Recaps

Li Xun and his family departed for the Sun Moon Empire aboard Spirit Hall’s private Soul Guidance Plane, while Xu Changle and the empire’s researchers anticipated his arrival. In Spirit City, Li Xun instead climbed toward the Worship Hall to meet Qian Daoliu, carrying Qian Renxue’s Angel Token.

• Li Xun, Qian Renxue, Li Qingyang, Li Mushuang, and Tang Wutong boarded a private Soul Guidance Plane bound for Mingdu, and the Heavenly Screen broadcast their journey across the continent.
• People across the continent reacted excitedly to the plane and anticipated seeing Mingdu and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Changle and the Sun Moon Empire’s officials and researchers watched the broadcast and looked forward to Li Xun’s arrival and the changes he would bring to soul guidance technology.
• Li Xun climbed toward the Worship Hall after Qian Renxue told him that Qian Daoliu wanted to see him.
• Li Xun presented Qian Renxue’s Angel Token to the guards and stewards, who bowed and let him pass through the Worship Hall grounds.

Li Xun entered the Worship Hall and endured a test from the six Worshippers and Qian Daoliu. Qian Daoliu recognized that Li Xun had already received the Asura God's inheritance, and Qian Renxue embraced and defended him after the test ended.

• Li Xun entered the Worship Hall, where the six Worshippers unleashed their combined pressure to test him.
• Li Xun resisted with Divine Slaughter's Domain and his Twin Martial Souls, steadily advancing toward Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu added angelic divine power, triggering Li Xun's dormant Asura god power and revealing that he had already received the Asura God's inheritance.
• Qian Daoliu and the six Worshippers withdrew their pressure, and Qian Daoliu reacted with shock to Li Xun's power.
• Qian Renxue embraced Li Xun and reproached Qian Daoliu for joining the test; Qian Daoliu apologized, while Li Xun said he had withstood the pressure.

Li Xun told Qian Daoliu that his Asura God trial required a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and asked Spirit Hall’s worshippers to escort him to the Star Dou Great Forest. As they set out with Qian Renxue, the Heavenly Screen showed the future city of Mingdu preparing to welcome Li Xun, with Empress Xu Changle waiting at the airport.

• Li Xun revealed that he had begun the Asura God inheritance’s Second Trial, which required a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring for his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue asked to join the journey, and Qian Daoliu agreed to bring her along.
• Qian Daoliu led the worshippers, Li Xun, and Qian Renxue out of Spirit Hall toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Heavenly Screen showed the immense, technologically advanced city of Mingdu and Li Xun’s aircraft approaching its royal airport.
• Xu Changle and the Sun Moon Empire’s officials and royal guards waited at the airport to welcome Li Xun.

The Heavenly Screen revealed the future Mingdu and Xu Changle ruling the Sun Moon Empire, astonishing Xu Changle and the Spirit Hall Worshippers. As Li Xun, Qian Renxue, and the Worshippers flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest, they discussed their good fortune and the danger posed by Gu Yuena and Di Tian.

• The Heavenly Screen showed Mingdu’s advanced technology and Xu Changle welcoming Li Xun as the Sun Moon Empire’s empress, leaving Xu Changle stunned by her future.
• Qian Daoliu led Li Xun, Qian Renxue, and six Spirit Hall Worshippers toward the Star Dou Great Forest as they watched the future Mingdu on the Heavenly Screen.
• Qian Renxue teased Li Xun about his achievements, including his Asura God Position and his disciple becoming empress, while Li Xun credited his success to hard work.
• Qian Daoliu praised Li Xun’s perseverance, and Li Xun said his fortunes would mean nothing if he failed the Asura God Trial.
• Qian Renxue and the Worshippers warned that Gu Yuena and Di Tian were dangerous, then Qian Daoliu ordered the group to continue toward the forest.

Xu Changle personally welcomed Li Xun, Qian Renxue, and the children at the airport before leading their procession into Mingdu. Watching the scene on the Heavenly Screen, the present Xu Changle reflected on her future bond with her master.

• Xu Changle climbed aboard the plane and respectfully welcomed Li Xun and Qian Renxue as her master and master's wife.
• Li Xun greeted Xu Changle, then introduced Li Qingyang, Li Mushuang, and Tang Wutong to her.
• Xu Changle led the officials in welcoming Li Xun and Qian Renxue into the city, then escorted their vehicle toward Mingdu.
• Li Xun and Qian Renxue admired Mingdu's technology while the children watched the city excitedly.
• On the Endless Sea, Xu Changle watched her future self welcome Li Xun and reflected on what it meant to be his disciple.

