Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming stabilized Xiao Wu’s Red Dragon Martial Soul, restoring her ability to cultivate and raising her Soul Power to rank ten. After receiving a Jade Phosphorous Serpent King Soul Bone as thanks, Chen Ming and Dugu Bo left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with a new alliance behind them.

• Chen Ming activated and purified Xiao Wu’s Fire Dragon Martial Soul, stabilizing it and raising her Soul Power from rank nine to rank ten; Xiao Wu fainted before Gu Rong could ask her to become his disciple.
• Gu Rong confirmed that Xiao Wu could cultivate again and absorb her First Soul Ring, prompting Ning Fengzhi to recognize Chen Ming’s value and consider keeping him in the sect.
• Dugu Bo blocked Ning Fengzhi’s possessive gaze toward Chen Ming, then accepted Ning Fengzhi’s forty-thousand-year Jade Phosphorous Serpent King Left Arm Bone as gratitude for Chen Ming’s help.
• Chen Ming stayed at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for two days, studying the Treasure Jade Beast and other special Martial Souls while Dugu Bo kept the Soul Bone for himself.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged a hundred-year Swift Falcon First Soul Ring for Ning Tie, then escorted Chen Ming and Dugu Bo beyond the mountain gate when they departed.
• Spies spread news of Chen Ming’s growing closeness with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, adding its backing to his existing ties with Dugu Bo, Spirit Hall, and Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

Chen Ming forged the Poison God Scepter by combining the Blood Swan Kiss, the Underworld Scorpion’s tail, and growth-capable golden threads. After falling asleep, he encountered the Douluo World’s World Consciousness, which asked him to save the Angel God and warned him not to bring anyone else.

• Chen Ming taught Lou Gao about spirituality, helping him cross the threshold of Spirit Forging, then sent him back to the Blacksmith Association with a letter arranging more affordable metal supplies from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Ming refined his metal bracers and used them to implant golden threads into the Blood Swan Kiss, turning it into a magical artifact.
• Chen Ming assimilated the Underworld Scorpion’s tail into the Blood Swan Kiss and forged the Poison God Scepter, which could amplify, absorb, and recycle poison and death-attributed energy.
• Chen Ming fell asleep from exhaustion and encountered the Douluo World’s World Consciousness, which showed him blood-red shrouded cities in the northwestern Heaven Dou Empire.
• The World Consciousness pleaded with Chen Ming to save the Angel God and warned him not to bring anyone else, but the blood-red power shattered the dream before it could say more.

Chen Ming received an urgent message from the World Consciousness to save the Angel God alone, then was carried to the northwest of the Douluo Continent. After the connection was severed with a warning to beware of Asura, he reached a heavily guarded city and suspected its earl was preparing to confront Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.

• Chen Ming sensed the World Consciousness urging him to save the Angel God without bringing anyone else, and he set off on a poison cloud.
• The World Consciousness carried Chen Ming northwest for nearly a day, warned him to beware of Asura, and then severed their connection.
• Chen Ming arrived at a fortified city whose soldiers barred outsiders from entering and claimed Star Luo Empire spies had stolen the earl’s tax revenue.
• Chen Ming suspected Earl of Glamorgan was using the theft as a pretext to resist the Heaven Dou Empire and target Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• The officer refused Chen Ming entry and directed him to a temporary market five li away to buy supplies.

Chen Ming discovered that a Rakshasa-linked power was stirring malice throughout the market and turning the locals against him. After knocking them unconscious with a paralytic poison and interrogating their leader, he asked about the Earl of Glamorgan’s lockdown and Xue Qinghe’s whereabouts.

• Chen Ming entered the market and was confronted by soldiers demanding an exorbitant fee for a travel permit.
• He sensed an ominous power turning the soldiers’ fear into anger and suspected it was connected to the Rakshasa God.
• The soldiers and onlookers grew increasingly hostile as the power awakened and tried to influence Chen Ming too.
• Chen Ming spread a paralytic poison through the market, then slapped the lead soldier until his anger gave way to fear.
• Chen Ming restored the soldier’s ability to speak and asked why the city was sealed, where Xue Qinghe was, and whom the lockdown targeted.

Chen Ming learned that Earl of Glamorgan was rebelling after attacking Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who had escaped with powerful guards. Unable to locate the Crown Prince, Chen Ming sought guidance from the Angel God pendant, which pointed north on his map.

