Chapter Summaries

Xiao Cheng and Xiao Ran traveled to Thundering Canyon to claim the Thunderclap Hell Vine, only to find Xu Zhiyuan already suppressing it. Xiao Ran accepted Xu Zhiyuan’s invitation to join forces, leaving the question of how they would divide the vine unresolved.

• Xiao Cheng told Xiao Ran that Zhang Hongwen had offered to reserve Heavenly-Refined Metal, and Xiao Ran revealed he had received a temporary appointment as vice master of the War God Temple.
• Xiao Ran warned Xiao Cheng that the Xu Family might pursue the Thunderclap Hell Vine, so they decided to leave for Eastsea the next morning.
• Xiao Ran took Xiao Cheng to Thundering Canyon in his Red-Grade Mecha and used the Space-Time Divine Shuttle to reach the lightning-filled valley.
• Xiao Cheng and Xiao Ran found Xu Zhiyuan battling the Thunderclap Hell Vine and learned that the Xu Family patriarch intended to turn it into a Soul Spirit.
• Xu Zhiyuan invited Xiao Ran to help subdue the vine and discuss dividing it afterward, and Xiao Ran agreed to join the fight.

Xiao Ran and Xu Zhiyuan subdued a forty-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine, then fought over who would claim it. They settled its ownership with a wager between Xiao Cheng and Xu Zizhao over any Soul Bone it produced, leaving Xiao Cheng to prepare for his Thunder Tribulation.

• Xiao Ran used Spatial Solidification to restrain the Thunderclap Hell Vine while Xu Zhiyuan burned it down with Destructive Dragonflame, and Xiao Ran bound it with a Soul-Locking Chain.
• Xu Zhiyuan offered to buy the vine, but Xiao Ran refused and challenged him to settle its ownership through strength.
• Xu Zhiyuan and Xiao Ran battled until both revealed their Four-Word Battle Armor, after which Xu Zhiyuan withdrew and proposed a wager between their sons over any Soul Bone.
• Xiao Cheng accepted a match against Xu Zizhao, and Xu Zhiyuan wagered the Xu Family's Soul Bone claim and a Heavenly-Refined Metal priority reservation slot.
• Xiao Ran and Xu Zhiyuan agreed that Xiao Cheng could claim the Soul Bone if he won and that the Spirit Pagoda would receive priority reservations for Heavenly-Refined Metal for ten years.
• After Xu Zhiyuan left, Xiao Ran told Xiao Cheng to prepare for his Thunder Tribulation before facing Xu Zizhao.

Xiao Cheng accepted Xu Zhiyuan’s wager and fought Xu Zizhao, overcoming the Soul Saint’s greater cultivation and powerful dragon martial soul with his tribulation-tempered body and spatial abilities. After Xiao Cheng defeated Xu Zizhao with World-Annihilating Tribulation Light, Xu Zhiyuan recognized the soul bone skill and wondered whether it came from the Xu Family’s lost ancestral inherited soul bone.

• Xiao Cheng accepted Xu Zhiyuan’s wager to fight Xu Zizhao despite the twenty-rank gap between them.
• Xu Zizhao attacked with his two-word battle armor and Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, but Xiao Cheng dodged his sixth soul skill and struck him with Azure Sky Evil God Break.
• Xiao Cheng wounded Xu Zizhao with the Azure Sky Divine Spear and held his own against Xu Zizhao’s dragon transformation in close combat.
• Xu Zizhao used his seventh soul skill to become a giant dragon and dive at Xiao Cheng, who trapped him with Star Track: Absolute Domain and Tai-Xu Grotto-Heaven.
• Xiao Cheng triggered the three hidden Armageddon: Tribulation Seals and struck Xu Zizhao with World-Annihilating Tribulation Light, defeating him.
• Xu Zhiyuan recognized Xiao Cheng’s soul bone skill and asked whether it was the Xu Family’s lost ancestral inherited soul bone.

After Xiao Cheng defeated Xu Zizhao, Xu Zhiyuan recognized the lost Xu Family Purple Brilliant Dragon Right Arm Bone in Xiao Cheng’s arm but left without confronting him. Xiao Cheng then tried to persuade the wounded Thunderclap Hell Vine to become his soul spirit and began demonstrating his strength to bargain with it.

