Chapter Summaries

Flender and the others’ Immovable Bear King fusion skill battled Yue Guan and Ghostly until the two Spirit Hall Douluos unleashed the Two Extremes Stillness Domain. As Ghost Leopard Douluo moved to break the frozen fusion, a dark-gold attacker struck him back, leaving the five trapped but not yet defeated.

• The Immovable Bear King repeatedly pressured Yue Guan and Ghostly, injuring them with a dragon-shaped shockwave.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly used the Two Extremes Stillness Domain to freeze the fusion skill and everyone caught within it.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo appeared and prepared to attack the Immovable Bear King’s core while it was immobilized.
• A dark-gold streak carrying the power of the Flame Law struck Ghost Leopard Douluo’s claws and forced him back.

Chen Lang arrived at Shrek Academy and confronted Ghost Leopard Douluo while Yue Guan, Ghostly, and Zhao Wuji’s group remained trapped in the Two Extremes Stillness Domain. Chen Lang’s Flame Law let him wound Ghost Leopard Douluo, but the fight continued as the Titled Douluo unleashed his Nether Speed Domain and created nine clones.

• Chen Lang stopped Ghost Leopard Douluo from attacking Shrek Academy and revealed his seven Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo attacked Chen Lang, but Chen Lang’s flaming sword strike scorched his claws and forced him back.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo activated his Nether Speed Domain to boost his speed and hinder Chen Lang, but Chen Lang’s spatial External Soul Bone let him evade its effects.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo created nine extreme-speed clones and sent all ten versions of himself charging at Chen Lang.

Chen Lang endured Ghost Leopard Douluo’s relentless attacks while studying the speed law, then used his insight to awaken the Seven Kill · Sincere Sword Domain. His new domain began to overwhelm Ghost Leopard Douluo’s Nether Speed Domain as the battle turned in Chen Lang’s favor.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo’s clones wounded Chen Lang, while Flender realized Chen Lang was using the fight to comprehend the laws behind his opponent’s speed.
• Chen Lang discerned how Ghost Leopard Douluo’s domain and clones embodied the speed law and began applying that law to his own movements.
• Chen Lang dodged Ghost Leopard Douluo’s attacks without using his wings and charged at his true body, though he still could not match Ghost Leopard Douluo’s speed.
• Chen Lang activated his seventh Soul Skill, Seven Kill · Sincere Sword Domain, and its sword energy began twisting and collapsing Ghost Leopard Douluo’s Nether Speed Domain.

Chen Lang fought Ghost Leopard Douluo with his sword domain and powerful soul skills, wounding the Titled Douluo despite suffering serious injuries himself. When Flender and the others’ fusion skill ended and Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo joined the threat, Chen Lang activated the Evil God’s Pearl and rose to level 95.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo recognized Chen Lang’s Soul Power field as an imitation of a domain, then battled him at close range.
• Chen Lang evaded Ghost Leopard Douluo’s attacks, wounded him with a strike to his ribs, and clashed his Thunder Prison skill against the Nether Sky-Rending Claw.
• The collision sent Chen Lang flying and damaged both fighters, but Chen Lang rose and reinforced his shrinking sword domain.
• Flender and the other four collapsed when their Martial Soul Fusion Skill expired, while Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo withdrew their domains and threatened Chen Lang.
• Chen Lang activated the Evil God’s Pearl, transforming into Evil Sword Immortal Lang and raising his aura to level 95.

Chen Lang activated the Evil God's Pearl and reached peak level 95, defeating Ghost Leopard Douluo and forcing him, Yue Guan, and Ghostly to submit by swallowing poison pills. The three then began making lewd noises and acting strangely, leaving Chen Lang to wonder what the pills had done.

• Chen Lang unleashed the Evil God's Pearl's power, transforming his appearance and raising his strength to peak level 95.
• Chen Lang pierced Ghost Leopard Douluo with the Seven Kill Sword, leaving him unable to fight, then cornered Yue Guan and accepted his offer to submit.
• Ghostly also offered his loyalty, and Chen Lang gave all three men poison pills that required them to return each year for an antidote.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly swallowed the pills, and Ghost Leopard Douluo followed after Chen Lang threatened him.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly began acting amorously toward each other, then Ghost Leopard Douluo also made a shameful sound.

