Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang and the others realized that Grandmaster Xuan Ji had likely brought Soul Tool production to White Cloud City, making the city even more powerful. Flender sent Oscar to White Cloud Academy to steal the Ring Condensation Method, unaware that Ye Cheng had already prepared safeguards against such attempts.

• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji concluded that Grandmaster Xuan Ji was in White Cloud City and responsible for its phones and other Soul Tools.
• The factions recognized that White Cloud City’s god and its Ring Condensation Method made it too dangerous to challenge openly, even as they sought to infiltrate White Cloud Academy.
• Flender urged Oscar to study at White Cloud Academy and secretly obtain the Ring Condensation Method for Shrek.
• Oscar recalled that Flender had raised him after his parents died and chose to betray his conscience to repay Flender’s kindness.
• Ye Cheng had prepared measures to thwart students who entered White Cloud Academy intending to steal its knowledge.

White Cloud Academy’s new students gathered for their first day and learned that the school’s teachers included powerful Soul Douluos and a Titled Douluo. As they waited for Headmaster Ye Cheng, his presence overwhelmed them with an involuntary vision of a sea of stars, and he appeared on the flag platform.

• Nearly a hundred new students waited outside White Cloud Academy, divided between those admitted for Soul Power talent and those admitted for unusual martial souls.
• Dean of Students Luo Xiang introduced himself and led the students through the gates to assemble in the square for the Headmaster’s address.
• The students saw the White Cloud Flag, chosen by Ye Cheng as the academy’s emblem, flying above the platform.
• A powerful light engulfed the students in a vision of a vast sea of stars before they returned to the square.
• Ye Cheng silently appeared atop the flag platform, while the students were left overwhelmed by his presence.

Ye Cheng welcomed White Cloud Academy’s first students and explained that the school aimed to nurture both their abilities and moral character. The students were divided into classes and shown their free, private dorm rooms as they began settling into academy life.

• Ye Cheng welcomed the students, acknowledged their impure motives, and said the Academy aimed to teach useful skills and proper principles.
• The teachers recognized Ye Cheng’s goal of improving students’ moral character and spreading positive values throughout the world.
• Luo Xiang assigned the ninety-eight students to three classes according to their individual traits and martial soul potential.
• Luo Xiang told the students to follow their teachers to the dormitories, and Teacher Cao introduced Class One’s flexible curriculum.
• Teacher Cao showed Class One the spacious dormitory building, where students registered for free private rooms and could also eat at a nearby free cafeteria.

Hu Liena and her classmates settled into White Cloud Academy and wondered why it provided so much for free. The next morning, Teacher Cao gathered Class One to begin their conversion to the God Ring System, leading them to an unusual tower.

• Hu Liena met Shui Bing'er outside room 603 and explored the fully prepared dormitory, wondering what White Cloud Academy wanted in return.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan ate breakfast at the Cafeteria, where students sampled food made largely from Food System Soul Masters' martial souls.
• Teacher Cao messaged the students and summoned Class One to the plaza before breakfast was finished.
• Teacher Cao told the students he would take them to switch from the Old Soul Hunting System and condense their soul rings, then led them away despite their questions about whether City Lord Ye would help.
• Teacher Cao brought Class One to an unusual building that the chapter identified as a tower.

Teacher Cao brought the new students to the Soul Tower so they could learn the God Ring Master system and convert their Soul Rings. Hu Liena received the tower’s Basic Qi Gathering Art and began testing it, finding its circulation routes more complex than Spirit Hall’s technique.

• Teacher Cao led the students into the tower and explained that its nine spatial levels corresponded to cultivation realms from Soul Master to Titled Douluo, while the ground floor connected to reality.
• The Soul Tower opened separate cultivation rooms for the students and instructed them to meditate without resisting as it imparted knowledge and prepared to convert their Soul Rings into God Rings.
• Hu Liena entered a room, sat on its meditation cushion, and received the Basic Qi Gathering Art directly into her mind.
• Hu Liena compared the technique with the meditation method taught to her by the Pope and found the new technique far more complex.
• Hu Liena began cultivating with the Basic Qi Gathering Art, drawing in and circulating energy from the outside world.

Hu Liena discovered that White Cloud City’s basic cultivation technique was far more efficient than Spirit Hall’s, then underwent the Soul Tower’s conversion process. The procedure shattered her old Soul Rings and left her with one Ten-Year Soul Ring and Soul Power at the Soul Master level, while concealing Ye Cheng’s Ring Condensation Method.

