Recaps

Chen Xin fought a level-99 Limit Douluo in a sword duel, winning through his resolve despite his Seven Kill Sword breaking. His victory gave Qi Ling's side four wins and secured the competition.

• Chen Xin opened the duel with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, but the elder's My Body Is Like a Sword withstood the attack.
• Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword broke through the elder's defenses, but the elder revealed a crack in Chen Xin's sword and countered with the seventy-two-sword Demon-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Chen Xin deflected the elder's formation, though another scar appeared on his sword, and he declared that his resolve surpassed the elder's.
• Chen Xin and the elder charged at each other, and Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword broke in two after they crossed.
• The elder admitted defeat because his own sword had vanished, confirming Chen Xin's win and securing four victories for Qi Ling's side.

After defeating Qian Xunji’s side, Qi Ling set out with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to reclaim Spirit City and restore their standing. The city’s people surrendered before he could speak.

• Qian Jiyin protested the defeat and prepared to fight, but Qi Ling challenged him and Qian Xunji agreed to abandon the world.
• Qian Xunji and Qian Jiyin left the world as their followers withdrew.
• Qi Ling announced that Spirit City must be reclaimed so Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue could restore their reputations.
• The group returned to Dragon's Glory to rest and spread news of their victory, then Qi Ling healed Qian Renxue and traveled with her and Bibi Dong to Spirit City.
• The people of Spirit City knelt before Qi Ling and begged to surrender and be spared.

Bibi Dong returned to Spirit Hall, won the people’s trust, and reorganized its leadership after Qian Xunji’s defeat. Once the others had left, she and Qi Ling turned their private reunion into a playful, passionate encounter.

• Qi Ling tried to reassure the kneeling people, but Bibi Dong stepped forward and explained her return and Qian Xunji’s crimes.
• The people of the city recognized Bibi Dong and readily believed her account because they still trusted and admired her.
• Bibi Dong spared the Divine Court members who had been misled, assigned punishments to those who had committed greater wrongs, and restored Qian Renxue to command of the Holy Temple Knight Order.
• After the temple officials withdrew, Qi Ling praised Bibi Dong’s authority, and they teased and tussled together.
• Qi Ling kissed Bibi Dong in the main hall and assured her that no one could enter without his permission.

Bibi Dong resumed her duties at Spirit Hall while Qi Ling teased her about being overheard, then went to see Qian Renxue as she reorganized the Holy Temple Knight Order. The chapter left Tuo Lei realizing Qi Ling and Qian Renxue seemed much closer than Qi Ling’s claim that they were not a couple suggested.

• A young maid summoned Bibi Dong to dinner and waited outside the Pope's Palace while Qi Ling was with her inside.
• Bibi Dong emerged about an hour later with Qi Ling, then privately accused him of letting the maid hear her; Qi Ling teased her about it.
• Bibi Dong assigned the young maid to handle future summons, while Qi Ling went to the Knight Palace to find Qian Renxue.
• Tuo Lei greeted Qi Ling and praised Qian Renxue's return to lead the Holy Temple Knight Order, then invited him inside to see her.
• Qi Ling told Tuo Lei that Qian Renxue was not yet his girlfriend, but Tuo Lei watched them greet each other warmly and realized they appeared to be a couple.

Bibi Dong abolished the Divine Court, kept Spirit Hall’s staff after requiring self-criticisms, and scheduled her papal inauguration for a month later. Qi Ling visited Xue Ke to invite her to the ceremony, and she confessed that she wanted a child with him.

• Bibi Dong announced that the Divine Court would cease to exist and required Spirit Hall’s senior members to write self-criticisms, which she later burned after accepting their confessions.
• Bibi Dong and the others scheduled her papal inauguration ceremony for a month later and planned to invite leaders from across the world.
• Qi Ling returned to Dragon's Glory, announced that Bibi Dong had become Pope, and then traveled to the Heaven Dou Empire to visit Xue Ke.
• Xue Ke welcomed Qi Ling affectionately, heard about his experiences and Bibi Dong’s return as Pope, and agreed to attend the inauguration ceremony.
• When Qi Ling asked what was troubling her, Xue Ke told him that she wanted a child.

Xue Ke asked Qi Ling to father an heir and confessed that she loved him. They spent the day together in the imperial palace, and the chapter ended with Qi Ling carrying an exhausted Xue Ke to dinner.

