Chapter Summaries

Meng Chen accepted a Guest Adviser position from Xue Qinghe after discussing the Heaven Dou Empire’s corrupt nobility. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai drank himself into despair in the Star Luo Empire, where Tang San found him.

• Meng Chen told Xue Qinghe that he had reached Soul Power Level 90, surprising him with his progress.
• Xue Qinghe criticized the Heaven Dou Empire’s hereditary aristocracy and promised to remove inherited offices and stipends if he became emperor.
• Meng Chen agreed to support Xue Qinghe and accepted the title of Guest Adviser before leaving to hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai drank daily in the Star Luo Empire after being blamed for his team’s tournament defeat, while Dai Weisi used his disgrace to deflect blame.
• Tang San found Dai Mubai drinking in a tavern.

Tang San found Dai Mubai drinking in a tavern and persuaded him to travel to Spirit Hall Academy to reunite with their former companions and seek revenge on Meng Chen. In Spirit City, Hu Liena recognized Tang San but gave him directions to Yu Xiaogang, then went to inform Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had taken a Clear Sky Sect disciple as a student.

• Tang San found Dai Mubai drunk and disgraced in a tavern, then urged him to recover and join the search for Grandmaster, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar at Spirit Hall Academy.
• Dai Mubai broke down in Tang San's arms, and Tang San comforted him despite his revulsion.
• More than a month later, Tang San and Dai Mubai entered Spirit City and encountered Hu Liena on their way to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Dai Mubai told Hu Liena they were looking for their teacher, Yu Xiaogang, and Hu Liena directed them to his luxurious staff residence.
• Tang San mistook Hu Liena's directions for affection and watched her leave, while Hu Liena went to tell Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had taken a Clear Sky Sect disciple as a student.

Bibi Dong learned that Yu Xiaogang was associating with Tang San, a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect, and expelled Yu Xiaogang and his group from Spirit City. Afterward, Tang San proposed taking everyone to Sea God Island, hoping it would bring him closer to inheriting the Sea God Godhood and getting revenge on Meng Chen.

• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang was teaching a Clear Sky Sect disciple and Dai Mubai, then said she planned to seek a Soul Ring in the Extreme Northern Icefield.
• Bibi Dong summoned Yu Xiaogang, demanded that he cut ties with Tang San, and gave him one day to leave Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his quarters and told Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai that Bibi Dong had expelled him.
• Tang San urged the group to go to Sea God Island, seeing the journey as a step toward inheriting the Sea God Godhood and taking revenge on Meng Chen.

Meng Chen and his companions searched the Extreme Northern Icefield for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast until Ye Xishui found a lightning-attribute eel beneath a frozen lake. Meng Chen challenged it alone and met its lightning blast head-on, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Meng Chen and the four girls warmed themselves by huddling together on the frozen lake while Ye Xishui was away.
• Ye Xishui returned and told Meng Chen that she had found a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast in the water about thirty kilometers away.
• Meng Chen followed Ye Xishui to a hole in the ice, where she explained that a lightning-attribute eel had burst through the surface to attack her.
• The enormous eel emerged from the lake, and Meng Chen summoned his Thunder Hell Vine Whip to test its strength.
• Meng Chen shattered the eel’s electrified water wall with his whip, then activated his Innate Thunder Body and charged into its silver lightning blast.

Meng Chen and Ye Xishui killed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Thunder Eel so Meng Chen could absorb its Soul Ring as his ninth. He began absorbing the ring while Ye Xishui guarded him, but the eel’s lingering Soul Shock battered his mind.

• Meng Chen endured the Thunder Eel’s lightning, struck its vulnerable neck, and taunted it into attacking again.
• Meng Chen caught the eel’s two lightning balls and hurled them back at its head, while the eel’s thrashing shattered the ice around Ning Rongrong and the others.
• Ye Xishui restrained the weakened Thunder Eel and knocked it unconscious, allowing Meng Chen to destroy its brain and kill it.
• A blood-red Soul Ring rose from the Thunder Eel, and Meng Chen began absorbing it as Ye Xishui stood guard.
• The eel’s lingering soul unleashed a powerful Soul Shock against Meng Chen’s mind, but he kept his thoughts clear.

After Meng Chen became a Titled Douluo, he received Destruction's Nine Trials, a divine inheritance that conflicted with his ongoing Asura trial. He headed with Ye Xishui and the others toward the Destruction Temple, whose appearance drew Hu Liena’s attention and prompted her to investigate.