Chen Lang subdued three Spirit Hall Titled Douluo with a poison that kept them under his control, then reunited with his allies and learned how they had created a combined skill. He left Shrek Academy to continue the Fire God trials and urged Ma Hongjun and the others to strengthen themselves if they hoped to enter the inheritance land.

• Chen Lang recorded Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo suffering the poison’s effects, then knocked them unconscious and made them believe it was only a side effect.
• Chen Lang ordered the three Titled Douluo to stay beside Bibi Dong and report her itinerary, and they left planning to claim they had failed to find him.
• Chen Lang scolded Zhao Wuji and the others for risking their lives to protect his whereabouts, then heard Flender explain that their combined skill had emerged after they recovered from old injuries and ailments.
• Chen Lang told Flender and Zhao Wuji to obtain Soul Rings and ask him for help if anyone caused trouble, then left Shrek Academy to continue the Fire God trials.
• Ma Hongjun and the others were astonished when Chen Lang said he had subdued three Titled Douluo, and he urged them to improve their strength to qualify for the Fire God Inheritance Land.

Chen Lang brought Ma Hongjun to the Fire God Inheritance Land, where Ma Hongjun passed the aptitude test and began the trials. Chen Lang reached the second trial and, facing a choice of difficulty, asked whether there was a Hell Difficulty.

• Chen Lang led Ma Hongjun and the others into the Burning Tower, but only Ma Hongjun could accompany him to the eighth floor.
• Chen Lang kicked Ma Hongjun into the fire pool, where the Fire God's will judged his Phoenix Martial Soul and fire compatibility sufficient to begin the inheritance.
• Chen Lang entered the Fire God Inheritance Land and arrived at the second trial, where three Molten Lava Hellhounds emerged from the Flame Sea.
• Chen Lang saw that the second trial offered Normal, Warrior, and Hard difficulties, then asked whether a Hell Difficulty existed.

Chen Lang challenged the Fire God’s Hell Difficulty and began fighting three Soul Douluo-level Molten Lava Hellhounds to hone his soul skills and swordsmanship. After seeing Chen Lang’s extraordinary Soul Ring configuration and coordinated attacks, the Fire God realized the beasts might not be enough to test him; Chen Lang killed the first hellhound.

• Chen Lang asked the Fire God about Hell Difficulty, learned its trial required defeating three Soul Douluo-level Molten Lava Hellhounds, and accepted for a tenfold reward.
• The Fire God summoned the three hellhounds and was shocked to see Chen Lang’s seven Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings and four ten-thousand-year rings.
• Chen Lang used Sword Shadow Assault and Gale Severing Void to wound the left hellhound and slow its movements.
• Chen Lang leapt over the other two hellhounds’ attacks and used Void Splitting Sword Array to deflect their assaults and open a gap in the lava wall.
• Chen Lang activated Army Breaker Slash, struck the left hellhound’s forehead, and killed it.

Chen Lang used his battle against the Molten Lava Hellhounds to comprehend the threshold of the Sword Law and defeat the remaining beasts. Fire God awarded him for completing the second trial, while Chen Lang focused on his new understanding of the sword.

• Chen Lang refined his Seven Kill Sky Splitting Slash while defending against the two remaining Molten Lava Hellhounds.
• Chen Lang synchronized his sword array with the Flame Sea and realized that the sword could extend the divine soul and connect it to the Laws.
• Chen Lang touched the threshold of the Sword Law and used it to strengthen his Thunder Prison and Seven Kill True Body, destroying both hellhounds.
• Fire God praised Chen Lang for comprehending the Sword Law at the Soul Saint stage and recognized his potential to become a god.
• Chen Lang completed the second trial and received its tenfold reward, which turned his second Soul Ring red.

Chen Lang advanced his second Soul Ring to one hundred thousand years, comprehended the Sword Law, and entered the Fire God's third trial. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong learned that Chen Lang had fallen out with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and regretted that Spirit Hall had not tried to recruit him.

