Chapter Summaries

Chen Huang sold two Aromatic Silk Beauties to Ning Fengzhi, whose Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and whose Soul Power reached rank eighty. After selling his repeating crossbows in Heaven Dou City, Chen Huang traveled to Lightning Gorge to investigate its lightning and Soul Beasts.

• Chen Huang offered Ning Fengzhi two Aromatic Silk Beauties for five million Gold Soul Coins each and explained how to absorb their essence.
• Ning Fengzhi cultivated after consuming one herb, evolved his Martial Soul into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and reached Soul Power rank eighty.
• Chen Huang collected payment and left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving the remaining herb understood to be for Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Huang met Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard, then flew with them toward Heaven Dou City, where Xue Xing and Xue Ye bought his remaining seven thousand repeating crossbows.
• Chen Huang and his companions traveled to Lightning Gorge and found more Soul Beasts, unusual ores, and lightning strikes deeper inside.

Chen Huang discovered a towering Thunderclap Nether Vine whose lightning domain prevented flight and began climbing it, suspecting it marked Thor’s God Trial. After climbing ten thousand meters and enduring increasingly powerful lightning, he was blasted down but chose to keep going.

• Chen Huang identified the vine as a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Thunderclap Nether Vine and set out to climb it after he and his companions discovered they could not fly nearby.
• Chen Huang endured lightning strikes as he climbed, while Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard reflected on how complacency had kept them from growing stronger.
• As the repeated injuries and healing accelerated Chen Huang’s Blood Replacement progress past ninety percent, he climbed to ten thousand meters.
• A powerful lightning strike blasted Chen Huang down to nine thousand meters, but he rejected Tian Meng’s suggestion to turn back and resolved to continue climbing.

Chen Huang climbed the Thunderclap Nether Vine through brutal lightning and thunderclouds, completing his Blood Replacement and developing Thor Armor. After Thor challenged him to choose whether to keep climbing toward an empty summit, Chen Huang gave up and was carried to a golden hall, where he found someone he already knew.

• Chen Huang endured the lightning at ten thousand meters, completed his Blood Replacement, and continued climbing as each bolt strengthened his body.
• Chen Huang entered the thundercloud layer, nearly lost consciousness, then formed Thor Armor and climbed to twenty thousand meters.
• Tian Meng helped Chen Huang detect a colossal wind-attribute Soul Beast, and Thor revealed that the climb was his trial.
• Chen Huang chose to stop climbing after Thor asked whether he would continue toward a summit with nothing there.
• Thor’s vine carried Chen Huang to a golden hall, where he found a man he already knew.

Thor gave Chen Huang the reward for passing the First Trial and explained the next challenge, while Chen Huang absorbed a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring that reached over six hundred thousand years. Chen Huang prepared to begin the Second Trial, and Yu Xiaogang returned to the Thunderclap Nether Vine to continue his own first challenge.

• Thor awarded Chen Huang a ten-thousand-year increase to his First Spirit Ring, raised his Thor affinity, and gave him a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring after confirming he had passed the First Trial.
• Thor explained that Chen Huang's Second Trial required him to endure a month of gale winds while tied to a pillar, and that he could leave but would have to restart if he failed.
• Chen Huang copied the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring into the Mall, then crushed it and attached its Spirit Ring to his cloud Martial Soul.
• Chen Huang's new Spirit Ring stopped at over six hundred thousand years and granted him the Thunderclap and Thundercloud Form Spirit Skills, while his rank rose to level eighty.
• Chen Huang asked to begin the Second Trial, while Yu Xiaogang left to resume climbing the Thunderclap Nether Vine.

Chen Huang endured a bone-scraping gale trial while cultivating, and Xiao Shan wondered where he had gone. Meanwhile, the Chat Group welcomed Pluto, and Zhang Jie, Chu Xuan, and Zheng Zha discussed their mission in The Mummy World and the opposing Senzhou Team.