• Meng Chen stabilized his ninth Soul Ring and became the youngest Titled Douluo, while Ye Xishui and the other women celebrated with him.
• Nine panels appeared before Meng Chen, revealing Destruction's Nine Trials; Ye Xishui recognized them as the God King's trials and urged him to accept them.
• Meng Chen decided to begin the First Trial and led Ye Xishui, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Xiao Wu toward the Destruction Temple.
• The Destruction Temple rose from the Eternal Frozen Ground and sent a massive bolt of purple lightning into the sky, drawing the attention of Soul Masters across the Extreme Northern Icefield.
• Hu Liena saw the lightning and led her Spirit Hall escort toward it to investigate.
• The God of Destruction watched the temple appear from his Castle of Destruction and laughed when someone arrived.

The God of Destruction and the Asura God argued over Meng Chen’s simultaneous divine trials, while Meng Chen entered the Destruction Temple despite his companions’ fears. Inside, he discovered the hall was filled with powerful Destruction Divine Lightning and that his Soul Skills were disabled.

• The Asura God urged the God of Destruction to stop Meng Chen’s trial, but the God of Destruction refused and demanded they find a way for both God King divine seats to coexist in Meng Chen.
• Meng Chen and his companions reached the Destruction Temple, where Ye Xishui and the others warned him that its lightning was too dangerous.
• Meng Chen reassured them and entered the temple, while Ye Xishui restrained the others from following and the entrance sealed behind him.
• Meng Chen found a vast circular hall where Destruction Divine Lightning struck the floor and was replenished, and he wondered whether exhausting its energy would complete the trial.
• Meng Chen realized his Soul Skills were disabled and braced himself to face the lightning.

Meng Chen endured the Destruction Divine Lightning and completed the First Trial of Destruction, earning a God-Given 100,000-year Soul Ring. The God of Destruction resolved to invest heavily in Meng Chen, while the Asura God decided to improve his own trial’s rewards.

• Meng Chen entered the Destruction Thunder Array and was trapped in a beam that drew the hall’s lightning onto him.
• Meng Chen resisted the destructive energy as the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone repeatedly healed his injuries, while Ye Xishui reassured Ye Lingling and the others outside.
• Hu Liena hurried toward the temple, afraid she would miss something important if she arrived too late.
• Meng Chen exhausted the lightning and completed the First Trial of Destruction, receiving a crimson 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• The God of Destruction resolved to provide Meng Chen with powerful rewards, and the Asura God decided to make Asura’s Divine Trial more rewarding in response.

After completing his first trial, Meng Chen received a 100,000-year Soul Ring and a companionship reward that raised the girls’ Soul Rings to a thousand years. When Spirit Hall Soul Masters arrived to capture him, Hu Liena recognized Meng Chen’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and the chapter ended with Ning Rongrong considering a marriage alliance between them.

• Meng Chen left the Destruction Temple, and its energy repaired his body before granting Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling a companionship reward that raised their Soul Rings to a thousand years.
• Ning Rongrong urged Meng Chen to hurry through his second trial, while Xiao Wu bristled at Ning Rongrong’s teasing.
• A Soul Douluo and six other Spirit Hall Soul Masters surrounded Meng Chen and his companions, demanding that Meng Chen return to Spirit City for trial.
• Meng Chen unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain, forcing the Spirit Hall Soul Masters to their knees, and Hu Liena recognized the domain and realized he was the Slaughter Envoy she had met before.
• Hu Liena shielded the kneeling Soul Masters, and Meng Chen held back his attack; Xiao Wu grew suspicious of their connection while Ning Rongrong considered a marriage alliance with Hu Liena.

Hu Liena’s suggestive account of her past with Meng Chen sparked jealousy among Xiao Wu before the Destruction Temple transported them into the next divine trial. In the Divine Realm, the Goddess of Life chose Xiao Wu as a potential successor, while Meng Chen awoke and realized the trial would test his will to destroy.

• Hu Liena approached Meng Chen and described their time together in Slaughter City in deliberately intimate terms, provoking Xiao Wu’s jealousy.
• Meng Chen explained that he and Hu Liena had only fought in Slaughter City, but Hu Liena’s hurt expression left Xiao Wu suspicious.
• Ye Xishui interrupted their argument to ask about the Second Trial, and the Destruction Temple’s purple light transported Meng Chen and the others away.
• The Goddess of Life watched Meng Chen, decided to pass her godhood to Xiao Wu, and resolved to wait until they survived the trial.
• Meng Chen regained consciousness in the trial’s setting and recalled that the Second Trial tested his will to destroy.

