Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao accepted that the Tang Sect would not return Ah Yin and sent Tang San to Nuoding City while he prepared to seek answers in the Far North. In Heaven Dou City, Spirit Hall’s free distribution of the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill drew growing crowds as Bishop Salas continued the campaign.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that the Tang Sect had abandoned its promise and urged him to cultivate until he could avenge Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao said he would travel to the Far North, while Tang San left for Nuoding City carrying food and Copper Soul Coins his father had packed.
• At Heaven Dou City’s Martial Soul Temple, crowds gathered to receive free copies of the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill during Angel Prayer Day.
• Bishop Salas watched the distribution and reflected that the technique had attracted commoners across both empires because they felt stronger and healthier after practicing it.
• Salas ordered more manuals distributed and prayed to Saintess Qian Renxue.

The Angel Sacred Guidance Skill spread rapidly, prompting major factions to adopt it while Yu Xiaogang studied it and decided to visit Bibi Dong in hopes of becoming Qian Renxue’s teacher. He set out for Spirit City, unaware that Bibi Dong was already reviewing reports about the technique with deep irritation.

• Ning Fengzhi recognized the Angel Sacred Art’s value and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s disciples to try it.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered every Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple under thirty to switch to the Angel Sacred Art.
• Tang Xiao reread the technique after hearing of its growing reputation and was shocked by its contents.
• Xue Ye rejected Prince Xue Xing’s suggestion to ban the technique, noting that too many people were already practicing it.
• Yu Xiaogang connected the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill to his Ten Core Theories and imagined becoming Qian Renxue’s teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to travel to Spirit City to meet Bibi Dong, while she reviewed reports about the technique in Pope Hall.

Qian Renxue returned to the Worship Hall carrying a vast power of faith and revealed that she had become a Slayer in Slaughter City. Qian Daoliu and the Consecrated Elders prepared to help her hunt hundred-thousand-year soul beasts for her sixth and seventh soul rings.

• Bibi Dong crushed a cultivation transmission report and vowed to test Qian Renxue's strength when their three-year pact ended.
• Qian Renxue returned to the Worship Hall, and Cheng Ran reminded her to seek hundred-thousand-year soul beasts for her next two soul rings.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the power of faith surrounding Qian Renxue and learned she had accumulated it over two months and become a Slayer.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that the cultivation techniques had spread through major cities in both empires and that Bibi Dong wanted to dispute whose name appeared on them.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu she had enough soul power to reach Soul Saint or higher, and he gathered the Consecrated Elders to support her soul-ring hunt.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Eight Wings Angel aura, mingled with faith and killing intent, leaving the Consecrated Elders stunned.

Qian Renxue hunted two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in Sunset Forest, absorbing their red soul rings and demonstrating that she could defeat them with little help. After the second soul ring raised her to level seventy-five, she had two unprecedented hundred-thousand-year rings.

• Qian Renxue assured the Consecrated Elders that she was strong enough to hunt a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and Qian Daoliu named a Light Unicorn as her first target.
• Qian Renxue fought the Light Unicorn alone, killed it, and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level seventy and gaining Angel Mellowing Sound and Wings of Void.
• Qian Renxue took the Right Leg Bone from the Light Unicorn and asked Qian Daoliu for another target.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo weakened a Griffin Emperor so Qian Renxue could attack it.
• Qian Renxue used Wings of Void and her Angel skills to kill the Griffin Emperor, then absorbed its red soul ring and rose to level seventy-five.

Qian Renxue gained an external Soul Bone and fused three Angel Soul Bones, raising her Soul Power to rank seventy-nine. Meanwhile, Tang San arrived at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where Yu Xiaogang confirmed his admission certificate and agreed to take charge of him.

• Qian Renxue defeated the Griffin Emperor, collected its external Soul Bone, and stored it for later consultation with the Evil God.
• Qian Renxue removed the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone from her right leg and fused three Angel Soul Bones, gaining new skills and reaching rank seventy-nine.
• Qian Daoliu and the Consecrated Elders discussed Qian Renxue's rapid cultivation and admitted that the Infiltration Plan had held her back.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where the gatekeeper mocked them and called Tang San's certificate fake.
• Tang San used a quick throw to knock the gatekeeper down when he tried to shove Old Jack.
• Yu Xiaogang examined Tang San's certificate, confirmed it was genuine, apologized to Old Jack, and agreed to take Tang San in.

