Chapter Summaries

Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong received their Destruction Seventh Trial and traveled to the Destruction Mountains, where powerful Destructive Thunder had drawn Soul Masters from across the empires. Wu Qi met the Chai Brothers there, who suspected the thunder was connected to his power and offered to leave if the opportunity belonged to him.

• Wu Qi told Bai He that the Righteous Unity Sect should stay out of the conflict Bibi Dong was stirring and wait for his return.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong learned that their trials required them to reach the Destruction Mountains, where Wu Qi had to pass through the Destructive Thunder and obtain the Destructive Scepter.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong traveled to the Destruction Mountains, where the thunder annihilated a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast and attracted experts from the surrounding factions.
• Wu Qi encountered the Chai Brothers, activated his Blue Silver Domain to keep their conversation private, and heard how they had observed the thunder for more than ten days.
• Chai Rong told Wu Qi that the thunder resembled his killing move and offered to leave if the opportunity belonged to him.

Wu Qi investigated the Destruction Mountains and found that the Domain of Destruction protected him from the deadly thunder, while the Clear Sky Sect debated whether the mountains held a god’s trial. Tang Xiao planned to wait for the thunder to weaken before leading the sect up the mountain.

• Wu Qi warned the Chai Brothers about the mountain’s thunder, and Chai Rong bought all the sheep for Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong as a gift.
• Wu Qi flew into the Destruction Mountains, tested the thunder with his Domain of Destruction, and concluded that reaching the summit was not the trial’s main obstacle.
• Tang Xiao and Yu Xiaogang discussed the thunder in the Clear Sky Sect’s camp, and Tang Xiao suspected that a god had created the phenomenon.
• Tang Xiao decided to wait for the thunder to weaken before taking the Clear Sky Sect disciples up the mountain to seek a god’s inheritance.
• Yu Xiaogang privately wished that Tang Xiao, rather than the sect’s younger disciples, would obtain the opportunity, as he missed Tang San and had little standing in the sect without him.

Wu Qi climbed the Destruction Mountains while the lightning diverted his attention from the Star Luo Empire's experts, and Qiangu Changkong continued his assessment below. Elsewhere, Chen Ping learned that Spirit Hall had ordered his team to disguise themselves as Clear Sky Sect assassins and target Dai Weisi.

• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong secretly climbed the Destruction Mountains, where Qiangu stopped to cultivate and Wu Qi continued alone.
• Wu Qi used his domain to withstand the lightning and reached the mountainside, while Qiangu Changkong was struck below.
• Tang Xiao warned the Clear Sky Sect disciples that someone climbing the other side was drawing the lightning's attention, and the Star Luo Empire's group suffered casualties before retreating.
• Chen Ping's team received a Spirit Hall mission from Wang Tian to impersonate Clear Sky Sect assassins and kill Dai Weisi.
• Chen Ping learned that Elder Wu and Qiangu Changkong had won over the Chai Family in Vast Sea City, giving Spirit Hall access to its intelligence network.

The Chai Family joined Spirit Hall, giving Bibi Dong an opening to disrupt the Star Luo Empire by arranging Dai Weisi’s assassination, while Wu Qi reached the Destructive Scepter and was drawn into the God of Destruction’s desolate birthplace. The chapter left Wu Qi facing a trial meant to teach him the meaning of destruction.

• Azure Phoenix Douluo recruited the Chai Brothers into Spirit Hall, and their shipping connections revealed intelligence about Tang San and the others.
• Bibi Dong’s plan called for Wang Tian to disguise himself as a Clear Sky Sect expert and kill Dai Weisi, but Chen Ping feared the plot would strengthen her position and struggled to find a way to stop it.
• Wang Tian led his team toward the place Dai Weisi would pass through while Chen Ping kept his doubts hidden.
• Wu Qi endured the Destructive Thunder and touched the Destructive Scepter at the mountaintop, becoming immune to its lightning before his consciousness was pulled away.
• Wu Qi found himself in a barren world that God of Destruction identified as the projection of his birthplace and the setting for Wu Qi’s trial.

Wu Qi watched stars form and die in the Consciousness World while Spirit Hall’s team prepared an ambush for Dai Weisi. The chapter ended with Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun surrounded by enemies before reaching the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Wu Qi reached a meteorite peak in the Consciousness World and watched nebular matter form a star that eventually died.
• Chen Ping’s team entered a town disguised as merchants and prepared to ambush Dai Weisi, while Wang Tian assigned a Soul Saint to watch Chen Ping.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun discussed the political turmoil, Xue Qinghe’s actions, and Dai Weisi’s plans for the throne and the Zhu Family.
• Dai Weisi’s carriage stopped suddenly, and the elderly driver warned him that enemies had surrounded them.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun stepped out and stood back-to-back with the driver, warily scanning their surroundings.

