Chapter Summaries

Ning Liu watched as Bibi Dong allowed Yue Guan to drink Divine Nectar Dew, which repaired the flaws in his foundation and raised his Soul Power to rank ninety-six. He then considered testing whether the transformed Chrysanthemum Douluo had a trace of Divine Fate.

• Ning Liu suggested that Yue Guan drink the Divine Nectar Dew, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• Bibi Dong handed Yue Guan the jade bottle, and he swallowed a drop of the divine dew.
• The dew purified Yue Guan's bloodline and transformed his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum martial soul.
• Yue Guan's Soul Power broke through from rank ninety-five to rank ninety-six, and he thanked Bibi Dong and Ning Liu.
• Ning Liu considered bringing out the Faith Altar to test whether Yue Guan possessed Divine Fate.

Ning Liu summoned the Faith Altar and invited Yue Guan to test his affinity with the God Realm. Yue Guan awakened a connection to the Chrysanthemum God, who found him an ideal candidate for his inheritance.

• Ning Liu produced the Faith Altar and told Yue Guan to stand on it and test his affinity with the God Realm.
• Yue Guan thanked Ning Liu, then stepped onto the altar and was enveloped in a sacred golden pillar of light.
• The Chrysanthemum God sensed a faint thread of faith compatible with his divine power and tried to view the mortal realm through a divine mirror.
• The Chrysanthemum God extended his divine sense and saw Yue Guan, whose Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum martial soul and rank ninety-six Soul Power impressed him.
• The Chrysanthemum God decided Yue Guan was a perfect inheritor and resolved not to let the opportunity pass.

Yue Guan received the Chrysanthemum God’s divine trial, a chance to inherit a Third-level God position. The first trial passed immediately, leaving Bibi Dong shocked and Yue Guan looking at Ning Liu with overwhelming gratitude.

• The Chrysanthemum God decided to simplify Yue Guan’s first divine trial because he favored him.
• Yue Guan emerged from the Faith Altar, knelt before Ning Liu, and announced that the Chrysanthemum God had granted him a divine trial.
• Yue Guan revealed that the Chrysanthemum God was a Third-level God, and Bibi Dong acknowledged the opportunity’s value.
• A golden chrysanthemum mark appeared on Yue Guan’s forehead and sent new information into his mind.
• Yue Guan announced that he had already passed the first trial, called “Myriad Chrysanthemum Identification,” shocking Bibi Dong.

Yue Guan received the reward for completing the Chrysanthemum God's first trial and learned that his second trial required him to cultivate one hundred Adamantine Chrysanthemums in a divine garden. Bibi Dong and Ning Liu agreed to accompany him as assistants, and Yue Guan opened the portal to the garden.

• Yue Guan explained that his first trial required him to identify 999 varieties of chrysanthemum and describe their growth habits, a task suited to his lifelong experience.
• The first trial's reward increased Yue Guan's Spiritual Power, let him hear the voices of chrysanthemum plants, and raised the ages of his first two soul rings by 1,000 years.
• Yue Guan learned that his second trial, Golden Stamen Foundation Building, required him to cultivate 100 Adamantine Chrysanthemums in the God Chrysanthemum Garden without using soul skills.
• Yue Guan explained that the trial involved reclaiming iron-hard soil, producing Spirit Dew, and catching fast Chrysanthemum Bugs with physical strength alone.
• After Yue Guan learned that he could bring one or two assistants, Bibi Dong and Ning Liu both volunteered to join him.
• Yue Guan activated the chrysanthemum mark and opened a golden formation and portal to the God Chrysanthemum Garden.

Ning Liu, Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan entered the God Chrysanthemum Garden and learned that its pure energy and accelerated time made it an exceptional place to cultivate. While Ning Liu and Bibi Dong settled down to train, Yue Guan began his farming trial and discovered the land was nearly impossible to till.

• Ning Liu, Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan entered the God Chrysanthemum Garden and found its dark-golden fields filled with dense, pure energy.
• Bibi Dong judged that the garden could greatly improve cultivation, even allowing less talented Soul Masters to reach Soul Saint.
• Yue Guan received a divine message that three months passed in the garden for every three days on Douluo Continent.
• Bibi Dong and Ning Liu began cultivating while Yue Guan prepared to reclaim the land and grow one hundred Adamantine Chrysanthemums.
• Yue Guan struck the iron-hard earth with a heavy hoe and managed only to leave a shallow mark.

