Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi discovered that the championship’s third Soul Bone was a Hundred Thousand Year Sacred Heart Fire Ape head bone gifted by Qian Daoliu, and began absorbing it to strengthen Holy Heart Golden Flame. Meanwhile, the Blue Tyrant Academy Team traveled back to Heaven Dou City, where Tang San remained troubled by his defeat and Yu Xiaogang outlined plans for the next competition.

• Wang Qi reassured Zhu Zhuqing, then offered the other team members a choice of seven Soul Bones he had collected while keeping the championship’s third Soul Bone for himself.
• Wang Qi examined the lead box and learned that its Sacred Heart Fire Ape head Soul Bone had been gifted by Qian Daoliu and had belonged to three members of the Qian Family.
• Wang Qi decided to absorb the Soul Bone to strengthen Holy Heart Golden Flame and began merging it into his forehead.
• The Blue Tyrant Academy Team set off for Heaven Dou City, and Ning Rongrong told Tian Xin she planned to learn to manage family affairs after returning.
• Tang San brooded over his powerlessness while Yu Xiaogang discussed plans to defeat Wang Qi at the next Soul Master Competition, and Liu Erlong dismissed his optimism.

Star Luo Empire assassins ambushed the Blue Tyrant Academy and Five Elements Academy convoys, but Tang Xiao and Gu Rong forced them to retreat. A month later, Wang Qi finished studying Soul Ring research in Spirit City and prepared to return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for his Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.

• Star Luo Empire forces ambushed the Blue Tyrant Academy and Five Elements Academy teams in a canyon, where Tang San, Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, Huyan Li, and Jin Lang fought back.
• Tang Xiao and Gu Rong confronted the three Star Luo Titled Douluo, and the attackers withdrew under pressure from the two powerful defenders.
• Tang Xiao took Tang San away, while Gu Rong considered Ning Rongrong’s future and hoped Wang Qi might marry her.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Blue Tyrant Academy gained fame after the competition, and Great Emperor Qinghe opened academy admissions to talented commoner Soul Masters.
• Wang Qi spent a month studying Soul Ring and Soul Skill research in the Worship Hall, then prepared to return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for his second awakening.

Wang Qi absorbed the Sun Moon Star Three Grasses’ Soul Rings and used Reverse Ring Fusion to resist their attempt to merge. After three days, he had weakened their consciousnesses and discovered a way to transfer Soul Ring age, while aiming to leave their rings in a configuration that suited his plans.

• Wang Qi found that the Sun Moon Star Three Grasses had grown to fifty-thousand-year Soul Beasts and prepared to absorb all three rings at once through his Medicine Refining Furnace Martial Soul.
• Wang Qi reviewed Spirit Hall’s research and considered how to shape his Body Martial Soul Avatar after its second awakening.
• The three Soul Rings began merging during absorption, so Wang Qi used Reverse Ring Fusion to force them apart.
• Wang Qi resisted the rings for three days, weakening the consciousnesses within them as they tried to merge.
• Wang Qi discovered that destabilizing a Soul Ring could let him transfer its core substance and increase another ring’s age.

Wang Qi prepared to undergo his Golden Flame Battle Body Martial Soul’s second awakening in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while a mysterious remnant spirit followed him into its depths. Elsewhere, Tang Xiao reconsidered Tang San’s training as the continent’s factions shifted, and Ning Rongrong reviewed what had become of her former teammates.

• Wang Qi raised the Medicine Refining Furnace Martial Soul’s Blood and Qi Great Medicine soul ring to a hundred thousand years, then spent a week preparing medicines and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for his second awakening.
• A remnant spirit emerged from one of Wang Qi’s Soul Tools, spoke of visiting an old friend and helping Wang Qi, then flew into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Xiao worried over Tang Hao’s disappearance and the Clear Sky Sect’s prospects as Spirit Hall gained allies and the continent’s balance of power changed.
• Tang Xiao decided to send Tang San to Sea God Island to train and preserve a future for the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang San insisted he wanted to visit the Star Dou Great Forest to see Xiao Wu.
• Ning Rongrong reviewed reports showing that the Heaven Dou Royal Team members had mostly stayed in touch, while the Blue Tyrant Academy Team had scattered and Wang Qi remained out of sight.

