Chapter Summaries

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling fused their powers as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s sacrifice pushed him into the million-year realm and triggered a devastating thunder tribulation. Chen Hong survived, awakened a mutated Ninth Soul Skill, and recovered while the wary Demon Whale King considered the danger of facing the same tribulation.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King transformed into light and entered Chen Hong, triggering a million-year thunder tribulation.
• Ye Lingling fused with Chen Hong as Creator, but the lightning blast left him blackened and gravely injured on the seabed.
• After more than ten minutes, Chen Hong awakened and turned his Ninth Soul Ring to use Transcendence, weakening the lingering lightning marks and healing his body.
• Chen Hong used Spatial Divine Marks to retrieve clothes from his storage space after his Spatial Storage Device burned away.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King joined Chen Hong and recognized that their lightning marks came from the tribulation, while Chen Hong joked about the mark crossing the Whale King’s eye.

After surviving the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Million Year Thunder Tribulation, Chen Hong discovered that its rule lightning had left him able to study the Power of Destruction, and wondered whether he could pursue the God of Destruction's divine authority. In the God Realm, the God King of Destruction learned of Chen Hong's thought and said he would pass on his position if Chen Hong truly proved the Dao of Destruction.

• Chen Hong reassured Ye Lingling that his mutated Ninth Soul Skill had suppressed the Purple Gold Lightning Mark and credited her Power of Life with helping him survive the tribulation.
• Chen Hong realized the lightning mark could let him analyze the Rules of Destruction and Lightning, and wondered whether he might attain the God of Destruction's authority as Ye Lingling pursued the God of Life's.
• The God King of Destruction told the other God Kings that the Destruction Divine Thunder had struck Chen Hong instead of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while Ye Lingling's Power of Life preserved him.
• The God Kings realized Chen Hong might be considering proving the Dao of Destruction, and Asura God King asked what the God King of Destruction would do if he succeeded.
• The God King of Destruction said he would pass his divine position to Chen Hong, though he thought Chen Hong and Ye Lingling were more likely to pursue the Dao of Life together.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling returned to Sea Soul Island after surviving the Purple Gold Divine Thunder, and Chen Hong realized Ye Lingling’s vitality could let them exploit lightning tribulations to pursue divine bodies. News of Ye Lingling’s ability to save soul beasts spread, and the Snow Empress asked Chen Hong to help her break through 700,000 years.

• Chen Hong told Ye Lingling that his Soul Power had reached Level 99 and his Physical Level had risen to ninety-six, then proposed using destructive heavenly thunder to transform their bodies.
• Chen Hong returned to Sea Soul Island and explained that Ye Lingling had saved the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King during his failed tribulation.
• Lan Fuzi confirmed the story with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, spreading panic through the soul beast community about Ye Lingling’s ability to preserve life amid destruction.
• The Snow Empress found Chen Hong at the Ice and Fire Immortal Valley and offered to forgo the Dragon King skeletons if he helped her break through 700,000 years.
• The Snow Empress explained that she and Bingquan preferred Chen Hong’s new method to absorbing the Ice Dragon King’s origin power.

Snow Empress explained why she refused to absorb the Ice Dragon King Skeleton, then revealed that her cultivation had reached a breakthrough point. Chen Hong realized her impending tribulation could be used to test his Purple Gold Lightning Mark’s ability to trigger thunder tribulations early.

• A pale, one-armed man dragged a killer whale ashore before collapsing as an ancient voice sighed about the power of Asura.
• Snow Empress told Chen Hong that absorbing the Ice Dragon King’s power would transform her into a Dragon Girl, a form she considered unsuited to her nature as a Heavenly Snow Woman.
• Snow Empress explained that fighting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and witnessing the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord’s mental power had raised her Cultivation Realm despite her depleted Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling explained that soul beasts and spirit masters cultivated differently, and that Chen Hong’s Sage Mental Equipment was narrowing the gap between them.
• Chen Hong found that Snow Empress was on the verge of a breakthrough and that his Ninth Soul Ring was suppressing the lightning marks that could trigger her thunder tribulation.
• Chen Hong realized Snow Empress’s coming Godhood Thunder Tribulation could let him test the Purple Gold Lightning Mark and temper the soul beasts’ bodies.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling descended into the Ice and Fire Pool and found the Ice and Fire Element Dragon Kings' remains guarded by their surviving dragon souls. After enduring their attacks, Chen Hong reached the lakebed and began studying the Dragon Bone Disk.

