Chapter Summaries

Youquan and Qian Renxue guided the Nirvana Squad in training under the Angel's Light, using medicinal pills and Heart Flame Lotus Platforms to accelerate their cultivation. After three months, Youquan broke through to Soul Douluo, absorbed a God-bestowed Soul Ring, and returned to the stairs to continue cultivating.

• Nan Xi, Xiaoxiao, Kong Yuer, Baishuang, Zhuang Yanyan, and Ning Rongrong tested how far they could climb the Angel's Light stairs, and Qian Renxue explained that the trial was meant to temper them.
• Youquan refined medicinal pills for the group and told Qian Renxue that she wanted the assessment's reward, Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame.
• Youquan gave the others seven Heart Flame Lotus Platforms containing Fallen Heart Flame, along with medicinal pills, to help them cultivate toward Soul Saint rank.
• The Nirvana Squad trained on the stairs for three months while worshippers delivered food and water, and their strength and physiques improved.
• Youquan stabilized her Soul Power, broke through to Soul Douluo, absorbed a God-bestowed Soul Ring over three days, and resumed training on the stairs.

Qian Renxue and the Nirvana Squad began their Angel trials after a year of cultivation, with the team’s Soul Power and Spirit Rings greatly strengthened. Nan Xi completed her first trial and gained a Soul Power level, while Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan began theirs together.

• Qian Renxue assigned the order for the team’s trials, sending Nan Xi first and pairing Baishuang with Zhuang Yanyan.
• Nan Xi faced a vision of her parents’ deaths at Tang Hao’s hands, overcame her hatred, and climbed to the hundred and fifth step.
• With Ning Rongrong’s and Xiaoxiao’s support, Nan Xi reached the hundred and eighth step and completed her trial, raising her Soul Power from level seventy-four to seventy-five.
• Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan climbed together, sharing Soul Power through their clasped hands and resting at the ninety-ninth step.
• At the hundredth step, Zhuang Yanyan saw memories of Baishuang’s solitary revenge and lost focus, causing Angel’s Light to blast her away as Baishuang cried out.

Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan completed their assessment together, and Ning Rongrong began her own difficult climb while Youquan supported her. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi rejected the Clear Sky Sect’s offer and decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would join Spirit Hall as the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect; Ning Rongrong reached the 108th step, with 49 steps still ahead.

• Baishuang caught Zhuang Yanyan, reassured her, and fused their Martial Souls to complete their assessments and earn a Soul Power level each.
• Kong Yuer passed her assessment, and Ning Rongrong rested before deciding to face her trial without relying on others to protect her.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to meet with the Clear Sky Sect and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join Spirit Hall and rename itself the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong climbed to the 100th step despite the pressure, summoned her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and reached the 108th step with 49 steps remaining.

Ning Rongrong pushed through Angel’s Light by using her clone to strike her up the stairs, enduring repeated injuries until she reached the final three steps. Her vow to become the continent’s strongest Support-type Battle Soul Master awakened the Nine-Colored Domain, and she climbed the remaining steps.

• Xiaoxiao used her hundred-thousand-year soul skill, Phoenix Comes, to restore and strengthen Ning Rongrong, helping her reach the 133rd step.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that she had cultivated the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and used her clone’s Glazed Palm to propel herself up the stairs, later boosting the clone with her Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong kept using the method despite falling and coughing blood, while Youquan respected her resolve and Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue praised her determination.
• With only three steps left, Ning Rongrong broke down in tears, but Youquan encouraged her to keep trying and promised to stay by her side.
• Ning Rongrong vowed to become the continent’s strongest Support-type Battle Soul Master, awakened the Nine-Colored Domain, and climbed the final three steps.

Ning Rongrong and Xiaoxiao completed their first trials and received Spirit Power and Spirit Ring rewards. Qian Renxue and Youquan began their joint trial, reaching the final stretch with sixty-nine steps left.