Yue Guan, Bibi Dong, and Ning Liu cultivated the God Chrysanthemum Garden and hunted Chrysanthemum Bugs until the Adamantine Chrysanthemums bloomed. Yue Guan completed the second trial, received a reward that increased all his Soul Ring lifespans by two thousand years, and learned the name of his third trial: “Proud Chrysanthemum Defies the Cold.”

• After struggling to till the metallic soil, Yue Guan received help from Bibi Dong and Ning Liu, who discovered how to break through it using penetrating force.
• Over a month, Yue Guan, Bibi Dong, and Ning Liu prepared the ridges, planted one hundred Adamantine Chrysanthemums, and watered them with Spirit Dew.
• When a swarm of Chrysanthemum Bugs attacked the shoots, the three captured them and absorbed the pure golden energy released by the insects.
• During the next two months, the trio hunted Chrysanthemum Bugs as the Adamantine Chrysanthemums grew and their own auras grew stronger.
• When the last flower bloomed, Yue Guan completed the second trial and received a two-thousand-year increase to all his Soul Ring lifespans.
• Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that the third trial was called “Proud Chrysanthemum Defies the Cold.”

Yue Guan entered a divine illusion realm to endure the cold near the Silent Winter Immortal Pistil, where he learned to follow its rhythm instead of resisting it. He completed the third trial, transformed his martial soul, and advanced to Soul Power Level 97.

• Yue Guan explained that the third trial required him to find the Silent Winter Immortal Pistil and cultivate beside it alone until he adapted to its cold.
• Yue Guan entered the illusion realm, struggled against its soul-freezing wind and snow, and nearly lost consciousness.
• Yue Guan followed Ning Liu's advice, sensed the cold's rhythm, and realized that Proud Chrysanthemum Defies the Cold meant living with the cold rather than conquering it.
• Yue Guan reached the Silent Winter Immortal Pistil and cultivated within three meters of it as his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum shattered its frost and transformed.
• The divine trial awarded Yue Guan a tempered martial soul origin, increased Soul Power resistance, five thousand years of Soul Ring age, and 30% Chrysanthemum God affinity.
• Yue Guan broke through to Soul Power Level 97 as nine Soul Rings appeared behind him.

Yue Guan returned from the third trial having reached level ninety-seven, and he learned that his fourth trial required him to drink a soup infused with one hundred kinds of divine chrysanthemum energy. Bibi Dong dismissed the trial as an easy reward, leaving Yue Guan unsure whether it was truly as simple as it sounded.

• Yue Guan emerged from the vortex after completing the third trial and revealed that he had reached level ninety-seven.
• Bibi Dong assessed Yue Guan's strength and said he could likely defeat Golden Crocodile Douluo, making him second to none in the Elder Hall aside from Qian Daoliu.
• Yue Guan learned that the fourth trial, called 'Hundred Chrysanthemum Godly Infusion,' required him to drink Hundred Flower Soup and control the conflicting energies inside his body with Spiritual Power.
• Ning Liu explained that the trial tested Yue Guan's Spiritual Power and precise control, while Bibi Dong argued that it sounded like a free reward.
• Yue Guan began to doubt whether the fourth trial was truly as easy as Bibi Dong believed.

Yue Guan completed the Chrysanthemum God's Fourth Trial by carefully absorbing the Hundred Flower Soup's conflicting energies, earning increased Spiritual Power, soul ring age, and divine affinity. He then entered the Fifth Trial, which would confront him with illusions rooted in beauty, vanity, and obsession.

• Yue Guan drank the Hundred Flower Soup, awakening a hundred conflicting energies inside his body.
• Yue Guan used his Spiritual Power to sort and absorb the energies while Bibi Dong watched his precise control.
• Yue Guan completed the Fourth Trial and received increased Spiritual Power, five thousand years of soul ring age, and forty percent affinity with the Chrysanthemum God.
• The Chrysanthemum God announced the Fifth Trial, requiring Yue Guan to face inner demons and illusions in the Mirror of Veracity.
• Yue Guan vanished as the Fifth Trial began, while Bibi Dong remarked on its attempt to expose his true self.

Yue Guan faced the painful memories and insecurities behind his appearance and Martial Soul during the fifth divine trial. By accepting himself rather than yielding to his inner demon, he completed the trial and received the announcement of the sixth.

