Chapter Summaries

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu faced a trial that forced them to choose between releasing an Evil Soul Master to save poisoned people or upholding justice. Wang Xingyu refused to release him, and the poisoned people died; afterward, he explained that yielding would encourage future hostage-taking.

• Wang Xingyu discovered he could not use his illusion or Storage Soul Tool, and the trial voice revealed that he must choose between justice and salvation.
• Xiao Wu suggested pretending to release the Evil Soul Master, but Wang Xingyu learned that their choice would be known throughout the world.
• Wang Xingyu kept the Evil Soul Master restrained, while the man claimed he had no antidote and the poisoned group split over whether to let him go.
• The trial voice confirmed there was no other option, and Wang Xingyu flew away with Xiao Wu rather than release the Evil Soul Master.
• The poisoned people killed the Evil Soul Master, then collapsed and died; Wang Xingyu told Xiao Wu that letting him go would reward hostage-taking and break the rules.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu passed the First Trial and received rewards that raised their Soul Power and Soul Ring ages. The next morning, Wang Xingyu began absorbing a God-given Soul Ring and tried to guide the power of Gu Kesi’s white crystal into it.

• The assessment voice declared Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu had passed the First Trial and awarded them increased Soul Power and Soul Ring ages.
• Lingxi and Qing Heng welcomed them back, and Qing Heng apologized to Wang Xingyu for his earlier attitude.
• Green light from the Ancient Tree of Life entered Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu, raising Xiao Wu to level fifty-two and Wang Xingyu to Soul King at level fifty; Wang Xingyu’s Fourth Soul Ring became a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Wang Xingyu decided to rest before absorbing the God-given Soul Ring, and Qing Heng led him and Xiao Wu to a treehouse for the night.
• The next morning, Lingxi and Qing Heng summoned an inscribed vine from the Ancient Tree of Life, and Wang Xingyu began absorbing its power through his Blue Silver Tree Martial Soul.
• Wang Xingyu tried to guide the white crystal left by Gu Kesi toward the God-given Soul Ring taking shape inside him.

Wang Xingyu forced a hidden soul out of the white crystal, discovering that it was the original owner of the Soul Martial Soul. Qing Heng and the high priest gave the child a new body, and Qing Heng insisted that he sacrifice himself to Wang Xingyu before the God-given Soul Ring finished forming.

• Wang Xingyu pushed the white crystal into the forming Soul Ring, causing it to explode and release a child-shaped soul.
• Xiao Wu recognized the phantom as a soul, and Qing Heng used a technique to grab it.
• Wang Xingyu recognized the child from Gu Kesi's memories, and Lingxi deduced that he had been hiding inside Gu Kesi's body.
• The child offered to sacrifice himself using Gu Kesi's Reverse Sacrifice Secret Technique, and Qing Heng asked whether a new body could sustain him.
• Qing Heng formed a body from vines, and the high priest transformed it with green-and-gold energy so the child could return to life.
• Qing Heng stopped the grateful child from kneeling and ordered him to sacrifice himself to Wang Xingyu.

Wang Xingyu used the child’s Soul Battlefield to absorb its white energy into his God-given Soul Ring, then drew on the deacons’ Soul Force to complete the ring’s transformation. He gained a white fifth Soul Ring, leaving his configuration at yellow, purple, purple, black, and white.

• The child tried to use Soul Battlefield on Wang Xingyu, but his level-ten Soul Power could not draw in someone more than thirty levels above him.
• Wang Xingyu borrowed Soul Power from Lingxi and Qing Heng to raise the child to level twenty, allowing Soul Battlefield to pull him inside.
• The child sacrificed his Soul Battlefield, turning its buildings into white energy spheres that entered Wang Xingyu and strengthened his forming Soul Ring.
• Wang Xingyu restrained the white energy as it threatened to form an independent core, then borrowed more Soul Force from Lingxi and Qing Heng to complete the ring.
• Wang Xingyu’s Soul Ring turned completely white, and he revealed his completed configuration: yellow, purple, purple, black, and white.

