Chapter Summaries

Su Ming realized that the system’s rewards had altered events and strengthened his women, then faced Qian Renxue in battle to test how powerful she had become. Qian Renxue’s Angel Sacred Flame scorched his Wood Human, and Su Ming urged her to reveal her remaining tricks.

• Su Ming connected the system’s rewards to changes in Xiao Wu, Zhu Qing, and Dugu Yan, then told the system he wanted an honest explanation.
• Su Ming activated all six Soul Rings and fought to counter Qian Renxue’s domain as spectators and Spirit Hall figures reacted to her strength.
• Qian Renxue opened with Angel Assault, but Su Ming’s Wood Human overpowered her punch and forced her to change tactics.
• Qian Renxue used Angel Sacred Sword to attack from the air, and her sword energy briefly scorched the Wood Human.
• Su Ming praised Qian Renxue as his strongest opponent and suspected the system had given her more abilities to reveal.

Su Ming fought Qian Renxue in the arena as she revealed powerful Spirit Skills and clones, while he used his Life Conversion technique to dissolve two of them. The fight escalated when Qian Renxue launched a move Su Ming recognized from his past life as Tanjiro’s Sun Breathing: Round Dance.

• Qian Renxue used Void Wings to pass unharmed through Su Ming’s barrage of Wood Thorns, then evaded his attacks while her skill remained active.
• Qian Renxue summoned three Angel Clones, healed her injuries with Angel Divine Light, and challenged Su Ming to reveal another trick.
• Su Ming used Life Conversion to dissolve two clones, and Bibi Dong reassured the crowd that he had identified the real Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue dismissed the dissolving clones, readied her Angel Sacred Sword, and used Sun Breathing, First Form: Round Dance.
• Su Ming recognized Qian Renxue’s flaming sword strike as Tanjiro’s Sun Breathing move from his past life.

Qian Renxue used Sun Breathing techniques to cut off Su Ming’s Wood Human’s arm, but Su Ming regrew it and revealed a stronger form. He covered the Wood Human in Susanoo armor and summoned a longsword, leaving Tang Hao worried that Yu Yuanzhen had been defeated.

• Qian Renxue used Round Dance and Azure Sky, cutting off the Wood Human’s right forearm with the Angel Sacred Sword.
• Su Ming’s Wood Human regrew its arm, and Qian Renxue claimed she had developed the techniques herself and had more moves.
• Su Ming decided to stop restraining his strength and opened his Eternal Mangekyo to intimidate Qian Renxue.
• Su Ming activated Majestic Attire on the Wood Human, covering it in pale blue armor and summoning a longsword.
• Tang Hao saw Su Ming’s new form and feared that Yu Yuanzhen had met with disaster.

Su Ming faced Qian Renxue in the tournament and copied her Sun Breathing techniques with his Sharingan, countering her every attack. After Qian Renxue's twelve-move combo failed to injure him, Su Ming revealed a crushing aura that suppressed her Angel Domain and overwhelmed the spectators.

• Tang Hao regretted not killing Su Ming after he declared an interest in joining Spirit Hall, and had once considered making him an ally for Tang San.
• Su Ming speculated that Tang Hao's changing attitude toward Tang San had depended on whether he believed Tang San was his son.
• Su Ming challenged Qian Renxue to use her strongest move, and she launched a series of Sun Breathing forms with her Angel Sacred Sword.
• Su Ming used the same Sun Breathing techniques to counter Qian Renxue's attacks, leaving her wounded while he remained unharmed.
• Qian Renxue asked how Su Ming knew her techniques, and Su Ming told her she lacked the conviction and unstoppable aura needed to use them properly.
• Su Ming released an overwhelming aura that alarmed Bibi Dong, suppressed Qian Renxue's Angel Domain, and made the spectators feel ill and faint.

Su Ming overwhelmed Qian Renxue with his copied techniques and accidentally awakened a domain, while his teammates kept her alive through the assault. The Spirit Hall Team conceded, and Qian Renxue challenged Su Ming to spar again while privately rebuking him for nearly killing her.