• Xiao Cheng defeated Xu Zizhao, and Xu Zhiyuan recognized Xiao Cheng’s right arm soul bone as the Xu Family’s lost inheritance.
• Xu Zhiyuan restrained his anger because Xiao Ran was nearby, conceded the bet, and carried Xu Zizhao away while vowing to reclaim the soul bone.
• Xiao Cheng and Xiao Ran turned their attention to the badly injured Thunderclap Hell Vine, which responded after Xiao Cheng checked whether it was alive.
• Xiao Cheng offered the Thunderclap Hell Vine a choice between having its consciousness forcibly extracted or becoming his soul spirit, but it rejected the offer.
• Xiao Ran explained that the Thunderclap Hell Vine needed special treatment to become a soul spirit, and Xiao Cheng offered it a chance to redeem itself.
• Xiao Cheng manifested his Tai-Xu Azure Flood Dragon martial soul and the power of empty green, then revealed an aura of the end to demonstrate his qualifications.

Xiao Cheng persuaded the Thunderclap Hell Vine to become his Soul Spirit and used its lightning to complete the Thunder Tribulation, awakening his Body Martial Soul for a second time. The Thunderclap Hell Vine joined him, and the power of his new third Soul Ring began to take shape.

• Xiao Cheng revealed his Child of Armageddon status and promised the Thunderclap Hell Vine freedom, help reaching a hundred thousand years, and release from their contract if he failed to become a god; the vine agreed to become his Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Cheng freed the Thunderclap Hell Vine, which spent seven days drawing lightning so he could cultivate Liver-Wood Thunderforce and prepare for his final Azure Dragon Tribulation.
• Xiao Cheng endured the Thunder Tribulation, triggering a Silver Rank Second Awakening of his Body Martial Soul and completing the five-element cycle of the Azure Dragon Tribulation.
• Xiao Cheng manifested a crimson-gold Blood Essence Soul Ring as his body healed, then thanked the Thunderclap Hell Vine for its help.
• The Thunderclap Hell Vine entered Xiao Cheng's contract as his Soul Spirit, and its power began forming his Body Martial Soul's third Soul Ring.

Xiao Cheng completed his contract with the Thunderclap Hell Vine, which sacrificed itself to become his Soul Spirit and grant him powerful new abilities. After reaching level sixty, he and Xiao Ran set out for Eastsea City to visit Xiao Cheng’s grandfather.

• The Thunderclap Hell Vine willingly sacrificed itself, transferring its accumulated power to Xiao Cheng before falling asleep in his Spirit Sea as a Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Cheng gained two purple-gold Soul Rings, the Four Symbols Thunder Domain and Armageddon Heavenly Punishment Soul Skills, and an unusual External Soul Bone.
• Xiao Cheng’s Soul Power reached level sixty, and he decided to leave his Sixth Soul Ring position empty until Yaoguang could advance to a hundred thousand years.
• Xiao Ran suggested visiting Xiao Cheng’s grandfather in Eastsea City, and Xiao Cheng agreed.
• Xiao Cheng and Xiao Ran flew out of the canyon toward Eastsea City.

Xiao Cheng visited Eastsea City with Xiao Ran and discovered that the White Jade Bead his grandfather had bought was an Eternal Star, a component of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation. He revealed the artifact’s identity to Xiao Ran and Xiao Zhan and prepared to explain more about the being in his Spirit Sea.

• Xiao Ran and Xiao Cheng arrived at the Spirit Pagoda and reunited with Xiao Zhan, who marveled at Xiao Cheng’s level-sixty cultivation before the age of fourteen.
• Xu Shou'an left after discussing Xiao Zhan’s White Jade Bead, which he and Xiao Zhan had been unable to understand or activate.
• Xiao Cheng recognized Xiao Zhan’s bead as identical to the one he had chosen from the Federal Treasury, and Xiao Ran said his tests had revealed extraordinary power in the other bead.
• The Eternal Angel told Xiao Cheng that both beads were likely Eternal Stars, pieces of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation, and explained that joining them to the artifact’s central body could awaken them.
• Xiao Cheng told Xiao Ran and Xiao Zhan that the bead was an Eternal Star and began to reveal that an artifact spirit and core of a Super Divine Artifact lived in his Spirit Sea.