Li Xun and the Spirit Hall party reached the core of the Star Dou Great Forest to ask Di Tian for a soul beast’s voluntary sacrifice for Li Xun’s Sixth Soul Ring. Di Tian agreed to take them to Gu Yuena, whom they found waiting in a clearing.

• Qian Daoliu led Li Xun, Qian Renxue, and the six Worshippers into the forest, where Di Tian and the ferocious beasts confronted them.
• Di Tian challenged their presence, but Li Xun stepped forward and explained that he needed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring through a voluntary sacrifice.
• Li Xun promised to resurrect the sacrificing soul beast after he became a god and described his belief that humans and soul beasts could coexist.
• Di Tian lowered the ferocious beasts’ hostility and led the group to speak with Gu Yuena.
• The party reached a clearing and saw Gu Yuena seated on a boulder, surrounded by silver radiance.

Li Xun asked Gu Yuena for help obtaining a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and she agreed because the Soul Spirit System offered Soul Beasts a path to survive. An old turtle willingly sacrificed itself, and Li Xun successfully absorbed its Soul Ring as his sixth.

• Li Xun explained to Gu Yuena that the Asura God's Second Trial required him to obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and asked for a willing Soul Beast's help.
• Gu Yuena agreed and ordered Di Tian to find a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast willing to sacrifice itself.
• Di Tian brought an old turtle, which offered to sacrifice itself and asked Li Xun to ensure Soul Beasts would be equals in the Soul Spirit System.
• The old turtle gave up its life, and its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring formed as Li Xun began absorbing it.
• Li Xun used Asura God Power and his Twin Martial Souls to refine the Soul Power and successfully gained a hundred-thousand-year sixth Soul Ring.

Li Xun passed the Asura God's Second Trial and learned that his Third Trial required him to take Tang San to Sea God Island, prompting him to prepare to leave Spirit Hall. Qian Renxue began preparing for the Angel God Trial as well, while the chapter then shifted to Li Xun's arrival in Mingdu to establish the Spirit Pagoda and discuss Soul Spirits with Illustrious Virtue Hall.

• Li Xun thanked Gu Yuena after passing the Second Trial and returned to Spirit Hall with Qian Daoliu and the others, carrying a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and torso bone.
• Li Xun told Qian Daoliu that his Third Trial required him to take Tang San to Sea God Island, and said he planned to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud on the way.
• Qian Renxue announced that she would begin the Angel God Trial, and Qian Daoliu assigned Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo to protect Li Xun on his journey.
• Li Xun arrived in Mingdu with Qian Renxue and their companions, where Xu Changle said Illustrious Virtue Hall had arranged a banquet with the Level Nine Soul Engineers.
• Li Xun asked about the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda branch, and Xu Changle confirmed that its site and plans were ready for his construction decisions.

The fourth Heavenly Screen ended after showing Li Xun explaining soul spirit technology to the Illustrious Virtue Hall. Li Xun then gathered Tang San and his companions for a journey to Sea God Island and obtained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Xue Ye.

• The Heavenly Screen dimmed after Li Xun began explaining the Soul Spirit Creation Machine to the Illustrious Virtue Hall elders.
• Li Xun arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Golden Crocodile and Lightbow and invited Tang San and his companions to Sea God Island for his third Asura God Trial.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling agreed to travel with Li Xun.
• Li Xun led the group to Heaven Dou Palace and asked Xue Ye for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which Tang San needed to inherit the Sea God's legacy.
• Xue Ye gave Li Xun the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud after considering the favor it could earn from the future Asura God.

Tang San's group bought the Dragon Abyss Boat in Vast Sea City and set out for Sea God Island. After a hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Armor Crab attacked them, Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo drove it away, and the boat continued into the darkening sea.

• Tang San used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to determine their route and learned they needed a diving vessel to cross the dangerous deep sea.
• The group bought the Dragon Abyss Boat from a Soul Tool shop and boarded it, linking the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to its formation patterns.
• The Dragon Abyss Boat carried them out to sea, but Tang San sensed a huge creature ahead as darkness and rough weather set in.
• A hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Armor Crab attacked the boat, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo forced it to retreat.
• Tang San resumed their journey and said he would extend his sensing range to help them avoid more large Sea Soul Beasts.

