Chapter Summaries

After Qian Renxue revealed the extent of the madwoman’s crimes, Qian Daoliu repented before the Angel God while Chen Ming proved his Spirit Hall ties and revealed his powerful Martial Soul. The Angel Sacred Sword bestowed holy and Light attributes on Chen Ming, and he began absorbing the gift as Qian Daoliu watched.

• Qian Daoliu knelt before the Angel God's Divine Statue in remorse after hearing Qian Renxue's account, while she continued explaining what had happened.
• The worshippers examined Chen Ming after learning he had defeated the madwoman, and Chen Ming showed them his academy identification and the tokens of Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo questioned Chen Ming about his age, fourth Soul Ring, and strength, then asked him to release his Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming's God-Tier Martial Soul suppressed the worshippers, and its unusual attributes prompted the Angel Sacred Sword to approach him.
• The Angel Sacred Sword sent holy and Light energy from the Angel God's Divine Statue into Chen Ming, and he chose to merge the attributes into his Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming sat down to absorb the gift, and Qian Daoliu rose from prayer to examine his Martial Soul.

Chen Ming’s Martial Soul gained life-and-death wings after absorbing sacred and light power, and Qian Daoliu invited him to undertake the Angel God’s Divine Trial. Chen Ming then asked about Qian Daoliu’s old friend Chen Youliang, prompting Qian Daoliu to wonder how the man was related to him.

• Chen Ming’s Scorpion Emperor Martial Soul evolved, growing wings that strengthened its life and death attributes while sacred and light power settled into its source.
• Qian Daoliu offered Chen Ming the Angel God’s Divine Trial and explained its history, benefits, and restrictions.
• Qian Daoliu offered Chen Ming a place equal to the Worship Hall’s enshrined elders and support to become Spirit Hall’s next-generation Pope.
• Chen Ming thanked Qian Daoliu but asked whether he remembered a Chen Family member with a Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Chen Youliang as his old friend and asked what relation he was to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming accepted the Angel Clan’s Divine Trial and received the Angel Seven Trials, then completed the first trial and began forming a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. The ring rapidly reached the hundred-thousand-year level as he endured its growth.

• Chen Ming told Qian Daoliu that his ancestor Chen Youliang had received help resolving the Chen Family’s Martial Soul mutation and had aided people during a disaster.
• Qian Daoliu recalled Chen Youliang’s service and invited Chen Ming to accept the Angel Clan’s Divine Trial, which Chen Ming accepted.
• Qian Daoliu led Chen Ming before the Angel God’s statue, where Chen Ming received the Angel Seven Trials and a golden mark on his forehead.
• Chen Ming completed the first trial, which required rank fifty Soul Power, and received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming crushed the golden sphere and endured the ring’s growth as it advanced from a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring toward the hundred-thousand-year level.

Chen Ming stabilized his fifth Soul Ring, but the World Consciousness halted its absorption before it could grant a Soul Skill and offered him a way to complete it with a suitable Soul Beast. It explained the roles of Children of Fortune, Children of Destiny, rebellious Children of Destiny, and outsiders, while revealing that Chen Ming had long received its favor.

• Chen Ming's God-Bestowed Soul Ring gained a pale-gold pattern and reached an age of at least 160,000 years before the World Consciousness froze its absorption without granting a Soul Skill.
• The World Consciousness gave Chen Ming four shifting Soul Beast coordinates and explained that absorbing one of those beasts could add its Soul Ring and two skills to his unfinished fifth ring.
• Chen Ming questioned the term Child of Destiny, and the World Consciousness described the roles of Children of Fortune, Children of Destiny, rebellious Children of Destiny, and outsiders.
• The World Consciousness told Chen Ming that thousands of beings from other worlds had arrived on Douluo Star, and that the Evil Eyes had become powerful Soul Beasts on another continent.
• Chen Ming learned that the World Consciousness had granted him fortune since birth and had made him a candidate Child of Fortune after his third Soul Ring helped it resolve several laws.