Xiao Cheng fused two Eternal Stars with the Divine Throne’s core, helping Yaoguang break through to a hundred thousand years and raising his Soul Power to rank sixty-three. After six months of training, forging, and refining the negative emotions tied to his Child of Armageddon status, he reached the threshold of the Spirit Domain Realm and prepared to break through.

• Xiao Cheng told Xiao Zhan and Xiao Ran about the Divine Throne and its scattered Eternal Stars, then fused Xiao Zhan’s White Jade Bead with the core in his Spirit Sea.
• Xiao Cheng returned to Shrek City with Xiao Ran and fused the second White Jade Bead from the Federal Treasury.
• The second Eternal Star’s power helped Yaoguang break through to a hundred thousand years, giving Xiao Cheng a sixth Soul Ring and raising his Soul Power to rank sixty-three.
• Xiao Cheng spent six months honing his Soul Skills, becoming a Seven-Star Saint Craftsman and upgrading his Battle Armor to Two-Word Battle Armor, Azure Dragon.
• Xiao Cheng used the Guoxin Meditation Method to refine the negative emotions from his Child of Armageddon status, bringing his spiritual power to the threshold of the Spirit Domain Realm.

Xiao Cheng broke through to the Spirit Domain Realm and briefly glimpsed a future in which he wielded the World-Annihilating Tribulation Light amid the Douluo Continent’s destruction. The vision triggered the Child of Armageddon’s destructive will, and Xiao Cheng struggled with the Eternal Angel to contain it.

• Xiao Cheng entered Xiao Ran’s private cultivation chamber to attempt his Spirit Domain Realm breakthrough while Xiao Ran guarded the room and concealed the surge of energy.
• Xiao Cheng wove his spiritual power across the boundary of his Spirit Sea and broke through, expanding his perception across more than a dozen miles and allowing him to glimpse elements and traces of laws.
• Xiao Cheng experienced a vision of a ruined Douluo Continent, with Xiao Ran and Mu Wan gravely wounded, his Soul Spirits shattered, and Tang Hao looking down on him as he wielded the World-Annihilating Tribulation Light.
• Xiao Cheng’s fear and guilt destabilized his mind, allowing the Child of Armageddon’s status to surge against the Divine Throne and taint his Spirit Sea.
• Xiao Cheng bit his tongue to regain focus and joined the Eternal Angel in forcing the escaping destructive will back into the status.

Xiao Cheng suppressed the Child of Armageddon status’s rampage, defeated the spiritual entity Heicheng, and purified the negative emotions that had formed him. He gained greater control over the status and decided the catastrophic future he had glimpsed could still be changed.

• Xiao Cheng forced the destructive aura back into the Child of Armageddon status and sealed it, but Heicheng emerged from the status in his Spirit Sea.
• Heicheng attacked Xiao Cheng with a spiritual spear, and Xiao Cheng realized Heicheng was a construct made from his suppressed negative emotions.
• Xiao Cheng overwhelmed Heicheng with his spearwork, intercepted his attempt to flee, and destroyed his spiritual form.
• Xiao Cheng accepted and purified the returning negative emotions, strengthening his Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power and gaining more control over the status.
• Xiao Cheng reconsidered the visions from his breakthrough as only one possible future and resolved to change the causes leading to the world’s destruction.

Xiao Cheng broke through to the Spirit Domain Realm and later reached level sixty-six as a Soul Emperor, but his martial-soul understanding lagged behind his rapid cultivation. Seeking the intense combat he needed to advance, he decided to go to the Blood God Legion and fight at the Abyss Passage.

