Chapter Summaries

After the Spirit Pagoda won the tournament, Xu Tianran recognized Battle Armor as a threat and ordered Ju Zi to contact the Holy Spirit Cult before attacking Star Luo. That night, explosions struck the imperial palace, and Huo Yuhao prepared the Spirit Pagoda for whatever came next.

• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that the Spirit Pagoda’s Battle Armor could strengthen Star Luo and ordered her to prepare the Holy Spirit Cult for action.
• The Spirit Pagoda celebrated its tournament victory at a banquet in its Sun Moon Branch Tower.
• Explosions rocked Ming Capital, and a Spirit Pagoda employee identified the imperial palace as their likely target.
• Huo Yuhao ended the banquet and told everyone to remain vigilant as flames rose over the palace.
• Wang Dong'er asked whether the original Three Douluo Kingdoms and Shrek Academy had attacked, and Huo Yuhao said they would wait and see.

Xu Tianran survived an assassination attempt at the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and revealed that he had anticipated the attack, using it as a pretext to prepare for war. After ordering Ju Zi to publicize the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ responsibility, he told her it was time for the old emperor to die, leaving her poised to become empress.

• An explosion destroyed Diligent Governance Hall, but Xu Tianran survived behind a barrier and revealed himself as a Title Douluo.
• Long Xiaoyao and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces surrounded the attackers, and Xuan Zi ordered Shrek Academy to retreat before Du Busi and the other invaders withdrew.
• Xu Tianran ordered his forces to pursue the retreating attackers and sent Long Xiaoyao toward the Sun Moon Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Tianran embraced Ju Zi and ordered her to spread news that the Three Douluo Kingdoms had attempted to assassinate him.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that the old emperor’s time had come, and she left knowing she would become the Sun Moon Empress.

Huo Yuhao ordered the Spirit Pagoda members to evacuate as Long Xiaoyao confronted him and captured him. As Long Xiaoyao prepared to leave with his prisoner, he suddenly reacted with shock at something he saw.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the fleeing Star Luo Imperial Soul Master Academy group and learned that Princess Jiujiu had gone to meet others.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Spirit Pagoda members to evacuate along their planned route, and Wang Dong'er and Jin Li led them away.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared above the plaza, and Huo Yuhao stayed behind to delay him while the others escaped.
• Long Xiaoyao offered to spare Huo Yuhao if he surrendered, but Huo Yuhao refused to go with him to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao attacked with a dark dragon claw, overcame Huo Yuhao's Soul Skills, and seized him.
• As Long Xiaoyao prepared to leave with Huo Yuhao, his expression changed and he stared at him in shock.

Huo Yuhao used his Space-Time Annihilation Domain to deceive Long Xiaoyao, who broke free and recognized the illusion. When Long Xiaoyao attacked, Huo Yuhao used Di Tian’s Reverse Scale to summon a powerful strike through a spatial rift, leaving Long Xiaoyao questioning who had intervened.

• Long Xiaoyao crushed an illusory Huo Yuhao, then used his spiritual power to reveal Huo Yuhao’s true position and Battle Armor.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Long Xiaoyao had fallen into his Spirit Domain, and assessed him as a Demigod-level opponent.
• Long Xiaoyao released his nine Soul Rings and attacked Huo Yuhao with Holy Dragon Dark Night Slash.
• Huo Yuhao brought out Di Tian’s Reverse Scale as Di Tian sent a claw strike through a spatial rift from beside the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian’s attack shattered Long Xiaoyao’s Soul Skill, and Long Xiaoyao asked the unseen powerhouse who he was.

After Di Tian stopped Long Xiaoyao from attacking, Huo Yuhao tracked down the retreating Spirit Pagoda group and found them hiding with Shrek Academy. He rejected Xuan Zi’s expectation that the Spirit Pagoda help Shrek’s assassination mission, leaving Xuan Zi to swallow his anger.

• Di Tian warned Long Xiaoyao to leave Huo Yuhao alone, and Long Xiaoyao let Huo Yuhao go.
• Huo Yuhao followed the Spirit Pagoda members’ tracking signals west after discovering they had changed their route.
• Huo Yuhao caught up with the Spirit Pagoda group, where Wang Dong'er checked that he was unharmed.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Jin Li had led the group into the forest after encountering Shrek Academy’s retreating team and their pursuers.
• Xuan Zi asked Huo Yuhao to help Shrek’s assassination mission, but Huo Yuhao told him Shrek should stay out of continental affairs.
• Xuan Zi restrained himself from reprimanding Huo Yuhao because Di Tian stood behind him.