• Chen Huang was chained in a plaza where fierce winds stripped away his flesh, and he repeatedly restored his body while cultivating through the day and night.
• Xiao Shan asked Tang Hao where Chen Huang had gone, and he said Chen Huang was cultivating at Lightning Gorge.
• The Chat Group welcomed a newcomer calling himself Pluto, ruler of the Fifth Parallel Universe and a soul trapped in a seal.
• Zhang Jie, Chu Xuan, and Zheng Zha read the mission to eliminate Imhotep and learned the Senzhou Team had entered The Mummy World first.
• Chu Xuan said the opposing team's early arrival balanced the teams' strength, and Zhang Jie explained that the Senzhou Team was likely a farming team.

Zhang Jie’s team ambushed and wiped out the Senzhou Team, then exploited the Mummy plot for profit. Meanwhile, Chen Huang endured the second trial’s punishing winds for a month, completed it, and prepared to return to Nuoding City to rest.

• Chu Xuan identified the Senzhou Team as an exploitation team, and Zhang Jie hypnotized the newcomers and made Zhang Heng a combatant.
• Zhang Jie concealed his team from the Senzhou Team’s psychic, then killed the psychic with Soul Impact.
• Zhang Jie’s team wiped out the Senzhou Team, obtained the Book of the Dead and the Sun Bible, and developed the Scorpion King plot before returning Imhotep.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the second trial and was chained up beside Chen Huang as Chen Huang neared the end of his month-long ordeal.
• Chen Huang completed the trial at sunrise, recovered from his wounds, and decided to return to Nuoding City to rest.

Chen Huang learned from Thor that he could not inherit enough power to become the new Thor and would need to cultivate his own Divine Body, Divine Soul, and divine power to reach Level One Hundred. After passing Thor’s second trial, Chen Huang absorbed its God-Bestowed Soul Ring and raised it to Eight Hundred Thousand Years.

• Thor told Chen Huang that he was only a fading Divine Thought and lacked the power to make anyone the new Thor, but explained how Chen Huang could become a god through his own strength.
• Thor awarded Chen Huang a twenty-thousand-year increase to his second Spirit Ring, five percent more Thor affinity, and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for passing the second trial.
• Chen Huang used the reward to raise the second Spirit Ring on his Ninth Grade Undying Grass to ten thousand years, then began absorbing the God-Bestowed Soul Ring as his eighth ring.
• Chen Huang endured the absorption and used his Mental Power to control the ring’s energy, eventually pushing its age past the Eight Hundred Thousand Year threshold.
• Chen Huang stabilized the eighth Spirit Ring and gained the soul skills Death God Thunder and Life God Thunder.

After completing the Spirit Ring absorption, Chen Huang left the trial hall and discovered that Spirit Hall was attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He joined the battle, helping the clan while Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard confronted Spirit Hall’s enshriner elders.

• Chen Huang learned that the Third Trial was a three-year Thunder Sea Treasure Hunt, then left the hall with the Thunderclap Nether Vine and returned to Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard.
• As they flew over Lightning Gorge, Chen Huang heard battle cries, discovered Spirit Hall’s assault on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and decided to intervene.
• Chen Huang sent Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard to hold off the Fourth Enshriner while Yu Yuanzhen fought Tuoba Old Ghost and the White Armored Holy Dragon.
• Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard attacked the Fourth Enshriner and declared that they were now enemies of Spirit Hall, giving Yu Yuanzhen room to fight back.
• Chen Huang used his Mizong Staff in bow form to shoot down black-clad Spirit Hall Soul Masters while Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin fought two Soul Kings.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng unleashed their Blue Electric Divine Dragon Swiftness Soul Skills, but a Soul King used Fortification to block their attacks.

Chen Huang turned the battle against Martial Soul Hall by killing Soul Masters with arrows and Nightmare Power, then used his new Thundercloud Form to severely injure Fourth Enshriner. The chapter ended with the Group’s new member, Qing Zizai, being introduced.