• Xiao Cheng emerged from seclusion, resisted Xiao Ran's spiritual pressure, and earned his father's praise for his firm foundation.
• Bei Dexun and Qiangu Dieting sensed the breakthrough's unusual resonance but did not realize that Xiao Cheng had reached the Spirit Domain Realm.
• Over the next six months, Xiao Cheng advanced three levels to become a level sixty-six Soul Emperor, while his understanding of his martial soul made little progress.
• Xiao Cheng concluded that life-and-death combat was the fastest way to unite his martial-dao experience with his martial-soul abilities.
• After considering the dangers of fighting Evil Soul Masters and the political obstacles to war, Xiao Cheng chose the Blood God Legion's Abyss Passage as his battlefield.

Xiao Cheng decided to join the Blood God Legion to face deadly battles and gain the power he believed he needed for eternal life. Xiao Ran and Qiangu Dieting arranged recommendations for him, and Qiangu Dieting ordered Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng to go with him.

• Xiao Cheng studied the Blood God Legion's role guarding the Abyssal Passage and judged it a suitable place to grow stronger without revealing his powers.
• Xiao Cheng told Xiao Ran he wanted to join the Blood God Legion, and Xiao Ran agreed after Xiao Cheng explained his ambition and promised to return alive.
• Xiao Ran warned that his own recommendation might carry little weight and decided to ask Qiangu Dieting and Leng Zhaoran for joint letters.
• Xiao Ran asked Qiangu Dieting and Leng Zhaoran to recommend Xiao Cheng, and Qiangu Dieting agreed on the condition that Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng accompany him.

Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers traveled west toward the Blood God Legion, crossing a desert and enduring the trek over the Endless Mountain Range. After reaching the legion’s remote mountain camp, they stood ready to begin their enlistment.

• Xiao Cheng met Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng at Shrek City Train Station and told them he was going to the Blood God Legion to temper his combat ability.
• Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers traveled by train to a desert city, borrowed a military Soul Guidance Combat Vehicle from a Spirit Pagoda branch, and crossed the desert, where Xiao Cheng killed a swarm of Sand Demon Worms.
• Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers reached the Blazing Fire Basin, stocked up on provisions, and continued west toward the snowy Endless Mountain Range.
• Xiao Cheng explained that Blood God Legion recruits had to cross the mountain range without soul power, martial souls, or soul tools, and he helped the exhausted Qiangu Brothers continue the climb.
• Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers crossed the mountains over three days and arrived at the Blood God Legion’s camp.

Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers reached the Blood God Legion, where they learned about its organization and completed preparations for their recruitment assessment. Xiao Cheng entered the virtual battlefield, defeated waves of Abyssal creatures while protecting an NPC, and spotted a huge moving figure in the distance.

• Xiao Cheng deflected the weapons of Zhang Yuan's scouts, presented his Spirit Pagoda credentials, and was escorted with Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng to the Military Affairs Office.
• Lieutenant Colonel Ye Yun explained the Blood God Legion's divisions and warned the three that their recruitment assessment would test their ability to protect a target without Soul Power or Martial Souls.
• Xiao Cheng chose a spear and entered the virtual assessment alone, where he was tasked with protecting a frightened NPC.
• Xiao Cheng killed more than a hundred Four-Clawed Demon Bats and seven Six-Clawed Demon Bats while keeping the NPC safe.
• Xiao Cheng noticed an enormous silhouette moving among the distant hills as the first wave of enemies faded.

Xiao Cheng defeated Ba An and a Demonic Succubus in the Legion assessment without using soul power or his martial soul, earning a result beyond the available ranks. The Qiangu Brothers earned Sergeant First Class, and Ye Yun led the three to meet their commanding officer, mentioning a newcomer from Shrek Academy named Yun Ming.

• Xiao Cheng used his bloodline power and Four Symbols Divine Thunder to kill Ba An and the Demonic Succubus, then returned to the testing hall as the virtual assessment ended.
• Ye Yun said Xiao Cheng's performance surpassed the ranks he could award and that he would report the result to his superiors.
• The Qiangu Brothers armed themselves with soul guidance weapons, killed Ba An, but were defeated by the Demonic Succubus; Ye Yun awarded them Sergeant First Class.
• Ye Yun led Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers toward their commanding officer and said the Blood God Legion's newcomer from Shrek Academy was named Yun Ming.

