Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ming recovered from his injuries and used the Ice and Fire Divine Crown’s connection to the Sea God’s Light to purify the Blood Spear more efficiently, but calculated that the task would still take years despite having only a month left. The God Kings refused to ease his trial, and as the final day arrived, Bo Saixi had begun intervening while Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others watched anxiously.

• Bo Saixi helped Xuan Ming recover, and he woke after five days before beginning another round of healing and recuperation.
• Xuan Ming returned to the heavenly stairway and discovered that the Ice and Fire Divine Crown let him guide the Sea God’s Light more precisely against the Blood Spear’s chaotic will.
• After a day of purification, Xuan Ming estimated that he needed nearly three years to gain absolute control over the Blood Spear, though only one month remained.
• The God of Evil, the Goddess of Life, the Goddess of Kindness, and the God of Destruction urged the Asura God to reconsider the trial, but the Asura God refused to change its rules.
• As the final day arrived, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others gathered anxiously at the beach, while Bo Saixi chose to intervene in Xuan Ming’s trial.

On the last day of his trial, Xuan Ming revealed that he had been tempering the Blood Spear to suppress its chaotic will, then risked splitting his soul to make the weapon obey him. He detonated the Thunder Core to strengthen his effort, summoning a destructive Heavenly Tribulation over Sea God Island.

• Xiao Wu and Ah Rou offered to sacrifice themselves for Xuan Ming, but he knocked them unconscious and asked Bo Saixi to keep watch over them.
• Xuan Ming climbed the white jade staircase and used the Sea God's Light to suppress the Blood Spear's chaotic will, preparing a blank space at its core.
• Xuan Ming severed part of his soul and drove it into the Blood Spear, setting his will against the weapon's chaotic will as the Sea God's Light scoured them both.
• The Blood Spear erupted with dark red light, and its power shook Sea God Island and alarmed Bo Saixi and the gods in the Divine Realm.
• Xuan Ming detonated the Thunder Core he had absorbed in Thunder Valley, calling down a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation over Sea God Island.

Xuan Ming passed the Sea God Nine Trials’ first trial by merging his will with the Blood Spear under Heavenly Tribulation lightning, then received rewards that transformed his spear, domain, and Soul Rings. After absorbing a five-hundred-thousand-year Slaughter Soul Ring and reaching level eighty, he demonstrated its power, whose killing presence nearly overwhelmed Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the others.

• Xuan Ming endured the Heavenly Tribulation until his will fused with the Blood Spear, completing the first trial and making the spear absolutely loyal to him.
• The trial’s rewards raised the ages of his six Soul Rings by ten thousand years each, evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain into Slaughter Domain, and granted him a God-Given Soul Ring.
• Xuan Ming realized the Asura God had likely influenced the trial’s slaughter-based rewards and chose the God-Given Soul Ring for his Blood Spear’s Seventh Soul Ring.
• After three days of struggling to absorb it, Xuan Ming gained a five-hundred-thousand-year Slaughter Soul Ring that could continue to grow, and his Soul Power rose to level eighty.
• Xuan Ming revealed the Seventh Soul Ring’s power, and Bo Saixi shielded Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the others from its overwhelming killing presence.

Xuan Ming demonstrated the two forms of his Seventh Soul Skill, the Slaughter Battle Soul, before Gu Yuena returned with the Dragon God's Heart after fusing with her original body. The God Kings recognized that she had tied the Dragon Clan’s future to Xuan Ming, while Xuan Ming helped her recover and caught her as exhaustion overcame her.

• Xuan Ming used his Seventh Soul Skill to form a hundred-meter Slaughter Battle Soul and cleave a vast chasm through the sea.
• Xuan Ming revealed the skill’s second form, a three-meter soul clone that could fight and travel far away while remaining connected to him.
• Gu Yuena returned to Sea God Island, and Hu Liena and Ning Rongrong confronted her for being absent during Xuan Ming’s trial.
• Gu Yuena revealed that she had fused with her original body and brought out the Dragon God's Heart, which the God Kings recognized as the Dragon Clan’s supreme inheritance.
• Xuan Ming asked Gu Yuena whether her choice was worth it, then transferred energy to help her recover and caught her when she weakened.

Xuan Ming began the Second Sea God Trial, which forbade him from using the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ power, and pushed himself up the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps. He was thrown from the 880th step and caught by Bo Saixi, then recovered while the others resumed their trials.

• The young women continued climbing the Sea God’s Light, with Ah Rou past the hundredth step and Hu Liena near the ninetieth.
• The God Kings assigned Xuan Ming a six-month trial to reach the summit of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps without using the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnants or sealed dragon-bone energy.
• Xuan Ming climbed to the 880th step using his own abilities, including his domains and Slaughter Battle Soul, before the pressure hurled him down the mountain.
• Bo Saixi caught the falling Xuan Ming, treated his injuries, and warned him not to push himself recklessly.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena noticed Bo Saixi’s concern and teased Xuan Ming for failing to recognize the feelings around him.
• Xuan Ming recovered on the beach as Dugu Yan and the other women returned to their climb.

Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena left Sea God Island to strengthen him with powerful Soul Rings, while the God Kings revealed that the Second Trial was intended to force the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King to commit their powers permanently to him. Xuan Ming planned to raise the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to a million years before absorbing him, and Gu Yuena led a group to the Far North to obtain the necessary resources.

• The Ice Dragon King told Xuan Ming that he needed to strengthen both his body and his mind to complete the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps.
• Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena left Sea God Island to seek the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm first and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King afterward.
• The God of Evil explained that permanently surrendering their dragon bones and dragon souls would let the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King bypass the trial's restrictions at great risk to their survival.
• Di Tian brought the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm out of the Lake of Life, but Xuan Ming insisted on helping him reach a million years before absorbing him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that he had gained his cultivation by eating ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and sleeping, prompting Gu Yuena to lead Xuan Ming and her companions to the Far North for resources.
• Gu Yuena's presence summoned the Snow Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the Titan Snow Demon King to the group's location.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm survived the million-year Heavenly Tribulation after Xuan Ming forced his breakthrough, but his origin was exhausted. Gu Yuena offered him a chance at resurrection through sacrificing himself to Xuan Ming, and he agreed before asking to say goodbye to Ice Empress.

• Xuan Ming triggered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year Heavenly Tribulation, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm broke through while enduring its attacks.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm survived the tribulation but began dying from exhaustion of his origin.
• Gu Yuena told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to sacrifice his Million-Year Soul Ring, Soul Bone, and Spiritual Origin to Xuan Ming, promising resurrection if Xuan Ming became a god.
• Xuan Ming asked Gu Yuena to absorb Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s life origin to heal her injuries, and she regained some strength.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to sacrifice himself and asked to say goodbye to Ice Empress, who coldly told him to get lost.

After receiving the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year soul ring, Xuan Ming reached half-step divine consciousness and demonstrated control over the Far North’s ice elements. When he fell into a three-day slumber, Gu Yuena proposed that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress follow him and stake their futures on his becoming a god; he awoke with his spiritual realm stabilized.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confessed his feelings to the Ice Empress, then sacrificed himself to Xuan Ming and gave him a million-year soul ring with four spiritual and ice-based skills.
• Xuan Ming used his newly strengthened spiritual power to command the Far North’s ice elements, shocking the Snow Empress and Ice Empress with his overwhelming control.
• Xuan Ming considered the two Empresses as possible soul rings but decided not to weaken the Soul Beast Clan’s forces.
• The Sea God’s Heart fragment reacted to Xuan Ming’s spiritual power, causing him to collapse into a protective slumber, and Gu Yuena explained that he needed time to adapt.
• Gu Yuena asked the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to follow Xuan Ming and help him become a god, offering divine power as a possible escape from their heavenly tribulations.
• After three days, Xuan Ming awoke with his half-step divine consciousness stabilized, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm eagerly praised his soul ring.

Xuan Ming’s attempt to obtain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring peacefully failed when the whale attacked Di Tian. Xuan Ming ordered Zi JI to search the whale’s lair and seize his family, leaving the Snow Empress and Ice Empress disgusted with him.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to travel with Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena so they could judge Xuan Ming’s worth for themselves.
• Di Tian led the group to the Demon Whale Sea Area and tried to persuade the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to offer himself as a Sacrifice.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King insulted Di Tian and Xuan Ming, then fought Di Tian above the sea.
• Xuan Ming ordered Zi JI to search the whale’s lair and seize any family members, especially young whales, while Di Tian kept him occupied.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress condemned Xuan Ming’s plan, but Zi JI obeyed Gu Yuena’s nod and dove into the sea.

Xuan Ming forced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to agree to sacrifice himself by threatening the destruction of his family if he refused. The whale secured Di Tian’s vow to protect his young, and began his sacrifice as Xuan Ming prepared to gain his Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Zi JI released the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s young after he agreed to sacrifice himself, and Xuan Ming warned that breaking his word would still leave his child doomed.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King accepted that Xuan Ming had left him no way out and called him ruthless.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked Di Tian to swear that he would protect his young after the sacrifice.
• Di Tian swore to protect the young whale for as long as he remained in the world, until it could defend itself.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soothed his young, turned toward Xuan Ming, and began to summon sacrificial flames before Xuan Ming suddenly spoke.

Xuan Ming challenged the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to test his newly increased strength, then used ice, fire, lightning, and his domains to trap him in a volatile field of compressed gases. After freezing the whale’s thoughts with a spiritual attack, Xuan Ming triggered a massive explosion and disappeared into a dark vortex.