• Xue Ke told Qi Ling that the ministers were urging her to produce an heir and asked him to help her conceive a child.
• Xue Ke confessed that she loved Qi Ling, then revealed that Dragon Maiden had advised her to choose the throne room for their intimate encounter.
• Qi Ling and Xue Ke were intimate in the palace after Xue Ke had the area cleared of everyone except her closest maids.
• Afterward, Xue Ke worried that she might still not conceive because of the Dragon Clan's low fertility, and Qi Ling carried her to dinner when she struggled to walk.
• Xue Ke said she could still face her duties the next day and asked Qi Ling to treat her, citing Dragon Maiden's claim that he was skilled at healing such injuries.

Qi Ling showed Xue Ke five elemental teams during a military parade in Dragon's Glory City and explained how their elements could combine to amplify their strength. He promised to demonstrate their abilities in actual combat.

• Xue Ke's delegation arrived in Dragon's Glory City, where Qi Ling arranged a military parade in her honor.
• Qi Ling introduced five color-coded units led by Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, Feng Xiaotian, Yu Tianyi, and an unfamiliar leader.
• Xue Ke recognized that the teams were organized by elemental attributes and asked why Qi Ling had formed single-attribute units.
• Qi Ling explained that elemental reactions could make teamwork stronger, with combinations such as wind feeding flames and lightning spreading through water.
• Xue Ke said she wanted to see the teams fight, and Qi Ling offered to grant her wish immediately.

Qi Ling demonstrated how Soul Masters with different elemental abilities could work together to defeat his shadow troops, then showed the visiting rulers Dragon's Glory's military strength. After the review, he left the nobles to Ning Fengzhi and Flender and took Xue Ke and the others shopping in Dragon's Glory City.

• Qi Ling summoned shadow troops as training opponents for Huo Wu and the other soldiers during the military review.
• The fire, wind, water, plant, and lightning troops combined their abilities to defeat the shadow army.
• Qi Ling told Xue Ke that Soul Masters had potential beyond individual strength, while their combined combat system still needed development.
• Qi Ling demonstrated Dragon's Glory's cavalry, mechanized troops, and snipers, alarming the princes and nobles who attended.
• After hosting the visitors, Qi Ling left Ning Fengzhi and Flender to handle them and took Xue Ke and the others shopping, where Shadow Puppets carried their bags.

The Shrek members reunited in Spirit City, where Dai Mubai talked about giving up his throne and the group joked about adventure and romance. Qi Ling then helped Bibi Dong choose a crown for her papal coronation, and she promised to wear a wedding dress for him someday.

• Xue Ke and Dai Mubai arrived in Spirit City, and the Shrek members reunited, though Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were still missing while undergoing Godhood trials.
• Dai Mubai said he planned to hand the Star Luo throne to his older brother so he could return to a life of adventure, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar eagerly made plans to team up with him.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he had found his other half but was keeping the matter secret, while Oscar declared he would seek his own true love among the Zi Zhenzhu Pirate Crew.
• Qi Ling steered the group toward an audience with Bibi Dong and then helped her select a crown for her coronation as Pope.
• Qi Ling told Bibi Dong that the crown would suit her even better with a white wedding dress, and she blushed and promised to wear one for him someday.

Bibi Dong was crowned Pope of Spirit Hall in a grand ceremony, with Qi Ling placing the crown on her head. Afterward, the two skipped the evening banquet and stayed together in the Pope's Palace, while the visiting dignitaries began departing a few days later.

• Qi Ling was chosen to conduct Bibi Dong's coronation because the previous Pope could no longer uphold Spirit Hall's tradition.
• Bibi Dong barred Qi Ling from visiting her before the ceremony, and he waited until the coronation day arrived.
• Spirit Hall's Soul Masters welcomed Bibi Dong, and Qi Ling placed the crown on her head as the honored guests watched.
• Bibi Dong completed the ceremony's remaining rites, including blessings and greetings from the monarchs of the two empires.
• Qi Ling and Bibi Dong skipped the evening banquet and did not emerge from the Pope's Palace until the following morning.
• After several more days, the visiting dignitaries departed, and Qi Ling prepared to continue the Dragon God Nine Trials.

