Chapter Summaries

The auction traded goods for either money or strong men, bringing labor and military resources to the Heaven Dou Empire. The bidding for a thousand sealed Milk Bottles intensified after the Black Tiger Gang offered five thousand men, and Ning Feng’er raised the cash bid to twenty million Gold Soul Coins.

• Qing Ning auctioned ten groups of female slaves, and ten bidders each offered thirty or more strong men, giving the Heaven Dou Empire more than three hundred laborers.
• Bidders bought Soul Guiding Array Disks and other Soul Tools with strong men, including a Class 8 fixed-installation Soul Cannon Shell that drew several thousand men.
• Qing Ning offered one thousand sealed Milk Bottles, and Zhou Lin and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect each bid ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• A burly bidder from the Black Tiger Gang offered five thousand strong men and gained priority under the auction rules, forcing Zhou Lin and Ning Feng’er to raise their bids.
• Zhou Lin bid fifteen million Gold Soul Coins, Ning Feng’er bid twenty million, and another bidder called out, “Ten thousand!”

At the auction, Lin Chen used Qian Renxue’s divine consciousness to identify a powerful dragon-patterned torso bone inside an unopenable stone and bought it for the minimum price. He declined Zhou Lin’s offer to pay, then left the auction with Qian Renxue.

• Zhou Lin and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect bought the Class 6 sealed Milk Bottles, and the sect later acquired the Spirit Rhinoceros Eye for fifty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Chen probed the mysterious stone with his Spiritual Power, but the pressure inside drove it back.
• With Qian Renxue lending him her divine consciousness, Lin Chen discovered a dragon-patterned Torso Bone with eagle-like wings inside the stone.
• Lin Chen bought the stone for fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins after no one else bid.
• Lin Chen declined Zhou Lin’s offer to pay for the stone so he would not owe the Zhou Family a favor, then said goodbye to Zhou Lin.

Lin Chen broke open the enormous stone in Angel Space and found a powerful Torso Bone, then began absorbing it despite Zhang Lexuan's concern. During the absorption, he witnessed the Dragon Eagle's death and learned that its Torso Bone came from a soul beast killed by a heavenly power.

• Lin Chen paid for the enormous stone and brought it with Zhang Lexuan into Qian Renxue's Angel Space.
• Lin Chen used the Angel Sacred Sword to shatter the stone and reveal a Dragon-patterned Soul Bone whose pressure suggested it came from a beast at least as powerful as Di Tian.
• Despite Zhang Lexuan's worries, Lin Chen decided to absorb the Soul Bone, while Qian Renxue promised to intervene if anything went wrong.
• Lin Chen saw the Dragon Eagle fail its tenth heavenly trial, get bound by chains, and die to a bolt of dark purple lightning.
• Lin Chen learned that the Dragon Eagle's Torso Bone had been sealed inside the enormous stone and formed a Nine Kill Sword from spiritual and divine power to confront its resentment.

Lin Chen absorbed the Dragon Eagle torso bone, reached the demigod realm, and continued searching for a left leg bone. At Shrek Academy, Ma Xiaotao and Han Ruoruo opened the Sea God Fate Matchmaking Conference as Huo Yuhao watched, still considering his assessment and Tang San’s attempt to kill Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen used his Godhood Position to suppress the Dragon Eagle’s resentment, destroyed it, and completed absorbing the torso bone, advancing to the demigod realm.
• Lin Chen told Zhang Lexuan and Qian Renxue that the bone came from a Dragon Eagle slain by the God Realm, then said he still needed a left leg bone.
• Cai Mei’er dealt with Feng Ji after he learned that Huo Yuhao was the youngest Sea God Pavilion Member in Shrek Academy’s history.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Sea God Lake and pondered the coming assessment and Tang San’s attempt to kill Lin Chen as the Inner Court teachers arrived by ship.
• Sixteen veiled women appeared on the lake, followed by hosts Han Ruoruo and Ma Xiaotao, who welcomed everyone and opened the matchmaking conference.

Qin Han cooked Tang Tang a lavish breakfast, and the two spent the day together instead of her attending class. When Tang Tang called Teacher Su to explain her absence, Teacher Su asked whether she had a boyfriend, leaving Tang Tang embarrassed and Qin Han surprised.

• Qin Han made seafood congee and egg pancakes, ordered soup dumplings, and woke Tang Tang after she had slept through her morning class.
• Tang Tang enjoyed the breakfast and praised Qin Han's cooking, and he offered to cook for her again.
• After breakfast, Qin Han embraced Tang Tang while she washed the dishes, and they spent the rest of the day together.
• Tang Tang panicked when she realized she had skipped class all day, so Qin Han advised her to tell Teacher Su she had been unwell.
• Tang Tang called Teacher Su to ask for leave, and Teacher Su questioned why she lived outside the dormitory before asking if she had a boyfriend.

Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan left the city for Taoyuan Village, but first accepted a seventy-thousand-year soul bone from Zhou Lin. After Zhang Lexuan absorbed it and reached rank 97, a sudden disturbance transported them to a mysterious grand hall.

• Lin Chen invited Zhang Lexuan to visit his hometown, but a Zhou Family servant intercepted them and led them to Zhou Lin.
• Zhou Lin gave Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan a seventy-thousand-year right arm soul bone that the Heaven Dou Empire’s royal family had auctioned.
• Lin Chen checked the soul bone for danger, accepted it, and took Zhang Lexuan to an abandoned cave to absorb it.
• Zhang Lexuan absorbed the soul bone in a little over an hour and broke through to rank 97, gaining a powerful soul bone skill.
• The cave shook, and Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan suddenly appeared outside a grand hall.

Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan discovered the Moon God Temple, where the Moon Goddess Liu Yue chose Zhang Lexuan as her inheritor. Liu Yue gave Lin Chen a soul bone for Zhang Lexuan’s sake, but placed a painful restriction on it in case he betrayed her.

• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan were transported to a strange night realm and found the Moon God Temple after traveling for a day and a night.
• Qian Renxue confirmed the temple was a god’s domain, and a starry sky inside revealed a Godhood Position shaped like a moon.
• The Moon Goddess Liu Yue appeared and said Zhang Lexuan was suitable to become her inheritor.
• Zhang Lexuan told Liu Yue she did not wish to join the God Realm because Lin Chen had offended one of its God Kings, and Liu Yue approved of her loyalty.
• Liu Yue recognized Lin Chen’s incomplete Godhood Position and offered him a snow-white Left Leg Bone with a restriction that would make him suffer Ten Thousand Arrows Piercing Heart if he betrayed Zhang Lexuan.

Lin Chen absorbed the White Wolf Soul Bone, and Zhang Lexuan accepted the Moon God's inheritance and began her first trial. Elsewhere, Huo Yuhao received the Longyu Ji Dance Saber Technique from Tang San and used it to carve Crimson Demon Essence Gold.

• The Moon Goddess gave Lin Chen the White Wolf Soul Bone, and he absorbed it while Zhang Lexuan watched.
• The Moon Goddess told Zhang Lexuan how her former lover had abandoned her, then offered Zhang Lexuan the Moon God's inheritance.
• Zhang Lexuan accepted the inheritance and learned that her first trial required her to withstand several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• The Moon Goddess sent Zhang Lexuan into a silver curtain to begin her trial, while Lin Chen remained behind and told the Moon Goddess he had offended the Asura God.
• Tang San gave Huo Yuhao the Longyu Ji Dance Saber Technique, and Huo Yuhao used it to slice a small corner from the Crimson Demon Essence Gold.

Huo Yuhao practiced the Longyu Ji Dance Saber Technique while Zhang Lexuan fought through the Moon God's trial. As Zhang Lexuan faced the final stretch against the Golden Tibetan Mastiff and Electric Eagle, Lin Chen learned that the Moon Goddess had strengthened his soul bone with divine protections.

• Huo Yuhao used the Ghost Carving Divine Saber to carve Crimson Demon Essence Gold as he practiced the Longyu Ji Dance Saber Technique.
• Zhang Lexuan used her moon-based soul skills to destroy skeletons and fend off several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the trial.
• The Moon Goddess told Lin Chen that she had placed protections on his soul bone that could block one God King strike or three First-Rank Deity strikes.
• Zhang Lexuan evaded the Golden Tibetan Mastiff and Electric Eagle, then tricked the two beasts into colliding and left the mastiff vulnerable to lightning.
• Zhang Lexuan activated her ninth Soul Skill, Moon God Slash, as two crescent moons appeared in the sky.

Zhang Lexuan completed the Moon God First Trial by killing a true Hundred-Thousand-Year White Fox and obtaining its Head Soul Bone. After receiving her next trial, she and Lin Chen returned to Taoyuan Village so she could begin her nightly moonlight body refinement.

• Zhang Lexuan killed the Electric Eagle with a Moon God Slash after trapping it in Moonlight Power.
• Zhang Lexuan searched the trial ground during the bloody rain and identified the White Fox as the true Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast by its injuries.
• As the trial countdown ended, Zhang Lexuan killed the White Fox and seized its body before being transported out of the trial ground.
• Zhang Lexuan found a Head Soul Bone in the White Fox's corpse and absorbed it, completing the first trial and receiving ten percent Moon God Affinity.
• The Moon Goddess assigned Zhang Lexuan a second trial requiring her to refine her body beneath the moon for at least three hours each day for two months.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan returned to Taoyuan Village, where Zhang Lexuan said she would begin that day's trial.

