Chapter Summaries

Shen Lian left the Capital of Slaughter after blocking its Evil Soul Masters from escaping and gaining a major increase in strength. In the God Realm, Asura’s demand that Poseidon begin Tang San’s Sea God trials sparked a confrontation with the God King of Destruction and the Goddess of Life.

• Shen Lian ordered the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King to kill anyone who tried to enter Hell Road, then left the Capital of Slaughter.
• Shen Lian assessed his new strength, including a sixth Spirit Ring, a Million Year Soul Bone, and progress toward a third Soul Core, before flying toward Heaven Dou City.
• The God King of Asura went to Poseidon and demanded that he begin the Sea God Nine Trials for Tang San.
• Poseidon refused to pass on his divine position to Tang San because his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul conflicted with the Sea God’s power.
• The God King of Asura attacked Poseidon, but the God King of Destruction intervened and threatened to summon Goodness and Evil to strip Asura of his law enforcement authority.
• The Goddess of Life joined the God King of Destruction, while Poseidon revealed that he had pledged allegiance to him and disclosed Asura’s actions.

The God King of Asura confronted the Sea God, Destruction, and Life over Tang San’s inheritance, then pursued Destruction to his palace after learning Shen Lian had killed the Ten-Headed Sun-Burning Dragon and taken the Asura Demon Sword. Faced with the threat of losing his law enforcement authority, Asura backed down and asked what Destruction wanted.

• Asura demanded that the Sea God give his position to Tang San, but Destruction and Life defended the Sea God and rejected forced inheritance.
• Asura left the Sea God Palace, and Destruction said Shen Lian’s advantage over Tang San would grow without the Sea God position.
• Asura stormed into Destruction Palace and accused Shen Lian of killing the Ten-Headed Sun-Burning Dragon and taking the Asura Demon Sword.
• Destruction accused Asura of illegally empowering a Soul Beast, while Asura admitted the million-year Spirit Ring had been intended for Tang San’s inheritance.
• Destruction and Life prepared to fight Asura and warned that the God Kings could strip him of his law enforcement authority.
• Asura’s anger subsided as the other God Kings drew near, and he asked Destruction what he wanted.

The God King of Destruction forced the God King of Asura to agree to stop interfering on Douluo Planet, opposing Shen Lian, and coveting the Sea God's position. Shen Lian returned to Heaven Dou City and brought Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Rongrong was reunited with her family.

• The God King of Asura agreed to the God King of Destruction's conditions, while the Goddess of Goodness and God of Evil were assigned to watch him.
• Shen Lian returned to his residence in Heaven Dou City and reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he was unharmed.
• Shen Lian told Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong they would leave for the Sun-Moon Empire, then offered to take Ning Rongrong to see her family first.
• Shen Lian, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong rode out of Heaven Dou City and reached the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong came out to welcome Ning Rongrong.

Shen Lian brought Ning Rongrong home and asked Ning Fengzhi to establish a secret base for the Sun-Moon Empire’s future invasion, offering the Aromatic Silk Beauty in return. Ning Fengzhi agreed, and Ning Rongrong began absorbing the herb while everyone waited for her Martial Soul to evolve.

• Ning Rongrong reunited tearfully with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo as Shen Lian arrived with her.
• Shen Lian told Ning Fengzhi he would take Ning Rongrong back to the Sun-Moon Empire the next day and asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to build a concealed base for tens of thousands of troops.
• Shen Lian revealed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained that it could evolve Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to establish the base within at least half a year after seeing the herb’s potential and accepting Shen Lian’s offer.
• Ning Rongrong took the Aromatic Silk Beauty to the Cultivation Room and began drawing in its essence as Shen Lian and the others waited.

Ning Rongrong absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and reached rank forty. After Sword Douluo brought her a five-thousand-year Wind Bell Bird, she absorbed its Spirit Ring and activated the pagoda’s fourth level.

