Chapter Summaries

Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God had shortened Neptune’s inheritance trial to one task because a Heavenly Tribulation had devastated the ocean. She led Neptune to the Sea God Hall, where he learned the Sea God Trident was his trial and heard how the Sea God united the ocean.

• Bo Saixi told Neptune the Sea God had turned his nine trials into one because the ocean faced an emergency.
• The Five God Kings discussed Sea God’s exception, and Goddess of Life and God of Destruction defended his decision.
• Neptune learned that his trial was to pull out the Sea God Trident, and Bo Saixi led him to the Sea God Hall.
• Bo Saixi described the Sea God Trident and recounted how the Sea God spent over a thousand years unifying the ocean.

Neptune began the trial of pulling the Sea God Trident from the Sea God Platform, but the weapon stopped rising before he could free it. The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud flew from the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury and fitted into the trident's empty socket, causing golden runes to appear on Neptune.

• Bo Saixi explained that pulling the Sea God Trident free and earning its recognition was Neptune's trial, and Neptune gripped its shaft and began to draw it out.
• The video showed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud awakening in the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury and flying toward the sea.
• Neptune pulled the trident's massive head partly from the ground, but it stopped at a stalemate with its diamond-shaped socket empty.
• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud arrived, transformed into a blue gemstone, and fitted into the trident's socket, releasing golden light and matching runes across Neptune's body.

Neptune pulled the Sea God Trident free and learned that he still had to undergo the Sea God’s final trial. As the live broadcast cut away from Bo Saixi, it showed an ocean-wide catastrophe being halted by a colossal ice pillar driven into an erupting undersea volcano.

• The Sea God’s Heart and Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud joined the Sea God Trident, unleashing golden light that shook Sea God Island and revealed a phantom of the Sea God with Neptune’s face.
• Bo Saixi told Neptune that pulling out the trident qualified him for the final trial, then raised her Golden Scepter as the broadcast cut away.
• The broadcast showed undersea volcanic fissures spreading across nearly half the sea, killing sea creatures and people and threatening the ocean and land.
• The ocean fell still, then seawater formed a vast vortex around the eruption and became a gigantic ice pillar.
• The ice pillar plunged into the undersea volcano like a Frost Heaven Nail, freezing the surrounding waters as the viewers watched in shock.

Neptune froze more than half the ocean to stop an undersea volcano, then returned to Sea God Island as the Sea God. The footage ended when a strange roar came from the former eruption site, leaving the creature’s identity and Neptune’s response unknown.

• Neptune created a vast Ice Pillar that froze the undersea volcano and more than half the ocean into a Glacier Continent.
• The five God Kings concluded that Neptune’s exceptional water-control talent made him especially suited to the Sea God’s Throne.
• The footage showed a Stone with Strange Markings cracking open in magma as a huge claw emerged from it.
• Neptune returned to the Sea God Hall in Sea God Armor and raised the Sea God Trident, prompting the ocean’s creatures and Sea God Island residents to celebrate.
• A strange roar came from the former volcanic eruption site, and Neptune turned toward it before the footage abruptly ended.

Ye Cheng found that the Sea God - Neptune Persona had reached only 24%, so he created a weaker Water Controller version that could reach full completion. He fused it into an avatar and left the avatar radiating the nine soul rings shown in the video.

• Ye Cheng reviewed the system and saw that the Sea God - Neptune Persona was only 24% complete, with the Live Stream Spoiler System at 58.4%.
• Ye Cheng realized that Acknowledgement Power had reached its short-term limit and worried that he could not manifest the Sea God Persona or the Extraterrestrial Meteorite yet.
• Ye Cheng lowered Neptune’s strength to that of a level 95 Titled Douluo while keeping his water-controlling talent, creating a Water Controller - Neptune Persona at 100%.
• Ye Cheng used his Torso Soul Bone skill to create an avatar, changed its appearance to match Sea God - Neptune, and fused the completed Persona into it.
• Ye Cheng watched the avatar’s power rise as nine soul rings appeared around it.

