Chapter Summaries

Xiao Cheng searched the Spirit Pagoda library for information about other planes while avoiding revealing his source, then joined Leng Yaozhu, Zhang Geyang, and Qiangu Dongfeng to witness the Federation confront the Tang Sect over stolen Level-10 weapons. Bai Ziyuan agreed to compensate Shrek City and share technology, but refused to let the Federation inspect Tang Sect headquarters, leaving the dispute settled for now.

• Xiao Cheng found no reliable records about the Abyssal Plane and discussed with the Eternal Angel why he needed a plausible source before asking others about it.
• Zhang Geyang questioned Xiao Cheng about his relationship with Leng Yaozhu and warned him that others might resent him if he led her or Yu Lai on.
• Qiangu Dongfeng brought Xiao Cheng, Leng Yaozhu, and Zhang Geyang to watch Federation officials hold the Tang Sect accountable for failing to secure two Level-10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells.
• Deputy Minister Zhou accused the Tang Sect of illegal research and storage, demanded compensation and a headquarters inspection, and Tang Tianhua refused to admit the Federation inside.
• Bai Ziyuan appeared and offered thirty billion Federation credits, free use of Soul Guidance Technology patents, and three years of filings on high-risk Soul Tools, while rejecting an inspection.
• Chen Xinjie accepted Bai Ziyuan's offer and stopped Deputy Minister Zhou from pressing the inspection demand further.

Chen Xinjie agreed to the Tang Sect’s reconciliation after Long Yeyue revealed their painful past, while Xiao Cheng completed the wind tribulation and resolved to keep growing stronger. The Tang Sect prepared to move its secret research to Heaven Dou City, and Bei Mufeng remained concerned about the lingering destructive power in Bei Dexun’s body.

• Chen Xinjie overruled Vice Minister Zhou and accepted the Tang Sect’s offer, which required compensation within three days and patent review within a week.
• Xiao Cheng learned that Qiangu Qingfeng was visiting the Xia Clan elders with Zheng Leng, while Yu Lai had secluded herself to refine the Dark Matter Crystal.
• Xiao Cheng cultivated the Azure Dragon Tribulation and successfully passed the wind tribulation, then told Eternal Angel that he practiced the Dragon Transformation Sutra.
• Long Yeyue revealed her history with Chen Xinjie, including the loss of their child, and Chen Xinjie said he had supported the Tang Sect to repay his old debt to her.
• Bai Ziyuan ordered the Tang Sect to pay the compensation and secretly transfer its core research projects and top-secret materials to its Heaven Dou City branch.
• Bei Mufeng watched over the unconscious Bei Dexun and worried that the destructive power inside him was still slowly spreading.

After adapting to the Wind Aperture formed by surviving the Wind Tribulation, Xiao Cheng sought help finding sites for the remaining Azure Dragon Tribulations and decided to visit his grandfather’s Body Sect. He arrived at the sect’s mountain gate, where Mu Man hurried out to greet him.

• Xiao Cheng discovered that the Wind Tribulation had transformed his lungs, letting him draw in air and water unusually and release wind blades, so he practiced controlling the new ability.
• Xiao Cheng overheard Xiao Ran and Zhantian discuss plans to pressure the Tang Sect and learned that Chen Xinjie’s failure had prompted Yu Haoxuan’s backup plan.
• Xiao Cheng asked Xiao Ran for help finding extreme environments for the Earth, Water, Fire, and Thunder Tribulations, and Xiao Ran recommended consulting the Body Sect about deep-sea training.
• After several days of adapting to the Wind Aperture, Xiao Cheng accepted a jade plaque from Xiao Ran and traveled alone to Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Cheng reached the Body Sect’s mountain gate, where the disciples recognized him and Mu Man arrived to welcome him.

Xiao Cheng reunited with Mu Man, Su Wanjun, and Han Tianyi at the Body Sect, passed Han Tianyi’s spiritual-power test, and learned that Mu Huang had entered seclusion after reaching a breakthrough threshold. He arranged to undergo the Water Tribulation in the North Sea with Han Tianyi, while a possible method for the Earth Tribulation was deferred until Mu Huang returned.

• Xiao Cheng reunited with Mu Man and Su Wanjun, then passed Han Tianyi’s starry-sky illusion test by finding its exit.
• Han Tianyi told Xiao Cheng that Mu Huang had entered seclusion after studying the Taixuan Technique and touching the threshold of becoming a Limit Douluo.
• Xiao Cheng asked Han Tianyi and Mu Man for help preparing for the Water Tribulation in the deep sea and advice on the Earth Tribulation.
• Han Tianyi described the Body Sect’s brutal deep-sea training method and promised to adapt it for Xiao Cheng before leading the expedition himself.
• Han Tianyi postponed discussion of the Earth Tribulation method until Mu Huang left seclusion, and Xiao Cheng rested at the sect for a day.
• Xiao Cheng departed for the North Sea with Han Tianyi aboard a modified Black-Grade Mecha.

