Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ming misunderstood the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, Zi JI, and Bo Saixi’s romantic interest as plans for sacrifice or exploration beyond the star domain. The God Kings recognized that the Fourth Trial was overwhelming him and decided to give him more time rather than cancel it.

• The Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, and Zi JI left after Xuan Ming failed to understand their feelings and focused on Soul Rings.
• Gu Yuena explained that Xuan Ming was stuck in a crisis-focused mindset and suggested Bo Saixi might help him understand.
• Bo Saixi prepared to confess her feelings, but Xuan Ming mistook her words as an invitation to leave the star domain and explore the universe with him.
• The God Kings watched Bo Saixi’s failed attempt and discussed how the trials had made Xuan Ming distrustful of the Divine Realm.
• The Asura God chose to continue the Fourth Trial while giving Xuan Ming more time and room to see the Divine Realm as a possible ally.

The God Kings decided that Xuan Ming would respond better to practical goals than romantic hints, and Poseidon’s plan led Xuan Ming to offer Bo Saixi the Sea God’s Heart in exchange for protecting his companions. Bo Saixi rejected his transactional approach, while Gu Yuena urged her to judge Xuan Ming as he truly was; the chapter ended with Xuan Ming returning to the ice crystal castle and making tea for the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Poseidon proposed fabricating a deadly trial crisis to push Xuan Ming and Bo Saixi together, but the God Kings warned that Xuan Ming would try to destroy the crisis instead of falling in love.
• The God Kings agreed that Bo Saixi’s pursuit of godhood and the Sea God’s Heart could give Xuan Ming a practical reason to cooperate with her.
• Xuan Ming offered Bo Saixi the Sea God’s Heart in exchange for her promise to protect Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the others if misfortune befell him.
• Bo Saixi took Xuan Ming’s offer as a cold transaction, angrily blasted him from the Sea God Hall, and wept after he landed on the beach.
• Gu Yuena explained Xuan Ming’s pragmatic way of thinking to Bo Saixi and urged her to decide whether she could accept the real person rather than an idealized image.
• Xuan Ming returned to the ice crystal castle and prepared tea for the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

Xuan Ming and Di Tian traveled toward the Sun Moon Continent to seek the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, while Di Tian explained the continent’s history and the rise of its Soul Beast ruler. The Demon Empress attacked Xuan Ming after sensing her husband’s presence, but the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s remnant soul calmed her by explaining their child was safe and presenting his sacrifice as a choice.

• Xuan Ming decided to cross the ocean and seek the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler’s Soul Ring after Bo Saixi refused his deal.
• Gu Yuena allowed Xuan Ming to go, and Di Tian joined him on the journey to the Sun Moon Continent.
• Di Tian described how the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler manipulated the Sun Moon Empire and recounted the history of human factions on the Douluo Continent.
• Di Tian told Xuan Ming that he had taken the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s child to the Lake of Life for protection.
• The Demon Empress sensed her husband’s presence in Xuan Ming and trapped him in a demonic surge, attacking him in grief and fury.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s remnant soul spoke to the Demon Empress, claimed he had sacrificed himself by choice, and told her their child was safe.

The Demon Empress submitted to Xuan Ming and joined his hunt for the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, while his absence complicated the emotional trials on Sea God Island. His plan to lure the Evil Emperor out through the Sun Moon Empire exposed his earlier coercion of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and nearly provoked another confrontation.

• The Demon Empress honored the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's wishes and submitted to Xuan Ming, who promised not to harm her or her child unless she opposed him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King punished the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for suggesting that Xuan Ming kill the Demon Empress for her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• The Demon Empress warned Xuan Ming about the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler's defenses and imperial connections, then joined him and Di Tian on their journey.
• Gu Yuena told the women on Sea God Island that Xuan Ming would be away for months and urged them to clarify their feelings, while Bo Saixi struggled with her own hidden trial.
• Xuan Ming reached the Evil Demon Forest and proposed threatening the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family to draw the Evil Emperor out.
• Xuan Ming admitted that he had used the Demon Empress and her daughter's safety to coerce the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Di Tian persuaded the enraged Demon Empress not to attack.