Ye Cheng sent his Neptune avatar toward Sea God Island to claim the Sea God's inheritance and exploit its trials to strengthen himself. Recognized and celebrated in Vast Sea City because of the Future Video, Neptune entered the city and began looking for an inn before hiring a ship.

• Ye Cheng gave Neptune clothes and prepared his avatar to travel to Sea God Island for the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Ye Cheng noted that Neptune's soul rings and soul bones were weaker than his own but could be strengthened through the Sea God's trials and inheritance.
• Neptune arrived at Vast Sea City and told a gate guard not to draw attention to him when the guard recognized him as the Sea God.
• The people of Vast Sea City recognized Neptune as the future Sea God and gathered around him with admiration.
• Neptune searched for an inn, planning to stay briefly before hiring a ship and preparing for the voyage.

Neptune drew a crowd in Vast Sea City, bought supplies, and boarded the Wind Rider to sail toward Sea God Island. The ship left the harbor and headed out across a calm sea.

• Neptune stayed at an inn, where news of his presence spread and brought crowds hoping to be near the future Sea God.
• Neptune bought supplies, hired a ship, and left the inn, which later became a famous attraction called God's Arrival Inn.
• Neptune reached the docks and boarded the Wind Rider, an armored ship with a crew of Soul Masters.
• Neptune gave the captain a sea chart showing the route to Sea God Island and ordered the ship to set sail.
• The Wind Rider departed Vast Sea City and sailed into the open sea as Neptune watched the sunrise from the upper deck.

After a smooth voyage, Neptune reached Sea God Island and was escorted to the Sea Witch Saint Pillar to undergo the Sea God's Trial. The chapter ended with him meeting the mermaid Sea Witch.

• Neptune spent most of the month-and-a-half voyage meditating while the Wind Rider sailed safely toward Sea God Island.
• The captain stopped the Wind Rider outside Sea God Island's waters, and Neptune flew the rest of the way past the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Neptune landed on Sea God Island, admired its springlike landscape, and headed inland to begin the Sea God's Trial.
• Yellow Clothes patrolmen recognized Neptune as the future Sea God and respectfully guided him to the Sea Witch Saint Pillar.
• Neptune saw the Sea Witch, guardian of the Saint Pillar, sitting beside the platform with her fish tail in the water.

Neptune underwent the Sea God trial on Sea God Island, and the seven pillars summoned a golden light that granted him nine trials and left a trident mark on his forehead. The ritual ended with divinity appearing around him.

• Sea Witch recognized Neptune as he approached the Sea in the Sea, and the water formed a staircase beneath his steps.
• Sea Witch began the ritual at the Sea Witch Saint Pillar while Neptune stood behind her.
• The Sea Witch Saint Pillar turned blood-red, and six other pillars sent beams into the sky that converged into golden light.
• Nine golden Light Screens entered Neptune's brow, filling his mind with vague information as the light subtly changed his body.
• The golden light gathered at Neptune's forehead and left a trident mark, while a special aura of divinity appeared around him.

Neptune questioned why the Sea God assigned him nine trials instead of the single trial shown in the prediction, and learned that the Sea God would only bend the rules if the meteor disaster became imminent. After Neptune explained why he had come early, Bo Saixi agreed to prepare for his trials and called a meeting for the next day.

• Neptune realized the Sea God had assigned nine trials because the meteor's arrival was uncertain and the God Realm's rules should not be broken without an emergency.
• Bo Saixi arrived at the Sacred Pillar platform, and Neptune and the Sea Witch greeted her.
• Neptune told Bo Saixi that becoming a god sooner would let him save lives and limit the ocean's losses when the meteor struck.
• Bo Saixi agreed with Neptune and ordered Lorelei to house him in Sea Witch City and gather the other six for a meeting at Sea God Hall the next day.

Sea Witch brought Neptune to Sea Witch City and explained how its residents lived and traded. Neptune learned that Sea God Island’s supply fleets were formed by outside Sea Soul Masters and those who had failed the island’s trials.