Wang Xingyu discovered that his Fifth Soul Skill, Soul Battlefield, could devour soul essence and convert it into Soul Force to repair souls. After learning that the returned child had been blessed with Divine Power, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu sent him home with instructions on whom to seek if he needed help.

• Wang Xingyu used a white Blue Silver vine to replenish Lingxi and Qing Heng's Soul Force and explained how Soul Battlefield let him devour soul essence and repair souls.
• Lingxi praised the power of Wang Xingyu's Soul Skill, while Xiao Wu learned that his white Fifth Soul Ring was special and activated with Soul Force.
• Wang Xingyu realized his new abilities could restore Soul Power, vitality, Spiritual Power, and Soul Force, potentially helping revive Little San's mother sooner.
• Qing Heng and Lingxi revealed that Divine Power had entered the child's new body, allowing his physique to reach the Soul King level as he grew.
• Wang Xingyu opened a spatial rift and sent the child home, telling him to seek Li Ping'an in Li Family Village and use their names if he ran into trouble.
• After the rift closed, Xiao Wu asked what the child's name was, and Wang Xingyu could not remember.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu began the Second Trial, climbing the Ancient Tree of Life while adapting to its increasing gravity and cultivating on its branches. After a month they reached nine kilometers, where the gravity stopped increasing and a strange itching sensation began.

• Lingxi explained that the Second Trial required Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu to climb the Ancient Tree of Life to a height of thirty-five thousand meters.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu used Rabbit Leap Meteor and Blue Silver vines to climb the tree, encountering increasing gravity above the first kilometer.
• The pair discovered that the tree's leaves restored Soul Power and that cultivation in the Sacred Forest of Life was much faster than outside.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu paused to cultivate whenever the gravity hindered their climb, and Xiao Wu reached level fifty-two after a week.
• After a month of climbing and cultivation, Xiao Wu reached level fifty-three, Wang Xingyu neared level fifty-two, and they reached nine kilometers.
• At nine kilometers, Xiao Wu's jumps remained limited to thirty meters, the gravity stopped increasing, and the pair felt a strange itch.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu climbed the Ancient Tree of Life as its trial progressively tempered their skin, muscles, bones, and then meridians. At sixteen and a half kilometers, they recognized the latest discomfort as meridian strengthening and continued upward at a pace their bodies could handle.

• At roughly nine kilometers, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu noticed matching lines beneath their skin and suspected they were part of the trial.
• Past ten kilometers, their skin began tearing and repairing; Wang Xingyu used Willow Shade Blessing and chewed leaves to ease the pain as they identified the stage as skin tempering.
• From twelve to fourteen kilometers, the trial caused muscle soreness, and Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu observed their muscles changing as they climbed slowly.
• Between fourteen and sixteen kilometers, their bones ached; once the pain faded, their joints felt more flexible, and Xiao Wu tested her improved range of motion.
• At sixteen and a half kilometers, Wang Xingyu concluded that their meridians were being strengthened, and the two resumed climbing at about five hundred meters a day.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu climbed through the final stages of bodily tempering, strengthening their eyes and internal organs as they ascended the Ancient Tree. At thirty kilometers, they found an airless, Force-free region of lethal cold and began climbing through it using stored Soul Power.

