Chapter Summaries

Seahorse Douluo explained the dangers of the Sea God's trials, but Shrek chose to face them and received a range of black and red assessments. Tang San received the Sea God's Nine Trials, and Bo Saixi began the ceremony for Su Xiao, Nangong Yu, and Xiao Wu before a mysterious voice stopped Su Xiao.

• Seahorse Douluo warned that land Soul Masters had to complete each trial within a year and that black-level trials were deadly.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Meng Yiran entered the formation and received black-level trials.
• Ning Rongrong received the Red Level Seven Trials and underwent the Sea God's Light, while Bai Chenxiang received the Yellow Level One Trial.
• Xiao Bai received the Black Level One Trial, and Tang San's assessment produced a golden light and the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi appeared, placed a golden trident imprint on Tang San, and summoned six figures to assist him with his arduous trials.
• Bo Saixi began the ceremony for Su Xiao, Nangong Yu, and Xiao Wu, but a mighty voice in Su Xiao's consciousness suddenly said, "Stop!"

Su Xiao met the Holy Light Dragon Emperor in his consciousness and agreed to inherit his divine power in exchange for protecting the Golden or Silver Dragon King and helping the Beast Race Gods regain a place in the Divine Realm. After receiving the Dragon Emperor Nine Trials, Su Xiao secured permission to remain on Sea God Island, where his first trial was to slap the Sea God.

• The Holy Light Dragon Emperor told Su Xiao that he could inherit his God King-level divine position and promised him all his divine power if he protected a surviving Golden or Silver Dragon King and helped the Beast Race Gods return to the Divine Realm.
• Su Xiao agreed, and the Holy Light Dragon Emperor's power appeared as nine golden dragon-shaped halos that entered the Snow Jade Crown and marked Su Xiao with the Dragon Emperor Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi said Su Xiao could no longer undergo the Sea God's Trial, then gave Xiao Wu and Nangong Yu Red-Level One Trials to accompany their beloved through his trials, living and dying with him.
• Seahorse Douluo said Su Xiao could not stay on Sea God Island without accepting the Sea God's Trial, but Tang San requested that Su Xiao remain in his name, and Seahorse Douluo agreed.
• Su Xiao's first Dragon Emperor Nine Trial required him to slap the Sea God hard across the face.

The Shrek group reached Sea God Hall and began their trials on the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps, where Ma Hongjun’s struggle revealed the force of Sea God’s Light. Bai Chenxiang completed her Yellow Level One Trial by kissing Ma Hongjun, and Su Xiao prepared to attempt his daunting first trial.

• Seahorse Douluo led the Shrek group to Sea God Hall and explained their different step requirements, including Tang San’s goal of three hundred and thirty-three steps.
• Ma Hongjun reached the eighth step before Sea God’s Light bounced him away, and Seahorse Douluo explained that challengers had to use their full strength and finish within a year.
• Su Xiao learned that the Holy Light Dragon Emperor required him to climb nine hundred and ninety-eight of the nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.
• Bai Chenxiang kissed Ma Hongjun, completing her trial as Sea God’s Light rewarded her with an increase in Soul Power.
• Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang confirmed their feelings, and the group resumed its attempts while Su Xiao prepared to climb the steps with Nangong Yu.

Su Xiao and Nangong Yu advanced through Sea God's Light with the Golden Dragon Spear, while the others used its pressure to cultivate. After Ma Hongjun broke through to Soul Emperor and received a God-Given Soul Ring, the God Seven Sons named their chosen successors.

• Su Xiao explained that Sea God's Light accelerated cultivation and that his first trial required him to climb 998 steps, far beyond the range the Golden Dragon Spear could easily clear.
• The group spent a week cultivating in Sea God's Light, and Ma Hongjun broke through to Soul Emperor and asked Sea Star Douluo to help him obtain a Soul Ring.
• Su Xiao revealed his seventh God-Given Soul Ring, startling Dai Mubai and the God Seven Sons.
• Sea Star Douluo explained that Ma Hongjun could absorb a God-Given Soul Ring from a Holy Pillar Stone, then guided him into Sea God's Light to claim it.
• The God Seven Sons selected successors: Sea Dragon Douluo chose Dai Mubai, Sea Illusion Douluo chose Oscar, Seahorse Douluo chose Xiao Wu, Sea Spear Douluo chose Zhu Zhuqing, Sea Ghost Douluo chose Meng Yiran, and Sea Woman Douluo chose Xiao Bai.

While Shrek trained on Sea God Island, Tang San endured a nine-month trial to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring from a Nine Section Fish Dragon Beast. He emerged safely and reunited with his friends, hungry after surviving on spiritual and Soul Power alone.