• Chen Lang emerged from battle enlightenment with a stronger connection to the Seven Kill Sword and demonstrated the Sword Law by cleaving a wide crack through the Flame Sea.
• Chen Lang's second Soul Ring reached one hundred thousand years, raising him to level 75 and granting him the Killing Intent Art.
• The Fire God opened the passage to the Heart Burning Tribulation, and Chen Lang entered the third trial to further cultivate the Sword Law and Flame Law.
• At Spirit Hall, Ghost Douluo assured Bibi Dong that Chen Lang was dead and explained that he had divorced Ning Fengzhi's daughter and fallen out with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Bibi Dong realized Spirit Hall could have recruited Chen Lang and berated Ghost Douluo and the others for not telling her sooner.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after refusing Chen Lang’s Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Ning Fengzhi comforted her while encouraging her to pursue him again. Chen Lang entered the Fire God Inheritance’s third trial, where he found himself reliving a painful blind date from his former life.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that Chen Lang had offered her an Aromatic Silk Beauty that could transform the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but she had refused it because she regretted their broken relationship.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong she had done the right thing and encouraged her to rekindle her relationship with Chen Lang; she resolved to return to Shrek Academy and pursue him.
• Chen Lang sneezed before entering the Fire God Inheritance’s third trial, which transformed into a familiar coffee shop.
• Qin Li introduced herself and demanded a large bride price, household labor, spending money, shared property ownership, and Chen Lang’s entire salary.
• Chen Lang recognized Qin Li as the woman who had manipulated him in his former life and cut her off.

Chen Lang overcame his inner demon, completed the seventh trial of the Nine Trials of the Fire God, and reached Soul Power level 80. As he prepared to leave the inheritance land to rest, the Fire God bestowed him a red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

• Chen Lang rejected Qin Li’s demands and walked out of the café after throwing coffee at her.
• Chen Lang returned to the Fire God Inheritance Land, completed the third trial, and gained Flame Law affinity, Soul Ring age, and Soul Power.
• After a year of trials, Chen Lang completed the seventh trial, reached level 80, and mastered the Flame Law.
• The Fire God told Chen Lang that the eighth trial would guide him toward comprehending godhood and a Sword Dao Domain.
• The Fire God gave Chen Lang a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and a red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring appeared behind him.

Chen Lang received the Fire God’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and discovered two powerful eighth-ring skills before returning to the Burning Tower. Huo Qingtian also became a Titled Douluo, and the chapter ended as Chen Lang invited him to spar.

• The Fire God gave Chen Lang a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, praised his potential, and sent him through the portal to the eighth floor of the Burning Tower.
• Chen Lang inspected his new skills, Heaven-Burning Soul-Shattering Slash and Flame Mantra, and considered how devastating they would be against fire-attribute opponents.
• Huo Qingtian passed the Fire God’s third trial, reached rank 91, and became a Titled Douluo.
• The Fire God urged Huo Qingtian to follow Chen Lang and said the Huo Clan might become one of the new Upper Three Sects.
• Huo Qingtian appeared on the eighth floor, and Chen Lang invited him to spar.

Chen Lang defeated Huo Qingtian by exploiting his immunity to fire attacks, and Huo Qingtian pledged the Huo Clan’s support. At Spirit Hall, Tang San reached level forty and reaffirmed his ambition to rise to power before meeting Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.

• Huo Qingtian challenged Chen Lang with his Burning Heaven Domain, but Chen Lang’s fire immunity nullified the domain’s attacks.
• Huo Qingtian used his Fire God Leopard True Body and strongest claw attack, but Chen Lang’s Seven Kill: Burning Heaven Soul-Breaking Slash tore through it and wounded him.
• Huo Qingtian admitted defeat and offered the Huo Clan’s service to Chen Lang.
• Tang San reached level forty at Spirit Hall and resolved to become Bibi Dong’s trusted confidant and eventually inherit the position of Pope.
• Hu Liena met Tang San outside his cultivation room, with Xie Yue and Yan beside her, and asked whether he had reached level forty.

Tang San reached level forty and was summoned by Bibi Dong, who offered to take him as her disciple. After he refused in loyalty to Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong sent Tang San and Spirit Hall's Golden Generation to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings.