Qi Ling began the fourth Dragon God Trial, which required him to listen to every living being on the Dragon God Continent and form images from their sounds. He successfully perceived a rhinoceros on his first attempt and continued practicing the new ability.

• Qi Ling returned to Dragon God Island alone, and Dragon Maiden told him that the sixth stage would grant him a ninth Soul Ring more important than a God Ring.
• Dragon Maiden reminded Qi Ling that he had designed the trials himself and led him to the fourth island in the sky.
• Dragon Maiden instructed Qi Ling to sit on a raised platform, close his eyes, and listen to the sounds of all living beings on the Dragon God Continent.
• Qi Ling focused on the sounds and gradually formed a vivid image of a rhinoceros running across a grassland.
• Dragon Maiden praised Qi Ling's first attempt and told him to keep practicing until he could perceive every detail of the creatures he heard.

Qi Ling mastered a perception ability that let him sense the Dragon God Continent in vivid detail, and the Dragon Maiden used it to arrange a provocative test involving Bo Saixi. Qi Ling objected to secretly watching her, but the Dragon Maiden claimed Bo Saixi had agreed, leaving him unsettled about what would happen next.

• Qi Ling trained his perception for a month until he could sense the Dragon God Continent in fine, three-dimensional detail.
• The Dragon Maiden lured Qi Ling into using his new ability to perceive her bathing with Bo Saixi.
• Qi Ling watched the two women tease each other, then objected that spying on Bo Saixi without her consent was immoral.
• The Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that Bo Saixi had agreed to be part of his training, though Qi Ling doubted her explanation.

Qi Ling trained his perception to search the Dragon God Continent for a special cicada, the goal of the Fourth Trial. After months of exhausting daily searches, he located the cicada and passed the trial.

• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that he had to find a special cicada using sound and search the entire Dragon God Continent within a day.
• Qi Ling began the trial but could search only a quarter of the continent before exhausting his spiritual power.
• Qi Ling recovered through meditation and steadily improved, but weeks of searching revealed no cicada.
• Qi Ling trained for another month until he could search the entire continent in a day.
• After Qi Ling completed a full search, a golden point of light revealed the cicada, and he passed the trial.

Qi Ling passed the fourth and fifth Dragon God trials and learned that the sixth required him to obtain the Heaven's Mandate Dragon God Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Dragon Maiden told Bo Saixi that a ritual would begin after the fifth trial, and Bo Saixi accepted that she would go through with it.

• Dragon Maiden awarded Qi Ling three Soul Power Levels for passing the fourth trial, stored until he obtained his Ninth Soul Ring, and told him to wait before attempting the fifth.
• Bo Saixi recalled her tacitly accepted arrangement with Qi Ling and admitted to Dragon Maiden that she felt she had no way to back out.
• Dragon Maiden warned Bo Saixi that her choice would bind her entirely to the Dragon God, and said the ritual would begin after Qi Ling passed the fifth trial.
• Three days later, Qi Ling passed the fifth trial and received another three accumulated Soul Power Levels.
• Dragon Maiden explained that passing the sixth trial required Qi Ling to obtain his Ninth Soul Ring, the Heaven's Mandate Dragon God Soul Ring formed from the Dragon Clan's fortune.

Qi Ling learned that the Dragon Clan's fortune would be entrusted to him through a Soul Ring, but first he had to perform Bo Saixi's Dragon God Priest investiture ceremony. The ceremony began with Qi Ling using his blood to trace a formation across Bo Saixi's body, and he carefully started the task.

• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that the Dragon Clan's fortune would be represented by his Ninth Soul Ring and that obtaining it required a ceremony on the Dragon God Continent.
• Qi Ling and Dragon Maiden arrived at an altar, where they found Bo Saixi prepared to become the Dragon God Priest.
• Bo Saixi vowed loyalty to the Dragon God, removed her clothes, and lay at the center of the altar.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling had to use his blood to draw a formation on Bo Saixi so she could receive the Dragon Clan's fortune and authority as priest.
• Qi Ling reassured the tense Bo Saixi, cut his finger, and began tracing the formation onto her body.

Qi Ling and Bo Saixi completed the first part of the Dragon God Altar ritual, giving Bo Saixi a controllable Divine Dragon tattoo and restoring her potential as a Dragon God Priest. The Dragon Maiden began the next stage to transfer the Dragon Clan’s vast fortune through Bo Saixi and into Qi Ling.

