogang’s companions for keeping the range secret.
• Xu Aoxin asked whether her father, the Sun Moon Emperor, had obtained something in the range, and Damon said he had passed the Soul-Severing Cave’s trial a century earlier.
• Gaius explained that the cave contained a Soul-Tempering Hammer that strengthened souls and refined the souls of the dead into nourishing soul pearls.
• Gu Rong inferred that the Sun Moon Emperor had used collected souls to improve himself and maintain the executions that supplied them, but refused to tell Xu Aoxin more.
• Gaius told Chen Ming that his father had built structures in the range to train successors, and explained that its curses, poison, and slaughter made it a paradise for dark-attribute creatures.

Damon revealed that Silver Moon City's leaders had been sending people into the Spirit Sea Mountain Range to feed a hundred-thousand-year blood-devouring poison-transforming vine in exchange for its life-prolonging fruit. Xu Aoxin realized her father, the Sun Moon Emperor, had secretly consumed the fruit and was an evil soul master.

• Chen Ming recognized that Silver Moon City's leaders, not Gaius, were responsible for forcing people into the mountains.
• Xu Aoxin asked Damon why people kept dying in the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, and he identified the Jade-Blood Heart-Devouring Snake as his subordinate who cultivated poisonous herbs there.
• Damon explained that the Jade-Blood Heart-Devouring Snake had raised a blood-devouring poison-transforming vine whose roots spread throughout the mountains.
• Damon suspected someone had arranged for people to be sent into the mountains as food for the vine.
• Damon revealed that the vine's hundred-thousand-year fruit could prolong human life, and Xu Aoxin concluded that her father had secretly consumed it and was an evil soul master.

After learning the Sun Moon Emperor’s secret, Xu Aoxin struggled with the prospect of fighting her own family. Elsewhere, Yu Xiaogang, Gaius, Gu Rong, and Ers refined Yu Xiaogang’s soul core method, leaving it ready for testing.

• Xu Aoxin realized she could neither ignore her father’s crimes nor stop him without going to war against her family.
• Yu Xiaogang recovered and asked Gaius for advice on his human soul core formation method.
• Gaius explained soul beasts’ understanding of their cores, helping Yu Xiaogang improve his method.
• Gu Rong joined the discussion, while Damon left after finding the research overwhelming.
• Ers joined the group and guided Yu Xiaogang in perfecting the method, leaving it ready to be tested.

Gaius began sacrificing himself to Yu Xiaogang, while Ers prepared a separate space within the Spirit Ring for Gaius to inhabit. As the sacrifice strengthened and purified Yu Xiaogang, he sensed his Soul Power lock break but could not discover what it was.

• Ers explained that Gaius would sacrifice his Spirit Ring and Soul Bone to Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to help purify Gaius’s soul after becoming a god.
• Ers prepared a space inside Gaius’s Spirit Ring that would connect to the Divine Temple, then told Yu Xiaogang to get ready.
• Gaius began the sacrifice, and Ers used divine power to prepare the Spirit Ring and the space within it.
• Gaius poured out his power, and Little Dragon transformed it into energy that strengthened and purified Yu Xiaogang’s body.
• Yu Xiaogang heard something break within him as his Soul Power surged, but he could not find the lock that had restrained his advancement.