• Yue Guan relived childhood bullying, exclusion at Spirit Hall Academy, and criticism from the former Pope, Qian Renxue, over his appearance.
• A masculine version of Yue Guan appeared and taunted him with his envy and desire to become a “real man.”
• Yue Guan acknowledged his past pain but affirmed his pride in the Miraculous Jade Through Heaven Chrysanthemum Martial Soul and his own identity.
• Yue Guan saw through the illusion, and his inner demon shattered and vanished.
• Yue Guan completed the fifth trial, Mirror Flowers, Moon on Water, gained Spiritual Power and one Soul Power level, and increased his Chrysanthemum God affinity to fifty percent.
• The divine voice announced the arrival of the sixth trial.

Yue Guan captured the Ethereal Sky Chrysanthemum in the God Chrysanthemum Garden and completed the Sixth Trial. He fused the awarded right leg soul bone and tested its abilities before the Seventh Trial was announced.

• Yue Guan pursued the Ethereal Sky Chrysanthemum through the garden while resisting its spiritual interference and the attacks of nearby chrysanthemums.
• Yue Guan lured the Ethereal Sky Chrysanthemum with his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum aura, then used his Ninth Soul Skill to disrupt its spatial flashes and bind it.
• Yue Guan completed the Sixth Trial and received the Chrysanthemum Shadow Ethereal Sky Right Leg Bone, which granted the Space Anchoring and Chrysanthemum Shadow Ethereal Sky skills.
• Yue Guan fused the soul bone and tested its petal phantoms and short-distance teleportation.
• The divine voice began announcing the Seventh Trial.

Yue Guan completed the Seventh Trial by guiding a chrysanthemum through growth, blooming, withering, and rebirth, earning a fifty-thousand-year increase to all his soul rings. He returned to the Field Master's Office at rank 98 Soul Power, where Ning Liu asked what his Eighth Trial would be.

• Yue Guan merged Soul Power and Spiritual Power to guide a chrysanthemum seedling into bloom, then withered it while preserving its life core.
• Yue Guan caused the chrysanthemum to be reborn, completing the Seventh Trial and receiving a fifty-thousand-year increase to all his soul rings.
• Yue Guan's soul rings transformed into eight black rings and one red ring, with his eighth ring nearing one hundred thousand years in age.
• Yue Guan returned to the Field Master's Office, where Ning Liu and Bibi Dong reacted to his progress and Bibi Dong noted he had reached rank 98 Soul Power.
• Ning Liu asked Yue Guan what his Eighth Trial was.

Yue Guan’s Eighth Trial was unexpectedly completed because he already met its requirements, and the divine reward raised him to Level Ninety-Nine with ninety percent Chrysanthemum God affinity. He learned that the Ninth Trial would require him to enter the Chrysanthemum God’s Temple and fuse his soul with the godhood.

• Yue Guan received the Eighth Trial’s requirements: reach Level Ninety and absorb nine soul rings, prompting Ning Liu and Bibi Dong to question the trial’s absurdity.
• A pillar of divine light appeared and declared Yue Guan’s Eighth Trial complete because he was already Level Ninety-Eight and had nine soul rings.
• The divine power raised Yue Guan’s Soul Power to Level Ninety-Nine and increased his Chrysanthemum God affinity to ninety percent.
• Yue Guan discovered that the Ninth Trial required him to enter the Chrysanthemum God’s Temple and complete the final fusion of his soul and godhood.

Yue Guan received the chance to inherit the Chrysanthemum God’s divinity, but he refused to complete the Ninth Trial until Ning Liu and Bibi Dong had ascended to godhood. Ning Liu and Bibi Dong accepted his decision, and they set out for the City of Slaughter.

• Yue Guan’s Godly Inheritance was revealed, prompting Ning Liu to worry about how godhood might affect his loyalty and Bibi Dong to feel urgency about her own trial.
• Yue Guan announced that he would not complete his Ninth Trial before Ning Liu and Bibi Dong became gods, saying he would remain a Titled Douluo under Bibi Dong’s command.
• Ning Liu felt reassured by Yue Guan’s loyalty and asked whether he had considered that godhood might not wait forever.
• Yue Guan replied that he would give up godhood rather than leave Ning Liu and Bibi Dong’s side, and Bibi Dong accepted his choice.
• Ning Liu ordered them to set out at once for the City of Slaughter.