Xiao Cheng trained in the North Sea to absorb water elements and prepare for the Water Tribulation, while Han Tianyi supported him with food and protection. After nearly a month, the water-element power in Xiao Cheng’s kidneys reached its limit, and he realized the Water Tribulation was ready to begin.

• Han Tianyi brought Xiao Cheng to the Blood Sea Trench, where Xiao Cheng began cultivating underwater while Han Tianyi gathered nourishing ingredients.
• Xiao Cheng repeatedly dived deeper, adapted to the pressure with Dragon Snake Transformation, and gradually increased his underwater endurance and water-element absorption.
• Han Tianyi supplied Xiao Cheng with Red Jade Shrimp and other restorative foods as his blood and vitality strengthened.
• A giant deep-sea octopus seized Xiao Cheng below nine hundred meters, but he attacked it with the Tai-Xu Azure Flood Dragon’s Power of Empty Green, and Han Tianyi’s spiritual pressure drove it away.
• After nearly a month of training, Xiao Cheng felt the water-element power in his kidneys reach its critical point and decided to undergo the Water Tribulation that day.

Xiao Cheng passed the Water Tribulation, gaining greater recovery and the ability to absorb and deflect force, then returned to the Body Sect with Han Tianyi. There, Mu Huang emerged from seclusion as a Limit Douluo, and Xiao Cheng learned that the declining Yang Spring’s Subterranean Yang Vein could serve as a site for his Earth Tribulation.

• Xiao Cheng endured the Water Tribulation, formed a water aperture in his kidneys, and gained supple force that could absorb and rebound attacks along with enhanced vitality.
• Han Tianyi and Xiao Cheng flew past the Devil Sea, where Han Tianyi explained its destruction aura and the dangers hidden in its depths.
• Xiao Cheng and Han Tianyi returned to the Body Sect as Mu Huang emerged from seclusion and revealed that he had broken through to Limit Douluo.
• Mu Huang welcomed Xiao Cheng, then agreed with Han Tianyi that the Subterranean Yang Vein beneath Yang Spring could help Xiao Cheng undergo the Earth Tribulation.
• Mu Huang explained that the Yang Spring had declined because shifts in the wider earth-vein network beneath Heaven Dou City were draining its yang energy.

Xiao Cheng completed his Earth Tribulation beneath Yang Spring, forming an Earth Aperture and a nascent Blood Essence Soul Ring. After learning that the Leng Family’s fire secret realm would open in two months and that Thunder Prison was a restricted zone, he set out to visit his master at the Blacksmith Association.

• Xiao Cheng suspected Heaven Dou City’s expansion had accelerated Yang Spring’s decline but kept his thoughts about the underground construction to himself.
• Mu Huang and Han Tianyi led Xiao Cheng beneath Yang Spring and sealed him inside the underground Yang vein to undergo the Earth Tribulation.
• Xiao Cheng endured the earth-element pressure, formed his Earth Aperture, and completed the tribulation after thirty-one days, gaining a nascent Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Mu Huang pulled Xiao Cheng from underground, and Xiao Cheng received Xiao Ran’s letter about the Leng Family’s upcoming Fire Tribulation secret realm and restricted Thunder Prison.
• Xiao Cheng decided to pursue the Fire Tribulation first and went to the Blacksmith Association to visit his master, Yuan Hua.

Xiao Cheng visited Yuan Hua in Heaven Dou City and demonstrated that his forging had advanced to Spirit Refinement and the threshold of Soul Refinement. Yuan Hua kept him training for the next two months, and as the Leng Family’s ancestral secret realm neared its opening, Xiao Cheng had begun mastering Soul Refinement’s first step.

• Yuan Hua brought Xiao Cheng to his underground forge and challenged him to show his current skills.
• Xiao Cheng forged Thousand-Mechanism Copper and Dragon-Pattern Steel into Saint-grade Spirit Refinement metal, then produced a Soul Refinement echo with his bloodline and True Dragon Qi.
• Yuan Hua told Xiao Cheng to remain in Heaven Dou City for two months to study Soul Refinement before visiting the secret realm.
• Xiao Cheng trained and cultivated under Yuan Hua, using his forging routine to improve his recovery and cultivation efficiency.
• By the twentieth day, Xiao Cheng could reliably complete Soul Refinement’s first step and occasionally reach the edge of solidification.
• After another month had passed, the Leng Family’s ancestral secret realm was about to open.

