Chapter Summaries

Asura God worried that the High Priest’s divination might reveal an unfavorable fate for Jiang Chen, while the gods wondered why they had never sensed him during earlier fluctuations of the laws. On Douluo Continent, Jiang Chen faced the final lightning tribulations, using his Lightning Fist to shatter and control the crimson lightning.

• Asura God grew concerned that the High Priest’s divination could bring bad news for Jiang Chen and remembered the System’s power to evade the gods’ senses.
• Evil God asked why the gods had failed to sense Jiang Chen during earlier fluctuations of the laws, and Asura God suggested the Heavenly Dao might have concealed him.
• Jiang Chen summoned his martial soul and used his first soul skill to strengthen his defense, conserving Soul Power rather than activating his stronger skills.
• Jiang Chen shattered the ninth-to-last crimson lightning bolt with his Lightning Fist, reducing its power before it surged into his body.
• Jiang Chen used his formless Lightning Fist to bind the lightning within him, and Evil God remarked on the strange movements’ apparent principles.

Jiang Chen used his eighth soul skill to hide inside a stone coffin and evade the Heavenly Tribulation’s lock while he recovered. As the purple Tribulation Cloud remained overhead, the gods watched and wondered about his strange abilities.

• Asura God worried that the God of Destruction might attack Jiang Chen if the High Priest’s divination went against him.
• After the fifth-to-last lightning strike left him near collapse, Jiang Chen spent all his Soul Power to summon a stone coffin and climbed inside.
• Bibi Dong stared in astonishment while the gods recognized the coffin as Jiang Chen’s eighth soul skill.
• Jiang Chen swallowed a recovery pill and activated his Eye of Heavenly Punishment as the purple Tribulation Cloud churned above him.
• Jiang Chen felt the Heavenly Tribulation stop locking onto him, then began recovering inside the coffin while the cloud remained in place.

Jiang Chen recovered inside his stone coffin, then used it to block the Heavenly Tribulation’s next strike and discovered its remarkable defensive power. Bibi Dong saw that the coffin had eased his ordeal, while the God Realm Committee remained unable to see inside it.

• Jiang Chen swallowed pills and rapidly healed and restored his Soul Power inside the stone coffin.
• The Evil God and the other God Kings discovered that their divine senses could not penetrate the coffin, and the Asura God admitted he did not know how Jiang Chen’s soul skill worked.
• After half an hour, Jiang Chen emerged, and the Heavenly Tribulation immediately struck him.
• Jiang Chen raised the coffin to block the lightning, which cracked its surface slightly but left it largely intact.
• Jiang Chen realized the coffin could take the lightning’s impact while he absorbed the remaining energy, and Bibi Dong’s worry eased.

Jiang Chen faced the final Heavenly Tribulation after exhausting his Soul Power, but the seven-colored lightning overwhelmed him and buried him in the mountaintop. Bibi Dong rescued him from the crater, though the lightning also invaded her body.

• Jiang Chen used Lightning Fist and the coffin lid from his eighth soul skill to resist the final bolt of lightning.
• The lightning shattered the coffin lid and blasted Jiang Chen into the mountaintop as Bibi Dong watched in fear.
• After the Tribulation Cloud dispersed, Bibi Dong flew to the crater and reached inside to find Jiang Chen.
• Bibi Dong pulled Jiang Chen from the pit, suffering lightning damage as the seven-colored energy entered her body and consumed her Soul Power.

After Bibi Dong helped Jiang Chen expel the lightning, he recovered and asked to spar with her. Bibi Dong revealed her strength as a level ninety-seven Titled Douluo and challenged his confidence.