Chen Ming learned that Tang San was a Rebellious Child of Destiny whose existence had disrupted the Douluo World's original fate, while Qian Renxue remained vital to the world's future. After asking the Douluo World how to create his own Divine Throne, Chen Ming returned to Qian Daoliu, who welcomed him into Spirit Hall and asked about his mentors and Soul Rings.

• The Douluo World explained that the Asura God had altered Tang San's fate and protected him from the world's attempts to eliminate him.
• The Douluo World described how Qian Renxue's original destiny could transform the Douluo World and warned that her harm could stall its progress.
• Chen Ming asked how to create his own Divine Throne, and the Douluo World sent him locations and records related to the Angel God, Sea God, and Rakshasa becoming gods.
• Chen Ming awoke from meditation with a strengthened body as his connection to the Douluo World faded.
• Qian Daoliu congratulated Chen Ming on his Divine Trial, invited him to treat Spirit Hall as home, and considered taking him as a disciple.
• Chen Ming told Qian Daoliu that Ju Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei were his masters and that he had obtained and absorbed an Ice Scorpion left palm bone in the Extreme North Land.

Qian Daoliu summoned Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo, thanked them for their service to Spirit Hall, and invited them to join the Worship Hall. After they hesitated over the risk of angering Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu apologized and presented five Soul Bones to them and Chen Ming.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo brought Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to the Worship Hall, where Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue bowed to them.
• Qian Renxue recounted her attack, and Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo were shocked to learn Chen Ming had defeated a high-level Soul Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu invited Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to join the Worship Hall, but they worried that Bibi Dong would regard it as betrayal.
• Qian Daoliu apologized for making them feel forced to choose sides and produced five Soul Bones for Ju Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Chen Ming.

Qian Daoliu presented five powerful Soul Bones to Chen Ming and explained their abilities, especially the dangerous eighty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear palm bone. Chen Ming began absorbing it and froze the beast’s resentment in his spiritual world, leaving him free to study and refine it.

• Qian Daoliu displayed five high-quality Soul Bones, including a rare External Soul Bone from a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Qian Daoliu explained how the Auspicious Gold Elephant arm bones could strengthen Ju Douluo, while the Phantom Deer skull and Ghost Leopard leg bone could enhance Ghost Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu warned that the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear palm bone carried violent resentment and had killed or injured previous would-be absorbers.
• Chen Ming asked to absorb the palm bone, and Qian Daoliu reluctantly agreed, ready to use the Angel God’s power to stop the process if needed.
• As Chen Ming absorbed the bone, the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s resentment entered his sea of consciousness, where Chen Ming froze it and considered studying it to improve the Soul Bone.

Chen Ming refined the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s External Soul Bone, raising it past the hundred-thousand-year threshold and awakening two powerful soul skills. He then considered how divine authorities and the two paths to godhood worked, leaving his own god-level soul origin and future prospects in focus.

• Chen Ming absorbed and refined the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, whose age surpassed one hundred thousand years as it merged with his Gold Attribute and Life Force.
• Chen Ming discovered the Soul Bone’s Dark Gold Dreadclaw and Unstoppable skills, noting that Unstoppable consumed immense Soul Power and Life Force but could be sustained with his Dragon Pill.
• Chen Ming considered how the Behemoth bloodline and his accumulated attributes might contribute to a future Element Divine Throne.
• Chen Ming analyzed the Angel, Asura, and Rakshasa Gods’ overlapping authorities and concluded that divine power could encompass several attributes shaped by belief.
• Chen Ming distinguished between becoming a god by strengthening one’s essence and using a faith-forged Divine Throne, recognizing that he was currently following the first path.

Chen Ming completed the Angel God's first trial, received the second trial's task, and absorbed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Bone while Qian Daoliu rewarded Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo with Soul Bones. Qian Daoliu asked them to report Bibi Dong's reaction to Qian Renxue's attack, leaving Qian Renxue anxious and longing for her mother's love.