After two months of training with Yuan Hua, Xiao Cheng reached the threshold of Soul Refinement and traveled to Shrek City with Mu Huang, who planned to reclaim the Body Sect’s Secret of the Body from Shrek Academy. Xiao Cheng also agreed to enter the Leng Family’s Undying Volcano Secret Realm in five days, while Mu Huang arrived at Shrek’s gates to collect the ancient debt.

• Xiao Cheng thanked Yuan Hua for his forging lessons, and Yuan Hua gave him a fire-energy-storing metal box before warning him about the Undying Volcano Secret Realm.
• Mu Huang told Xiao Cheng that Shrek Academy had kept the Body Sect’s Secret of the Body for ten thousand years and planned to reclaim it while Shrek was weakened.
• Xiao Ran agreed to seek Qiangu Haoran’s support for Mu Huang’s confrontation with Bei Mufeng in exchange for the Spirit Pagoda learning about Shrek Academy’s strength.
• Leng Zhaoran invited Xiao Cheng, Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai to enter the Undying Volcano Secret Realm, and Leng Yaozhu revealed that her Phoenix Divine Feather could help them seek a Phoenix inheritance.
• Leng Yulai sensed an unfamiliar bloodline and Martial Soul resonance with Xiao Cheng and wondered why her Dark Phoenix Martial Soul seemed drawn to him.
• Mu Huang appeared at Shrek Academy’s entrance, announced that he had come to collect a ten-thousand-year-old debt, and unleashed his Soul Power against its protective barrier.

Mu Huang forced his way into Shrek Academy to reclaim the Secret of the Body and defeated its defenders before confronting Bei Dexun. After their fierce duel exposed Bei Dexun’s lingering injuries, Bei Dexun offered to return the Secret of the Body.

• Mu Huang rejected Elder Mu’s offer to negotiate and knocked the Qian Jun Ant Emperor elder unconscious with one punch.
• Mu Huang fought off Shrek Academy’s gathered powerhouses while taunting them, as Qiangu Haoran’s warning kept Bei Mufeng from intervening.
• Bei Dexun emerged and challenged Mu Huang, exchanging powerful spear strikes and punches with him.
• Mu Huang broke through Bei Dexun’s Heavenly Favored Domain and cut his shoulder armor, while Bei Dexun’s weakened condition limited his strength.
• Bei Dexun acknowledged Mu Huang’s advantage and offered to return the Secret of the Body.

Mu Huang forced Shrek Academy to return the Secret of the Body and pay three Soul Bones, and Xiao Cheng absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Purple Brilliant Dragon Right Arm Bone that awakened new Armageddon powers. Three days later, Xiao Cheng arrived with Leng Zhaoran and his daughters at the entrance to the Undying Volcano Secret Realm.

• Mu Huang demanded a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and two Superior Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones from Bei Dexun, who agreed after Mu Huang swore to end the Body Sect’s disputes with Shrek Academy over the Secret of the Body.
• Mu Huang returned to Xiao Ran’s office carrying the recovered book and three Soul Bones, including a Purple Brilliant Dragon Right Arm Bone for Xiao Cheng.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Huang inspected the Soul Bone for tampering, then Xiao Cheng absorbed it and gained two Armageddon Soul Bone skills as his Soul Power rose to level fifty-eight.
• Eternal Angel explained that the Soul Bone’s destruction origin had resonated with Xiao Cheng’s divine rank and offered a chance to gain control over the Child of Armageddon’s power.
• Three days later, Xiao Cheng met Leng Zhaoran, Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai, and they traveled to the Leng Family ancestral grounds to enter the Undying Volcano Secret Realm.
• Leng Zhaoran led the group through a stone archway, where Xiao Cheng felt the air turn hot and dry and glimpsed a vast crimson mountain ahead.

Leng Yulai began a breakthrough while Leng Yaozhu and Xiao Cheng searched the inner region of Undying Volcano, and they fought off a Flame Spirit horde to protect her. Leng Xia and Leng Qiu arrived and reported a vast underground lava lake filled with powerful Flame Spirits, including a Dragon-shaped mutant Flame Spirit King.