• Ning Rongrong completed her first trial, gained two Soul Power levels, and increased the age of all her Spirit Rings by one thousand years.
• Xiaoxiao overcame memories of her former teammates, completed her trial, and gained one Soul Power level and five hundred years on her Spirit Rings.
• Bibi Dong watched Qian Renxue from a distance as Azure Luan Douluo and Bright Feather Douluo speculated about why she had come.
• Qian Renxue and Youquan began their 344-step trial while Ning Rongrong and Xiaoxiao supported them with their martial souls.
• Youquan shielded Qian Renxue from the pressure and used a Heavenly Flames tiger to carry herself up twelve steps, leaving sixty-nine steps remaining.

Qian Renxue and Youquan completed the Angel’s Light trial by combining their abilities to climb the final steps. Their first trials ended with Qian Renxue’s Angel God affinity rising to ten percent and Youquan’s mission progress reaching one-ninth.

• Youquan used her soul dragons to help herself and Qian Renxue reach the 305th step, then recovered while Qian Renxue took the lead.
• Qian Renxue unfolded her Angel Domain, briefly suppressed Angel’s Light, and carried them to the 338th step.
• Qian Renxue and Youquan combined the Solar True Flame with Youquan’s Heavenly Flames before Qian Renxue unleashed her Angel True Body and Angel Godly Garment.
• Qian Renxue and Youquan reached the 344th step together and passed the trial.
• The trial rewards increased Qian Renxue’s Angel God affinity to ten percent and advanced Youquan’s mission to one-ninth.

Qian Renxue and Youquan completed the Angel God's First Trial, then prepared the Nirvana Squad for the Sky Trial by arranging flight skills for those who could not fly. Meanwhile, Tang Chen led Tang San and his companions toward Sea God Island to receive a god's trial, as the Second Trial began for Qian Renxue's group.

• Qian Renxue and Youquan completed the First Trial, and the eight companions celebrated their year of arduous training before reading the Sky Trial requirements.
• Qian Renxue learned that the examinees had to stay airborne, evade an examiner, and find eighty-one Angel Halos, so the group rested before planning their next steps.
• Youquan presented the Heavenly Swan Nine Movement Wings manual, and Baishuang, Nan Xi, Ning Rongrong, and Xiaoxiao left to obtain Soul Beast wings while the others prepared to test the trial.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo took Baishuang and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt suitable Soul Beasts.
• Tang San gave Tailong an Immortal Grade Herb, and Tang Chen invited Tang San and his companions to receive a god's trial before Tang San vowed to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Tang San's group set off for Sea God Island as Qian Renxue, Youquan, and the others began the Second Trial.

Qian Renxue and her companions began the Second Trial, discovering that they had to capture hidden Angel Halos while facing the enshrinements as proctors. After all seven enshrinements stopped their first attempt, the group withdrew to plan and try again later.

• Qian Renxue, Youquan, Kong Yuer, and Zhuang Yanyan searched the sky and learned that Angel Power revealed the hidden Angel Halos.
• Youquan used Soul Lock to trap the halos, while Kong Yuer and Zhuang Yanyan moved to capture them.
• Qian Daoliu appeared as a proctor and distracted Qian Renxue, then Bright Feather Douluo shattered Youquan's Soul Lock with an arrow.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, Qianjun Douluo, and Demon Subduing Douluo joined the other proctors, and the halos escaped.
• Qian Renxue and her companions withdrew to prepare a strategy, while Qian Daoliu told the enshrinements to conduct the trial without leniency.

Qian Renxue, Youquan, Kong Yuer, and Zhuang Yanyan tested strategies for collecting hidden Angel Halos and obtained eleven before surrendering under the examiners’ attacks. They agreed to use the time before Nan Xi and the others returned to train and learn the examiners’ strengths.