Yu Xiaogang recognized that Tang San had twin martial souls and accepted him as his disciple. After Tang San discovered that Spirit Hall’s new cultivation manual duplicated his Mysterious Heaven Skill, he concluded that Spirit Hall had stolen it from Elder Tang Laoya, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed Tang San’s claim that he had written it.

• Yu Xiaogang analyzed Tang San’s certificate, inferred that he had a second martial soul, and accepted him as his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang registered Tang San at the academy, where teachers mocked Yu Xiaogang and praised Qian Renxue’s cultivation technique.
• Tang San found that the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill followed the same circulation route as his Mysterious Heaven Skill and suspected Spirit Hall had taken it from Elder Tang Laoya.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Qian Renxue had based the manual on his theories and said he planned to meet Bibi Dong about taking her as a disciple.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he had created the technique, but Yu Xiaogang did not believe him and sent him to the Seventh Dormitory.

After waking, Cheng Ran learned Qian Renxue had reached level seventy-nine and guided her through absorbing a hundred-thousand-year external soul bone, which raised her to level eighty. They headed to Nuoding City to recruit Dugu Yan, where Dugu Bo and his granddaughter waited for Qian Renxue to arrive.

• Cheng Ran woke in the Worship Hall and learned Qian Renxue had reached level seventy-nine and obtained a hundred-thousand-year external soul bone.
• Cheng Ran urged Qian Renxue to absorb the soul bone, which strengthened her wings and gave her Angel Storm and Light Wing Protection.
• Qian Renxue's soul power rose to level eighty, and Cheng Ran proposed waiting to obtain her eighth soul ring through the Angel Nine Trials.
• Cheng Ran and Qian Renxue set off for Nuoding City to recruit Dugu Yan and begin forming a Golden Generation.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan waited outside Nuoding City, discussing how Qian Renxue's prescription had cleared Dugu Yan's poison, before Qian Renxue appeared on the road.

Qian Renxue reunited with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then recruited Xiao Wu by promising to help uncover what happened to her mother. She took them toward Spirit City, while Tang San felt an unexplained sense of loss at the academy.

• Qian Renxue told Dugu Bo she had reached level eighty, and Dugu Yan said she had fully recovered.
• Qian Renxue found Xiao Wu outside Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and used her mother’s connection to earn her trust.
• Qian Renxue promised to help Xiao Wu find out what happened to her mother, and Xiao Wu agreed to join her.
• Qian Renxue invited Xiao Wu and Dugu Bo to Spirit City, where Dugu Bo would become a Spirit Hall elder.
• Tang San felt a sudden pain and an inexplicable sense that something important had been taken from him.

Qian Renxue settled into her new role in the Worship Hall, while Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong seeking knowledge about twin martial souls and a chance to teach Qian Renxue. Bibi Dong rejected his offer and revealed the circumstances of Qian Renxue’s birth and their fractured relationship.

• Xiao Wu asked Qian Renxue to teach her to fight, and Qian Renxue agreed; Dugu Bo received a private courtyard in the Worship Hall.
• For two days, Qian Renxue guided Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan’s cultivation and practiced her new Soul Skills.
• Yu Xiaogang requested an audience with Bibi Dong and asked to consult her about twin martial souls and Soul Ring arrangements.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Qian Renxue’s Angel Sacred Art and offered to become her instructor, but Bibi Dong angrily stopped him.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Qian Xunji had violated her and that this was how Qian Renxue was conceived.
• Bibi Dong said Qian Renxue had defied her and made a three-year pact to fight her and sever their mother-daughter bond.

Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to persuade her to accept Qian Renxue, and Cheng Ran (Qian Renxue) beat and humiliated him in Spirit City’s square. She spared him but warned him to watch out for Tang San, especially when hunting for Soul Rings.

• Bibi Dong accused Yu Xiaogang of seeking her support and Qian Renxue’s reputation for his own ambition, then ordered him to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang left Bibi Dong’s hall in disgrace, and Spirit Hall deacons mocked him in the square.
• Cheng Ran (Qian Renxue) confronted Yu Xiaogang and beat him after he admitted he was his father’s romantic rival.
• Yu Xiaogang begged Cheng Ran (Qian Renxue) to take him as a student and licked his shoe, but she rejected him and exposed his scheming.
• Cheng Ran (Qian Renxue) spared Yu Xiaogang and warned him to watch out for Tang San when taking him to hunt for Soul Rings.

