Chapter Summaries

After saving Xiao Wu by binding her life to the Divine Gate, Gu Changsheng faced Tang San’s attempt to seize the Divine Gate Remnant. Tang San’s corrupted Sea God power began to control him, and the first battle of the Ninth Trial began in the Northern Territory.

• Gu Changsheng activated Divine Gate Parasitism to stabilize Xiao Wu, lowering his Divine Gate Fusion Degree to seven percent.
• Hu Liena confronted Gu Changsheng for risking himself, while Qian Renxue and Shui Bing'er reacted to their argument.
• Tang San’s Sea God Ninth Trial targeted Gu Changsheng and the Divine Gate Remnant, prompting Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to prepare to fight.
• Tang San arrived with a Black Mark on his Sea God Trident, and Gu Changsheng revealed that the corrupted power was a Black Abyss Seed controlling him.
• Xiao Wu’s life force became a Life Anchor that temporarily activated the Divine Gate’s second form, and Gu Changsheng, Tang San, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er entered the first battle of the Ninth Trial.

Gu Changsheng fought Tang San as the Black Abyss Seed threatened to consume them both, while Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Xiao Wu helped him hold on. Tang San summoned the Sea God Domain toward the Northern Territory to force Gu Changsheng to choose between stopping the abyss and saving the people, and Gu Changsheng prepared to devour the Sea God.

• Tang San attacked Gu Changsheng and Qian Renxue, while Hu Liena used her Mental Power to stabilize Gu Changsheng’s Divine Gate.
• Xiao Wu joined her origin to the Divine Gate, stopping its cracks and raising Gu Changsheng’s fusion degree from seven percent to nine percent.
• Tang San released the Black Abyss Seed, but Gu Changsheng used the Divine Gate to redirect its tentacles and bind Tang San as the Black Abyss began devouring his Sea God Divinity.
• Tang San summoned the Sea God Domain from the distant sea, sending a massive tide toward the Northern Territory and forcing Gu Changsheng to choose between stopping the Black Abyss and saving the region.
• A voice from within the Divine Gate called Gu Changsheng the Twelfth Key and urged him to make Godhood his prey, so Gu Changsheng resolved to devour the Sea God first.

Gu Changsheng and Xiao Wu joined forces with Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er to stop Tang San's corrupted Sea God Domain, and Gu Changsheng devoured its Divine Core. The Divine Core resisted from within the Divine Gate, where an ancient will awakened as the Eye Behind the Gate began devouring it.

• Tang San unleashed a Sea God-powered tide that threatened to destroy the Northern Territory, while Gu Changsheng revealed that the Black Abyss was using Tang San to corrupt the Sea God Domain.
• Xiao Wu voluntarily linked her origin to Gu Changsheng's Divine Gate, stabilizing it and unlocking Soft Bone Reversal.
• Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er attacked Tang San and held back the tide while Gu Changsheng seized the Sea God Divine Core from the Sea Eye.
• Gu Changsheng dragged the Divine Core into the Divine Gate, collapsing the Sea God Domain and causing Tang San to lose his Godhood and suffer a Black Abyss backlash.
• A consciousness inside the Divine Core attacked Gu Changsheng's control of the Divine Gate, but the Eye Behind the Gate bit into the Core and awakened an ancient will as an eight-day Endgame Countdown began.

Gu Changsheng stripped the Black Abyss Seed from the Sea God Divine Core and absorbed the remaining divinity, but Tang San revealed he still held a fragment of Xiao Wu’s origin. Tang San fused it with the Black Abyss Seed and became an aberrant divinity, setting the two rivals against each other as the second phase of the Ninth Trial began.

• Gu Changsheng bound and sealed the Black Abyss Seed, erased the Sea God Will, and absorbed the Sea God Divinity, gaining the Myriad Image Sea domain.
• Tang San attacked Xiao Wu to distract Gu Changsheng, but Qian Renxue, Shui Bing'er, and Hu Liena protected her until Gu Changsheng emerged and shattered Tang San’s Trident.
• Gu Changsheng discovered a wisp of Black Qi had escaped into his Fifth Spirit Ring, while Tang San revealed he had retained a fragment of Xiao Wu’s origin.
• Xiao Wu tried to sever her connection to the origin, but Gu Changsheng and Tang San’s powers tore it apart, and Tang San seized the fragment and fused it with the Black Abyss Seed.
• Tang San became an aberrant divinity and began the Ninth Trial’s second phase, Seize the Life Anchor, as Gu Changsheng prepared to fight him.