Lin Chen meditated on his divine transformation, introduced Zhang Lexuan to his parents’ graves, and protected Taoyuan Village while her God Trial continued. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Sacred Soul Grass to awaken Wang Qiu'er.

• Lin Chen sensed divine power transforming his soul bones as he prepared to ascend to godhood.
• Zhang Lexuan returned from her God Trial, and she and Lin Chen later shared a quiet night before joking together the next morning.
• Lin Chen brought Zhang Lexuan to his parents’ graves, introduced her as the woman he loved, and she firmly held his hand.
• Over the next two months, Zhang Lexuan’s God Trial proceeded smoothly, Tang San stayed away, and Lin Chen established a Sword Array to protect Taoyuan Village.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find Sacred Soul Grass for Wang Qiu'er, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guided him around Lake of Life and cautioned him to avoid discovery.

The God of Destruction learned of Lin Chen’s suspected God King-level Godhood Position and ordered the God of Greed to watch for Tang San’s moves. In Taoyuan Village, Zhang Lexuan completed the Moon God’s Second Trial and entered her third, while an unknown woman appeared in Lin Chen’s Sea of Consciousness.

• The God of Greed reported Lin Chen’s strength, unknown Godhood Position, and partnership with Zhang Lexuan to the God of Destruction, who ordered him to monitor Tang San.
• Lin Chen gave Uncle Chang another supply of herbal medicine and spent time talking with him while Zhang Lexuan washed the dishes.
• After another month in Taoyuan Village, Zhang Lexuan completed the Moon God’s Second Trial and received the Moon God’s Third Trial: find her way out of the Moon Illusion Realm within a year.
• Zhang Lexuan entered the trial through a silver light curtain, which Lin Chen could not pass through.
• Qian Renxue alerted Lin Chen to a guest in his Sea of Consciousness, where he found a beautiful woman in a blue gown and asked her name.

The master of Douluo Continent asked Lin Chen to help stop the Asura God King's attempt to seize control of the plane, offering to aid Lin Chen's ascension in return. As Zhang Lexuan advanced through her trial, the master warned Lin Chen that Tang Hao had recovered to the God-Tier and gave him a jade slip to summon her when he was ready.

• The master of Douluo Continent told Lin Chen that an agent of the Asura God King had taken over part of the plane and asked for his help, promising to support his becoming a god.
• Lin Chen agreed to help the master in exchange for her assistance with his ascension, and she placed an imprint in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Chen and Qian Renxue discussed whether to trust the master and planned to wait until Zhang Lexuan neared the end of her trial before Lin Chen attempted godhood.
• Zhang Lexuan emerged from the illusion realm, and Lin Chen reassured her before resting.
• Two months later, the master told Lin Chen that Tang Hao had recovered to the God-Tier and was contesting control of the plane, then gave him a jade slip to summon her when he was ready.

Zhang Lexuan completed her third God Trial and learned that her fourth trial required her and Lin Chen to hunt a powerful soul beast during a lunar eclipse. As the eclipse began, the Moon Goddess’s mark summoned them away to face the beast.

• Lin Chen gave Uncle Chang the final batch of medicine and hurried home when Zhang Lexuan emerged from the illusion realm.
• Zhang Lexuan told Lin Chen she had passed the third trial and explained that the next required them to kill a soul beast rivaling the Moon God’s power.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Qiu'er that Lin Chen had separated her soul from her Soul Ring and that Sacred Soul Grass had helped her awaken.
• Zhang Lexuan’s cultivation reached the peak of Rank 97 as the yin energy grew stronger.
• Zhang Lexuan’s moon imprint lit up, and she and Lin Chen vanished as the moon began to dim.

Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan fought the Moon God's fourth-trial opponent, a powerful woman who sought to devour them and reach God-Tier. Their coordinated attacks overwhelmed her defenses, but a layer of dark-red light erupted from her just before their blows landed.

• The chained woman recognized Zhang Lexuan as the Moon God's inheritor and revealed that she wanted to devour her and Lin Chen to advance to God-Tier.
• The woman broke her chains and transported Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan to a vast plain, then cast her Moonlight Domain as they attacked.
• Lin Chen evaded the woman's chains while Zhang Lexuan used her Moon Domain and unleashed her Firefly Moon and Blood Rain soul skills.
• Lin Chen broke the woman's light curtain with his Nine Kill Sword and struck with the Thunder Qilin and Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, while Zhang Lexuan attacked from behind.
• The woman was caught between their attacks and released a layer of dark-red light just before they could hit her.

