Chapter Summaries

Zhongli Wu's formation slaughtered marine life across the Ice Sea, empowering the Evil Soul Masters as the Sun Moon Empire's fleet waited for the Sea Princess to surrender Jiang Ming. As the massacre intensified, Liya led the Merfolk elders toward the surface while Lijing stayed behind to guard the Queen and the injured Jiang Ming.

• Zhongli Wu used the formation's blood mist to drive marine creatures and Sea Soul Beasts into a frenzy, turning the Ice Sea red with their blood and corpses.
• The deaths empowered Zhongli Wu and the other Evil Soul Masters, and one Soul Douluo broke through to Level Ninety.
• The Dongyang City Lord warned Kong Deming that the slaughter would invite the Sea Soul Beasts' retaliation, but Kong Deming and Xu Tianyuan insisted that killing Jiang Ming took priority.
• Ye Yulin asked Kong Deming whether the fleet could kill Jiang Ming, and Kong Deming admitted that he had no confidence despite the force's strength.
• Liya refused to interrupt the Queen while she treated Jiang Ming, then left with the Merfolk elders to investigate the humans while Lijing remained behind to guard the Queen.

The Sea Princess broke the Nine-Colored Protective Shield in Jiang Ming's Sea of Consciousness, releasing his overwhelming Battle Intent and awakening his consciousness. Jiang Ming began recovering his recent memories and realized what had happened while his soul was sealed, including his becoming the Merfolk Tribe's prospective son-in-law.

• The Sea Princess used her Spiritual Power and energy from the Mermaid's Pearl to weaken the Nine-Colored Protective Shield in Jiang Ming's Sea of Consciousness.
• Golden Light and terrifying Battle Intent burst through the shield's cracks, forcing the Sea Princess to retreat and protect herself.
• The Nine-Colored Protective Shield shattered, and Jiang Ming's Battle Intent overwhelmed the Sea of Consciousness before gradually subsiding.
• Jiang Ming's voice emerged as his consciousness awakened, and the Sea Princess asked whether he was Jiang Ming.
• The Sea Princess sensed Jiang Ming's upright aura and felt reassured that he was not an Evil Soul Master.
• Jiang Ming absorbed his recent memories and discovered that he had become the Merfolk Tribe's prospective son-in-law while his soul was sealed.

Jiang Ming recovered from Evil Lord’s spiritual attack as the Sea Princess used the Mermaid’s Pearl to repair his Sea of Consciousness. The War God briefly appeared through the spiritual energy, urged Jiang Ming to recover for his remaining trials, and was identified by Jiang Ming to the startled Sea Princess.

• Jiang Ming accepted the Sea Princess’s offer to repair his damaged Sea of Consciousness with spiritual energy from the Mermaid’s Pearl.
• The Sea Princess and Jiang Ming worked together to heal the cracks in his Sea of Consciousness while Rongrong and Little Spirit tended to his body.
• The Sea Princess asked what had injured Jiang Ming, and he told her that Evil Lord had attacked him.
• The Sea Princess recognized Evil Lord as the attacker and began to question how Jiang Ming had survived.
• The War God followed the Sea Princess’s spiritual energy into Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness, told him to recover for the Eighth Trial and Ninth Trial, then vanished.
• Jiang Ming reassured the shocked Sea Princess and identified the visitor as the War God, a deity of the God Realm.

Jiang Ming told Sea Princess that his Sea of Consciousness contained the War God's and Sun God's inheritance imprints as they worked to repair it. Meanwhile, Liya and the Merfolk Tribe discovered that a bloody aura was driving Ice Sea creatures to slaughter one another, and the Merfolk Great Elder joined powerful Sea Soul Beasts attacking a Blood Array node.

• Jiang Ming warned Sea Princess to avoid the two divine inheritance imprints while repairing his Sea of Consciousness.
• Liya led Merfolk Tribe reserves toward the surface and found the seawater stained with blood as Sea Soul Beasts attacked each other.
• Liya determined that a bloody aura in the seawater was causing the slaughter, and she and the merfolk reached a surface covered with corpses.
• The Merfolk Great Elder ordered weaker merfolk to retreat and tell the Empress, then led the stronger merfolk toward the source of the aura.
• Liya struggled to guide her clansmen back through the spreading aura, and five merfolk died before they escaped the blood-red sea.
• The Merfolk Great Elder reached a Blood Array node and found three Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts attacking it with their strongest soul skills.