• Chen Huang killed the earth-attribute and ice-attribute Soul Kings who had trapped Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, and the two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members returned to the fight.
• Chen Huang used a Mental Power Dispersing Metal Sheet and Nightmare Power to put the Soul Sages and Soul Douluos to sleep, then killed the Martial Soul Hall fighters with Soul Impact.
• Chen Huang flew to the battle between the Titled Douluos and tested his new Martial Soul and soul skills against the Enshriners.
• Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to trap Fourth Enshriner, allowing Chen Huang to strike him with a powerful bolt of Black-Purple Lightning.
• Yu Yuanzhen struck the White Armored Holy Dragon while Chen Huang recalled his thundercloud, and the chapter displayed new Group member Qing Zizai.

Chen Huang revealed both Martial Souls and fought the Fourth Enshriner with help from Yu Yuanzhen, Chrysanthemum Du, and Ghost Leopard. After they killed Spirit Hall’s Third Enshriner, Chen Huang arranged to capture vessels for reviving the two Enshriners and told Yu Yuanzhen that Yu Xiaogang would return in about half a month.

• Chen Huang displayed his First Martial Soul, Ninth Grade Undying Grass, and Second Martial Soul, Heavenly Eye, shocking the Fourth Enshriner with their powerful spirit rings.
• Chen Huang used the Cold Halo to impair the Fourth Enshriner, then unleashed Death God Thunder, which the Third Enshriner intercepted to protect his brother.
• The Fourth Enshriner broke free of the Cold Halo when his brother was struck, and Yu Yuanzhen joined Chen Huang as the fight resumed.
• Chen Huang told Yu Yuanzhen that Yu Xiaogang had obtained a Hundred Thousand Year Ninth Spirit Ring and was undergoing a trial above Lightning Gorge.
• Chen Huang, Yu Yuanzhen, Chrysanthemum Du, and Ghost Leopard killed the Third Enshriner, Tuoba Old Ghost, and prepared to kill the Fourth Enshriner as well.
• Chen Huang collected the Enshriners’ corpses and sent Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard to capture two soul masters as vessels for their revival.

Chen Huang learned that Spirit Hall had attacked both the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fled toward Heaven Dou City after a devastating battle, and Chen Huang met its battered survivors at dusk.

• Chen Huang ordered Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard to search Spirit Hall's ancestral graves for remains, then learned his Shadow Clone had intercepted no useful conversations because Spirit Hall's leaders were nearby.
• Ning Fengzhi received word that around ten thousand black-clad Soul Masters were approaching Seven Treasure City and recognized them as Spirit Hall's forces.
• Ning Fengzhi sent the younger disciples and their families, including Ning Rongrong and Chen Feng, into a secret passage while Gu Rong organized the repeating crossbow troops and Chen Xin opened the passage.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong fought Spirit Hall's four Titled Douluo, suffered the loss of an arm each, and helped inflict heavy casualties before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect retreated through the secret passage.
• Chen Huang failed to reach the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, informed Tang Hao that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been attacked, and met Dugu Bo and the battered sect survivors at dusk.

Chen Huang planned to use newspaper coverage of Spirit Hall’s losses to damage its reputation, while Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to found a nation. The chapter ended with Spirit Hall preparing to eliminate the surviving Xue Ye before moving ahead with its plans.

• Chen Huang used his healing soul skill to restore Chen Xin’s missing limb and Gu Rong’s broken hand.
• Chen Huang decided to publicize Spirit Hall’s casualties and traveled to Seven Treasure City and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to photograph the battle’s aftermath.
• Chen Huang gave the photographs to Flender, who agreed to publish them despite the risk of angering Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong learned that Spirit Hall had lost roughly ten thousand Soul Masters and several powerful fighters, then examined a repeating crossbow recovered from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to found a nation and sent people to finish off Xue Ye before the Heaven Dou Empire could interfere.

Chen Huang and Flender’s newspaper campaign spread accusations against Spirit Hall across the continent, while Chen Xin attacked Salas and destroyed Spirit Hall’s Heaven Dou City branch. Bibi Dong learned of the first issue after news of the second issue’s accusations had already spread, and confronted the Fifth Enshriner over his investigation.

