Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Changkong led miners out of Xīnshān Sect’s mine while Qian Jun Douluo revealed himself and defeated the sect’s Soul Douluo. Elsewhere, Wu Qi killed the White Eagle Soul Sage and questioned Hunter’s unexplained appearance in the Lost Land.

• Qiangu Changkong warned the miners about bombs, but many turned against him and knelt before Xīnshān Sect’s Soul Douluo.
• Qian Jun Douluo emerged to protect Qiangu Changkong and struck the Soul Douluo into serious injury, allowing the miners to move toward safety.
• Wu Qi fought the White Eagle Soul Sage in the air, countered his attacks, and killed him with the Spiritual Luan Martial Void Technique.
• Wu Qi reviewed Spirit Hall’s exile records and found no record of Hunter, leaving him to suspect Hunter had entered the Lost Land independently or more than a century earlier.

Wu Qi helped expose the Xīnshān Sect’s crimes, rescued the miners, and arranged for He Niannian to pursue her dream at Spirit Hall Academy before leaving to continue training. Back at the Wu Family, Wu Qinan confronted the steward he suspected of conspiring with the Xīnshān Sect.

• Tie Niu met Qiangu Changkong’s group and sent Jin Luo to escort them and the rescued miners back to the city.
• Wu Qi told Chen Ping that the battle against the Xīnshān Sect was nearly finished, then asked He Guangyi to testify about the sect’s exploitation and the mine’s transfer.
• Wu Qi offered He Niannian a chance to attend Spirit Hall Academy, then led his team toward Lipton Forest to continue training.
• At a hearing, the miners accused the Xīnshān Sect of exploitation, and Spirit Hall presented evidence that the sect had planted explosives in the mine.
• After Spirit Hall’s investigation cleared the Wu Family of involvement, Wu Qinan accused the steward of helping the Xīnshān Sect kill Charles and Wu Family descendants and deceive him.

Wu Qinan exposed the steward’s betrayal and cleared his name, then relinquished his title and left Heaven Dou City with the Wu Family as Xīnshān Sect was destroyed. Wu Qi led the Trainee Squad into the Land of Deadly Poisons, where Dead Guy’s letter revealed that he had left them a path forward.

• The steward confessed that he served Xīnshān Sect, had killed Charles, and had concealed Wu Qi’s family history from Wu Qinan.
• Salas testified that Wu Qinan was innocent, after which Wu Qinan gave up his title and withdrew with the Wu Family; Spirit Hall powerhouses wiped out Xīnshān Sect.
• Wu Qi led Qiangu Changkong and ten trainees through the underground caverns to the concealed entrance of the Land of Deadly Poisons.
• Wu Qi opened the entrance, and the group descended into a glowing cavern filled with plants while Little Deer sampled the shrubs without warning of danger.
• Wu Qi read Dead Guy’s letter, which appeared upon entering the Land of Deadly Poisons and said its author had nearly no chance of survival but would leave a clear path for those who followed.

Wu Qi read Dead Guy’s account and used its route map to guide the group through the Lost Land. The Scepter began glowing and led them to the marked floating stone, where they rested before descending toward the Second Layer.

• Wu Qi learned from Dead Guy’s letter about Guǐbào Dǒuluó’s experiences, the different flow of time, and the route map through the Lost Land.
• Qiangu Changkong pointed out that Wu Qi’s Scepter was glowing, and Wu Qi followed its guidance along the front-right path.
• Wu Qi warned the students to stay alert as they encountered small creatures and watched a Little Fox suddenly grow enormous before shrinking back.
• The group found the hollowed boulder with a floating sphere marked on Dead Guy’s map, which Wu Qi identified as the end of the First Layer.
• Wu Qi ordered everyone to rest before taking the downhill route toward the Second Layer, while Qiangu Changkong remarked that the area resembled an artificial ecological zone.

Wu Qi led the group through the Land of Deadly Poisons, where two students died after eating fruit that overwhelmed their bodies with life energy. After allowing three frightened students to turn back, Wu Qi continued with the others toward the Azure Sky Ancient Tree and prepared them for more dangerous trials.

• The students ate unfamiliar fruit, and two Soul Ancestors gained enough power to manifest false Martial Soul Avatars before their bodies swelled and exploded.
• Wu Qi and the others escaped the blast, then Wu Qi used his staff to drain the surviving skeletons' life force and end their suffering.
• Wu Qi allowed three students who wanted to leave to retrace their steps, while he explained that Little Deer could eat the fruit because it was suited to the environment.
• After the remaining group recovered, Wu Qi led them onward with the Aromatic Silk Beauty and reached the Azure Sky Ancient Tree.
• Wu Qi ordered everyone to stay within ten meters of him and inside the pink glow as they prepared to face the trials ahead.