Feng Ling and Kong Deming fought the Merfolk forces at the blood-soaked Ice Sea while Liya alerted the Sea Princess to the massacre above. Jiang Ming emerged from recovery and rushed with Liya and Lijing toward the surface, where he saw the sea filled with corpses and Dai Mubai urged him to destroy the Evil Soul Masters.

• The Merfolk Great Elder joined the battle and rallied the Sea Soul Beasts to attack Feng Ling.
• Feng Ling called on Kong Deming, who trapped the Great Elder in a silver-white barrier and blocked the beasts' attacks.
• Liya returned to the Merfolk Palace and told the Sea Princess that the blood aura was driving creatures into murderous madness.
• The Sea Princess left Jiang Ming's Sea of Consciousness and rushed toward the surface after hearing what had happened.
• Jiang Ming took Liya and Lijing to the surface, saw the sea covered in corpses, and heard Dai Mubai call for the Evil Soul Masters to be destroyed.

Jiang Ming entered the Blood Array to destroy its source and sent Little Prison to kill one of its Soul Douluo cores. At the array’s center, Kong Deming held the Merfolk Tribe’s leaders hostage and demanded that the Sea Princess kill Jiang Ming in exchange for their release.

• Jiang Ming agreed to help Tang San deal with the Evil Soul Masters and flew toward the Blood Array’s center, sensing that millions of living beings had died.
• Jiang Ming ordered Little Prison to attack an Evil Soul Master Soul Douluo who was close to becoming a Titled Douluo, then continued toward the array’s source.
• Liya and Lijing were astonished when Jiang Ming summoned the powerful Wind-Thunder Prison Beast and commanded it.
• Jiang Ming arrived at the array’s center, where the Sea Princess confronted Kong Deming as his ships approached.
• Kong Deming revealed that he had captured unconscious members of the Merfolk Tribe and demanded that the Sea Princess kill Jiang Ming to secure their release.

Kong Deming threatened the Sea Princess with her captured clansmen and demanded Jiang Ming's corpse, while the Blood Array continued devastating the Ice Sea. Jiang Ming then appeared to attack from the sky, but a second Jiang Ming struck the barrier holding the merfolk, leaving Kong Deming stunned.

• Kong Deming demanded that the Sea Princess bring him Jiang Ming's corpse within a day or lose her captured clansmen.
• The Sea Princess distrusted Kong Deming's promises but hesitated because her people were in danger.
• Jiang Ming arrived in a golden spear attack from above, and Kong Deming and the Soul Engineers aboard the ships countered with their weapons.
• Kong Deming realized Jiang Ming's attack seemed weaker than before and suspected he was seriously injured.
• A second Jiang Ming attacked the silver barrier imprisoning the merfolk, and Kong Deming saw two Jiang Mings at once.

Jiang Ming rescued the poisoned merfolk from Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire experts by breaking their barrier and moving them into his Small World. With the rescue complete, he faced the four opponents and unleashed his newly strengthened God of War Domain.

• Xu Tianyuan suggested that the Jiang Ming in the air was a clone, and Kong Deming ordered him, Ye Yulin, and Liao Mengkai to surround the Jiang Ming beside the merfolk.
• Kong Deming, Xu Tianyuan, Ye Yulin, and Liao Mengkai attacked, but Jiang Ming protected himself with the repaired Void Sealing Soul Devouring Box.
• Jiang Ming charged up and shattered the silver barrier, while the Merfolk Great Elder awoke and warned him that the merfolk had been poisoned.
• Rongrong offered to detoxify the merfolk, and Jiang Ming moved them into the Small World before turning to face the four Soul Masters.
• Jiang Ming recalled the Sky Piercer Spear and his clone, then activated the God of War Domain and Devour the World.

Jiang Ming broke through the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Master defenses and joined the Sea Princess to confront Zhongli Wu’s Blood Array. He fused his Spirit Rings into a crimson-gold ring and began his attack on Zhongli Wu.

