Chapter Summaries

Ye Cheng finalized the Medicine King Sect’s integration into White Cloud City, while Neptune passed the Sea God’s Seventh Trial and learned that his next task was to retrieve the Sea God’s Heart from the continent. The chapter left Neptune wondering why the Sea God’s Heart had gone looking for successors beyond the ocean.

• Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing agreed that White Cloud City would provide the Medicine King Sect with sect grounds and that the sect would join the city.
• Ye Cheng showed Sun Zhongjing and the others the prepared grounds, and Sun Zhongjing was satisfied with them.
• Neptune passed the Sea God’s Seventh Trial, pulled out the Sea God Trident, and rose to Rank 99 with strengthened Soul Rings.
• Neptune received the Eighth Trial, which required him to retrieve the Sea God’s Heart from the continent and gain its recognition.
• Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God’s Heart drifted in search of a successor, and Neptune inferred that it had gone to the continent after failing to find one in the ocean.

Bo Saixi warned Neptune that the Sea God’s Heart had to recognize him and revealed that his final trial required him to kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. She explained the Sea God Trident’s powers and immense weight, leaving Neptune aware of the weapon’s extraordinary might.

• Bo Saixi warned Neptune that the Eighth Trial could not be completed without the Sea God’s Heart’s recognition and cautioned him not to underestimate the trials.
• Bo Saixi revealed that Neptune’s final trial required him to kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before entering the Sea God Hall to complete the inheritance.
• Bo Saixi explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had overcome eight calamities and was an extraordinarily powerful Soul Beast approaching a million years of cultivation.
• Neptune asked Bo Saixi about the Sea God Trident’s abilities, and she explained that only he could wield it and that it weighed 108 jin in his hand but 108,000 jin otherwise.
• Neptune asked whether the trident struck with its full weight, and Bo Saixi said the divine weapon was exceptionally heavy and powerful.

Neptune left Sea God Hall after completing the seventh trial and retrieving the Sea God Trident, while the Sea God Seven Saint Pillars Guardian Douluo grappled with the cost of his eventual ascension. At the island’s shore, Xiaobai arrived and learned that Neptune could summon the Trident from the mark on his forehead.

• The Sea God Seven Saint Pillars Guardian Douluo bowed to Neptune, and Sea Dragon Douluo acknowledged his recognition by the Sea God Trident and his divine inheritance.
• Sea Witch and the other guardians watched Neptune leave, troubled that the final trial would require Bo Saixi to sacrifice her life.
• Neptune reached the shore and summoned his mount, who transformed from a great white shark into Xiaobai.
• Xiaobai asked whether Neptune had pulled out the Sea God Trident, then searched him when she could not see it.
• Neptune showed Xiaobai the golden mark on his forehead and summoned the Sea God Trident from it.

Neptune retrieved the Sea God Trident and asked Xiaobai to take him to the Heaven Dou Empire for his Eighth Trial. After Xiaobai explained that staying ashore too long could endanger her, Neptune hinted that he had a way to keep her surrounded by water.

• Xiaobai recognized the Sea God Trident and congratulated Neptune, then said she understood why the Sea God had chosen him.
• Neptune told Xiaobai that his Eighth Trial required him to retrieve the Sea God's Heart from the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury.
• Xiaobai refused to send another shark and transformed into her Demon Soul Great White Shark form to carry Neptune across the sea.
• After more than a day of travel, Xiaobai brought Neptune to the continent, and he invited her to accompany him on land.
• Xiaobai explained that she would weaken and might die if she stayed out of water for more than two hours, and Neptune said he had a way to keep her surrounded by water.

Neptune gave Xiaobai a Water Spirit Pearl that let her remain on land for a little over half a month, making her eager to help him recover the Sea God's Heart and complete the Eighth Trial. They entered a human city and began a leisurely journey across the continent toward the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Neptune condensed a Water Spirit Pearl and gave it to Xiaobai to replenish the moisture she lost while on land.
• Neptune explained that the pearl would sustain Xiaobai for a little over half a month, and promised he could make more as needed.
• Xiaobai urged Neptune to become the Sea God quickly so she could eventually stay on land indefinitely.
• Xiaobai took Neptune by the hand and hurried toward the inhabited area, eager to recover the Sea God's Heart and complete the Eighth Trial.
• Neptune and Xiaobai entered a human city without attracting much attention, then traveled toward the Heaven Dou Empire while sightseeing along the way.

White Cloud City announced the founding of White Cloud Academy and began recruiting teachers, drawing applicants eager for guidance from Dean Ye Cheng and Vice Dean Sun Zhongjing. Sun Zhongjing opened recruitment with a written test that challenged applicants' assumptions about soul-master cultivation, and the chapter ended as he watched them answer.