• Youquan described how Soul Force detected hidden Angel Halos, and the four planned how to locate, reveal, intercept, and capture them.
• The group returned to the trial grounds, where Youquan sensed and marked eighty-one Angel Halos while Qian Renxue and the others tested Spiritual Power detection.
• Qian Renxue revealed a marked halo, and Kong Yuer and Zhuang Yanyan captured five while Youquan and Qian Renxue captured six.
• The examiners overwhelmed Kong Yuer and Zhuang Yanyan, and Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo pursued Qian Renxue and Youquan; the group surrendered with eleven Angel Halos total.
• The four discussed improving their teamwork and combat ability, then agreed that Qian Renxue would train with them while they waited for Nan Xi and the others to return.

Youquan and her companions trained against Qian Renxue and worried that the seven trial proctors’ domains would make their Second Trial impossible. Ning Rongrong revealed that her Nine-Colored Domain could reduce the effects of enemy domains, giving the group new hope.

• Youquan, Kong Yuer, and Zhuang Yanyan sparred with Qian Renxue, whose Angel Domain countered their attacks until Youquan used Buddha's Wrath Reincarnation.
• Qian Renxue asked Youquan about the skill, then complained that Youquan’s Heavenly Flames made their sparring unfair.
• Youquan and her companions discussed how the seven worshippers’ domains could hinder them in the Second Trial, and Kong Yuer said she could protect only one person from the Angel Domain at a time.
• Ning Rongrong explained that her Nine-Colored Domain reduced Soul Power costs, strengthened support, and lessened negative effects such as enemy domains.
• Qian Renxue praised the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul as comparable to a god-level Martial Soul.

Qian Renxue led the Nirvana Squad through their Second Trial at the Sky Trial Ground, where they used their new wings and coordinated skills to capture Angel Halos while fighting the seven worshippers. The team gained several Halos and continued evading the worshippers as the trial battle went on.

• Qian Renxue brought the Nirvana Squad to the Sky Trial Ground, where Nan Xi, Baishuang, Ning Rongrong, and Xiaoxiao showed off their newly refined Heavenly Swan Nine Movement Wings.
• Bright Feather Douluo attacked the team with a rain of arrows, while Ning Rongrong boosted her allies and Youquan countered Mighty Lion Douluo's flames with the Five-Wheel Departing Fire Array.
• Baishuang trapped Angel Halos in Mirror Cages, and Qian Renxue revealed them with Angel Power so Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan could collect them.
• Kong Yuer intercepted Azure Luan Douluo and fought him with her Peacock Feather Blade and Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Qianjun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo shattered Baishuang's Mirror Cage, but she turned the shards into blades and escaped with Zhuang Yanyan through a mirror.
• Demon Subduing Douluo accidentally emerged above Bright Feather Douluo and nearly struck him, giving Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan time to capture more Angel Halos and escape again.

During the practical combat assessment, Qian Renxue and the Nirvana Squad fought the Spirit Hall examiners while collecting Angel Halos. The exhausted candidates finally collapsed, and Qian Daoliu arranged for them to rest and recover in medicinal baths.

• Demon Subduing Douluo accidentally struck Bright Feather Douluo with his staff, and Bright Feather Douluo chased him in anger while Golden Crocodile Douluo mocked him.
• Nan Xi attacked Golden Crocodile Douluo with Army Breaker, but he blocked her thrust and sent her flying with a counterattack.
• Xiaoxiao and Ning Rongrong coordinated their skills to trap Mighty Lion Douluo, while Youquan and Qian Renxue fought Qian Daoliu.
• The Spirit Hall examiners unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars, and the eight candidates answered with their own avatars and charged into battle.
• Qian Renxue and the Nirvana Squad fought until they were too exhausted to continue, and Qian Daoliu ordered them taken to rest and receive medicinal baths.

Xiaoxiao advanced to Soul Douluo by pushing her God-bestowed eighth Spirit Ring to the two-hundred-thousand-year level. She revealed that she had long hidden a Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear Right Claw Bone and asked to absorb it before the group continued the Second Trial.