• Bibi Dong forced the lightning out of herself and sent it into Jiang Chen, whose body endured the energy without serious harm.
• Bibi Dong helped Jiang Chen up, then turned away when she realized he was unclothed; Jiang Chen hurriedly dressed.
• Jiang Chen remembered obtaining the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and thought that he and Bibi Dong were even.
• Jiang Chen asked Bibi Dong to spar, and she said the immortal herbs and pills he had given her had raised her to level ninety-seven, strong enough to fight a level ninety-nine opponent.
• Jiang Chen taunted Bibi Dong by asking whether she was afraid to fight him.

Jiang Chen challenged Bibi Dong to teach him a lesson, while the God Realm’s High Priest foresaw him becoming the Twilight of the Gods and slaughtering the gods. The Asura God agreed to discuss a plan to eliminate Jiang Chen and asked the High Priest to keep the prophecy secret.

• Jiang Chen praised Bibi Dong’s transformed Martial Soul, then recovered his Soul Power as she prepared to poison him.
• The High Priest told the Asura God and the other divine leaders that his vision showed Jiang Chen destroying the God Realm and becoming its sole master.
• The High Priest urged the two God Kings and three enforcers to kill Jiang Chen before the catastrophe occurred.
• The Asura God said they would devise a plan and instructed the High Priest not to reveal the prophecy.

The God Realm leaders decided to observe Jiang Chen rather than act on the High Priest’s prediction, while the Evil God considered leaving the God Realm with his beloved and choosing a successor. The chapter ended with the Asura God refusing to give Jiang Chen to him.

• The God of Kindness reassured the Asura God that Jiang Chen seemed kind, while the God of Destruction argued that he should be eliminated.
• The Evil God proposed watching Jiang Chen before making any decision, and all five leaders agreed.
• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life departed after the meeting.
• The Evil God asked the Asura God to give Jiang Chen to him, but the Asura God refused.
• The Evil God revealed that he planned to enter the mortal world with his darling and find a successor.

Jiang Chen fought Bibi Dong to test his defensive strength, while Asura God and Evil God discussed the danger Destruction posed to him. Jiang Chen faced Bibi Dong’s powerful Eternal Creation attack head-on.

• Evil God warned Asura God that Destruction feared Jiang Chen’s potential and promised to arrange protections before reincarnating.
• Asura God said Jiang Chen was progressing too quickly for Evil God to poach him, and Evil God urged him not to go easy while supervising Jiang Chen.
• Evil God departed, leaving Asura God to consider how to protect Jiang Chen from God of Destruction.
• Bibi Dong transformed into her second Martial Soul form and unleashed her single-target soul skill, Eternal Creation, against Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen met Bibi Dong’s attack directly with a lightning-charged fist.

Jiang Chen fought Bibi Dong after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation and advancing his zombie cultivation to level eight. He overwhelmed her with his enhanced strength and sealed her inside a stone coffin.

• Jiang Chen revealed that his wounds healed rapidly and explained that his golden blood and bones were part of his Indestructible Vajra ability.
• Jiang Chen activated his Martial Soul Avatar and charged at Bibi Dong, whose domains had little effect on him.
• Jiang Chen unleashed a rapid barrage of punches, shattering Bibi Dong’s crossed spear-arms.
• Jiang Chen used his eighth soul ring to make Bibi Dong crash into a stone coffin, then shut the lid and sealed her inside.

Jiang Chen trapped Bibi Dong inside a stone coffin to test its defenses, but her venom soul skill corroded her clothes instead of the coffin. After Jiang Chen fled, Bibi Dong suspected he could sense everything happening inside.

• Jiang Chen sat on the stone coffin and asked Bibi Dong to attack it with her strongest move.
• Bibi Dong tried stabbing the coffin and then used her venom soul skill, which barely corroded the stone but destroyed her clothing.
• Jiang Chen suddenly fled a thousand meters away when he realized what was happening inside the coffin.
• Bibi Dong pushed open the coffin lid and found Jiang Chen gone.
• Bibi Dong suspected Jiang Chen had fled because he could sense what was happening inside the coffin.

