Chapter Summaries

Bai Chen attended a banquet hosted by Dai Tianling, where Dai Yun'er tried to sneak up on him with a small jar. He detected her, took the jar, and left after warning her, while Dai Yueyan confirmed that Bai Chen's spiritual power surpassed hers.

• Hu Jie urged Bai Chen to attend Dai Tianling's banquet, and Bai Chen agreed.
• Bai Chen arrived at the banquet with his companions and recognized Dai Tianling as the Star Luo Emperor.
• Dai Yun'er concealed her aura and approached Bai Chen with a small jar, but he detected her, caught her hand, and took it.
• Dai Yueyan identified Dai Yun'er as his younger sister and explained that she had inherited the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.
• Bai Chen warned Dai Yun'er against using such tricks on someone with stronger spiritual power, then left with Yuanen Yehui and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Dai Yueyan told Dai Yun'er that Bai Chen was stronger than Long Yue, and confirmed that his spiritual power exceeded hers.

Bai Chen arranged for Gu Yue to provide Yuanen Yehui with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit in exchange for a favor, while secretly using their deal to delay Gu Yue’s plans for Na'er. After Yuanen advanced to Four-Ring, she and Bai Chen entered the Tang Sect’s Dragon Valley expedition and began falling into the secret realm.

• Dai Yun'er learned that Bai Chen’s spiritual power had likely reached the Spirit Abyss Realm and left with Dai Yueyan.
• Bai Chen told Yuanen Yehui she needed a new Soul Spirit to reach Four-Ring and qualify for Dragon Valley.
• Gu Yue offered Yuanen a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit for free in exchange for Bai Chen owing her a favor, and Bai Chen accepted.
• Three days later, Gu Yue brought the group into the Spirit Pagoda, where Yuanen Yehui absorbed the Soul Spirit and became a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui joined more than thirty Tang Sect fighters bound for Dragon Valley and received Dragon Orbs from the leading Black-Rank Fighter.
• Old Wu opened a spatial rift, and Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui entered it before appearing high above the secret realm and plummeting downward.

Bai Chen discovered that his awakened Devouring Power let him absorb Dragon Clouds and recover some ability to use Soul Power within Dragon Valley, while Yuanen Yehui gained strength from the clouds and Dragon Souls. After half a month of travel, they encountered a powerful True Dragon Dragon Soul that Bai Chen would have to fight.

• Bai Chen used his newly awakened Devouring Power to control the elements despite Dragon Valley suppressing Soul Power, then explained its limits to Yuanen Yehui.
• Yuanen Yehui absorbed Dragon Clouds matching her attributes, while Bai Chen devoured clouds of many kinds and gained enough energy to briefly use his Martial Soul.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui traveled deeper into Dragon Valley for several days, repeatedly absorbing Dragon Clouds as they went.
• Bai Chen defeated their first Subdragon Dragon Soul and then left later Dragon Souls for Yuanen Yehui to fight and absorb.
• After half a month, Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui encountered a True Dragon Dragon Soul, and Bai Chen carried her clear of its sweeping flames.

Bai Chen explored the Dragon Tomb in search of a suitable Dragon Soul Bone, but the Dark Dragon King attacked him and his Dragon Orb failed to take him out of Dragon Valley. As Bai Chen lost consciousness, the Evil God King appeared and stopped the attack, revealing that he recognized the Dark Dragon King.

• Bai Chen defeated a True Dragon Soul, then left Yuanen Yehui at the valley rim and descended alone into the Dragon Tomb.
• Bai Chen found the Mountain Dragon King's remains and avoided the pit containing the Dragon God's Soul because he sensed overwhelming danger.
• Bai Chen tracked down a dark-attribute dragon skeleton, recognized it as the Dark Dragon King's, and tried to leave before its Dragon Soul attacked him.
• Bai Chen fought back with his Evil God Domain and Darkgolden Terrorclaw, but the Dark Dragon King resisted his Time Freeze and overwhelmed him.
• Bai Chen tried to activate the Dragon Orb, but it failed; the Dark Dragon King's attack knocked him unconscious.
• The Evil God King appeared, absorbed the Dark Dragon King's attack, and greeted it as an old acquaintance.