Wang Qi completed his Body Martial Soul’s second awakening, gained control of Extreme Fire and ice, and absorbed the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ God-Tier torso Soul Bone and a powerful Seventh Soul Ring. With the Simulation Eye revealing that the bone let him gather ice and fire as if he were their god, he believed it could help him master laws and seize godhood directly.

• Wang Qi’s Body Martial Soul awakened into the Ice Fire Divine Body, granting him instinctive command of Extreme Fire and ice.
• While unconscious during the awakening, Wang Qi absorbed the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ torso Soul Bone and obtained a Seventh Soul Ring with two Martial Soul Avatar skills, raising his Soul Power to level seventy-nine.
• Wang Qi considered the four paths to godhood and focused on the Fire God Heart’s method of mastering laws and seizing divine authority without a Divine Seat.
• Wang Qi used the Simulation Eye to discover that activating his God-Tier Soul Bone drew ice and fire elements to him effortlessly, and he sensed it could lead him toward godhood.

After completing the Fire God First Trial, Wang Qi received the Fire God Second Trial: gain his eighth soul ring, reach Soul Douluo, and find the Fire God Inheritance Ground within three years. He assessed his newly awakened powers and planned to spend a year cultivating before venturing into the Extreme North, asking Qian Daoliu for help if needed.

• Wang Qi learned that his first Fire God Trial had granted him five percent Fire God affinity and sensed that the inheritance ground lay deep within the Extreme North.
• Wang Qi examined the Ice Fire Divine Body, Zhao Shen, and Child of Yin-Yang, concluding that the latter two awakening abilities were far more powerful than his Martial Soul Avatar but came with serious limits.
• Wang Qi recalled that Qian Renxue had taught him Martial Soul Resonance, a secret technique that could serve as a substitute for Martial Soul Avatar.
• Wang Qi decided to cultivate for a year before exploring the Extreme North and considered asking Qian Daoliu for help completing the divine trials.

Tang San returned to Heaven Dou City to say goodbye before entering Slaughter City and learned that Ning Rongrong was engaged to Emperor Qinghe. Meanwhile, Wang Qi gave Qian Renxue medicine that could transform the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and proposed trading it to win the sect’s support for Spirit Hall.

• Tang San reunited with Ning Rongrong, learned of her engagement to Emperor Qinghe, and left after wishing her happiness.
• Tang San chose to resume his dangerous training in Slaughter City and planned to meet his former companions at Blue Tyrant Academy in four years.
• Ning Rongrong asked Bone Douluo Gu Rong whether her father had abandoned her, and Gu Rong comforted her without revealing Qian Renxue’s identity.
• Wang Qi advised Qian Renxue against marrying Ning Rongrong and offered three bottles of medicine in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s help stabilizing the court.
• Wang Qi revealed his level eighty cultivation and explained that his medicine could help the sect’s Martial Soul evolve, while Qian Renxue agreed to consider the trade.

Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sought Wang Qi’s Sun Moon Star Ultimate Great Tonic to preserve Ning Rongrong’s newly evolved martial soul and secure its inheritance. Wang Qi agreed to trade three bottles for three conditions, then planned to visit the sect the next day and select treasures from its treasury.

• Ning Fengzhi arrived at Dugu Bo’s home with Ning Rongrong, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and two sect elders, pleading for Wang Qi’s tonic after Ning Rongrong’s martial soul evolved into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with signs of a ninth tier.
• Dugu Bo told Wang Qi about the visitors, and Wang Qi offered three bottles of the tonic in exchange for Chen Xin’s cultivation notes, access to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s library, and the right to choose three treasures from its treasury.
• Ning Rongrong offered to raise the number of treasures to thirty, but Wang Qi declined and arranged to visit the sect the following day after going to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect party departed, Wang Qi told Dugu Yan that he had set modest conditions so the sect would bring out treasures it might otherwise keep hidden.

Wang Qi examined Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger Transformation, advised her to meditate on her Martial Soul, and learned from Ye Lingling about the key to the Undying Sect Secret Vault. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi prepared treasures for selection and added a mysterious gemstone called Ocean Hidden Flower to the list.