• Qi Ling used his blood to draw a Divine Dragon pattern across Bo Saixi’s body, making it a permanent but concealable tattoo.
• The Dragon Maiden taught Bo Saixi to control her emotions and make the tattoo disappear beneath her skin.
• The Dragon Maiden explained that Bo Saixi would bridge the Dragon Clan’s fortune into Qi Ling, while gaining the functions and power of a Dragon God Priest.
• Qi Ling and Bo Saixi sat unclothed opposite each other at the altar’s center as the Dragon Maiden activated the ritual.
• Golden light filled the altar, and dragon-shaped streams of air gathered from the fortune of Dragon Clans across many worlds.

Qi Ling absorbed the Dragon Clan’s providence and gained a unique ninth Soul Ring, while Bo Saixi became the new Dragon God Priest and reached the Middle God level. After receiving his accumulated trial rewards, Qi Ling reached level 99 and demonstrated an attack that began to collapse space.

• Dragon Clan providence flowed through Bo Saixi into Qi Ling for four hours, giving him a ninth Soul Ring shaped like a Divine Dragon and said to surpass a Ten Million Year Soul Ring.
• Dragon Maiden gave Bo Saixi the Dragon God Scepter and named her the new Dragon God Priest, raising her power to the Middle God level.
• Qi Ling’s accumulated trial rewards raised his Soul Power Level to 99, and his actual combat power reached the True God level.
• Qi Ling formed a new attack with the Demon God Halberd, and his slow strike opened a crack in space that began to widen into a collapse.

Qi Ling unleashed a devastating attack that Dragon Maiden named Star Shattering, but it drained all his power and forced him to recover on Dragon God Island. Dragon Maiden told him he could not continue the Dragon God Trials until he obtained the complete Demon God's Godhood, leaving Qi Ling furious at the apparent requirement.

• Qi Ling's attack injured Dragon Maiden, who dispersed its force and revealed that it could have destroyed the Dragon God Continent.
• Dragon Maiden identified the attack as Star Shattering, a technique once wielded by the Dragon God, and said the Dragon God's version would have been unstoppable.
• Qi Ling returned to Dragon God Island to recover, and Dragon Maiden barred him from beginning the Seventh Trial because his powers were imbalanced.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling had to complete the Demon God Contention Battle and obtain the complete Demon God's Godhood before he could continue the Dragon God Trials.
• Qi Ling realized he could not obtain the Dragon God's Godhood without the Demon God's and angrily cursed the Dragon God.

Qi Ling persuaded Xiao Hei to become his mount and rode him into Dragon's Glory City, where Bai Ling'er jealously claimed she was the better mount. With Bei Na, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong still missing, Qi Ling felt unable to search other worlds without knowing where to go, until the Blood Devil offered to help.

• Qi Ling lured Xiao Hei into transforming into a large Black Jade Qilin by promising him delicious fish, then rode him toward Dragon's Glory City.
• Qi Ling flew into Dragon's Glory City on Xiao Hei, drawing envious attention as they returned to the city lord's residence.
• Yu Tianyi admired Xiao Hei, while Bai Ling'er transformed into her dragon form and insisted she was the better mount; Qi Ling promised to take her out often.
• Qi Ling worried that he could not find Bei Na, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong without knowing their whereabouts, despite his ability to travel between worlds.
• The Blood Devil spoke from within Qi Ling and offered to help him.

Blood Devil told Qi Ling that Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were undergoing the opposing Goddess of Light and Goddess of Darkness trials in another world, where they had to save it without their original powers. He offered Qi Ling the world’s coordinates so he could join them, warning that his own powers would be suppressed while everyone else could still use theirs.

• Blood Devil praised Qi Ling for taking control of the world and explained that he knew where Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were.
• Blood Devil revealed that the two women had been chosen by the Goddess of Light and the Goddess of Darkness, whose Godhood trials were exceptionally difficult.
• Blood Devil explained that Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong had to save an unfamiliar world without their original powers or outside help.
• Blood Devil warned Qi Ling that their failure would carry a heavy price and said he could join their trial to change the outcome.
• Qi Ling agreed to consider going, but Blood Devil warned that Qi Ling would lose his powers there while everyone else would retain theirs.