Xuan Ming froze the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Preceptor and a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant, forcing the Evil Emperor to come to the imperial capital. The Evil Emperor attacked Xuan Ming, but Di Tian and the Demon Empress blocked its escape, and the Demon Empress erupted in fury after it insulted her.

• Xuan Ming appeared above the Sun Moon imperial capital and froze the Imperial Preceptor with a glance.
• The emperor activated the Dark Sun Protocol and sent an urgent distress signal to the Evil Emperor.
• The Evil Emperor sent a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant to investigate, and Xuan Ming froze it as well.
• Enraged by the loss of its subordinate, the Evil Emperor flew to the capital and attacked Xuan Ming with Mental Detonation.
• Xuan Ming countered the attack with Spiritual Shock: Absolute Zero, while Di Tian and the Demon Empress sealed off the Evil Emperor’s retreat.
• The Evil Emperor insulted the Demon Empress and accused her of conspiring with Xuan Ming, prompting her to unleash her destructive power in anger.

The Evil Emperor accepted Xuan Ming’s terms after Xuan Ming blocked his strongest attack and imprisoned him, then returned to the Evil Demon Forest to settle his clan’s affairs. Back in Sun Moon Imperial City, the Evil Emperor returned with the promised Evil Eye External Soul Bone but insisted on destroying the empire’s soul tool technology before sacrificing himself.

• The Evil Emperor paralyzed the Demon Empress and attacked her with the Light of Destruction, but Xuan Ming blocked it with the Evil God Barrier.
• Xuan Ming trapped the exhausted Evil Emperor with three overlapping domains and offered him the choice to sacrifice himself or be killed and have his soul ring and soul bone taken.
• Di Tian persuaded the Evil Emperor to choose sacrifice, and Xuan Ming agreed to release the hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant in exchange for an Evil Eye External Soul Bone.
• Xuan Ming, Di Tian, and the Demon Empress surveyed Sun Moon Imperial City, where Xuan Ming requested soul tool research and designs to bring back to the Douluo Continent.
• The Evil Emperor returned with the Evil Eye External Soul Bone and declared that he would first destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s core soul tool technology, research materials, and leading soul engineers.

Xuan Ming reasoned that destroying Soul Tool civilization could make humans a greater threat to Soul Beasts, then warned that exterminating humanity was a final option if his plans failed. After absorbing the Evil Emperor's sacrifice, he broke through to the Divine Origin Realm, demonstrated his new divine consciousness, and was taken by Gu Yuena to rest on Sea God Island.

• Xuan Ming argued that destroying Soul Tool civilization could plunge humans back into predatory conflict and said exterminating humanity was a possible last resort.
• Di Tian objected to slaughtering humanity, but the Evil Emperor accepted Xuan Ming's decision and led him to a barren mountain range for the sacrifice.
• A month after the Evil Emperor's sacrifice, Xuan Ming emerged from a spiritual cocoon with divine consciousness and reached the Divine Origin Realm.
• Xuan Ming used his new perception to observe places across Douluo Star, then teleported Di Tian and the Demon Empress to Sea God Island.
• Gu Yuena supported the exhausted Xuan Ming, took him into the ice crystal castle, and instructed Di Tian to guard the entrance while she helped stabilize his power.

After Xuan Ming awakened from his breakthrough, Gu Yuena realized the Dragon God's lingering soul was nourishing him through a fissure to the Dragon Tomb and secretly recognized his potential. She kept that discovery from him, while the girls resolved to speak honestly with him one at a time, beginning with Xiao Wu.

