Chapter Summaries

Liu Yuxi completed her trial by using her Healing Green Lotus to heal more than two hundred soldiers in the wounded soldiers' camp. After exhausting herself, she returned to Liu Mansion with Shen Lian, who helped her recover on the journey.

• Shen Lian and Liu Yuxi rode with Xu Peng to the wounded soldiers' camp.
• Liu Yuxi used her fourth Soul Skill, Holy Light Healing, to heal the soldiers throughout the camp.
• Shen Lian announced that Liu Yuxi had healed more than two hundred soldiers, fulfilling her trial requirement.
• Xu Peng thanked Liu Yuxi, and she promised to return to help the soldiers whenever she had time.
• Liu Yuxi collapsed from exhaustion, so Shen Lian held her and helped restore her Soul Power on the ride back to Liu Mansion.

After Liu Yuxi completed her first Life Trial, Shen Lian said farewell to her and his family before returning to the Star Dou Great Forest to prepare for his own God Trial. At the lake, a mysterious hundred-thousand-year-old silver turtle attacked him, and Huang Tian clashed with the beast.

• Liu Yuxi told Shen Lian that her Life First Trial had increased her Spirit Ring age and life affinity, and she planned to stay home and develop a new healing soul skill.
• Shen Lian asked Liu Yuxi to rest and adapt to her rewards, then returned to the Shen Mansion and told his family he was leaving for several months to complete his God Trial.
• Shen Lian's family and Zhu Zhuqing urged him to stay safe and promised to wait for his return.
• Shen Lian used his spatial soul skill to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest and reached the lake at its center.
• A silver-scaled hundred-thousand-year-old turtle emerged from the lake and attacked Shen Lian, who fought back with Huang Tian.

Shen Lian entered the Silver Dragon King’s hidden sanctuary and asked Gu Yuena to cooperate in breaking the fate that kept Soul Beasts from becoming gods. Gu Yuena suspected he meant to sacrifice her followers for his own ascension, and the chapter ended with Di Tian watching him warily as the sanctuary’s space twisted around them.

• Huang Tian broke through the giant turtle’s barrier and knocked it unconscious, allowing Shen Lian to dive into the lake.
• Shen Lian passed through a rune-covered membrane and reached the Crystal Tree sanctuary surrounding Life Lake.
• Di Tian confronted Shen Lian, but Gu Yuena emerged from the lake and ordered Di Tian to stand down after sensing the God of Destruction’s aura on him.
• Gu Yuena recognized Shen Lian as the inheritor of the God of Destruction’s divine position and asked why he had come.
• Shen Lian proposed cooperation to help Soul Beasts overcome their inability to become gods, and Gu Yuena challenged him over whether he intended to sacrifice her followers.
• Di Tian surfaced again as Gu Yuena’s anger twisted the sanctuary around Shen Lian.

Shen Lian proposed cooperation to Gu Yuena, but she rejected his offer to make Soul Beasts divine beasts under his control. He then promised to help her absorb the Golden Dragon King's power and argued that her people might accept his offer to escape the Heavenly Tribulation, leaving Gu Yuena shaken but unconvinced.

• Gu Yuena rejected Shen Lian's proposal, insisting she would not let Soul Beasts become his dependents or stepping stones to godhood.
• Shen Lian offered to help Gu Yuena absorb the Golden Dragon King's power and become the new Dragon God after he ascended.
• Gu Yuena questioned whether Shen Lian could keep that promise, pointing out that the God Realm's other powerful gods would oppose her.
• Shen Lian argued that ferocious beasts facing the Heavenly Tribulation might accept his offer despite Gu Yuena's wishes, provoking her fury.
• Shen Lian insisted he had a way to help Gu Yuena absorb the Golden Dragon King's energy, while Gu Yuena remained wary.

Shen Lian negotiated with Gu Yuena to obtain the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and three Ferocious Beasts as Spirit Rings, while sparing Di Tian. After Di Tian brought him the silkworm, Shen Lian tempted it with the promise of becoming a god if it sacrificed itself as his Spirit Ring, leaving the creature torn over the choice.

• Gu Yuena hesitated over Shen Lian’s proposal, then agreed to let him choose three Ferocious Beasts while keeping Di Tian safe, in exchange for handing over the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Gu Yuena warned Shen Lian not to break his promise and left, while he privately considered his assurances to her mere bargaining chips.
• Di Tian brought the captured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to Shen Lian, and the silkworm angrily demanded to be released.
• Shen Lian offered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm a chance to become a god by sacrificing itself as his Spirit Ring, and the silkworm struggled with the decision.