Tang San and his companions arrived at Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi explained that the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar would assign each newcomer a trial. The group received their assessments, and Tang San was left to take his test.

• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud opened Sea God Island's barrier, and Tang San's group landed on the island.
• Sea Horse Douluo recognized Tang San from the Heavenly Screen and summoned the other six Sacred Pillar Guardians.
• The guardians escorted the group to Bo Saixi, who explained the island's trial system at the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
• Ning Rongrong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials, Zhu Zhuqing the Black Level Five Trials, Xiao Wu the Black Level Six Trials, Dugu Yan the Black Level Six Trials, and Ye Lingling the Top-Tier Seven Trials.
• Li Xun received the Top-Tier Eight Trials, and Tang San remained as the last person to be assessed.

Tang San received the Sea God Nine Trials, the complete succession trials for the Sea God's throne, and accepted the first challenge. Li Xun learned his next Asura God trial required him to reach Soul Sage within six months and planned to cultivate on Sea God Island.

• Tang San activated the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, which revealed the Sea God Nine Trials and summoned a phantom of the Sea God Trident.
• Bo Saixi explained that passing all nine trials would make Tang San the next Sea God and described the first trial: climbing the Sea God Pillar through the Sea God's Light.
• Tang San accepted the first trial, which would begin early the next morning, and Sea Horse Douluo led the group to their lodgings.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo asked Li Xun about his Fourth Asura God Trial, and he told them to reach Soul Sage within six months.
• Li Xun decided to use Sea God Island's cultivation environment while Tang San and the others undertook their trials, as Golden Crocodile Douluo considered exploring the surrounding waters.

Li Xun and Tang San tested the Sea God’s Light on Sea God Mountain, where increasing pressure made climbing the stairs a test of endurance and Soul Power. Tang San stopped at the thirty-eighth stair, while Li Xun reached the sixtieth and learned that it met the standard for his trial; the others then began their own attempts.

• Li Xun and Tang San were repelled by an invisible barrier at the stairs, and Sea Horse Douluo explained how the Sea God’s Light worked.
• Li Xun and Tang San climbed under the rising pressure, using Soul Skills to continue upward.
• Tang San exhausted his Soul Power at the thirty-eighth stair and was thrown into the Ring Sea, where Xiao Wu pulled him out.
• Li Xun paused at the thirty-ninth stair to adapt to the pressure, then climbed to the sixtieth and descended on his own.
• Sea Horse Douluo explained the different stair requirements for each trial rank, and Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and the others began their attempts.

After everyone passed the First Trial, the group used the Sea God's Light on Sea God Mountain to cultivate. Li Xun forced his way through a bottleneck on the eightieth step, reached level seventy, and completed the Asura God's Fourth Trial.

• Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God's Light would remain for a year and could strengthen their cultivation, so Li Xun and Tang San began climbing to train.
• Over the following days, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling joined them, improving through repeated climbs.
• Three months later, Li Xun had risen from level sixty-five to sixty-eight, Tang San had reached level fifty-five, and the others had strengthened their abilities.
• At the six-month mark, Li Xun reached the peak of level sixty-nine and charged up Sea God Mountain to break through his bottleneck.
• Li Xun endured the pressure on the eightieth step, awakened his dormant Asura God Power, and broke through to level seventy.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo supported Li Xun as he descended, and Light Feather Douluo confirmed that he had completed the Asura God's Fourth Trial.

Li Xun and his companions sailed into the outer seas to find a two-hundred-thousand-year-old Silverback Devil Shark, then fought and killed it. The shark’s red Soul Ring appeared, and Li Xun began absorbing it.

• Li Xun, Bo Saixi, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo left Sea God Island aboard a soul-tool speedboat to search for the Silverback Devil Shark.
• On the third day, Bo Saixi detected the shark’s territory near a deep-sea trench and had Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo provoke it with attacks into the sea.
• The Silverback Devil Shark surfaced, and Golden Crocodile Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, and Bo Saixi attacked it together.
• Bo Saixi restrained the shark with Sea God Chains and her domain while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo dealt decisive blows, killing it.
• A red Soul Ring rose from the shark, and Li Xun sat down to absorb it.