• After half a year of training, Xiaoxiao's Soul Power surged, and her companions brought her back so she could advance safely.
• Xiaoxiao absorbed a God-bestowed Soul Ring and pushed herself through severe pain to raise its age to the two-hundred-thousand-year level.
• Xiaoxiao remembered the hidden Soul Bone and her past failure to absorb it, then resolved to try again after reaching Soul Douluo.
• Xiaoxiao completed the absorption the following evening, and Qian Renxue proposed that the group resume the Second Trial.
• Xiaoxiao asked to absorb a Soul Bone first and told her companions how she had obtained the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear Right Claw Bone, describing memories of her past life as a dream.

Xiaoxiao absorbed the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear Soul Bone with Youquan’s encouragement and gained a powerful claw attack. After discussing their physiques, the group planned to resume their combat training and continue the Angel God’s Second Trial the next day.

• Ning Rongrong comforted Xiaoxiao, and the group embraced her before Youquan welcomed Qian Renxue into their family.
• Xiaoxiao began absorbing the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear Soul Bone, but nearly gave up when the pain overwhelmed her.
• Youquan reminded Xiaoxiao of her strength, and Xiaoxiao’s resolve allowed her Golden Dragon to suppress the Soul Bone’s tyrannical energy.
• Xiaoxiao revealed her new Soul Bone skill and destroyed a boulder with five powerful golden claws.
• Youquan and the others discussed their physical strength, then Qian Renxue suggested they rest and continue their trial the next day.

Qian Renxue and the others changed their strategy for the Second Trial and launched a coordinated attack on the proctors. Youquan and her companions overwhelmed Demon Subduing Douluo and sent him flying out of the Sky Trial Ground while Xiaoxiao held off two other Titled Douluo.

• Baishuang, Kong Yuer, and Zhuang Yanyan raised their eighth Spirit Rings to the two-hundred-thousand-year level, and Qian Renxue led the group to the Sky Trial Ground.
• Youquan marked and sealed the Angel Halos while the eight women formed up together for their attack.
• Youquan used her Heavenly Flame techniques and Ning Rongrong's support to strike Demon Subduing Douluo, break his defense, and wound his spiritual sea alongside Qian Renxue and Xiaoxiao.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo moved to intervene, but Xiaoxiao blocked them with her Three-Life Soul Suppressing Cauldron.
• Youquan struck Demon Subduing Douluo with the Mountain Splitting Seal and Ocean Overturning Seal, blasting him out of the Sky Trial Ground.

Youquan and her allies eliminated two examiners and divided the remaining worshippers with Heavenly Flame beasts, Ning Rongrong’s control skills, and Xiaoxiao’s flute. As Baishuang and the others continued gathering Angel Halos, Nan Xi and Xiaoxiao held off Bright Feather Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo.

• Youquan and Xiaoxiao redirected their attacks to Qianjun Douluo, while Baishuang used Mirror Shuttle to swap him with Demon Subduing Douluo and eliminate both examiners.
• Youquan attacked Bright Feather Douluo with a Tri-Color Fire Lotus, prompting Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo to defend him and organize the remaining five examiners.
• Youquan summoned five flame beasts with the Five-Wheel Departing Fire Method to block the examiners from reaching Baishuang and the others.
• Ning Rongrong restrained Bright Feather Douluo with Glazed Light Chain, but Azure Luan Douluo freed him and then turned to stop Baishuang.
• Xiaoxiao used Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix and Phoenix Pillar to trap Azure Luan Douluo, while Nan Xi intercepted Bright Feather Douluo’s arrow and claimed him as her opponent.

Nan Xi, Kong Yuer, and Baishuang’s group battled the worshippers while gathering the disguised Angel Halos, and Youquan and Qian Renxue revealed their Angel! Blazing Sun fusion skill. With only three halos left, Qian Renxue hurried to collect them as Youquan stayed behind to hold off the examiners.