The Evil God began Bai Chen’s trial early and demanded that he kill ten thousand people to prove himself. Bai Chen refused, choosing to restrain his impulses and remain human despite the Evil God’s threats and revelations about his nature.

• The Evil God protected Bai Chen from the Dark Dragon King, then enveloped the unconscious Bai Chen in darkness to begin his trial early.
• Bai Chen awoke in a dark realm and met the Evil God, who said Bai Chen was qualified to start the trial ahead of schedule.
• The Evil God demanded that Bai Chen kill ten thousand strangers, promising power and protection in return.
• Bai Chen refused, and the Evil God threatened to strip away his abilities and accused him of hiding a destructive nature.
• Bai Chen explained that restraining harmful impulses was part of being human, and he rejected the Evil God’s offer to become a beast.

Bai Chen passed the Evil God’s First Trial after resisting a temptation to betray his principles, then received and absorbed the Dark Dragon King’s Soul Bone. The Evil God confirmed Bai Chen’s spiritual power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm Advanced Stage and began considering what to make him do for the Second Trial.

• Bai Chen refused to betray his principles, and the Evil God revealed that he had been testing Bai Chen’s character since his Martial Soul awakened.
• The Evil God explained that Bai Chen had passed the First Trial and could inherit the Evil Godhood by traveling to the past and asking the Evil God of that era for it.
• The Evil God obtained the Dark Dragon King’s Soul Bone from the Dark Dragon King’s dragon soul and gave it to Bai Chen as his reward.
• Bai Chen spent a month absorbing the Soul Bone with the Evil God’s help, raising his spiritual power to the Spirit Abyss Realm Advanced Stage.
• The Evil God warned Bai Chen that eight trials remained, then hesitated over the Second Trial because Bai Chen had not yet reached the cultivation level it had been designed for.

After Bai Chen began the Evil Nine Trials, the God of Kindness appeared and tested whether he would abandon the Evil God to become her successor. She left him with a mysterious reward, while his path remained tied to the Evil God’s inheritance.

• The Evil God set Bai Chen’s Second Trial: kill fifty Evil Soul Masters within five years, including one of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Four Heavenly Kings, with greater personal effort and speed earning more Evil God’s Affinity.
• The Evil God explained that passing the First Trial had only qualified Bai Chen for the trials and granted no affinity, then returned to the divine realm.
• The God of Kindness appeared after the Evil God left and offered Bai Chen a chance to become her successor.
• Bai Chen saw through the God of Kindness’s attempt to tempt him, reasoning that betrayal contradicted her divine nature.
• The God of Kindness revealed her name, Wu Shan, and admitted that she had been testing Bai Chen’s character for the Evil God.
• Wu Shan tapped Bai Chen’s forehead and placed a warm, mysterious power in his Spiritual Sea as a reward.

Bai Chen explored the Dragon Tomb, obtained the Fire Dragon King's Egg and several True Dragon Soul Bones, and found the Time Dragon King Left Leg Bone. He left the tomb and found Yuanen Yehui still in Dragon Valley, where she had been fighting and absorbing true dragon Dragon Souls.

• The God of Kindness explained Bai Chen’s three independent selves and asked him to help restore the Divine Realm; Bai Chen agreed before she departed.
• Bai Chen confirmed with the Dark Dragon King that he could travel freely through the Dragon Tomb except near the Dragon God's Soul, then found and retrieved the Fire Dragon King's Egg.
• The Dark Dragon King permitted Bai Chen to take five more Soul Bones, and he selected bones for Yuanen Yehui and Xu Xiaoyan as well as the Time Dragon King Left Leg Bone for himself.
• Bai Chen left the Dragon Tomb and found Yuanen Yehui defeating a true dragon Dragon Soul after absorbing thirty-seven of them during his absence.

