Chapter Summaries

After Xue Ye died, Xue Qinghe was crowned emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire and proposed an alliance with Spirit Hall against the Star Luo Empire. The court split over the proposal, and Xue Qinghe postponed a decision until after the coronation.

• Xue Qinghe ascended the throne after Xue Ye’s coffin was moved to the Imperial Mausoleum and the late emperor’s edict was read.
• Xue Qinghe stopped the accession announcement and proposed allying with Spirit Hall to resist the Star Luo Empire.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ye Cixin supported Xue Qinghe’s proposal.
• Xue Xing and other ministers opposed the alliance, warning that Spirit Hall might take control of the empire.
• Xue Qinghe silenced the ministers and said he would discuss the alliance with them after the coronation.

After the coronation, Xue Qinghe questioned Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ye Cixin about supporting his alliance with Spirit Hall and discovered that Meng Chen had urged them to back him. Overcome by gratitude and his feelings for Meng Chen, Xue Qinghe accidentally kissed Ye Cixin’s cheek, leaving her angry and wondering whether he was attracted to men.

• Xue Qinghe summoned Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ye Cixin and asked why they had supported his proposed alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ye Cixin offered political justifications that Xue Qinghe suspected were not their real reasons.
• Xue Qinghe dismissed Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen, then asked Ye Cixin whether Meng Chen had told her to support him.
• Ye Cixin admitted that Meng Chen had sent word for her to support whatever Xue Qinghe chose to do.
• Xue Qinghe was moved by Meng Chen’s support, leaned toward Ye Cixin, and accidentally kissed her cheek when she dodged.
• Ye Cixin left angrily, while Xue Qinghe was left embarrassed and unable to explain himself.

Bibi Dong planned to place Spirit Hall agents in the Heaven Dou Empire after Xue Qinghe became emperor, while Tang San reacted to the coronation by ordering the Clear Sky Sect to interfere and fantasizing about taking multiple wives. Meng Chen reassured the women gathered around him that he had recovered, leaving his next sea god trial delayed by their vigilance.

• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to select covert Spirit Hall agents for important Heaven Dou Empire posts.
• Tang San learned that Xue Qinghe had become emperor and that Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ye Cixin had supported an alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Tang San told the Clear Sky Sect messenger to recruit troops and find Xue Beng so they could help him restore the Heaven Dou Empire if Xue Qinghe prevailed.
• Tang San vowed to finish the sea god's nine trials, kill Meng Chen, and reclaim what he believed was his, then indulged in fantasies of marrying several women.
• Meng Chen reassured Ning Rongrong and the others that he had recovered, while they continued watching him closely to prevent him from starting the seventh trial alone.

Meng Chen attempted the God of Destruction’s seventh trial, but the Destruction Scepter clashed with the Asura Demon Sword already inside his spirit sea. He subdued both artifacts and passed their trials, though their future conflict left him worried.

• Meng Chen entered the pillar of destruction energy and reached out to the Destruction Scepter, which entered his spirit sea and fought the Asura Demon Sword.
• The God of Destruction blamed the Asura God for placing the demon sword in Meng Chen’s spirit sea, while the Asura God argued the clash would test Meng Chen.
• Ning Rongrong and the others found Meng Chen bleeding and had Ye Lingling heal him as he struggled against the two divine artifacts.
• Meng Chen seized the Destruction Scepter and the Asura Demon Sword within his spirit sea and used his soul power to force both into submission.
• Meng Chen regained consciousness, passed the God of Destruction’s seventh trial and Asura’s third trial, and worried that the two divine positions might clash later.

Meng Chen challenged the Seven Fiend Clones in the eighth stage of the God of Destruction's Divine Trial and struggled against their coordinated formations. He unleashed the Atlas Spear's strongest skills to defeat them, passing the trial.

• Meng Chen entered the challenge space and faced seven Fiend Clones, each with the aura of a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo.
• Meng Chen used the Atlas Spear's Flight-Sealing Domain and Martial Soul Avatar, but the clones united their power and forced him back.
• The Seven Fiend Clones struck Meng Chen with combined energy attacks, then overwhelmed his Dragon City Charge and sent him flying.
• Meng Chen unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, Slay Loulan, breaking the clones' formation and entering the Death Battle state.
• Meng Chen used Long River Sunset to wipe out the wounded Seven Fiend Clones and pass the eighth trial.

