Chapter Summaries

Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue cornered the Silver-Faced Man, but he used smoke to obscure the battlefield as Hu Liena and Qian Renxue confronted each other over Gu Changsheng. As footsteps approached the Eastern Palace, the Silver-Faced Man announced that reinforcements had arrived and a new fight was beginning.

• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue attacked together and blocked the Silver-Faced Man's escape.
• The Silver-Faced Man taunted Hu Liena and Qian Renxue about their feelings for Gu Changsheng, then threw a black talisman to cover his attempted escape.
• Hu Liena demanded to know why Gu Changsheng had shielded Qian Renxue, and she and Qian Renxue exchanged sharp remarks before agreeing to focus on the fight.
• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue continued pressing the Silver-Faced Man as he struggled to break away.
• A new group approached the Eastern Palace, and the Silver-Faced Man said they had arrived.

Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue fought a new group of attackers led by a cloaked man who knew Qian Renxue’s identity. The cloaked man activated a Black Mark and revealed that he intended to detonate the Sealing Formation beneath the Eastern Palace, trapping Qian Renxue in its destruction.

• A cloaked man and six powerful Spirit Masters arrived at the burning Eastern Palace and confronted Qian Renxue.
• The cloaked man displayed a Black Mark linked to the earlier Black Seal and threatened Qian Renxue, revealing he knew who she was.
• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue coordinated their attacks, and Gu Changsheng struck the cloaked man’s defenses.
• The cloaked man activated the Black Mark, causing the Eastern Palace to tremble.
• Gu Changsheng warned that the cloaked man was detonating a Sealing Formation beneath the Eastern Palace, intending to collapse it with Qian Renxue inside.

As the cloaked man used the Black Seal to shatter the formation and set the Eastern Palace ablaze, Qian Renxue led Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena toward a secret passage. They reached its dark staircase, where another presence waited below.

• The cloaked man forced the Sealing Formation, shaking the palace and igniting its formation patterns as Gu Changsheng urged Hu Liena and Qian Renxue to retreat.
• Qian Renxue led them through the collapsing side hall, splitting a fallen beam with Angel Power despite the strain.
• The Eastern Palace's outer hall collapsed behind them, and Qian Renxue revealed a secret passage she knew because she had lived there.
• Gu Changsheng told Qian Renxue to rest, then treated Hu Liena's scratch as she sought his attention and noticed Qian Renxue watching.
• Qian Renxue opened a dark gate to the passage's stone steps, and Gu Changsheng sensed another presence rising from below.

Gu Changsheng found Shui Bing'er in a secret passage, where Evil Thought had twisted her emotions into an intense obsession with him. As Hu Liena and Qian Renxue bristled at their closeness, Shui Bing'er's corruption surged and she threatened to keep Gu Changsheng there if he would not take her away.

• Gu Changsheng sensed Ice Element below the steps and recognized Shui Bing'er's corrupted aura as she emerged from the shadows.
• Shui Bing'er said she had searched for Gu Changsheng, grabbed his wrist, and begged him not to leave her alone.
• Hu Liena confronted Shui Bing'er and claimed Gu Changsheng was her man, while Qian Renxue watched with growing wariness.
• Gu Changsheng calmed Shui Bing'er by promising he would not leave, which intensified Hu Liena's jealousy and Qian Renxue's coldness.
• Shui Bing'er's eyes darkened completely, and she threatened to keep Gu Changsheng there if he would not take her away.

Shui Bing'er trapped Gu Changsheng in an ice-sealed passage as Evil Thought magnified her long-suppressed feelings into a possessive obsession. She confessed her love and demanded that he focus only on her while Hu Liena and Qian Renxue tried to break through the ice.

• Shui Bing'er sealed the passage in ice, isolating Gu Changsheng from Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and the approaching Soul Power.
• Shui Bing'er told Gu Changsheng that she had loved him for a long time and resented how he paid more attention to others.
• Shui Bing'er cornered Gu Changsheng against the wall and admitted she had separated him from the others so he could only see her.
• Gu Changsheng recognized that Evil Thought had magnified Shui Bing'er's fixation and urged her to suppress her Soul Power.
• Shui Bing'er confessed that she wanted Gu Changsheng to choose to be near her and pleaded with him not to look at anyone else as Hu Liena and Qian Renxue attacked the ice wall.

Gu Changsheng calmed Shui Bing'er after Hu Liena and Qian Renxue broke through the ice wall, but Shui Bing'er remained affected by Evil Thought. A tremor from deeper in the passage suggested another danger was waking as the three women focused on Gu Changsheng.