Xiao Cheng joined the Blood God Legion, where Colonel Qu Jing proposed a factional wager to win him an exceptional promotion to Captain. As Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers received their equipment and learned about the legion, an Abyss Tide alarm sounded, leaving them facing an emergency.

• Ye Yun told Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers that Yun Ming had joined the Blood God Legion and had previously lost to Xiao Cheng.
• Colonel Qu Jing offered to seek Xiao Cheng's promotion to Captain through a wagered duel against a Shi-Tang Faction captain, and Xiao Cheng agreed.
• Ye Yun explained that the Shi-Tang Faction had used the same promotion tactic for Yun Ming, whose victory had humiliated the Spirit Pagoda faction.
• Ye Yun showed Xiao Cheng and the Qiangu Brothers around the legion and supplied them with basic equipment, advancing the merits for it.
• Xiao Cheng learned that soldiers had to pay merits for their meals and said he would remember the rule.
• An Abyss Tide alarm sounded in the mess hall, and Ye Yun identified it as the Abyss Tide alarm.

During a level-three Abyss Tide, Xiao Cheng joined the Blood God Legion’s defense and unleashed powerful attacks against the Abyssal Creatures. He saved Qu Jing from an Abyssal Evil Scythe’s ambush and trapped the attacker’s movements with Tai-Xu Grotto-Heaven.

• When the level-three Abyss Tide alarm sounded, Ye Yun sent Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Qingfeng to the artillery positions and brought Xiao Cheng to the front line.
• As the energy tide struck and the Abyssal Creatures charged, Qu Jing ordered the legion to defend the passage and advance against the horde.
• Xiao Cheng activated his battle armor and used wind and spatial attacks to tear through the Abyssal Creatures, drawing Qu Jing’s praise.
• An Abyssal Evil Scythe appeared behind Qu Jing and prepared to strike while he fought a Demonic Succubus.
• Xiao Cheng warned Qu Jing and blocked the Evil Scythe’s blow with the Azure Sky Divine Spear.
• The Evil Scythe attacked Xiao Cheng, who unfolded Tai-Xu Grotto-Heaven and slowed it by locking down the surrounding space.

Xiao Cheng defeated the Abyssal Evil Scythe after a fierce battle in the Abyss Passage, but its death drew the attention of the Abyssal Scythe Emperor. As Blood Eight confronted the Blood Abyss Demon Spider Emperor, the Emperor’s projection appeared and demanded to know who had slain its subject.

• Xiao Cheng used Star Track: Absolute Domain and Starsea Draconic Break to wound the Abyssal Evil Scythe, then killed it with Four Symbols Divine Thunder.
• Colonel Qu Jing warned that the Abyssal emperors could sense the creature’s death and sent a messenger to alert the Blood God Battalion.
• The Blood Abyss Demon Spider Emperor emerged from the depths of the passage, and Blood Eight arrived to intercept it.
• Qu Jing told Xiao Cheng that Blood Eight was his older cousin, Qu Mingxuan, before a deeper Abyssal presence gathered in the passage.
• The Abyssal Scythe Emperor’s projection appeared and asked who had slain its subject.

Xiao Cheng defeated the Abyssal Evil Scythe after a fierce battle, but its death drew the attention of the Abyssal Scythe Emperor. As Blood Eight faced the Blood Abyss Demon Spider Emperor, the Abyssal Scythe Emperor appeared and demanded to know who had killed its subject.

• Xiao Cheng used Tai-Xu Grotto-Heaven to restrict the Abyssal Evil Scythe’s teleportation and fought it head-on, gradually learning to predict its attacks.
• Xiao Cheng trapped the Abyssal Evil Scythe with Star Track: Absolute Domain and defeated it with Four Symbols Divine Thunder.
• Colonel Qu Jing warned that an Abyssal Emperor could sense the Enforcer’s death and ordered a messenger to notify the Blood God Battalion.
• The Blood Abyss Demon Spider Emperor emerged, and Qu Mingxuan, known as Blood Eight, descended to confront it.
• The Abyssal Scythe Emperor appeared in the passage and asked who had slain its subject, leaving Qu Jing pale with fear.