• White Cloud City announced that White Cloud Academy would recruit teachers, offering generous benefits and possible cultivation guidance from Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing.
• Nearly a hundred applicants gathered at the recruitment plaza, where Soul King guards maintained order.
• Sun Zhongjing arrived to oversee recruitment and announced that applicants had to pass a written test with a score of at least sixty.
• The applicants read questions about Innate Soul Power, Martial Soul evolution, and soul-ring age limits, then began writing their answers.
• Sun Zhongjing observed the applicants as some wrote confidently, others struggled, and a few could not read.

Ye Cheng set strict moral and educational standards for the teachers of White Cloud Academy, and Sun Zhongjing administered the first recruitment exam. After reviewing every applicant’s paper, Sun Zhongjing found that none had passed, leaving him uncertain about finding suitable teachers.

• Ye Cheng decided that White Cloud Academy would reject strong applicants who lacked basic knowledge or good character, and he vowed to destroy the academy himself if it became like Shrek Academy.
• Sun Zhongjing ended the timed written exam, told applicants that successful candidates would be notified within half a month, and disappeared with the papers.
• Sun Zhongjing reviewed the exams and judged applicants’ character through scenario questions that carried more weight than questions testing Soul Master knowledge.
• Sun Zhongjing failed all of the more than one hundred applicants from the first day of recruitment, though recruitment would continue across the continent for three months.
• Sun Zhongjing’s confidence in finding suitable teachers fell after the first group of applicants all failed.

Yu Xiaogang learned from Flender that White Cloud Academy was recruiting teachers and became determined to join, hoping to prove himself and learn how to cultivate Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls. He set off for White Cloud City, convinced that Tang San could surpass the White Cloud City Lord if he mastered the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Yu Xiaogang received Flender’s letter about White Cloud Academy recruiting teachers and offering guidance from two Limit Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang believed his knowledge of martial souls would help him pass the academy’s assessment despite not being a Soul King.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to join White Cloud Academy so he could learn the secret of cultivating Twin Martial Souls for Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined Tang San giving the Clear Sky Hammer nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and becoming stronger than the White Cloud City Lord.
• Yu Xiaogang set off for White Cloud City with confidence.

White Cloud Academy held the martial assessment for more than three hundred applicants who passed its preliminary screening, judging their combat awareness and martial-soul skills rather than victory alone. Yu Xiaogang was called as the first candidate, and he stepped into the arena while hoping to use a teaching post to gain access to the academy’s Twin Martial Souls cultivation method and build support for Tang San.

• After nearly three months of preliminary screening, Ye Cheng instructed his subordinates to summon the applicants who passed for a formal assessment.
• More than three hundred applicants gathered at White Cloud Academy’s arena, where Sun Zhongjing explained that their performances would be judged on combat awareness and martial-soul development, not simply wins or losses.
• Sun Zhongjing called Yu Xiaogang as the first candidate, and the crowd recognized the so-called Master and questioned his reputation after learning he was only a rank 29 Soul Grandmaster.
• Yu Xiaogang nervously addressed Sun Zhongjing as Medicine King Your Eminence and prepared to use a teaching position to seek the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method and bring Tang San into the academy later.

Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Luo Sanpao’s fart-based soul skills during White Cloud Academy’s teacher assessment, but they failed to defeat his opponent. Sun Zhongjing declared that Yu Xiaogang had failed, and Yu Xiaogang protested the result.

• Yu Xiaogang and Ma Youcai announced their martial souls and ranks before the assessment began.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and used its thunderous fart skill, drawing mockery from the crowd while Ma Youcai remained protected.
• Yu Xiaogang released Luo Sanpao’s sleep-inducing gas, but Ma Youcai’s barrier held and Yu Xiaogang ran out of moves.
• Sun Zhongjing ended the test, cleared the gas, and announced that Yu Xiaogang had failed.
• Yu Xiaogang shouted that he protested and refused to accept the result.

Yu Xiaogang challenged Sun Zhongjing’s decision to disqualify him, arguing that his reputation and teaching knowledge made him suitable. Sun Zhongjing criticized his performance, then revealed that Luo Sanpao might have the potential to evolve into a dragon, leaving Yu Xiaogang reconsidering his Martial Soul.

• Yu Xiaogang demanded to know why Sun Zhongjing had ruled him unqualified, but Sun Zhongjing said his performance showed no mastery of soul cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang defended his theories and explained that Luo Sanpao’s mutation and low potential had limited his cultivation and spirit-ring choices.
• Sun Zhongjing told Yu Xiaogang that Luo Sanpao had unusual potential and might evolve into a dragon rather than being an ordinary pig.
• Sun Zhongjing connected Luo Sanpao’s role as the core of the Golden Iron Triangle’s fusion to its powerful dragon bloodline.
• Sun Zhongjing cited City Lord Ye’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda as an example of a Martial Soul evolving through suitable spirit rings and Soul Power.

