Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao confronted the Deep Sea Demon Whale King in Bronze City and revealed the Dragon God’s role in preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods. After answering his questions, Huo Yuhao accepted him as a servant and named him Yuan Di, leaving him bound by a contract and awaiting orders.

• The Deep Sea Demon Whale King returned to Bronze City, where Huo Yuhao surprised him and brought him into a Spiritual World.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux revealed their divine power, and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King knelt and asked why Soul Beasts could not become gods.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Dragon God had imposed the restriction to prevent conflict between humans and Soul Beasts, while preserving a divine remnant for the dragon race.
• The Deep Sea Demon Whale King accepted Huo Yuhao’s authority and chose to serve him rather than become a soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao bound him with a contract, named him Yuan Di, and returned with him to the Bronze Palace.

Tang San reached Sea God Island carrying the Sea God's Heart and demanded to meet Bo Saixi, but the Seahorse Holy Pillar assigned him Black-Level Five Trials. When he revealed the Sea God's Heart, its power resonated across the island and drew Bo Saixi’s attention.

• Xiao Bai found an unconscious Tang San drifting through the Storm Barrier and brought him ashore after noticing the Sea God's Light on his chest.
• Tang San asked Xiao Bai to take him to Bo Saixi, but she refused to bypass the rules and escorted him to the Seahorse Holy Pillar instead.
• Sea Horse Douluo tested Tang San, and the Holy Pillar assigned him Black-Level Five Trials.
• Tang San protested that the result did not reflect his true potential and revealed the Sea God's Heart, triggering a beam of azure light across Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi sensed the Sea God's Heart and hurried out of the Sea God Hall, hoping to recover it for Huo Yuhao.

Tang San brought the Sea God's Heart to Sea God Island, expecting it to secure him the Sea God Nine Trials, but Bo Saixi demanded the relic back and took it from him. Before she could help him with the assessment, a massive Oceanic Beast Tide surrounded the island.

• Tang San revealed the Sea God's Heart at the Seahorse Holy Pillar, and Bo Saixi arrived as the island's guardians moved to detain him.
• Tang San introduced himself as Tang Chen's grandson and showed his Clear Sky Hammer and six soul rings, prompting Bo Saixi to question his talent and offer limited help with his assessment.
• Tang San claimed the Sea God's Heart meant he deserved the Sea God Nine Trials, but Bo Saixi questioned how he had obtained it and demanded he return the island's inheritance treasure.
• Tang San refused to give up the Sea God's Heart and challenged Bo Saixi, who overwhelmed him with her power until he agreed to entrust it to her temporarily.
• Bo Saixi recovered the Sea God's Heart, then noticed marine soul beasts surrounding Sea God Island as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's song announced an Oceanic Beast Tide.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King led a vast beast tide toward Sea God Island, prompting Bo Saixi to mobilize the island’s defenders and activate its protective domain. Huo Yuhao watched from afar, having taken control of the whale king and orchestrated the crisis to pressure the Sea God into granting him Ocean Authority.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King gathered a huge sea beast army beyond Sea God Island’s Storm Barrier while his wife and daughter waited in Deep Sea King City.
• Bo Saixi ordered Xiao Bai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to defend the near seas, summoned the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians, and sent Tang San to Sea Horse Holy City.
• Bo Saixi and the guardians prepared Sea God Island for battle, then she activated the Sea God’s Heart and raised Sea God’s Light over the island.
• Tang San reached Sea Horse Holy City and secretly hoped the defenders would destroy one another as the beast tide crossed the Storm Barrier.
• Huo Yuhao watched from above the sea with the Evil Emperor and revealed that he controlled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, using the staged invasion to pressure the Sea God into giving him Ocean Authority.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King overwhelmed Bo Saixi as he attacked Sea God Island, while Tang San secretly headed for Sea God Hall. Huo Yuhao arrived and received the Sea God's delegated Ocean Authority, leaving him tasked with defeating the whale king and saving the island.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked Sea God Island, and Bo Saixi fought him with the power of the Sea God but fell behind.
• Tang San slipped away from the island's defenders and crossed the Inner Ring Sea toward Sea God Hall, where Sea God's Light barely reacted to him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King wounded Bo Saixi and launched the Beast Tide, but Huo Yuhao arrived and cut a path through the sea beasts.
• Bo Saixi gave Huo Yuhao the Sea God's Heart, which restored his trident and caused the Sea God to grant him temporary control of Ocean Authority.
• Tang San saw the golden light from the sea and Sea God Hall as Huo Yuhao received the mission to defeat the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and save Sea God Island.

Huo Yuhao took up the Sea God's authority and joined the Snow Empress and Evil Emperor in battling the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while the Ice Empress and Zi Ling returned to defend Sea God Island. They later caught Tang San sneaking around the island and left him tied up for questioning.