Qi Ling accepted Blood Devil’s offer to enter another world and rescue Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, despite losing his abilities there. He arrived powerless, while two women who had overseen the world lost their connection to it, and the chapter ended as bandits demanded a toll from him.

• Qi Ling agreed to enter the unknown world to save Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and Blood Devil sent him there.
• A woman in white and her black-clad sister sensed an outside force interfere with the world and discovered they could no longer perceive it.
• The woman in white revealed that her divine sense was inside the world but beyond her control, leaving the sisters unable to end the trial or know what would happen.
• Qi Ling awoke in the new world and found he could use none of his Soul Power, skills, martial abilities, or divine artifacts.
• Qi Ling set out to learn about the world, but a one-eyed man and his bandits stopped him and demanded a toll.

Qi Ling was rescued from bandits by Yang Qianqiong, a new disciple of the Light Observation Hall, and learned that Ning Rongrong was the hall master. Yang Qianqiong agreed to help him meet Ning Rongrong, but after they both admitted they had no money for food, Qi Ling said he had a way to handle it.

• One-Eye ordered a bandit to attack Qi Ling, but Yang Qianqiong knocked the throwing knife aside with a pebble.
• Yang Qianqiong tried to land gracefully, fell, then introduced herself as a disciple of the Light Observation Hall.
• The bandits fled after hearing Yang Qianqiong's affiliation, and Qi Ling thanked her for saving him.
• Qi Ling asked about Ning Rongrong, and Yang Qianqiong revealed that Ning Rongrong was their hall master and offered to help him meet her.
• Yang Qianqiong admitted she was hungry and had no money, and Qi Ling said he had a way to get them food.

Qi Ling learned that Ning Rongrong was a hall master in the Light Observation Hall and suspected her mission involved overthrowing the imperial court. When assassins attacked him, their blade broke against his chest, leaving him to wonder whether his original physical constitution had survived in this world.

• Qi Ling learned from Yang Qianqiong that Ning Rongrong had recently become one of the Light Observation Hall's three hall masters.
• Yang Qianqiong loudly declared the sect's goal of overthrowing the imperial court, forcing them to leave the restaurant before government soldiers arrived.
• Qi Ling suspected that Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's mission was to overthrow the imperial court and establish a new order.
• Qi Ling sensed an ambush, but several attackers sprang out and charged at him while Yang Qianqiong defended him.
• A concealed attacker struck Qi Ling in the chest, but the blade snapped without injuring him.
• Qi Ling wondered whether his original body, including its extraordinary toughness, had been preserved.

Qi Ling discovered that his body was invulnerable and that the locals treated him as a secret, high-ranking commander-in-chief, though he still did not know his true identity. After Yang Qianqiong visited and agreed to seek help from her Church of Light leader, an important visitor arrived at the government office and went straight to Qi Ling.

• Assassins attacked Qi Ling, but their blades could not harm him, and they fled when soldiers arrived.
• The constable captain addressed Qi Ling as his lord and claimed that only he in town knew Qi Ling's confidential identity.
• Qi Ling spent two days being pampered by the constables and refused the captain's offer to summon women for his company.
• Yang Qianqiong found Qi Ling and agreed to do her best to arrange a meeting with the Church of Light leader.
• A very important visitor arrived at the government office and went directly to Qi Ling.

Qi Ling learned that he was Azure Dragon, commander of the Brocade Guard, and that White Tiger was his colleague. After discovering he alone knew the identity of a mole in the Light Observation Hall, Qi Ling decided to head for Fuzhou to deal with the situation.

• White Tiger arrived and worried over Azure Dragon’s injuries, while Constable Qian explained that rebel army experts had attacked him.
• Qi Ling inferred that he was Azure Dragon and learned that White Tiger suspected Vermilion Bird might have revealed his movements, though he denied that she would betray him.
• White Tiger told Qi Ling that he was secretly meeting a mole planted in the Light Observation Hall on Noble Consort Su’s orders.
• Qi Ling learned that only he knew the mole’s identity and contact method, and decided to find and eliminate the mole before more trouble arose.
• Qi Ling said he would set out for Fuzhou and told White Tiger not to reveal that he had seen him.