• Su Xiao explained why some members of Shrek were not chosen as guides, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun began absorbing God-Given Soul Rings and Tang San entered a massive Holy Pillar Stone.
• Bo Saixi confirmed that Tang San was absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring from a Nine Section Fish Dragon Beast.
• Over the next nine months, the Shrek group's Soul Power increased, and Nangong Yu and Xiao Wu reached Soul Sage while several others neared that realm.
• Tang San emerged from the Holy Pillar Stone with his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and reunited with Xiao Wu and the others.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai that he was starving after spending nine months sustained only by spiritual power and Soul Power.

Bai Chenxiang and Tang San’s group attempted Sea God’s first trial, with most of them completing it and receiving rewards. Su Xiao began helping Xiao Bai by using the Golden Dragon Spear to clear a path, but the spear landed on the four-hundred-and-eighty-seventh step.

• Bai Chenxiang climbed to the sixtieth step before Sea God’s Light threw her back, and Bo Saixi awarded her purple-level status.
• Oscar, Dai Mubai, Zhuqing, Yiran, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong followed their plan and completed the first trial, gaining rewards; Ning Rongrong’s soul skills grew stronger.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu climbed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps together and passed the first trial, increasing Tang San’s Sea God affinity by five percent.
• Su Xiao decided to help Xiao Bai cross Sea God’s Light and used Dragon God Claw to hurl the Golden Dragon Spear, which cleared a pressure-free path to the four-hundred-and-eighty-seventh step.

Su Xiao and Nangong Yu pushed through the Sea God’s Light, using Su Xiao’s powers and outside support to climb the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps. They reached the 888th step, still short of the 998 steps required for the first trial.

• Su Xiao threw Xiao Bai onto the 108th step, allowing Xiao Bai to complete its Black Level One Trial, then retrieved the Golden Dragon Spear with Nangong Yu.
• Su Xiao activated his Dragon Emperor Domain and True Body as he and Nangong Yu climbed to the 500th step under the Sea God’s growing pressure.
• When Su Xiao and Nangong Yu reached the 501st step, the Sea God appeared, while the Holy Light Dragon Emperor’s power manifested in the sky and confronted him.
• Su Xiao activated the True Dragon Nine Crowns, greatly increasing his power, and carried Nangong Yu to the 777th step.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Su Xiao’s Soul Power, and Su Xiao used Oscar’s Recovery Great Sausage to recover before teleporting with Nangong Yu to the 888th step.

Su Xiao and Nangong Yu reached the 998th step of Sea God's Light after Ning Rongrong risked severe injury to amplify him, allowing him to pass his First Trial and strengthen all his Soul Rings. After four years of trials and training, the Shrek group prepared to return to the continent.

• Ning Rongrong used Oscar's Beyond Limit Emerald Sausage and Ring Fusion to send Su Xiao a powerful amplification, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Su Xiao detonated his seven Soul Rings and carried Nangong Yu through Sea God's Light to the 998th step, passing his First Trial and raising all his Soul Rings' ages by ten thousand years.
• Everyone, including Xiao Bai, passed the First Trial, and the group spent the following three years completing their remaining trials.
• Tang San obtained the Sea God Trident, and all the Shrek members except Bai Chenxiang reached Soul Douluo, while Su Xiao and Tang San reached rank eighty-nine.
• With Tang San's Eighth Trial given a five-year limit, the group set their sights on returning to the continent.

After leaving Sea God Island, Su Xiao, Tang San, and their companions began their return journey, but they discovered that Spirit Hall had become the Spirit Hall Empire. The group split up, with Su Xiao, Nangong Yu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu heading toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Dai Mubai said he would give up the Star Luo throne and travel with Zhu Zhuqing after dealing with Spirit Hall.
• Su Xiao and Tang San said farewell to Bo Saixi and the God Seven Sons, then crossed the sea on Demon Spirit Great White Sharks led by Xiao Bai Bai.
• After reaching land, Nangong Yu asked to return to the Star Dou Great Forest with Xiao Wu, and Su Xiao agreed.
• Su Xiao, Nangong Yu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu parted from Dai Mubai and the others and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• At Xi Lu City, Su Xiao noticed the gate guards wore Spirit Hall armor, and a passerby told Tang San that Spirit Hall had become the Spirit Hall Empire.

Su Xiao and Tang San learned that Bibi Dong had established the Spirit Hall Empire and discussed the threat it posed to the continent. While traveling, they sensed the Slaughter King's evil aura and found him fighting Hu Liena and a Soul Douluo, leaving them poised to intervene.

• Tang San paid a local man for an account of how Spirit Hall had become the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Su Xiao and Tang San discussed Bibi Dong's ambitions and decided to reconsider their response after returning to Heaven Dou City.
• Su Xiao, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Nangong Yu traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered dozens of Soul Master corpses.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to locate the Slaughter King, who was fighting Hu Liena and a Soul Douluo.
• Su Xiao and Tang San moved to save them as the Slaughter King threatened the group and locked a blood-red halo onto Tang San.

