Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena freed the Golden Dragon King and tried to merge with him, but he refused and challenged her. The two began fighting as Gu Yuena stood her ground against his powerful attacks.

• Gu Yuena told the Golden Dragon King she had come to take him back, and Ling Feng and Qian Renxue helped open the doors that released him.
• The Golden Dragon King emerged into the God Realm and said he would not return to being sealed or divided.
• Gu Yuena gathered her scattered power and declared that she would merge with the Golden Dragon King because they had once been one.
• The Golden Dragon King accused Gu Yuena of forcing him to fight, and she accepted the confrontation.
• The Golden Dragon King charged with golden armor and struck at Gu Yuena, who blocked his attacks with a silver spear.

Gu Yuena fought the Golden Dragon King until they put aside their hostility and began merging their power. Their reunion restored the Dragon God’s presence and changed the flow of divine power between the God Realm and the lower realm.

• Gu Yuena used her spear to find openings in the Golden Dragon King’s defenses, marking his abdomen and shoulder as he praised her improved power.
• The Golden Dragon King trapped Gu Yuena with his wings, but she blocked his attacks and struck him with a concentrated beam of silver light.
• The Golden Dragon King explained that he had sealed himself away because he feared becoming a bargaining chip, and confessed that he had waited for someone to tell him he could return.
• Gu Yuena lowered her spear and told the Golden Dragon King she had always been waiting for him.
• The Golden Dragon King accepted her offer, and their golden and silver light intertwined as he merged with Gu Yuena.
• A vast dragon-shaped phantom emerged behind Gu Yuena as divine power flowed faster into the lower realm and those near breakthroughs felt their power grow smoother.

Gu Yuena fused the Golden Dragon King's power into her body, allowing it to reshape her meridians, bones, muscles, and senses. As their powers began to resonate, the fusion continued, with the next changes left for her to endure on her own.

• Gu Yuena guided the Golden Dragon King's golden power through her meridians, gradually clearing blocked paths and forming new patterns with her silver power.
• The Golden Dragon King withdrew his consciousness from control while remaining present to sense Gu Yuena's choices.
• The golden power reinforced Gu Yuena's bones and muscles and formed new channels through her nervous system.
• Gu Yuena's senses expanded, and she felt her connection to the God Realm and the lower realm grow clearer.
• The Golden Dragon King warned Gu Yuena that the next changes were hers to endure, and she continued guiding their powers as they began to pulse in unison.

Gu Yuena completed the fusion of the Silver Dragon King and Golden Dragon King powers, becoming a silver-gold dragon and stabilizing the God Realm’s boundary. She returned to the Lake of Life, where she told Qian Renxue that the missing parts of herself had returned.

• The Golden Dragon King completed his part in the fusion, and his final consciousness flowed into Gu Yuena as he disappeared.
• Gu Yuena emerged from the fissure with a silver-gold aura, and the God of Destruction confirmed that her existence had stabilized the God Realm’s boundary.
• Gu Yuena left the platform, while Ling Feng and Qian Renxue later returned to the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian sensed that Gu Yuena had returned, and she emerged from a passage in the lake.
• Gu Yuena told Qian Renxue she no longer had to be separated because her missing parts had returned.

After Gu Yuena’s power and the boundary stabilized, Ling Feng returned to Martial Soul Capital and watched the changes unfold over the seasons. Jin Chen and Tang San broke through to new levels, while Ling Feng confirmed that Gu Yuena’s aura remained steady and settled into a quiet routine with Qian Renxue.

• Gu Yuena said she would remain by the lake now that the seal was gone and the boundary had stabilized, and Ling Feng and Qian Renxue returned to Martial Soul Capital.
• Qian Renxue explained that the stable boundary would ease pressure between the God Realm and the lower realm, allowing some people to break through faster.
• Jin Chen told Ling Feng he had reached level ninety and decided to travel to the Endless Sea to obtain a Soul Ring; Ling Feng watched him leave for the east.
• Tang San told Ling Feng he had reached the Soul Sage realm and planned to finish polishing his short sword before deciding what came next.
• Ling Feng visited the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest in winter, sensed Gu Yuena’s steady aura, and returned to Martial Soul Capital, where Qian Renxue asked what he wanted for breakfast.