• Leng Yulai sensed that she was about to break through, and Leng Yaozhu helped her settle in a sheltered spot.
• A Flame Spirit horde attacked during Leng Yulai’s breakthrough, so Leng Yaozhu used her Ultimate Fire domain while Xiao Cheng defeated the Flame Spirit King and the others.
• Leng Xia and Leng Qiu arrived after the battle, looking disheveled, and explained that they had come to join Leng Yaozhu and Xiao Cheng.
• Leng Xia said that the family’s Phoenix Blood Divine Gold vein had shrunk and contained a deep crack leading to an enormous underground lava lake.
• Leng Xia and Leng Qiu reported that the lake held hundreds of Greater Flame Spirits, two Flame Spirit Kings, and a Dragon-shaped mutant Flame Spirit King with at least Soul Douluo strength.

Xiao Cheng and his companions investigated the lava lake, defeated the two Flame Spirit Kings guarding it, and then confronted the dragon-shaped Mutant Flame Spirit King. As the battle turned in Xiao Cheng’s favor, the mutant fused with its own kind and grew more powerful, leaving the fight far more dangerous.

• Leng Xia and Leng Qiu revealed the lava lake’s unusual Flame Spirit gathering and led Xiao Cheng, Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai toward it after Leng Yulai reached Soul King level.
• Xiao Cheng’s group used Leng Xia and Leng Qiu as bait, then surrounded and killed two Flame Spirit Kings and their accompanying Flame Spirits.
• When the surviving Mutant Flame Spirit King refused to pursue the bait, Xiao Cheng’s group entered the lava lake and assigned roles for a direct assault.
• Xiao Cheng attacked the dragon-shaped Mutant Flame Spirit King while Leng Yaozhu, Leng Yulai, Leng Xia, and Leng Qiu held back its guards.
• After Xiao Cheng knocked the Mutant Flame Spirit King into the horde, it absorbed Lesser Flame Spirits and began fusing with Greater Flame Spirits, rapidly growing stronger and more savage.

Xiao Cheng destroyed the unstable Mutant Flame Spirit King, and its death opened a golden gate beneath the lava lake. Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai passed the gate’s Phoenix-bloodline test and entered, while Xiao Cheng remained outside seeking a way to follow them.

• Xiao Cheng used five layers of the Tribulation Seal and a destructive spear to destroy the Mutant Flame Spirit King while reducing its explosion.
• A golden spatial passage opened over the lava lake, and the Phoenix Divine Feather pointed toward it.
• Xiao Cheng entered the gate but was burned by its flames, escaping with Ten Thousand Tribulations Molting Body after realizing the gate rejected his lack of Phoenix Bloodline.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai passed the gate’s test, while Leng Qiu and Leng Xia were rejected by the flames.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai entered the gate, leaving Xiao Cheng outside with Leng Xia and Leng Qiu.

Xiao Cheng used the phoenix flames at the secret realm’s light gate to complete his Fire Tribulation and gain a powerful new state. He entered the palace, found Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai bathing in a crimson pool, and was caught after accidentally making a noise.

• Leng Xia and Leng Qiu left to gather fire-aspected resources and asked Xiao Cheng to look after Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai.
• Xiao Cheng drank all twelve bottles of Flame Spirit Fluid, then endured the phoenix flames through repeated attempts to complete his Fire Tribulation.
• Xiao Cheng’s Soul Power rose to level fifty-nine, and he gained the Blood Frenzy State, which burned his blood and vitality to boost his strength, defense, and speed.
• The light gate stopped burning Xiao Cheng, so he entered the palace and sensed Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai in a side hall.
• Xiao Cheng found Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai bathing unclothed in a crimson pool, accidentally stepped on a stone, and was recognized by them.

Xiao Cheng reunited with Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai in the Phoenix Blood Pool, then joined them in exploring the palace. They met the phoenix phantom Feng Wu, who recounted the ancient war between the Phoenix Kin and Dragon Clan and explained how she died after failing to complete nirvana.

• Xiao Cheng explained that he had crossed the Fire Tribulation by enduring the Phoenix Nirvana Flame nine times and had reached level fifty-nine.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai told Xiao Cheng that the Phoenix Blood Pool had awakened and strengthened their Phoenix Martial Souls.
• Xiao Cheng, Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai followed phoenix reliefs depicting a conflict with dragons to a stone door, which opened when the Phoenix Divine Feather reacted.
• The trio entered the inner hall and met Feng Wu, who identified Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai as Phoenix Kin descendants and Xiao Cheng as a Dragon Clan descendant with a pure, unusual aura.
• Feng Wu recounted how the Phoenix Kin had been outnumbered by the Dragon Clan, how the Spatial Dragon King gravely wounded and exiled her, and how she failed to complete nirvana because she could not let go of the moment she had been too slow.

Feng Wu gave Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai Phoenix inheritances and bloodline powers suited to their Martial Souls. She then used the Flame Spirit Essence and the Spatial Dragon King's Reverse Scale to create a malnourished Divine-bestowed Soul Ring for Xiao Cheng, which he would need to nourish with Soul Power before it could be used.