• Kong Deming realized Jiang Ming had repaired and activated the Void Sealing Soul Devouring Box, leading him to suspect that Jiang Ming might be Ming Jiang.
• Jiang Ming charged through Liao Mengkai with the Sky Piercer Spear, killing him, and Kong Deming kept Liao Mengkai’s corpse from becoming a sacrifice to the Blood Array.
• Jiang Ming emerged beside the Sea Princess and released Liya and Lijing, then asked the Sea Princess to help destroy the Evil Soul Masters.
• The Sea Princess began summoning the Ice Sea’s Sea Soul Beasts, while Jiang Ming told Liya he would destroy Zhongli Wu, the Blood Array’s core.
• Jiang Ming activated his Golden Battle Body and fused his Spirit Rings into a crimson-gold ring before declaring that Zhongli Wu would die and unleashing the Fifth Form of the Nine Forms of the God of War: Life Burial.

Jiang Ming’s Life Burial spear broke through the Blood Array’s defenses and gravely wounded Long Xiaoyao, while Ye Xishui fled with him. Zhongli Wu then surrendered his body to the Death God Puppet, absorbed the deathly and blood energy of millions of corpses, and began to radiate a terrifying aura as Jiang Ming called on the War God and Sun God to intervene.

• Jiang Ming hurled the Sky Piercer Spear’s Life Burial attack at Zhongli Wu, and Ye Xishui sent a Blood Soul Demon Puppet to protect him.
• Long Xiaoyao transformed into his Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul Avatar and took the attack, which split his body in half.
• Ye Xishui carried the dying Long Xiaoyao away, while Jiang Ming turned his attention to breaking the Blood Array.
• Despairing, Zhongli Wu accepted the Death God Puppet’s offer, and the puppet entered his body as the Blood Array turned black.
• Zhongli Wu absorbed deathly energy from the corpses and blood energy from the sea, while Jiang Ming’s crimson-gold dragon became trapped in black energy.
• Jiang Ming activated the War God and Sun God inheritance marks and demanded that the deities stop someone from breaking the rules.

Jiang Ming faced Zhongli Wu after the latter was possessed by the God of Death, a Rank 1 Deity. With Dai Mubai channeling War God divine power into him, Jiang Ming shattered Zhongli Wu’s scythes and declared he would fight the God of Death himself.

• Jiang Ming sensed that Zhongli Wu had become dangerous, and Dai Mubai warned that a deity had possessed him and taken over his body.
• Jiang Ming refused to let Dai Mubai control him and asked instead to receive divine power so he could fight Zhongli Wu himself.
• Zhongli Wu attacked Jiang Ming with black scythes, forcing him to use the Void Sealing Soul Devouring Box as the Sun Moon Empire forces retreated to their ship.
• Dai Mubai sent War God divine power into Jiang Ming, who wielded the Sky Piercer Spear to destroy the scythes and challenge Zhongli Wu.
• Zhongli Wu identified Dai Mubai as a Rank 2 Deity and attacked Jiang Ming with death aura; Dai Mubai recognized the God of Death and warned Jiang Ming not to confront him head-on.

Jiang Ming fought the God of Death, who had possessed Zhongli Wu, while the Sea Princess evacuated the Sea Soul Beasts from the deadly formation. After Jiang Ming pierced Zhongli Wu’s head, the God of Death used Death Touch, and the Sun God began transmitting divine power to help him survive.

• Jiang Ming broke through the deathly aura and told the Sea Princess to take the Sea Soul Beasts away as the formation drained their life force.
• The Sea Princess, Liya, and Lijing formed a barrier and gathered the Sea Soul Beasts while Jiang Ming sent detoxified elite mermaids to help them escape.
• The God of Death attacked Jiang Ming with Death Eye, but Dai Mubai guarded Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness and let him continue fighting.
• The God of Death trapped Jiang Ming in his Darkness Domain, and Jiang Ming used the God of War Domain to protect his divine power before targeting Zhongli Wu’s body.
• Jiang Ming pierced Zhongli Wu’s head, but the God of Death closed in to use Death Touch, prompting the Sun God to transmit divine power to Jiang Ming.

Jiang Ming fought the God of Death while the War God and Sun God supplied him with divine power, but their attacks were gradually overwhelmed by the God of Death’s dark skills. As the gods prepared to descend and save him, Jiang Ming announced that he had successfully fused their divine powers.