Gu Changsheng and Xiao Wu turned Tang San’s attempt to exploit Xiao Wu’s origin against him, forcing him to flee after losing half his soul. A newly awakened Asura Godhood bearer then emerged as the next threat, beginning the second stage of the Ninth Trial: killing the Divine Gate Master.

• Tang San used Xiao Wu’s origin to restrain Gu Changsheng, but Gu Changsheng discovered the origin was hidden in Tang San’s Divine Sense and prepared to take it back.
• Xiao Wu agreed to deepen her connection to the Divine Gate, and she and Gu Changsheng used the origin as an Inverse Gate to attack Tang San’s soul.
• Tang San abandoned half his soul to escape; Gu Changsheng sealed and destroyed the severed half, weakening Tang San’s Sea God inheritance and strengthening Xiao Wu’s Life Anchor.
• A mysterious voice activated a Backup Successor, and a Golden Light Pillar appeared as Tang San’s remaining Sea God power dwindled.
• A silver-white-clad girl awakened beneath the Asura God Shadow and declared that the second stage of the Ninth Trial required her to kill Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng fought the Asura Godhood’s backup vessel, then learned Tang San had concealed that she was only a replacement. She turned against Tang San and let Gu Changsheng draw the Asura Divinity into his Divine Gate, where she survived as a resident soul while Tang San escaped with a fragment.

• The Asura girl wounded Gu Changsheng and his allies, but Gu Changsheng used his Divine Gate to seize the Asura God Shadow through her sword.
• Tang San intervened and offered the girl the Divine Gate in exchange for Gu Changsheng’s Sea God Residual Mark, but Gu Changsheng revealed she had been prepared as a backup vessel for Tang San.
• After a memory showed her Tang San’s deception, the girl attacked him and then stabbed herself to destroy her bond with the Asura Godhood.
• Gu Changsheng drew the Asura Divinity into his Divine Gate as Tang San fled with a Blood-Colored Divinity Fragment.
• Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er helped stabilize Gu Changsheng’s Divine Gate, and the girl revealed her name was Ning Shuang before taking up residence within it.

Gu Changsheng learned that Tang San planned to use the Godhood coordinates and Divine Trial Challengers to awaken the Heart of the Black Abyss, and discovered that Ning Shuang’s true body was imprisoned in Spirit City. After Tang San began the ritual early, Gu Changsheng and his companions prepared to confront him and the Black Abyss.

• Inside the Divine Gate, Gu Changsheng and Ning Shuang repelled the Asura Godhood’s residual will, and Ning Shuang revealed that Tang San’s Asura Fragment was a coordinate for joining the Godhoods.
• Ning Shuang told Gu Changsheng that Tang San had marked his Fifth Spirit Ring and planned to use his Divine Gate to complete the Return to One in Spirit City.
• Tang San announced that the ritual would begin in six days and threatened to sacrifice every Divine Trial Challenger unless Gu Changsheng brought Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er.
• Gu Changsheng extracted Tang San’s mark and used it to glimpse the altar, where imprisoned Challengers were being drained to awaken the Heart of the Black Abyss; he also saw Ning Shuang’s true body bound there.
• Tang San started the ritual early, triggering the Ninth Trial’s third phase and locking Gu Changsheng’s objectives onto Tang San and the Heart of the Black Abyss.
• Xiao Wu insisted on joining Gu Changsheng, and he agreed as divine auras awakened across the continent.

Gu Changsheng and Xiao Wu used her Life Anchor to invade Spirit City’s Black Abyss Altar, breaking the Heart’s hold and freeing Ning Shuang from its chains. Tang San survived by making Spirit City his new Divine Body, and the final phase began with a three-day countdown.