• Hu Liena cultivated the Basic Qi Gathering Art and found it more than three times as efficient as her previous meditation method.
• Hu Liena resumed cultivating until the enclosed room detected that she had recovered to peak condition.
• The Soul Tower enveloped Hu Liena in light and began shattering her existing Soul Rings while healing the damage.
• The Soul Tower guided Hu Liena to cultivate the Basic Qi Gathering Art and condense a new Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena ended the conversion with one Ten-Year Soul Ring, and her Soul Power Level fell from Soul King to the teens-level Soul Master range.

Hu Liena lost her five Soul Rings in the Soul Tower, reconstructed a weak new ring, and rapidly cultivated to level 20. She learned that the new ring held several skills shaped by her former rings, while she chose to strengthen her foundation before forming another ring.

• Hu Liena awoke after Shattered Ring Reconstruction with a white Soul Ring and her Soul Power reduced to around level ten.
• Hu Liena began cultivating with the Basic Qi Gathering Art automatically, then reached level 20 with the Soul Tower's assistance.
• Hu Liena decided to raise her first Soul Ring's age before condensing a second, following Spirit Hall's cultivation plan.
• Hu Liena sensed that her new Soul Ring contained several Soul Skills related to those from her five shattered rings.

Hu Liena learned that the Soul Tower’s cultivation benefits were paid for with Points and that some exchanges required higher phone permissions earned through academy tasks. She left the Soul Tower and resolved to report the academy’s system to her Teacher, while the students waited in the hall for Teacher Cao.

• Hu Liena left the first-level cultivation room and learned that higher Soul Tower levels increased cultivation efficiency, with the Ninth Floor offering ten times the effect.
• The staff member explained that new students could cultivate in seclusion without limits for a limited introductory period, while regular access cost Points rather than soul coins.
• Hu Liena learned that Points could buy some items and knowledge, while other exchanges required phone permissions raised by completing academy tasks.
• After hearing that difficult permission tasks could include hunting a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, Hu Liena decided to report the information to her Teacher.
• More students emerged from the Secluded Cultivation Rooms, and the staff member conjured seats as they waited for Teacher Cao.

After reaching rank 99 again, Bo Saixi left Sea God Island to find Tang Chen in Slaughter City, carrying a Sea God Trident from Neptune for protection. She arrived outside Spirit City seeking Qian Daoliu’s help, while he sensed her aura and wrongly concluded that she must be dead because the Sea God’s throne had been inherited.

• Teacher Cao arrived after the students had formed their self-condensed soul rings and announced that classes would begin the next day.
• After three years of cultivation, Bo Saixi regained her rank 99 strength and prepared to seek Tang Chen in Slaughter City.
• Neptune gave Bo Saixi a miniature Sea God Trident containing his divine power, and the Seven Saint Pillar guardians wished her well.
• Bo Saixi traveled from Sea God Island to the continent but realized she needed local help to locate Slaughter City.
• Outside Spirit City, Bo Saixi released a trace of her aura, which Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu sensed.
• Qian Daoliu recognized the aura as belonging to a Sea Soul Master but assumed Bo Saixi was dead because he believed someone had inherited the Sea God’s throne.

Bo Saixi reunited with Qian Daoliu, who initially mistook her for a descendant because her remade body had changed her aura and youthful appearance. After Qian Daoliu gave her a map to Slaughter City, Bo Saixi set off to find Tang Chen.

• Qian Daoliu flew out of Spirit City after sensing Bo Saixi’s aura and mistook her for Bo Saixi’s descendant.
• Bo Saixi told Qian Daoliu who she was and asked him for the location of Slaughter City.
• Qian Daoliu marked Slaughter City on a map and gave it to Bo Saixi, then asked her to leave.
• Bo Saixi checked the map and flew toward Slaughter City, determined to find Tang Chen.

Bo Saixi entered Slaughter City protected by Neptune’s Sea God Trident and drew out the Slaughter King, discovering that he was Tang Chen. Tang Chen briefly regained control but, corrupted by Slaughter City’s influence, mistook Bo Saixi for a descendant who had betrayed him and attacked her.