• Su Ming used Divine Might and a relentless series of Flame Dance slashes to wound Qian Renxue as she tried to evade and defend herself.
• Dugu Yan ordered Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong to heal and strengthen Qian Renxue, recognizing that Su Ming might be comprehending a domain.
• After completing the twelfth form, Su Ming calmed down and discovered that his power of destruction had formed a black-blue domain.
• Qian Renxue and Su Ming dispelled their transformations, and Qian Renxue conceded the match for the Spirit Hall Team.
• Qian Renxue challenged Su Ming to spar again and privately scolded him for showing her no mercy, while Su Ming awkwardly blamed his newly comprehended domain.

The Heaven Dou Team won the Soul Master Tournament, and Su Ming distributed two of the three Soul Bones among his teammates while keeping the third for later. Bibi Dong invited Su Ming to join Spirit Hall and offered to grant his requests, and Su Ming prepared to demand real authority.

• The cardinal announced the Heaven Dou Team as the tournament champions, and Bibi Dong presented them with three Soul Bones.
• Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan declined the Soul Bones, so Su Ming gave the Wind Chasing Left Leg Bone to Zhu Zhuqing and the Wisdom Skull to Ning Rongrong.
• Su Ming kept the Blazing Arm Bone because it did not suit anyone on the team, while Shi Mo and the others accepted the distribution without objection.
• Bibi Dong invited Su Ming to join Spirit Hall and promised to fulfill any reasonable request, including providing him a full set of Soul Bones.
• Su Ming stopped Yufeng and the others from intervening and asked Bibi Dong whether she would truly grant any condition, intending to demand real authority.

Su Ming joined Spirit Hall as its Saint Son and Bibi Dong’s disciple after negotiating his rank and authority. Spirit Hall then recruited Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, leaving the Heaven Dou and Star Luo teams to reckon with their departures.

• Su Ming demanded the Spirit Hall Saint Son title and authority second only to Bibi Dong, and she agreed while requiring him to earn Soul Bones through merit and become her disciple.
• Su Ming formally accepted Bibi Dong as his master and told Yufeng that the Heaven Dou Empire had done little for him, offering the championship prizes as compensation.
• Gui Mei recruited Zhu Zhuqing as his disciple and warned the Star Luo Imperial Family to consider the consequences.
• Ju Hua Guan invited Xiao Wu to become his disciple, and she accepted after Su Ming nodded.
• Bibi Dong invited Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to join Spirit Hall, and both agreed in their own names.

Dugu Bo announced that he was leaving the Heaven Dou Empire, while Spirit Hall welcomed new members and began explaining its attempt to kill Tang San. Gui Mei accused Tang San and his companions of using unorthodox cultivation methods, and Bibi Dong proposed testing Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass as evidence.

• Dugu Bo said his debt to Prince Xue Xing had been repaid and announced his departure from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong called the Spirit Hall and Thunderclap teams forward to receive their rewards, then promised the crowd an explanation of Spirit Hall’s actions against Tang San.
• Gui Mei said Spirit Hall had investigated Tang San because his Innate Full Soul Power was abnormal for someone with Blue Silver Grass, and accused Tang Hao of attacking Spirit Hall members.
• Gui Mei pointed to Dai Mubai’s white hair and the white strands in Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s hair as evidence that they had cultivated through unorthodox methods.
• Tang San denied being an Evil Soul Master and claimed his rapid growth came from immortal herbs, while his companions’ white hair was only a side effect.
• Bibi Dong proposed testing Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass for its Lightning Resistance, Fire Resistance, and Water Resistance attributes.

Gui Mei exposed Tang San and his companions as users of forbidden methods, prompting Bibi Dong to order their capture and Tang San’s death. Tang Hao arrived to rescue Tang San, and Ju and Gui Douluo stopped his hammer with their fusion skill as he tried to break through Spirit Hall’s defenses.