Shen Lian absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice, gained a Million-Year Spirit Ring and Spirit Skull, and advanced to level eighty while awakening powerful spiritual abilities and a Soul Core. Gu Yuena then asked which ferocious beasts he wanted to sacrifice themselves, and Shen Lian chose Bear Lord and Scarlet King.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed himself, and the Mark of Destruction transformed him into a Million-Year Soul Beast as Shen Lian absorbed his Spirit Ring and reached level eighty.
• Shen Lian found and absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Million-Year Spirit Skull, enduring three days and nights of agony before gaining four powerful soul skills.
• Shen Lian tested his spiritual power, discovered he had formed a Soul Core, and caused Gu Yuena to watch him warily from Lake Heart Island.
• Gu Yuena asked Shen Lian which ferocious beasts he wanted to sacrifice themselves, and he selected Bear Lord and Scarlet King.

Shen Lian absorbed Scarlet King and Bear Lord as Spirit Rings, gaining powerful soul skills and raising his Soul Power Level to eighty-five. He then revealed that Bi Ji would not have to sacrifice herself because her healing abilities could help his fiancée, the Goddess of Life.

• Gu Yuena held Scarlet King, Bear Lord, and Bi Ji back while Shen Lian prepared to absorb their Spirit Rings.
• Scarlet King sacrificed itself, and Shen Lian gained its Spirit Ring and the soul skills True Dragon Pressure and Purple Flame Roar.
• Bear Lord sacrificed itself to Shen Lian's Dragon-Slaying Blade, granting him Dark Gold Heaven-Rending Slash and Dragon Soul Sealing Slash.
• Shen Lian's Soul Power Level rose from seventy-eight to eighty-five, and he recovered Spirit Bones from Scarlet King's and Bear Lord's sacrifices.
• Bi Ji asked Shen Lian why he was delaying her sacrifice, and he explained that he did not intend to have her sacrifice herself because his fiancée had inherited the Goddess of Life's divine position.

Shen Lian brought Bi Ji to Mingdu and introduced her to Liu Yuxi, explaining their agreement for Bi Ji to become Liu Yuxi’s fifth Spirit Ring after she reached Rank 50. Bi Ji promised to teach Liu Yuxi healing while she waited, and asked that she be revived and allowed to guard the laws of life after they became gods.

• Shen Lian explained to Gu Yuena that Bi Ji’s Spirit Ring would help Liu Yuxi, the inheritor of the Goddess of Life, and Gu Yuena reminded him of their agreement.
• Shen Lian used his spatial power to bring Bi Ji from the Star Dou Great Forest to Mingdu.
• Shen Lian learned Liu Yuxi was at Shen Mansion and went there with Bi Ji.
• Shen Lian reunited with Xu Ningxin, Liu Yuxi, and Zhu Zhuqing, then introduced Bi Ji as a five-hundred-thousand-year healing Soul Beast.
• Shen Lian and Bi Ji told Liu Yuxi that Bi Ji would become her fifth Spirit Ring after she reached Rank 50, in exchange for revival and a place in the God Realm.
• Bi Ji offered to teach Liu Yuxi everything she knew about healing and demonstrated her power by reviving withered vines.

Liu Yuxi left with Bi Ji to study healing soul skills, while Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing reunited and returned to their courtyard. Shen Lian gave Zhu Zhuqing three powerful Spirit Bones, and she began absorbing them as he stood guard.

• Liu Yuxi thanked Shen Lian and eagerly went with Bi Ji to study healing soul skills.
• Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing returned to their courtyard and spent the night together after a month apart.
• The next day, Shen Lian showed Zhu Zhuqing an 800,000-year Evil Emperor Skull, a 450,000-year Right Arm Bone, and a 300,000-year Left Arm Bone.
• Zhu Zhuqing initially urged Shen Lian to keep the Spirit Bones, but he reassured her that he already had comparable bones and asked her to absorb them.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Evil Emperor Skull, then began absorbing the Scarlet King's Left Arm Bone while Shen Lian watched over her.

After Zhu Zhuqing reached level fifty, Shen Lian taught her to condense a Soul Core and offered the same method to Shen Long as a way to overcome his bottleneck. A year and a half later, Shen Lian had reached level ninety and was preparing his next steps for the Sun-Moon Empire’s conquest of Douluo Continent.