• Outside Spirit City, the Heart of the Black Abyss attacked Gu Changsheng’s group through the bound Divine Trial Challengers, while Xiao Wu’s Life Anchor drew its attention.
• Qian Renxue broke open the city gates, Hu Liena subdued more than a hundred Challengers, and Ning Shuang attacked the group with Asura power granted by Tang San and the Black Abyss.
• Gu Changsheng followed Ning Shuang into his Divine Gate as Tang San began stripping Xiao Wu’s Life Anchor away from the Altar.
• Gu Changsheng revealed a second Divine Gate formed from Xiao Wu’s Source of Life, shattered the Black Marks across Spirit City, and caused the Blood Pool to explode and the Heart to stop beating.
• Gu Changsheng pinned Ning Shuang and broke the Black Abyss Chains within her, but Tang San made all of Spirit City his Divine Body as the Heart chose the city for its final vessel.
• The system announced a three-day endgame countdown and the final phase, while Tang San challenged Gu Changsheng to destroy him.

Gu Changsheng turned Tang San’s connection to the Black Abyss against him, broke the city’s three nodes, and earned his sixth divine ring, but the wounded Black Heart chose Tang San as its new vessel. With the final countdown reduced to two days and Gu Changsheng named the hostile target, the two prepared to fight again.

• Tang San used the Black Heart to attack Spirit City and drain the divine trial challengers while Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing'er defended the civilians.
• Gu Changsheng awakened the Life Inverse Gate and reversed Xiao Wu’s life source against the Black Abyss, then used Tang San’s mark to pull the Black Heart toward the underground altar.
• Ning Shuang slashed the Black Abyss mark out of Gu Changsheng’s fifth divine ring as Tang San’s divinity was stripped away, and Gu Changsheng received his sixth divine ring.
• Gu Changsheng used Myriad Image Projection to expose and destroy Spirit City’s three major nodes, crippling the Black Heart and blasting Tang San into the ruins.
• The Black Heart revised the final trial, named Gu Changsheng as its hostile target, and chose Tang San as a new vessel, reviving him with black-and-red eyes.

Gu Changsheng stripped Tang San of his fused divinities and defeated the Black Giant God by awakening his Ninth Divine Ring. Tang San then revealed that the Heart of the Black Abyss had transferred to Xiao Wu, leaving Gu Changsheng facing a new threat.

• Gu Changsheng exposed the three divinity pathways in Tang San and used the Cangming Divine Ring to extract the Sea God Residual Mark.
• Ning Shuang cut the Asura Fragment from Tang San, allowing Gu Changsheng to awaken the Asura Realm-Breaking Divine Ring.
• Tang San sent the Heart of the Black Abyss into hundreds of Divine Trial Challengers and formed a Black Giant God from their bodies.
• Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Shuang lent their powers to Gu Changsheng, who awakened the Ninth Divine Ring and destroyed the giant form.
• Gu Changsheng stripped Tang San of his divinity, but the Heart of the Black Abyss began beating again inside Xiao Wu.

Gu Changsheng severed Xiao Wu’s corrupted Life Anchor connection, destroyed the Black Abyss Core, and struck down Tang San’s Spiritual Origin. Xiao Wu inherited the Life Godhood, while the final Black Altar opened and began a twelve-hour countdown to the final battle.

• Xiao Wu’s Heart of the Black Abyss corruption threatened to destroy Spirit City, and she urged Gu Changsheng to sever their connection while choosing to fight for her own life.
• Gu Changsheng used Asura Realm-Breaking to cut the connection, closing the fissure and forcing the Black Crystal Core out of Xiao Wu.
• Gu Changsheng and Ning Shuang split the Core and erased the Sea God Residual Mark and Asura Divinity, then Gu Changsheng shattered the Black Abyss Core and pierced Tang San’s Spiritual Origin.
• A Divine Oracle named Xiao Wu the heir to the Life Godhood, and she rose with a Life Divine Ring to confront Tang San.
• The last Black Altar opened beneath Spirit City, triggering a twelve-hour countdown as the final battle began.

Gu Changsheng and the others stopped the Black Abyss from devouring the continent’s Godhoods, while Xiao Wu used the Life Godhood to return the stolen divinity. Gu Changsheng saved Xiao Wu, erased the Black Abyss and Tang San’s last consciousness, and opened the Divine Gate to a new world.