Chen Ping confronted Dai Weisi at a cliff and offered him a chance to escape after the ambush orchestrated by Wang Tian. Dai Weisi faked his death with a prepared substitute and went into hiding, while Chen Ping said Wu Qi would eventually contact him.

• Wang Tian and two Soul Saints attacked Dai Weisi, while his guard stayed behind to hold them off and Zhu Zhuyun fled with him.
• A second Soul Saint ambushed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, broke their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and injured them.
• Zhu Zhuyun charged the Soul Saint to buy Dai Weisi time, and Dai Weisi abandoned her and escaped alone.
• Chen Ping found Dai Weisi at a cliff and offered to let him go if he staged his death and stayed hidden.
• Dai Weisi produced a lookalike corpse from his Soul Tool, threw it off the cliff, and agreed to wait for Wu Qi to contact him.

Chen Ping helped Dai Weisi fake his death, allowing him to hide while Wang Tian’s team reported the mission as complete. Zhu Zhuyun survived the attack and implicated the Clear Sky Sect, but Duke Duolun suspected Dai Weisi had staged his disappearance and admired the plan.

• Chen Ping convinced Wang Tian that Dai Weisi had fallen off a cliff, and Wang Tian sent men to search below.
• Wang Tian’s team found a substitute corpse with Dai Weisi’s valuables, burned it, and reported the mission as complete.
• Dai Weisi stayed hidden in a cave until the Star Luo Empire’s search force left, then prepared to direct others from the shadows.
• Zhu Zhuyun recovered, identified herself, accused the Clear Sky Sect, and demanded that the Zhu Family intervene when Duke Duolun questioned her.
• Duke Duolun suspected Dai Weisi had faked his death to escape danger and concluded that Zhu Zhuyun might not know about the plan.

Dai Weisi hid after surviving the assassination and planned to use his disappearance to rebuild his influence while targeting the Clear Sky Sect. In Pope Hall, Hu Liena realized that Wang Tian’s team had destroyed the evidence needed to prove Dai Weisi’s death, leaving the Star Luo Empire unlikely to blame the Clear Sky Sect.

• Dai Weisi decided to stay hidden, work through Zhu Zhuyun, and wait for Wu Qi, whom he hoped to ally with against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Duke Duolun returned to Star Luo City with the evidence he had gathered while soldiers searched the mountains for Dai Weisi.
• Dai Weisi disguised himself as a soldier, slipped into Zhu Zhuyun’s courtyard, and revealed that his escape had not been staged.
• Dai Weisi told Zhu Zhuyun that he would remain missing so he could operate secretly and preserve his political influence.
• Wang Tian reported to Bibi Dong that Dai Weisi had been killed and presented his Soul Tool and identity tokens as proof.
• Hu Liena pointed out that Wang Tian’s team had burned Dai Weisi’s body, leaving no trace for the Star Luo Empire to find and potentially weakening any case against the Clear Sky Sect.

Wu Qi comprehended the Essence of Destruction, passed the Destruction Seventh Trial, and received permanent use of the Destructive Scepter. After learning that only two months had passed in the outside world, he arranged for Qiangu Changkong to finish his trial and meet him later in Maple Leaf City.

• Bibi Dong scolded the Wang Tian Squad after Wang Tian's failure to bring back proof of Dai Weisi's death undermined her plan.
• Wu Qi realized that destruction could lay the foundation for new life, completed the Destruction Seventh Trial, and reached one hundred percent Destruction Affinity.
• Wu Qi kept the Destructive Thunder active and descended the mountain to find Qiangu Changkong, who had completed eighty percent of his trial.
• Tang Xiao decided to seek the opportunity in the Destruction Mountains while sending Clear Sky Sect disciples to wait at the mountain's foot.
• Wu Qi learned that two months had passed outside and told Qiangu Changkong to go to Maple Leaf City after his trial and contact Chen Ping.

Wu Qi ended his cultivation on the Destruction Mountains and received the conditions for his Destruction Eighth Exam, while Tang San’s group completed the First Exam on Sea God Island. Wu Qi left for Maple Leaf City facing a five-year trial that required him to reach Level Ninety, obtain a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and survive Hunter without divine power or a divine artifact.

• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing completed the First Exam after half a year, and Dai Mubai gained a Soul Power level while Tang San gained Sea God Affinity.
• Tang San urged Dai Mubai to obtain his Sixth Soul Ring before the Second Exam, but the group had no clear way to find a suitable Soul Beast.
• Yu Tianheng led the group to a banquet and concealed his distress over his lost cultivation and diminished status from Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Wu Qi ended his secluded cultivation on the Destruction Mountains after reaching Level Eighty-Seven, then flew away under cover of night toward Maple Leaf City.
• Wu Qi received the Destruction Eighth Exam conditions: reach Level Ninety, obtain a Soul Ring of at least two hundred thousand years by his own strength, and endure one incense stick in Hunter’s hands without divine power or a divine artifact.

Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong prepared to travel from Vast Sea City out to sea so Wu Qi could pursue a powerful Soul Ring and advance his cultivation. They arrived at the Chai Family Mansion, where the family’s ties to Spirit Hall made the voyage easier to arrange.

• Wu Qi took the Destructive Scepter from the Destruction Mountains, and the weakening lightning left Tang Long and the others out of mortal danger.
• Wu Qi met Qiangu Changkong in Maple Leaf City and declined to help make Dai Weisi politically dead, preferring to let events unfold naturally.
• Over the next half year, Qiangu Changkong passed his Fifth Exam while Wu Qi reached Soul Power Level Eighty-Nine and planned a voyage out to sea.
• Qiangu Changkong’s Sixth Exam required him to go out to sea, and his strength had risen to Soul Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong reached Vast Sea City and discussed the Chai Family’s submission to Spirit Hall and the possibility of taking Sea God Island’s resources.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong arrived at the Chai Family Mansion to arrange their sea voyage.

Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong met with the Chai brothers to arrange a discreet voyage to the Demonic Whale Sea Area, where Wu Qi intended to obtain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Ring. After receiving supplies and rewards from Spirit Hall, they explored Vast Sea City and spotted a contest offering a Soul Guide Speedboat.

• Chai Rong and Chai Heng welcomed Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong and learned that Wu Qi planned to sail to the Demonic Whale Sea Area for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Ring.
• Chai Rong proposed that Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong rent a pirate ship and arranged for a trusted retainer, escape Soul Tools, and underwater navigation Soul Tools to support their trip.
• Wu Qi gave the Chai brothers two roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Soul Bones as rewards from the Great Offering and warned them not to trust Bibi Dong's promises.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong went sightseeing in Vast Sea City and watched a water-based fighting contest offering a Soul Guide Speedboat.
• Wu Qi encouraged Qiangu Changkong to enter the contest using his training staff without revealing his martial soul, and Qiangu Changkong agreed to try.

Qiangu Changkong entered a water-based Soul Fighting arena in Vast Sea City and used his staff skills to gain the upper hand against a Sea Soul Master. While watching, Wu Qi overheard the shipyard owners discussing Sea God Island’s new contacts and a planned supply shipment, revealing that the Chai Family shipyard served as the island’s spies.

• Qiangu Changkong registered for the arena match despite a warning that its rules and battlefield favored Sea Soul Masters.
• Qiangu Changkong used his Sinking Silver Rod to drain most of the pool and challenge the Sea Soul Master on more even terms.
• Qiangu Changkong repelled the man’s opening soul skill and began giving him pointers as Wu Qi noticed his improved staff mastery.
• Wu Qi overheard the shipyard owner and his son discuss two new Heirs of Holy Pillar Douluos, a Red Grade Exam candidate, and the next supply shipment to Sea God Island.
• Wu Qi realized the Chai Family shipyard was an agent supporting Sea God Island within Vast Sea City.

Wu Qi discovered that a shipyard in Vast Sea City was secretly spreading Sea God faith and told Chai Rong to watch it. Meanwhile, Qiangu Changkong pursued the shipyard’s speedboat prize, won nine matches, and then fought the Soul Saint Zheng Jiawen, whom he began to suppress.

• Wu Qi used spiritual communication to tell Chai Rong that the shipyard likely served Sea God Island, and Chai Rong promised to monitor it for Spirit Hall.
• Qiangu Changkong won his first arena match, and the staff stopped refilling the pool after he said he would drain it again.
• Qiangu Changkong defeated a series of challengers and reached a nine-match winning streak while pursuing the speedboat prize.
• A staff member offered Qiangu Changkong one thousand Gold Soul Coins to stop, but he refused and challenged the elderly Zheng Jiawen.
• Zheng Jiawen revealed himself as a level seventy-three Soul Saint and fought Qiangu Changkong, but Qiangu Changkong suppressed him.

Qiangu Changkong won a Soul Guide Speedboat in a duel, then joined Wu Qi and Ba Wei aboard the Sea Spider to travel into the Demonic Whale Sea Area. After a month at sea, the crew suspected their passengers had hidden motives, while Wu Qi neared a breakthrough to Level Ninety.

• Qiangu Changkong defeated Zheng Jiawen without holding back and claimed the Soul Guide Speedboat, leaving Zheng Jiawen and his granddaughter Lin'er stunned by his strength.
• Qiangu Changkong and Wu Qi discussed the finely balanced Sunken Silver Long Staff and their gains, including the hidden route to Sea God Island.
• Ba Wei led Qiangu Changkong and Wu Qi to the Sea Spider, where Captain Charles welcomed them aboard for a voyage into the Demonic Whale Sea Area.
• After a month at sea, Charles and his first mate suspected the three passengers had come for Soul Hunting and considered whether to make a move against them.
• Qiangu Changkong told Wu Qi he had noticed the crew's schemes, and Wu Qi said he expected to reach Level Ninety within two days and asked Qiangu Changkong to keep the crew in check.