• Chen Ming interrogated a soldier and used poison to torture him, then realized a sinister power was inflaming his malice and eased the soldier’s pain.
• The soldier explained that Earl of Glamorgan had raised taxes, expanded his army, and attacked Xue Qinghe after the Crown Prince’s inspection exposed his rebellion.
• Chen Ming questioned the soldier about Xue Qinghe’s whereabouts, but the soldier claimed he did not know where the Crown Prince had gone.
• Chen Ming questioned more soldiers, obtained a map of the defenses, and left the market unsure how to find Xue Qinghe.
• Chen Ming spun the Angel God pendant over the map and watched it point north.

Chen Ming fought through Earl of Glamorgan’s forces and found Qian Renxue in a cave, but she mistook him for a Spirit Hall traitor and attacked. After he struck her and took her sword, she continued fighting, and Chen Ming activated his ice-armored palm bone to meet her next charge.

• Chen Ming crossed the earldom, fought through checkpoints, and gathered information about Qian Renxue’s location.
• Chen Ming defeated more than a thousand soldiers and nearly a hundred Soul Masters before finding Qian Renxue in a cave without her Xue Qinghe disguise.
• Chen Ming showed Qian Renxue Ju Douluo’s ornament and the tokens of Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo, but she accused him of betraying Spirit Hall and attacked.
• Chen Ming blocked Qian Renxue’s sword, punched her with frost poison, and took her weapon, but her Angel power began neutralizing the poison.
• Qian Renxue charged Chen Ming with her Angel Charge Soul Skill, and Chen Ming activated the ice armor on his left arm.

Chen Ming subdued Qian Renxue and revealed that he had come to rescue her, not kill her. After uncovering several tracking methods hidden in supplies Aunt Mei had given her, Qian Renxue realized Aunt Mei had betrayed her, and the pair prepared to evade the encirclement.

• Chen Ming used Scorpion Emperor's Claw and his mark to overpower Qian Renxue, who mistook him for an assassin and asked who had betrayed her.
• Chen Ming told Qian Renxue he was reinforcements, restored some of her Soul Power, and urged her to wait until they escaped before asking questions.
• Chen Ming discovered a persistent medicinal scent on Qian Renxue and found seven or eight concealed tracking methods on her and her supplies.
• Qian Renxue realized the tracking methods came from supplies Aunt Mei had delivered, then tried to burn them before Chen Ming froze and destroyed them.
• Chen Ming gave Qian Renxue scent-neutralizing liquid and checked the cave while she applied it and emerged wearing his clothes.

Chen Ming carried Qian Renxue through the defensive line as they fled pursuit, but an attacker caught up and forced them to stand and fight. Qian Renxue identified the assailant as Aunt Mei, a traitor wielding the Heavenly Spider Fifth Soul Skill.

• Chen Ming discovered Qian Renxue had used up the hair-removal potion on her private areas, so he froze her scalp and made her bald.
• Chen Ming carried Qian Renxue toward the defensive line’s weakest point, avoiding the uncertain sea route and cutting through patrols with poisonous attacks.
• As Chen Ming sensed a pursuer closing in, a white Heavenly Spider Arrow struck at him from behind.
• Chen Ming threw Qian Renxue aside and unleashed his poison skills to stop the arrow, while Qian Renxue summoned her Martial Soul and warned him that Aunt Mei had caught up.
• Aunt Mei, a mad elderly woman with a white spider’s body, emerged from the forest and confronted Chen Ming and Qian Renxue.

Chen Ming and Qian Renxue confronted Aunt Mei, whose powerful Sky Spider Martial Soul and violent malice made her a dangerous opponent. Aunt Mei revealed that her madness began with her childhood love for Qian Daoliu and her jealousy of his wife.

• Chen Ming recalled Aunt Mei’s level eighty-eight Soul Power, two Martial Soul Avatars, and locking soul skill as he weighed whether he could escape safely.
• Aunt Mei urged Qian Renxue to leave Chen Ming and come to her, but Qian Renxue recoiled in fear and confusion.
• Aunt Mei’s laughter gathered intense malice, and she began recounting how she met Qian Daoliu as a child and fell in love with him.
• Aunt Mei described secretly cursing Qian Daoliu’s wife, collecting her hair and his clothes, and trying to poison the pregnant woman.
• Aunt Mei said Qian Daoliu’s wife caught her and drove her away from the Angel Clan, and that she later rejoiced when she heard the woman had died in childbirth.

The madwoman’s past revealed that she had spent decades obsessed with Qian Daoliu and had deliberately betrayed Qian Renxue to leave an unforgettable mark on him. Qian Renxue collapsed after learning the truth, while the madwoman unleashed her Soul Skills and formed a vast web.