• Shen Lian told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong would reach rank forty and need a suitable fourth Spirit Ring, so Sword Douluo flew to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Wind Bell Bird.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, Shen Lian, and Zhu Zhuqing waited as the Soul Power fluctuations from Ning Rongrong’s chamber intensified and then abruptly faded.
• Ning Rongrong emerged with a nine-level Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo celebrated her Martial Soul’s evolution.
• Sword Douluo returned with a five-thousand-year Wind Bell Bird, which Ning Rongrong killed to obtain its purple Spirit Ring.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Spirit Ring smoothly, and light spread across the fourth level of her Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

Ning Rongrong reached level forty-three after her Martial Soul evolved, and Shen Lian took her and Zhu Zhuqing to Ming Capital. At Shen Mansion, they reunited with Liu Yuxi and Xu Ningxin, who then noticed Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Rongrong celebrated reaching level forty-three, and Ning Fengzhi praised her potential to restore the sect as the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Shen Lian reminded Ning Fengzhi of his promise and teleported with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to Ming Capital.
• Ning Rongrong marveled at the Sun-Moon Empire's Soul Tools as Zhu Zhuqing showed her the bustling city on their way to Shen Mansion.
• Liu Yuxi welcomed Shen Lian home and told him her Life God Trial had reached the fourth trial.
• Xu Ningxin greeted Zhu Zhuqing warmly, and she and Liu Yuxi turned their attention to Ning Rongrong.

Shen Lian returned to the Sun-Moon Empire with Ning Rongrong, securing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s allegiance and its future support for the empire’s campaign. He persuaded Emperor Xu Tianxiang to begin preparing for war while building the empire’s strength over the next several years.

• Xu Ningxin and Liu Yuxi welcomed Ning Rongrong to the Sun-Moon Empire, and Shen Lian explained that her sect had pledged allegiance and would support the empire’s operations.
• Shen Lian met with Emperor Xu Tianxiang and reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would provide military supplies, funding, intelligence, and assistance.
• Xu Tianxiang questioned the sect’s reliability, and Shen Lian revealed that Ning Rongrong, its leader’s daughter, was in the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Shen Lian proposed placing the empire on a war footing, accelerating Soul Tool research, intensifying military training, and stockpiling provisions.
• Xu Tianxiang agreed to the plan and said he would issue an edict at the next morning court ordering the nation to prepare for war.

Shen Lian reunited with Xu Tianxiang and Xu Chengye in Ming Capital, promising Xu Chengye a treasure suited to his Ultimate Fire Martial Soul. He revealed a million-year Ten-Headed Sun-Burning Dragon Inner Core, leaving Xu Chengye stunned by its power.

• Shen Lian told Xu Tianxiang that he had a gift that might help Xu Chengye overcome his level-fifty-nine bottleneck and strengthen his Martial Soul.
• Shen Lian and Xu Tianxiang discussed war preparations for the Sun-Moon Empire before Xu Chengye arrived to share lunch with them.
• Xu Chengye explained that his Ultimate Fire Martial Soul had slowed his cultivation and admitted he hoped to be chosen by a god someday.
• Shen Lian promised to find Xu Chengye a suitable godhood and presented him with a million-year Ten-Headed Sun-Burning Dragon Inner Core.
• Xu Chengye felt his Ultimate Fire resonate with the inner core as Shen Lian explained that it could greatly increase his Soul Power absorption.

Shen Lian gave Xu Chengye a precious dragon-related inner core and prepared to complete the Destruction God Trial by having Huang Tian sacrifice himself. After Huang Tian agreed, Shen Lian used the Dragon-Blood Red-Scale Ganoderma to begin raising Huang Tian’s cultivation toward two million years.

• Shen Lian gave Xu Chengye the inner core and urged him to wait until Rank 70 before absorbing it.
• Shen Lian reviewed the five Spirit Bones in his body and realized he still needed a torso bone to complete the Destruction God Trial.
• Shen Lian decided to use Huang Tian’s sacrifice to gain the missing Spirit Bone and more divine power, promising to revive him after ascending.
• Shen Lian brought Huang Tian to the Cultivation Room and gave him Dragon-Blood Red-Scale Ganoderma to raise his cultivation from one million six hundred thousand years toward two million.
• Huang Tian accepted the sacrifice without reluctance, and Shen Lian consumed the Immortal Herb as his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul awakened.

Shen Lian absorbed Huang Tian’s two-million-year Spirit Ring and torso bone, reached level ninety-nine, and completed Destruction’s third God Trial. After receiving his reward and a new trial to create a Soul Skill, he began studying Dragon Transformation before returning to find Liu Yuxi in the main hall.

• Huang Tian sacrificed himself, and Shen Lian absorbed his violet-gold Spirit Ring and dark-golden torso bone as his third Soul Core broke free.
• After ten days, Shen Lian emerged as a level ninety-nine Peak Douluo and received the third God Trial’s reward, which increased the ages of his Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones.
• The God King of Destruction issued Shen Lian’s fourth God Trial: create a Self-Created Soul Skill using the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul.
• Shen Lian decided to model the skill on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s Dragon Transformation and began trying to form dragon claws, but his first attempt failed.
• Shen Lian returned to his courtyard and found Liu Yuxi sitting in the main hall, playing with a Soul Guidance Bead String.