• Chen Hong used Creator State with Ye Lingling to descend through the pool and saw the twin Element Dragon Kings' skeletons on the lakebed.
• The dragon souls attacked Chen Hong with Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, while their dragon's might disrupted the Ice and Fire Immortal Valley.
• Chen Hong tried his Sword of Spirit and Divine Flame: Amaterasu, but the dragon souls healed or resisted his attacks.
• Chen Hong ignored the dragon breaths and forced his way down to the Dragon Bone Disk, relying on his and Ye Lingling's resistance to the elements and law damage.
• When Chen Hong reached the lakebed, the dragon souls' might spread through the valley, but he contained it in a small domain and started studying the remains.

Chen Hong explored the Dragon Bone Disk beneath Ice and Fire Lake and discovered a Soul Orb inside the Ice Dragon King’s skull. The Ice and Fire Dragon Souls rejected Chen Hong and Ye Lingling, leaving them uncertain how to claim the inheritance.

• Chen Hong inspected the Dragon Bone Disk and realized that removing its dragon bones would disrupt the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s energy-gathering effect.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon Souls told Chen Hong that they did not acknowledge him, and he concluded they were reacting to his and Ye Lingling’s human bloodlines.
• Chen Hong approached the Ice Dragon King’s skull, broke free after the Ice Dragon Soul froze him, and found a dragon-pearl-shaped Soul Orb inside.
• Chen Hong explained his theories about Soul Orbs and soul gear, including how he had used Creator Mode and Martial Soul Fusion to form armor.

Chen Hong seized the Ice Dragon King’s Soul Orb and spent three days adapting to its rules and seeking its spiritual resonance. He emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well covered in red and blue scales, with two tiny dragon souls biting his palms.

• Chen Hong discovered that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Soul Orbs were separate from their skeletons and reached for the Ice Dragon King’s Orb.
• The Orb froze Chen Hong and the surrounding water, but his Black Lotus authorities activated as he resisted its will and adapted to the Ice Element Rules.
• Chen Hong used Mental Infrasound and his adaptability to deduce the Ice Dragon King’s Spiritual Resonance Range, while Ye Lingling sensed his soul evolving toward a Dragon Species.
• As Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Ning Lu, Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, and Golden Crocodile waited outside, the pool began to churn after three days.
• Chen Hong burst from the pool covered in red and blue scales, with two tiny Ice and Fire dragon souls biting his palms.

Chen Hong took the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Orbs, though their souls clung angrily to his arms, and headed for the Far North to help Snow Empress undergo her Godhood Thunder Tribulation. He revealed that he could trigger and cancel thunder tribulations, then planned to exploit the world's rules by using the tribulation to refine the Dragon Souls.

• Chen Hong emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the Ice and Fire Dragon Souls biting his arms and explained that he had taken the Dragon Kings' Soul Orbs.
• Chen Hong led Snow Empress and the others toward the Far North to help her through her Godhood Thunder Tribulation.
• Snow Empress questioned why Chen Hong had taken the Dragon Kings' soul bones, and he said the Soul Orbs might have a magical effect during the tribulation.
• Chen Hong told Snow Empress that he had triggered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Million Year Thunder Tribulation early and canceled it after its first strike hit him.
• Chen Hong announced that he intended to exploit a world-rule bug and use the thunder tribulation's destructive power to refine the Dragon Souls.

The Snow Empress and Chen Hong faced the 700,000-year Becoming a God Thunder Test, which Chen Hong saw as the God Realm’s execution of soul beasts. The Snow Empress joined him as the Ice and Snow Emperor Robe, and Chen Hong endured the destructive thunder as his Life Lotus Ring repeatedly restored and strengthened his body.