Huo Yuhao joined Cai Mei'er and Xuan Zi's group as they fled west through the mountains, where a mysterious white fog blocked spiritual perception and surrounded them. Golden-silver beams struck everyone, and Xuan Zi discovered the fog prevented flight.

• Cai Mei'er urged Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi to leave Sun Moon territory, and the group chose to travel west while concealing their auras.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the pursuers closing in and warned that the western route might be a trap, but agreed to accompany the group.
• After about an hour, Huo Yuhao stopped the group when he noticed fog that their spiritual power could not penetrate.
• Xuan Zi flew above the group to inspect the fog and was struck by a beam of golden and silver light.
• The fog surged around the group and struck everyone with golden-silver beams, then Xuan Zi fell to the ground and realized the fog restricted flight.

A strange gold-and-silver force carried Huo Yuhao and the others to Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love's Questions, where they were separated and drawn into a mysterious trial. Huo Yuhao recognized the perilous realm and, trapped inside, anxiously asked his teacher how to escape.

• A Shrek reserve member vanished into the fog, and a growing force pulled everyone through it despite Xuan Zi and Huo Yuhao's protective Soul Power barriers.
• The group emerged above a gold-and-silver lake, and Huo Yuhao recognized it as Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love's Questions and warned everyone not to lie.
• The lake's light shattered the protective barriers, separating everyone inside individual gold-and-silver bubbles.
• Huo Yuhao's bubble carried him into a strange world with thirteen people standing around a circular platform.
• Huo Yuhao recalled the realm's dangerous test of romantic loyalty and anxiously asked his teacher how to leave.

Huo Yuhao and the others faced a series of questions and trials in the Qiankun Wenqing domain, each targeting their deepest feelings. After the domain punished Huo Yuhao for claiming Wang Dong'er was the one he loved most, he repeated his answer and challenged the judgment.

• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he could not quickly break the divine-law domain, and the Qiankun Wenqing adventure began.
• Bei Bei admitted that Tang Ya was his lover and castrated himself after the voice promised her recovery; the domain declared that he had passed the first round.
• The beam selected Huo Yuhao, who named Wang Dong'er as his lover and said she was the one he loved most.
• The domain detected a lie and lashed Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong'er heard the exchange and grew distressed, suspecting he loved Jin Li more.
• Huo Yuhao noticed the voice's hesitation and insisted that Wang Dong'er was the one he loved most and that he had not lied.

In the God Realm, Ning Rongrong and Tang San watched Huo Yuhao’s trial in the Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love’s Questions. Jin Li admitted she loved Huo Yuhao and would die for him, while the trial moved from questions about true feelings to increasingly outrageous adventure challenges.

• Ning Rongrong told Tang San that Huo Yuhao was difficult to judge, and Tang San sent his divine sense down to observe the trial.
• The trial declared Huo Yuhao had passed the True Heart round, easing Wang Dong’er’s suspicions.
• Jin Li confessed that she liked Huo Yuhao and said she would be willing to die for him, passing the first round.
• The trial announced its second round, Adventure, in which participants faced randomly assigned challenges.
• Huo Yuhao watched participants being given humiliating and distasteful tasks, unaware that Ning Rongrong was controlling the trial.

Huo Yuhao surrendered the battle trial to let Wang Dong'er and Jin Li pass, but both chose to join him in the Deep Adventure. Tang San took control of the trial and sent them into a massive battlefield at Jialing Pass.

• Huo Yuhao surrendered to Wang Dong'er and Jin Li, triggering his entry into the Deep Adventure while they were declared successful.
• Wang Dong'er and Jin Li refused to pass without Huo Yuhao and requested to accompany him into the Deep Adventure.
• Tang San took control of Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love's Questions and approved their request, intending to test Huo Yuhao's abilities under extreme pressure.
• Huo Yuhao appeared on a scorched battlefield filled with Soul Masters and sensed hundreds of Soul Saints and dozens of Title Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao saw the fortress plaque identifying the battlefield as Jialing Pass.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Jin Li arrived in a recreated version of the Jialing Pass battlefield from ten thousand years earlier. When Qian Jun Douluo attacked, Huo Yuhao dodged his blow and used his Spirit Domain to freeze him in midair.

