Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua entered the Radiant Splendor Sacred Realm and found a vast palace made of light. The Goddess of Light watched them from the God Realm, judged Ning Rongrong eligible to inherit her legacy, and wondered how compatible she would be.

• Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua flew into the beam of light and were transported to the Radiant Splendor Sacred Realm.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua saw the enormous palace built from solidified light and entered it together.
• The Goddess of Light observed the pair through a mirror of light and focused on Ning Rongrong.
• The Goddess of Light declared Ning Rongrong qualified to inherit her legacy but questioned her compatibility.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua crossed the palace gate and saw a mural of the Goddess of Light holding a Scepter.

Ning Rongrong touched a mural on the Goddess of Light's pillar and was drawn into a vast garden, where she encountered a beautiful woman seated on a flower-woven swing. The woman’s identity and the purpose of Ning Rongrong’s encounter remained unknown.

• Ning Rongrong studied the pillar’s reliefs with Tang Yuehua, who explained how they appeared to depict the Goddess of Light’s life.
• Ning Rongrong pressed her hand against a mural showing the goddess with a kneeling young woman, and a golden light enveloped her.
• Tang Yuehua stayed beside the pillar while Ning Rongrong’s consciousness was drawn into an unfamiliar place.
• Ning Rongrong found herself in a vast garden that resembled the scene depicted in the mural and walked toward an ancient tree.
• Ning Rongrong saw a silver-haired woman in a plain white gown sitting on a flower-woven swing.

Ning Rongrong met the Goddess of Light and received her first divine trial, which required her to endure seven days and nights in the Light Rain Pool. While Rongrong prepared to stay in the palace, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er searched the Extreme North for the Ice God's inheritance and planned to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to locate it.

• Ning Rongrong met the Goddess of Light in her garden and received the Light Scepter mark and her first divine trial.
• Ning Rongrong told Tang Yuehua she had to remain in the palace to complete the trial, and Tang Yuehua left to search for her own inheritance trials.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er struggled to locate the Ice God's inheritance site using Ye Xiao's approximate map.
• Shui Bing'er proposed summoning their Ice Phoenix through their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to attract the Ice God's attention.

The Ice God watched Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er travel through the Extreme North and sent Shui Bing'er to Snow Empress's palace. There, the Ice God's phantom appeared and placed a divine mark on Shui Bing'er, whose ultimate ice Soul Power resonated with the divine power.

• The Titan Snow Devil King sensed Snow Empress and Ice Empress's auras in the two girls and returned to its nap.
• The Ice God observed the girls through an ice mirror and decided to give Shui Bing'er an opportunity because Snow Empress thought highly of her.
• Shui Bing'er heard a voice tell her to go to Snow Empress's palace and told Shui Yue'er what she had heard.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er traveled for two days to Snow Empress's palace, where the guards let them enter.
• The Ice God's phantom appeared before Shui Bing'er and placed a divine mark on her forehead, triggering a burst of Ice Blue light.

Shui Bing'er received the Ice God's divine trial, and several others across the Spirit Hall Empire continued pursuing Deity inheritances. At Vast Sea City, delegations from the Sun Empire and Moon Empire arrived by ship and were stunned by the Spirit Hall Empire's modern harbor.

• The Ice God granted Shui Bing'er a divine trial, and Shui Yue'er believed she might receive an inheritance too.
• Over the next three months, Shui Bing'er passed six trials, Ning Rongrong passed the seventh trial, and Zhu Zhuqing, Huo Wu, and others pursued Deity inheritances.
• A wooden ship from the Sun Empire arrived at Vast Sea City, where its delegation was astonished by the harbor's concrete docks, metal ships, and Soul Tool facilities.
• Su Wenchuan led the Sun Empire delegation ashore after quietly confirming that their vessel was the best ship in their empire.
• A Moon Empire ship arrived an hour later, and Vice Minister Jiang and his delegation were equally astonished by the harbor.

Su Wenchuan and Vice Minister Jiang arrived in Vast Sea City and saw the Spirit Hall Empire’s advanced infrastructure, from guesthouse Soul Tools to its railway. They boarded a high-speed Soul Tool train bound for Spirit City and watched it accelerate beyond anything they had known.

• Su Wenchuan and Vice Minister Jiang met City Lord Zhong at the docks and were taken to a guesthouse for foreign visitors.
• Su Wenchuan examined a Soul Tool desk lamp, then the delegations saw Vast Sea City’s buses, shops, and inexpensive goods on their way to the railway station.
• The delegations were astonished by the station’s glass-and-steel building and busy crowds.
• Vice Minister Jiang learned that a Soul Tool train carried hundreds of passengers without horses and reached Spirit City in a day and a night.
• Su Wenchuan and the other envoys boarded the comfortable train, which accelerated to two hundred as fields, forests, and villages blurred past.

Su Wenchuan and the two empires’ delegations traveled by train from Vast Sea City to Spirit City, witnessing the Spirit Hall Empire’s advanced industry and vast, orderly capital. At Martial Soul Mountain, the delegation was left speechless by its monumental complex of halls as the reception official reminded them that the Pope was waiting.