• The Frost Goddess persuaded the Sea God to lend Huo Yuhao the Sea God's authority after Bo Saixi offered the Sea God's Heart.
• Huo Yuhao, the Snow Empress, the Evil Emperor, the Ice Empress, and Zi Ling arrived to face the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and protect Sea God Island.
• Huo Yuhao, the Snow Empress, and the Evil Emperor battered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King until it fled underwater, then pursued it.
• The Ice Empress tied up Tang San and hung him over the Inner Ring Sea while Zi Ling questioned him about why he had come to Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi arrived as the Ice Empress and Zi Ling waited for Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress to return.

Huo Yuhao caught Tang San on Sea God Island and brutally killed him with the Golden Trident. Bo Saixi was left shaken as Huo Yuhao departed, while Sea Horse Douluo arrived to report the island’s casualties and found Tang San beneath the trident.

• Bo Saixi arrived at the foot of Sea God Mountain and questioned the bound Tang San, whom Ice Empress had captured sneaking around Sea God Hall.
• Huo Yuhao arrived with Snow Empress, and Tang San broke free and tried to flee before Ice Empress and Snow Empress froze him with their domain.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Tang San and struck him with the Golden Trident, then drove it into his back as Bo Saixi hesitated to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao restored the Golden Trident’s full weight, which split Tang San in two and crushed the ground beneath him.
• Huo Yuhao left with Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Zi Ling, and Evil Emperor, while Bo Saixi watched in fear.
• Sea Horse Douluo arrived to report casualties and recognized Tang San pinned beneath Huo Yuhao’s Golden Trident.

Bo Saixi dealt with Tang San and the Sea God Trident after Huo Yuhao left it embedded in him, while Huo Yuhao settled into Sea Dragon City and narrowly escaped tasting more of Snow Empress’s cooking. The chapter left Ice Empress and Zi Ling reluctantly facing the burnt cakes.

• Bo Saixi learned that Huo Yuhao had left the Sea God Trident pinning Tang San and went to decide what to do with them.
• Bo Saixi pulled the Golden Trident from Tang San, then ordered the Purple Robed Deacons to arrest him and suppress him in the Rear Hall.
• Huo Yuhao gained the trust of Sea God Island’s residents after helping defend the island from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Snow Empress served Huo Yuhao burnt cakes, and he praised them before Bo Saixi called him away.
• Ice Empress and Zi Ling tried to avoid Snow Empress’s cakes but reluctantly reached for one after Huo Yuhao left.

Huo Yuhao recovered the Golden Trident from Bo Saixi, learned how the Merfolk Clan’s divine artifact in the Eternal Frozen Sea could help locate the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and heard that Tang San had been imprisoned. The chapter ended with Tang San waking, chained and severely injured, in the Sea God Hall.

• Huo Yuhao took the Golden Trident from Bo Saixi and gave her healing pills for her injuries.
• Bo Saixi told Huo Yuhao that the Merfolk Clan in the Eternal Frozen Sea possessed a spiritual divine artifact that could reveal the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s hiding places.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to consider seeking the Merfolk Clan’s help and warned Bo Saixi that the Sea God Hall might not hold Tang San forever.
• Bo Saixi told Huo Yuhao that Tang San was imprisoned in the Sea God Hall’s Rear Hall, and Huo Yuhao said he planned to leave in three days.
• Tang San awoke severely injured, chained in a dark chamber of the Sea God Hall.

Huo Yuhao decided to travel to the Eternal Frozen Sea to obtain its portion of the Ocean Authority, then departed Sea God Island with his companions. After meeting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in the Forbidden Sea, he questioned him about the merfolk territory and its divine artifact.

• Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted the Eternal Frozen Sea's Ocean Authority, and Snow Empress agreed to follow his plan.
• Three days later, Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians bid farewell to Huo Yuhao and his companions as Evil Emperor carried them out to sea.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at Bronze Royal City, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Demon Queen, and their daughter welcomed him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King described the Eternal Frozen Sea, the merfolk, and the Merfolk Clan Queen's control over its Ocean Authority.
• Huo Yuhao asked about the Eternal Frozen Sea's divine artifact, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's expression turned ugly.

Huo Yuhao learned about the Demon Flute’s mind-controlling and perception-warping powers, then arranged for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to watch Sea God Island and guard against the holder of the Sea God’s Heart. After restoring the whale king’s eye, Huo Yuhao departed with the Snow Empress and the others for the Eternal Frozen Sea.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King described the Demon Flute’s ability to manipulate minds and create a Spiritual Domain that distorted perception and space, and said the Merfolk Clan Queen had owned it before the Sea God became a god.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King offered to accompany Huo Yuhao but warned that the Sea God might be monitoring him.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to remain in the Forbidden Sea, watch Sea God Island, and gather a Beast Tide to surround it without attacking if trouble arose.
• Huo Yuhao identified the holder of the Sea God’s Heart as the danger to watch and promised to restore the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s eye.
• Huo Yuhao restored the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s eye with the Blade of Life, and the whale king tearfully pledged his loyalty.
• Huo Yuhao left the Bronze Palace with the Snow Empress and the others, riding the Evil Emperor toward the Eternal Frozen Sea.