Yu Xiaogang returned from Spirit Hall badly injured and claimed that Qian Renxue had begged him to become her student, but Tang San saw through his story. Two days later, Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first soul ring, while wondering about Qian Renxue’s warning to be careful of Tang San.

• Tang San questioned Yu Xiaogang about his injuries and heard him boast that Qian Renxue had begged him for instruction, but Tang San told him not to lie.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San they would hunt for his first soul ring in two days.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest and entered with permission.
• As they explored, Yu Xiaogang recalled Qian Renxue’s warning about Tang San and wondered what she had meant.
• Yu Xiaogang chose a hollow for their camp, and Tang San spread Snake-Repelling Powder around it.

Yu Xiaogang witnessed Tang San defeat a Mandala Snake and grew wary of his hidden abilities, while Tang San began absorbing its Soul Ring. In Spirit City, Qian Renxue awakened immense faith power, triggered the Angel Nine Trials, and was urged by the Angel God to inherit the vacant godhood.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San drove off a pack of Netherworld Wolves, then fled when a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake attacked.
• Tang San used precise throws, evasive footwork, a short sword, and a Sleeve Arrow to kill the Mandala Snake, leaving Yu Xiaogang shocked by his concealed skills.
• Yu Xiaogang concealed his suspicions, told Tang San to absorb the snake's Soul Ring, and stood guard over him.
• Qian Renxue awakened to a powerful surge of faith and went to Douluo Hall with Cheng Ran's encouragement.
• The Angel Statue revealed the Angel Nine Trials, and Qian Daoliu celebrated Qian Renxue's selection as the Angel God's successor.
• The Angel God's remaining consciousness praised Qian Renxue's faith and urged her to inherit the Angel Godhood.

Qian Renxue began the Angel Nine Trials and quickly passed the first two, reaching Soul Douluo and gaining new abilities. As she entered the third trial’s 108-day baptism, Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan continued training while the angel cultivation method spread across the continent.

• Qian Renxue accepted the Angel God’s inheritance, and Bibi Dong sensed the trial’s beginning and decided to accelerate her own plans.
• Qian Renxue passed the first trial in under an hour, earning perfect marks, increased angel affinity, and stronger Soul Rings.
• Qian Renxue defeated her equal-strength phantom in the second trial by using the power of faith, then reached level eighty-four and became a Soul Douluo.
• Qian Renxue began the third trial, enduring a 108-day baptism of angelic divine power while Qian Daoliu waited outside.
• During the trial, Xiao Wu tended the Blue Silver Emperor and trained with Dugu Yan, while the angel cultivation method spread across the continent.

After completing her third Angel Trial, Qian Renxue began the fourth trial, where Cheng Ran took control of her body and defeated a horde of airborne Soul Beasts. She earned a perfect evaluation and planned to continue after resting, while a resentful, anxious gaze watched Douluo Hall from Pope Hall.

• The Angel Sacred Guidance Skill spread across the empires, and people gathered to practice it while Cheng Ran endured 108 days without fighting.
• Qian Renxue completed the third Angel Trial with a perfect evaluation, gaining 20% Angel Divine Power affinity and increasing all her Soul Rings by ten thousand years.
• Qian Renxue began the fourth trial, and Cheng Ran took over her body to fight the airborne Soul Beast horde ten thousand meters above the ground.
• Cheng Ran defeated the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts and scattered the remaining enemies with Qian Renxue's Angel Mellowing Sound, raising her Soul Power to level eighty-five.
• Qian Renxue passed the fourth trial with a perfect evaluation, bringing her Angel Divine Power affinity to 60% and increasing all her Soul Rings by thirty thousand years.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu she would rest before continuing, as an icy, resentful gaze watched Douluo Hall from Pope Hall.

Tang San resented Qian Renxue for receiving credit for the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill, while Qian Renxue began the Angel God's fifth trial and confronted a painful memory from her childhood. As she struggled inside the Light Cocoon, prayers from across the continent gathered into a torrent of Vow Power above Douluo Hall.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he had reached the second stage of the Angel Sacred Guidance Skill, then silently blamed Qian Renxue for taking credit for his cultivation method.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Qian Renxue's influence and the benefits of her cultivation method, but privately remained wary of Tang San and his skills.
• Qian Renxue grasped the Angel Card and entered the fifth trial, which required her to break free of a Heart Cocoon through her own strength.
• Inside the cocoon, Qian Renxue relived being rejected by her mother as a child and heard a familiar, teasing voice call out to her.
• People across the Douluo Continent prayed for Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu watched their Vow Power gather above Douluo Hall and flow into the Light Cocoon.