• Wang Dong'er and Jin Li appeared beside Huo Yuhao and insisted on facing danger with him.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the battlefield as Jialing Pass and identified the approaching warrior as Qian Jun Douluo, a Spirit Hall consecrated member wielding the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Huo Yuhao shielded Wang Dong'er and Jin Li, equipped his Three-Word Battle Armor, and flew to confront Qian Jun Douluo.
• Qian Jun Douluo enlarged the Coiling Dragon Staff and swung it down at Huo Yuhao, who slipped through a gap in the attack and avoided the strike.
• Huo Yuhao appeared behind Qian Jun Douluo and overwhelmed him with his Spirit Domain, leaving him frozen in midair.

Huo Yuhao killed Qian Jun Douluo with the Ice Explosion Technique, but Tang San increased the difficulty of the illusion. The battlefield then witnessed Qian Renxue’s ascension as the Angel God, leaving Huo Yuhao facing a newly ascended god.

• Huo Yuhao struck Qian Jun Douluo with the Emperor’s Palm and used the Ice Explosion Technique to kill him.
• Wang Dong’er and Jin Li watched in shock as Huo Yuhao defeated the level ninety-six Super Douluo.
• Ning Rongrong praised Huo Yuhao, while Tang San silently used the God of Love’s authority to make changes to the illusion.
• Huo Yuhao stayed wary, aware that the illusion’s mental and spiritual dangers could be real.
• A golden light appeared above Jialing Pass, revealing Qian Renxue with six wings and divine attire.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Qian Renxue as the newly ascended Angel God.

Qian Renxue singled out Huo Yuhao and struck him with the Angel Holy Sword, leaving him gravely wounded despite Electrolux’s defenses and Huo Yuhao’s counterattack. As Wang Dong’er and Jin Li reached him in the crater, Jin Li embraced him for reasons she kept to herself.

• Qian Renxue appeared over the battlefield, fixed her gaze on Huo Yuhao, and launched a divine sword strike at him.
• Electrolux raised eighteen defensive magic arrays, and Huo Yuhao used his Eternal Eye to meet Qian Renxue’s attack.
• The clash sent Huo Yuhao crashing into a crater with a deep wound across his chest, and Wang Dong’er and Jin Li rushed to him.
• Wang Dong’er worried over Huo Yuhao while Jin Li silently decided to try something despite believing it could not save him.
• Jin Li stood and embraced Huo Yuhao, leaving him confused as Wang Dong’er watched without intervening.

Jin Li sacrificed her life force and cultivation to heal Huo Yuhao, and he realized he had fallen in love with her as she vanished. In the God Realm, Ning Rongrong sensed a fragment of Tang Wutong’s soul within Jin Li and confronted Tang San about it.

• Jin Li confessed her love to Huo Yuhao and began sacrificing herself to him despite his attempts to stop her.
• Wang Dong’er recognized the sacrifice and watched as Jin Li’s golden power flowed into Huo Yuhao.
• Jin Li’s life force healed Huo Yuhao’s divine wound, while memories of their time together made him realize his feelings for her.
• Tang San watched Jin Li’s sacrifice unfold on the Nine-Colored God Temple’s light screen.
• Ning Rongrong sensed a fragment of Tang Wutong’s soul within Jin Li and asked Tang San why it was there.

As Jin Li continued her Sacrifice, Huo Yuhao was unable to stop her, but his distress awakened a hidden power of destruction. The God of Destruction traced that power to the Nine-Colored God Temple, confronted Tang San and Ning Rongrong for spying on the lower realm, and announced a God Realm meeting to demand an explanation.

• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to stop Jin Li's Sacrifice, but Electrolux said the act followed a law of the world that even he could not break.
• Huo Yuhao's anguish briefly stirred the Scepter of Destruction in his Spirit Sea, releasing a power that neither Huo Yuhao nor Electrolux noticed.
• The God of Destruction sensed the matching power near the Nine-Colored God Temple and discovered Tang San and Ning Rongrong observing the lower realm.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San and Ning Rongrong of violating God Realm rules, while Tang San dismissed the projection and defended his actions as an investigation.
• The God of Destruction rejected Tang San's justification and said he would convene a God Realm meeting the next day to demand an explanation.

After Tang San stopped interfering in the lower realm, the God of Destruction sensed a primordial trace of his power on the Douluo Continent and projected his divine sense there. He appeared in Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea, where Huo Yuhao begged him to stop Jin Li’s Sacrifice, and the God of Destruction discovered signs that Tang Wutong’s soul had been deliberately divided.