After passing the Eighth Trial, Meng Chen received a major increase to his Soul Rings but struggled with severe exhaustion and injuries. Ning Rongrong and the others feared he would leave them after becoming a god, while Bibi Dong founded the Spirit Hall Empire and absorbed the Heaven Dou Empire into it.

• Meng Chen emerged from the eighth trial badly injured, and Ye Lingling healed him as the trial rewards increased his and his companions’ Soul Ring ages.
• Ning Rongrong worried that Meng Chen would disappear after becoming a god, and he promised that he would remain himself and stay with them.
• Ning Rongrong pushed Meng Chen into an intimate encounter, and the other women joined her instead of helping him escape.
• Bibi Dong founded the Spirit Hall Empire, and Xue Qinghe led the Heaven Dou Empire into a largely bloodless merger with it.

Meng Chen began the final trial to inherit the God of Destruction’s divine seat, but the Asura Demon Sword released conflicting power and threatened to destroy him. Xiao Wu lent him life energy to stabilize the inheritance, and the Asura God then began passing his own divine seat to Meng Chen as well.

• After recovering his soul power, Meng Chen began the ninth trial and endured the Destruction Scepter’s infusion of destruction divine power.
• The Asura Demon Sword released asura divine power, causing the two divine powers to battle through Meng Chen’s body and soul.
• Xiao Wu sensed Meng Chen’s suffering and bestowed life energy on him, weakening her own inheritance aura as she helped stabilize his divine seat.
• The Goddess of Life secretly strengthened Xiao Wu’s power, while the God of Destruction confronted the Asura God over his interference.
• The Asura God began passing his divine seat directly to Meng Chen through the Asura Demon Sword, angering the God of Destruction.

Meng Chen gained the coexistence of two godhoods while Tang San inherited the Sea God’s power and turned the Clear Sky Sect into his own army. Tang San’s campaign against the Spirit Hall Empire escalated into a brutal war, while Bibi Dong remained missing and Qian Renxue went to confront him.

• Meng Chen’s Soul Bones transformed into Divine Armor as his two godhoods settled within him, and Xiao Wu sensed other women’s auras on him.
• Tang San inherited the Sea God’s position, gathered more than four thousand Sea Soul Masters, and summoned the Clear Sky Sect’s tens of thousands of Black-Armored Elites.
• Tang San renamed the Clear Sky Sect the Tang Sect, killed the second elder when he objected, and forced Tang Xiao and the others to kneel.
• Tang San marched under Xue Beng’s name to restore the Heaven Dou Empire, and his army grew to several hundred thousand while seizing a third of its territory.
• Qian Renxue went to confront Tang San while Bibi Dong remained in seclusion, and Tang San ordered his troops to plunder cities they captured for three days.

Meng Chen defeated Tang San and his allies, leading the Tang Family Army to surrender, while Xiao Wu chose to spare Bibi Dong after hearing the truth about her past. Years later, the Spirit Hall Empire had unified the continent, Xiao Wu’s mother had been resurrected, and Qian Renxue was being prepared for her wedding night with Meng Chen.

• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Bibi Dong attacked Meng Chen, but he used both Destruction and Asura godhoods to kill Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and mortally wound Tang San and Bibi Dong.
• Xiao Wu cut off Tang San’s head, and the Tang Family Army surrendered after Meng Chen announced Tang San’s death.
• Bibi Dong confessed the truth about Qian Renxue’s past, and Qian Renxue said she did not hate her; Xiao Wu then confronted Bibi Dong over the killing of her mother, but ultimately spared her.
• Years later, Qian Renxue ruled a unified Douluo Continent, and Bibi Dong had sacrificed her godhood to resurrect Xiao Wu’s mother, Ah Rou.
• Bibi Dong pushed Qian Renxue into a room where Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, Shui Bing’er, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing were waiting to teach her about her first night with Meng Chen.

Ye Xishui accepted her system reward and ascended as the Death God, then chose to stay in Meng Chen's world briefly rather than return to her original spacetime. She appeared before Meng Chen and the others to say goodbye, and Meng Chen worried that Tang San might hurt her if she went back.

• Ye Xishui accepted the system reward, gained the Death God’s power and Divine Armor, and had her Blood Soul Demon Puppet Martial Soul purified.
• Ye Xishui chose not to return immediately, though the system told her she could remain for only two hours.
• Meng Chen sensed Ye Xishui’s ascension, but before he could respond to the system’s offer, she appeared among him and the others.
• Ye Xishui told Meng Chen, Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Shui Bing’er, and Hu Liena that she had to return to her original spacetime.
• Meng Chen asked Ye Xishui whether Tang San might hurt her when she returned.

