Chapter Summaries

Xie Yue asked Yu Xiaogang to take him as his master and endured Yu Xiaogang’s test, then followed him to the Papal Palace. Yu Xiaogang accepted Xie Yue as his disciple on the condition that he stay conscious and cultivate through a painful medicinal bath, while Bibi Dong prepared the same treatment for Hu Liena.

• Xie Yue told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to grow stronger and protect his sister, then endured a minute of Yu Xiaogang’s mental pressure until he was released.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Xie Yue to the Papal Palace, where Bibi Dong welcomed him and agreed to prepare medicinal ingredients and summon healing-type Soul Emperors for Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• Yu Xiaogang explained Xie Yue’s request to Bibi Dong and instructed her to watch over the siblings’ treatments.
• Yu Xiaogang told Xie Yue to endure a scarlet medicinal bath while remaining conscious and cultivating, promising to accept him as his disciple if he succeeded.
• Xie Yue entered the bath and endured its painful effects as a healing-type Soul Emperor treated him; Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that Hu Liena must endure the same hardship if she wanted Martial Soul Evolution.

Yu Xiaogang took Xie Yue as his disciple and guided him toward an unusually powerful second Soul Ring. After two and a half years of training, Yu Xiaogang reached level thirty and returned to the sect seeking a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring, where he encountered a flat-topped middle-aged man who resembled him.

• Xie Yue recovered from his treatment, met Yu Xiaogang, and became his disciple after agreeing to his two requirements.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed a Moonshadow Wind-Chasing Lynx as Xie Yue's second Soul Ring and demonstrated his own two Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Over the next two and a half years, Xie Yue reached level twenty-six and gained a one-thousand-and-one-year Moonshadow Wind-Chasing Lynx Soul Ring with Moonlight Instant Strike.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Ye Lingling a break before their formal training began.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the sect to discuss hunting a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and saw a flat-topped middle-aged man who looked like another Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang challenged the returning White-haired Youth, who dismantled his Martial Soul theories and revealed that they shared the same name. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang summoning an independent Golden Sacred Dragon, leaving the elder Yu Xiaogang stunned and trembling.

• Yu Xiaogang confronted the White-haired Youth for entering the clan grounds, and the youth asked why an expelled family member had returned.
• The White-haired Youth questioned Yu Xiaogang about his theories, explaining that Body Martial Souls and God-Given Martial Souls existed beyond his two categories.
• The White-haired Youth argued that Yu Xiaogang had wrongly dismissed Body Martial Souls and pointed out the contradiction between his theories and his own Luo Sanpao Martial Soul.
• The White-haired Youth revealed that his name was Yu Xiaogang, shocking the elder, who complained that the youth could not understand his suffering.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Sanpao, which manifested as a Golden Sacred Dragon outside his body and made the elder Yu Xiaogang collapse in fear.

Yu Xiaogang confronted another version of himself, who explained how his own choices had stunted Luo Sanpao and criticized his decisions for the Golden Sacred Dragon. The confrontation ended with Yu Xiaogang stunned by the other man's two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and challenged over his claim to have created his theories alone.

• The other Yu Xiaogang accused Yu Xiaogang of giving up on Luo Sanpao and said he would take Sanpao to the God Realm.
• The other Yu Xiaogang explained that Luo Sanpao's evolution had been interrupted and that Yu Xiaogang's lack of effort had left him incomplete.
• The other Yu Xiaogang criticized Yu Xiaogang's choices of Soul Rings, pointing out that the Golden Sacred Dragon could already fly and that poison conflicted with its attributes.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to see the other man's Soul Rings, and Yu Yuanzhen appeared and struck him for calling him an unfilial bastard.
• Yu Xiaogang saw that the other man had two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and insisted they were impossible under the established age limits.
• The other Yu Xiaogang questioned Yu Xiaogang's claim that he had created his theories alone, asking how they could also come from generations of research.

Yu Xiaogang confronted another version of himself, who exposed the limits of his theories and condemned his failures as a teacher. Yu Yuanzhen agreed to give Yu Xiaogang resources but disowned him and barred him from representing the family or sect.

• Yu Xiaogang criticized Yu Xiaogang's theories as borrowed knowledge that could not guide advanced cultivation, leaving him ashamed and unable to respond.
• Yu Xiaogang explained his own teaching principles and said his disciples proved his theories could help even those with weak innate talent.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen he had broken through Level 30 and returned to obtain his third Soul Ring, making Yu Yuanzhen happy.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Yu Yuanzhen for the cultivation resources he had missed, explaining that he needed them to help Tang San grow stronger.
• Yu Xiaogang apologized, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to provide resources while declaring that he would no longer be his father and forbidding him from claiming ties to the Yu Family or sect.

Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen that finding a Radiant-Forged Ancient Dragon for his third Soul Ring could take a long time, and the two set out to search for it. Meanwhile, the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King waited at the place where ice and fire met, convinced Yu Xiaogang would eventually return to them.

• Yu Yuanzhen gave Yu Xiaogang access to the family’s resources and decided to sever their father-son connection afterward.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the Radiant-Forged Ancient Dragon was rare and that he had no exact location, so he and Yu Yuanzhen prepared for a long search.
• Yu Xiaogang assured Yu Yuanzhen that he had other suitable Soul Beast options if they could not find the Radiant-Forged Ancient Dragon, and they set off together.
• The Fire Dragon King complained to the Ice Dragon King about being trapped and waiting for Yu Xiaogang.
• The Ice Dragon King reasoned that Yu Xiaogang had returned to their world and would come looking for them, while the Fire Dragon King wondered whether he might be elsewhere.

The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King discussed the danger Yu Xiaogang would face from the God Realm and expected him to reach them with Bibi Dong's help. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen searched for the Dragon Kings without success, and Yu Xiaogang insisted he had no romantic feelings for Ye Lingling.

• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King recalled how the gods might oppose Yu Xiaogang's new Dragon King Godhood, but trusted that the Dragon Kings' sacrifice had kept him alive.
• The Fire Dragon King wondered whether Dugu Bo could stop Yu Xiaogang from reaching them, and the Ice Dragon King argued that Bibi Dong would help him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen searched the mountain all day, found nothing, and camped for the night.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Xiaogang about his relationship with Ye Lingling and raised concerns about her young age.
• Yu Xiaogang denied having feelings for Ye Lingling and said he did not like little girls, prompting Yu Yuanzhen to acknowledge his oversight.

Yu Xiaogang explained to Yu Yuanzhen how precise Soul Power control could improve combat ability and help create Self-Created Soul Skills. He then outlined how understanding Martial Soul origins and Laws could break Yu Yuanzhen’s Level 95 bottleneck, leaving Yu Yuanzhen with a new direction for his cultivation.

• Yu Yuanzhen misunderstood Yu Xiaogang’s attitude toward romance, and Yu Xiaogang let the misunderstanding stand to avoid further questions.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated precise Soul Power control while eating and told Yu Yuanzhen that fine control was the first step toward creating Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Xiaogang to make him a training plan so he could improve his control and combat strength.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed that he was stuck at Level 95, and Yu Xiaogang explained that advancing required understanding Laws, Profound Meanings, and the Martial Soul Origin rather than merely accumulating Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang used Chen Xin’s sword intent as an example and said the sword’s path could reach the divine, though he could only guess why Chen Xin remained at Level 96.

After searching for twenty-six days, Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen found a Radiant-Forged Bone Dragon and gained a powerful third Soul Ring. Yu Xiaogang reached level thirty-four, and the pair decided to return to the clan before heading back to the academy.

• Yu Xiaogang advised Yu Yuanzhen to study the Martial Soul Origin and Thunder Law, improve his Soul Power control, and delegate more clan affairs.
• Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen searched for a Radiant-Forged Bone Dragon for twenty-six days, passing over a less suitable dragon-type soul beast along the way.
• Yu Yuanzhen weakened the eleven-to-twelve-thousand-year-old Radiant-Forged Bone Dragon, and Yu Xiaogang killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang gained the third Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Lights Tempering Strength, which boosted light and strength, reduced Soul Power consumption, and restored a small amount of power with each attack.
• Yu Xiaogang reached level thirty-four and expected to become a Soul Ancestor before turning twelve; he and Yu Yuanzhen chose to return to the clan first.

Yu Xiaogang defeated a level-sixty-seven Soul Emperor while using only his Soul Skills and Self-Created Soul Skills. Impressed, Yu Yuanzhen challenged him next, restricting his Soul Power to level seventy as Yu Xiaogang prepared to test himself against his father.

• Yu Yuanzhen arranged a spar between Yu Xiaogang and an outer sect elder, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to fight without mental attacks or Secret Techniques.
• Yu Xunkong introduced himself as a level-sixty-seven Soul Emperor, and Yu Xiaogang faced him at level thirty-four.
• Yu Xiaogang used his Radiant Dragon Spear to shatter Yu Xunkong’s attack, split his Dragon Breath, and trap him with Sacred Radiance Prison.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped his spear an inch from Yu Xunkong’s throat, forcing the elder to concede and astonishing the watching family elders.
• Yu Yuanzhen challenged Yu Xiaogang, limiting himself to level seventy and forbidding himself from using Martial Soul Avatar.
• Yu Xiaogang activated Sacred Dragon Battle Body to begin the spar with his father.