Huo Yuhao and his companions reached the Eternal Frozen Sea and found an inhabited underwater city of the Merfolk Clan. As Evil Emperor slipped past the city’s defenses, Merfolk empress Qian Ji sensed a powerful intruder.

• Huo Yuhao used his Frost Divine Domain to ease Zi Ling’s discomfort in the unusually cold sea.
• Huo Yuhao expanded his detection range, and the group discovered an ice-crystal city beneath a protective barrier.
• Evil Emperor carried the group toward the city, where they spotted armed merfolk on patrol.
• Evil Emperor passed over the patrol without being noticed and approached the Ice Palace Realm.
• Qian Ji sensed a powerful being infiltrating the Ice Palace’s defensive barrier and summoned a White Jade Bone Flute.

Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at the Eternal Frozen Sea to seek Qian Ji's help in finding the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his Sea God Nine Trials. Qian Ji initially refused because the Eternal Frozen Sea faced its own crisis, but agreed to assist if they helped resolve it.

• Qian Ji sensed intruders outside the Ice Palace and began playing her White Jade Bone Flute, but the palace doors were blasted open.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Qian Ji and revealed the Seven-Colored Heart Diamond and the Sea God's Golden Trident, prompting her to dismiss her guards.
• Huo Yuhao asked Qian Ji to help locate the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, explaining that the Sea God Nine Trials required him to subjugate it.
• Qian Ji refused to leave the Eternal Frozen Sea, explaining that doing so could leave her home vulnerable to destruction.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help with Qian Ji's difficulties, and she agreed to assist him if his group resolved the crisis threatening the Eternal Frozen Sea.

Qian Ji led Huo Yuhao and his companions into the forbidden source of the Eternal Frozen Sea’s deadly currents, where they discovered frozen merfolk and a song that awakened them. After Huo Yuhao destroyed the corpses, the 700,000-year former Merfolk Queen appeared and recognized an aura connected to her old enemy.

• Qian Ji explained that the former Empress’s disappearance had destabilized the Eternal Frozen Sea and agreed to take Huo Yuhao’s group to its forbidden core.
• Qian Ji overruled four elders who opposed bringing outsiders and led the group toward the deep-sea abyss.
• Huo Yuhao sent Zi Ling through the Gate of the Undead for safety, then led the others into the cold-current tunnel under his Frost Divine Domain.
• Huo Yuhao and the others encountered hundreds of frozen merfolk corpses, and a mysterious song awakened them as Qian Ji recognized some of the dead.
• Huo Yuhao slew the awakened merfolk with one Frost Divine Sword strike, completing a divine test, and the 700,000-year former Merfolk Queen appeared and asked whether he was the inheritor of someone she knew.

Huo Yuhao confronted the Secluded Netherworld Empress, whose resentment and Abyssal power threatened his group. After he broke her illusion and an Abyssal God tried to possess her, Electrolux appeared and drove it out, leaving the Empress free to apologize to Qian Ji.

• The Secluded Netherworld Empress tried to turn the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Evil Emperor against Huo Yuhao by claiming he could not fulfill his promise to help soul beasts become gods.
• Huo Yuhao challenged the Secluded Netherworld Empress's assumptions and accused her of abandoning her people, provoking her to unleash Abyssal power.
• The Secluded Netherworld Empress seized Qian Ji's White Jade Bone Flute and used it to draw Huo Yuhao and the others into an illusion of her past with Poseidon and the destruction of her clan.
• Huo Yuhao broke the illusion, but an Abyssal God began taking control of the Secluded Netherworld Empress's body.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Electrolux, who used Light - Judgment to destroy the possessing Abyssal presence.
• The Secluded Netherworld Empress became a free soul, bowed to Electrolux, and apologized to Qian Ji.

The Secluded Netherworld Empress transferred the Eternal Frozen Sea’s authority to Qian Ji and asked Huo Yuhao to protect her people in a crisis. After Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit System and offered her an Equality Treaty, she sacrificed her seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation to become his eighth soul ring and soul spirit, awakening in his Sea of Consciousness.