Jin Chen returned from the Endless Sea with a stable, two-hundred-thousand-year ninth spirit ring and celebrated Little New Year with Ling Feng and their companions. On New Year’s Day, Ling Feng and Qian Renxue spotted an unfamiliar figure walking through the snow toward the city.

• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue watched the first snow melt and recalled the day it had fallen the previous year.
• Jin Chen returned to Martial Soul Capital and told Ling Feng and Qian Renxue that he had gained a suitable two-hundred-thousand-year sea spirit beast as his ninth spirit ring.
• At the Little New Year feast, Jin Chen recounted his journey, and Ning Rongrong said she wanted to accompany him to the Endless Sea.
• Tang San gave Ling Feng a newly made short sword, and Ah Yin brought homemade rice cakes to the Worship Hall.
• On New Year’s Day, Ling Feng saw a lone figure approaching through the snow, and Qian Renxue asked whether he recognized him.

Ling Feng watched the people around him find their paths as Jin Chen left Martial Soul Capital to seek the deep sea. Jin Chen reached a vast whirlpool and let its currents carry his boat inward.

• Ling Feng visited Tang San and encouraged him to consider using his blade for something beyond honing and chopping firewood.
• When spring came, Jin Chen volunteered to escort Soul Tool materials to Sea Breeze City and left Martial Soul Capital with the Sea God Trident.
• Jin Chen walked to Sea Breeze City, skirted the city, and continued east along the coastline toward the Endless Sea.
• Jin Chen rented a fishing boat and rowed into the deep sea, following currents that seemed to guide him.
• Jin Chen reached a massive whirlpool and let his boat enter its rotating current.

Jin Chen accepted the Sea God’s inheritance and established a connection with the sea, while the golden sea beast confirmed that the trident was only a weapon and not the true inheritance. After returning to the surface, he felt the tides recognize him and his perception of the sea continue to expand.

• Jin Chen followed the Sea God Trident through an underwater hall and rose to a silver-lit stretch of sea.
• A golden sea beast told Jin Chen that the trident was what the Sea God had left him, but that the true inheritance was not a weapon.
• Poseidon asked Jin Chen if he was ready to take over the Sea God’s position, and Jin Chen said he was.
• Jin Chen descended along a path opened by the receding seawater and absorbed a mass of golden light, connecting with the sea.
• Jin Chen returned to the surface at sunrise as the tides recognized him and the trident synchronized with his new power.
• Jin Chen put away the trident and sensed his connection to the sea stabilizing as his perception spread farther across the water.

Jin Chen returned to Martial Soul Capital after taking the Sea God’s position, then joined Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Gu Yuena in the God Realm to seek the surviving figure whose divine position had shattered. They reached a slowly collapsing ruin.

• Jin Chen returned to Martial Soul Capital and told Qian Renxue and Ling Feng that he had taken the Sea God’s position.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen gathered at the edge of the Destruction Divine Domain as the God Realm’s skies changed.
• Gu Yuena arrived and said the figure whose divine position had shattered was still waiting for them.
• Jin Chen and the others traveled through the God Realm’s darkening passages toward the figure.
• Jin Chen and the others emerged from a fissure before a slowly collapsing ruin.

Gu Yuena, Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen fought the weakened Asura God in the ruins of his domain and defeated him. The Asura God accepted his loss and yielded the future of the God Realm to them as Ling Feng’s power settled into place.

• The Asura God rose to face Gu Yuena, Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen in the ruins.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen attacked in coordination while Gu Yuena formed a silver spear and joined the fight.
• Gu Yuena’s spear and the others’ attacks damaged the Asura God’s armor and shattered his sword.
• Gu Yuena told the Asura God he had lost, and he admitted defeat.
• The Asura God said the future of the God Realm belonged to them and ceased resisting.
• Ling Feng felt his gathered power settle into place.

Ling Feng and his companions left the ruins after the Asura God's fall, and the God Realm began to heal as his aura faded. Ling Feng returned to Martial Soul Capital with Qian Renxue and Jin Chen, while Gu Yuena stayed at the Lake of Life; seven days later, the God Realm's skies cleared completely.

• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, Jin Chen, and Gu Yuena left the ruins, and the God of Destruction acknowledged that the Asura God's matter had ended.
• Ling Feng and his companions crossed back to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Gu Yuena decided to stay at the Lake of Life.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen traveled to Martial Soul Capital, and Jin Chen said he could feel the sea more clearly than before.
• Ling Feng told Qian Daoliu that the matter of the Asura God was over, and Qian Daoliu welcomed him without asking for details.
• Seven days after the Asura God's fall, the God Realm's skies cleared and its dark red rifts closed.

After the Asura God’s fall, the God Realm faced spreading spacetime turbulence from beyond its boundaries, and Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Gu Yuena prepared to confront it. As the God Realm formally opened the way for soul beasts to become gods, Di Tian set out to undergo his tribulation.

• The God Realm Committee confirmed the Asura God’s fall and dissolved his godhood and authority, while Jin Chen confirmed that the sea was calm and Gu Yuena acknowledged that the Asura God was truly gone.
• Ling Feng sensed that the distant powers had settled into place, but cracks then began spreading across the God Realm’s sky.
• The God of Destruction warned the committee that spacetime turbulence would breach the first barrier in about three months, and Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Gu Yuena volunteered to address the rift at its source.
• Di Tian told Gu Yuena that he would undergo the tribulation and become a god.
• The God of Goodness, the God of Evil, and Poseidon signed the decision formally allowing soul beasts to become gods.

Di Tian completed his ascension as a first-rank Dark Dragon King, and Ling Feng began refining the vacant Asura God position. By the end, the divine power had started reshaping Ling Feng’s meridians and body, though the position still needed a long period of tempering.

• Di Tian endured seven lightning tribulations and emerged with a new connection to the God Realm as a first-rank Dark Dragon King.
• Ling Feng applied to the five God Kings to take the vacant Asura God position, and they warned him that refining it would expose him to its residual will.
• Ling Feng entered the cleared palace and began letting the Asura divine power merge with him while Qian Renxue waited outside.
• Qian Renxue felt the ground pulse beneath the platform and saw cracks in the sky slowly narrow as Ling Feng began his work.
• By the end of Ling Feng’s first day of refinement, the divine power had begun rearranging his meridians and reinforcing his bones.

Ling Feng completed the refinement of the divine seat, joining its power and laws with his Holy Dragon and forming a stable connection to the God Realm. After returning to Martial Soul Capital, he sensed that the rift above the city had closed and that Di Tian’s aura was clearer than before.

• Ling Feng let the divine seat’s residual consciousness examine his memories while he guided its power through new pathways.
• Ling Feng’s Holy Dragon formed a deeper connection with the divine seat, and dark-golden patterns appeared on his hand.
• Over twenty-one days, Ling Feng fused the divine seat’s power with his own until its residual will withdrew its final defenses.
• Ling Feng left the palace and told Qian Renxue that the refinement was finished; Jin Chen remarked that the ground seemed to cooperate with him more.
• Ling Feng returned to Martial Soul Capital, where Qian Daoliu asked whether he still needed to visit the God Realm, and Ling Feng said he did, but less often.
• The next morning, Ling Feng sensed the rift above the city had closed and detected Di Tian’s clearer aura near the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ling Feng completed his Asura God inheritance procedures and gained control of the God Realm Core, changing the rules so reaching Level 100 and becoming a god required fewer prerequisites. The Spirit Hall Empire announced a public audience in Martial Soul Capital, and cultivators, sect leaders, academies, and officials began traveling there.

• Qian Renxue told Ling Feng that the space-time rift had sealed and Gu Yuena had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with a heavier aura.
• Ling Feng visited the God Realm, where the God of Destruction confirmed that his position had been registered with the God Realm Committee.
• Ling Feng returned to Qian Renxue and told her that his God Realm duties would continue, though less frequently.
• Ling Feng later told Qian Renxue that authority over the God Realm Core had transferred to him and that the requirements for becoming a god had been lowered.
• The Spirit Hall Empire announced a public audience in three months, drawing bottlenecked cultivators and delegations toward Martial Soul Capital.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to depart, while academy leaders and Xue Qinghe's delegation also set out for the capital.

Delegations and factions gathered in Martial Soul Capital to hear Ling Feng announce that the God Realm’s new order had lowered the threshold for becoming a god. After the audience, the visitors began their journeys home, carrying the knowledge that the path had opened.

