Chapter Summaries

The Fire God invited Kong Xuan and the others to touch the Primordial Divine Fire and undergo its trial to see if they qualified for his inheritance. After the group’s results fell short of the standard for inheriting his divine position, the Fire God singled out Kong Xuan and asked whether he would try.

• The Fire God dropped his solemn act, explained that the Primordial Divine Fire would judge potential successors, and invited the group to touch it.
• Xu Tianyi went first, and the fire marked him with six trials, qualifying him only for basic trials and a portion of the Fire God's blessings.
• Xu Wei and Shui Ling each triggered six trials, Xiao Hongchen triggered seven, and Qiangu Fuliu reached the group’s best result with eight.
• The Fire God showed greater interest in Kong Xuan than in the remaining candidates and asked him to step forward and try.

Kong Xuan refused the Fire God's inheritance, and Kong Ling was recognized as the new successor after the primordial divine fire marked her with a golden flame. The Fire God warned that the Nine Trials could be deadly, and the group compared their difficult first trials before turning to hear Kong Ling's requirement.

• Kong Xuan rejected the Fire God's inheritance, and the Fire God realized he had his own path to follow.
• Kong Ling touched the primordial divine fire, which surged and branded her with a pure golden flame mark.
• The Fire God declared that Kong Ling would become the new Fire God if she passed all Nine Trials.
• The Fire God warned everyone that the trials were dangerous and people could die.
• Xu Wei and Qiangu Fuliu described their demanding first trials, while the others shared their own targeted challenges.
• Everyone turned to Kong Ling, wondering what her first trial required.

Kong Ling learned that her First Trial required her to endure the Primordial Divine Fire, a Super Divine Artifact, and fuse her divine soul with its flames. She resolved to face the deadly trial, which had to be completed within a hundred days.

• Kong Ling explained that her First Trial, Heart Fire Soul Tempering, required her divine soul to begin fusing with the Primordial Divine Fire.
• The Fire God revealed that the flame was a Super Divine Artifact embodying the laws of fire and warned that failure could destroy Kong Ling's soul.
• Kong Xuan worried about Kong Ling, but she told him she had chosen this path and was determined to succeed.
• Kong Xuan expressed his faith in Kong Ling and promised to support her from behind.
• The Fire God stated that the First Trial had to be completed within a hundred days or the participants would lose their eligibility.

Kong Xuan left Fire God Mountain with Gu Yuena after asking the Fire God to watch over Kong Ling and the others during their trials. As the Voyager sailed toward the new continent, Kong Xuan revealed to Gu Yuena that it concealed an independent small world he called Dragon Valley.

• Kong Xuan advised Kong Ling and the others to prepare for their trials over the hundred-day period, while Kong Ling reassured him and urged him to continue toward the new continent.
• Kong Xuan asked the Fire God to watch over the group, and the Fire God promised to offer consideration within the rules because they carried Evelyn's token.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena left Fire God Mountain, boarded the Voyager, and told Captain Luo Yuan to set course for the new continent.
• Kong Xuan brooded over being unable to return before Kong Ling completed her first trial as the Voyager sailed into worsening weather.
• Gu Yuena questioned why Kong Xuan had insisted she join the voyage, and Kong Xuan revealed that the new continent concealed an independent small world called Dragon Valley.

Kong Xuan told Gu Yuena that Dragon Valley held the Dragon God's inheritance, but he knew obtaining it could bring deadly consequences. After breaking through another Soul Douluo level during the voyage, Kong Xuan joined Gu Yuena in responding to a level-one alert when an enormous life-form rose beneath the sea.

• Kong Xuan explained that Dragon Valley was both a dragon graveyard and the site of the Dragon God's inheritance, and Gu Yuena became eager to claim it.
• Kong Xuan recognized that the inheritance could drive Gu Yuena and the Soul Beast Clan into disaster, but kept his warning to himself.
• Kong Xuan advanced another level in the Soul Douluo realm after more than two months of cultivation at sea.
• Captain Luo Yuan halted the warship and ordered the crew to prepare for a level-one alert.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena went to the command room, where Luo Yuan reported an enormous life-form rising from the sea.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena sent out their spiritual power to investigate, but both streams struck an impenetrable barrier about ten thousand meters ahead.

The Demon Empress approached the Voyager, and Kong Xuan recognized her as the million-year Deep Sea Demon Whale driven by vengeance. Her first attack shattered the ship’s linked Soul Tool Shield and badly damaged the vessel, leaving Captain Luo Yuan to decide what to do next.

