Chapter Summaries

Dragon Maiden led Qi Ling and the others through a spacetime passage to the Dragon God Continent, where they found a lush landscape instead of dangerous trials. She revealed that the true Dragon God Island was above them.

• Dragon Maiden summoned a door, and Qi Ling opened it with the dragon-shaped key Bai Xuan had given him.
• Qi Ling and the others entered a protected platform in a spacetime passage that Dragon God had anchored with his Divine Power.
• Dragon Maiden guided the group toward their destination as the platform traveled through the passage.
• An enormous Divine Dragon swallowed the group, and they arrived safely in a landscape filled with flowers.
• Dragon Maiden explained that they had reached part of the Dragon God Continent and that the true Dragon God Island was above their heads.

Qi Ling attempted to fly to the nearest of the nine Dragon God Islands, but the immense pressure forced him to turn back before reaching it. As the group considered how to overcome the trial, Ning Rongrong offered to support him with a 140% boost.

• Dragon Maiden revealed that nine Dragon God Islands floated above them and that the nearest, 18,888 meters high, could only be reached through a trial of flight against crushing pressure.
• Qi Ling manifested his Divine Dragon Emperor Martial Soul and flew upward, but returned after reaching just over 10,000 meters, unable to withstand the pressure beyond that point.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling would need a major increase in strength to overcome the remaining distance, since he had nothing to push off from in the air.
• Ning Rongrong suggested supporting Qi Ling and explained that her Soul Saint abilities could give him a total 140% boost.

Qi Ling prepared to reach Dragon God Island, the only way to open the exit from the Forbidden Area in the Sky. With Shui Bing'er’s nirvana shield and Dugu Yan’s Snake Core strengthening him, he set out to attempt the ascent.

• Shui Bing'er offered to protect Ning Rongrong with the thirty-second shield created by her Phoenix Nirvana ability.
• Qi Ling agreed to attempt the ascent and promised to put Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong into the Treasure Bag if they were in danger.
• Qi Ling cultivated for two hours and recovered his Soul Power with help from the dense spiritual Qi.
• Dragon Maiden confirmed that reaching Dragon God Island was necessary to open the exit.
• Dugu Yan gave Qi Ling her Snake Core, whose toxin could boost his condition by an additional 30% at the cost of several days of weakness.
• Qi Ling announced that they would begin their attempt to break through the Forbidden Area in the Sky.

Qi Ling reached Dragon God Island by destroying the Sword of Rupture to break through the final barrier, but the explosion left him gravely injured. Ning Rongrong activated the teleportation array, allowing the group below to hurry to him.

• Qi Ling flew upward with Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er, relying on Dugu Yan's support before Shui Bing'er entered nirvana to protect herself and Ning Rongrong.
• Qi Ling pushed past fifteen thousand meters, but an invisible barrier stopped him less than eight hundred meters from Dragon God Island.
• Qi Ling destroyed the Sword of Rupture and used the resulting energy to break through the barrier, suffering catastrophic injuries as he reached the island.
• Qi Ling released Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er from his Hundred Treasures Pouch and told Ning Rongrong to activate the teleportation array.
• Ning Rongrong activated the array, and the Dragon Maiden urged Xiao Wu and the others to go to Qi Ling immediately.

Qi Ling reached Dragon God Island after nearly dying from forcing his way through its oppressive barrier, only to learn that the island might also hold opportunities for his companions. As Dragon Maiden and the others struggled to treat him, the Blood Devil emerged from Qi Ling’s body and moved to seize the Dragon God’s power, while Dragon Maiden stood in his way.

• Qi Ling told Xiao Wu and Dragon Maiden that he had destroyed a divine artifact to break through the pressure, leaving his dragon bones fractured and his body unable to return to human form.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Dragon God Island held opportunities for the others too, and Qi Ling regretted rushing there without knowing that.
• Dragon Maiden admitted she could not heal Qi Ling, and Ning Rongrong’s abilities were not suited to treating his injuries.
• The Blood Devil emerged from Qi Ling’s body, revealed himself to Dragon Maiden, and announced that he would claim the power left by the Dragon God.
• Dragon Maiden confronted the Blood Devil and refused to let him enter the island, challenging him to fight.

The Blood Devil trapped Dragon Maiden and approached the immobile Qi Ling, prompting Xiao Wu and the others to defend him. Zhu Zhuqing managed to wound the Blood Devil with Ning Rongrong’s support, and the women continued their attack as the chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi fighting him together.