After escaping Bibi Dong, Jiang Chen returned to Spirit City and learned that she had been searching for him in anger. He avoided visiting her and went to Elder Hall, intending to challenge Qian Daoliu and test his strength.

• Bibi Dong climbed out of the venom-filled stone coffin, straightened her clothes, and flew back to Spirit City in a rage.
• Jiang Chen waited until Bibi Dong had left, then entered Spirit City through the gate and bought food and toys for his daughter.
• Commander Ji told Jiang Chen that Bibi Dong had ordered him to visit her immediately, but Jiang Chen decided to wait for her anger to subside.
• Jiang Chen found Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Xiao Xuening absent from his residence and headed to Elder Hall to challenge Qian Daoliu.

Jiang Chen told Qian Daoliu about his cultivation breakthrough and his trial to defeat Tang Chen, revealing that Tang Chen was alive and ruling Slaughter City as the Slaughter King. Qian Daoliu was shocked by the news and demanded to know where Tang Chen was.

• Jiang Chen joined Qian Daoliu for food and drinks and told him that his cultivation had broken through.
• Jiang Chen released his eight soul rings, shocking Qian Daoliu with his strength and his victory over Bibi Dong.
• Jiang Chen asked to spar with Qian Daoliu and explained that he needed to defeat him before becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Jiang Chen revealed that his Asura God's second trial required him to defeat Tang Chen, and Qian Daoliu reacted with shock at learning Tang Chen was alive.
• Jiang Chen told Qian Daoliu that Tang Chen was in Slaughter City, where he was the Slaughter King.

Jiang Chen explained Tang Chen’s fall and his own Asura inheritance to Qian Daoliu, then agreed to fight his grandfather the next morning. Qian Daoliu entrusted Qian Renxue to Jiang Chen and made him promise to keep his coming sacrifice secret from her.

• Qian Daoliu learned that Tang Chen had lost his memories after the Rakshasa God’s scheme and had become the Slaughter King.
• Jiang Chen told Qian Daoliu that the Asura God had chosen him and that his trial required him to defeat Tang Chen and take the Asura Sword before becoming a Title Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu warned Jiang Chen about Tang Chen’s strength, then arranged to test Jiang Chen in a match the next morning.
• After drinking with Jiang Chen, Qian Daoliu revealed that he would sacrifice his life during Qian Renxue’s Angel God inheritance and asked Jiang Chen to care for her.
• Jiang Chen promised to protect Qian Renxue and keep Qian Daoliu’s sacrifice secret from her.

Jiang Chen returned to his quarters and spent time with Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, while avoiding Bibi Dong until her anger cooled. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue telling him that Bibi Dong had wanted to accompany him through his tribulation and teasing him about his powerful soul rings.

• Jiang Chen left the Elder Hall and decided to postpone visiting Bibi Dong because he feared her anger and Qian Renxue's reaction.
• Jiang Chen found Xiao Xuening asleep, kissed her forehead, and then went to Hu Liena's room after hearing sounds from inside.
• Jiang Chen, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena discussed installing soundproof Soul Tools so they would not disturb Xiao Xuening.
• Qian Renxue told Jiang Chen that Bibi Dong had searched for him and planned to accompany him through his tribulation.
• Jiang Chen explained that his mysterious inheritance helped him cultivate, and Qian Renxue remarked that his eight soul rings had all reached five hundred thousand years.

After spending time with Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, Jiang Chen went to cultivate and finally checked his tribulation reward, only to discover it was “Big Trouble.” He asked the senior what trouble he could have gotten into despite always obeying the law.

• Jiang Chen realized Bibi Dong had not told Qian Renxue and Hu Liena about their sparring match and decided not to spar with his teacher again.
• Jiang Chen reflected on his and his wives’ cultivation progress and Hu Liena’s inheritance from the Nine-Tailed Fox God.
• Jiang Chen considered whether Spirit City should invest in developing Soul Tools and remembered that their technology remained rudimentary.
• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena drew Jiang Chen into spending more than an hour with them before he went to cultivate alone.
• Jiang Chen checked his tribulation reward and found it was “Big Trouble,” then asked the senior what it meant.