• Bo Saixi entered Slaughter City through its main entrance, and Neptune’s Sea God Trident shielded her from the city’s domain so she could still use her soul skills.
• The Slaughter King sensed Bo Saixi’s powerful aura, and she waited outside the city to draw him out.
• The Slaughter King arrived and ordered Bo Saixi to leave, failing to recognize her.
• Tang Chen briefly seized control of the Slaughter King’s body and recognized Bo Saixi, but her youthful appearance made him suspect she was her descendant.
• Consumed by jealousy and resentment, Tang Chen attacked Bo Saixi with his claws and Slaughter King domain, and Bo Saixi countered with her Sea God Domain.

Bo Saixi used Sea God Domain to repel the frenzied Tang Chen and realized her feelings for him had been an idealized memory rather than enduring love. She decided that once Tang Chen regained his consciousness, she would return to Sea God Island and live alone.

• Bo Saixi unleashed Sea God Domain, overpowered Tang Chen's Divine Slaughter's Domain, and sent him reeling.
• Bo Saixi reflected on how she had become attached to Tang Chen after he and Qian Daoliu pursued her on Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi recalled telling the two men that she would accept whoever reached Rank 100, intending to choose Tang Chen, but he misunderstood and left to become a god.
• After waiting decades and dying in her sacrifice, Bo Saixi recognized that her feelings for Tang Chen had faded and that their past romance had never become a lasting relationship.
• Bo Saixi accepted that being single was fine and resolved to return to Sea God Island once Tang Chen's consciousness was restored.

Bo Saixi used the Sea God Trident to break Tang Chen’s Slaughter Domain and purify the evil corrupting him. As Tang Chen began to recover, the God of Asura intervened from afar to ensure Tang Chen would fail his final trial and leave the godhood for Tang San.

• Bo Saixi realized her feelings for Tang Chen had faded as she faced him in Slaughter City.
• Tang Chen unleashed the Slaughter Domain, which gained strength from the city and began to suppress Bo Saixi’s Sea God Domain.
• The Small Sea God Trident transformed into its full-sized form, and Bo Saixi wielded it to release the Sea God’s divine power.
• Bo Saixi’s light shattered Tang Chen’s domain and purified his corruption, bringing him closer to recovery and completion of the Eighth Trial.
• The God of Asura noticed Tang Chen’s recovery and planned to prevent his success, having arranged events to clear the way for Tang San to inherit the godhood.

The God of Asura flooded Tang Chen with Slaughter City's evil aura and his own power, preventing Tang Chen's consciousness from awakening. Tang Chen defeated Bo Saixi in their clash and moved to kill her, but an unknown white-clad swordsman intervened as she lost consciousness.

• The God of Asura poured Slaughter City's accumulated evil aura and his power into Tang Chen, driving him back into madness and overpowering the Sea God's purification.
• Bo Saixi attacked Tang Chen with the Sea God Trident, while Tang Chen summoned a blood-red greatsword and met her strike.
• Tang Chen's Asura power overcame Bo Saixi's Sea God power, blasting her into the crater wall and leaving her gravely injured.
• Tang Chen approached the helpless Bo Saixi and raised his greatsword to kill her.
• An unknown figure in white blocked Tang Chen's blow with a sword, and Bo Saixi lost consciousness.

Ye Cheng rescued Bo Saixi and reasoned that Tang Chen would never side with Tang San, while the God of Asura had used Tang Chen as a tool rather than intending to pass on his godhood. The God of Asura noticed Tang Chen had nearly passed the eighth trial, and the other God Kings pressed him to explain his reaction.

• Ye Cheng checked that Bo Saixi was alive and considered how Tang Chen might become a powerful ally against the God Realm.
• Ye Cheng concluded that Tang Chen would not support Tang San and that Tang San's only possible path back was through the Abyss Dominator, whom Ye Cheng could not yet manifest.
• Ye Cheng recognized that the God of Asura had never intended to give Tang Chen his godhood and had treated him as a tool.
• The God of Asura told the other God Kings that a trial-taker had nearly passed the eighth trial and that he could have retired if the trial-taker had succeeded.
• The God of Evil challenged the God of Asura to explain his surprise, while the God Kings' trial sites were revealed to be designed so inheritors could never actually claim their godhoods.

Ye Cheng defeated the corrupted Tang Chen in Slaughter City and carried the unconscious Bo Saixi back to White Cloud City for treatment. The God Kings recognized Ye Cheng’s extraordinary potential, while he vowed to confront the gods responsible for Bo Saixi’s injuries.