Shen Lian visited the Breaking Clan’s outpost to prepare the clan for the coming war after confirming his God Trial had advanced and he had become a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo. He found Yang Wudi tending medicinal herbs and began discussing the clan’s readiness.

• Shen Lian reunited with Liu Yuxi, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong and told them Huang Tian’s sacrifice had succeeded and he had become a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo.
• Shen Lian told the women he was going to the Breaking Clan to prepare them for war, and they went shopping on West Street.
• Shen Lian planned to equip the Breaking Clan with the latest Soul Tools and arrange a settlement near the Douluo Continent’s border.
• Shen Lian arrived at the Breaking Clan’s outpost and found Yang Wudi tending poisonous herbs.
• Yang Wudi welcomed Shen Lian and told him that the clan’s peaceful life in the Sun-Moon Empire had left him with little to do.

Shen Lian told Yang Wudi that the Sun-Moon Empire was preparing to invade the Douluo Continent, prompting the Breaking Clan to ready itself for revenge against the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall. After returning to Shen Mansion, Shen Lian began practicing Dragon Transformation but could only cover his hand with scales.

• Shen Lian informed Yang Wudi that the Sun-Moon Empire would soon go to war and promised the Breaking Clan a chance to avenge itself.
• Yang Wudi pledged the Breaking Clan's support, and Shen Lian promised to equip its members with Soul Tools and arrange a foothold near the Douluo Continent.
• Shen Lian saw Yang Cheng training with a spear-shaped Soul Tool and learned that he was a rank fifty-one Soul King.
• Yang Wudi ordered the Breaking Clan to intensify its cultivation and Soul Tool practice after Shen Lian left for Mingdu City.
• Shen Lian returned to Shen Mansion and attempted Dragon Transformation, but he could only form dark-purple scales on his right hand.

After failing for two months to master Dragon Transformation, Shen Lian went to Heaven Dou City to seek someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect whom he could observe. Qian Renxue told him where the sect was and mentioned the Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy, giving Shen Lian a more convenient target to pursue.

• Shen Lian failed to master Dragon Transformation despite repeated practice, but improved his control of Soul Power.
• Shen Lian decided to visit Douluo Continent and capture a disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to study their transformation.
• Shen Lian teleported to Heaven Dou City and waited at the Crown Prince's Mansion for Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue arrived as Xue Qinghe, then revealed her true appearance when she met Shen Lian's eyes.
• Qian Renxue told Shen Lian the sect was at True Dragon Mountain in Thunder Canyon and said she had visited Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Shen Lian recalled that Yu Tianheng studied at the academy and decided that capturing someone in Heaven Dou City would be easier than traveling to the sect's headquarters.

Shen Lian found Yu Tianheng at Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy, intending to capture him for a lead on his Dragon Transformation skill. He secretly witnessed Yu Tianheng tell Dugu Yan that her poison had reached her marrow and that she might not have long to live.

• Qian Renxue told Shen Lian that Yu Tianheng was still at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and would leave the next day.
• Shen Lian teleported to Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy and found Yu Tianheng packing in his dormitory.
• Dugu Yan entered Yu Tianheng's room and asked whether he was breaking up with her because he no longer liked her.
• Yu Tianheng told Dugu Yan that his grandfather had forbidden him from seeing her after noticing her green hair and that the poison in her body had seeped into her marrow.
• Dugu Yan recalled her worsening pains and realized that her symptoms were signs of the poison spreading.

Yu Tianheng told Dugu Yan that her Martial Soul poison was shortening her life and could threaten their future children, then revealed that his grandfather could suppress it if she gave up using Soul Power. They promised to wait for each other, but Shen Lian appeared and confronted them, forcing Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to prepare to fight.

• Yu Tianheng explained that Dugu Yan's inherited poison was accumulating and that being together could endanger their children.
• Yu Tianheng said his grandfather could suppress the poison with pure Thunder Soul Power if Dugu Yan stopped using her Martial Soul and Soul Power, but demanded that Yu Tianheng leave her.
• Yu Tianheng proposed that Dugu Yan stay in Heaven Dou City while he searched for a cure, and they promised to wait for each other.
• Shen Lian watched the couple, then decided to take Yu Tianheng with him and emerged before them.
• Yu Tianheng shielded Dugu Yan and transformed using Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon possession as Dugu Yan gathered Soul Power to fight.