• Chen Ming learned that his second Angel God's trial required him to defeat Thousand Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo for a one-level Soul Power reward.
• After absorbing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Bone, Chen Ming's right-hand fingers became sharp blades, and his aura made Qian Renxue recoil.
• Qian Daoliu gave Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo four Soul Bones, which they accepted as valuable rewards for their service and instruction of Chen Ming.
• Qian Daoliu asked Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to tell Bibi Dong about Qian Renxue's attack and report her emotional response.
• Qian Renxue clung to Qian Daoliu's hand and worried about Bibi Dong's reaction, still yearning for the motherly love she had never received.

After Qian Daoliu gave Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo four Soul Bones to deliver a message, the two offered them to Chen Ming, who refused and urged his masters to keep them. They returned to Pope Hall, where Bibi Dong concealed her fury and asked why Qian Daoliu had left Worship Hall.

• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo agreed to heed Qian Daoliu and accepted four Soul Bones in exchange for delivering a message.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo gave Chen Ming the Soul Bones, but he refused them and persuaded his masters to keep them.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo gave Chen Ming protective items and Soul Coin cards worth over a hundred million Gold Soul Coins before returning to Pope Hall.
• Qian Daoliu's sacred aura jolted Bibi Dong from meditation and left her shaken by the gap in their strength.
• Bibi Dong resolved to find the person she considered a disgrace, uncover what mattered most to her, and destroy it to advance her eighth trial.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo met Bibi Dong, who asked why Qian Daoliu had suddenly left Worship Hall.

Bibi Dong learned of Qian Renxue’s attack and, influenced by the Rakshasa Divine Trial, plotted to exploit Qian Renxue’s trust to complete her Eighth Trial. She tried to meet Chen Ming, but Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo refused, and Qian Renxue took Bibi Dong’s restrained behavior as reason to hope for reconciliation.

• Bibi Dong heard that Qian Renxue had survived an attack, and the Rakshasa divine power magnified her hatred while she devised a plan to betray Qian Renxue’s trust.
• Bibi Dong noticed that Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo were hiding Chen Ming’s role in Qian Renxue’s escape and asked them to bring their talented disciple to meet her.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo made excuses to keep Chen Ming away, and Bibi Dong offered only a verbal commendation.
• Ghost Douluo secretly reported Bibi Dong’s behavior to Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu in the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong’s lack of direct hostility as progress, while Qian Daoliu silently appealed to Chen Ming to help her.

Qian Daoliu asked Golden Crocodile Douluo to help Chen Ming understand Qian Renxue’s plan to seize the Heaven Dou throne. After hearing Chen Ming’s extensive political proposals, Golden Crocodile Douluo worried that Chen Ming was too radical, while Chen Ming insisted he had no interest in politics.

• Qian Renxue withdrew to her childhood room to reflect, while Ghost Douluo returned to Ju Douluo and Qian Daoliu silently sought Chen Ming’s help.
• Qian Daoliu signaled Golden Crocodile Douluo to speak with Chen Ming, then resumed praying before the Angel God statue.
• Chen Ming recounted his past to Golden Crocodile Douluo, concealing his spiritual advantage and giving a different account of how he obtained the Immortal Herbs.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that Qian Renxue had replaced Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and infiltrated the Heaven Dou palace to claim the throne.
• Chen Ming spent three hours critiquing and supplementing Qian Renxue’s plan, leaving Golden Crocodile Douluo stunned by how radical the proposals were.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo urged Chen Ming to avoid political scheming, and Chen Ming awkwardly replied that he was not interested in politics.

Chen Ming convinced Golden Crocodile Douluo to let Qian Renxue continue her infiltration so she could regain the compassion and purpose expected of the Angel God's inheritor. Golden Crocodile Douluo gave Chen Ming a Soul Bone to help protect her, and Chen Ming planned for Dugu Bo to watch over her and complete his Soul Bone set.