Meng Chen passed the God of Destruction’s second trial by destroying the corrupted land without hesitation and received another 100,000-year Soul Ring. Xiao Wu then learned she had to leave to undergo the Life Divine Trial, leaving everyone shocked but happy for her.

• Meng Chen resisted the trial’s illusion, recognized the soldiers’ brutality beneath their tender moments, and destroyed the land with Destruction Divine Lightning.
• The God of Destruction approved Meng Chen’s resolve and awarded him a 100,000-year Soul Ring for the Atlas Spear.
• Meng Chen emerged in the Destruction Temple, where Hu Liena had received a God-Given Soul Ring during her trial.
• Green light enveloped Xiao Wu, and she revealed that she had to leave to undergo the Life Divine Trial.
• Ning Rongrong and the others congratulated Xiao Wu, while Hu Liena worried that Xiao Wu might become the only woman able to stay with Meng Chen forever.

Bibi Dong learned that Meng Chen had entered Slaughter City and might inherit divine power, leaving her worried about his threat to her plans. At a northern inn, Meng Chen intervened when a noble threatened Shui Bing'er and sent him crashing into a wall.

• Bibi Dong heard the Soul Douluo’s report about Meng Chen’s journey through Slaughter City and considered the danger his possible divine inheritance posed to her plans.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the Soul Douluo and wondered whether Hu Liena’s relationship with Meng Chen might draw him to her side.
• Meng Chen and his companions arrived at the North Wind Inn, where a young noble pressured Shui Bing'er to drink and threatened Skywater Academy.
• Meng Chen stepped between Shui Bing'er and the noble, insulted him, and blasted him through the inn with his aura.
• Meng Chen tossed Gold Soul Coins onto the counter to compensate the inn for the damage.

Meng Chen drove off the young nobleman who had attacked Shui Bing'er, then joined her group at the inn. Shui Bing'er and the other women repeatedly toasted him with strong liquor, leaving Meng Chen drinking on an empty stomach.

• Meng Chen used the Divine Slaughter's Domain to terrify the young nobleman's Soul Saint bodyguard into fainting.
• The young nobleman recognized Meng Chen, apologized, and fled the inn without his unconscious bodyguard.
• Meng Chen sat down to eat while Shui Bing'er felt conflicted about seeing him surrounded by other beautiful women.
• At Xue Wu's urging, Shui Bing'er toasted Meng Chen, but the strong liquor quickly made her tipsy.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena each toasted Meng Chen, and he kept drinking as the other diners watched.

After Meng Chen outdrank the women at the inn, he helped the drunken group into the only available room, then passed out from the liquor himself. The next morning, he prepared to leave for the town leading to Slaughter City for his third divine trial, and Shui Bing'er asked to join him.

• Meng Chen drank through the inn's challenge, then arranged the only room for the drunken women and carried them inside.
• Ye Xishui covered the passed-out Meng Chen with a blanket, and the women found him in their room the next morning.
• Meng Chen told the women he was heading inland toward the town that led to Slaughter City for the third test of the God of Destruction's Divine Trial.
• Shui Bing'er asked to travel with Meng Chen, and he agreed.

Meng Chen returned to Slaughter City and challenged the King of Slaughter, revealing that he was Tang Chen and that Rakshasa God corruption had taken hold of him. After unleashing his ninth Soul Skill across Slaughter City, Meng Chen destroyed the corruption and began restoring the city to its original purpose.

• Meng Chen left Ning Rongrong and the others at an ordinary tavern and entered Slaughter City, where he walked unchallenged into the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Meng Chen killed the arena's last combatant with thunder hell vines, displayed his nine Soul Rings, and called out the King of Slaughter.
• The King of Slaughter confronted Meng Chen, but Meng Chen's Divine Slaughter's Domain resisted his Domain of Slaughter, and Meng Chen named him Tang Chen and accused him of Rakshasa God corruption.
• Tang Chen attacked Meng Chen with the Clear Sky Hammer and destroyed the Hell Slaughter Arena, but Meng Chen avoided the blow and used his ninth Soul Skill to spread a lightning-filled space across Slaughter City.
• Meng Chen declared that he would restore Slaughter City, then used destruction divine power to draw out and annihilate the Nine-Headed Bat and purify Rakshasa God corruption throughout the city and the Bloody Mary river.

After purifying Slaughter City, Meng Chen passed two divine trials at once, received the Asura Demon Sword, and witnessed Tang Chen being remade by the Asura God. He left with the others for the Star Dou Great Forest to complete his next trial at the Lake of Life.