Wu Qi led his group through a dangerous underground gas eruption that became their first trial, while Tang San considered leaving the Clear Sky Sect to seek experience and the Soul Bone Mother. Feng Xiaotian continued training in Hurricane Canyon, determined to close the gap with Wu Qi.

• Wu Qi used an illuminating Soul Tool to guide his group underground, then avoided a purple gas vent when Little Deer showed fear.
• As the group grew drowsy from the gas, Wu Qi ignited a tinderbox behind them and used his wings to help them escape the ensuing blast.
• Wu Qi explained that the underground gas caused their fatigue and could ignite, then urged everyone to continue after the first trial.
• Tang San asked Tang Xiao for permission to leave the Clear Sky Sect to gain experience and search for the Soul Bone Mother, but Tang Xiao warned him to wait because Spirit Hall might have plans underway.
• Feng Xiaotian trained in Hurricane Canyon and said he needed to work harder because Wu Qi had become a High-Rank Soul Emperor and was rumored to have killed a Soul Saint.

Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping were trapped by a Stone Statue whose Golden Pestle turned five students into golden statues. As they struggled to destroy it, Hunter arrived and warned Wu Qi that using the Dark Purple Scepter would prevent his companions from being restored.

• A Stone Statue activated an Air-Locking Domain and used its Golden Pestle to turn the five students into golden statues.
• Wu Qi discovered that Invincible Golden Body protected him from the Golden Pestle, while Qiangu Changkong restrained the Stone Statue with his Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Wu Qi failed to knock the Golden Pestle from the statue, and Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping could not damage it with their attacks.
• Wu Qi prepared to use the Dark Purple Scepter, but Hunter descended with a Blazing Flame Scepter and warned that doing so would leave the assimilated students beyond recovery.
• A Great Strength Demon Ape in Martial Soul Avatar form charged in, knocked down the Stone Statue, and Hunter returned it to its original state with the Blazing Flame Scepter.

Hunter explained that he had been created to guide a worthy inheritor to the God of Destruction, and Wu Qi learned the Land of Deadly Poisons held the Ancient Tree of Life. Wu Qi began the God of Destruction’s assessment, leaving his companions waiting to learn their own fate.

• Chen Nan revealed herself alive, and Hunter explained that time had passed differently in her cultivation grounds.
• Hunter recounted how the God of Destruction’s consciousness took over his body to retrieve the Scepter and guide a chosen inheritor.
• Chen Nan told Wu Qi that the Ancient Tree of Life could save his companions, though the Life Fruit was deadly to mortals.
• Hunter led the group to the God of Destruction’s statue and explained the origins of the Qing Luan Divine Beast’s remains.
• Hunter said Wu Qi had to undergo the assessment first before his companions could try, and Wu Qi placed the Scepter in the statue’s hand and offered his blood.

Wu Qi accepted the God of Destruction’s inheritance and received the first Destruction Trial alongside Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping. After the trio prepared in the Land of Deadly Poisons, their trial began as Little Deer ran into the thicket ahead.

• Wu Qi accepted the God of Destruction’s inheritance, lost Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and received the Domain of Destruction and a new inheritance mark.
• Qiangu Changkong received Red Grade Eight Trials, while Chen Ping received Black Grade Six Trials; all three learned that their first trial required them to reach the Fallen Land of the Qing Luan Divine Beast without using the Power of Destruction.
• Hunter revealed that he was stronger than Qian Daoliu and warned that the trio would face him in later assessments.
• The Ancient Tree of Life revived the injured students, and Hunter expelled them and sealed the Land of Deadly Poisons, leaving Spirit Hall unaware of what had happened inside.
• After cultivating, Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping found themselves at the high slope where their trial would begin, and Little Deer ran into the thicket.

Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping repeatedly challenged the deadly trial in the Land of Deadly Poisons, learning that each defeat restored them while preserving their combat experience. Outside, the Worship Hall and Pope Hall debated their disappearance as the three grew strong enough to reach the Second Layer.

• Wu Qi explained that the trial’s beasts, including Little Deer after it ate a Life Fruit, would act as enemies, and the three began testing the challenge together.
• After Little Deer gored Qiangu Changkong and the three were reset, Wu Qi realized the trial was meant to train their combat skills, while Qiangu Changkong noted that they could keep fighting without tiring.
• Bibi Dong learned that seven students had been expelled from the Land of Deadly Poisons while Wu Qi’s group remained inside, and the Rakshasa God suspected the three had received a Deity’s inheritance.
• Qian Daoliu told the Worship Hall that Wu Qi’s group might be receiving an inheritance, promised to contact the God Ancestor, and sent Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother to assist Bibi Dong’s Soul Hunting Operation.
• After nearly two months inside the Land of Deadly Poisons, Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping advanced through the First Layer and began reaching the Second Layer beneath the Ancient Tree of Life.