• The Sun God’s fire protected Jiang Ming from the God of Death’s Death Touch, and the Sun God and War God learned that mass deaths across the Ice Sea had drawn the God of Death there.
• Jiang Ming refused to retreat because the Sea Princess and the fleeing Sea Soul Beasts remained in danger, and he asked the two gods to channel their divine power through his Soul Cores.
• The Sun God and War God supplied Jiang Ming with their divine powers, allowing his Sun God Fire to contend with the God of Death’s Hell Netherflame as the God of Death drained energy from creatures throughout the array.
• The Sea Princess led the surviving Sea Soul Beasts out of the array while Kong Deming ordered the fleet to withdraw and considered abandoning the Sun Moon Empire’s plans against Jiang Ming.
• The God of Death used Soul Devour and Breath of Darkness to overwhelm Jiang Ming, prompting the Sun God and War God to prepare to descend and rescue him.
• Jiang Ming drove the Sun God’s and War God’s divine powers into collision, and, as Dai Mubai began his descent, Jiang Ming announced that the two powers had fused successfully.

Jiang Ming fused the War God's and Sun God's divine powers to fight the God of Death, who used the corpses of millions of marine lives and Evil Soul Masters to forge a powerful Death God Puppet. With his body failing and the puppet attacking, Jiang Ming poured everything into the Sky Piercer Spear and launched the God of War's sixth form.

• Jiang Ming used his Small World to fuse a small amount of the War God's and Sun God's divine powers, creating power that could counter the God of Death.
• Jiang Ming used the War God's divine power to cleave Zhongli Wu's head apart and burned the halves with Sun God Fire, but Zhongli Wu's soul remained under the God of Death's control.
• The God of Death sent Zhongli Wu's soul into Sea Soul Beast corpses, then used the deaths of millions of marine lives and the Evil Soul Masters at the Blood Array's nodes to forge a crimson Death God Puppet.
• The War God and the Sun God agreed they would descend in their true bodies to protect Jiang Ming if his life was in danger.
• As the Death God Puppet attacked, Jiang Ming forced large amounts of divine power through his Small World, then poured his fused power and strength into the Sky Piercer Spear.
• The God of War Dragon Spear's artifact spirit steadied the Sky Piercer Spear, and Jiang Ming unleashed the sixth form of the Nine Forms of the God of War, God Slayer.

Jiang Ming destroyed the God of Death’s puppet with fused divine power, but collapsed from his injuries before Kong Deming and his allies tried to kill him. The Sea Princess and the Sea Soul Beasts saved him, while Dai Mubai and the Sun God set out to confront the God of Death in the God Realm.

• Jiang Ming pierced the Death God Scythe and vaporized the Death God Puppet, ending the Blood Array over the Ice Sea but leaving him near death.
• Kong Deming, Ye Yulin, and Xu Tianyuan attacked the helpless Jiang Ming, but the Sea Princess and the Sea Soul Beasts shielded him.
• Kong Deming fired a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball at Jiang Ming before escaping with Ye Yulin and Xu Tianyuan, and the Sea Princess’s forces stopped the blast.
• The Sea Princess ordered the survivors to recover and arranged aid for clans devastated by the Blood Array, then took Liya and Lijing to tend to Jiang Ming.
• Dai Mubai and the Sun God agreed to teach the God of Death a lesson and went to find Zhu Zhuqing and Yue Shen for help.
• A massive white tiger slammed the God of Death down in Death God’s Territory and told him to stay quiet while it beat him up.

The Sea Princess treated Jiang Ming's shattered body and damaged Sea of Consciousness while arranging his marriage to Liya for a month later. Meanwhile, Kong Deming returned to Radiant City and told Xu Tianran that Jiang Ming was dead.

• The Sea Princess examined Jiang Ming's severe injuries, promised to use the Merfolk Tribe's treasures to heal him, and proposed that he marry Liya in a month.
• Jiang Ming considered his debt to the Merfolk Tribe and decided to discuss the marriage with Liya later; the Sea Princess gathered healing treasures from the treasury.
• Kong Deming assessed the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult's forces and heard the Dongyang City Lord's plea for stronger defenses against an expected Sea Soul Beast retaliation.
• Kong Deming led the Soul Master Corps away from Dongyang City and went straight to the palace after returning to Radiant City.
• Kong Deming told Xu Tianran, who was waiting in his wheelchair, that Jiang Ming was dead.

