Recaps

Gu Changsheng entered Black Abyss City to confront the Divine Gate and its sacrifice, then battled Tang San as the Ninth Trial turned them against each other. The arc ended with Tang San’s new successor awakening and tasked with killing Gu Changsheng.

• Gu Changsheng and Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er reached Black Abyss City, where they faced the Twelve-Pillar Altar and learned the Gate sought to make him its vessel.
• Gu Changsheng disrupted the altar ritual, escaped the collapsing city with the three women, and met Tang San in the Northern Territory Mountains.
• Gu Changsheng and his allies stopped Tang San from completing Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, freed her, and triggered the Ninth Trial’s nine-day countdown.
• Tang San arrived under the Black Abyss Seed’s control, and Xiao Wu linked her life force to Gu Changsheng’s Divine Gate as they began the Ninth Trial’s first battle.
• Gu Changsheng seized the Sea God Divine Core, collapsed Tang San’s Sea God Domain, and absorbed the Sea God Divinity while the Eye Behind the Gate awakened an ancient will.
• Tang San fused Xiao Wu’s stolen origin with the Black Abyss Seed and began the trial’s second phase by targeting Gu Changsheng’s Life Anchor.
• Gu Changsheng and Xiao Wu used her origin to attack Tang San’s soul, and Gu Changsheng sealed the half Tang San abandoned before a silver-white-clad girl awakened as the next challenger.

Gu Changsheng and his companions defeated Tang San’s Black Abyss ritual, entered the Heavenly Gate, and overcame the Asura Godhood’s trials. After severing the force of Finality, they began shaping a new world and set out toward the final level and home.

• Gu Changsheng used his Divine Gate to seize the Asura Godhood, while Ning Shuang learned Tang San had deceived her and joined Gu Changsheng within the gate.
• Tang San began the Return to One ritual in Spirit City, but Gu Changsheng and his companions broke the Black Abyss’s hold, defeated Tang San, and destroyed the altar.
• Xiao Wu became the heir to the Life Godhood and helped Gu Changsheng destroy the Black Abyss’s Will, completing the Ninth Trial and opening the Divine Gate.
• Gu Changsheng and his companions entered the Heavenly Gate, defeated its Shadow Lord, and freed the trapped worlds before traveling to the Asura Ancient Realm.
• Ning Shuang recovered her true name, Ning Qing, and joined Gu Changsheng in overcoming the Asura layers, rejecting the God Seat and rewriting the rule of godhood.
• Gu Changsheng rejected an aged version of himself who had devoured worlds, then followed Tang San’s image through a black rift to the Temple of Finality.
• Gu Changsheng separated Tang San from the seal and removed the Endfall Core, then joined his companions in defeating the Chaos Giant Eye and clearing the Tenth Level.
• Gu Changsheng rejected sacrificing his companions to create a new world, wrote rules protecting choice and memory, and watched the seed open into a flawed world as they headed toward the final level.