Wu Qi absorbed a God-given Soul Ring as his seventh ring, reaching the hundred-thousand-year level and gaining a powerful Martial Soul Avatar. He and his companions resumed the trials, where Wu Qi encountered the Second Layer’s Stone Statues and was quickly forced to start over.

• Wu Qi chose to pursue an innately hundred-thousand-year seventh Soul Ring and entered seclusion while Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping investigated the trials.
• Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping failed to reach the Ancient Tree of Life alone, but later managed to enter the Second Layer and discovered three Stone Statues wielding Golden Pestles.
• After more than a month, Wu Qi finished absorbing the God-given Soul Ring, giving him seven rings: yellow, yellow, purple, black, black, red, and red.
• Wu Qi transformed with his Seventh Soul Skill and led Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping through the First Layer into the Second Layer.
• Wu Qi was caught by a Golden Pestle before he could use Invincible Golden Body, failed the trial, and was sent back to the starting point.

Wu Qi led Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping through the Destruction First Exam by avoiding direct fights and tricking the creatures guarding the route. They completed the exam, received stronger Soul Rings, and returned to the First Layer to rest.

• Wu Qi repeatedly practiced the trial, learning to evade the Golden Pestle statues and distract the shadow-controlling moles with Life Fruits.
• With five days left before the God Exam ended, Wu Qi explained his plan to Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping, and the three began their final attempt.
• Wu Qi knocked the statues down and led his companions past the moles by scattering Life Fruits.
• Qiangu Changkong distracted the two marmots with vegetables while Wu Qi carried him and Chen Ping toward the Qing Luan Divine Beast’s remains.
• The three completed the Destruction First Exam and received ten thousand years added to each Soul Ring’s age and ten percent Divine Power Affinity.
• The trio returned to the First Layer to rest, while Chen Nan cursed their deceptions and Hunter said the God of Destruction considered their opportunism a form of strength.

Wu Qi began the Second Exam of Destruction, which required him to earn the Azure Luan Divine Beast’s recognition and absorb her Divine Armor. In her spiritual world, he challenged her belief that humanity alone caused destruction and asked her to reconstruct one of the cities she had protected.

• Qiangu Changkong learned that his exam required him to absorb ten Azure Luan Divine Feathers, while Chen Ping needed eight.
• Hunter explained the dangers and benefits of absorbing Divine Feathers, then connected Wu Qi’s consciousness to the Azure Luan Divine Beast’s remaining consciousness.
• Wu Qi witnessed a city grow prosperous and then collapse into ruins through civil strife in the Azure Luan Divine Beast’s spiritual world.
• The Azure Luan Divine Beast told Wu Qi that her auspicious protection had seemed to bring disaster, and he argued that greed and conflict affected intelligent creatures beyond humans.
• Wu Qi asked the Azure Luan Divine Beast to restore the city and show him its residents as they had truly been, and she agreed to reconstruct it from her memories.

Wu Qi showed the Qing Luan Divine Beast how kindness and cruelty coexisted among the people of a city recreated from her memories. During a rebel attack, she was moved by a young man's plea to save his sister and intervened to free him from a burning house.

• Wu Qi asked the Qing Luan Divine Beast to follow silently as they explored the city on the day before its unrest began.
• Wu Qi pointed out how ordinary people and hooligans helped an old man while a respectable-looking man stole vegetables, challenging the Qing Luan Divine Beast's prejudices.
• In the God Realm, the God of Kindness praised Wu Qi, while the God of Evil proposed that he inherit both their opposing divine positions.
• When rebels attacked the city, Wu Qi and the Qing Luan Divine Beast became incorporeal observers as citizens formed rescue teams.
• A young man trapped beneath a beam begged the rescuers to save his sister first, and the Qing Luan Divine Beast was moved to tears.
• The Qing Luan Divine Beast became solid and lifted the beam pinning down the young man.

Wu Qi helped the Qing Luan Divine Beast understand the conflict between reason and emotion, allowing her remnant soul to find peace. Back in the real world, her corpse sacrificed its power to Wu Qi and began forming blue armor around him.

• Wu Qi projected a story about two angel sisters whose opposing ideas of justice led them to become the world's greatest evils.
• The Qing Luan Divine Beast recognized the sisters as reflections of her own rational and emotional selves and questioned whether her interventions could truly be right.
• The God of Kindness helped the Qing Luan Divine Beast recall her father's lesson that the world's contradictions made it vibrant, and her remnant soul dissipated in peace.
• Qiangu Changkong and Chen Ping continued absorbing Divine Feathers while they waited for Wu Qi to finish his trial.
• Wu Qi awoke from seclusion as the Qing Luan Divine Beast's corpse transformed into energy and sacrificed itself to him, forming blue armor around his body.

Wu Qi gained the Qing Luan Divine Beast’s recognition and received its Divine Armor and a natal Soul Ring. After he and his companions continued cultivating, they received the deadly third Destruction exam: defeat Peak Soul Douluo Chen Nan within one month.