• At twenty kilometers, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu had their eyes tempered, and Wang Xingyu’s Soul Power rose from level fifty-one to level fifty-two before their cultivation speed returned to normal.
• At twenty-two kilometers, fire-attribute Force tempered their hearts, improving their circulation and recovery; at twenty-four kilometers, earth-attribute Force tempered their stomachs.
• At twenty-six kilometers, metal-attribute Force tempered their lungs, and at twenty-eight kilometers, water-attribute Force tempered their kidneys, completing the cycle of internal-organ tempering.
• When Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu crossed the thirty-kilometer line, they found no Force beyond it and retreated to prepare by filling their bodies with Soul Power.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu crossed the line again in thick clothing and climbed into the freezing, wind-lashed region, circulating Soul Power for warmth as they struggled upward.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu climbed the Ancient Tree of Life, enduring fierce winds, scorching sunlight, and extreme cold while using the Soul Battlefield for brief rests. After more than ten hours, they continued upward through the night with their strength and willpower steadily being tested.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu climbed the tree's leeward side, taking turns blocking the wind as they endured burning sunlight and freezing air.
• After reaching six hundred meters, Wang Xingyu brought Xiao Wu into the Soul Battlefield, where they rested in a park for half an hour while only thirty seconds passed outside.
• The two resumed climbing and, after another five hours, assessed their remaining strength and Soul Power during a second Soul Battlefield rest.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu continued climbing as the sun set and the temperature fell from minus forty to minus fifty-five degrees.
• After resting for forty-five minutes in the Soul Battlefield, the two returned to the branch and kept climbing through the cold night.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu struggled to climb the final stretch of the tree, and Xiao Wu carried him when he could no longer continue. The Lovesick Heartbreak Red protected them and helped them recover, allowing Xiao Wu to reach the 35,000-meter summit.

• Wang Xingyu realized he lacked the stamina to climb the remaining 1,000 meters and transferred all his remaining Soul Power to Xiao Wu so she could go ahead.
• Xiao Wu instead carried Wang Xingyu on her back and continued climbing, determined not to abandon her little brother.
• Xiao Wu climbed 785 meters with Wang Xingyu before reaching her physical and mental limit, leaving 215 meters to the summit.
• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red appeared and shielded both of them from the cold while replenishing their Soul Power.
• Wang Xingyu transferred the replenished Soul Power to Xiao Wu, who recovered and climbed the final 215 meters to reach 35,000 meters.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu passed the Ancient Tree of Life’s Second Trial and received rewards that strengthened them and let the Lovesick Heartbreak Red absorb Force. After returning to the ground, they learned the Third Trial involved planting trees and could grant a domain, while the Fourth Trial would test them against Lingxi and Qing Heng.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu reached the thirty-five-kilometer mark, where their strength recovered and the God Trial announced their rewards for passing the Second Trial.
• The God Trial raised Wang Xingyu’s Soul Power to level fifty-three and Xiao Wu’s to level fifty-four, increased their Soul Ring ages, and granted the Lovesick Heartbreak Red the ability to absorb Force.
• Wang Xingyu bound himself and Xiao Wu with Blue Silver Grass and flew them back down, where Lingxi said they had completed the trial in seventy-four days.
• Lingxi explained that the Third Trial required Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu to plant four hundred mature trees within two years and could awaken a domain in those with the life attribute.
• Lingxi said the domain would likely be incomplete until the Fourth Trial, which Qing Heng explained would require them to last through an incense stick’s burn against him and Lingxi, who would suppress their realms to match theirs.

After recovering from the Ancient Tree of Life’s tempering, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu visited Life Town with Lin Na, ate meat, and explored the town. Lin Na returned from shopping, but the pair found no trouble or chance to play heroes.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu woke after sleeping through the night, ravenous after eating leaves for more than two months.
• Lin Na visited them and offered to guide them through Life Town while helping with anything except directly undertaking the trial.
• Wang Xingyu explained the differences between beastmen, demihumans, and half-beastmen to Xiao Wu as they explored the town.
• Lin Na bought them a large meal, and Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu eagerly ate roast meat, bread, soup, vegetables, and fruit wine.
• Lin Na gave each of them ten gold coins, and Wang Xingyu repaid her with twenty Gold Soul Coins before she went shopping.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu bought souvenirs and supplies while wandering Life Town, but they encountered no one to challenge or rescue.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu bought Image Recording Crystals in Life Town, then began the Red Level Third Trial by planting trees in the Sacred Forest. They discovered that the trees’ roots needed to grow deeply and that exhausting their Soul Power let the trees strengthen Wang Xingyu’s innate aptitude.