• Zhu Zhuqing broke through to level fifty after absorbing Spirit Bones, and Shen Lian urged her to temper her Soul Power by condensing a Soul Core.
• Shen Lian told Shen Long that condensing a Soul Core might help him break through to level ninety-nine, then demonstrated the method.
• Shen Long eagerly entered his training room to try condensing a Soul Core.
• Over the next year and a half, Shen Lian reached level ninety and focused on condensing his second Soul Core while keeping his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon at five Spirit Rings.
• Shen Lian planned to obtain God-Bestowed Spirit Rings for the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon and considered how to deal with Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Shen Lian left the Sun-Moon Empire with Zhu Zhuqing to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and prepare for the empire’s final conquest. After reaching Sea God Island, he told Bo Saixi he intended to claim the whale as his ninth Spirit Ring.

• Liu Yuxi reached level sixty-one and began condensing her first Soul Core, Zhu Zhuqing advanced to level fifty-eight, and Shen Long broke through to level ninety-nine.
• Shen Lian told Liu Yuxi he was leaving to hunt his ninth Spirit Ring and asked her to come, but she chose to stay and take care of things at home.
• Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to the Heaven Dou Empire’s western coast and bought a sailboat in a fishing village.
• Shen Lian used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to guide the sailboat through the sea, and the pair reached Sea God Island seven days later.
• Bo Saixi confronted Shen Lian over his divine aura and possession of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Shen Lian declared that he had come to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Shen Lian refused to surrender the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud until Bo Saixi agreed to his conditions. He left with an agreement for Sea God Island to help him hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and provide records of Poseidon's ascension, while the relic would be returned within ten years.

• Bo Saixi demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but Shen Lian refused and rejected her threats by summoning Huang Tian, whose power overwhelmed her and Sea God Island's protection array.
• Bo Saixi asked what it would take to obtain the relic, and Shen Lian demanded help hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the complete method by which Poseidon gathered ocean faith and ascended to godhood.
• Shen Lian said he would return the relic no later than ten years from then, and Bo Saixi accepted his conditions.
• Bo Saixi ordered her attendants to bring the Sea God Secret Scripture and began copying its account of Poseidon's ascension onto Shark Silk Paper.

Bo Saixi led Shen Lian, Zhu Zhuqing, and seven Title Douluo to the Soul-Severing Trench to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. The beast emerged and severely injured several of Bo Saixi’s fighters, leaving Shen Lian observing as the battle escalated.

• Bo Saixi gave Shen Lian an ancient Sea God scroll detailing the Sea God’s methods of communicating with ocean Soul Beasts and establishing deep-sea temples.
• Bo Saixi gathered seven ocean-affiliated Title Douluo, and they sailed with Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing toward the Demonic Whale King’s lair in the Soul-Severing Trench.
• Bo Saixi and the seven Title Douluo formed a barrier and prepared the Sea God Spirit Binding Array after Zhu Zhuqing sensed the Demonic Whale King’s anger beneath the water.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King erupted from the trench, shattered Sea Shark Douluo’s Martial Soul, and wounded Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Snake Douluo with water blades.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed that the Demonic Whale King’s Soul Power surpassed her Grandfather’s and was nearly inexhaustible in the sea.

Shen Lian and Bo Saixi faced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, which Shen Lian wounded but could not defeat. Bo Saixi summoned the Sea God to crush the beast, then collapsed from the effort, leaving Shen Lian to claim its Spirit Ring as the whale questioned whether he could survive absorbing it.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked Shen Lian and Bo Saixi, and Shen Lian split its energy sphere with Dark Gold Heaven-Rending Slash, leaving a mark on its scales.
• Bo Saixi saw the Seven Holy Pillar Douluo badly wounded and summoned the Sea God with her ninth Soul Skill.
• The Sea God bound and shattered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's spine, then battered it until it could no longer fight.
• Bo Saixi ended the summon, collapsed after exhausting her power, and urged Shen Lian to act before the whale recovered.
• Shen Lian stepped onto the wounded whale, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King questioned how a Title Douluo with only eight Spirit Rings could absorb its nearly million-year Spirit Ring.

Shen Lian killed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and absorbed its Spirit Ring, which the Mark of Destruction elevated to a Million-Year Spirit Ring. After three days and nights of absorption, he took the Whale King's right leg bone and endured another three days of its power merging with his body.

• Shen Lian dismissed the Whale King's threat by revealing that he had absorbed a Million-Year Spirit Ring before, then killed it with his eighth soul skill, Dark Gold Heaven-Rending Slash.
• The Mark of Destruction transformed the Whale King's nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Spirit Ring into a Million-Year Spirit Ring as Shen Lian began absorbing it.
• The Whale King's remnant soul attacked Shen Lian, but the Mark of Destruction's purple light destroyed it.
• After three days and nights, Shen Lian finished absorbing the Spirit Ring and tore the Whale King's dark gold right leg bone from its corpse.
• Shen Lian absorbed the right leg bone and endured another three days and nights as its energy fused with the Divine Power of Destruction in his body.

After absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's right leg bone, Shen Lian reached Soul Power rank ninety-four and formed a second Soul Core, then tested three powerful new soul skills. He left Sea God Island with Zhu Zhuqing, while Bo Saixi waited for his promised return of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and Poseidon pondered the Law of Destruction mark on Shen Lian.

• Shen Lian absorbed the right leg bone, raised his Soul Power to rank ninety-four, and formed a dark-gold second Soul Core.
• Shen Lian tested Deep Sea Reincarnation Slash, Whale Swallowing Nine-Fold Slash, and Nine Blades Into One, recognizing that the final strike surpassed the limits of Douluo Continent.
• Bo Saixi and the Seven Holy Pillar Douluo watched Shen Lian's display in shock, while Bo Saixi reflected on her fate as a stepping stone for a divine inheritance.
• Shen Lian took Zhu Zhuqing and left Sea God Island through a spatial rift after Bo Saixi asked him to return the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud within ten years.
• Bo Saixi told Sea Witch Douluo they had no choice but to wait, and Poseidon studied Shen Lian's vanishing image and the Law of Destruction mark between his brows.

Poseidon resented the Asura God’s attempt to force Tang San’s inheritance on him and went to seek the God of Destruction’s protection. Meanwhile, Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Shen Lian delivered the promised soul guidance cannons but faced Ning Fengzhi’s anger over the two-year delay.

• Poseidon recalled the Asura God demanding that Tang San inherit both the Asura and Sea God divinities, and decided to seek the God of Destruction’s protection.
• Shen Lian and Zhu Zhuqing traveled from Sea God Island to the Douluo Continent and entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s reception hall.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong reacted to Shen Lian’s sudden arrival, while Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, exchanged tense remarks with him.
• Shen Lian sat opposite Ning Fengzhi and produced ten soul guidance cannons, but Ning Fengzhi rebuked him for delivering them two years late.

Shen Lian confronted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Gu Rong threatened him, revealing that he had become a Title Douluo. He then proposed discussing how the Sun-Moon Empire would take over Douluo Continent, leaving Ning Fengzhi and the others stunned.

• Qian Renxue excused herself, and Shen Lian told Ning Fengzhi he had come to discuss Douluo Continent's future rather than Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Ning Fengzhi insisted they settle the Soul Guidance Cannons first, but Gu Rong threatened to force Shen Lian out of the sect.
• Shen Lian cut off Gu Rong's finger and wounded his arm, then revealed nine Spirit Rings, including a golden one.
• Ning Fengzhi apologized for Gu Rong, and Shen Lian warned Gu Rong not to point at him again before asking to discuss the continent's future.
• Shen Lian said they should discuss how the Sun-Moon Empire would occupy Douluo Continent, leaving Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong confused.

Shen Lian revealed that the Sun-Moon Empire planned to expand onto Douluo Continent and urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join it. He offered the sect status, soul-tool knowledge, and a way to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, then prepared to explain what he wanted in return.

• Ning Rongrong, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi reacted with disbelief and concern when Shen Lian revealed the Sun-Moon Empire across the ocean.
• Shen Lian claimed the Sun-Moon Empire surpassed the Heaven Dou and Star Luo empires and could overwhelm them even alongside Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi inferred that Shen Lian wanted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Shen Lian promised to preserve the sect's standing, teach it to manufacture soul tools, and help transform its martial soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi asked what Shen Lian expected in return, and Shen Lian began to answer.

Shen Lian forced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to support the Sun-Moon Empire, then took Ning Rongrong with him under the promise of personally guiding her cultivation. Ning Fengzhi accepted both demands under the threat of Huang Tian’s overwhelming power, leaving the reception hall devastated as Shen Lian departed with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Shen Lian demanded that Ning Fengzhi fund the Sun-Moon Empire’s military and assist its invasion, and Huang Tian’s aura made the sect’s leaders realize they could not refuse.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to support the Sun-Moon Empire, and Shen Lian prepared to leave the reception hall.
• Shen Lian compared Ning Rongrong’s level thirty-four Soul Power with Zhu Zhuqing’s level fifty-eight, and Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Soul King strength.
• Shen Lian asked Ning Fengzhi to let Ning Rongrong follow him, promising to guide her cultivation, provide the Immortal Herb to evolve her Martial Soul, and enroll her at the Imperial Soul Guidance Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi reluctantly sent Ning Rongrong with Shen Lian, and she followed him and Zhu Zhuqing out of the hall.