Su Xiao and Tang San confronted the Slaughter King, whose blood-red power threatened to suppress their martial souls and domains. They launched their strongest attacks while Tang San channeled the Sea God’s power to purify him.

• Su Xiao sent Nangong Yu and Xiao Wu to safety, then joined Tang San against the Slaughter King.
• Hu Liena warned them to use Divine Slaughter's Domain, but Su Xiao and Tang San instead activated their martial soul avatars and domains.
• The Slaughter King's corrosive blood-red radiance began overwhelming their domains, so Su Xiao summoned the Snow Jade Crown and attacked with Dragon God Claw.
• Tang San unleashed the Tiger Whale Demon Axe as he and Su Xiao struck the Slaughter King together.
• Tang San poured the Sea God's power into the Sea God Trident, enveloping the Slaughter King in holy light.

Su Xiao and Tang San fought the Slaughter King but were overwhelmed when his power transformed into the ultimate aura of slaughter. The Slaughter King revealed that he was Tang Chen, and Su Xiao and Tang San recognized him as their great-grandfather.

• Sea God's Radiance stripped away the Slaughter King's blood-red appearance, but he cut off the light and formed a blood-red sword from his power.
• Su Xiao and Tang San joined forces against the Slaughter King, but his sword overwhelmed them and sent them crashing through the forest.
• Nangong Yu and Xiao Wu helped Su Xiao and Tang San up, but Su Xiao pointed out that the Slaughter King's transformed weapon had been the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The Slaughter King appeared before the group, recognized the Sea God Trident, and was shocked to see Su Xiao holding another divine artifact, the Golden Dragon Spear.
• The Slaughter King revealed that his name had been Tang Chen before the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King parasitized him.
• Su Xiao and Tang San recognized Tang Chen as their great-grandfather and knelt to pay their respects.

Tang Chen met Su Xiao and Tang San, then departed after recognizing their strength and heritage. When Hu Liena warned them that Bibi Dong was hunting the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, the group rushed to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Su Xiao and Tang San attacked Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.

• Su Xiao introduced Tang San to Tang Chen, and Tang San confirmed his identity by showing his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Chen praised Tang San and Su Xiao, learned about the Clear Sky Sect's troubles, and left after telling them he had matters to attend to.
• Hu Liena awakened and warned Su Xiao and Tang San that Bibi Dong and six elders were hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu recognized that Da Ming and Er Ming were in danger, so Su Xiao and Tang San carried the two girls toward the forest.
• Bibi Dong and six Titled Douluo cornered the poisoned Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, while the beasts considered self-destruction to keep their Soul Rings and Soul Bones from the attackers.
• Su Xiao and Tang San arrived and pierced Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo through the chest with two golden flashes.

Su Xiao and Tang San ambushed the Spirit Hall group, killing Ghost Douluo and badly injuring Chrysanthemum Douluo. Bibi Dong recognized the two young men, but when they revealed eight Soul Rings each, she and the remaining Titled Douluo were stunned.

• Su Xiao and Tang San used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and holy power to kill Ghost Douluo, and Tang San collected the Soul Bone he dropped.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo attacked Tang San in a rage, but Su Xiao and Tang San shattered his Ninth Soul Skill and sent him flying.
• Bibi Dong recognized Su Xiao and identified the blue-haired young man as Tang San, then ordered the other Titled Douluo to focus on the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape.
• Su Xiao and Tang San activated Martial Soul Possession and revealed eight Soul Rings each, shocking Bibi Dong and the four remaining Titled Douluo.

Su Xiao stayed behind to hold off Bibi Dong while Tang San led the poisoned Da Ming and Er Ming away. Bibi Dong revealed her two Martial Souls and a full-strength clone, leaving Su Xiao facing both as he launched his attack.

• Su Xiao told Tang San to take Da Ming and Er Ming to find Di Tian while he held Bibi Dong back.
• Su Xiao attacked Bibi Dong with support from Da Ming and Er Ming, while Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to conceal their escape.
• Bibi Dong ordered four Titled Douluo to pursue Tang San and the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then remained to face Su Xiao.
• Bibi Dong activated her Death Domain and released a clone with one hundred percent of her strength through her eighth soul skill.
• Bibi Dong revealed her second Martial Soul, the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, and Su Xiao struck first with Wind-Following Swordplay.

Su Xiao drew on the Holy Light Dragon Emperor’s power to overwhelm Bibi Dong, but he could not kill her as her body began to recover. A massive Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring appeared in the distance, signaling that a ritual was underway.