• Shui Bing'er demanded that Gu Changsheng promise not to leave, while Hu Liena threatened to burn through the ice wall.
• Hu Liena and Qian Renxue broke into the passage and confronted Shui Bing'er, who admitted she wanted to keep Gu Changsheng with her.
• Shui Bing'er grabbed Gu Changsheng again, but Qian Renxue warned that the Evil Thought could make her hurt him.
• Gu Changsheng promised he would not leave, and Shui Bing'er loosened her grip.
• A tremor came from deep in the passage, and Gu Changsheng, Shui Bing'er, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue sensed something waking below.

Gu Changsheng and the others sensed a living entity beneath the passage, which Shui Bing'er identified as connected to the Black Seal and drawn to the similar aura on Gu Changsheng. As Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er argued over protecting him, something began crawling out of the darkness.

• Gu Changsheng detected a sinister living presence beneath the passage, and Shui Bing'er warned the others not to approach it.
• Shui Bing'er said the entity was looking for someone, and Gu Changsheng realized its fluctuations were drifting toward him.
• Shui Bing'er identified the entity's aura as the Black Seal and revealed that Gu Changsheng carried a similar aura.
• Hu Liena grew anxious about Gu Changsheng's suppressed Black Seal, while Qian Renxue offered to help him control it.
• Shui Bing'er challenged Qian Renxue over helping Gu Changsheng, and Hu Liena joined the tense exchange.
• Gu Changsheng heard something scraping and crawling beneath the stone wall and warned that it was coming.

Gu Changsheng and the others confronted the Black Seal entity beneath the passage, which resonated with the remnants on his body. When it exploded, a Divine Trial activated and enveloped Gu Changsheng, leaving him unconscious as his power began to awaken.

• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er discovered a shadow creature bearing the same broken mark as the Black Seal, and Shui Bing'er sensed its true core lay deeper inside.
• The creature’s Mental Shock struck the group, and Gu Changsheng supported Shui Bing'er as the shadow began retreating underground.
• The four attacked together to stop the creature, but it expanded and began to self-destruct.
• Gu Changsheng’s Black Seal remnants were summoned and blocked the blast as a voice announced that the Divine Trial’s first stage had activated.
• Gu Changsheng’s Soul Rings resonated, a golden pattern appeared around his final black Soul Ring, and the Divine Gate’s power enveloped him as the creature exploded.

Gu Changsheng underwent the Divine Trial’s first test, which tasked him with severing the Black Seal Source Stream and suppressing an out-of-control vessel within seven days. The group reached an underground gate connected to Black Abyss City, where a Black-Robed Person revealed an Underworld Abyss Token and declared his intent to shatter every Divine Gate.

• Gu Changsheng saw the Divine Gate open in his consciousness and learned that the Black Seal marked him as a key, while the trial required him to sever the Black Seal Source Stream and suppress an out-of-control vessel within seven days.
• Gu Changsheng awoke with a Gate-Shaped Mark on his chest and a divinely enhanced Fifth Soul Skill, then told Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er that the trial led them to Black Abyss City.
• Gu Changsheng analyzed a Black Eye that identified him as the Gate itself, and his vision revealed an underground stone gate bearing twelve Black Marks.
• A Black-Robed Person emerged from the gate with an Underworld Abyss Token, which Gu Changsheng identified as an extremely dangerous Pseudo-God Relic.
• The Black-Robed Person called Qian Renxue a Godhood Successor and vowed to shatter every Divine Gate as the twelve Black Marks lit and something stirred behind the stone gate.

Gu Changsheng and the three women damaged a Nether Abyss transfer node, but a Black-Robed Person revealed that the Altar in Black Abyss City was the true source and tried to use Gu Changsheng to complete a twelfth mark. The Divine Trial updated with six days and eighteen hours remaining, and Gu Changsheng ordered everyone to move after learning the Altar had activated early.

• The Black-Robed Person revealed that the Divine Gate was a key and attacked the group through the stone gate’s Black Marks.
• Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er followed Gu Changsheng’s directions and shattered a Black Mark, weakening the projection and damaging the transfer node.
• The Black-Robed Person told Gu Changsheng that the Altar in Black Abyss City would open the Gate and hinted that it held answers about his origins and the Black Seal in his body.
• The Black-Robed Person sent black light into Gu Changsheng, causing a twelfth mark to appear, but Qian Renxue severed it with the Angel Holy Sword.
• Gu Changsheng identified the site as a transfer node and learned that the Black Abyss City Altar had activated ahead of schedule, with six days and eighteen hours left in the trial.
• Gu Changsheng ordered the group to move toward Black Abyss City.

Gu Changsheng and his companions left the underground tunnel and followed Shui Bing’er’s route toward Black Abyss City, where his Divine Gate Power grew strong enough to absorb Black Seal remnants and dismantle a tracking mark. They reached the sealed city as a hidden figure ordered its gate opened for the arriving inheritor.