• Yan and Xie Yue welcomed Tang San's breakthrough, while Hu Liena offered to celebrate with him.
• Ghost Douluo summoned Tang San to the Papal Palace, where Bibi Dong asked him to become her disciple.
• Tang San refused Bibi Dong's offer, insisting that he could not take another master after becoming Yu Xiaogang's disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang appeared and praised Tang San's loyalty, prompting amusement from Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue.
• Bibi Dong assigned Tang San, Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena to go with Ghost Douluo to the Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Rings and promised three soul bones as a competition prize.

Dai Mubai broke through to Level 50 and reunited with Chen Lang, who offered to help him obtain a fifth Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Tang San attempted to absorb a twenty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring and began developing eight strange appendages from his back.

• Dai Mubai stabilized his breakthrough to Level 50 in the Burning Tower and planned to hunt a Blazing Demon Tiger for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Chen Lang reunited with Dai Mubai and offered to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Tang San tried to absorb a twenty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider as his fourth Soul Ring while Ghost Douluo and Hu Liena watched.
• Tang San convulsed in agony, and eight deep-purple objects burst from his back and began growing into segmented appendages.

Tang San survived absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring and emerged with eight spider legs, but his awakening ended in an embarrassing fall into dung. The group prepared to continue through the Star Dou Great Forest so Yan could seek a Soul Ring.

• Eight purple-black spider legs grew from Tang San's back as Blue Silver Grass wrapped him in a cocoon, and Spirit Hall Academy waited for twelve shichen while he recovered.
• Tang San emerged naked and covered in a brownish-black substance, while Xie Yue and Yan joked about his body and Hu Liena blushed.
• Tang San woke to find four Soul Rings around him and eight spider legs on his back, then fell face-first into soul beast dung while trying to cover himself.
• Tang San washed and changed clothes, then Yan broke the awkward silence by proposing they hunt a Blazing Demon Tiger in the eastern Star Dou Great Forest for his Soul Ring.

Chen Lang and Dai Mubai searched the eastern Star Dou Great Forest for a Blazing Demon Tiger while the Three-headed Red Demon Mastiff revealed that it was guarding the missing Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Tang San’s group found the young Imperial Beast, and Tang San decided to catch it and kill it if it could not be tamed.

• Chen Lang and Dai Mubai searched the forest for the Blazing Demon Tiger and wondered whether they might encounter the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The Three-headed Red Demon Mastiff ordered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Demon Tiger to search for the missing little princess and warned it to keep their group hidden.
• Yan and Xie Yue teased Tang San about his sexual prowess, while Hu Liena listened and grew less interested in him.
• Hu Liena spotted a young Three-Eyed Golden Lion eating a spiritual herb in a clearing.
• Tang San offered to catch the beast for Hu Liena, then resolved to kill it if he could not tame it.

Tang San and the Spirit Hall group encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who swiftly defeated Xie Yue and Yan when they tried to capture her. As Ghost Douluo confronted her, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Demon Tiger arrived to protect the little princess.

• Tang San threw a beast-catching net at the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but she dodged it and prepared to teach the humans a lesson.
• Xie Yue and Yan agreed to compete to capture the Three-Eyed Golden Lion while Tang San stood aside to observe.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion extinguished Yan’s Blazing Cage, struck Xie Yue into the air, and pierced Yan’s flaming shield, badly injuring both men.
• Ghost Douluo revealed himself and stepped between the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the injured Xie Yue and Yan.
• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Demon Tiger appeared and warned Ghost Douluo not to harm the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Chen Lang and Dai Mubai encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Demon Tiger after Ghost Douluo had already retreated. Chen Lang shrugged off the tiger’s fire attack and revealed seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, leaving the tiger terrified.

• Ghost Douluo apologized to the Blazing Demon Tiger and led Tang San and the others away, while the tiger scolded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for wandering alone.
• Chen Lang and Dai Mubai arrived and identified the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Blazing Demon Tiger, but Chen Lang said he wanted to capture the lion as a pet.
• The Blazing Demon Tiger attacked Chen Lang with a pillar of fire, but Chen Lang stood unharmed and said the flames felt like an itch.
• Chen Lang released his eight Soul Rings, including seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and the Blazing Demon Tiger trembled and asked who he was.