• God of Asura shared his observations with the other God Kings, while Ye Cheng decided Tang Chen was not worth saving after learning he could not inherit the divine position.
• Tang Chen attacked Ye Cheng with a God of Asura Blood Sword empowered by Slaughter City and God of Asura’s divine power.
• Ye Cheng shattered Tang Chen’s sword with one thrust, then carried the unconscious Bo Saixi through space to his manor in White Cloud City.
• The God Kings praised Ye Cheng’s pure power and immense potential, with God of Kindness saying he would like to pass his divine position to him if their attributes were compatible.
• Ye Cheng discovered that God of Asura’s power was preventing Bo Saixi from recovering and called Yi Hua to fetch medicine for a medicinal bath.

Sun Zhongjing prepared a medicinal solution to safely remove the God of Asura's Power from Bo Saixi, and a courier delivered it to Ye Cheng at the City Lord Manor. Ye Cheng began treating Bo Saixi with the medicine and the Ten Directions Sky-Reaching Pagoda, protecting her as he gathered the hostile power inside her body.

• Sun Zhongjing used rare herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to prepare a medicinal solution tailored to Bo Saixi's condition.
• Sun Zhongjing sent the medicine with a Soul Sage courier and considered building Teleportation Portals to speed future deliveries.
• Ye Cheng had two maids wash Bo Saixi and prepare her for a medicinal bath at the City Lord Manor.
• After the medicine arrived, Ye Cheng poured it into Bo Saixi's bath and summoned the Ten Directions Sky-Reaching Pagoda to protect her body and soul.
• Ye Cheng regulated Bo Saixi's meridians and gathered the God of Asura's Power in one place while the medicine and pagoda kept it from harming her.

Ye Cheng finished treating Bo Saixi and removed the God of Asura's Power from her body. After the maids took her to rest, Bo Saixi revealed that she had been conscious during the treatment and realized she had fallen for Ye Cheng, though she believed their age gap made a relationship impossible.

• Ye Cheng repaired Bo Saixi's body, extracted the God of Asura's Power, and stored it for later study.
• The Ten Directions Sky-Reaching Pagoda restored Bo Saixi's vitality, and Ye Cheng sent two maids to change her clothes and take her to a guest room.
• After the maids left, Bo Saixi opened her eyes and recalled that she had been conscious while Ye Cheng treated her.
• Bo Saixi felt embarrassed about Ye Cheng seeing her naked and believed her innocence had been ruined.
• Bo Saixi thought about Ye Cheng's age and status, doubted he could love her, and realized she had fallen for him while forgetting Tang Chen.

After the God of Asura withdrew his power, the Nine-Headed Blood Bat King regained control of Tang Chen’s body. In White Cloud City, Bo Saixi woke to find her strength and Soul Rings gone, and thanked Ye Cheng for rescuing her.

• The God of Asura withdrew his power from Tang Chen, allowing the Nine-Headed Blood Bat King to suppress his consciousness and strengthen its control of his body.
• Tang San stayed in Slaughter City’s outer city to cultivate, while Tang Hao watched him and grew wary of the Slaughter King’s power.
• Ye Cheng learned that the woman he had rescued had awakened and went to explain her condition.
• Bo Saixi discovered that her Soul Power had fallen to roughly Soul Elder level and that her nine God-Given Soul Rings had disappeared.
• Bo Saixi regretted her choices and feared returning to Sea God Island in disgrace.
• Ye Cheng entered Bo Saixi’s room, and she rose to thank him for saving her life.

Ye Cheng brought the recovering Bo Saixi to his residence after she introduced herself as Xi Er and said she did not want to return to Sea God Island yet. Elsewhere, Sun Zhongjing found a hidden cave behind a waterfall and entered it.

• Bo Saixi concealed her true identity and told Ye Cheng that she was Xi Er, from Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi declined Ye Cheng's offer to arrange her return to Sea God Island, so he invited her to stay at his residence until she was ready to leave.
• Ye Cheng instructed his subordinates to care for Bo Saixi and left her to rest.
• Sun Zhongjing crossed a mountain range and found a waterfall concealing a doorway in the cliff.
• Sun Zhongjing reversed the waterfall, opened the hidden entrance, and entered the dark cave behind it.