Yu Xiaogang sparred with Yu Yuanzhen to test his abilities and discovered that his heightened power stirred an unexplained draconic restlessness. After Yu Xiaogang demonstrated his strength and exhausted much of his Soul Power, Yu Yuanzhen asked whether he had another way to fight enemies.

• Yu Xiaogang’s Sacred Dragon Battle Body greatly amplified his strength, while an unfamiliar draconic restlessness surfaced within him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen began their spar when a coin struck the ground, and Yu Xiaogang attacked with Holy Light Rain and Radiant Dragon Breath while concealing Sacred Radiance Prison.
• Yu Yuanzhen countered Yu Xiaogang’s attacks with his Sixth Soul Skill, Myriad Thunderfall, and Violet Lightning Dragon Breath, then clashed with him in close combat.
• Yu Yuanzhen recognized that Yu Xiaogang’s fully enhanced strength rivaled an early-stage Soul Saint’s, though Yu Xiaogang’s rank-thirty-four Soul Power was running low.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked whether Yu Xiaogang had another conventional means of dealing with enemies.

Yu Xiaogang unleashed Dawn Judgment Light against Yu Yuanzhen, forcing the clan master to use his Eighth Soul Skill and astonishing the watching elders. Afterward, Yu Xiaogang revealed that the attack was only a weakened version of a Divine Skill, leaving Yu Yuanzhen stunned.

• Yu Xiaogang recovered his Soul Power while Yu Yuanzhen and the elders waited to see his final move.
• Yu Xiaogang activated his enhancements and Sacred Dragon Battle Body, then formed the Radiant Judgment Dragon Spear and launched Dawn Judgment Light.
• Yu Yuanzhen countered with his Eighth Soul Skill, Wrath of Thunder, and their clash destroyed the arena and sent the elders retreating.
• Yu Yuanzhen helped the exhausted Yu Xiaogang up, assured the elders he was fine, and ordered them to keep the battle secret.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Dawn Judgment Light was only a weakened version, then revealed that it was a Divine Skill rather than a Soul Skill.

Yu Xiaogang explained the nature of Divine Skills to Yu Yuanzhen, then returned to Spirit City after securing his third Soul Ring. He showed Bibi Dong his ten-thousand-year ring and discussed his plans for future Soul Rings.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that true Divine Skills required Divine Power and Laws, and that his Dawn Judgment Light gave him confidence against most of Spirit Hall.
• Yu Yuanzhen escorted Yu Xiaogang back to Spirit City and returned to the sect after deciding his son would be safe there.
• Yu Xiaogang sensed that Xie Yue was cultivating and chose not to interrupt him or Hu Liena and Ye Lingling during their break.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong and showed her his three Soul Rings, including a third ring aged eleven thousand four hundred and twenty years.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that finding rare Soul Beasts had taken nearly a month and described his plans for future Soul Rings.

Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong about the Divine Trial he sensed within her and revealed that he possessed Divine Power himself. Bibi Dong identified her inheritance as the Rakshasa God Trial, whose influence was eroding her mind, and Yu Xiaogang questioned its lack of guidance and rewards.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong whether she trusted him, and she affirmed her faith in him.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether Bibi Dong had obtained a Divine Trial and revealed his own Divine Power.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that his rebirth followed his failed attempt to create a Godhood, and that he sought to become the Radiant Dragon King.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had received the Rakshasa God Trial, which amplified her negative emotions and threatened to overwhelm her mind.
• Bibi Dong said she had reached the third trial, but its requirements were vague and its rewards amounted to Rakshasa God Affinity.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized the Rakshasa God Trial for eroding Bibi Dong without providing clear guidance or meaningful rewards.

Yu Xiaogang sealed the Rakshasa God's Divine Sense in Bibi Dong and offered to help her find the Dark God's inheritance instead. Bibi Dong swore to protect him if the gods ever became his enemies, and agreed to follow his plan.

• Yu Xiaogang explained the potential rewards of Divine Trials, then sealed the Rakshasa God's Divine Sense in Bibi Dong.
• The Rakshasa God raged in the God Realm and accused the Asura God, who denied responsibility and warned Rakshasa to obey the rules.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang she would protect him if the gods turned against him, and said she still wanted to pursue a Divine Trial.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed finding Bibi Dong a Dark God trial, explaining that the Dark God was generous and suited her martial soul.
• Bibi Dong agreed to Yu Xiaogang's plan, while the Asura God watched and decided to show the scene to Dark.