• The Snow Empress sensed the tribulation’s merciless destructive force and asked Chen Hong whether it was about to begin.
• Chen Hong explained that soul beasts’ endless lifespans were a privilege granted by the Dragon God, and that the God Realm could only suppress them rather than remove the rule.
• As the tribulation began, the Snow Empress embraced Chen Hong and transformed into the Ice and Snow Emperor Robe.
• Destructive Black Thunder struck Chen Hong, destroying his body while the Life Lotus Ring’s Power of Life repeatedly repaired and strengthened him.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon King Soul Orbs roared from within Chen Hong, supplying the soul-level pain missing from the thunder’s assault.
• Chen Hong stood beneath the continuing barrage, holding the Dragon King Soul Orbs as the thunder baptized him.

Chen Hong, Ye Lingling, and Snow Empress endured the 700,000-year Destructive Black Thunder inside the Creator, while Chen Hong used their fused powers to turn destruction into a force that also restored life. The Ice and Fire Dragon Souls suffered beneath the unshielded tribulation, and Chen Hong said they could withdraw if his soul could not endure.

• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling fused life, destruction, and Chen Hong's divine soul to create Pure White Power that let the Creator withstand the heavenly thunder.
• Ye Lingling explained that Chen Hong's power separated their wills from their Soul Bodies, so they watched from the side while the thunder tempered them and tormented the Ice and Fire Dragon Souls.
• Chen Hong taunted the dragon souls and celebrated using the lightning tribulation to turn their strength against them.
• Snow Empress asked how long the tribulation would last, and Chen Hong reassured her and Ye Lingling that they could withdraw if needed.
• Chen Hong realized the tribulation's duration depended on how long his soul will could endure, since a single thunderbolt could shatter the Creator if he could not shield the others.

Chen Hong ended Snow Empress’s tribulation after eighty-one strikes, and he and Ye Lingling assessed the gains from surviving the heavenly thunder. A month later, as thunder again rumbled over the Far North, Tang San arrived at the Lake of Life, where he revealed that Xiao Wu was alive—but her restored form left the Sky Azure Bull Python stunned.

• Chen Hong dismissed Creator Mode to stop Snow Empress’s tribulation, and he, Ye Lingling, and Snow Empress found that the ordeal had strengthened their bodies, souls, or Soul Power.
• Chen Hong told Snow Empress they could undergo several more rounds of tribulation to improve their chances, then settled in the Far North after contacting Qian Daoliu and the others.
• A month later, thunder rumbled over the Far North again as the Technology Federation’s experiments with heavenly tribulations drew attention across Douluo Continent.
• Tang San appeared beside the Lake of Life, and the Sky Azure Bull Python demanded an explanation for the Xiao Wu aura on his soul rings and soul bones.
• Tang San took a pink-and-white rabbit from his Storage Device and told the Sky Azure Bull Python that Xiao Wu was still alive.
• White light transformed the rabbit, revealing Xiao Wu’s head, which appeared taller than Tang San and astonished the Sky Azure Bull Python.

Tang San told the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape how Xiao Wu had sacrificed herself and been revived as King Kong Xiao Wu, then urged the two soul beasts to sacrifice themselves so he could become a god and restore her. He left them weighing his promise after revealing that he held divine examinations for both a Level One God position and a God King position.

• Tang San explained Xiao Wu’s sacrifice and incomplete revival to the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, who accepted that Xiao Wu had chosen to sacrifice herself.
• Tang San said the Sea God had told him that becoming a god would let him reshape bodies and restore Xiao Wu and others.
• Tang San asked Da Ming and Er Ming to sacrifice their strength, promising that they could be revived as Divine Beasts and help Xiao Wu.
• Tang San stressed that he would become a god regardless, but argued that their help would let him reach that goal sooner and ease Xiao Wu’s suffering.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python considered Tang San’s appeal because his promises seemed true and centered on Xiao Wu.
• Tang San revealed that he held divine examinations for a Level One God position and a God King position, urging the Sky Azure Bull Python to trust the God King’s choice.