• The madwoman recounted how her obsession with Qian Daoliu led her to use Qian Xunji as a substitute, care for Qian Renxue, and ultimately plot against her.
• She explained that she had engineered the attack on Qian Renxue’s convoy and drawn Qian Renxue into the heart of the encirclement.
• Chen Ming summarized her confession and condemned her actions.
• Qian Renxue dropped her sword and collapsed after realizing that a trusted maternal figure had betrayed her.
• The madwoman revealed her Soul Power and used Heaven Net, Earth Net, and Heaven Spider Power to spread a vast web despite Chen Ming’s domain melting it.

Chen Ming fought the madwoman’s dual Martial Soul Avatars while protecting Qian Renxue, eventually turning aside her guided arrow with a golden barrier. As the battle continued, Chen Ming sensed a dark force changing Qian Renxue and wondered what the world’s will meant by telling him to save the Angel God.

• Chen Ming froze the madwoman and her web with frost poison, but her seventh Soul Skill combined with her Eighth Soul Skill to amplify her Heavenly Spider form.
• The madwoman drove back much of the poison, endured Chen Ming’s Poison Burst Technique, and attacked him and Qian Renxue with an enormous web.
• Chen Ming used the Destruction Death Ray to escape the contracting web, then faced the madwoman’s guided arrow and a barrage of spider silk.
• Chen Ming formed a golden barrier through his Gold Nature and deflected the arrow, while continuing to shield Qian Renxue from the attacks.
• Qian Renxue recovered from her despondency, but Chen Ming noticed a crimson force darkening her aura and recalled the world’s will telling him to save the Angel God.

Chen Ming used the Angel God's pendant to restore Qian Renxue's resolve, then sent her away so he could fight without restraint. He unleashed a barrage of poison and explosions against the madwoman, aiming to exhaust her and bury her in a battle of attrition.

• Chen Ming suspected that someone had intended to scar Qian Renxue's state of mind rather than kill her, and used the Angel God's pendant to counter the invading emotions.
• Qian Renxue recalled the Angel God's history, regained her determination, and advanced from Soul Power level 48 to level 49.
• Chen Ming ordered Qian Renxue to flee south, and she escaped while he held off the madwoman.
• The madwoman tried to ensnare Qian Renxue with webs and arrows, but Chen Ming destroyed them with the Poison Burst Technique.
• Chen Ming repeatedly attacked the madwoman with Poison Cloud and Poison Burst, forcing her to defend herself as he sought to exhaust her Soul Power.

Chen Ming fought the puppet empowered by gathered Evil, using a breakthrough technique to knock away her Rakshasa Demonic Scythe before the Asura God’s power transformed her attack. The puppet pierced Chen Ming with Asura Assault, but he revealed a strange smile and counterattacked with a golden short rod and his scorpion tail.

• Chen Ming bombarded the crazy woman, but gathered malice restored her condition and turned her into a puppet.
• The puppet summoned a Rakshasa Demonic Scythe and attacked Chen Ming with lethal sword intent that he recognized as the Asura God’s influence.
• Under pressure, Chen Ming fused his Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and Life Force to unleash Poison Dominates the World, punching the puppet away and blasting the scythe into the earth.
• The Asura God’s power gathered, restored the puppet, and transformed her attack into Asura Assault, which pierced Chen Ming’s body.
• Chen Ming smiled, seized the puppet’s arm, pierced her armor with his scorpion tail, and drove a golden short rod into her body.

Chen Ming destroyed the puppet with his Hundredfold Poison Burst Technique, but Asura God's Divine Will survived and entered his sea of consciousness to demand his submission. Chen Ming rejected the offer and unleashed the hidden power of his golden finger against Asura.

• Chen Ming used the Blood Swan Kiss and his Second Soul Skill to vaporize the puppet, but the blast broke more than half his bones and hurled him dozens of kilometers away.
• Chen Ming sensed the surviving Blood Red Divine Will, which entered his sea of consciousness and revealed itself as Asura God's Divine Sense.
• Asura offered Chen Ming the chance to submit, inherit Hypnos's Divine Throne, and eventually become a Rank 1 God, then identified himself as a God King of the Divine Realm.
• Chen Ming challenged Asura's claims and refused to kneel, declaring that he wanted Asura to die.
• Chen Ming unleashed invisible power and authority as his golden finger revealed part of its true power.

Chen Ming effortlessly dismantled the Asura God's invading Divine Will, while the Asura God concealed his interference in the Douluo World from the other God Kings. The chapter revealed that the Asura God had secretly killed the Rakshasa God and was using her divine power.

• Chen Ming recognized his divine authority over souls and broke the Asura God's Divine Will into its fundamental powers.
• The Asura God sensed the loss of his Divine Will and suppressed the Rakshasa, Angel, and Sea God powers within himself.
• The Asura God sent another strand of Divine Will toward the Douluo World, but the God of Life intercepted it and warned him not to violate the Divine Realm's rules.
• The Asura God abandoned further interference after realizing the God of Life's attention could also draw the God of Destruction's notice.
• The Asura God poured Rakshasa God's divine power into her bloodstained Divine Gear, revealing that he had secretly killed her.