• The Blood Devil imprisoned Dragon Maiden in a barrier powered by laws she could not understand, then turned toward Qi Ling.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong stood between the Blood Devil and Qi Ling, while Zhu Zhuqing attacked from the shadows and wounded him.
• Yu Tianyi charged the Blood Devil to free Zhu Zhuqing, and he dodged her before attacking Ning Rongrong.
• Tuoliya shielded Ning Rongrong, while Dugu Yan’s poison arrows passed harmlessly through the Blood Devil.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi activated their Martial Soul Avatars and coordinated their attacks against the Blood Devil as Qi Ling remained unable to move.

Yu Tianyi, Zhu Zhuqing, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er failed to harm Blood Devil, who overwhelmed the group and captured Xiao Wu. He enveloped her in blood-colored energy as she tried to protect Qi Ling.

• Yu Tianyi and Zhu Zhuqing coordinated an attack, but Blood Devil evaded Zhu Zhuqing’s Instant Hell Shadow Killing Formation and broke free of her restraints.
• Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er unleashed Ice and Fire Dual Heavens, but Blood Devil split the fusion skill apart with a slash, knocking them to the ground.
• Blood Devil used Blood Explosion to make the others collapse, while Xiao Wu remained standing thanks to her Invincible Golden Body.
• Xiao Wu teleported above Blood Devil and tried to attack him, but he seized her with red energy and lifted her before him.
• Blood Devil told Xiao Wu that strength determined who could protect others, then enveloped her entire body in blood-colored energy.

The Dragon God appeared to stop Blood Devil from harming Xiao Wu and confronted him on Dragon God Island. After easily defeating Blood Devil’s attacks, he forced Blood Devil to retreat into Qi Ling’s body.

• As Qi Ling prepared to fight Blood Devil by forbidden means, the Dragon God appeared and calmed his power.
• The Dragon God freed Xiao Wu from Blood Devil’s blood-red energy and revealed that she was unharmed.
• Blood Devil trapped the Dragon God in a red barrier, but the Dragon God shattered it and warned him he could not win on Dragon God Island.
• Blood Devil transformed into thousands of bats and attacked, but the Dragon God’s golden barrier burned them away.
• The Dragon God threatened Blood Devil with a golden sword, and Blood Devil retreated into Qi Ling’s body.

The Dragon God healed Qi Ling and revealed that he and Blood Devil were both aspects of Qi Ling. He explained that the Divine Realm and Devil Realm arose together, leaving Qi Ling to grapple with the nature of good and evil.

• The Dragon God restored the people Blood Devil had attacked, freed Dragon Maiden, and used Qi Ling's Soul Power to heal him.
• The Dragon God told Qi Ling that he was Qi Ling and that Blood Devil was also Qi Ling.
• The Dragon God explained that the Devil Realm was born alongside the Divine Realm, gathering resentment and evil power as the Divine Realm gathered faith and pure power.
• Qi Ling questioned why negative Godhoods existed in the Divine Realm, and the Dragon God explained that good and evil were human labels for natural parts of existence.

Qi Ling learned that the Dragon God and Blood Devil joined forces to stop a catastrophe and that their preserved souls fused into him. The Dragon God explained that Qi Ling was their reincarnation and hinted at the system’s role before it presented him with identical choices.

• Qi Ling asked about the Devil Realm, and the Dragon God explained that it and the Divine Realm depended on each other to maintain a greater cycle.
• The Dragon God revealed that Blood Devil ruled the Devil Realm and had fought him 17,681 times, winning only once.
• The Dragon God said he and Blood Devil sacrificed themselves to stop a catastrophe threatening every world, then gained a higher law that fused their souls into a new individual: Qi Ling.
• Qi Ling objected that he had transmigrated from another universe, but the Dragon God insisted that this was still his true self and that he was both their reincarnation.
• The Dragon God hinted that Blood Devil had revealed something about the system, and the system appeared with several identical options telling Qi Ling to believe the Dragon God.

Qi Ling learned that the Dragon God and Blood Devil had shaped the system to guide him, then the Dragon God departed and left the next steps to Dragon Maiden. After resting was recommended, Qi Ling discovered he could create structures on the Nine Dragon God Islands and built a house before Dragon Maiden constructed a whole complex.