Meng Chen chose to accompany Ye Xishui back to her original timeline to protect her from Tang San and keep her from returning to evil. They arrived in the world of the Peerless Tang Sect timeline, where Huo Yuhao watched their passage across the sky.

• Ning Rongrong and the others urged Ye Xishui to stay, but she said the rules required her to return.
• Meng Chen offered to go with Ye Xishui, and Zhu Zhuqing, Shui Bing'er, Hu Liena, and Ye Lingling supported his decision.
• Ning Rongrong warned Meng Chen not to get involved with other women, while Qian Renxue tearfully said she would be fine without him.
• When the system asked whether he would accompany Ye Xishui, Meng Chen chose yes, and the two vanished in rainbow light.
• Meng Chen and Ye Xishui emerged from the space-time tunnel as meteors, while Bei Bei and Tang Ya spoke with Huo Yuhao near Shrek Academy.

Meng Chen and Ye Xishui arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest, where Ye Xishui declared that she would end the cult’s atrocities and settle accounts with its members. Long Xiaoyao and Zhongli Wu were forced to their knees by her overwhelming aura and realized she might have become a god.

• Ye Xishui woke before Meng Chen after their journey through space and time, and he later apologized after waking in her arms.
• Meng Chen recognized their location as the Evil Demon Forest and followed Ye Xishui to a clearing above the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground headquarters.
• Two cult members emerged, and Ye Xishui knocked the man unconscious before urging the woman to summon the others.
• Ye Xishui told the gathered Holy Spirit Cult members that she was their enemy and ordered them to remain in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Long Xiaoyao and Zhongli Wu arrived, but Ye Xishui’s aura overwhelmed them and forced them to their knees.
• Long Xiaoyao and Zhongli Wu suspected Ye Xishui had become a god, and Zhongli Wu called her “Mother.”

Ye Xishui sealed the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters into a prison where its members could no longer use soul power, and made the Evil Eye Tyrant its warden. After agreeing with her decision not to kill the cult members, Meng Chen planned to save the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from being exploited.

• Meng Chen rebuked Long Xiaoyao for failing to pull Ye Xishui away from the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ye Xishui declared that its members would remain imprisoned in the Evil Demon Forest.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant emerged and attacked Ye Xishui, but she revealed herself as a god and dragged it out of the sky with a single gesture.
• Ye Xishui transformed the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters into a prison that suppressed soul power and offered the Evil Eye Tyrant freedom from heavenly tribulations if it guarded the site.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant accepted Ye Xishui's offer, and she granted it divine power so it could move freely within the prison.
• Ye Xishui explained to Meng Chen that she would imprison the cult rather than kill its members, and Meng Chen agreed with her decision.
• Meng Chen decided to save the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from being exploited by Tang San and his family.

Xu Tianran panicked over the Holy Spirit Cult’s mass departure and feared losing his position as Crown Prince, while Ju Zi tried to reassure him. Ye Xishui arrived with Meng Chen and declared that she would no longer allow the Holy Spirit Cult to leave the Evil Demon Forest and wreak havoc upon the world.

• Xu Tianran discovered that many Holy Spirit Cult members had left the Sun-Moon Empire and suspected that the cult had abandoned him.
• Ju Zi reassured Xu Tianran of her loyalty, and he apologized for doubting her.
• Ju Zi urged Xu Tianran to meet Revered Elder Ye, but he said his messengers to the Evil Demon Forest had never returned.
• An attendant announced that Revered Elder Ye had arrived, and Ye Xishui entered with Meng Chen.
• Xu Tianran asked Ye Xishui why the Holy Spirit Cult had withdrawn, and she declared that she would no longer let it leave the Evil Demon Forest to wreak havoc upon the world.

Ye Xishui revealed that she had become a god and offered to withdraw the Holy Spirit Cult from the Sun-Moon Empire while continuing to support Xu Tianran. After Xu Tianran accepted her conditions, Meng Chen claimed to be Ye Xishui’s younger relative, and Ju Zi grew suspicious of their closeness.

• Ye Xishui displayed ten Soul Rings, including a dark-crimson tenth ring, shocking Xu Tianran and Ju Zi with proof of her godhood.
• Ye Xishui said she had confined the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters to a forest and would protect Xu Tianran until he ascended the throne.
• Ye Xishui required Xu Tianran to hunt down Evil Soul Masters and provide monthly supplies to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, and he agreed.
• Xu Tianran asked about Meng Chen, who called himself Ye Xishui’s younger relative, while Ye Xishui reacted warmly and Ju Zi noticed her gaze.