Xu Tianran learned that Jiang Ming had likely died on the Ice Sea and ordered the Sun Moon Empire to seize control of the Evil Soul Masters and spread false stories blaming Jiang Ming for atrocities. At Shrek Academy, the Elders recognized the slander as a Sun Moon Empire campaign, but Mu En still did not know where Jiang Ming had gone.

• Kong Deming told Xu Tianran that Jiang Ming had suffered mortal injuries in his battle with the possessed Zhongli Wu and was unlikely to survive.
• Xu Tianran ordered Kong Deming to secure the Evil Soul Master hideouts, replace Liao Mengkai, reorganize the Evil Lord Soul Master Corps, and bring Ye Xishui to him.
• Xu Tianran devised a campaign to spread conflicting rumors that Jiang Ming had died after attacking Soul Beasts or cooperating with Evil Soul Masters.
• Kong Deming's agents spread the rumors across the Three Great Empires, prompting anger and concern at Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi and the other Elders denounced the reports as slander, while Elder Song traced the campaign to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan where Jiang Ming had gone, and she said he had sought a breakthrough and might begin the Seventh Trial of Deity early.

As Jiang Ming remained missing amid Sun Moon Empire rumors, Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders organized a search and prepared for the possibility that Jiang Ming had been injured. Mu En departed with Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen for the Demon Forest, but someone blocked their way as they left the academy.

• Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen asked to go to the Sun Moon Empire to search for Jiang Ming, but Elder Xuan refused and Mu En volunteered to lead the mission.
• Zhang Lexuan revealed she had reached Level Ninety-Seven, while Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen revealed they had reached Level Ninety-Six, and Mu En agreed to take them along.
• The elders revealed their breakthroughs and calculated that the Sea God Pavilion had fifteen Super Douluo, prompting Mu En to urge Elder Xuan to strive for the Limit Douluo realm.
• Mu En ordered Elder Song to investigate and suppress rumors, Elder Lin to continue covert Rare Metal purchases, and Elder Zhuang to prepare the Immortal Herbs for Jiang Ming's possible treatment.
• Mu En departed with Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen, but a figure blocked their path outside the academy.

Mu En, Zhang Lexuan, Du Busi, and others searched the Demon Forest for Jiang Ming, but found only traces showing that he had already left and that Evil Lord was missing too. Ma Xiaotao then proposed using her Phoenix God inheritance mark to contact Ma Hongjun and ask him to locate Jiang Ming through Dai Mubai.

• Du Busi joined Mu En and the others on their dangerous search for Jiang Ming in the Demon Forest, despite the risk posed by Evil Lord.
• The group found Jiang Ming’s Soul Power aura on a broken branch but saw no signs of a major battle.
• Mu En discovered that Evil Lord and Jiang Ming were both gone, and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant said its clan leader had left a month earlier and Jiang Ming had departed after failing to find him.
• With their search lead gone cold, Ma Xiaotao suggested contacting Ma Hongjun through her deity inheritance mark so he could ask Dai Mubai to locate Jiang Ming.

Ma Xiaotao used her connection to Ma Hongjun to learn that Jiang Ming was in the Ice Sea, and Mu En and the others set out to find him. Jiang Ming was recovering from severe injuries with Liya’s help, and she asked him about their future wedding.

• Ma Xiaotao contacted Ma Hongjun through her Phoenix God inheritance, while Du Busi learned that several Shrek Academy students possessed Deity Inheritances and asked Mu En to let Body Sect disciples seek Jiang Ming’s guidance.
• Ma Hongjun went to the God Realm to find Dai Mubai, who revealed that Jiang Ming had survived two life-or-death crises and was with the Merfolk Tribe in the Ice Sea.
• Ma Xiaotao relayed Jiang Ming’s location, and Mu En, Du Busi, Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochen, and Ma Xiaotao flew toward the Ice Sea.
• Liya pushed Jiang Ming across the Ice Sea in a wheelchair as he struggled with his injuries, and she asked whether he preferred her mermaid or human form for their wedding.