• Xiao Wu’s Life Divine Ring helped Gu Changsheng sever Tang San’s connection to the Asura Divinity, but Tang San sacrificed his final Godhead Fragment to begin the altar’s devouring.
• Gu Changsheng, Xiao Wu, Ning Shuang, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Shui Bing’er attacked the altar as the Black Abyss sent tentacles after Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu touched the Black Stele and used the Life Divine Light to return the stolen divinity, burning away her Godhood in the process.
• Gu Changsheng joined the End Domain and Life Divine Rings to save Xiao Wu, then destroyed the Black Abyss’s Will and the altar.
• Gu Changsheng completed the Ninth Trial and opened the Divine Gate, while Xiao Wu survived and erased Tang San’s final trace of consciousness.

After defeating Tang San, Gu Changsheng discovered that the Divine Gate led to a world beyond the gods, where the Black Abyss’s true form challenged his control of the gate. He entered the Black Wasteland with Xiao Wu and their allies, where they met a black-robed figure with his own face.

• Gu Changsheng told Xiao Wu that Tang San’s consciousness was gone but his Godhood remained, as divine shards fled toward the open Divine Gate.
• A Scarlet Eye revealed that the Black Abyss’s true body lay beyond the gate and seized control of it, threatening Gu Changsheng and his companions.
• The Scarlet Eye threatened captives drawn from their memories and demanded that Gu Changsheng come outside the gate.
• Gu Changsheng, Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Shuang chose to enter the gate together.
• The group emerged into the Black Wasteland, where a black-robed figure bearing Gu Changsheng’s face welcomed him as the other Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng and his allies fought the Gate Master, a copy of Gu Changsheng who controlled the Black Wasteland and threatened Douluo Continent. They destroyed the Altar’s core without closing the gate, but the Gate Master’s consciousness entered Gu Changsheng’s Ninth Divine Ring, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Black-Robed Gu Changsheng revealed that Douluo Continent was sealed in a crystal and attacked Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing’er, and Ning Shuang.
• Gu Changsheng identified Black-Robed Gu Changsheng as the gate’s consciousness and discovered that the Wasteland, nine shattered worlds, and Altar formed his body, Divine Rings, and core.
• Black-Robed Gu Changsheng forced Gu Changsheng to choose between closing the gate to save Douluo Continent or risking the world’s destruction, but Gu Changsheng rejected the choice.
• Gu Changsheng and his allies attacked the chains while he pierced the Altar’s core, destroying Black-Robed Gu Changsheng’s body and destabilizing the Wasteland.
• Black-Robed Gu Changsheng’s fragments entered Gu Changsheng’s Ninth Divine Ring, and one of Gu Changsheng’s pupils turned black as the Crimson Giant Eye welcomed him as the true Gate Master.

Gu Changsheng sealed his Divine Gate and the parasitic Black-Robed Consciousness inside his Ninth Divine Ring, then led Xiao Wu and the others toward the Heavenly Gate to confront the Black Abyss. They entered the gate amid a host of chained corpses and countless alternate Gu Changshengs, while the shadow warned that only one of them would leave.

• The Black-Robed Consciousness began eroding Gu Changsheng's Ninth Divine Ring and threatened to use Xiao Wu as a vessel, but Gu Changsheng briefly regained control and sealed both the Divine Gate and the shadow within himself.
• Gu Changsheng learned that the Black Abyss was a rule embodied by the Heavenly Gate and that he would have to enter it to kill the shadow's true source.
• Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Shuang combined their remaining powers to open the Heavenly Gate as Gu Changsheng's seal began to crack.
• The gate revealed chained corpses from devoured worlds and tens of thousands of alternate Gu Changshengs, one of whom urged Gu Changsheng to kill him.
• Gu Changsheng thrust his spear into the gate and led Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Shuang inside, where Black-Robed Gu Changsheng declared that only one would leave.

Gu Changsheng and his companions confronted the Shadow Lord in Return to Void, where Gu Changsheng broke the Shadow Lord’s hold over the Heavenly Gate and gained the Gate of the Other Shore. A new gate opened toward the Asura Ancient Realm, where Ning Shuang encountered a figure claiming to be her erased other half and the true inheritor of Asura.

• Gu Changsheng and his companions entered the Heavenly Gate, where its White Chains tried to define them as dead souls and drain their power.
• The Shadow Lord revealed a plain filled with dead versions of Gu Changsheng and claimed every possible choice ended in death.
• Xiao Wu used Life Divine Light to awaken traces of the dead, while Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Shuang fought the White Chains.
• Gu Changsheng pierced the Shadow Lord’s Ninth Divine Ring with his spear, and Xiao Wu helped reconstruct it as the platinum Gate of the Other Shore.
• Gu Changsheng severed the Shadow Lord’s connection to the Heavenly Gate, freeing the trapped worlds and gaining partial authority over the Outside World.
• At the newly opened gate, a silver-haired figure who looked like Ning Shuang claimed to be her erased other half and the true inheritor of Asura, as the group’s next destination was revealed as the Asura Ancient Realm.