• Xuan Ming asked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to fight him before completing his sacrifice, and Gu Yuena and the others withdrew to watch.
• Xuan Ming froze thousands of meters of sea with Absolute Ice Seal, trapping the whale until it broke free through its immense power.
• Xuan Ming struck the sea with a concentrated fireball, vaporizing seawater and leaving a vast cavity.
• Xuan Ming used lightning through his Blood Spear to electrolyze the seawater, then activated his domains and Extreme Cold Abyss to condense the gases into unstable crystals around the whale.
• Xuan Ming used Spiritual Shock: Absolute Zero to immobilize the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, vanished into a dark vortex, and ignited the crystals, causing a vast explosion.

Xuan Ming defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with a massive explosion, then calmly explained how surprise, matchup, and the whale king’s carelessness had enabled his victory. As Xuan Ming absorbed the whale king’s Soul Ring, the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King sacrificed their remaining essence to strengthen his Martial Soul and create a Million-Year Soul Bone, leaving their souls close to disappearing.

• Xuan Ming’s explosion left the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King severely wounded and unable to resist, while the gods judged the attack a potential threat to deities if conditions allowed.
• Xuan Ming told the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that his victory depended on preparation, surprise, and favorable abilities, and the whale king accepted his defeat and agreed to honor his promise.
• As Xuan Ming began absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring, the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King poured their dragon-bone energy into his forming Torso Soul Bone.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King burned their soul essences to complete the Million-Year Abyss Dragon Emperor Torso Bone and transform the Black Dragon Martial Soul.
• Xuan Ming gained immense power, but sensed the Ice Dragon King’s and Fire Dragon King’s presences rapidly fading.

After the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King sacrificed themselves, Xuan Ming pushed through the Sea God’s Light to reach the summit of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps. His trial reward revealed that their dragon souls could potentially be restored once he attained a God King-level divine position.

• The Godess of Kindness anchored the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s fading soul marks inside Xuan Ming’s Torso Bone, while the God of Evil revealed he had already left backup imprints on the Ice and Fire Divine Crown.
• Xuan Ming woke with the fused Abyssal Dragon Emperor Torso Bone and four Soul Rings, grieving because he could no longer sense the two dragon kings’ souls.
• Xuan Ming returned to Sea God Island with Gu Yuena and the others, then climbed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps without stopping despite Bo Saixi’s warning.
• Xuan Ming devoured his first six Blood Spear Soul Rings and fused the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s opposing powers to reach the one thousand and first step at the cost of nearly destroying his body.
• The Sea God’s power healed Xuan Ming and completed his Second Trial, granting him rewards and revealing that he could attempt to reconstruct the dragon kings’ souls after attaining a God King-level divine position.

Xuan Ming completed the fusion of his eighth Soul Ring and learned that his Third Sea God Trial required him to resolve the danger surrounding Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa inheritance. As he faced the trial’s one-year deadline and its warning of possible chaos, he learned how the others were progressing through Sea God’s Light.

• Xuan Ming absorbed a seven-hundred-thousand-year eighth Soul Ring, reaching the peak of level ninety after more than a month of cultivation.
• The God Kings discussed Xuan Ming’s next trial and learned from Poseidon about Rakshasa’s ancient conflict with the Angel God and her dangerous inheritances.
• Poseidon explained that Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa God Trial had stalled because her mindset no longer met the inheritance’s demands, while Rakshasa’s power continued to threaten her sanity.
• Xuan Ming received the Third Trial: resolve the danger of the Rakshasa inheritance within one year and prevent potential turmoil on the continent.
• Xuan Ming recalled his complicated history with Bibi Dong and asked Bo Saixi about the others’ progress; Ah Rou had completed the First Trial, while Hu Liena and Xiao Wu had reached the hundredth step.

Xuan Ming borrowed the Sea God Trident and demonstrated that his strength could turn it into a devastating weapon without using its divine power. As he and Gu Yuena left Sea God Island for the continent, the God Realm realized it had forgotten to reward her, and the Goddess of Life sent her restorative divine power.

• Xuan Ming asked Bo Saixi to lend him the Sea God Trident, and Sea God Poseidon permitted it.
• Xuan Ming lifted the trident by brute force and struck the distant sea, creating a vast impact that horrified Bo Saixi.
• Xuan Ming said farewell to Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the others before flying toward the continent with Gu Yuena.
• Xuan Ming asked Gu Yuena about her God's Trial rewards, and the gods realized they had forgotten to give her any.
• The Goddess of Life sent emerald divine light to Gu Yuena to help heal her injuries and stabilize her foundation.

Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena returned to Spirit City, where he confronted Bibi Dong about the Spirit Hall Empire’s corruption and disorder. Bibi Dong explained that the empire’s rapid expansion and reliance on force made reform difficult, leaving the problem unresolved.

