Chapter Summaries

Tang San and the others completed their final Sinking Silver Pillar assessments after a year of training, with Tang San enduring twenty-four hours despite his lingering shoulder injury and empty sixth ring slot. Xiao Bai then announced that their Fourth Trial would take them to the Outer Sea to kill Evil Spirit Orcas threatening her shark pups.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar used God-Given Soul Ring pearls to obtain black seventh rings and gained their respective true-body abilities.
• Oscar completed sixteen hours at the pillars, followed by Ning Rongrong, while Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing completed eighteen hours each.
• Dai Mubai endured twenty hours, including a powerful backflowing wave, and returned safely to shore.
• Tang San endured twenty-four hours without relying on a sixth ring or seventh-ring true body, and Bo Saixi verified that all six had completed the Third Trial.
• Xiao Bai assigned the group to kill Evil Spirit Orcas in the Outer Sea after the orcas ate two more shark pups.

Tang San helped Xiao Bai's clan destroy the Evil Spirit Orca pod, absorbing a new sixth Soul Ring and defeating the Evil Orca King. After recovering and stabilizing his cultivation, he received the next Sea God Trial as the Sacred Pillars lit up.

• Tang San and his companions attacked the Evil Spirit Orca pod while Xiao Wu stayed behind to care for injured young sharks.
• Tang San killed a Broken-Fin Orca and absorbed its black Soul Ring into his empty sixth slot, restoring his Blue Silver True Body.
• Tang San joined Xiao Bai and his companions in killing the Evil Orca King, but left the king's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring unabsorbed because he had not reached Level 80.
• Xiao Bai recovered a left-leg Soul Bone from the king, and Tang San later absorbed it after returning to the island, leaving his right-arm Soul Bone slot empty.
• Tang San's cultivation stabilized at level seventy-three, then rose to level seventy-four after the Fourth Trial awarded its Soul Power reward.
• The Sea God Mark revealed a new trial as light rose from the seven Sacred Pillars on Sea God Island.

Qian Renxue tested and strengthened her control over the four sections of golden armor through trials that forced her to protect others without controlling them. After months of practice, the Golden Fragment on the Holy Statue’s chest lit up, and Qian Daoliu told her to bring the names she was prepared to bear next time.

• Qian Renxue read Tang San’s letter confirming that Xiao Wu could walk again and that they had returned safely, then entered the inner hall to test the left arm’s Golden Fragment.
• Qian Renxue held a wagon back from a fissure, shielded wounded soldiers from arrows, and drove off the ambushers before Qian Daoliu ordered her to recover.
• Qian Renxue spent three months training her arms and Angel Domain, raising her soul power to rank ninety-three, then completed the right leg’s trial by turning back to rescue someone trapped beneath rocks.
• Qian Renxue practiced coordinating the right leg’s armor with her old left-leg bone, while Bai Jin trained alone in the west courtyard and injured his wrist holding a stone pillar in place.
• Qian Renxue and Bai Jin bandaged their injuries and left the courtyard together; the Golden Fragment on the Holy Statue’s chest lit up, and Qian Daoliu told her to bring the names she was prepared to bear next time.

Qian Renxue faced an illusion that tested whether she would bury an unjust arrest order, and chose to investigate the abuses without erasing her mother's responsibility. After resolving the case, she completed another stage of the Golden Fragment trial and left determined to keep the gates open even if she someday took the throne.

• Qian Renxue refused to destroy the arrest order in the Divine Temple illusion, separated the innocent old man from the corrupt squad leader, and chose verification and release over pardons.
• Qian Renxue brought the original order and suppressed report to Bibi Dong, who authorized Hu Liena to investigate witnesses and the records while preserving the documents.
• Qian Renxue investigated the case, exposed the squad leader's grain theft and the deacon's suppressed report, and ensured the old man's son received his father's ashes and compensation.
• Qian Renxue lowered the Empire's flag on the return journey, and Bai Jin listened without asking her to make the bereaved son grateful.
• Qian Renxue entered an illusion of a united continent, opened a city gate, and used the Golden Fragment's light to direct help toward people in danger instead of forcing the fleeing crowd back.
• Qian Renxue completed the golden armor on her forehead and chest, then told Bai Jin that the gates would remain open even if she someday sat on the throne.

Qian Renxue endured Qian Daoliu’s Divine Temple formation until her six pieces of golden armor linked into a complete Divine Outfit, while Bai Jin protected the west corridor from the escaping force. Though her sword cracked and she was injured, she kept the silver marking from her old soul bone, and the true Angel Holy Sword began to loosen in the Holy Statue’s grasp.

• Qian Renxue entered Qian Daoliu’s formation and used Silverwing Skystep and her Rift-Splitting Silverwing Beast soul bone to navigate its holy light without letting the silver and golden forces clash.
• Bai Jin redirected the force escaping the Divine Temple away from the west corridor so the deacons could move the medicine chests safely.
• Qian Renxue endured the formation’s heaviest beam, linked her golden armor, and took a step forward, though the sword in her hand cracked.
• Qian Daoliu dismissed the formation, and Qian Renxue confirmed that Silverwing Skystep still worked and the silver marking remained after she removed the Divine Outfit.
• Qian Renxue showed Bai Jin her cracked sword, and the Angel Holy Sword rang as a golden gap appeared between the Holy Statue’s hands.
• Qian Daoliu invited Qian Renxue to dinner the next evening and carried her cracked sword toward his quarters.

Qian Renxue learned that completing the Angel inheritance would consume Qian Daoliu’s life, soul power, and martial soul, and she chose to enter the Divine Temple the next morning. The chapter ended with her reaching level 99 at the inner hall’s final step, while Qian Daoliu and Bai Jin prepared for the inheritance.

• Qian Daoliu explained that opening the final gate would require him to burn away his life and power, and he gave Qian Renxue time to decide whether to proceed.
• Bai Jin told Qian Renxue that he could not revive Qian Daoliu if the inheritance consumed him completely.
• Qian Renxue chose to walk the whole path herself and promised to think carefully about whom she protected and whose orders she followed.
• Qian Daoliu entrusted Bai Jin with guarding the people outside the inner hall and forbade him from interfering with what happened inside.
• Qian Renxue climbed the inner hall steps, reached level 99, and stopped before the final step; Qian Daoliu asked her to return the next morning.