After Jiang Chen's tribulation was witnessed across the God Realm, the Asura God warned him that a prophecy and a powerful rival could put him in danger. Jiang Chen resolved to improve quickly and wondered whether the system had caused his tribulation to become exposed.

• The Asura God told Jiang Chen that a renowned prophet had predicted Jiang Chen would destroy the God Realm, prompting the God Realm Committee to monitor him.
• Jiang Chen asked why a Soul Douluo could threaten the God Realm, and the Asura God said the Committee had left him a chance but might not protect him if he committed heinous crimes.
• The Asura God warned Jiang Chen that a god seeking sole control of the God Realm might see Jiang Chen's talent as a threat.
• The Asura God urged Jiang Chen to cultivate quickly and complete the Asura Three Trials, while choosing to trust Jiang Chen over the prophecy.
• Jiang Chen reflected on how the tribulation had exposed him and suspected the system had caused it, either deliberately or by accident.

Jiang Chen opened his golden treasure chest and received Tribulation Lightning Fluid, an Inventory Expansion Voucher, and a Cultivation System Separation Book. He used the voucher, and the inventory transformed into a rotating nebula-like vortex.

• Jiang Chen checked his system and saw that his zombie cultivation had reached level eight and his soul master cultivation had reached rank eighty-four, Soul Douluo.
• Jiang Chen opened the treasure chest and received Tribulation Lightning Fluid, an Inventory Expansion Voucher, and a Cultivation System Separation Book.
• Jiang Chen learned that the book could create a soul master clone, but the process required a large amount of blood essence and splitting his soul in half.
• Jiang Chen used the Inventory Expansion Voucher, and the inventory interface became a progress bar for an upgrade.
• Jiang Chen watched the upgrade finish and saw a slowly rotating grayish-white vortex resembling a nebula.

Jiang Chen explored the space created by the upgraded inventory and learned it could store objects and living creatures. He could not pass through the dense mist at its edge, and the chapter left him examining the System Separation Book.

• Jiang Chen's consciousness entered an unfamiliar space filled with green grass and white mist, where he discovered he had a body formed from his consciousness.
• Jiang Chen learned that the space could store objects and living creatures, though his actual body could not enter it.
• Jiang Chen tried to pass through the dense mist at the space's edge but found it resisted him and blocked his view.
• Jiang Chen looked at the Tribulation Lightning Fluid and the System Separation Book, then picked up the book and read it again.

Jiang Chen began using the System Separation Book to condense a clone, reassured that it could restore both souls to peak condition and let him merge their Soul Power later. The process drained his essence blood until the Corpse Core released a surge of blood energy.

• Jiang Chen decided to condense a clone after confirming the System Separation Book could restore his divided soul and allow him to merge his Soul Power.
• Jiang Chen went to his cultivation chamber, checked the instructions, and activated the System Separation Book.
• Golden energy tore at Jiang Chen's heart and drew out his essence blood, forming a golden mass before his chest.
• Jiang Chen grew dizzy as the essence blood continued to leave his body, and the Corpse Core in his dantian suddenly released a vast surge of blood energy.

Jiang Chen used the System Separation Technique to form a clone from his essence blood, but the process left the clone soulless until half his soul was torn away and transferred into it. The golden connection broke, leaving Jiang Chen in unprecedented weakness.

• The remaining Asura God's essence blood replenished Jiang Chen and restored him to peak condition.
• The System Separation Technique shaped the growing mass of essence blood into a body identical to Jiang Chen's, though it had no soul.
• The golden light tore at Jiang Chen's soul, causing him immense pain that lasted about a minute.
• Half of Jiang Chen's soul entered the clone, the golden light severed, and Jiang Chen was left profoundly weakened.