Bai Chen left Dragon Valley with five True Dragon Soul Bones, a major increase in Soul Power and spiritual power, then began his journey home. Meanwhile, in an earlier era, he guided Di Tian and Gu Yuena’s group to the likely location of Dragon Valley and helped them begin searching.

• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui left Dragon Valley, and Hu Jie learned that Bai Chen had obtained five True Dragon Soul Bones.
• Bai Chen revealed that his spiritual power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm Advanced Stage and his Soul Power had risen to level fifty-three.
• Hu Jie helped Xu Xiaoyan and Yuanen Yehui absorb their Soul Bones during the group’s remaining month on Star Luo Continent, after which Bai Chen and the others headed home.
• In the earlier era, Bai Chen warned Di Tian and Gu Yuena that Dragon Valley’s location might have shifted, then asked Di Tian to take him high above Star Luo Continent.
• Bai Chen identified the likely area of Dragon Valley on his map, and Di Tian and Myriad Demon King flew off to search it.

Bai Chen helped Di Tian locate Dragon Valley, then entered it with Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts. Di Tian went to search for his parents’ remains while Gu Yuena’s condition improved inside the valley, and she asked whether Bai Chen’s counterparts from other eras knew her.

• Gu Yuena teased Bai Chen about caring for her, and he admitted that her appearance influenced his concern without revealing her connection to Na'er.
• Di Tian returned with Gu Yuena, Myriad Demon King, and Bear Lord, celebrating after finding Dragon Valley’s entrance.
• Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts opened a spatial rift, allowing Bai Chen and Gu Yuena to enter Dragon Valley despite its restrictive world laws.
• Di Tian reached the Dragon Tomb and used his bloodline power to locate his parents’ remains, while Gu Yuena and Bai Chen waited.
• Gu Yuena explained that Dragon Valley’s aura helped keep her injuries from worsening, then asked whether Bai Chen’s counterparts from other eras knew her.

Bai Chen encouraged Gu Yuena to reconsider humanity by living among humans, then accepted the Bright Dragon King Torso Bone from Di Tian and absorbed it. The fusion brought major gains in spiritual power, Soul Power, and physical strength, and Gu Yuena led the group onward to continue their work in Dragon Valley.

• Gu Yuena told Bai Chen that watching his life had changed her view of humanity and admitted she was unsure what to make of that change.
• Bai Chen suggested Gu Yuena live in the human world after recovering, and she agreed to consider it.
• Di Tian thanked Bai Chen for helping him meet his parents' Dragon Souls and gave him the Bright Dragon King Torso Bone at his father's request.
• Bai Chen absorbed the Bright Dragon King Torso Bone without pain, reaching Formed and Substantial spiritual power and gaining ten levels of Soul Power.
• Gu Yuena told Bai Chen to follow her so they could continue their work.

Gu Yuena brought Bai Chen to the Dragon God’s soul, absorbed most of its power, and gave the rest to him, where his three Dragon King soul bones absorbed it. The Divine Realm noticed the disturbance, and the God of Kindness secretly followed the aura linked to Bai Chen, leaving her Divine Sense inside his Spiritual Sea.

• Gu Yuena led Bai Chen into the crater and forced a path through the Dragon God’s pressure and the seven-colored mist.
• Gu Yuena absorbed about eighty percent of the Dragon God’s soul, healing her injuries and shaking Dragon Valley.
• Gu Yuena sent the remaining energy to Bai Chen, whose three Dragon King soul bones absorbed most of it without harming him.
• Gu Yuena sensed the Divine Realm watching, but its probing gaze eventually disappeared; Di Tian arrived and asked what had happened.
• The God of Kindness concealed the disturbance from the Evil God and the other God Kings, then followed the aura of her own power to Bai Chen.
• The God of Kindness sent her Divine Sense to the lower realm and arrived inside Bai Chen’s Spiritual Sea.