• Gu Yuena explained that Xuan Ming's divine sense was born within the Douluo Plane's laws and would not face the same suppression as visiting gods.
• Xuan Ming discovered that his divine sense was still growing, and Gu Yuena traced the growth to dragon soul power reaching him from the Dragon Tomb through a planar fissure.
• Gu Yuena inferred that the Dragon God's lingering soul was allowing Xuan Ming to draw on the Dragon Tomb's power and believed it recognized his potential to evolve beyond his current bloodline.
• Gu Yuena hid her discovery because she feared that added expectations would intensify Xuan Ming's thoughts of destroying humanity as a last resort.
• On Sea God Island, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the others discussed their feelings and agreed to take responsibility for their choices rather than leave everything to Xuan Ming.
• The girls drew lots to decide who would speak with Xuan Ming first, Xiao Wu drew the first turn, and the castle doors opened at midnight.

Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan sought clarity about their feelings for Xuan Ming and found reassurance in his quiet embraces, while Hu Liena declared her love through a passionate kiss. The chapter ended with Hu Liena openly confessing to Xuan Ming.

• Xiao Wu told Xuan Ming she feared losing their close-knit home, and he embraced her without words.
• Xiao Wu understood that Xuan Ming also wanted to preserve their bond and left determined to stay with everyone.
• Dugu Yan entered next, and Xuan Ming embraced her until her fear eased and she recognized her irreplaceable place in his life.
• Hu Liena rushed to Xuan Ming, kissed him passionately, and declared that she loved him.

Xuan Ming accepted Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu's feelings, and the girls passed their third Sea God Trial. That night, he visited Snow Empress and Ice Empress to speak honestly about their relationship and admitted he did not care whether he passed his fourth trial.

• Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu confessed that they wanted to stay by Xuan Ming's side, and he silently welcomed them into his arms.
• The girls' trial marks announced that they had passed the third Sea God Trial, and they received rewards that strengthened their abilities.
• Gu Yuena worried that Bo Saixi and the four powerful soul beasts would not confess their feelings unless Xuan Ming took the initiative.
• Ah Rou arrived with breakfast and told Xiao Wu that she had completed her trial on the day it was issued.
• Xuan Ming visited Snow Empress and Ice Empress, said he had come of his own accord, and admitted that he did not care whether he passed his fourth trial.

Xuan Ming gave Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, and Zi JI powerful crystals to aid their cultivation, while explaining that he acted from personal promises rather than concern for a greater cause. He then went to Sea God Hall to return the Sea God Trident, where he began removing the mark of the Sea God Nine Trials.

• Xuan Ming gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and explained that he was keeping promises to those he cared about, not serving the Soul Beast Clan's greater cause.
• Xuan Ming visited Bi Ji and Zi JI, admitted his feelings were complicated but said he would honor his promise to the Ice Dragon King first, and gave each of them a cultivation crystal.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI accepted Xuan Ming's choice and gifts, and watched him leave with affection.
• Xuan Ming entered Sea God Hall and thanked Bo Saixi for looking after him on Sea God Island.
• Xuan Ming presented the Sea God Trident and pressed his hand to the Sea God Nine Trials mark on his forehead, causing it to flare in resonance with the Sea God's Light.

Xuan Ming extracted the Sea God's Heart and gave it to Bo Saixi as compensation for killing Tang Chen, then left her with the Sea God Trident's recognition. The God Kings feared he might abandon the trials and force his own ascent, so the Goddess of Life asked Gu Yuena to persuade him back onto the trials' path.

• Xuan Ming endured the painful extraction of the Sea God's Heart and fused it into the Sea God Trident, allowing Bo Saixi to wield the restored divine artifact.
• Xuan Ming told Bo Saixi that he had killed Tang Chen and gave her the Sea God's Heart as an apology and compensation before leaving Sea God Hall.
• The God Kings watched the events and worried Xuan Ming might abandon the trials and attempt an independent breakthrough to the God Realm.
• The Goddess of Life contacted Gu Yuena and explained that the God Kings were testing Xuan Ming and might destroy him if he became an uncontrolled threat.
• Gu Yuena warned that Xuan Ming would reject any arbitrary declaration that he had passed the Fourth Trial, and the Goddess of Life asked her to guide him back onto the trials' path.