• Flender and Chen Huang rushed the newspaper into print, and its reports about Spirit Hall’s attacks on the Upper Three Sects spread through Heaven Dou City and beyond.
• Salas tried to contact Bibi Dong with a Den Den Mushi, but Chen Huang’s device blocked the call, so Salas set out for Spirit City.
• Chen Xin confronted Salas outside Spirit Hall’s Heaven Dou City branch and split Salas, his driver, his carriage, and the branch in two with his sword.
• Flender proposed publishing photographs of Chen Xin’s attack, and Chen Huang planned to add allegations about Xue Ye’s poisoning and Xue Qinghe’s impersonation to the next issue.
• Bibi Dong received the first newspaper issue and angrily accused the Fifth Enshriner of misleading her about the deaths of Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard.

After evidence of Spirit Hall’s failed Soul Hunting Operation surfaced, Bibi Dong spared Fifth Enshriner and sent him to assassinate Xue Ye while planning counter-publications and expansion into both empires. Sixth Enshriner and Seventh Enshriner warned Golden Crocodile Douluo that two more enshrined elders had died, leaving Fifth Enshriner’s mission dangerous.

• Fifth Enshriner defended his earlier investigation, and Sixth Enshriner and Seventh Enshriner persuaded Bibi Dong to let him redeem himself by assassinating Xue Ye.
• A cardinal identified Flender and Bai Yao as leaders of the Pengcheng Newspaper Agency and suspected Yu Xiaogang was its hidden boss.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to publish counterattacks against Heaven Dou’s nobles and spread them through border cities in both empires, while postponing action against the agency.
• Sixth Enshriner and Seventh Enshriner warned Fifth Enshriner that Xue Ye would be protected by powerful allies, and Fifth Enshriner left for Heaven Dou City.
• Sixth Enshriner and Seventh Enshriner told Golden Crocodile Douluo that Third Enshriner and Fourth Enshriner had died fighting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan during the Soul Hunting Operation.

Qian Renxue told Golden Crocodile Douluo how a Soul Emperor with Titled Douluo-level Mental Power had stopped her from escaping with the Heaven Dou treasury, and she vowed to defeat him herself. As Golden Crocodile Douluo discussed the deaths of Third and Fourth Enshriner and the suspicions surrounding Heaven Dou, Qian Renxue asked him to train her while refusing to reconcile with Qian Daoliu.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Qian Daoliu that Third and Fourth Enshriner were dead, and Qian Daoliu suspected the same unknown group had killed them and Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked Qian Renxue why she was angry, and she explained that a Soul Emperor had controlled her and recovered the Heaven Dou treasury she had stolen.
• Qian Renxue said the Soul Emperor's Mental Power was at least at the level of a Titled Douluo, but she refused Golden Crocodile Douluo's offer to avenge her and insisted on defeating him herself.
• Qian Renxue said Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo had likely suspected her, and she named Tang Hao, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo as the Titled Douluo who appeared after Chrysanthemum Du and Ghost Leopard died.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Qian Renxue about the recent events involving the Upper Three Sects and Spirit Hall's newspaper plans, and she asked him to teach her to grow stronger.
• Qian Renxue blamed Qian Daoliu for supporting Bibi Dong, while Golden Crocodile Douluo said Qian Daoliu would always choose her but that Bibi Dong now held power as his equal.

Chen Huang watched the Chat Group discuss Xiao Fugui’s rapid growth and its upcoming update, which would add an arena, power ratings, cultivation assistance, and storage space. The members anticipated the new features and arranged future sparring matches.

• Chen Huang cultivated beneath the sun while waiting for a call from Tang Hao about the Clear Sky Sect’s planned move to Heaven Dou City.
• The Chat Group members discussed Xiao Fugui reaching Gourmet Hunter level fifty, and Toriko recommended Food Philosophy training to help him control his strength.
• Chen Huang asked the Chat Group to address members’ uncertainty about their strength, and it announced an upcoming update with an arena, power ratings, and cultivation and enlightenment assistance.
• The Chat Group announced that purchases could no longer be returned and introduced upgradable storage space, while Chen Huang decided to settle for lv.3 storage for now.
• The members discussed future arena matches, and Thor invited them to spar while Yang Jian dismissed the idea as boring.