• The Secluded Netherworld Empress returned the White Jade Bone Flute to Qian Ji, transferred her authority, and asked Huo Yuhao to help protect the Eternal Frozen Sea when needed.
• The Secluded Netherworld Empress offered Huo Yuhao seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, and Electrolux told her that Huo Yuhao could preserve her soul and let her seek redemption.
• Huo Yuhao explained the two paths for soul beasts to reach godhood and demonstrated the soul spirits bound to him; the Secluded Netherworld Empress agreed to become his soul spirit.
• Huo Yuhao presented the Secluded Netherworld Empress with an Equality Treaty, and she accepted its terms before they began the sacrifice.
• The Secluded Netherworld Empress’s seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation formed Huo Yuhao’s eighth soul ring and a blue-gold left leg bone, while her spirit entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao appeared in the Secluded Netherworld Empress’s Spiritual World and welcomed her to the godhood sequence.

After becoming Huo Yuhao’s eighth soul ring and fusing with him, the Secluded Netherworld Empress gave him four soul skills and a powerful soul bone. She taught Qian Ji to control the Eternal Frozen Sea, but the scattered Merfolk tribes could take months or years to reunite, leaving the empress concerned about Qian Ji’s ability to hold power.

• Huo Yuhao gained four innate soul skills and two soul bone skills after the Secluded Netherworld Empress sacrificed herself and her seven-hundred-thousand-year left leg soul bone fused with him, raising his Soul Power to rank eighty-seven.
• Qian Ji returned from the forbidden zone with Huo Yuhao and the others, then ordered the Merfolk tribes scattered across the seas to gather before entering seclusion.
• Zi Ling asked Ice Empress where Huo Yuhao was, and Snow Empress explained that the Secluded Netherworld Empress was teaching Qian Ji to control Ocean Authority.
• For more than half a month, the Secluded Netherworld Empress taught Qian Ji how to control the Eternal Frozen Sea while Huo Yuhao cultivated nearby.
• The Secluded Netherworld Empress learned that reuniting the scattered Merfolk tribes could take two or three months at best or two or three years at worst, and urged Qian Ji to act as soon as possible.

After leaving the Eternal Frozen Sea, Huo Yuhao took the Evil Emperor and his companions to the Sun Moon Continent, where he returned to Tulip Territory and the Spirit Transfer Pagoda. His arrival interrupted Perris's negotiations with Prince Xu Ming of the Blazing Sun Royal Family.

• Qian Ji offered Huo Yuhao the clan's divine artifact, but he declined, saying the Secluded Netherworld Empress could help him deal with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Huo Yuhao departed Eternal Frozen City with the Evil Emperor, the Ice and Snow Two Emperors, and Zi Ling, then chose to visit the Sun Moon Continent.
• The group reached Tulip Territory, where Huo Yuhao used his divine sense to survey the prosperous town, the Spirit Transfer Pagoda, and the signs of past damage around Tulip Ancient Castle.
• A Spirit Transfer Pagoda soul master recognized Huo Yuhao and led him to the hall, where Perris was negotiating with Prince Xu Ming of the Blazing Sun Royal Family.
• Prince Xu Ming dismissed Huo Yuhao's identity as a joke, and Perris rebuked him, identifying Huo Yuhao as the Spirit Transfer Pagoda's Pagoda Master.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Spirit Transfer Pagoda and confronted the Blazing Sun Royal Family over its attempts to control the organization. After demanding the Blazing Sun Emperor abdicate and Xu Jing meet him, Huo Yuhao appeared over the imperial palace and called the emperor out to die.

• Xu Ming demanded a vice pagoda master position, but Huo Yuhao intimidated him and two Seven Ring Soul Saints, then told him the throne must be traded for authority from the Spirit Transfer Pagoda.
• Perris told Huo Yuhao how the Blazing Sun Royal Family had pressured the Spirit Transfer Pagoda, including a failed search that triggered its defensive Soul Tool Cannons.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Mingde Hall, and a silver-haired girl with Mirror Eyes arrived and called him her master.
• The Blazing Sun Emperor heard that Huo Yuhao had returned and reacted angrily to his demand that he abdicate.
• Huo Yuhao's voice rang out over the imperial palace, and Xu Jing recognized the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord above it.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Blazing Sun Imperial Palace, killed Xu Jing, and made the Blazing Sun Emperor an honorary deputy pagoda master. After discussing plans for the Spirit Pagoda and promising to take Perris and others home, he traveled with his companions to Qiankun Love Question Valley to visit a fallen Deity's remnant soul.

• Huo Yuhao arrived above the imperial palace on the Evil Emperor, and the Blazing Sun Emperor, Xu Jing, the officials, and the hidden Nine Ring Supreme knelt before him.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xu Jing about becoming deputy pagoda master, then crushed him with an invisible force and declared the Blazing Sun Emperor the Spirit Pagoda's honorary deputy pagoda master.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Spirit Pagoda and promised Perris that he would take him and others back to the Douluo Continent.
• Huo Yuhao offered Ying Xiao the chance to study overseas, promised to send her back within three years if needed, and allowed her to bring up to three companions.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions flew to Qiankun Love Question Valley, where he planned to visit the remnant soul of a fallen Deity.