• Su Wenchuan read a travel guide and watched the train pass factories and fields where a machine harvested wheat while Vice Minister Jiang observed in shock.
• The train arrived at Spirit City North Station, and Su Wenchuan saw the capital’s busy streets, modern buildings, and orderly crowds.
• The delegations walked along Spirit City’s central avenue, where Su Wenchuan noted the broad paved road, streetlights, shops, and varied residents.
• The reception official led the delegations to Martial Soul Mountain, where they saw its tiers of halls and the Angel God statue overlooking Spirit City.
• Su Wenchuan and Vice Minister Jiang stood speechless before the mountain complex until the reception official reminded them that the Pope was waiting in the hall.

Sun Empire envoy Su Wenchuan met Pope Bibi Dong in Spirit City, then quickly negotiated a trade agreement with the Spirit Hall Empire’s Ministry of Commerce. After a week touring the empire, he and Vice Minister Jiang realized how small their past conflict seemed beside Spirit Hall’s strength and development.

• Su Wenchuan and the delegation climbed to Pope Hall, where Bibi Dong received them in her formal attire.
• Bibi Dong directed the envoys to handle trade negotiations with the Ministry of Commerce while she returned to state affairs.
• Su Wenchuan and Vice Minister Jiang reviewed the prepared trade terms with their delegations and signed the agreement.
• The Ministry of Commerce arranged a week-long itinerary for the envoys to tour Spirit City and its empire.
• On the fourth day, Vice Minister Jiang compared the battles at Iron Gate Pass to two villages fighting over a well, and Su Wenchuan silently agreed.

Su Wenchuan reported on the Spirit Hall Empire’s technology, wealth, and living standards to the Sun Empire’s Emperor, who concluded that it could not be defeated and ordered the empire to learn from it. The Sun Empire began planning to build its own iron-hulled ships and strengthen its ties with the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Su Wenchuan returned from the Spirit Hall Empire with a trade agreement, documents, newspapers, and photographs.
• Su Wenchuan described the Spirit Hall Empire’s trains, factories, military, education, and ordinary citizens to the Emperor and ministers.
• The Emperor declared that the Spirit Hall Empire could not be fought and urged the Sun Empire to cultivate relations and learn from it.
• The Emperor explained that the Spirit Hall Empire sought to draw the continent into its markets through trade and shared standards rather than military force.
• The Emperor ordered the Sun Empire to send shipwrights to learn from the Spirit Hall Empire and launch its own iron-hulled ships within a year.

A year later, Ye Xiao began creating his own divine position as Bibi Dong prepared the empire for their impending ascension. Faith from humanity, spirit beasts, the Extreme North, and the ocean converged on Martial Soul Mountain, where Ye Xiao’s tenth spirit ring began to form.

• Ye Xiao told Bibi Dong he would create his own divine position, and she arranged for the empire’s administration to continue during their transition to godhood.
• Pope Hall warned the empire of Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong’s attempt to attain godhood, while the Star Dou Great Forest, the Extreme North, and Sea God Island suspended normal operations and entered alert.
• Bo Saixi joined Bibi Dong on Martial Soul Mountain as Ye Xiao stood on its summit and released his nine connected blood-red spirit rings.
• People across the continent and spirit beasts led by Gu Yuena, the Extreme North’s spirit beasts, and Sea God Island’s inhabitants sent their faith toward Ye Xiao.
• Four streams of faith merged above Martial Soul Mountain and entered Ye Xiao as his nine spirit rings broke apart and a ten-colored tenth ring began to form.

Ye Xiao created the Origin God King divine position, becoming the God Realm’s sixth God King, and stayed in Spirit City while Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, Bo Saixi, and the others completed their divine trials. Years later, Ye Xiao and Qian Renxue’s infant son was placed in Bibi Dong’s care so she could prepare him to rule the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Ye Xiao awakened the Origin God King power, and the gods of the God Realm watched as his divine power continued to rise.
• Ye Xiao remained in Spirit City while Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Bo Saixi completed their divine trials, followed a year later by Ning Rongrong, Shui Yue'er, Huo Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Shui Bing'er, and the others.
• The newly ascended deities entered closed-door cultivation to have children and handed the Spirit Hall Empire’s administration to Qian Daoliu and the Worship Hall elders.
• Five years later, Ye Xiao and Qian Renxue celebrated their son’s one-month birthday, and the baby called Ye Xiao “Daddy.”
• Ye Xiao gave the child to Bibi Dong to teach him about ruling the empire, while Qian Renxue took Ye Xiao away for closed-door cultivation.

The young emperor, grandson of Bibi Dong and son of Ye Xiao and Qian Renxue, unified the Sun Moon Continent with the Spirit Hall Empire, and Ye Xiao joined the continents. Fifty years later, Ye Xiao and his companions ascended to the God Realm, where he and the God of Destruction agreed to expand it.

• Bibi Dong’s grandson grew into a capable emperor and announced the annexation of the Sun Moon Continent, which joined the Spirit Hall Empire peacefully after years of trade and Jinyiwei infiltration.
• Ye Xiao emerged from cultivation and shifted the Sun Moon Continent across the ocean, joining it to Douluo Continent.
• Fifty years later, Ye Xiao, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and their companions ascended through the God Realm gate, with Qian Daoliu following them.
• The Asura God greeted Ye Xiao in the God Realm, where he had retired and handed his position to Bibi Dong.
• The God of Destruction proposed expanding the God Realm, and Ye Xiao agreed; the Asura God declined to intervene, saying he was retired.