• Dai Tianfeng, the Zhu Family, Xu Shaoyang, and elders of the Clear Sky Sect traveled toward Martial Soul Capital as Tang San received Spirit Hall’s invitation and set out for the city.
• Tang San met Jin Chen and Ning Rongrong near the Worship Hall before the audience.
• Ling Feng announced that reaching Level 100 and becoming a god no longer required the old mandatory paths, and that the threshold had become lower.
• Ling Feng left the crowd to pursue the newly opened path in their own ways.
• Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Lei Qianxing and Thunder Academy, and the Blazing Fire and Skywater academies departed Martial Soul Capital.
• Xu Shaoyang and the Sun Moon Continent delegation departed by ship on the third day.

Ling Feng confirmed that the God Realm’s changed rules had opened the path to godhood, and Qian Renxue learned that more people would follow. Across the continent, long-stalled cultivators began breaking through, while Dai Mubai’s punch stopped midway.

• Ling Feng learned from the God of Destruction that seven people had passed the first threshold, then saw Di Tian and Gu Yuena discuss the faster breakthroughs under the changed rules.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that the God Realm was settled and that others would cross the newly opened path on their own.
• Zhao Qingshi emerged from sixteen years of seclusion at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and confirmed that his power had stabilized.
• Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong learned that Zhao Qingshi was among the first to break through, and Ning Fengzhi expected others to follow.
• Zhou Yuanwu, Du Qingshan, and Zhao Yuanshan felt their long-standing barriers give way as news of breakthroughs spread across the continent.
• Dai Mubai halted his next punch in Shrek Academy’s Martial Arts Arena.

As the changed rules opened the path to cultivation and ascension, people across the continent began breaking through and returning to places they had left. Ling Feng finished overseeing the transition and learned that the first group would soon set out for the God Realm.

• Zhu Zhuqing confirmed her breakthrough to Dai Mubai, who had come to verify that the threshold had lowered.
• Du Qingshan reached a Martial Soul Branch Hall and registered after crossing the threshold, while Zhou Buping and a former Clear Sky Sect disciple returned through the reopened mountain gate.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed how the changed rules had made the path forward accessible, and Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that the door would remain open.
• Jin Chen returned from the Endless Sea, and Ning Rongrong told him that the first group of people to break through had stabilized.
• Tang San finished testing the scabbard for his short sword as Ah Yin prepared clothes for their eventual departure.
• After Ling Feng completed the God Realm Central Hub's remaining work, the first people set out separately at dawn to ascend to the God Realm and undergo tribulation.

As the God Realm rift stabilized, cultivators and soul beasts began ascending through it, while the power seeping into the lower realm altered Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul. Ling Feng returned from the God Realm Nexus to Martial Soul Capital as the rift continued drawing people upward.

• Du Qingshan and Chen from Thunder Academy crossed the rift, followed by Feng Wanli and Dai Mubai among the next group of ascenders.
• A Giant Silver Wolf reached the rift after three days and entered the God Realm, where its power connected with the realm’s rules.
• Ning Rongrong discovered that her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s support range had expanded, and Qian Renxue observed that her Martial Soul was changing.
• Jin Chen told Ling Feng that people were ascending from the sea near Sea Breeze City, while Di Tian reported that the first group of soul beasts had passed through smoothly.
• Ning Rongrong and Qian Renxue watched light from the rift brighten the sky above Martial Soul Capital as more people continued ascending.
• Ling Feng finished his work at the God Realm Nexus, returned to Martial Soul Capital, and sat beside Qian Renxue before later walking back through the rift at night.

The first group of tribulation-crossers gradually stabilized as Tang San inspected the rift and several others crossed into the God Realm. Ling Feng brought registration forms for a third group to the God of Destruction, who questioned whether the God Realm’s edge could withstand their numbers.

• Tang San traveled north, observed the stabilized rift, and returned without attempting to cross it.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing crossed through the rift, while Du Qingshan briefly reached the God Realm’s edge before returning to the lower realm.
• Ning Rongrong recorded the first group’s completed tribulations, and Jin Chen observed a Sea Turtle’s aura changing along the coast.
• Gu Yuena told Di Tian that the second group of soul beasts was ready and had stable foundations.
• At the start of the new year, Ling Feng told Qian Renxue he would bring registration forms for the third group from the God Realm.
• Ling Feng delivered the forms to the God of Destruction, who noted the unexpectedly large group and asked whether the God Realm’s edge could bear them.