• Bo Saixi vanished before Neptune could follow her movements.
• Sea Witch teased Neptune by calling him Little Ni and led him over a bridge of seawater toward Sea Witch City.
• Sea Witch explained that the island had seven Saint Pillars and seven cities, and that about a thousand Sea God followers lived in her city.
• Sea Witch welcomed Neptune into the city and explained its self-sufficient way of life and barter system.
• Neptune asked about the ban on leaving Sea God Island, and Sea Witch explained that outside or trial-failed Sea Soul Masters formed the fleets that brought supplies.

Ye Cheng oversaw the expansion and construction of White Cloud City, which drew hundreds of thousands of workers and later millions of residents. After the city prospered, he began organizing its administration and established an Enforcement Team to protect order.

• The Defense Clan completed White Cloud City's plan, and Ye Cheng used his Flying Rainbow Sword to expand the site and open new roads.
• The Defense Clan recruited laborers with meals and the promise of affordable homes and Ye Cheng's protection, attracting more than eight hundred thousand workers.
• Merchants, small families, and minor factions joined the city, helping fill its residential, commercial, and industrial needs.
• After six months, White Cloud City was completed with the City Lord Manor at its core, an inner zone for allied families and factions, and an outer zone for ordinary residents and businesses.
• The workers bought homes and brought their families, growing the population to several million as outsiders continued arriving.
• Ye Cheng established an Enforcement Team to maintain order, deter criminals, and prevent soul masters from harming innocents.

Ye Cheng settled White Cloud City’s administration and prepared a new persona focused on nurturing talent before launching another worldwide question-and-answer session. Dugu Bo was selected to answer a question about the world’s most skilled poison user, but the ambiguous choices and threat of losing a soul ring left him unable to decide.

• Ye Cheng established an Enforcement Team and assigned administrative roles, bringing White Cloud City’s government onto a stable footing.
• Ye Cheng considered creating a villain persona but settled on one whose abilities would help nurture talent, then checked its details with the system.
• Ye Cheng began a new question-and-answer session that interrupted intelligent lifeforms across the Douluo Continent.
• Dugu Bo appeared as the selected participant and hoped to receive a cure for the hereditary poison afflicting his family.
• Dugu Bo saw a question asking who was most skilled in using poison and hesitated over five options because a wrong answer would cost him a soul ring.

Dugu Bo debated which soul master was best at using poison and chose himself, but the answer was wrong and the punishment stripped away one of his soul rings, reducing him from rank ninety-one to rank ninety. He demanded to know the correct answer before the chapter ended.

• Dugu Bo considered the five candidates and decided Poison Douluo—himself—seemed most likely, though he could not be sure.
• With the countdown nearly over, Dugu Bo chose option one.
• The Question and Answer Space declared his answer incorrect and stripped away one of his soul rings.
• Dugu Bo's Soul Power fell from rank ninety-one to rank ninety, leaving him with eight soul rings and no way to replace the lost one.
• After commenters mocked his misfortune, Dugu Bo demanded to know the correct answer.

The Live Stream Room showed how Medicine King Sun Zhongjing awakened a tongue Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, which others dismissed as useless. After his grandfather encouraged him to find its purpose, Zhongjing began investigating the medicinal herbs around his home.

• The Live Stream Room revealed that Option Four, Medicine King Sun Zhongjing, was the correct answer and played footage of his Martial Soul awakening.
• A Spirit Hall soul master discovered that Zhongjing’s Martial Soul was his tongue and that he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Zhongjing told his sick grandfather about his Martial Soul, and his grandfather urged him to think, observe, and learn its uses.
• After wondering if his tongue could taste flavors, Zhongjing returned to the medicinal herbs and began chewing a leaf.

The video showed Sun Zhongjing turning his tongue martial soul into a life devoted to testing herbs, recording their effects, and treating patients across the Douluo Continent. By the time he was over one hundred and fifty, he appeared as a white-haired elder, leaving viewers wondering how his tongue martial soul and longevity worked.