The God of Destruction sent the Great Strength Destruction God's Divine Trial to Douluo Continent, while he and the God of Life also arranged for the Flower God's trial to go to another human-inhabited place. The Asura God altered Bibi Dong's eighth Rakshasa trial to target Qian Renxue, leaving Bibi Dong wondering what mattered most to her daughter.

• The God of Destruction sensed the Rakshasa God's interference with a Divine Trial and speculated that Douluo World might produce another Child of Fortune.
• The God of Destruction used the Divine Realm's center to send the Great Strength Destruction God's Divine Trial to Douluo Continent.
• The God of Life gave the Flower God's vacant Divine Throne to the God of Destruction, who sent its trial to another human-inhabited place.
• The Asura God grew nervous at the new trials, softened the Rakshasa God's trial, and changed its eighth trial to make Bibi Dong take what mattered most to Qian Renxue's beloved.
• Bibi Dong saw that her eighth trial had changed and wondered what was most important in Qian Renxue's heart.

Chen Ming recovered from his devastating fight with Asura God's Divine Sense while Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo arrived. After restoring his organs with Life Force, Chen Ming stood again, but his strength remained greatly diminished.

• Chen Ming removed damaged organs and bone fragments, then used Life Force to regenerate his body.
• Qian Renxue arrived with Snake Lance Douluo and tightly hugged Chen Ming, worsening his fresh injuries.
• Snake Lance Douluo pulled Qian Renxue away and tried to help, but Chen Ming repaired himself by replacing his organs and reconnecting his intestines.
• Chen Ming regained his feet with Qian Renxue's help and explained that he was still weak from the injuries and mental strain.
• Chen Ming assessed that he had only about sixty percent of his peak combat strength and would likely have to flee from Snake Lance Douluo.

After defeating Mei, Chen Ming collected the remnants of the Asura God's power and returned toward Spirit Hall with Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo. They reached Spirit City, where Qian Renxue's grandfather emerged in a blaze of holy power.

• Chen Ming gathered the Poison God Scepter's fragments and formed a small sword from pieces infused with remnants of the Asura God's power.
• Chen Ming unearthed the damaged sickle-shaped artifact fragment, while Qian Renxue wondered about Mei's power and asked whether her hair would grow back.
• Chen Ming, Qian Renxue, and Snake Lance Douluo traveled for about a week to Spirit City, with Qian Renxue flying and the others running.
• Snake Lance Douluo secretly returned to the Worship Hall with Qian Renxue's token, and Qian Renxue and Chen Ming waited in the woods outside Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue's grandfather flew out from Spirit Hall with his power unleashed, as golden light gathered around him and the city.

Qian Daoliu reunited with Qian Renxue and brought the Angel Sacred Sword before her and Chen Ming. Chen Ming received the sword’s accumulated sword arts and intent, leaving Qian Daoliu wondering whether he secretly possessed an Angel Martial Soul or was the Angel God reincarnated.

• Qian Daoliu appeared before Qian Renxue and Chen Ming, embraced his granddaughter, and replenished her with sacred Soul Power.
• Chen Ming sensed the Angel Sacred Sword’s history and was drawn into its world of light, fire, and holiness.
• The wills of the Angel God and generations of High Priests showed Chen Ming their swordplay, and he learned eighteen forms of Angel Sacred Spirit Swordplay.
• Chen Ming returned from Spirit Vision holding the Angel Sacred Sword, which willingly flowed sacred power into him.
• Qian Daoliu saw Chen Ming’s sword intent and asked whether he possessed a Six-winged Angel Martial Soul in addition to his Scorpion Emperor Martial Soul.

Chen Ming and Qian Renxue arrived at Spirit Hall’s Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue tearfully recounted her ordeal to Qian Daoliu and the six worships. Her account enraged the worships, who summoned their Martial Souls and prepared to confront the woman responsible.

• Chen Ming explained his origins to Qian Daoliu and sent the Angel Sacred Sword back to the Angel God's Holy Hall.
• Qian Daoliu took Chen Ming and Qian Renxue through a Space Rift to the Worship Hall.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo checked on Qian Renxue and asked Qian Daoliu who Chen Ming was.
• Qian Renxue broke down and told Qian Daoliu and the worships what had happened to her.
• Mighty Lion Douluo, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the other worships reacted with fury, summoning their Martial Souls as the Angel Sacred Sword flared with power.