• Gu Yuena received delayed rewards from the Sea God trials that restored twenty percent of her damaged origin and stabilized her god-level power.
• Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena saw refugees, burned villages, and Spirit Hall Soul Masters abusing their authority on their way inland, and Xuan Ming killed the offenders with thunderbolts.
• Xuan Ming hurled the Sea God Trident into the square before the Pope’s Palace, where Bibi Dong and the elders came to meet him.
• Bibi Dong failed to lift the Trident, while Gu Yuena effortlessly raised it and repaired the damaged square.
• Inside the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong described the Spirit Hall Empire’s expansion and explained that its reliance on military force made corruption and oppression difficult to suppress.

Xuan Ming returned to the Pope's Palace and confronted Bibi Dong about the Rakshasa God Trial's effects and her worsening emotional state. He laid out the choice between surrendering to her past and preserving what remained in her life, leaving her calmer but without a final decision.

• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong that he had completed the Sea God's Second Trial and that his Third Trial required him to address the dangers in her Rakshasa inheritance.
• Bibi Dong denied having any symptoms, but Xuan Ming saw through her and held her as she confessed her jealousy over his closeness with Gu Yuena and her fear that she might hurt the young women around him.
• Bibi Dong admitted that she hated Xuan Ming but could neither kill nor hurt him, and she asked what she should do about the pain and madness caused by the Rakshasa path.
• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong that she alone had to choose whether to cling to the past or protect the Spirit Hall Empire, Hu Liena, and what she still had.
• Bibi Dong's Rakshasa energy settled as she considered his words, then she asked when he had grown up, and Xuan Ming replied that he had learned he lacked the means to be willful.

Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena discussed how Bibi Dong could resist the Rakshasa evil thoughts without abandoning her inheritance, and Xuan Ming proposed using his Slaughter Domain to prepare her for the Asura God Trial. He then promised to stabilize the Spirit Hall Empire while helping her and summoned the Blood Spear above Spirit City as the sky darkened.

• Xuan Ming brought Bibi Dong to Gu Yuena, who explained that Rakshasa's evil thoughts were consuming Bibi Dong and offered either abandoning the Rakshasa God Trial or seeking the Asura God inheritance.
• Bibi Dong refused to give up the Rakshasa God Trial, and Gu Yuena warned that invoking the Asura God while Rakshasa power remained inside her could kill her.
• Xuan Ming proposed sharing his purer Slaughter Domain to restrain the Rakshasa evil thoughts and strengthen Bibi Dong's Divine Slaughter's Domain so she could accept Asura power.
• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong that conventional methods would take too long, then promised to stabilize the Spirit Hall Empire while he helped her.
• Xuan Ming flew above Spirit City and raised the Blood Spear, drawing the city's attention as black clouds and lightning gathered overhead.

Xuan Ming demonstrated overwhelming power in Spirit City, split a mountain with his attack, and left the Sea God Trident embedded before the Worship Hall after claiming it was too heavy to carry. The next morning, Bibi Dong reported that she had arranged the empire’s affairs before she and Xuan Ming prepared to leave.

• Xuan Ming unleashed his Slaughter and Evil powers and cleaved a thousand-meter mountain outside Spirit City in two.
• Gu Yuena explained to Bibi Dong that Xuan Ming’s immense Soul Power and transformed body gave him strength approaching a god’s.
• Qian Daoliu and the enshrined confronted Xuan Ming, who threw the Sea God Trident into the Worship Hall plaza and said it was too heavy to carry.
• Qian Daoliu tried to lift the Sea God Trident but could not move it, while Poseidon explained that the divine artifact would not yield to someone without the Sea God’s recognition.
• The next morning, Bibi Dong told Xuan Ming that she had planned the road ahead and laid the foundations for the Spirit Hall Empire’s affairs.

Xuan Ming brutally trained Bibi Dong on a frozen stretch of sea to temper her Divine Slaughter's Domain, stopping when his protective power activated. The onlookers fled after he offered them the same lesson, and Bi Ji began healing Bibi Dong.

• Xuan Ming used Evil God's Leap to take Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena from Spirit City to Sea God Island, then gave Bibi Dong a safeguard that would activate Evil God's Protection and teleport her to him if she suffered a fatal attack.
• Xuan Ming froze a vast area of sea and began attacking Bibi Dong with his Blood Spear and Slaughter Domain, repeatedly shattering her body as her Immortal Body restored it.
• Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and others arrived to watch, but Bi Ji stopped Hu Liena from rushing into the battle and explained that it was training.
• The fight continued until evening, when Evil God's Protection activated and blocked Xuan Ming's next strike; he ended the lesson as Bibi Dong recovered.
• Xuan Ming offered to train the watching group the same way, and they, Bo Saixi, and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians hurried away.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI approached Xuan Ming, and Bi Ji began healing Bibi Dong.