Bai Chen accepted the God of Kindness’s inheritance trial, whose first task was to resolve the emotional conflict between Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue within five years. After waking, he told Gu Yuena about the trial, and she recognized Qian Renxue as Xue Qinghe.

• The God of Kindness examined Bai Chen’s Spiritual Sea and gave him Divine Sense fragments left by her counterpart from another era.
• The God of Kindness appointed Bai Chen as her successor and began the Nine Trials of Kindness.
• Bai Chen accepted the first trial: guide Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue onto the right path by resolving their emotional knots within five years.
• The God of Kindness warned that killing Bibi Dong before resolving her emotional knot would fail the trial, then sent Bai Chen back to his body.
• Bai Chen told Gu Yuena about the trial, and she confirmed that Qian Renxue was Xue Qinghe.

Bai Chen planned to raise his strength by obtaining a fourth Soul Ring, and Gu Yuena brought him to meet the Ferocious Beast Demon Spirit. After Bai Chen defeated Demon Spirit in a contest of spiritual power and revealed the Godhood Seed left by the God of Kindness, Demon Spirit’s resistance to becoming his Soul Spirit was challenged.

• Bai Chen told Gu Yuena about Bibi Dong’s love for Yu Xiaogang and considered the Rakshasa God a possible obstacle to his Divine Trial.
• Bai Chen decided to absorb a fourth Soul Ring, and Gu Yuena proposed Demon Spirit, a two-hundred-thousand-year mental-type Ferocious Beast, as his Soul Spirit.
• Gu Yuena teleported Bai Chen to the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and summoned Demon Spirit.
• Gu Yuena told Demon Spirit to become Bai Chen’s Soul Spirit, but he resisted and questioned whether Bai Chen was strong enough to be his host.
• Bai Chen confronted Demon Spirit with his spiritual power and won by using the power of the Godhood Seed left in his Spiritual Sea by the God of Kindness.

Bai Chen accepted Demon Spirit as his Soul Spirit, bringing his three era selves to Soul King and strengthening his spiritual power. He and Gu Yuena then went to Heaven Dou Palace to meet Qian Renxue, where Xue Qinghe greeted them.

• Demon Spirit learned Bai Chen possessed the Godhood Seed, agreed to become his Soul Spirit, and completed the fusion ritual.
• Bai Chen reached Soul King in all three eras, while Demon Spirit gained insight from the God of Kindness's Divine Sense and fell into slumber.
• Bai Chen told Gu Yuena that resolving the Divine Trial would require dealing with Yu Xiaogang and Qian Renxue, and decided to lay everything bare with Qian Renxue.
• Gu Yuena sent the Fire Dragon King's egg into Lake of Life, then used Spatial Power to take Bai Chen to Heaven Dou City.
• Bai Chen and Gu Yuena arrived at Heaven Dou Palace to meet the Crown Prince, and Xue Qinghe hurried out to greet them and ask Gu Yuena's name.

Bai Chen revealed to Qian Renxue that he had posed as both Bai Chen and Bai Yan, then exposed her identity as Spirit Hall’s undercover agent in Heaven Dou. He proposed that his family help her take the position of Pope from Bibi Dong, leaving Qian Renxue asking why.

• Gu Yuena introduced herself to Xue Qinghe, and she invited Gu Yuena and Bai Chen into her palace room to discuss their visit.
• Bai Chen revealed that Bai Yan and Bai Chen were the same person, explaining that he had adopted a false identity when he was younger.
• Bai Chen identified Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue, and she reluctantly removed her mask and admitted the truth.
• Bai Chen said his family wanted closer cooperation with Spirit Hall and proposed supporting Qian Renxue as its next Pope in place of Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue, surprised by the offer, asked Bai Chen why he wanted to help her seize Spirit Hall’s authority.

Qian Renxue agreed to work with Bai Chen to replace Bibi Dong as Pope and decided to abandon her Xue Qinghe identity by disappearing. Bai Chen then examined unfamiliar Soul Tools and suspected they were connected to the next stage of his Divine Trial, before Gu Yingtong asked him about the Divine Realm’s attention on the Douluo Plane.