Gu Yuena warned Bo Saixi that Xuan Ming might abandon the God's Trial and destroy human civilization, then urged her to win his trust and guide him. Bo Saixi accepted Xuan Ming after learning he had freed her from her long wait for Tang Chen, while Gu Yuena turned to the remaining problem of Qian Renxue.

• Gu Yuena resolved to keep Xuan Ming steady and warned Bo Saixi that he might force his way into the God Realm and destroy humanity.
• Gu Yuena ordered Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, and Zi JI to prepare to sacrifice themselves if Xuan Ming's God's Trial could not be salvaged.
• Bo Saixi told Xuan Ming that she knew he had ended Tang Chen's suffering and confessed that she wanted to give her heart to him.
• Xuan Ming clasped Bo Saixi's hand, silently accepting her feelings.
• Gu Yuena witnessed their answer and identified Qian Renxue as the final problem.

Xuan Ming returned to Spirit City with Soul Tool technology and experts from the Sun Moon Empire, helping Bibi Dong establish a research institute while avoiding his meeting with Qian Renxue. When Gu Yuena confronted him about the delay, his silence revealed how close he was to rejecting the Divine Realm’s coercive trial.

• Xuan Ming gave Bibi Dong the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool research, and she recognized its potential to strengthen the Spirit Hall Empire beyond military force.
• Xuan Ming repeatedly brought Soul Tool experts and craftsmen from the Sun Moon Empire to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong established a research institute.
• Xuan Ming stayed close to Bibi Dong and focused on the empire, leaving Gu Yuena increasingly frustrated that he still had not dealt with Qian Renxue.
• Gu Yuena confronted Xuan Ming in the Pope’s Palace and accused him of stalling or letting the situation fall apart.
• Xuan Ming remained silent, confirming Gu Yuena’s fear that the Divine Realm’s Severing Romantic Ties trial had pushed him toward open resistance.

Gu Yuena warned Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming would destroy humanity if his God Trial failed, then Qian Renxue returned from the Angel Secret Realm and confronted him after seeing the transformed Spirit Hall Empire. She was enraged by Bibi Dong’s apparent closeness to Xuan Ming, but he calmly asked whether she had eaten.

• Gu Yuena left Xuan Ming with Bibi Dong and went to the Angel Temple to demand that Qian Renxue come out.
• Gu Yuena told Qian Renxue that failure of Xuan Ming’s trial could drive him to destroy humanity, and Qian Renxue was left shaken.
• Qian Renxue surveyed the Spirit Hall Empire and questioned whether Xuan Ming truly intended to destroy humanity.
• Qian Renxue returned to the Pope’s Palace and found Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong sharing a peaceful dinner.
• Qian Renxue angrily rejected the sight of Bibi Dong acting like Xuan Ming’s wife, and Xuan Ming asked if she had eaten.

Xuan Ming violently drove Qian Renxue away after revealing that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji, intending to sever their complicated ties through hatred. His Fourth Trial was completed, and after three months of cultivation he remained in seclusion to absorb his reward as the Fifth Trial approached.

• Qian Renxue confronted Xuan Ming about Gu Yuena’s warning and demanded to know what his relationship with Bibi Dong meant for her.
• Xuan Ming confirmed that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji, threatened Qian Renxue with the Blood Spear, then beat and sent her back to the Angel Temple.
• Bibi Dong held Xuan Ming’s hand as he watched Qian Renxue disappear, while Gu Yuena realized he had deliberately forced a final break between them.
• Xuan Ming’s Sea God Fourth Trial was declared complete, granting him a God-Given Soul Ring and increasing every Soul Ring’s age by fifty thousand years.
• Xuan Ming withdrew to absorb the reward, and three months later he was still cultivating inside a sealed chamber in the Pope’s Palace.

After reaching level one hundred, Xuan Ming received the Fifth Trial: end the Douluo Continent’s strife and establish a sustainable order without genocidal purges. He identified Soul Master privilege and the human–Soul Beast cycle of slaughter as roots of conflict, then went to ask Poseidon whether absorbed Soul Rings could be removed.