• Chen Ming told Golden Crocodile Douluo that Qian Renxue had become too focused on court politics and risked losing the Angel God's compassion and original purpose.
• Chen Ming argued that Qian Renxue should remain in Heaven Dou and learn to preserve her own principles rather than be brought back and corrected by force.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to let Qian Renxue continue her infiltration but worried about her safety and asked Chen Ming to keep watch over her.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo gave Chen Ming a thirty-thousand-year Shadow Hunter Leopard right leg bone with the Substitute skill.
• Chen Ming accepted the Soul Bone and planned to give it to Dugu Bo, who could watch over Qian Renxue while completing his Soul Bone set and approaching the Super Douluo threshold.

Chen Ming accepted Golden Crocodile Douluo’s soul bone, then sparred with Thousand Jun Douluo to test his growth after reaching Soul Power Level Fifty-Three. Thousand Jun Douluo overwhelmed him with the Coiled Dragon Staff before Chen Ming’s endurance and raw power finally forced the spar to end.

• Chen Ming accepted Golden Crocodile Douluo’s soul bone, and Golden Crocodile Douluo took charge of Spirit Hall’s cleanup and the response to the rebel army while Qian Daoliu prayed.
• Chen Ming learned that his fifth Soul Ring had brought his Soul Power to Level Fifty-Three and greatly strengthened his physical abilities.
• Chen Ming challenged Thousand Jun Douluo to a spar and was overwhelmed by the Coiled Dragon Staff’s techniques and suppressive staff intent.
• Thousand Jun Douluo shattered Chen Ming’s elemental attacks and forced him to abandon attempts to counter with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• After two hours of punishment, Chen Ming used his recovery and raw attributes to outlast Thousand Jun Douluo and force him back, though Thousand Jun Douluo had held back his strongest Soul Skills.

After losing to Thousand Jun Douluo, Chen Ming identified his need for stronger control skills and chose Medusa as his next Soul Ring target. Back in Heaven Dou City, he shared the Angel God’s trial with Dugu Bo, who absorbed a Soul Bone and broke through to Level Ninety-Five, becoming a Super Douluo.

• Chen Ming reviewed his defeat by Thousand Jun Douluo and decided he needed enhancement, powerful control, and counterattack skills.
• Chen Ming chose Medusa as the target for his next Soul Ring and returned to Heaven Dou City after saying goodbye to the Spirit Hall offerings and Qian Renxue.
• Chen Ming told Dugu Bo about saving Qian Renxue and receiving the Angel God’s Divine Trial, while keeping the World Consciousness and the Asura and Rakshasa gods’ powers secret.
• Chen Ming gave Dugu Bo the Shadow Hunter Leopard right leg bone, and Dugu Bo absorbed it to attempt a breakthrough.
• Dugu Bo crossed the threshold to Level Ninety-Five, became a Super Douluo, and felt eager to celebrate his transformation.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo traveled to Spirit Snake Island to hunt a dangerous Medusa, discovering an extraordinary concentration of powerful snake soul beasts as they explored. Their findings suggested that an even more terrifying presence at the island’s core was keeping the Serpent Emperors and mutated Super Soul Beasts in check.

• Dugu Bo celebrated his recovery and breakthrough, then joined Chen Ming on his plan to hunt Medusa.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo reached the coastal city, gathered intelligence from a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect chamber of commerce, and learned about Spirit Snake Island.
• The pair flew to Spirit Snake Island and began exploring its snake-filled shores and interior.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Ming found rare snake soul beasts and a vast Jade Phosphorous Serpent clan led by a thirty-thousand-year-old Jade Phosphorous Serpent King.
• Dugu Bo discovered several Serpent Emperors and mutated Super Soul Beasts with unusually low cultivation levels living near one another.
• Dugu Bo concluded that a terrifying creature deep in the island was suppressing the powerful snakes and preventing them from fighting.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo discovered that Snake Island’s Medusa Queen was an eighty-thousand-year Divine Beast connected to the God of Sin, Medusa. The queen spotted them as Chen Ming considered retreating to seek reinforcements.