• Su Xiao attacked Bibi Dong with seven Dragon Emperor Seven Kill Swords, forcing her to defend with her Death Spider Emperor Avatar and Thorn Spider Armor.
• Su Xiao summoned the Holy Light Dragon Emperor and asked it to lend him power.
• The Holy Light Dragon Emperor took partial control of Su Xiao, raising his strength to a Demigod-like level.
• Su Xiao pierced Bibi Dong with the Golden Dragon Spear, but the Holy Light Dragon Emperor warned him that she could not yet be killed.
• Bibi Dong’s wounds began to heal under pale purple Soul Power, while a massive Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring descended a hundred li away.

Su Xiao and Tang San completed their sacrifices and reached Rank 93 before returning to Clear Sky Sect with Nangong Yu and Xiao Wu. They presented soul bones from fallen Spirit Hall Titled Douluo and prepared to bring the sect out of hiding, but Tang San’s Sea God mark produced the Clear Sky Token, prompting Tang Xiao and the elders to kneel.

• Su Xiao left Bibi Dong after learning that her Undying Body could only be overcome by a god, then followed Tang San’s trail to find the Titan Giant Ape sacrificing itself to Tang San.
• Da Ming asked Su Xiao and Tang San to accept the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape’s sacrifices, and both brothers spent a day absorbing their soul rings and soul bones to reach Rank 93.
• Su Xiao told Xiao Wu that Da Ming and Er Ming might be revived in another form after the brothers ascended to the Divine Realm.
• Su Xiao and Tang San chose to return to Clear Sky Sect, carrying soul bones from five slain Titled Douluo that might help Tang Hao regain his former strength.
• Tang Xiao and the six elders were astonished by the brothers’ soul rings and their achievement of becoming Titled Douluo at twenty-five, while Tang San presented three soul bones, including Ghost Douluo’s.
• Su Xiao said the Clear Sky Sect should emerge from hiding, and Tang San’s Sea God mark formed the Clear Sky Token, causing Tang Xiao and the six elders to kneel before him.

Tang San and Su Xiao secured the Clear Sky Sect’s support against the Spirit Hall Empire, then returned to Heaven Dou City to learn that the war had drawn Shrek and Tang Sect forces to the front lines. They planned to send the Clear Sky Sect to defend the city while heading to the battlefield themselves.

• Tang Xiao agreed that the Clear Sky Sect would support Tang San and relocate to Heaven Dou City after making arrangements.
• Tang San gave Tang Hao three soul bones, and Tang Hao absorbed them under the light of the Sea God Trident, restoring his body and returning to the Titled Douluo realm.
• Su Xiao and Tang San bid farewell to Tang Hao and Ah Yin, then returned to Heaven Dou City with Nangong Yu and Xiao Wu.
• Tai Nuo told them that Xue Beng had formed the Tang Family Army with ten thousand soldiers armed with Godly Zhuge Crossbows and the Three Thousand Dragon Riders under Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.
• Tang San told Tai Nuo that the Clear Sky Sect would guard Heaven Dou City while he, Su Xiao, Nangong Yu, and Xiao Wu went to the front lines, and reassured him that the Tang Sect would remain separate from the Clear Sky Sect.

Su Xiao, Tang San, Nangong Yu, and Xiao Wu reached the Heaven Dou army and reunited with their allies after Su Xiao demonstrated his Titled Douluo strength. Xue Beng arrived to meet them, leaving the group assembled at the frontline before the decisive battle.

• Su Xiao and Tang San saw that Xue Beng had gathered more than two million soldiers for war against the Spirit Hall Empire.
• A scouting Soul Master summoned flying Soul Masters, who challenged the group when Tang San asked to see Xue Beng.
• Su Xiao revealed his Holy Light Dragon Emperor Martial Soul and nine Soul Rings, convincing the Soul Masters that he was the Bright Dragon King.
• Su Xiao and Tang San reunited with Shrek and greeted Yu Xiaogang, while their allies reacted to their Titled Douluo cultivation.
• Xue Beng arrived in golden armor, surrounded by powerful figures.

Su Xiao and Tang San joined Xue Beng’s war council and assessed Heaven Dou’s disadvantages against the Spirit Hall Empire, especially its shortage of top-tier soul masters. They volunteered to protect the army’s supply lines as the empire advanced.

• Xue Beng welcomed Su Xiao and Tang San and brought them into the main tent to discuss the campaign.
• Su Xiao explained that Spirit Hall had many more soul masters and Titled Douluo, while Heaven Dou’s strongest fighters faced a dangerous numerical disadvantage.
• Dugu Bo entered the tent and heard Su Xiao warn that enemy soul masters could devastate Heaven Dou’s army by disrupting its order and morale.
• Su Xiao proposed that Shrek protect the supply lines, and he and Tang San offered to lead Dai Mubai and the others in the task.
• Xue Beng ordered Su Xiao, Tang San, and the Heterogeneous Kings to defend the supply lines.