• A detection operator warned Luo Yuan that an enormous Sea Soul Beast was rapidly closing in on the Voyager, and Luo Yuan ordered the crew to activate the linked Soul Tool Shield.
• Kong Xuan recognized the approaching beast as the Demon Empress, a million-year Deep Sea Demon Whale who had pursued power and revenge since Tang San killed her husband.
• Luo Yuan ordered the attack units to fire, but the Soul Cannons barely affected the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress raised a vast wave and slammed it into the Voyager, breaking its shield and damaging the hull, deck, and Soul Cannons.
• Luo Yuan surveyed the wrecked command room and faced an urgent decision as captain.

Luo Yuan confronted the Demon Empress to draw her attention and buy the Voyager time, but his strongest cannon strike barely wounded her. Kong Xuan recognized the Demon Empress, prompting her to demand how he knew of her existence.

• Luo Yuan ordered the Voyager crew to stop attacking and switch to the secondary linked defensive barrier, then flew toward the Demon Empress to negotiate.
• When the Demon Empress showed no sign of relenting, Luo Yuan prepared his Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon-Sea Splitter and urged Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena to escape.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena appeared beside Luo Yuan and remained calm despite the danger, while Kong Xuan teased him for speaking so much.
• The Demon Empress declared that none of them would escape, and Luo Yuan fired the Sea Splitter into the whirlpool.
• Luo Yuan's shot exposed and wounded the Demon Empress, but her injury rapidly healed, leaving him shaken by how little damage he had caused.
• Kong Xuan identified the Demon Empress, and she demanded to know who he was and how he knew of her existence.

Kong Xuan confronted the Demon Empress, who had come to devour him, and revealed overwhelming power by summoning the Sea-Calming Divine Needle. He struck her with it, leaving the Demon Empress trapped beneath its crushing force as a massive shock wave engulfed the sea.

• The Demon Empress revealed that she wanted to devour Kong Xuan and believed doing so could break through her cultivation bottleneck.
• Kong Xuan asked Gu Yuena whether she or he should fight, and Gu Yuena explained that her human avatar could not withstand the power needed to face the Demon Empress.
• Kong Xuan released a fearsome golden aura, prompting the Demon Empress to take her human combat form.
• Kong Xuan raised two fingers and summoned the Sea-Calming Divine Needle, which froze the Demon Empress and prevented her from mobilizing her power.
• The Sea-Calming Divine Needle slammed into the sea where the Demon Empress stood, unleashing a colossal shock wave and towering walls of water.

Kong Xuan killed the Demon Empress with a devastating strike, leaving Luo Yuan and Gu Yuena stunned. After Luo Yuan organized repairs to the Voyager, Kong Xuan retrieved the Demon Empress’s million-year right arm Soul Bone from the sea.

• Kong Xuan reassured the stunned Luo Yuan that the crisis was over after his strike annihilated the Demon Empress.
• Luo Yuan accepted Kong Xuan’s respectful address, then returned to the Voyager to inspect damage and direct the crew’s repairs.
• Kong Xuan summoned a dark red Soul Bone from the seabed as Gu Yuena identified it as a Soul Bone.
• Kong Xuan revealed that the bone was the Demon Empress’s right arm bone and recognized it as a million-year treasure.

After repairing the Voyager and gaining two levels plus powerful Soul Bone Skills from the Demon Empress, Kong Xuan and the crew reached the new continent. Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena flew ahead to search for Dragon Valley, relying on Gu Yuena’s ability to sense dragons.

• Under Captain Luo Yuan’s orders, the Voyager’s Soul Engineers repaired the ship’s battle damage, and it resumed its voyage.
• Kong Xuan absorbed the Demon Empress’s right arm bone, gained two levels of Soul Power, and obtained the Demonic Ultimate Divine Light and Devour skills.
• After more than two months at sea, the lookout spotted the new continent, and Luo Yuan confirmed it was their destination.
• Kong Xuan asked Luo Yuan to keep the Voyager waiting while he and Gu Yuena investigated the continent.
• Kong Xuan told Gu Yuena he could not locate Dragon Valley himself, and Gu Yuena vowed to sense the Dragon God’s call and find it.

After eight days of searching the vast continent, Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena found a place with traces of high-ranking dragons that might conceal the spatial rift to Dragon Valley. Since Kong Xuan could not use his power to open it, he revealed a one-of-a-kind mobile Teleportation Array and left Gu Yuena wondering whether he planned to bring in others to help.

• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena spent eight days searching the continent for the spatial rift connecting to Dragon Valley.
• Gu Yuena detected the pure presence of high-ranking dragons near a mountain and concluded the rift was likely hidden there.
• Gu Yuena asked Kong Xuan to tear open the rift, but he said he could not call upon his power.
• Kong Xuan produced a mobile Teleportation Array, the only successful one of its kind.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Kong Xuan planned to teleport others there so they could combine their strength to open the rift.

Kong Xuan brought Gu Yuena and the Star Dou Forest Ferocious Beasts to Dragon Valley, where Gu Yuena sensed the Dragon God’s presence. They entered the valley and found the dragon race’s vast cemetery, leaving Gu Yuena overcome with grief and hatred.

• Kong Xuan sent Gu Yuena back to Star Dou to gather Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts rather than asking humans for help.
• Gu Yuena returned with Di Tian, Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, Zi JI, Bi Ji, and the Silver Dragon King’s true body.
• At Gu Yuena’s order, the Ferocious Beasts tore open a spatial rift and held it stable for no more than two hours.
• Kong Xuan and the older Gu Yuena entered Dragon Valley, where Gu Yuena sensed the Dragon God’s presence and led the way toward it.
• Gu Yuena reached a vast valley filled with dragon bones and realized it was the dragon race’s cemetery, then was overwhelmed by sorrow, painful memories, and hatred.

Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan reached the heart of Dragon Valley, where Gu Yuena absorbed the Dragon God's dragon soul and recovered from her injuries. With her strength greatly increased but the Dragon God's inheritance still undiscovered, they decided to leave and return later.

• Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan passed through the dragon graveyard and plunged into a vast pit beneath it.
• Gu Yuena found the Dragon God's dragon soul and released her Silver Dragon King bloodline to merge with it.
• The Dragon God's dragon soul healed Gu Yuena's wounds and restored her origin, while the Dragon God's gold and silver origins entered her brow.
• Gu Yuena said she had advanced in strength and could now fight the Asura God.
• Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan agreed to leave Dragon Valley and return after she had consolidated her gains.

Gu Yuena healed her injuries in Dragon Valley, and the Dragon Clan sent Kong Xuan three powerful Soul Bones as thanks. After more than five months at sea, Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena returned to Fire God Mountain to find Kong Ling and the others missing, and the Fire God told him they were no longer there.

• Gu Yuena confirmed that her injuries had healed, and Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts celebrated before returning with her to Star Dou to consolidate her cultivation.
• As Gu Yuena teleported away, she sent Kong Xuan three Soul Bones: the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone, the Space Dragon King Right Arm Bone, and the Time Dragon King Left Arm Bone.
• Kong Xuan accepted the Soul Bones as thanks for helping Gu Yuena recover in Dragon Valley.
• After a voyage of more than two months, Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena reached Fire God Mountain, where Kong Xuan searched for Kong Ling and the others but found no sign of them.
• The Fire God emerged from the primordial divine fire and told Kong Xuan that Kong Ling and the others were no longer there.

Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena found Kong Ling and the others on an island, where Kong Xuan learned that Kong Ling’s Second Trial of the Fire God required her to evaporate a vast lake within two hours using only her Martial Soul’s fire. With Electrolux’s advice about drawing on the surrounding fire and the sun’s power, Kong Ling began the trial.

• The Fire God told Kong Xuan that the younger disciples were on an island east of Fire God Mountain and that Kong Ling was about to begin her second trial.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena flew to the island and reunited with Kong Ling and the others, who had passed their first examinations.
• Kong Xuan revealed that his Soul Power had reached rank eighty-nine after he fused with several Soul Bones, astonishing the group.
• Kong Ling explained that her trial required her to evaporate the lake within two hours using only her Martial Soul’s fire and no Soul Skills.
• Electrolux advised Kong Xuan that Kong Ling should draw on the surrounding fire elements and the sun’s power, and Kong Xuan passed the guidance to her.
• Kong Ling summoned her Martial Soul and seven Soul Rings, then began the Second Trial of the Fire God.