• Gu Changsheng’s group emerged from the tunnel, and Shui Bing’er offered to guide them to Black Abyss City by abandoned routes and an old Soul Guidance Rail.
• As they traveled, Gu Changsheng discovered that his Divine Gate Mark could absorb residual Black Seal power, and he promised Hu Liena that becoming a god would not make him leave them behind.
• Three masked attackers ambushed the group with a tracking curse, but Gu Changsheng captured one and extracted a mark linked to Black Abyss City’s Nether Abyss Guidance Array.
• Gu Changsheng learned that Black Abyss City had activated its second lockdown layer, and Shui Bing’er warned that the sealed city was a Divine Gate Ruins where entering could cost lives.
• The four reached Black Abyss City, where Gu Changsheng’s Divine Gate Mark responded to something inside, while a hidden figure ordered the gate opened for the inheritor.

Gu Changsheng and his companions entered Black Abyss City, where each of them was drawn into a different divine trial. Gu Changsheng discovered a passage beneath the central tower leading to the missing source of his Divine Gate, and faced the city’s masked defenders as the true trial began.

• Gu Changsheng led Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er into Black Abyss City, where he sensed that the city formed a vast sacrificial array and located its core beneath the Black Tower.
• Qian Renxue triggered the Angel Divine Trial, Hu Liena began a mental trial, and Shui Bing'er entered a sealing trial through separate portals.
• Gu Changsheng learned that the trial space distorted time and that destroying the main array core could prevent divine pollution from spreading.
• A group of masked shadows confronted Gu Changsheng and urged him to withdraw, but he discovered a passage beneath the Black Tower leading to the missing source of his Divine Gate.
• Gu Changsheng declared that he would tear down the gate and struck the leading shadow as the others attacked.

Gu Changsheng fought the Black Tower’s gatekeeper while Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er faced separate trials. After Gu Changsheng gained a Divine Shard and raised his Divine Gate Fusion Degree to six percent, the Black Core opened a Darkness Fissure and the eye beyond it called him the Twelfth Key.

• Gu Changsheng entered the Black Tower and learned from its gatekeeper that he was the final key to the Divine Gate.
• Qian Renxue fought Fallen Angels in her trial to shatter the Pseudo-Light Core and recover the lost Angel Heart.
• Hu Liena acknowledged her feelings and fears in the mirrored maze, then burned through part of it with her fox fire.
• Shui Bing'er reinforced the altar seal against the black tide, holding her position while Gu Changsheng faced danger.
• Gu Changsheng saw through the gatekeeper’s projection, broke its chain core, and received a Divine Shard that raised his fusion degree to six percent.
• The gatekeeper revealed that the shard was a coordinate as the Black Core split open and the eye beyond the Darkness Fissure called Gu Changsheng the Twelfth Key.

Gu Changsheng confronted the Black-Robed Person at the Darkness Rift and discovered that the Divine Trials were converging across the continent. After absorbing a Divine Residual Core, he sensed the other trials intensifying and vowed to follow the Divine Gate path to its end as Tang San’s trial resonated with his.

• Gu Changsheng used Myriad Image Projection to discover that the Darkness Rift was a lock containing an eye, then fought the Black Lines with Divine Gate Power.
• Gu Changsheng sensed Tang San undergoing a Divine Trial at the northern sea and realized that multiple Godhood Successors were being driven toward a final collision.
• Gu Changsheng bound the Black-Robed Person’s projection, exposed a Divine Residual Core, and absorbed it, raising his Divine Gate Fusion Degree to 8%.
• Qian Renxue advanced her Angel trial, Hu Liena continued her mental trial, and Shui Bing'er held back the black tide at the Ice Sealing Altar.
• Gu Changsheng vowed to follow the Divine Gate path to the end as the eye beyond the gate opened and Tang San’s divine pattern lit across the continent.

After consuming a Divine Residual Core, Gu Changsheng escaped the collapsing Black Tower with Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er. They headed for Black Abyss City's central Altar, where eleven of twelve pillars were lit, and learned that Tang San was coming.

• Gu Changsheng emerged from the shattered Black Tower with Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er, and warned them that Black Abyss City’s core was collapsing.
• The four fought through Black Shadows together as Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er each helped protect Gu Changsheng.
• A Spirit Hall Spirit Master warned Gu Changsheng that a Black-Robed Person was using the Abyssal Nether Token to recover Divine Shards, then died when a black mark turned him into a vessel.
• Gu Changsheng agreed to go to the city center with the three women, where they found an Altar with eleven of its twelve Stone Pillars lit and identified the empty pillar as the Twelfth Mark.
• A black-robed High-Level Spirit Master appeared and told Gu Changsheng that Tang San would soon arrive at the Altar.