Tang San reached level 98 after two soul beasts sacrificed themselves and completed the eighth trials for the Asura and Sea God sets, then left the Lake of Life with Xiao Wu. Gu Yuena and Di Tian watched him depart and chose not to intervene, while Snow Empress failed her 700,000-year tribulation in the Far North.

• Tang San absorbed two 100,000-year soul rings and soul bones, rose to level 98, and completed both gods’ eighth trials.
• Tang San left the Lake of Life with King Kong Xiao Wu, who soon reverted to her rabbit form, and promised to revive Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian observed Tang San’s departure from hidden space and decided they could not touch the Asura God King’s successor.
• Di Tian asked whether they should help Snow Empress with her 700,000-year tribulation, but Gu Yuena refused to risk revealing their presence.
• Gu Yuena sensed that Snow Empress had failed the tribulation, whose final thunderbolt carried the power of a million-year tribulation’s first strike.

Gu Yuena explained why the Douluo Realm’s unusual soul beasts could resist the God Realm’s suppression, then watched as Chen Hong repeatedly diverted the Snow Empress’s Heavenly Tribulations onto himself. The God Realm’s gods recognized that Chen Hong had exploited the rules, while the God King of Destruction acknowledged that the tribulation had helped Chen Hong fuse a trace of the Power of World Creation.

• Gu Yuena explained that the Douluo Realm’s weakened assimilation rules let the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and Evil Eye Tyrant Lord retain protection from Heavenly Tribulations, and that its powerful Uncrowned Divine Beasts could become gods if they escaped the God Realm’s suppression.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian returned to the Interspecies Space after concluding that the Ice and Snow Emperor had fallen and another soul beast would be needed to guard the Lake of Life.
• A month later, Gu Yuena saw the Far North’s 700,000 Year Heavenly Tribulation gather and heard that the Snow Empress had survived eighty-six bolts before falling again.
• When another tribulation gathered the following month, Gu Yuena realized the Snow Empress was repeatedly returning from death, while the gods watched Chen Hong exploit the Heavenly Tribulation rules.
• The God of Craftsmen said Chen Hong had faced the tribulations with his own strength, and the Asura God King stayed silent as the gods realized Chen Hong’s Purple Gold Lightning Mark drew the tribulations onto him.
• The God King of Destruction admitted that the Ultimate Destructive Heavenly Tribulation had helped Chen Hong fuse a trace of the Power of World Creation.

The God King of Destruction considered Chen Hong and Ye Lingling’s potential to inherit the Life God King Divine Position, but Chen Hong seemed committed to his own path. As Chen Hong endured heavenly tribulations, the God Kings agreed the God Realm’s laws should not suppress someone with the potential to become a God King, while Sea God Poseidon’s power continued to decline as faith in him faded.

• The God King of Destruction considered passing the Life God King Divine Position to Chen Hong and Ye Lingling, but Chen Hong’s refusal to inherit a Divine Position made the prospect awkward.
• Sea God Poseidon watched Chen Hong endure repeated heavenly tribulations and complained that no one was helping him, while the God of Craftsmen said Chen Hong was courting death and surviving by luck.
• The God of Craftsmen observed that Sea God Poseidon’s strength was declining because Chen Hong’s Technology Federation had nearly cut off faith in the Sea God across the Douluo Realm.
• The God King of Destruction argued that Chen Hong’s tribulations could help him reach the limits of a mortal and that the God Realm should not use its laws against a potential God King.
• The other four God Kings, including the Asura God King, agreed that the God Realm’s laws should not suppress Chen Hong.

The God Kings discussed Chen Hong’s path, his lack of divine equipment, and the danger of interfering with a potential God King. After Life God King pledged to protect Ye Lingling, Chen Hong and his companions survived the hundredth lightning tribulation, opening Snow Empress’s path to becoming a divine beast.

• Asura God King told Sea God Poseidon to wait and argued that Chen Hong’s beast-like path would leave him without the equipment traditional gods possessed.
• Life God King explained that Chen Hong’s power was beyond her comprehension and that no one could interfere with the solitary path to becoming a God King.
• Life God King declared that Ye Lingling, successor to the Twelve-Leaf Green Lotus, could not be harmed, and Asura God King agreed.
• Chen Hong and his companions endured four rounds of lightning tribulation and passed the hundredth strike, opening Snow Empress’s path to becoming a divine beast.