Ju Zi reported that the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion of the Heavenly Soul Empire had stalled after the other three kingdoms joined the war. Xu Tianran ordered a full-strength offensive and a propaganda campaign, but privately feared the war could become unsustainable if the empire failed to win within six months.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that the Sun Moon army had conquered over half of the Heavenly Soul Empire before the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire joined the conflict, turning it into a stalemate.
• Ju Zi explained that the army’s forces had been stretched thin across occupied territory and that Titled Douluo from the allied kingdoms were hindering further advances.
• Chancellor Yang reported that only around forty percent of the Sun Moon Empire’s people supported the war.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Soul Engineer legions to attack at full strength, authorized Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, and demanded results within ten days.
• Xu Tianran ordered Chancellor Yang to spread propaganda portraying the war as a fight for survival and instructed the officials to carry out his commands.
• After the officials left, Xu Tianran worried that the war would become impossible to sustain if the empire failed to achieve a major victory within half a year.

After returning to Mingdu from more than a year on Fire God Mountain, Kong Xuan and Kong Ling reunited with Kong Deming and learned that Xu Tianran had come seeking the Worship Hall’s stockpile of Fixed Soul Cannon Shells. Kong Deming had refused, leaving the emperor to depart in frustration as the continent’s war remained deadlocked.

• Kong Xuan and his companions returned to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where the staff welcomed him as the Pagoda’s founder and first Pagoda Master.
• Kong Xuan and Kong Ling went to the Worship Hall and saw Xu Tianran leave after an apparently unpleasant meeting with Kong Deming.
• Kong Ling appeased her displeased grandfather, while Kong Xuan asked why Xu Tianran had visited.
• Kong Deming explained that the Sun Moon Empire’s war against the original Douluo Three Kingdoms had stalled and was straining the empire’s resources.
• Kong Deming said Xu Tianran had asked for the Worship Hall’s accumulated Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and that he had refused.

Kong Deming revealed that Three-Word Battle Armor was nearly complete, and Kong Ling set out to undertake the Fire God's Five Trials. When Kong Xuan returned to Mingdu, Kong Deming unveiled the finished armor, allowing their plan to begin.

• Kong Deming told Kong Xuan and Kong Ling that Xi Yuan had completed Soul Forging and Fusion Forging, bringing Three-Word Battle Armor close to completion.
• Kong Ling left to attempt the Fire God's Five Trials, agreeing to have Na'er accompany her after Kong Xuan expressed concern.
• Seven days after Kong Ling's departure, Kong Xuan returned to Mingdu and hurried to the Worship Hall's core laboratory in response to Kong Deming's urgent summons.
• Kong Deming activated the silvery-white Three-Word Battle Armor, which raised his power to the realm of a Limit Douluo.
• Kong Xuan praised Kong Deming's achievement and said their plan could begin.

The Sun Moon Empire launched a coordinated assault on Ten Thousand Stars City, whose defenders were already enduring a prolonged siege. Yan Feng identified the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion’s surprise attack, then discovered two more elite legions had joined the bombardment as the city’s defenses buckled.

• Wang Yiheng ordered the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to bombard Ten Thousand Stars City, while Star Luo, Heavenly Soul, and Dou Ling defenders struggled to shield the walls.
• Yan Feng intercepted a Class 9 Soul Annihilation Ray aimed at the city and recognized it as an attack from the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion.
• The Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion attacked from the northeast, forcing Ten Thousand Stars City to withstand fire from two directions.
• Yan Feng prepared to lead a counterattack, but spotted two more distant soul tool positions firing at the city and suspected they belonged to elite Ferocious Beast Soul Engineer legions.

The Sun Moon Empire concentrated its four great Soul Engineer legions to capture Ten Thousand Stars City, while Yan Feng led the defenders in a desperate counterattack. The city fell at enormous cost, and Xu Tianyuan ended a confrontation with the three surviving defenders by telling them to take their own lives.

• Ju Zi secretly regrouped the Sun Moon Empire’s four great Soul Engineer legions outside Ten Thousand Stars City to break the stalemate.
• Yan Feng ordered Soul Masters of Soul Emperor rank and above to abandon the defenses and charge the enemy positions.
• After Ten Thousand Stars City fell, the defenders’ close-quarters counterattack annihilated the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps, killed Luan Feng, and reduced the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion by more than half.
• Yan Feng, Wang Xian’er, and Huang Jinxu were the only survivors of the hundreds of high-ranking Soul Masters who charged, and all three were gravely wounded.
• Huang Jinxu and Wang Xian’er rejected Xu Tianyuan’s words of respect, and Xu Tianyuan told them to take their own lives.