Li Xun absorbed the Silverback Devil Shark’s two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Right Arm Soul Bone, then returned to Sea God Island and learned that his Sixth Trial required him to become a Titled Douluo. Bo Saixi offered to guide him and Tang San as they prepare for the challenge.

• Li Xun endured the violent Soul Power and vicious thoughts of the Silverback Devil Shark’s Soul Ring until he completed his seventh Soul Ring.
• Li Xun absorbed the shark’s two-hundred-thousand-year Right Arm Soul Bone, while Bo Saixi, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo guarded him.
• Li Xun and his companions returned to Sea God Island, where Tang San and the others learned that Li Xun had reached level seventy-four and gained both the Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Li Xun told the group that his Sixth Trial was to become a Titled Douluo, and he explained that no time limit had been given.
• Bo Saixi told Li Xun and Tang San to meet her the next day so she could guide them.

Five years after arriving on Sea God Island, Li Xun reached the Quasi-Titled Douluo level and learned that his Seventh Trial required him to fill ten Soul Ring slots with Soul Beasts at least a hundred thousand years old. He and his companions set out to hunt a Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, and the chapter leaves them at the entrance to its deep-sea lair.

• After five years of cultivation, Li Xun reached the Quasi-Titled Douluo level, while Tang San and the others advanced through their trials.
• Li Xun learned that his Seventh Trial required ten Soul Beasts at least a hundred thousand years old to complete the rings on both his Martial Souls.
• Bo Saixi named several possible targets, and Li Xun chose the nearby Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon for its baleful Qi.
• Li Xun, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, and Bo Saixi left Sea God Island to hunt the Flood Dragon.
• After two days at sea, Li Xun, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo dived into the trench and found the entrance to the Flood Dragon's lair.

Li Xun hunted a hundred-and-twenty-thousand-year Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, absorbed its Soul Ring, and became a Titled Douluo before filling all nine Soul Ring slots of his second Martial Soul. After rising to Level 98, he read the Asura God's Eighth Trial and was astonished by its contents.

• Li Xun, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo killed the Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, and Li Xun absorbed its Soul Ring to reach Level 90.
• Li Xun and his companions hunted nine more Sea Soul Beasts over three months, filling every Soul Ring slot of his Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation Diagram while Tang San passed the Sea God's Sixth Trial.
• Li Xun returned to Sea God Island and discovered that the ten hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and his full set of Soul Bones had raised him to Level 98.
• Li Xun examined the Asura God's Eighth Trial and muttered that the Asura God wanted to retire.

Li Xun learned that his Eighth Trial required him to marry Qian Renxue in a grand wedding, then planned to return to Spirit Hall while Tang San continued his training on Sea God Island. In the Divine Realm, Poseidon challenged the First-Generation Asura God over the easy trial, but the Asura God defended his authority and revealed that Li Xun’s final trial would be to reach the Limit Douluo level.

• Li Xun told Tang San that he would pass the Eighth Trial by marrying Qian Renxue and holding a grand wedding.
• Tang San said his Sixth Trial required him to keep challenging a Sacred Pillar Guardian until he won.
• Li Xun planned to visit Spirit Hall to inform the Grand Worshipper and Qian Renxue, then begin wedding preparations.
• Poseidon confronted the First-Generation Asura God about making the Eighth Trial a wedding, but the Asura God insisted he could set his own trials.
• The First-Generation Asura God said Li Xun’s Ninth Trial would require him to break through to the Limit Douluo level.

Li Xun returned to Spirit Hall and learned that the Asura God’s Eighth Trial required him to marry Qian Renxue, prompting a grand wedding planned for three months later. During those months, he accepted Xu Changle as his disciple, defeated Bibi Dong after she challenged him, and saw Qian Renxue become Pope; on the eve of the wedding, he looked forward to the ceremony.

• Li Xun left Sea God Island and reported the Eighth Trial’s marriage requirement to Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, who agreed to arrange a grand wedding.
• The Sun Moon Empire delegation arrived, and Xu Changle insisted that Li Xun accept her as his disciple; he eventually agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang repeatedly visited Li Xun, who broke his limbs and threw him out of Spirit Hall after growing annoyed with him.
• Bibi Dong confronted Li Xun over Yu Xiaogang, but he overpowered her without using his Martial Soul, and Qian Daoliu removed her as Pope.
• Qian Renxue succeeded Bibi Dong as Pope, and, three months after the wedding preparations began, Li Xun spent the night before his wedding looking over Spirit City.