Tang San interfered with Zhang Lexuan’s Moon God Trial by giving the Moon Eater Beast Asura God Power and promising to help her become the new Moon God. Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan struggled against her, and Lin Chen unleashed his domains and a sword technique as the battle continued.

• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan recognized that the Moon Eater Beast had gained Asura God Power, which Qian Renxue identified as Tang San’s interference.
• The Moon Eater Beast agreed to serve the mysterious voice in exchange for becoming the new Moon God and attacked Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan.
• The Moon Goddess tried to descend into Moon Eater Land to protect her inheritor, but an invisible force blocked her.
• In the God Realm, Tang San told Dai Mubai he had promised the Moon Eater Beast a Moon Godhood Position and a place in the God Realm if she killed Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan.
• The Moon Eater Beast wounded Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan, so Lin Chen detonated his first six Soul Rings and opened three domains to fight back.
• Lin Chen used Sword Douluo’s technique to force the Moon Eater Beast to dodge, while Zhang Lexuan suddenly came up with an idea.

Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan worked together to exploit the conflict between Moon God divine power and Asura God Power within the Moon Eater Beast. Their plan tore her body apart, while the Moon Goddess approved of their victory and Tang San reacted angrily.

• Zhang Lexuan told Lin Chen that disrupting the balance between the Moon Eater Beast’s divine powers could defeat her, and they agreed on a plan.
• Lin Chen fought the Moon Eater Beast in midair, dodging and redirecting her Moon Blades while keeping her occupied.
• Zhang Lexuan attacked the Moon Eater Beast from behind, and the absorbed divine power helped throw the two forces within her into conflict.
• Lin Chen restrained the Moon Eater Beast with Light Heart-Slaying Chain while transferring his Soul Power to Zhang Lexuan, and the clashing divine powers tore her body apart.
• The Moon Goddess praised Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan’s strategy, while Tang San clenched his fists and dismissed the light screen.

Zhang Lexuan passed the Moon God Fourth Trial, absorbed a torso soul bone, and broke through to Rank 98. The Moon Goddess gave her the next trial: find and awaken the Three-tailed Illusory Moon Fox in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan arrived after a week of travel.

• Zhang Lexuan received the blood-red torso soul bone, and the Moon Goddess confirmed the Fourth Trial was passed with her affinity increased to fifty percent.
• The Moon Goddess approved of Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan's victory, then stood guard while Zhang Lexuan absorbed the soul bone and reached Rank 98.
• The Moon Goddess assigned Zhang Lexuan the Fifth Trial and gave her a trace of the Three-tailed Illusory Moon Fox's soul to help locate the divine beast.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan prepared to enter the dangerous Star Dou Great Forest, and Lin Chen checked that his formation in Peach Garden Village remained intact before they left.
• After a week of travel, Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest.

Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for the Three-tailed Illusory Moon Fox, but Di Tian intercepted them and escorted them to the Lake of Life at Gu Yuena’s request. There, Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan met Di Tian and Bi Ji, and Lin Chen asked where Gu Yuena was.

• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan searched the forest while avoiding Soul Beasts, as Di Tian learned that Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan carried Godhood Positions and Gu Yuena ordered him to invite them over.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan continued searching for the Three-tailed Illusory Moon Fox until Di Tian appeared and said his lord wanted to see Lin Chen.
• After Zhang Lexuan stopped Lin Chen from provoking Di Tian, they followed him to the Lake of Life.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Lexuan found Di Tian and Bi Ji waiting beside a pavilion with tea and pastries, and Lin Chen asked where Gu Yuena was.

Lin Chen refused Gu Yuena’s demand to return the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune unless he became a god, and rejected her offers because she would not let him use the Lake of Life. After Gu Yuena decided not to confront him and sent Di Tian to find Huo Yuhao, the story shifted to He Caitou’s Soul Engineer corps attacking Oke City.

• Gu Yuena emerged from the Lake of Life and asked Lin Chen to return the fortune he had taken from the auspicious beast.
• Lin Chen refused to give up the fortune before becoming a god and demanded use of the Lake of Life as compensation, but Gu Yuena refused.
• Lin Chen told Gu Yuena that he had separated Wang Qiu'er's soul power from her sacrifice-formed Soul Ring and said Huo Yuhao might be able to awaken her.
• Gu Yuena decided against attacking Lin Chen and instructed Di Tian to find Huo Yuhao, who was already in the Sun Moon Empire.
• He Caitou led the Soul Engineer corps into Oke City after their forts blasted open the city gate, then fired Long-range Piercing Cannons into the sky.