• As a boy, Sun Zhongjing discovered that eating an unknown grass caused diarrhea, named it Diarrhea Grass, and began recording its effects.
• Sun Zhongjing tested hundreds of plants on himself and compiled their medicinal properties and interactions in the Record of a Hundred Herbs.
• By age twelve, Sun Zhongjing had become a renowned village doctor, cured his grandfather's chronic illness, left his book behind, and departed to seek new plants.
• Sun Zhongjing traveled across the Douluo Continent, treating countless people and continuing to expand his medical knowledge.
• The video showed Sun Zhongjing as a white-haired man over one hundred and fifty years old, prompting viewers to question whether he was a powerful Soul Master and how his tongue martial soul could be cultivated.

Sun Zhongjing’s remarkable healing and potion-making skills were revealed at Medicine King Hall in Heaven Dou City. Dugu Bo arrived secretly to seek treatment for his poison, and Sun Zhongjing told him he was ill.

• Sun Zhongjing gathered herbs in a Soul Beast Forest, where the beasts ignored him.
• Sun Zhongjing treated patients at Medicine King Hall, diagnosing their ailments at a glance and curing them with potions.
• Sun Zhongjing used invisible power to extract medicinal essences from herbs and make hundreds of potions.
• Sun Zhongjing sensed a visitor, put away the potions, and waited in the clinic’s main hall.
• Dugu Bo arrived at night, and Sun Zhongjing told him, “Young man, you are ill.”

Sun Zhongjing exposed Dugu Bo’s severe self-poisoning and warned that the condition would worsen until it killed him. Dugu Bo asked whether Sun Zhongjing could cure him, and Sun Zhongjing proposed comparing their knowledge of poison.

• Sun Zhongjing described Dugu Bo’s symptoms and said Deadly Poison had seeped into his marrow, shocking Dugu Bo by revealing his secret.
• Dugu Bo released his killing intent, but Sun Zhongjing remained unaffected, convincing Dugu Bo that the old man was powerful.
• Sun Zhongjing warned that Dugu Bo’s poison would eventually overwhelm him despite any heavenly treasure or special environment.
• Dugu Bo asked Sun Zhongjing if he could cure the poison, then doubted that anyone could succeed where he had failed.
• After Dugu Bo revealed that he was the Poison Douluo, Sun Zhongjing proposed that they exchange pointers on poison.

Dugu Bo agreed to compete with Sun Zhongjing in poison after Sun Zhongjing claimed he could cure Dugu Bo’s condition. Sun Zhongjing shrugged off Dugu Bo’s first attacks, and Dugu Bo prepared to unleash his Deadly Poison.

• Dugu Bo agreed to spar with Sun Zhongjing after Sun Zhongjing suggested the contest could help cure his poisoning.
• Dugu Bo led Sun Zhongjing to remote wilderness outside Heaven Dou City, where they agreed that the first to be poisoned or unable to cure a poison would lose.
• Sun Zhongjing sat down to tune an old erhu while Dugu Bo released a cloud of poisonous mist that left him unharmed.
• Dugu Bo sent his Nine-Section Jadeite to bite Sun Zhongjing, but Sun Zhongjing showed no signs of being poisoned.
• Dugu Bo summoned his nine soul rings and warned Sun Zhongjing that he was about to use the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s Deadly Poison.

Sun Zhongjing absorbed Dugu Bo’s deadly poison, then defeated him with a poison technique carried through music. Dugu Bo learned how the Sonic Poison Skill worked, acknowledged its limitations and advanced form, and accepted his loss.

• Dugu Bo unleashed his Deadly Poison at Sun Zhongjing, who gathered the poison mist into a pearl and swallowed it.
• Sun Zhongjing played Erquan Yingyue, and Dugu Bo became numb and unable to move as the music poisoned him.
• Sun Zhongjing explained that his Sonic Poison Skill used sound-wave vibrations to poison the auditory nerves.
• Dugu Bo asked whether blocking the ears or being deaf could prevent the poison, and Sun Zhongjing confirmed this weakness in the skill’s initial stage.
• Sun Zhongjing demonstrated invisible Sound Wave Needles that could strike beyond the auditory nerves, and Dugu Bo admitted defeat.