• Gui Mei accused Tang San of cultivating by devouring others and said Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun had used forbidden drugs.
• Dai Weisi asked Spirit Hall to spare Dai Mubai, and Bibi Dong offered mercy to the three companions if they admitted whether they had known about the drugs.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun claimed Tang San had given them the pills and betrayed him, after which Bibi Dong ordered Tang San killed and the others seized.
• Tang Hao appeared and attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer, while Spirit Hall’s elders and bishops formed a shield to protect the people below.
• Su Ming urged Gui Mei and Ju Hua Guan to act, and Ju and Gui Douluo immobilized Tang Hao’s hammer with their Two-Level Stasis Domain.
• Tang Hao gathered his strength to escape with Tang San, aiming his attack toward Spirit Hall’s Angel God Statue.

Tang Hao drew on the Asura God's power to break free of Ju Hua Guan and Gui Mei's restraint and withstand Qian Jun and Jiang Mo's attack. Bibi Dong destroyed her own Divine Slaughter's Domain to resist the god's influence, and the Asura God appeared before the gathered fighters as she tried to stall him.

• Qian Renxue urged Qian Jun and Jiang Mo to help, and they unleashed their Heaven-Earth Demon-Slaying Break at Tang Hao while Su Ming shielded the crowd.
• Tang Hao invoked Divine Slaughter's Domain, and a trace of the Asura God's divine sense boosted him to the peak of Level Ninety-Eight.
• Ju Hua Guan and Gui Mei lost control of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Bibi Dong recognized the godly aura affecting Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong's Divine Slaughter's Domain manifested and drove Ju Hua Guan and Gui Mei away, so she self-destructed it despite the injury it caused her.
• The Asura God appeared, forced most of the crowd to their knees, and questioned Su Ming and Bibi Dong; Bibi Dong challenged him and tried to buy time.

Su Ming teleported nearly everyone near Spirit Hall’s Pope’s Palace into his Divine Might Space, then shattered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and brought the Sea God into the fight alongside the Asura God. Bibi Dong blocked the Sea God’s strike as Qian Daoliu arrived, while Qian Renxue admitted she had obtained the shroud from Xue Ye and been deceived by the Sea God.

• Su Ming used Divine Might to teleport thousands of spectators and allies into his space while Dugu Bo and Qian Renxue’s domains attacked the Asura God.
• The Asura God summoned the Sea God through Qian Renxue’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Su Ming shattered the shroud with Susanoo and Divine Might: Shuriken.
• The Sea God attacked Su Ming, but Bibi Dong used her Spider Emperor True Body and Eternal Creation to block the strike.
• Qian Daoliu arrived and questioned the two deities as Su Ming asked Qian Renxue why she possessed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Qian Renxue explained that she had obtained the shroud from Xue Ye and suspected the Sea God had manipulated events; the Sea God angrily berated Su Ming for destroying it.

Su Ming and his allies tried to stop the Sea God and Asura God from escaping with Tang San, but the Sea God’s final attacks left Bibi Dong helpless before a lethal strike. Su Ming activated a new method to power Susanoo with destructive Soul Power to protect her.

• Su Ming confronted the Sea God, while Bibi Dong attacked Tang Hao and Qian Daoliu struck at the Sea God with Angel Judgment.
• The Sea God told the Asura God to take Tang San to the City of Slaughter, then unleashed Unfixed Waves to immobilize Su Ming, Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu.
• The Asura God broke free of Su Ming’s wooden restraints, grabbed Tang San, and fled Pope Mountain as the Sea God fired never return at Bibi Dong.
• Unable to move, Bibi Dong used Undying Body as the Sea God’s attack neared, and Su Ming rushed in to shield her.
• Su Ming converted his life force into destructive power and successfully summoned Susanoo using Soul Power.