Qian Renxue passed the Angel God’s fifth trial, awakening a fleeting Twelve-Winged Angel form through the prayers of tens of millions of people. After learning why gods seek successors, she chose to inherit the Angel Godhood and continued toward the sixth trial.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo reacted with shock to Qian Renxue’s progress, while Bibi Dong began the Rakshasa Nine Trials.
• Qian Renxue’s eight wings expanded into twelve as the faith of tens of millions of people flowed around her, then returned to eight.
• The Angel God announced that Qian Renxue had passed the fifth trial with perfect evaluation, raising her divine power affinity by 1,000% and increasing all her Soul Ring ages by fifty thousand years.
• Cheng Ran explained that gods sought successors so they could relinquish their duties, while the Angel God, Sea God, and Asura God argued over who might claim Qian Renxue as a successor.
• Qian Renxue decided she was willing to accept the Angel Godhood, then walked toward the sixth screen of light.

After passing the fifth Angel God trial and reaching 1,060 percent angel affinity, Qian Renxue began the sixth trial, which required her to withstand Qian Daoliu's attacks. Cheng Ran took control of her body and struck back, leaving Qian Daoliu wary as the duel continued.

• Qian Renxue passed the fifth trial, and her angel affinity reached 1,060 percent, stunning Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Renxue took the sixth trial card and learned she had to endure Qian Daoliu's full-powered attacks for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Cheng Ran took control of Qian Renxue's body as the trial began on a stone platform.
• Cheng Ran dodged Qian Daoliu's light sword, teleported behind him, and struck him with Angel Assault.
• Qian Daoliu claimed he had been careless, then treated Qian Renxue as a serious opponent.
• Cheng Ran and Qian Renxue joked about targeting Qian Daoliu's weak spots, including his feelings for Bo Saixi.

Cheng Ran controlled Qian Renxue’s Angel God Sixth Trial, and Qian Renxue received its perfect assessment and rewards. She then began the Seventh Trial, where the Angel Holy Sword emerged eagerly and a dark version of her appeared.

• Cheng Ran used Qian Renxue’s Angel skills to outmaneuver and injure Qian Daoliu until the incense burned out.
• The Angel God declared Qian Renxue had passed the Sixth Trial with a perfect assessment, raising her divine power affinity and the age of her Soul Rings.
• Qian Renxue’s eight Soul Rings became crimson, and Qian Daoliu accepted his defeat before she proceeded to the Seventh Trial.
• Qian Renxue approached the Angel Holy Sword, which sprang free and affectionately circled her; Cheng Ran named it Little Gold.
• Black mist emerged from the sword and formed Dark Qian Renxue, who declared herself the truest version within Qian Renxue’s heart.

After passing the Angel God's Seventh Trial, Qian Renxue chose three powerful targets for her Eighth Trial: the King of Slaughter, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Bibi Dong. She flew toward Slaughter City to begin her judgment, while the King of Slaughter sensed an ominous threat approaching.

• Qian Renxue defeated Dark Qian Renxue, passed the Angel God's Seventh Trial with a perfect evaluation, and gained greater Angel Divine Power and the Angel Holy Sword's acknowledgment.
• The Angel God assigned Qian Renxue to judge three evildoers within three years, and Qian Daoliu urged her to seek great evils for the trial.
• Cheng Ran recommended the King of Slaughter, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Bibi Dong as targets, and Qian Renxue resolved to judge all three.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu she was going to Slaughter City and flew away, leaving him and Golden Crocodile Douluo to watch her depart.
• The King of Slaughter felt an unfamiliar chill and the sense that a powerful being had targeted him.

Qian Renxue entered Slaughter City and challenged the King of Slaughter, using her angel powers to defeat him. As the King of Slaughter’s evil influence faded, he revealed an aged face and began to remember his identity.

• Qian Renxue killed the tavern’s occupants and cut down two black-armored knights on her way into Slaughter City.
• Qian Renxue crossed the inner city under the protection of her domains and confronted the King of Slaughter in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Qian Renxue revealed eight hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and fought the King of Slaughter with her angel skills.
• The King of Slaughter transformed and unleashed a massive blood-red blade, but Qian Renxue disrupted his attack and pierced his chest with the Angel Holy Sword.
• The King of Slaughter’s blood-red corruption peeled away, and he began to say, “My name is Tang, Tang Chen...”