• Tang San told Ning Rongrong that their objectives were achieved and decided to leave the lower realm alone.
• The God of Destruction kept watch on Tang San, then sensed his own Destruction power coming from the Douluo Continent and sent his divine sense there.
• The God of Destruction appeared above Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea and recognized the Scepter of Destruction.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the God of Destruction and begged him to stop Jin Li’s Sacrifice in exchange for an explanation.
• The God of Destruction saw the fragment of Tang Wutong’s soul in Jin Li and the damage to Wang Dong’er’s soul, then suspected Tang San had caused it.

The God of Destruction halted Jin Li’s Sacrifice and learned from Huo Yuhao that Tang San had arranged the events on the Illusion Battlefield. After receiving memories from his future self, he accepted Huo Yuhao’s account and learned of the coming upheaval in the God Realm and Tang San’s role in it.

• The God of Destruction froze the Illusion Battlefield, interrupting Jin Li’s Sacrifice before it could finish.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Tang San had arranged everything, and the God of Destruction confirmed it.
• The God of Destruction noticed two identical Scepters of Destruction and asked Huo Yuhao to explain what was happening.
• Huo Yuhao told the God of Destruction that they had met ten thousand years later and showed him memories from his future self.
• The God of Destruction received memories of the God Realm’s upheaval, his battle with Tang San, and the Goddess of Life’s fall, then condemned Tang San’s methods.

The God of Destruction chose Huo Yuhao as his successor, placed the inheritance mark on him, and reversed Jin Li’s Sacrifice. Huo Yuhao received the first trial of the Nine Trials of Destruction and prepared to leave Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love’s Questions with Jin Li and Wang Dong'er.

• Huo Yuhao offered to help the God of Destruction oppose Tang San, and the God of Destruction declared him qualified to inherit the Destruction God Position.
• The God of Destruction warned Huo Yuhao that inheriting the God Position meant protecting the God Realm, and Huo Yuhao vowed to defend it with his life.
• The God of Destruction marked Huo Yuhao with the inheritance sign and reversed Jin Li’s Sacrifice, restoring her life force and soul to her.
• The God of Destruction healed Huo Yuhao’s chest wound and initiated the First Trial of the Nine Trials of Destruction: escaping Heaven-and-Earth Valley of Love’s Questions.
• Jin Li regained her bearings, and Huo Yuhao took her and Wang Dong'er by the hand and said they should leave.

After the valley’s trials ended, Huo Yuhao and the others escaped safely and received the God of Destruction’s reward for completing the first trial. Huo Yuhao learned that the examination had been easy because the God of Destruction already knew his abilities, but future trials might be harder.

• The gold-and-silver bubbles and platform vanished, sending everyone falling into the lake below, where they regrouped with Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Jin Li.
• Cai Mei'er and Huo Yuhao led the Shrek Academy, Spirit Pagoda, and Star Luo Imperial Soul Master Academy groups out of the valley as its fog cleared.
• After traveling for about two hours, Huo Yuhao confirmed that no Sun Moon Empire pursuers remained, and the God of Destruction announced that the first trial was complete.
• The God of Destruction rewarded Huo Yuhao with five percent compatibility and increased the age of his Soul Rings by ten thousand years.
• Huo Yuhao asked why the trial had been so easy, and the God of Destruction explained that he had already judged Huo Yuhao’s talent and character, while warning that later trials might be more difficult.

Huo Yuhao accepted the God of Destruction’s second trial to gather evidence of Tang San’s crimes, while Xu Tianran prepared to launch an offensive after the Sun Moon Empire’s mourning period. At the Tang Sect, Old Tang announced that he had succeeded in restoring the Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal.

• The God of Destruction tasked Huo Yuhao with finding evidence of Tang San’s arrangements in the lower realms within half a year, and Huo Yuhao planned to investigate known locations and visit the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xu Tianran learned that Shrek Academy and the Spirit Pagoda had escaped Ming Capital, and Zhongli Wu admitted that the Holy Spirit Cult had misjudged its plans at West Mountain.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to prepare an offensive for after the national mourning period, following the old emperor’s reported death.
• Tang Wulin stopped cultivating at the Tang Sect and entered his Spirit Sea when Old Tang called to him.
• Old Tang told Tang Wulin that it had worked and showed him the Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal glowing in his palm.