• Bai Chen proposed supporting Qian Renxue as Pope, and she accepted his offer of cooperation.
• Qian Renxue mistakenly called Bai Chen Gu Yuena’s son, and Bai Chen clarified that Gu Yuena was like an older sister to him.
• Bai Chen urged Qian Renxue to abandon her Xue Qinghe identity, and she agreed to disappear and visit Heaven Eye Academy in three days.
• Qian Renxue showed Bai Chen unfamiliar Soul Tools brought by a visitor, and Bai Chen wondered whether they related to his later Divine Trials.
• Bai Chen returned to Heaven Eye Academy, where Gu Yingtong asked why the Divine Realm had turned its attention to the Douluo Plane.

Bai Chen learned that Gu Yingtong could help negotiate with members of the Sun-Moon Empire who wanted to leave Artificial Space, then planned to bolster Qian Renxue’s authority in Spirit Hall by having her announce the Angel God’s Divine Trial. Qian Renxue returned to Douluo Hall with Bai Chen and Di Tian to begin the trial, and Bai Chen calmed her nerves before she met her grandfather.

• Gu Yingtong told Bai Chen that many younger people in the Sun-Moon Empire wanted to return to the Douluo Plane, and Bai Chen left negotiations to her.
• Bai Chen learned more about Gu Yingtong’s formidable spiritual power and Life-bound Soul Guide Device, then spent three days considering how to complete the God of Kindness’s trial.
• Qian Renxue told Bai Chen she had ended her cover as the Heaven Dou Empire’s crown prince, and Bai Chen instructed her to announce that she had begun the Angel God’s Divine Trial.
• Bai Chen promised Qian Renxue that a new Soul Tool from Mandate Pavilion would help strengthen her standing in Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue, Bai Chen, and Di Tian traveled to Douluo Hall, where Bai Chen used an ice mirror and reassuring words to ease Qian Renxue’s anxiety before she faced Qian Daoliu.

Bai Chen and Di Tian arrived at Douluo Hall with Qian Renxue, where Qian Daoliu agreed that Bai Chen's plan could help Qian Renxue win the priests' support. Bai Chen accepted an invitation to join Worship Hall and agreed to demonstrate his strength by challenging a priest; the other six priests arrived as the test was about to begin.

• Qian Renxue introduced Bai Chen and Di Tian to Qian Daoliu, who learned that Bai Chen was the heir behind their family’s plan to help her claim the papacy.
• Bai Chen advised Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue should earn the priests' support, including by receiving a high-level Angel God's trial.
• Qian Daoliu invited Bai Chen to join Worship Hall as a guest priest, and Bai Chen agreed after discussing the benefits and his rank.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Bai Chen could gain a higher-ranking position by defeating a priest, and Bai Chen agreed to challenge one.
• Qian Daoliu summoned the other six priests while Bai Chen meditated, and they arrived and exchanged doubtful looks after hearing about the challenge.

Bai Chen challenged Spirit Hall’s Third Consecrator to prove his strength, revealing his extraordinary Soul Rings and overpowering the elder with his Fire Dragon King abilities and a disorienting fog. The Third Consecrator unleashed his strongest Soul Skills, but they failed to clear the fog or reach Bai Chen, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Qian Daoliu warned the consecrators not to underestimate Bai Chen, and Bai Chen chose to challenge the Third Consecrator.
• Bai Chen revealed a gold Soul Ring and four red Soul Rings, then explained that the gold ring was a Million-Year, God Level Soul Ring.
• Bai Chen summoned the Fire Dragon King and followed the Third Consecrator into the air, where his fire domain burned the elder’s feather attack to ash.
• The Third Consecrator used his Martial Soul Avatar, but Bai Chen’s thick fog overwhelmed his senses and restricted his movement.
• The Third Consecrator unleashed his ninth Soul Skill and then his eighth and ninth together, but neither attack dispersed the fog or struck Bai Chen.