• Dugu Bo and Chen Ming explored Snake Island’s core and found seven or eight young Medusas beside a lake.
• Chen Ming sensed that the Medusa he sought was in the lake, while both men suspected a more powerful queen ruled the island.
• At noon, the Snake Emperors, mutant Soul Beasts, and Medusas worshipped a thirty-meter Empress Medusa rising from the lake.
• Chen Ming confirmed the Empress Medusa was his eighty-thousand-year target and recognized her Divinity as a sign of her connection to the God of Sin, Medusa.
• Chen Ming considered retreating to Spirit Hall for reinforcements, but the Empress Medusa looked directly toward his hiding place and Dugu Bo’s.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo fought the Empress Medusa’s serpent horde after revealing themselves on her island. They killed several powerful serpents and drove many reinforcements into retreat, while the Empress Medusa remained surrounded by her guards.

• The Empress Medusa sensed Chen Ming and Dugu Bo, and both revealed their Martial Souls as the serpent horde prepared to attack.
• Dugu Bo unleashed a poisonous Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Phantom that weakened and poisoned the serpent Emperors and mutants.
• Chen Ming protected Dugu Bo, killed a Medusa Queen with his scorpion tail, and struck down the Crimson Serpent Emperor and Nether Serpent Emperor with Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• The Crimson Serpent Emperor succumbed to Chen Ming’s and Dugu Bo’s poison, and its Soul Ring rose as Dugu Bo regretted losing the chance to use it.
• Dugu Bo continued poisoning the serpent horde as more Soul Rings appeared, causing many reinforcements to flee and others to hesitate.

Chen Ming used Ice and Fire Power, a blinding Sun Fist, and repeated Dark Gold Dreadclaw attacks against the Empress Medusa, while Dugu Bo held off the snake horde. After her children shielded her and were badly wounded, the enraged Empress Medusa charged Chen Ming, who dodged her devastating tail strike.

• Chen Ming's Ice and Fire Power overwhelmed the Empress Medusa's Soul Power and burned her scales, but failed to seriously injure her.
• The Empress Medusa used Medusa's Gaze, and Chen Ming resisted it with Soul Power and Extreme Ice Walls while Dugu Bo stayed behind the barrier and strengthened himself.
• Chen Ming blinded the Empress Medusa and her Snake Hair with Light Attribute Soul Power, then struck her repeatedly with weakened Dark Gold Dreadclaws.
• The Three-headed Nether Python and Crimson Blood Demon Python shielded the Empress Medusa from the attacks and suffered severe wounds.
• The Empress Medusa charged Chen Ming and swung her tail at him, but he escaped with the help of a Poison Burst Technique as her strike split the ground.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo gained the upper hand against the Empress Medusa and the snakes on her island, but she tapped into Sin Power and began sacrificing them to strengthen herself. The Empress Medusa revealed the Soul Capturing Tablet, the divine artifact once held by Medusa, the God of Sin.

• Chen Ming wounded the Empress Medusa while Dugu Bo fought the Serpent Emperors, aberrant beasts, and Medusas, steadily turning the battle in their favor.
• Dugu Bo killed several Medusas and the Nether Serpent Emperor while the remaining enemies weakened or fled from him.
• Chen Ming nearly severed the Empress Medusa at the waist, but she endured his attacks and unleashed the Sin Power within her.
• The Empress Medusa grew into a blood-red giant and drew Soul Rings and blood from the dead snakes into her body.
• The Empress Medusa killed snake soul beasts across the island with her shriek and absorbed their Soul Rings and blood.
• The Empress Medusa's chest split open, revealing the Soul Capturing Tablet, Medusa the God of Sin's divine artifact.