• The Qing Luan Divine Beast sacrificed itself, granting Wu Qi a torso Divine Armor filled with Divine Power and completing his second exam.
• Wu Qi learned that he had spent one year and three months in the Consciousness World and that his Soul Ring Age and Destruction Affinity had increased.
• Hunter told Wu Qi to keep the Divine Feathers left behind by the Qing Luan, and Wu Qi decided to reserve them for people close to him rather than spread them widely.
• Wu Qi fused with his Divine Armor and discovered that his seventh Soul Ring had become a Cyan-Gold natal Soul Ring through the Qing Luan’s sacrifice.
• Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping received the third exam: defeat Peak Soul Douluo Chen Nan within one month, or die.

Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping challenged Chen Nan to a spar in the Land of Deadly Poisons. Wu Qi’s Azure Luan Divine Shadow stunned Chen Nan, but her Martial Soul Avatar endured their attack as the fight continued.

• Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping planned their tactics before agreeing that Wu Qi would lead the attack, Qiangu Changkong would support him, and Chen Ping would defend them.
• The trio confronted Chen Nan in an open area, where Hunter agreed to stop either side from being beaten to death.
• Chen Nan revealed her Peak Soul Douluo strength and opened with her Demon Ape’s Fist, which Qiangu Changkong met with his Coiling Dragon Staff while Chen Ping shielded him.
• Wu Qi activated his Martial Soul Avatar and summoned the Azure Luan Divine Shadow, whose mental shockwave froze Chen Nan in place.
• Qiangu Changkong struck Chen Nan with Zhentian’s Dragon, but her Martial Soul Avatar left her with only superficial injuries.
• Wu Qi explained the strength of a Martial Soul Avatar and charged Chen Nan with Qing Luan’s Footprint Shock while Qiangu Changkong supported him.

Chen Nan recovered from Wu Qi’s soul skill and forced Wu Qi and his companions onto the defensive, but Wu Qi turned the spar around with the Luan Sound Domain and a coordinated assault. Chen Nan summoned a meteor with his eighth soul skill, and Wu Qi attacked to interrupt the casting as the chapter ended.

• Chen Nan regained consciousness, endured Wu Qi’s attack, and unleashed his sixth soul skill, Demon Ape Sky-Shaking Fury.
• The God of Destruction sealed Wu Qi’s Azure Luan Divine Shadow soul skill so it could not control Chen Nan again.
• Chen Nan used his Peak Soul Douluo strength to pressure Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping as the spar continued.
• Chen Ping raised Basalt Gate while Wu Qi activated the Luan Sound Domain and Blue Silver Domain to suppress Chen Nan and support the team’s attack.
• Chen Nan summoned a meteor with Demon Ape Annihilation of All Living Beings, and Wu Qi sent feather blades at him to interrupt the skill.
• Chen Nan formed a stone shield with his left fist while maintaining control of the meteor.

After completing the third Destruction Exam, Wu Qi and his companions left the Land of Deadly Poisons and returned to Spirit City. The Fourth Exam was revealed en route: Wu Qi had five months to prepare before a one-year deadline to condense his own Exclusive Domain.

• The God of Destruction accepted the third exam’s result after the Goddess of Life reminded him that he had set no restrictions on the assessment.
• Hunter stopped Wu Qi from striking Chen Nan after her Eighth Soul Skill collapsed, and the three received their third exam rewards, with Wu Qi gaining more than Chen Ping and Qiangu Changkong.
• The group decided to leave the Land of Deadly Poisons, and Hunter opened a Space Passage that brought them near Spirit City.
• Wu Qi, Chen Ping, and Qiangu Changkong returned to Spirit City and discussed how their cultivation compared with Feng Xiaotian and his peers.
• The God Exam announced Wu Qi’s Fourth Exam, requiring him to condense an Exclusive Domain within a year after a five-month delay, with failure demoting the exam to Level One God rank.

Wu Qi and his companions returned from the Land of Deadly Poisons to find the continent on the brink of war, with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan destroyed and Spirit Hall imposing strict controls. After learning the Worship Hall had led the attack, Wu Qi faced Qian Daoliu’s questions about the divinity he carried.

• Wu Qi, Qiangu Changkong, and Chen Ping arrived at Spirit City and learned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been wiped out and Emperor Xue Ye was near death.
• The middle-aged man explained that Spirit Hall and cities across the continent had tightened security amid fears of a Continental War.
• The Worshippers questioned the three about the Land of Deadly Poisons and learned that their actual ages had increased while they were there.
• Wu Qi deduced that the Worship Hall had destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Worshippers admitted that Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother had led the operation.
• Qian Daoliu sensed divinity in Wu Qi and asked which Deity's inheritance he had received.