Chen Huang met the Clear Sky Sect’s arriving members at their new residence in Heaven Dou City. After the Seventh Elder challenged his ties to the sect, Chen Huang intimidated him and used his power to make him slap himself before welcoming the group inside.

• Tang Yuehua called Chen Huang and told him that she and the Clear Sky Sect had arrived in Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Huang gave Tang Yuehua the address of the sect’s new residence and flew there to meet the group.
• Tang Yuehua introduced Chen Huang to Sect Master Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders, but the Seventh Elder questioned whether Chen Huang belonged to the sect.
• Chen Huang released his aura and Mental Power, revealing strength that shocked Tang Xiao and strained the younger disciples.
• Chen Huang used his power to make the Seventh Elder slap himself, then continued greeting Tang Xiao, the elders, and the sect’s younger members.
• Chen Huang led the Clear Sky Sect group through the residence so they could settle in.

Chen Huang returned to Nuoding City and learned that Zhao Wuji had condensed an Earth Soul Core while clearing land. He recounted his brutal first and second Thor trials to Yang Chan and the others, and said he still had seven Thor trials and perhaps nine God of Destruction trials ahead.

• Chen Huang returned from the Clear Sky Sect and found Zhao Wuji reclaiming more land in his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Zhao Wuji told Chen Huang that meticulous land-clearing had improved his control and Mental Power, allowing him to condense an Earth Soul Core with help from Yang Chan's Spirit Gathering Array.
• Chen Huang learned that the Defense Clan had arrived and built its academy, though its members showed little interest in interacting with the others.
• At the headquarters, Chen Huang showed his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and described enduring lightning, gale winds, and severe injuries during his first two Thor trials.
• Chen Huang told Yang Chan that he had seven Thor trials left and expected nine trials for the God of Destruction, while Ye Lingling quietly envied the others' combat abilities.

Chen Huang and Xiao Shan decided to prepare to enter the City of Slaughter, where Tang Hao explained the deadly trial and the limits placed on Spirit Masters. The chapter left them with a few days to rest before Tang Hao took them somewhere to build their killing intent.

• Chen Huang arrived at the waterfall and praised Xiao Shan's progress with the Disorder Splitting Wind Whip Technique, while Tang Hao remained bitter about her using a whip instead of a hammer.
• Chen Huang asked Tang Hao about visiting the City of Slaughter to study its domain, and Xiao Shan asked to go with him; Tang Hao agreed they could travel together.
• Tang Hao explained that entering required passing a trial by demonstrating immense killing intent, and warned Chen Huang and Xiao Shan that they lacked experience with lethal battles.
• Tang Hao released his Divine Slaughter's Domain and killing intent, leaving Xiao Shan overwhelmed until Chen Huang supported her with his Mental Power.
• Tang Hao warned them that Spirit Rings and Spirit Skills could not be used in the City of Slaughter and said he would take them somewhere in a few days to build their killing intent.
• Chen Huang rested and later told Zhang Sanfeng in the group chat that Thor's God Trial had accelerated his blood and marrow replacement, prompting the Fourth Hokage to question Thor.

Chen Huang inspected the completed mountain academy with Zhao Wuji and renamed it Qingyun Academy, setting out its identity, honors, and admissions plans. The chapter left the academy ready to develop around Chen Huang’s vision of educating students with varied talents.

• Chen Huang and Zhao Wuji toured the new mountain academy, including its facilities, training grounds, and space reserved for future cultivation arrays.
• Zhao Wuji proposed that the academy needed a more imposing name, and Chen Huang carved a poem by Li Bai onto a large stone beside his statue.
• Chen Huang named the school Qingyun Academy, with Great Roc Soul Master Academy as its alternate name, and established the Great Roc Badge for Titled Douluo and other major contributors.
• Chen Huang explained that the academy would cultivate students’ strengths and character while offering practical career training to those with limited cultivation talent.
• Chen Huang outlined internal enrollment, external general admissions, transfer students, and the possibility of creating an outer academy to screen future students.