Ning Shuang learned that the Asura Godhood had stripped away half her soul and that she could reclaim herself by confronting its core in the Asura Ancient Realm. As Tang San’s memory challenged her and summoned the realm’s rules, Gu Changsheng prepared to rewrite them.

• The girl behind the gate revealed that the Asura Godhood had removed half of Ning Shuang’s soul, and she urged Ning Shuang to take back herself rather than inherit the Godhood.
• The group entered the Asura Ancient Realm and fought its puppets; Gu Changsheng severed the rules sustaining them and dissolved their forms.
• Ning Shuang told the group that Tang San had taken the Asura Godhood’s first core, leaving the Godhood incomplete and turning her into a replacement vessel.
• A memory of Tang San emerged from the divine temple, carrying a crystal he claimed was Ning Shuang’s other half soul and demanding she kill Gu Changsheng to learn the truth.
• Ning Shuang rejected Tang San’s offer and attacked him, while Gu Changsheng summoned the Gate of the Other Shore and prepared to rewrite the Asura Ancient Realm’s rules.

Gu Changsheng and his companions shattered the First Layer’s Asura rules by confronting painful memories, and Ning Shuang reclaimed her real name as Ning Qing. After they cleared the layer, Tang San’s memory construct returned with the Asura Core and opened the Second Layer, where they would be tested on their greatest desires.

• The Asura God Shadow’s sword qi turned the companions’ painful memories into attacks, but Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing’er faced their failures and overcame their trials.
• Ning Shuang recovered her erased memories, learned that her real name was Ning Qing, and rejected the Asura Godhood’s claim over her.
• Gu Changsheng and Ning Qing led the group in destroying the Asura God Shadow, clearing the First Layer and gaining new powers and the Seal of Self.
• Ning Qing vowed to pass the remaining layers and destroy what the Asura Godhood had left behind.
• Tang San’s memory construct emerged from the temple ruins holding the Asura Core and revealed that the true Asura Godhood awaited them on the Ninth Layer.
• The Second Layer opened with a Desire rule that required the group to reject the thing they desired most.

Gu Changsheng and his companions faced a lake that offered each of them an idealized version of what they most desired. They rejected the illusions without denying their wishes, cleared the second level, and entered a third level that demanded sacrifices.

• Gu Changsheng recognized the lake’s peaceful world as a false temptation and shattered its illusion with his spear.
• Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing’er, and Ning Qing each rejected fabricated versions of their deepest desires and broke free of the lake’s illusions.
• Xiao Wu and the others named what they truly wanted, and Gu Changsheng used their wishes to destroy the monster formed from desire.
• The group cleared the second level, raising Gu Changsheng’s Gate of the Other Shore Authority to eleven percent and giving Ning Qing an Asura Core Fragment.
• A White Bone Gate opened, and a voice introduced the third level, where they would choose what to sacrifice for one another.

Gu Changsheng and his companions faced the third layer’s demand for an equivalent price, then discovered they could surrender personal restraints instead of their powers. After clearing the layer, they approached a mirror door that challenged them to trust themselves and one another.

• The group learned that all five entrants had to pay a price, and Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Qing each surrendered power before the scale demanded a price from Xiao Wu.
• Gu Changsheng tried to pay for Xiao Wu, but the rules struck him down; Xiao Wu chose to surrender her Life Divine Ring until Gu Changsheng realized the price did not have to be power.
• Qian Renxue gave up others’ expectations, Hu Liena gave up her obsession with power, Shui Bing'er let go of her attachment to the past, and Ning Qing relinquished her obsession with her identity.
• Xiao Wu offered up her dependence on Gu Changsheng, and the scale accepted all five prices, clearing the third layer and raising the Gate of the Other Shore Authority to 17%.
• The prices returned to the group in altered forms, and they faced a mirror door leading to the fourth layer, where a voice identical to Gu Changsheng’s called it the self.