• Lin Na guided Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu to a crystal shop, where they spent their remaining Gold Soul Coins on seven ordinary Image Recording Crystals and one advanced crystal, then took three group pictures.
• After resting for a day at the treehouse, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu met Lin Na, who set their trial task: plant four hundred trees on the forest’s periphery within two years.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu began planting Rejuvenation Trees and used Soul Power to accelerate their growth, but the trees’ leaves began to wilt and their initial estimates proved too optimistic.
• Wang Xingyu realized the trees needed stronger root systems, so the two redirected their Soul Power into the roots and spaced the saplings farther apart, improving their growth.
• After repeatedly exhausting his Soul Power through the Blue Silver vine, Wang Xingyu discovered that the trees returned energy that strengthened his Martial Soul Origin and innate Soul Power.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu completed a vast taiji formation of Rejuvenation and Moon Spirit Trees, using it to pass the Third Trial and earn Soul Ring age increases and special rewards. Wang Xingyu gained a developing domain, while Xiao Wu received Area Purification.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu planted two hundred Rejuvenation Trees, then designed a taiji formation and planted two hundred Moon Spirit Trees to complete it.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu cultivated in the completed formation until the two-year limit for the Third Trial arrived, holding their Soul Power at level fifty-nine.
• Wang Xingyu passed the Third Trial, gained five hundred years for the age of all his Soul Rings, and received a special domain reward.
• Xiao Wu also gained five hundred years for the age of all her Soul Rings and received Area Purification as her special reward.
• Wang Xingyu explained that his domain could control low-level plants and apply certain Soul Skills directly to targets within its range, then demonstrated transferring Soul Power to Xiao Wu without using vines.

Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu began the Fourth Trial, in which they had to endure against Lingxi and Qing Heng until an incense stick burned out. The fight left Wang Xingyu trying to contain Qing Heng in a grove while Xiao Wu struggled to get close to Lingxi.

• Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu planned to split up and face Lingxi and Qing Heng, then met them beneath the Ancient Tree of Life to begin the trial.
• Qing Heng planted and lit the incense stick, and Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu immediately took the fight into the air.
• Wang Xingyu led Qing Heng to the grove where his domain expanded, then flooded the area with Blue Silver vines that Qing Heng began to assimilate and control.
• Lingxi used storms of sharp leaves to keep Xiao Wu at a distance, countering her Teleportation and Rabbit Leap Meteor.
• Xiao Wu questioned why Lingxi was wary of her close-range techniques, and Lingxi said Xiao Wu’s ability to lock an opponent down could threaten even her.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu fought Qing Heng and Lingxi during the assessment until Wang Xingyu’s Blue Silver Life Domain fully awakened. The new domain began draining and sharing power, changing the balance of the battle.

• Qing Heng and the vine humanoids knocked Wang Xingyu down and repeatedly hammered him while his healing skill repaired his injuries.
• Xiao Wu used her Red Moon nighttime enhancement to teleport beyond Lingxi’s expected range, then slammed them both into the ground with Rabbit Leap Meteor.
• Lingxi summoned a leaf dragon and attacked alongside it while Xiao Wu countered with Moon Shadow.
• Wang Xingyu endured Qing Heng’s blows, drew life force through the Taiji Formation, and awakened his Blue Silver Life Domain.
• The awakened domain increased Life Drain and allowed Wang Xingyu to connect seven people, share life force, and transfer skill effects.

Wang Xingyu awakened his Blue Silver Life Domain during the Fourth Trial, and he and Xiao Wu passed after battling Lingxi and her Leaf Dragons. Xiao Wu began absorbing her God-given Soul Ring, and the chapter ended as her Soft Bone Rabbit phantom appeared above her.