• The Dragon God told Qi Ling that he and Blood Devil controlled the system and had designed its choices to help guide him within the Heavenly Dao’s laws.
• The Dragon God said the Nine Dragon God Islands held the last portion of his power, assigned Dragon Maiden to explain what Qi Ling should do next, and vanished.
• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling to rest because his Soul Power was overdrawn and explained that reaching the island had made him its master, able to create things with his will.
• Dragon Maiden demonstrated by raising a wall, and Qi Ling formed a crooked house before demolishing it.
• Qi Ling used his home in Longhua City as a reference to build a proper house, then grew exhausted and stopped.
• Dragon Maiden used her power to raise rows of houses and courtyards into a sizable complex.

Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling’s Dragon God Trial required him to create at least ten thousand threads fine enough to pass through a needle’s eye, a task far beyond his current ability. She sent his companions to individual trials on the Dragon God Continent, leaving Qi Ling to train alone on Dragon God Island during the day.

• Xiao Wu used her Teleportation ability to get into Qi Ling’s locked room and slept under his covers.
• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that his trial was to create ten thousand threads fine enough to pass through a needle’s eye.
• Qi Ling created a thread, but it was only fine enough for about ten threads to pass through the needle’s eye.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling’s trial demanded mental power comparable to a Limit Douluo’s and that his companions could not take it.
• Dragon Maiden led Qi Ling’s companions to their separate trials on the Dragon God Continent and promised they would return to Divine Dragon Island each evening.

Qi Ling refined his mental power on Dragon God Island by imagining and forging ever thinner threads, far surpassing the trial’s requirements. After six months, he could imagine twenty thousand threads passing through a needle, while Dragon Maiden revealed how vastly his potential still lagged behind hers and the Dragon God’s.

• Qi Ling spent a day concentrating his mental power to refine a thread until he could imagine it at a hundred and ten threads.
• Yu Tianyi returned first, noticed Qi Ling seemed stronger, and praised his progress; the others later sensed the same change.
• Qi Ling continued improving by about a hundred threads a day, while the women trained in trials suited to their individual strengths.
• After three months, Qi Ling met the trial’s requirements but kept training, and three months later he could imagine twenty thousand threads passing through a needle.
• Dragon Maiden said her limit was about two hundred thousand threads in her current form and around two hundred billion with her true body, while the Dragon God had no upper limit.

Qi Ling received the Hou Yi Bow after the broken Sword of Rupture was reborn as a divine artifact. The bow acknowledged him as its master, and Dragon Maiden prepared a test so he could compare it with his existing ranged abilities.

• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that his reward would restore the damaged Sword of Rupture and transform it into a higher-grade divine artifact.
• The stone platform transformed the broken Sword of Rupture into the Hou Yi Bow, which was initially too heavy for Qi Ling to use.
• Qi Ling learned the Hou Yi Bow’s four requirements for approval and met them, causing the bow to acknowledge him as its master.
• Qi Ling discovered the bow had become nearly weightless and could gather his Soul Power, then questioned whether it offered anything beyond his Dragon King Star-Piercing Arrows.
• Dragon Maiden pointed Qi Ling toward a hard boulder left by Lord Dragon God and suggested he test the bow against it.

Qi Ling tested the Hou Yi Bow and discovered its overwhelming power, then learned that he, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yu Tianyi would receive God-Given Soul Rings. The chapter ended with Qi Ling arranging for the two women to obtain theirs first, while his trial would prepare him to withstand a stronger eighth Soul Ring.

• Qi Ling tested his attacks against a boulder formed from condensed spiritual Qi, but only the Hou Yi Bow pierced it effortlessly and continued toward the horizon.
• The Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that he had another reward: a God-Given eighth Soul Ring whose age would match his limit.
• Qi Ling learned that Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi had also reached level eighty and qualified for God-Given Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianyi shared news of her breakthrough when everyone returned to Dragon God Island, and Qi Ling praised her.
• Qi Ling told everyone about the God-Given Soul Rings and said Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi would receive theirs the next day before he received his own.

Xiao Wu visited Qi Ling at night and confessed that she felt useless beside him, then tried to persuade him to sleep with her. Qi Ling asked her to wait until after he absorbed his Eighth Soul Ring the next day, but her teasing left him unable to sleep before they set off.