Wu Qi entered the Demonic Whale Sea Area and confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, revealing power that matched the Sea God’s. He told the whale king that the rules of the lower planes made its dream of becoming a divine beast impossible, leaving it to decide whether to believe him.

• Wu Qi’s Soul Power broke through Level Ninety, and he flew alone toward the depths of the Demonic Whale Sea Area while Qiangu Changkong stayed aboard the Sea Spider.
• Qiangu Changkong revealed eight Soul Rings and confronted Charles and the pirates as Wu Qi drew the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s attention.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King surfaced and attacked Wu Qi with columns of water, but Wu Qi dissolved them with the Destructive Scepter.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King transformed into a one-eyed man and asked Wu Qi how he could become a divine beast.
• Wu Qi said no beast in the lower planes could reach the divine level and urged the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to verify his claim with a being in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Bo Saixi, possessed by the Sea God, arrived to stop Wu Qi from taking the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring and ordered him to leave Sea God Island’s domain. Wu Qi allied with the whale against Poseidon, who summoned the Golden Trident as Tang San and the other exam takers witnessed the divine display.

• Bo Saixi appeared in the sky possessed by the Sea God, who warned the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that soul beasts could not become deities and ordered Wu Qi to leave.
• Wu Qi challenged Poseidon’s claim over the sea and raised the Destructive Scepter, filling the sky with destructive lightning.
• Wu Qi secretly promised to reveal how the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King could become a divine beast if it helped drive Poseidon back.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King stood beside Wu Qi but proposed leaving to avoid a fight, while Poseidon refused to let his hostage go.
• Poseidon summoned the Golden Trident from Poseidon Temple, and believers, Tang San, and the other exam takers witnessed it fly through the sky.

Tang San and the others learned that a crisis had erupted in the Demonic Whale Sea Area and were ordered to help defend Seahorse City. There, Poseidon battled Wu Qi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who transformed into his true form and summoned the sea as the fight turned against him.

• Seahorse Douluo suspended the examinations of Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing and summoned them to defend Seahorse City from the danger in the Demonic Whale Sea Area.
• Poseidon used the Golden Trident to restrain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and then attacked Wu Qi with Eons of Emptiness.
• Wu Qi spread the Domain of Destruction and used Lightning of Extinction to destroy Poseidon's attack, but Poseidon hurled the Golden Trident at him.
• The battle sent enormous waves crashing into the Sea Spider, so Ba Wei urged Qiangu Changkong to escape in the Soul Guidance Submersible.
• As Poseidon gained the upper hand, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked Wu Qi to buy him time, reverted to his whale form, and summoned waterspouts from the sea.

Wu Qi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King battled Poseidon, whose divine attack struck Seahorse City while Tang San helped evacuate its residents. As Wu Qi prepared to flee, Hunter appeared and challenged Poseidon for attacking a God of Destruction Heir.

• Wu Qi used his Qing Luan Martial Soul and Divine Armor to join the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in fighting Poseidon, and the two managed to wound Bo Saixi's body.
• Wu Qi's attack caused Poseidon's Sun of the Sea to miss its target and fly toward Seahorse City, where Seahorse Douluo failed to stop it.
• Tang San and others evacuated many residents before Sun of the Sea struck Seahorse City, leaving dozens dead or injured and a huge crater.
• Poseidon drew on more Divine Power through Bo Saixi's Ninth Soul Skill and forced Wu Qi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King back.
• Wu Qi prepared to escape, but Hunter arrived beneath fiery red clouds and confronted Poseidon for attacking his Heir.

Wu Qi escaped Poseidon with Hunter’s help and persuaded the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to sacrifice himself in exchange for revival after Wu Qi became a god. The sacrifice began, forming a Brilliant Gold Ninth Soul Ring for Wu Qi.

• Poseidon drew Divine Power from his true body, so Hunter ordered Wu Qi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to retreat while he confronted Poseidon.
• Six hundred li from the Demonic Whale Sea Area, Wu Qi explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King could escape the limits on Soul Beasts by sacrificing his Soul Ring and Soul Bone and being revived in the God Realm.
• Wu Qi showed his Divine Armor as evidence that ancient divine beasts had willingly sacrificed their Soul Bones to him, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King agreed to trust him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King transformed into his true body and burned nearly a million years of cultivation to create a Sacrificial Domain.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s body became starlight and flowed into Wu Qi, while a Brilliant Gold Soul Ring formed as Wu Qi’s Ninth Soul Ring.