• Wang Qi assessed Zhu Zhuqing’s fourth soul ring and told her to recreate her Martial Soul’s movements in meditation to prepare for future cultivation bottlenecks.
• Wang Qi teased Zhu Zhuqing, encouraged her to act confidently as captain of the Heaven Dou Royal Team, and then left to find Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling gave Wang Qi a blueprint of the special Soul Tool key to the Undying Sect Secret Vault and promised he could take any treasure inside after helping her evolve her Martial Soul.
• Wang Qi met his former companions and studied the soul skill circuits of their new soul rings.
• Ning Fengzhi reviewed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury list, decided to offer five Heritage Vault treasures for selection, and added the Ocean Hidden Flower gemstone.

Wang Qi studied ways to overcome his cultivation bottleneck and searched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s vault, while Xiao Wu continued fighting in Slaughter City with Lan Xiaoyue’s support. The Asura God arranged for the Twin Gods to mark Xiao Wu and Lan Xiaoyue as potential inheritors, then rewarded the sisters by upgrading their divine tools.

• Wang Qi considered how to gain god-level combat power and decided to spend about half a year studying at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Wang Qi searched the sect’s treasure vault, found the key to the Undying Sect Secret Vault, and took two other treasures.
• Xiao Wu returned to her room after her thirty-fifth match, and Lan Xiaoyue healed her by drawing out the life energy sustaining her wounds.
• Xiao Wu decided to rest from matches for a month while she worked toward breaking through to Soul Saint, and she and Lan Xiaoyue planned to explore the inner city.
• The Asura God directed the Twin Gods to send divine inheritances toward Xiao Wu and Lan Xiaoyue, with Xiao Wu set to receive a trial prompt after reaching Titled Douluo and exhausting her Soul Beast heritage.
• The Asura God upgraded the Twin Gods’ divine tools from Second-Class to First-Class after they marked the two women as potential inheritors.

After finishing much of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s library, Wang Qi left for the Extreme North while Hu Liena arrived in Slaughter City seeking a path to godhood. There, Tang San and Xiao Wu struggled with their feelings and the city’s influence as Hu Liena presented a Slaughter God token to gain an audience with the King of Slaughter.

• Wang Qi completed his review of the sect’s books, mastered switching between ice- and fire-attributed Soul Power, said farewell to Ning Fengzhi, and set out for the Extreme North.
• Hu Liena led Spirit Hall’s supply convoy toward Slaughter City, hoping to grow stronger and compete for a path to godhood.
• Tang San killed a spectator who threatened Xiao Wu, while the strain of Slaughter City and his guilt over Xiao Wu continued to destabilize him.
• Xiao Wu and Lan Xiaoyue discussed leaving Slaughter City by completing their victories and clearing Hell Road, but Xiao Wu remained tormented by her grief and hatred.
• Hu Liena accepted the King of Slaughter’s invitation to a banquet and showed his knight a token bearing a Slaughter God’s killing intent.

Qian Renxue devised the Cleanup Plan to reshape Spirit Hall by pairing Judgment Hall members according to their temperaments and backers, while preparing to hunt Fallen Soul Masters and advance toward the Angel God Trial. Elsewhere, the Five Great Families discussed their upcoming selection for a Deity Assessment and decided to invite Wang Qi back, leaving his potential involvement open.

• Hu Liena began a new round of trials in Slaughter City, while Qian Renxue assessed the resistance to purging corruption within Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue decided to use the next four years to reshape Spirit Hall and assigned Judgment Hall members in pairs, placing those with powerful backers together to share the political pressure.
• Qian Renxue launched the Cleanup Plan across Spirit Hall branches, establishing the Judgment Hall more firmly as it targeted corrupt members and Fallen Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue planned to keep hunting Fallen Soul Masters and reach Titled Douluo within three years before undertaking the Angel God Trial.
• Five old men from the Five Great Families discussed the selection for their Deity Assessment and agreed to invite Wang Qi because of his extraordinary progress.

Wang Qi traveled through the Extreme North, training his Ice Fire Body and considering an Ice Attribute Soul Ring as he studied how Soul Rings formed their abilities. After sensing an unusual warmth, he rushed toward its source, where a red-haired fat man was fighting a snow mink over a snow lotus.