Xu Tianran arranged a lavish residence for Ye Xishui and Meng Chen in the Eastern Palace, and the two toured Mingdu under surveillance. After Ye Xishui explained why she had allowed the spies to follow them, she teased Meng Chen about his many girlfriends.

• Xu Tianran asked Ye Xishui to celebrate her ascension to godhood, but she refused publicity and agreed to stay in Mingdu as a show of support for him.
• Xu Tianran arranged an extravagant palace complex near the Eastern Palace for Ye Xishui and Meng Chen.
• Meng Chen and Ye Xishui explored Mingdu and watched an opera while spies monitored them.
• Ye Xishui apologized for deliberately letting the spies follow them, explaining that their presence would reassure the Sun-Moon Empire's factions that Xu Tianran still had the Holy Spirit Cult's support.
• Ye Xishui teased Meng Chen about his many girlfriends, and he awkwardly insisted he had been forced into it.

Xu Tianran and Xu Litai moved to use Meng Chen as leverage over Ye Xishui after the Holy Spirit Cult withdrew from the empire. Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to seduce Meng Chen and bear his child, leaving her devastated but unable to refuse.

• Xu Litai ordered a spy to abduct Meng Chen so he could use the youth to negotiate with Ye Xishui.
• Xu Tianran read reports on Ye Xishui and Meng Chen, while Ju Zi warned him that spying on Ye Xishui could endanger their alliance.
• Ju Zi suggested that Meng Chen might be a way to strengthen their ties with Ye Xishui, and Xu Tianran ordered her to get close to him and bear his child.
• Xu Tianran threatened Ju Zi with their likely deaths if she refused, then promised to reward her after he took power.
• Ju Zi agreed to obey Xu Tianran and wept as she suppressed her disgust.

Meng Chen discovered Ju Zi waiting naked in his room and rejected her advances because he already had wives, though they shared a brief moment of laughter. Their conversation was interrupted when three armed strangers broke into the room.

• Ye Xishui left for the Crown Prince's Residence to discuss the alliance, while Meng Chen returned to his room.
• Meng Chen detected that someone had added I Love a Stick to the tea and called out the person hiding under his bedcovers.
• Ju Zi emerged naked and tried to sit in Meng Chen's lap, but he avoided her, covered her, and explained that he already had a wife.
• Ju Zi guessed that Ye Xishui was Meng Chen's wife, then learned that he had multiple wives and called him a womanizing radish.
• Three strangers—a Soul Douluo-level old man and two Soul Saints—approached and entered the room after Meng Chen sensed them.

Meng Chen forced Xu Tianran’s men to retreat, then heard how Ju Zi had been used as a pawn and learned that she sought revenge against Dai Hao. He offered to help her and left her questioning his confidence in taking on the White Tiger Duke.

• A scar-faced Soul Douluo and two companions tried to take Meng Chen to the Third Prince, but Meng Chen crushed them with his pressure and ordered them to roll away.
• Ju Zi asked Meng Chen how strong he was, then told him that Xu Tianran had ordered her to approach him and become his woman.
• Meng Chen asked Ju Zi whether she had stayed beside Xu Tianran for revenge, and she admitted that her parents had died because of Dai Hao, the White Tiger Duke.
• Meng Chen offered to take Ju Zi with him and help her get revenge, leaving her astonished that he would challenge such a powerful duke.
• Meng Chen dismissed Dai Hao as a mere White Tiger Duke.

Ju Zi agreed to leave Xu Tianran and seek revenge with Meng Chen, but Ye Xishui caught them together and mistook the scene for an affair. Ju Zi's awkward explanations made Meng Chen look even guiltier as Ye Xishui decided to examine her and ordered him outside.

• Meng Chen offered to help Ju Zi escape being Xu Tianran's pawn, and Ju Zi agreed to go with him.
• Ye Xishui arrived and found Ju Zi under the covers in Meng Chen's room, then accused him of taking advantage of her.
• Meng Chen denied doing anything, but Ju Zi said she had acted willingly and that he had been gentle.
• Ye Xishui reluctantly chose to trust Meng Chen and moved to check on Ju Zi.
• Ye Xishui told Meng Chen to leave the room while she examined Ju Zi.