Su Ming used the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Instrument to gather everyone’s Soul Power and blocked the Sea God’s attack with Susanoo Consecutive Slashes. The Goddess of Life appeared, confronted the Sea God over his intervention, healed everyone, and offered Su Ming her inheritance.

• Su Ming called for the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Instrument, and Dugu Bo had everyone channel their Soul Power through it into Su Ming.
• Su Ming unleashed Susanoo Consecutive Slashes and blocked the Sea God’s attack, leaving himself nearly depleted.
• Bibi Dong supported the weakened Su Ming as the Sea God expressed disbelief that a mortal had survived his attack.
• The Goddess of Life appeared and accused the Sea God of going too far, questioning his claim that he had intervened only to protect his inheritor, Tang San.
• The Sea God ran out of divine power and vanished, and the Goddess of Life healed everyone with her Life Scepter.
• The Goddess of Life told Su Ming she had chosen him as her inheritor and asked whether he would accept.

Su Ming accepted the Goddess of Life’s God Trial and received a blessing that granted him powerful self-healing. The crisis ended with the tournament’s conclusion, and Qian Daoliu began considering Su Ming as a suitable Holy Son and husband for Xiao Xue.

• Su Ming accepted the Goddess of Life’s inheritance offer and received her self-healing blessing.
• The Goddess of Life told Su Ming to go to Sea God Island after reaching Level Seventy, where she would arrange trials for him and his companions.
• The Goddess of Life assured Su Ming that she and the God of Destruction were watching the Sea God and Asura God, while Su Ming resolved to take things one step at a time.
• Bibi Dong released Su Ming’s arm, and Dugu Bo congratulated him on obtaining a God Trial.
• Su Ming released Xiao Wu and the others from Divine Might Space, explained what had happened, and confirmed that the crisis and Soul Master Tournament were over.
• Qian Daoliu left with Falling Devil and Qian Jun, thinking Su Ming could serve as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and make an excellent husband for Xiao Xue.

Su Ming joined Spirit Hall as its Saint Son after receiving a divine inheritance, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu stayed with him in Spirit City. Qian Renxue blamed Xue Beng for Su Ming's departure, and Bibi Dong teased Su Ming about calling her by name.

• Spirit Hall apologized and compensated the tournament participants, who departed without challenging its authority.
• Su Ming agreed that Ning Rongrong could stay in Spirit City until Ning Rongrong's father and Sword Grandpa returned, and he asked Xiao Wu to remain with him.
• Gui Mei took Ning Rongrong and the others back to their hotel, while Bibi Dong led Su Ming and Xiao Wu into the Pope's Palace.
• Qian Renxue returned to the hotel disguised as Xue Qinghe and suggested that Xue Beng's mistreatment of Su Ming and his women had driven Su Ming to Spirit Hall.
• Yufeng and the others reported Su Ming's departure to Qian Renxue, who intended for the news to provoke Xue Ye against the weakened Xue Beng.
• Bibi Dong teased Su Ming for addressing her by name, and Su Ming said he had done so in the chaos to protect everyone.

Su Ming, Xiao Wu, and Bibi Dong reunited Xiao Wu with her mother, Ah Rou, whose soul remained in Bibi Dong’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone. After learning Ah Rou’s body was buried on Spirit Hall’s Back Mountain, Su Ming began pursuing a way to revive her and Bibi Dong uncovered the grave.

• Su Ming asked Bibi Dong about Ah Rou’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and Bibi Dong revealed she already knew Xiao Wu was Ah Rou’s daughter and a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong awakened Ah Rou from her Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu embraced her mother before urging her to return so her soul would not dissipate further.
• Su Ming asked what had happened to Ah Rou’s body, and Bibi Dong said she had buried it on Spirit Hall’s Back Mountain.
• Su Ming explained that he intended to restore Ah Rou’s body and eventually find a way to fuse it with her soul.
• Bibi Dong led Su Ming and Xiao Wu to the burial site and used her power to bring Ah Rou’s buried box out of the ground.