Gu Changsheng and his allies fought their way toward the Twelve-Pillar Altar and discovered that its Gate was being completed with living sacrifices. At the altar, the Gate’s will revealed that Gu Changsheng was meant to open a deeper Gate, and the group prepared to fight as a familiar Sea God Power stirred nearby.

• Feng Yue revealed that he was a Spirit Hall envoy trapped in Black Abyss City and explained that the true Gate lay beneath the Twelve-Pillar Altar.
• Gu Changsheng, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Feng Yue defeated a group of Black Shadows, but learned their leader had been buying time for the ritual.
• The group discovered that the altar’s final mark was being completed with captured outsiders and the remaining people in the city as sacrifices.
• At the altar, the Gate’s will declared that Gu Changsheng was the ideal vessel and that Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er could become his nourishment.
• Gu Changsheng realized the final pillar concealed a deeper Gate that was meant to be opened by him, and he and his allies began their final clash as Sea God Power answered from afar.

Gu Changsheng disrupted the Twelfth Mark ritual at the Black Abyss altar, triggering a return from the Divine Trial Space with Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er. Back in the Northern Territory Mountains, their trials granted new rewards, and Tang San arrived after completing another Divine Trial.

• Gu Changsheng used Divine Gate Chains to disrupt the altar ritual, while Feng Yue, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena fought the Black-Marked Spirit Masters and shadows.
• Gu Changsheng's Divine Trial began a phase return as the altar collapsed, and Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er held onto him as they were pulled away.
• Gu Changsheng and the three women returned to the Northern Territory Mountains, where their trial rewards strengthened them and the Divine Gate Mark reached 12% fusion.
• Gu Changsheng told the others that the Divine Trial would continue with the Eighth and Ninth Trials, though time in the trial space might flow differently.
• Tang San approached through the snow after emerging from another Divine Trial, and Gu Changsheng and the three women turned to face him.

Tang San arrived in Black Abyss City to investigate its connection to his Sea God Trial and claim any useful remnants, while Gu Changsheng and his companions focused on destroying the Nether Abyss. Tang San entered the city alone as the others headed toward the Twelve-Pillar Altar, setting up a confrontation over the Divine Trial.

• Tang San arrived and revealed that Black Abyss City resonated with his Sea God Trial and that he wanted to investigate the gate and what lay beyond it.
• Tang San confirmed the city’s core remnants could benefit him and said he would enter without helping Gu Changsheng’s group.
• A black light erupted from the Twelve-Pillar Altar as the city began mending the Twelfth Mark.
• Tang San revealed Sea God patterns in his palm, then rushed toward the city center alone.
• Gu Changsheng led Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing’er toward the altar, saying their goal was to destroy what needed to be destroyed.

Gu Changsheng and the others found Xiao Wu bound as the altar’s sacrifice and discovered Tang San was letting her life fuel his Divine Trial. They freed her as Tang San destroyed the altar and escaped, while a voice beyond the gate warned that the Divine Trial had gone off course.

• Gu Changsheng saw that Xiao Wu’s Spirit Beast origin was being used to create divinity for Tang San, who refused to save her and called her sacrifice necessary.
• Gu Changsheng attacked Tang San, while Qian Renxue and Hu Liena tried to stop him from taking the Sea God Divinity and Shui Bing'er helped suppress the altar.
• As Xiao Wu’s origin began to be extracted, Gu Changsheng and the others attacked the formation, and Gu Changsheng broke the chains’ Black Marks to halt the sacrifice.
• Tang San destroyed the altar’s core, causing the twelve Stone Pillars and the final Darkness Rift to erupt; Gu Changsheng caught the freed Xiao Wu as Tang San vanished into the Black Mist.
• Gu Changsheng used Divine Gate Power to purify Xiao Wu’s remaining Black Seal contamination, while a voice beyond the gate said the sacrifice had escaped and the Divine Trial had deviated.

Gu Changsheng sacrificed much of his Divine Gate Fusion Degree to interrupt Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, saving her as Tang San escaped with incomplete Sea God Divinity. The Ninth Trial began early, forcing all Divine Trial Challengers into a contest for Godhood with a nine-day countdown.

• Tang San used Xiao Wu’s extracted origin to activate the Stone Stele, admitted he had allowed her sacrifice, and fought Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Gu Changsheng.
• Gu Changsheng spent Divine Gate Fusion Degree to interrupt the sacrifice, returning half of Xiao Wu’s origin to her as the Stone Stele shattered.
• Xiao Wu survived and told Tang San she understood that he had chosen not to save her; Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er drove him back.
• Tang San absorbed the incomplete Sea God Divinity and fled, unaware that a black pattern had entered it.
• The voice beyond the gate launched the Ninth Trial early, declaring that Divine Trial Challengers would compete for Godhood and setting a nine-day countdown.