• Meng Chen passed the third trial of the God of Destruction and the second trial of Asura, but the rival divine powers injured him as they clashed inside his body.
• The Asura Demon Sword entered Meng Chen's spirit sea, while Slaughter City restored Tang Chen and strengthened him to rule the prison again.
• Meng Chen returned to the tavern and told Shui Bing'er and the others that his Ninth Soul Skill had caused the energy wave and that he had removed Slaughter City's corruption.
• Meng Chen explained that Slaughter City needed to remain as a prison for Evil Soul Masters, then invited the girls to the Lake of Life for his fourth divine trial.
• The group agreed to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, stayed overnight in town, and set out on foot the next morning as Ning Rongrong befriended Hu Liena and Shui Bing'er.

Meng Chen traveled to the Lake of Life to begin the fourth stage of the God of Destruction's divine trial, which tested his ability to resist the seven deadly sins. As the sins tempted him with power and uncontrolled emotion, he frowned but had not yet overcome the trial.

• Meng Chen met Da Ming and Er Ming at the Star Dou Great Forest and told them Xiao Wu was undergoing a divine trial.
• Meng Chen introduced Ye Lingling, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er to Da Ming and Er Ming, then asked them to take everyone to the Lake of Life.
• Meng Chen began his fourth divine trial at the lake, entering a state where he could neither see nor hear the people around him.
• Ning Rongrong confirmed Meng Chen was oblivious and suggested that the girls go swimming.
• The Destruction Divine Seal unleashed the seven sins upon Meng Chen's consciousness, with each taking his appearance and tempting him through visions and whispers.
• Meng Chen listened as Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust urged him to abandon restraint, and he began to frown.

Meng Chen passed the fourth and fifth Divine Trials, earning two more 100,000-year Soul Rings, and learned that the fifth trial involved judging small worlds for destruction. Afterward, he asked Ye Xishui to secure support for Xue Qinghe from several influential figures while he continued his trials.

• Meng Chen overcame the power of the seven deadly sins by expanding his spiritual power until it filled the emotional ocean, passing the fourth Divine Trial and gaining a 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• Meng Chen's fifth trial began immediately, sending his consciousness into the cosmic void to judge which small worlds had decayed and needed to be destroyed.
• The God of Destruction told the Goddess of Life that he was preparing Meng Chen for the duties of the Destruction God King, while she suspected he was making the trial too easy.
• Meng Chen completed the fifth trial after a month and gained another 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• Meng Chen asked Ye Xishui to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, inform Ye Cixin about Xue Qinghe's undercover identity, and urge them to support him; Ye Xishui agreed.

Meng Chen began the God of Destruction's sixth trial and was battered by annihilation energy that overwhelmed his healing and nearly tore his body apart. As he fought to survive in the Lake of Life, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling joined him and shared the attack.

• Meng Chen triggered the sixth trial, and annihilation energy tore through his body as the God of Destruction watched.
• Ye Lingling's healing and the Lake of Life could not stop Meng Chen's wounds, while Ning Rongrong strengthened Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing supported her.
• Meng Chen released his Divine Slaughter's Domain, briefly slowing the damage, but he feared he would die.
• Hu Liena joined her Divine Slaughter's Domain with Meng Chen's and embraced him, causing the annihilation energy to attack her too.
• Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling joined Hu Liena in sharing the annihilation energy as Meng Chen continued fighting without noticing them.

Meng Chen endured a lethal annihilation-energy trial while Ning Rongrong and the others shared his injuries, until Xiao Wu sensed his danger and sent life energy to heal them. Meng Chen passed the trial, but Ye Lingling fainted from depleted Soul Power as the group recovered.

• As annihilation energy drained Meng Chen and injured Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, and Shui Bing'er, Xiao Wu asked whether he loved them and heard him say he loved them equally.
• While completing the Goddess of Life's trial, Xiao Wu sensed Meng Chen's plight and sent him life energy that gradually healed him and the women beside him.
• Meng Chen tried to save the life energy for the others, but he coughed up blood; the energy weakened the annihilation assault, and he eventually passed his trial.
• After Meng Chen awoke, Ye Lingling fainted from her depleted Soul Power, and Shui Bing'er confirmed that she was not seriously injured.
• Meng Chen apologized to Hu Liena, cared for Ye Lingling, and asked the women not to share the burden of his future trials, but they refused to agree.
• The trial's voice announced Meng Chen's success and began distributing the companionship trial rewards.