• Wang Qi reflected that his Ice Fire Body controlled ice less smoothly than fire and considered absorbing an Ice Attribute Soul Ring for his eighth ring.
• Wang Qi used his Spiritual Power to detect an above-zero temperature in the Extreme North and sprinted toward it.
• A red-haired fat man demanded that a snow mink surrender a snow lotus while Xiao Ao supplied him with a large sausage.
• The snow mink feinted toward the blooming snow lotus, then dodged the man's flame attack and raced toward his cave.

Wang Qi watched Ma Hongjun and Oscar die in the Extreme North, then continued toward its Core Zone, where powerful Soul Beasts repeatedly forced him to flee. After a month, he spotted three eggs in a nest and ran from the valley, sensing that staying would cost him his life.

• Wang Qi saw Ma Hongjun and Oscar confront a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Marten near a maturing Eight-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.
• Oscar's sausage and Ma Hongjun's Zhuge Divine Rage failed to stop the Snow Marten, which tore off Oscar's leg before Ma Hongjun rushed toward him.
• Wang Qi killed the Snow Marten, collected Ma Hongjun and Oscar's bodies, and took their Soul Tools before continuing deeper into the Extreme North.
• Wang Qi encountered the Ice Emperor Scorpion clan and escaped after several Scorpions pursued him using their Ice Burst Technique.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year Holy Heart Demon Ape chased Wang Qi alongside the Titan Snow Demon King, forcing him to flee again.
• Wang Qi found three ice-patterned eggs in a canyon nest and ran away, fearing he would die if he stayed.

Wang Qi told Guang Ling Douluo and Qian Renxue that the Extreme North’s Core Zone held many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, while Qian Renxue’s growing influence within Spirit Hall became apparent. In the inner hall, Golden Crocodile Douluo emerged from seclusion at level ninety-nine, and Qian Daoliu recognized that Wang Qi had helped him break through.

• Guang Ling Douluo questioned Wang Qi about the Extreme North, and Wang Qi described the dangerous concentration of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in its Core Zone.
• Wang Qi teased Qian Renxue about reaching level eighty-seven, and she asked him about his trip to the Extreme North.
• Wang Qi repeated his account of the Extreme North, and Qian Renxue analyzed how its Core Zone differed from the Star Dou Great Forest before declining his invitation to visit.
• Wang Qi, Qian Renxue, and Guang Ling Douluo chatted in the main hall while Qian Renxue’s rapid gains in Spirit Hall’s intelligence network became clear to Wang Qi.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo emerged from seclusion at level ninety-nine, and Qian Daoliu congratulated him on breaking through the bottleneck that had trapped him for decades.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo that he owed Wang Qi a favor, then instructed him to stabilize his realm and remain concealed.

Wang Qi told Qian Daoliu he had received a God Examination and planned to prepare before entering the Extreme North, while Spirit Hall became entangled in the growing war between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. As the continent descended into chaos, Bibi Dong advanced to the Rakshasa God's eighth examination and worried about what the ninth would demand.

• Wang Qi asked Qian Daoliu to help him reach the Extreme North, and Qian Daoliu agreed while keeping Golden Crocodile Douluo away from the Deity Inheritance.
• Wang Qi chose to rest and prepare in Heaven Dou City, where he planned to test an Ice Attribute soul ring and seek suitable plant-type soul beasts.
• The Heaven Dou Empire invaded the Balak Kingdom and fought the Star Luo Empire, while Spirit Hall established cities to shelter civilians and refugees.
• The war fueled Fallen Soul Master organizations and prompted Qian Renxue's Judgment Hall to hunt them and remove Spirit Hall stewards allied with local nobles.
• Bibi Dong began the Rakshasa God's eighth examination, reached strength comparable to Qian Daoliu, and feared the ninth examination might require a war across the Douluo Plane.
• Bibi Dong learned Wang Qi had received a God Examination and wondered which god had chosen him.

Qian Renxue prepared to seek the Angel God's Deity Assessment, while Bibi Dong responded to the Star Luo Empire's attempt to trade intelligence about Wang Qi by refusing to betray him and probing the empire's resolve. In Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu encouraged Golden Crocodile Douluo to treat Wang Qi's Deity Assessment as a guide for finding a path to godhood.