• Feng Wu passed the Nirvana Divine Flame Cultivation Method to Leng Yaozhu and explained how she could strengthen her flames and Martial Soul.
• Feng Wu gave Leng Yulai the Sin-Cutting Calamity Flame Method, warning her to kill only the guilty and to guard against the flame's backlash.
• Feng Wu gave Leng Yaozhu Red Phoenix Power and Leng Yulai Luanfeng Power, which could guide their Martial Souls toward evolving into divine beasts.
• Feng Wu explained that the dragon-shaped Flame Spirit Essence held residual Dragon God's Power and that the Phoenix Kin had taken the Spatial Dragon King's Reverse Scale after her parents fought him.
• Feng Wu used Genesis · Myriad Manifestations to fuse the Flame Spirit Essence and the reverse scale into a Soul Ring for Xiao Cheng.
• Feng Wu told Xiao Cheng that the weak Soul Ring needed to be nourished with Soul Power before it could release a ring suited to him, potentially starting at one hundred thousand years.

Xiao Cheng helped Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai complete their inheritance initiation while using his spatial power to delay the collapse of Feng Wu’s legacy space. After Feng Wu passed away and the space collapsed, the group escaped, reunited with Leng Xia and Leng Qiu, and left the secret realm.

• Xiao Cheng decided to save Feng Wu’s divine-bestowed soul ring for his seventh ring and considered what it might teach him about soul rings and spatial power.
• Feng Wu guided Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai for half a month until Leng Yaozhu formed her Nirvana Fire core flame and Leng Yulai formed her Sin-Cutting Calamity Flame.
• Leng Yulai sensed Xiao Cheng absorbing surrounding negative energy but detected no evil aura on him, and she resolved to watch over him.
• Xiao Cheng used spatial power to slow the spreading cracks in the legacy space, deepening his understanding of space as Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai completed their initiation.
• Feng Wu gave Leng Yaozhu her Fengyu Flame-Light Flag and dissipated; the legacy space began collapsing, so Xiao Cheng carried Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai through the exit.
• The five reunited with Leng Xia and Leng Qiu, then left the secret realm a few days early.

After returning from the secret realm, Xiao Cheng reunited with the Leng family and learned that Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai had gained the Phoenix Inheritance. He then returned to Shrek City to discuss his Divine-bestowed Soul Ring and Thunder Tribulation with Xiao Ran, who revealed that the Thunderclap Hell Vine had escaped and might be hiding nearby.

• Leng Zhaoran welcomed Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai back, recognized their Phoenix Inheritance, and thanked Leng Xia and Leng Qiu for their work in the secret realm.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai recounted their inheritance to Leng Zhaoran, who arranged for them to cultivate in seclusion and privately scrutinized Xiao Cheng as both daughters praised him.
• Leng Zhaoran flew Xiao Cheng to Shrek City, where Xiao Cheng showed Xiao Ran his undernourished Divine-bestowed Soul Ring and asked him to nurture it with Spirit Ascension Platform energy.
• Xiao Ran explained that Thunder Prison's lightning had come from a Thunderclap Hell Vine, which the Federation had failed to capture and which had escaped eastward.
• Xiao Ran proposed that Xiao Cheng search for the recovering Thunderclap Hell Vine, combining his Thunder Tribulation preparations with Xiao Ran's research and the Federation's pursuit.

Xiao Cheng visited Zhang Hongwen to obtain the Thunderclap Hell Vine clue and reassure him that Xiao Ran did not want his Vice Pagoda Master position. After agreeing to give the Zhang Family priority on future Heavenly-Refined Metal, Xiao Cheng learned the vine was at Thundering Canyon and prepared to make it his next destination.

• Xiao Ran told Xiao Cheng that Zhang Hongwen held the Thunderclap Hell Vine clue and advised him to approach Zhang through Zhang Geyang.
• Xiao Cheng visited the Zhang Family estate, caught up with Zhang Geyang, and told Zhang Hongwen that Xiao Ran had no intention of taking his position.
• Xiao Cheng asked for the Thunderclap Hell Vine intelligence, and Zhang Hongwen offered it in exchange for the Zhang Family receiving priority on Xiao Cheng's future Heavenly-Refined Metal.
• Xiao Cheng accepted the agreement and learned that the approximately forty-thousand-year-old Thunderclap Hell Vine was recovering at Thundering Canyon north of the Vast Sea.
• Xiao Cheng gave Zhang Geyang advice on his hammer technique, then left the estate planning to travel to Thundering Canyon for his thunder tribulation.