• Xiao Wu secretly entered Qi Ling's room and told him she felt she could not help him because her cultivation lagged behind Zhu Zhuqing's and Tianyi's.
• Qi Ling reassured Xiao Wu that she mattered to him and urged her to believe in herself.
• Xiao Wu teased Qi Ling and demanded the same intimacy he had shared with Bibi Dong, which she had learned about from Dragon Maiden.
• Qi Ling asked Xiao Wu to wait until after he absorbed his Eighth Soul Ring, and she agreed before kissing him and returning to her room.
• Qi Ling could not sleep despite counting sheep, then washed up and prepared to set off the next morning.

Yu Tianyi and Zhu Zhuqing received God-Given Soul Rings, pushing themselves to extraordinary age thresholds. When Zhu Zhuqing’s vitality began to fail, Qi Ling agreed to sacrifice part of his soul to help her continue.

• Dragon Maiden gave Yu Tianyi and Zhu Zhuqing the power to obtain God-Given Soul Rings, and both rings grew red as they reached the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Yu Tianyi faltered under the pressure, but Qi Ling encouraged her, and she endured until her ring passed three hundred thousand years.
• Zhu Zhuqing pushed her ring past four hundred thousand years while her body and vitality weakened.
• Qi Ling asked Dragon Maiden how to help Zhu Zhuqing, and she explained that he could use his soul power at the risk of losing part of his soul for at least ten years.
• Qi Ling accepted the cost, and Dragon Maiden began helping Zhu Zhuqing.

Dragon Maiden severed part of Qi Ling’s Dragon Soul to help Zhu Zhuqing raise her Soul Ring beyond five hundred thousand years. After Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi began absorbing their Soul Rings, Qi Ling went to the center of Dragon God Island to prepare to absorb his God-Given Soul Ring.

• Dragon Maiden extracted a portion of Qi Ling’s Dragon Soul and infused it into Zhu Zhuqing, causing her condition to improve and her Soul Ring to surpass five hundred thousand years.
• Zhu Zhuqing collapsed after reaching her limit, then woke in Qi Ling’s arms and teased him into promising to spend time with her after she absorbed her Soul Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi began absorbing their Soul Rings inside protective golden barriers.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing’er confronted Qi Ling about neglecting their romantic advances, so he escaped by claiming he needed to prepare for his Soul Ring absorption.
• Dragon Maiden directed Qi Ling to the center of Dragon God Island to absorb his God-Given Soul Ring while she stayed behind to protect the others.

Qi Ling endured the Dragon God’s trial to raise his God-Given Soul Ring beyond four million years, despite the danger and a system warning that his chance of reaching five million years was only one percent. As his body broke under the pressure, the fifth golden line began forming on his Soul Ring.

• The Dragon Maiden guided the Dragon God’s power into Qi Ling, and a colossal dragon phantom formed a dazzling Soul Ring above him.
• Qi Ling activated his domains and Soul Rings, endured the trial, and raised the ring’s age to three million years, then four million.
• The system offered Qi Ling the choice to accept a four-million-year Soul Ring with rewards or attempt five million years with a one-percent success rate and no rewards.
• Qi Ling chose to continue, and his bones began shattering under the immense pressure.
• Qi Ling roared, destroying every building on Dragon God Island, as the fifth golden line began appearing on his Soul Ring.

Qi Ling absorbed his five-million-year Soul Ring and emerged from seclusion three months later with power approaching God Level. Although his strength had surged, his Soul Power Level was only 83, one level below Zhu Zhuqing's.

• Dragon Maiden estimated that Qi Ling would need three months to absorb his Soul Ring, while Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi would need one month; Xiao Wu lamented the wait as everyone continued cultivating.
• Yu Tianyi and Zhu Zhuqing emerged from seclusion as Soul Douluos: Yu Tianyi transformed into a Thunder Dragon and flew into the storm, while Zhu Zhuqing quietly appeared beside the others.
• Three months later, the creatures of the Dragon God Continent sensed Qi Ling's return, and everyone hurried to Dragon God Island to greet him.
• Qi Ling summoned his Divine Dragon Emperor martial soul and revealed two purple, two black, two red, and two gold Soul Rings; Dragon Maiden said his power met the standard of God Level, though he still needed to improve his comprehension and control.
• Qi Ling learned that Zhu Zhuqing had reached Soul Power Level 84 and Yu Tianyi Level 82, then admitted that his own level was only 83 because his martial soul required far more Soul Power to advance.