• Nan Xi confronted Bright Feather Douluo, while Baishuang sent Kong Yuer to help her and prepared to draw the disguised Angel Halos into her Ancient Emperor’s Treasure Mirror.
• Bright Feather Douluo fired his strongest soul skill at Baishuang’s mirror, but Kong Yuer protected it as Nan Xi blocked the attack and joined Kong Yuer to neutralize it.
• Youquan and Qian Renxue unleashed Angel! Blazing Sun, blocking Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo’s attack and revealing the Angel Halos across the trial ground.
• Baishuang found that only three halos remained, and Youquan urged Qian Renxue and the others to collect them while he held off the examiners.
• Qian Renxue warned that Youquan could not hold off three Titled Douluo alone, but Youquan insisted that she hurry before their opportunity passed.

Youquan and her companions fought Qian Daoliu and the other examiners while Qian Renxue gathered the remaining Angel Halos. They collected all eighty-one halos and passed the Second Trial, receiving their rewards as they wondered what the Third Trial would bring.

• Ning Rongrong joined Youquan in battle while Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan held off Fourth Enshrinement, and Xiaoxiao continued restraining Azure Luan Douluo.
• Youquan struck Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo with her Emperor's Seal Art, Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and Destructive Fire Lotus as Ning Rongrong and Kong Yuer protected her.
• After the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations ended, Youquan took a medicinal pill and raced to help Qian Renxue capture the final Angel Halo.
• Azure Luan Douluo broke free and Baishuang and Zhuang Yanyan could not stop Mighty Lion Douluo, but the Angel God announced that the trial was complete.
• Qian Renxue carried the exhausted Youquan, who held the final halo; the group had gathered all eighty-one Angel Halos and celebrated their success.
• The trial-takers received their rewards, including increased Soul Power, while Qian Renxue gained five percent Angel God affinity.

After Qian Renxue and her companions passed the Angel God's Second Trial, they learned that Tang San had received the Sea God's Nine Trials. Youquan discovered and destroyed a sinister trace of the Sea God inside Qian Renxue's spiritual sea, leaving the Sea God and Tang San as her suspected enemies.

• Qian Daoliu identified the blue-gold pillar of light as a sign that Tang San had received the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Youquan reassured Qian Renxue about Tang San, while Demon Subduing Douluo warned that he and the team would meet again.
• Qian Renxue praised her companions after the trial, and Qian Daoliu revealed that the examiners had already increased their strength during the test.
• Youquan gave God-bestowed Soul Rings to Nan Xi and Ning Rongrong, then asked Qian Renxue about her unusual thoughts of Tang San.
• Youquan searched Qian Renxue's spiritual sea, found a sinister blue light that could influence her, and crushed it.

Ning Rongrong and the Nirvana Squad began the Angel Secret Realm’s Third Trial, enduring the Solar True Flame as it tempered their bodies. With Youquan’s help, Qian Renxue searched for the flame’s Origin Flame so she could burn away the Sea God’s influence, and she found it.

• Ning Rongrong read the Third Trial’s requirement: endure True Fire Tempering to forge a Demigod Body.
• Qian Daoliu led the group into the Angel Secret Realm, where he explained that they would be bound to Golden Pillars and exposed to the Solar True Flame.
• Kong Yuer, Nan Xi, Baishuang, Xiaoxiao, Ning Rongrong, and Zhuang Yanyan suffered under the flames, and Qian Daoliu eventually took Ning Rongrong and Zhuang Yanyan to rest.
• Youquan told Qian Renxue that finding the Solar True Flame’s Origin Flame could let her burn away the Sea God’s methods and urged her to sense it within the trial realm.
• Qian Renxue broke free of her chains and searched for the Origin Flame while Youquan infused her with Heavenly Flames, and Qian Renxue finally found it.