• Wang Xingyu awakened his life domain, which temporarily raised his Soul Power and turned his hair green, but Qing Heng's vine giant continued to pound him during the trial.
• Xiao Wu fought Lingxi's Leaf Dragons with Wang Xingyu's Willow Shade Blessing, defeating two more dragons before exhausting herself as Lingxi's final dragon remained.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu passed the Fourth Trial, received full-powered strikes from Qing Heng and Lingxi, and each reached Level 60 as their Soul Rings grew by four hundred years.
• Xiao Wu began absorbing her God-given Soul Ring while Wang Xingyu kept watch and sent Force from Qing Heng and Lingxi into her during the final stage.
• Xiao Wu's presence changed at midnight, and an enormous Soft Bone Rabbit phantom rose from her body.

Xiao Wu’s Soft Bone Rabbit evolved into the Soft Bone Moon Rabbit, giving her a Soul Ring that could grow stronger with her. Wang Xingyu consulted the Goddess of Life about Xiao Wu’s future and her mother’s possible resurrection, then told Xiao Wu that a Yue Shen inheritance existed and she could pursue its assessment.

• Xiao Wu’s Sixth Soul Ring changed from red to black, and she explained that it would grow as her level rose; her Martial Soul had evolved into the Soft Bone Moon Rabbit.
• Xiao Wu described her two new Soul Skills, Explosive Killing Eight-Stage Throw and Nothingness, and asked Wang Xingyu to find out whether Soul Beasts could survive heavenly tribulations.
• Wang Xingyu spoke with the Goddess of Life, who confirmed that a First-Level Yue Shen had an inheritance on Douluo Continent and said Xiao Wu’s mother might be resurrected with a fifty percent chance of success.
• The Goddess of Life granted Wang Xingyu another God-given Soul Ring in advance, with the condition that she could reclaim some Divine Power if he performed poorly.
• Wang Xingyu told Xiao Wu that Da Ming and Er Ming could not survive heavenly tribulations, but that there was a way, and revealed that she could participate in the Yue Shen Assessment.

After completing his God-given sixth Soul Ring, Wang Xingyu revealed a thinking clone and told Xiao Wu they would head for the Yue Shen inheritance after the Fifth Trial. The trial required them to create ten million observable life-forms, and Wang Xingyu planned to use microorganisms rather than ants to finish quickly.

• Wang Xingyu absorbed a fifty-thousand-year God-given Soul Ring and demonstrated a Blue Silver vine clone that could think and use stored Soul Skills for one day.
• Wang Xingyu told Xiao Wu they would go to the Yue Shen inheritance after the Fifth Trial, and reassured her that Shrek's companions could take part in assessments later.
• Qing Heng and Lingxi announced that Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu had to create at least ten million observable living beings together within ten years.
• Xiao Wu suggested raising ants, but Wang Xingyu said he had a faster method involving microorganisms and a homemade microscope.
• Wang Xingyu took Xiao Wu to Life Town to buy materials for his plan.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu passed the Fifth Trial by using yeast and a homemade microscope to demonstrate countless living organisms, then received their rewards. They left the Ancient Tree of Life and returned to Li Family Village, planning to visit Li Ping'an before seeking Yue Shen's inheritance in the desert.

• Wang Xingyu made a flour-and-water yeast starter and worked with a smith to build a primitive microscope, while Xiao Wu raised ants as a backup plan.
• On the sixth day, Wang Xingyu used the microscope to show Xiao Wu the tiny organisms in the yeast, and on the seventh day he demonstrated them to Lingxi and Qing Heng.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu passed the Fifth Trial and each gained one Soul Power level and three hundred years of age for all their Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu learned that the Sixth Trial had begun automatically, and Wang Xingyu chose to leave and seek Yue Shen's inheritance rather than continue investigating the yeast.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu said goodbye to Lingxi and Qing Heng, crossed a spatial rift back to Li Family Village, and planned to visit Li Ping'an before heading for the desert.