Chen Hong, Snow Empress, and Ye Lingling survived the 700,000 Year Heavenly Tribulation, which strengthened Chen Hong and advanced Ye Lingling toward a divine body. Chen Hong planned to use a future Million Year Heavenly Tribulation to purge the last remnants in the Ice and Fire Soul Orbs and turn them into vessels for reconstructing their bodies.

• Chen Hong endured the hundredth Destructive Black Thunder and recovered as the 700,000 Year Heavenly Tribulation dispersed.
• Snow Empress and Ye Lingling appeared beside Chen Hong, and they assessed the damage and gains from the tribulation.
• Ye Lingling said the tribulation had brought her close to a divine body, though she believed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Million Year Purple-Gold Destruction Divine Thunder might be needed to complete the transformation.
• Chen Hong handed Ye Lingling the Ice and Fire Dragon King Soul Orbs, explaining that the Dragon Souls had been weakened but still had stubborn remnants to purge.
• Ye Lingling returned the Soul Orbs, and Chen Hong fused them into his body, intending to refine them further during the Million Year Heavenly Tribulation so they could serve as vessels if their bodies were destroyed.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling discussed divine bodies, soul bones, and the possibility that divine bloodlines could pass down special powers. Ye Lingling’s body continued approaching godhood, and she carried the battered Chen Hong out of the Shattered Ice Plain to meet Chen and Ning.

• Ye Lingling explained the difference between the divine power and Divine Body paths and said divine beasts could possess bodies as strong as divine armor.
• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling speculated that divine bodies might awaken bloodlines capable of producing inherited soul bones, which Chen Hong jokingly renamed Supreme Bones.
• Chen Hong joked about future children inheriting Eye Techniques, and Ye Lingling teased him before striking him across the Shattered Ice Plain into an iceberg.
• Snow Empress watched as Ye Lingling demonstrated her growing strength and realized her divine body was nearing completion.
• Ye Lingling said Chen and Ning were waiting outside, then carried the dazed Chen Hong away in a princess carry.

After Snow Empress’s unusual heavenly tribulations pushed her cultivation past 700,000 years, the Douluo Realm’s rules awakened her divinity. She became a divine beast with her own divine position, and the gods of the God Realm erupted into commotion.

• Snow Empress told Ice Empress and the others that the heavenly tribulations had raised her cultivation to 710,000 years and strengthened her mental power and soul force.
• Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong recognized that Snow Empress had begun her own path, and Chen Hong suggested she might be the only soul beast in the Douluo Realm capable of becoming a god.
• Snow Empress sensed every snowflake and gust of wind in the Far North as ice and snow elements gathered around her.
• Ice-and-snow soul beasts across the Far North bowed as auroras converged on Snow Empress during her coronation.
• The God Realm Conference learned that Snow Empress had become a divine beast born with a divine position, shocking the assembled gods.

Snow Empress inherited the Ice God’s divine position and became a Crowned Divine Beast, gaining the ability to wield the Power of Rules beyond the Far North. After the inheritance ended, Chen Hong and the others discussed other possible divine inheritances and his father asked him to help build a Heaven and Earth Nexus System.

• At the God Realm Nexus, the God Kings explained Snow Empress’s connection to the fallen Ice God and accepted her transformation into the new Ice God.
• Snow Empress formed the cracked Ice and Snow Crown, which dissolved into ice crystals and passed its final inheritance into her.
• Snow Empress descended and told the stunned group that she had obtained a divine position; Chen Hong explained that she could now use the Power of Rules outside the Far North.
• Chen Hong suggested that Thunder Prison Forest and the Valley of Asking Love might hold other gods’ inheritances, and Snow Empress admitted she still could not see through him.
• Ye Lingling asked Chen Hong what he had found in the Valley of Asking Love, and he said its illusions did not affect him.
• Chen Lin asked Chen Hong when he would go to the Sun and Moon Continent to help set up the Heaven and Earth Nexus System.