Asura God brought Dark God to observe Yu Xiaogang and proposed a plan involving Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong as heirs. Dark God learned that Yu Xiaogang carried the Gold Dragon King’s aura and considered joining Asura’s scheme to help him become a God King.

• Asura God apologized to Dark God for what happened before and said he had left Yu Xiaogang a sliver of hope.
• Asura God showed Dark God Yu Xiaogang’s comments praising Dark God over Rakshasa, and Dark God delighted in the praise.
• Dark God examined Yu Xiaogang and discovered the aura of the Gold Dragon King, then realized Asura God was secretly involved.
• Asura God proposed that Dark God choose Bibi Dong as his heir while Yu Xiaogang pursued a Self-Created Godhood.
• Asura God suggested merging Yu Xiaogang’s Dragon King Godhood with Light Godhood to raise it to the God King level.

Asura God persuaded Dark God to help arrange a Divine Trial for Yu Xiaogang, concealing his plan to stack multiple Godhoods. Light God bestowed the Light Nine Trials, while Dark God hinted that Yu Xiaogang’s rebirth had been deliberate and urged him to keep cultivating.

• Asura God told Dark God he wanted to retire and recruit an heir, then revealed his plan for twin gods in one body.
• Dark God agreed to help, and Asura God promised to take responsibility if Yu Xiaogang failed or was harmed by the Gold Dragon King's origin fragment.
• Yu Xiaogang sensed Dark God's lingering presence in the Papal Palace and told Bibi Dong to wait.
• Light God bestowed the Light Nine Trials on Yu Xiaogang, requiring him to reach rank forty before age twelve and obtain a fourth Soul Ring of at least fifty thousand years.
• Dark God confirmed Yu Xiaogang's rebirth was no accident, warned that he was not yet qualified to investigate, and suggested adapting his ambition beyond becoming a First-Level Main God.

The Dark God revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s Light God Ninth Trial would let him fuse two Godhoods and become a God King, then accepted Bibi Dong as his successor and gave her the Dark Nine Trials. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong facing her first trial and Yu Xiaogang explaining why she must postpone adding Soul Rings to her Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor.

• The Dark God told Yu Xiaogang that his Light God Ninth Trial required him to perfect the Saint Radiant Dragon King Godhood, wield the Light Divine Authority, and fuse two First-Level Gods’ source powers to become a God King.
• Bibi Dong asked to become the Dark God’s successor, and Yu Xiaogang supported her request.
• The Dark God warned Bibi Dong that she would have to abandon her Rakshasa God Trial, and she agreed to do so.
• The Dark God erased the Rakshasa Divine Sense and gave Bibi Dong the Dark Nine Trials First Trial: reach Level 96 within a year without adding an eighth or ninth Soul Ring to the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor.
• After the Dark God left, Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that the restriction would let her obtain two powerful God-Bestowed Spirit Rings later.

Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that he had a way to meet the Dark God’s trial requirements and asked her to join him and his father on a secret expedition. In the God Realm, the Rakshasa God attacked the Dark God for taking Bibi Dong as his heir and erasing her inherited Divine Sense, while he defended his actions as her choice.

• Bibi Dong worried that Yu Xiaogang would struggle to obtain a fourth Soul Ring over fifty thousand years old, but he said he had another method and would take her somewhere important in two days.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that only she and his father would accompany him, and said Xie Yue and Nana could rest because the destination would help them too.
• Bibi Dong decided that completing the Dark God's Divine Trial was urgent and resolved to visit an old acquaintance.
• The Rakshasa God chased and attacked the Dark God, accusing him of taking Bibi Dong as his heir and erasing her inherited Divine Sense.
• The God King of Destruction separated the two gods, and the Dark God insisted Bibi Dong had voluntarily chosen his Divine Trial rather than being stolen from the Rakshasa God.

The gods debated Rakshasa God’s accusation against Dark God, and God of Destruction ruled that Dark had broken no rules and that Rakshasa must leave him alone. Asura taunted Rakshasa while privately considering how he had arranged comparable advantages for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to see who would prove more outstanding.

• Dark God played Bibi Dong’s statements showing that she had voluntarily abandoned the Rakshasa God Trial and criticized Rakshasa God.
• God of Destruction ruled that Dark God had violated no rules and that Rakshasa God had crossed the line; Rakshasa apologized but demanded that Bibi Dong be punished.
• Dark God criticized Rakshasa God for giving Bibi Dong poor rewards and mishandling her trials, and God of Destruction ended the dispute and forbade Rakshasa from troubling Dark again.
• Asura God provoked the furious Rakshasa God, who cursed him while God of Destruction declined to intervene.
• Asura God reflected that he had given Yu Xiaogang and Tang San comparable advantages and believed he had treated the two fairly.