• Qian Renxue reflected on her cultivation, Wang Qi's medicines, and the Angel God's trials, then prepared to ask Qian Daoliu about beginning her assessment.
• Gui Mei told Bibi Dong that the Star Luo Empire planned to declare war on the Heaven Dou Empire and wanted Spirit Hall's intelligence on Wang Qi in exchange for thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong refused to act against Wang Qi and ordered Gui Mei to ask whether the Star Luo Empire would sell land near Gengxin City, using the request to test its limits.
• Qian Jun, Jiang Mo Douluo, and Guang Ling Douluo went to the Star Dou Great Forest to help Yang Chan obtain her Seventh Soul Ring while she faced the Soul Saint bottleneck.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo lamented that Wang Qi had a chance to become a God, and Qian Daoliu argued that Wang Qi's assessment could help them discover how to create a God.

Wang Qi reflected on his reliance on Soul Rings and Soul Skills while spending five years training in the Fire God Inheritance Ground and preparing to advance. After increasing his Medicine Refining Furnace Soul Rings, he reviewed his vastly improved attributes, leaving him at level 90 with exceptional abilities and plans to continue his cultivation.

• Wang Qi tested his power on the Jade Fire Beast, which complained about being burned and discussed its rapid growth to roughly 800,000 years of cultivation.
• Wang Qi explained that he had delayed breaking through to Titled Douluo so he could investigate his Third Soul Core and prepare for his Ninth Soul Ring.
• Wang Qi considered using Divine Power or powerful medicines to help the Jade Fire Beast grow, but decided to focus first on increasing the Soul Ring ages of his Medicine Refining Furnace Martial Soul.
• Wang Qi spent three days using the Divine Altar to increase his Soul Ring ages, then examined his updated Attribute Panel showing level 90 and greatly strengthened Soul Skills and Soul Bones.

After five years in the Fire God Inheritance Ground, Wang Qi reviewed his extraordinary cultivation and prepared to return to the Douluo Continent. He learned that Spirit Hall had founded a kingdom, then an empire, and had seized territory from both great empires as continent-wide war engulfed the land.

• Wang Qi explained how his accumulated Soul Power could bypass bottlenecks and described his progress toward a third Soul Core and the peak of the late Spiritual Domain Realm.
• Wang Qi raised the Soul Ring ages on both his Medicine Refining Furnace and Ice Fire Body to three hundred thousand years and altered many soul skills to preserve some of his power across worlds.
• Wang Qi kept the Medicine Refining Furnace's true abilities secret while selling potions and collecting precious medicinal herbs.
• Wang Qi prepared to leave the Fire God Inheritance Ground after five years away and return to the Douluo Continent, where eight years had passed since the Soul Master Competition he entered.
• The Spirit Hall Kingdom team dominated the Soul Master Competition, and Spirit Hall later called an assembly to reselect the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects.
• The Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire entered full-scale war, after which the Spirit Hall Kingdom declared war on both, seized Gengxin City and Fasno Province, and proclaimed the Spirit Hall Empire.

Tang San left Moonlight Pavilion for Sea God Island, gained a breakthrough in Spiritual Power at Blue Tyrant Academy, and reunited with Jin Lang after nearly six years. Their reunion ended in grief when they learned their companions had died, while Ning Fengzhi examined a Soul Tool that might allow someone to inherit a Deity's position.

• Tang San declined Moonlight Pavilion's graduation assessment and told Tang Yuehua he planned to return to Blue Tyrant Academy before going to Sea God Island.
• Tang San avoided answering Tang Yuehua's question about Tang Hao, then left for Blue Tyrant Academy with his luggage.
• Tang San's Spiritual Power broke through to a new realm after he sensed Yu Xiaogang drinking alone inside the academy.
• Tang San reunited with Jin Lang, and they went to the principal's office after finding Blue Tyrant Academy greatly changed.
• Liu Erlong, Flender, and Zhao Wuji told Tang San and Jin Lang that Ma Hongjun and Oscar had died, leaving them stunned.
• Ning Fengzhi examined a triangular Soul Tool and asked Jian and Bone whether it could let someone inherit a Deity's position.