Shen Lian abducted Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to the Sun-Moon Continent so he could study Dragon Transformation. He forced Yu Tianheng to agree to demonstrate the skill by promising to cure Dugu Yan’s poison and reveal how Dugu Bo died.

• Shen Lian knocked Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan unconscious and teleported them from the Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy to Shen Mansion.
• Shen Lian had the guards lock the pair in adjacent cells, where they were restrained with Soul-Locking Rings after trying to escape.
• Shen Lian brought Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to the Martial Arts Arena and demanded they teach him Dragon Transformation.
• Dugu Yan refused to reveal her sect’s secret, but Shen Lian offered to cure her Martial Soul’s poison and claimed he knew how Dugu Bo died.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to demonstrate Dragon Transformation and explain its principles if Shen Lian kept his promises.

Shen Lian learned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s Dragon Transformation by discovering how spiritual power guided Soul Power, then unleashed a powerful pressure technique. After Yu Tianheng demanded that Shen Lian honor his promise to cure Dugu Yan and reveal Dugu Bo’s death, Shen Lian revealed that he had killed Dugu Bo.

• Shen Lian had guards remove Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s Soul-Locking Rings, then ordered Yu Tianheng to demonstrate Dragon Transformation.
• For fifteen days, Shen Lian studied Yu Tianheng’s transformations and discovered that spiritual power subtly guided the flow of Soul Power.
• Shen Lian combined spiritual power and Soul Power to master Dragon Transformation, then accidentally produced a pressure technique he recognized as Reign of the World.
• Yu Tianheng asked Shen Lian to cure Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul toxins and explain how Dugu Bo died.
• Shen Lian overwhelmed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan with his aura, then confessed that he had killed Dugu Bo and that Huang Tian had shattered his head.

Shen Lian killed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, completing the Fourth Trial of Destruction and gaining stronger Spirit Rings and a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring. The Fifth God Trial began with a battle against a phantom of the God of Destruction, and Shen Lian entered a space filled with Destruction Power to face it.

• Shen Lian sealed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan inside an energy barrier and killed them with Soul Power and spiritual power.
• Shen Lian completed the Fourth Trial of Destruction, increasing each Spirit Ring's cultivation by twenty thousand years and receiving a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.
• The God King of Destruction began the Fifth God Trial, requiring Shen Lian to defeat his phantom and explaining that the battle would teach him to use divine power and control laws.
• Shen Lian accepted the trial and touched the purple sphere of light in his Consciousness Sea, summoning the phantom into his room.
• Shen Lian activated his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul and Dragon Transformation, then followed the phantom into a space filled with Destruction Power.

Shen Lian completed the Destruction God’s Eighth Trial after two years of training and received the Destruction God Staff. As he prepared for the final trial, Xu Chengye’s breakthrough was interrupted by a mysterious divine light that left him marked with a golden flame.

• Shen Lian repeatedly fought the God King of Destruction’s phantom and learned to control Destruction Power with precision.
• Two years later, Shen Lian completed the Eighth Trial, and the God King of Destruction granted him the Destruction God Staff to practice with before returning it for the coming god war.
• Shen Lian reflected on his strengthened Spirit Rings and refined mastery of Destruction Power, then noted that the Sun-Moon Empire had completed its preparations for war.
• Xu Chengye absorbed a four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Spirit Ring, but its power threatened to tear apart his meridians.
• A crimson divine light descended and stabilized Xu Chengye’s Spirit Ring, leaving a golden flame-shaped mark between his brows as he opened his eyes with golden flames burning within them.

Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing became inheritors of the Gods of Fire and Darkness, while Shen Lian received his ninth Destruction God Trial: unite Douluo Planet. With Xu Tianxiang's full support, Shen Lian ordered the Sun-Moon Empire to prepare for war, and its army assembled outside Mingdu City.

• Xu Chengye reached level seventy-five and revealed that the God of Fire had chosen him as an inheritor.
• Zhu Zhuqing received the inheritance of the God of Darkness while attempting to break through to Soul Saint.
• The God King of Destruction gave Shen Lian his ninth trial, requiring him to unite Douluo Planet.
• Shen Lian told Xu Tianxiang about the trial, and Xu Tianxiang pledged the Empire's forces and resources to help him.
• Xu Tianxiang ordered the three armies to prepare for war against Douluo Continent, and three days later the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Master Legion assembled outside Mingdu City.