Su Ming and Bibi Dong restored Xiao Wu's mother's body, then returned to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong executed Yu Xiaogang. Bibi Dong announced that Su Ming would become Spirit Hall's Saint Son in one month, when Spirit Hall would also establish its empire.

• Su Ming used his Soul Power to restore Xiao Wu's mother's remains, and Xiao Wu stored her mother's body in her Soul Tool.
• Ju Hua Guan reported that Dai Mubai had been returned, Oscar and Ma Hongjun had lost their Soul Power, and Zhao Wuji would be sent to the City of Slaughter.
• Bibi Dong sentenced Yu Xiaogang to death, and Su Ming mocked him before Bibi Dong killed him with a bloody strike to the forehead.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang's corpse displayed outside Spirit City for a month and told Su Ming and Xiao Wu to return to their hotel.
• Bibi Dong announced that Su Ming would become Spirit Hall's Saint Son in one month and that Spirit Hall would establish the Spirit Hall Empire at the same time.
• Bibi Dong realized that killing Yu Xiaogang had completed Rakshasa's Eighth Trial.

Bibi Dong completed the Rakshasa Eighth Trial and began the Ninth, while the Asura God rescued Tang San at the cost of severely injuring Tang Hao. Tang Hao decided to take Tang San to the Blue Silver Ancestral Land to awaken his bloodline, even if it meant killing the Blue Silver King.

• Bibi Dong completed the Rakshasa Eighth Trial, raised her affinity to eighty-five percent, and received the first task of the Ninth Trial.
• The Asura God left Tang Hao’s body after rescuing Tang San, and explained that Tang Hao could not use his Martial Soul for a month.
• The Asura God urged Tang San to go to the City of Slaughter and begin the trial to obtain the Divine Slaughter's Domain, but warned he could intervene only once more.
• Tang Hao proposed taking Tang San to the Blue Silver Ancestral Land to awaken his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline before entering the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Hao vowed to kill the Blue Silver King if he refused to help, and told Tang San to absorb him so his Blue Silver Grass could evolve.

Tang Hao and Tang San continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest so Tang San could awaken his bloodline, while the gods argued over their plans for him and Su Ming. The Goddess of Life revealed that Su Ming would undergo her God Trial on Sea God Island after reaching Level Seventy, leaving the Sea God stunned by her request to borrow it.

• Tang Hao refused to rest and told Tang San they needed to reach the Star Dou Great Forest to awaken his bloodline.
• The God of Destruction confronted the Sea God and Asura God about their divine power interfering in the Lower Realm, and the two gods claimed it had acted through their inheritance grounds.
• The Sea God and Asura God argued over which of them had first chosen Tang San and whose godhood suited him better.
• The Goddess of Life arrived and revealed that she had chosen Su Ming as her inheritor, while the God of Destruction showed no surprise.
• The Goddess of Life said Su Ming would begin his God Trial on Sea God Island after reaching Level Seventy, and the Sea God asked if she meant to borrow his island.

Goddess of Life arranged for Su Ming and his companions to take their trials on Sea God Island, forcing Sea God to agree under pressure from God of Destruction. Afterward, Goddess of Life told God of Destruction about Su Ming's fight with Sea God's avatar, and they discussed Susanoo's power and limitations.

• Goddess of Life explained that Su Ming had chosen Sea God Island for his inheritance trial and wanted his companions to take its assessments, leaving Sea God to realize she was exploiting the arrangement.
• Sea God reluctantly agreed to let Su Ming and his companions use Sea God Island after God of Destruction threatened to establish other inheritance sites nearby if Sea God interfered.
• God of Destruction left with Goddess of Life after making Sea God promise not to use tricks against Su Ming and his companions.
• God of Destruction asked Goddess of Life how Su Ming had performed, and she recounted his confrontation with Sea God's avatar.
• Goddess of Life and God of Destruction concluded that Susanoo was exceptionally powerful but drained Su Ming's Spiritual Power and Soul Power.