Tang San used the Tidewhisper Conch and heard a malicious voice point him toward Sunset Forest, where he believed he could find something crucial to their future. He left with Yu Xiaogang and Flender, flying toward the forest on Flender’s Cat Eagle form.

• Tang San touched the Tidewhisper Conch with his black Soul Power and heard the words “Sunset Forest” and “Rotten Abyss.”
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and Flender that the conch had given him a place to seek and insisted that he had to go.
• Flender warned that Sunset Forest was dangerous, but Tang San said the destination concerned their future and refused to turn back.
• Flender transformed into a Cat Eagle, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang rode on his back toward Sunset Forest.

Tang San, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well reduced to a barren crater and descended into its depths. There they discovered a huge, cracking seal leaking the same corrupted power Tang San had sensed before, and he approached it after recognizing it as a summons.

• Tang San spotted the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but found a lifeless crater where it should have been.
• Yu Xiaogang examined the dead soil and concluded that the region’s core energy had been drained.
• Flender transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and carried Tang San and Yu Xiaogang down into the crater.
• The three discovered an immense underground platform with a massive, cracked seal formation leaking black mist.
• Tang San recognized the mist as the power connected to the Tidewhisper Conch and his corrupted Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, then walked toward the seal’s center.

Tang San absorbed the black mist seeping from the formation, reaching Soul Power level sixty-four, but his actions widened a crack and awakened a crimson presence. The chapter ended with the Crimson Mother asking who had awakened her.

• Tang San sat at the center of the formation and used his corrupted Blue Silver Grass to absorb the black mist.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Flender from pulling Tang San away after noticing his rapidly rising Soul Power.
• Tang San drained the remaining black mist and reached Soul Power level sixty-four.
• The formation’s central crack widened, releasing crimson energy that gathered into a humanoid figure.
• The figure identified herself as the Crimson Mother and asked who had awakened her.

The Crimson Mother emerged from the weakened seal and explained that Tang San’s absorption of the Corrupted Dragon Qi had cleared her path. She offered him another god’s inheritance in exchange for becoming her agent and investigating the Douluo plane.

• The Crimson Mother revealed that the vanished Icefire Dragon King aura had weakened the seal and that Tang San had consumed the final Corrupted Dragon Qi blocking her escape.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether she was a god, and the Crimson Mother said she was not a god of their world.
• Tang San asked what she needed and declared that he wanted a Godhood Inheritance.
• The Crimson Mother refused to let Tang San inherit her own godhood but offered him another god’s inheritance if he helped her.
• The Crimson Mother condensed her power into a red crystal and told Tang San to absorb it, become her eyes in the world, and investigate the plane for her.

Tang San accepted the Crimson Mother's offer to become her agent and inherit the Dark Demon God's power, despite Yu Xiaogang's warning. The inheritance began by pulling Tang San into a divine hall, where the Dark Demon God unleashed his power upon him.

• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that the Crimson Mother might be an Outer Realm Evil God, but Tang San ignored him and questioned her about the inheritance.
• The Crimson Mother explained that the Dark Demon God was a Level One God whose powers of darkness, corrosion, depravity, and devouring suited Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Tang San accepted the offer and absorbed the blood-red crystal, forming a Crimson Contract and undergoing a sinister transformation.
• The Crimson Mother began the inheritance, and a black vortex swallowed Tang San while Yu Xiaogang and Flender watched helplessly.
• Tang San appeared in a black divine hall before the Dark Demon God, who unleashed boundless Dark Divine Power at his soul.

Tang San passed the Dark Demon God's first trial by devouring the darkness and negative emotions, gaining divine power and a dramatic increase in strength. Crimson Mother warned him to leave before the other gods noticed and told him to return when the Ninth Trial began.

• Tang San stopped resisting the darkness and devoured the negative emotions threatening to consume his soul.
• The bone throne declared the first trial passed and rewarded Tang San with three Soul Power levels, stronger soul rings, Dark-attribute soul skills, and the Dark Demon Domain.
• Dark Divine Power flooded Tang San, raising his Soul Power to Level 66 and unsettling Flender with his aura.
• Tang San reassured Yu Xiaogang that he was fine and felt stronger than ever.
• Crimson Mother told Tang San to leave, saying the later trials would open as he grew stronger and that he should return for the Ninth Trial.