• Xuan Ming completed the Ring of Kindness and became a level-one-hundred True God without inheriting a divine position.
• The God Kings agreed that the Fifth Trial would test Xuan Ming’s ability to reshape the continent’s order within three years, and the Godess of Kindness delivered its requirements.
• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena that lasting order required better basic living conditions, fair laws, and career paths for non-Soul Masters.
• Xuan Ming proposed changing how Soul Masters obtained Soul Rings to end the cycle of humans hunting Soul Beasts, but Gu Yuena said she could not remove absorbed rings intact.
• Xuan Ming went to Sea God Island, contacted Poseidon, and asked whether human Soul Masters’ acquired Soul Rings could be stripped away.

Xuan Ming created a hundred-year god-given soul ring, considered how to change the soul-ring system, and recognized the Divine Realm’s attempt to guide and restrain him. He then went to the Sun Moon Empire to recruit Soul Engineers and began strengthening its state preceptor.

• Xuan Ming used the Ring of Kindness and his divine power to create a hundred-year soul ring, proving that soul rings could be made without hunting soul beasts.
• Poseidon told Xuan Ming that replacing soul-beast rings with god-given rings would require too much power and time, and said Bo Saixi needed at least two more years to inherit his godhood.
• Xuan Ming concluded that the Divine Realm was steering him toward resolving the continent’s conflicts through cooperation and reform rather than destruction.
• Xuan Ming left Sea God Island and ordered the Sun Moon Emperor to gather its top Soul Engineers and send ten thousand technical personnel to help the Spirit Hall Empire develop soul tools.
• Xuan Ming poured divine power into the Sun Moon Empire’s state preceptor, breaking his Level 98 bottleneck and elevating his strength.

Xuan Ming brought more than ten thousand Sun Moon Empire technicians to the Spirit Hall Empire, where Bibi Dong welcomed them as honored contributors. Qian Daoliu worried that Qian Renxue would collapse after learning the truth about her parents, but Xuan Ming refused to intervene and told him to leave her to face her own trials.

• Xuan Ming helped the Imperial Preceptor advance to Level 99, prompting the Sun Moon Emperor to promise technicians, Soul Engineers, and research into Soul Ring-storage Soul Tools.
• Seven days later, Xuan Ming transported more than ten thousand technicians and their supplies to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong welcomed them and arranged their settlement.
• Azure Luan Douluo, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo reported the arrival to Qian Daoliu, who chose to let Bibi Dong and Xuan Ming’s plans unfold while Qian Renxue completed her God’s Trials.
• Qian Daoliu recalled Qian Renxue’s injuries and her suspicions about Qian Xunji’s death, then decided to seek Xuan Ming’s help.
• Xuan Ming condemned Qian Daoliu for his past inaction and refused to help Qian Renxue, telling him to return to the Angel Temple and let her face her own tribulation.
• After Qian Daoliu left the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong entered the hall to join Xuan Ming.

Bibi Dong asked Xuan Ming to help Qian Renxue come to terms with the truth about her family, and he said he understood. A year later, the Spirit Hall Empire’s Soul Tool development put the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires under mounting pressure, while Xuan Ming pursued a faith-based system for recycling Soul Rings.

• Bibi Dong pleaded with Xuan Ming to help Qian Renxue through her grief, and Xuan Ming agreed to keep the matter in mind.
• The Spirit Hall Empire expanded Soul Tool production and work-study programs, easing commoners’ hardships while its rivals struggled with military costs and declining public loyalty.
• Yu Xiaogang urged the ill Xue Ye to send an envoy to contact the Sun Moon Empire, and Tang San volunteered for the mission.
• Xue Ye appointed Tang San special envoy to negotiate with the Spirit Hall Empire and seek Soul Tool technology from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Researchers in Spirit City successfully stored Ten-Year and Hundred-Year Soul Rings in a new device, though its capacity remained limited.
• Xuan Ming studied the power of faith and considered creating a Soul Ring Repository that could lend out and reclaim Soul Rings without requiring Soul Beast hunts.