Sun Zhongjing explained that Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao could have evolved through Dragon Soul Rings, while Yu Xiaogang’s choice of Pig Soul Rings had damaged its potential. Yu Xiaogang realized his arrogance had also led him to guide Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass incorrectly, then left the arena in despair as the debate spread across the Soul Master World.

• Sun Zhongjing told Yu Xiaogang that Luo Sanpao’s Dragon Bloodline could have been strengthened with Dragon Soul Rings until the Martial Soul evolved.
• Sun Zhongjing explained that Soul Rings suited to a Martial Soul accumulated its origin, while incompatible rings could contaminate it and limit its growth.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled choosing a Pig Soul Beast’s ring against his clan’s tradition after dismissing Luo Sanpao as useless.
• Yu Xiaogang realized his advice had sent Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass down the wrong path and feared the consequences for Tang San’s twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang left the arena in a daze, and the debate between the “Master” and the Medicine King spread through the Soul Master World.

Sun Zhongjing assessed White Cloud Academy’s applicants, offering cultivation advice as well as deciding who qualified. The successful candidates arrived at the academy the next day and met its headmaster, Ye Cheng, who welcomed them as colleagues.

• Sun Zhongjing explained why Tang San could absorb animal soul rings without much harm, while Yu Xiaogang had mistakenly believed he had ruined his disciple.
• Sun Zhongjing defeated applicants’ doubts by giving a Soul Emperor specific advice about his mismatched sixth soul ring and how to prepare for his seventh.
• Sun Zhongjing assessed more than three hundred applicants, and a little over thirty passed to become White Cloud Academy teachers.
• The new teachers arrived at the academy the next day and were led to meet Ye Cheng.
• Ye Cheng lifted the teachers upright with an invisible force, asked them to call him Headmaster, and welcomed them to the academy.

Ye Cheng finished staffing White Cloud Academy and returned to City Lord Manor, where he learned that Ning Rongrong had come to see him. He suspected she wanted a teaching position, as others had tried and failed to use bribes to get people into the academy.

• Ye Cheng assigned the newly recruited teachers to their academy positions and left the remaining work to his subordinates.
• Ye Cheng returned to City Lord Manor, where Yi Hua told him that Ning Rongrong was waiting in South Garden.
• Ye Cheng recalled that he had investigated the Quintuplets maids and decided to keep them under his protection.
• Ye Cheng suspected Ning Rongrong had come to ask for a teaching position at White Cloud Academy.
• Ye Cheng noted that the Three Single-Attribute Families and other groups had reported bribes intended to place candidates at the academy.

Ning Rongrong visited Ye Cheng to seek teaching positions for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect but chose not to press him, and he refused to help. Meanwhile, Neptune and Xiaobai arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye learned of their arrival and wondered about Neptune’s purpose.

• Ning Rongrong visited Ye Cheng and revealed that the Sect had sent her to ask him to arrange teaching positions.
• Ning Rongrong decided not to make the request directly, and Ye Cheng’s silence made clear that he would not help.
• After Ning Rongrong left, Ye Cheng decided White Cloud Academy needed trained teachers and teaching materials before it could open and enroll students.
• Neptune and Xiaobai traveled from the sea to Heaven Dou City and drew the attention of the city’s informants.
• Xue Ye received reports that Neptune had arrived, considered whether he sought the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and felt relieved that he had already given it away.

Neptune and Xiaobai learned that Xue Ye had given Sea God Island’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Medicine King Your Eminence of White Cloud City, so they traveled there to seek its return. As they entered the city, Ye Cheng prepared to stage a grand duel against himself.

• Neptune and Xiaobai explored Heaven Dou City until imperial guards escorted them to meet Emperor Xue Ye.
• Neptune asked Xue Ye to return Sea God Island’s artifact, but Xue Ye said he had given it to Medicine King Your Eminence of White Cloud City.
• Neptune and Xiaobai left the palace and discussed trying to recover the Sea God’s Heart peacefully before resorting to a fight.
• Neptune and Xiaobai traveled to White Cloud City and entered through its South City Gate.
• Ye Cheng prepared to stage a spectacular one-man battle by fighting himself.

Neptune met Ye Cheng in White Cloud City to reclaim Sea God Island’s treasure, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and agreed to duel him for it ten days later. News of the coming battle between the two Limit Douluo spread across the Soul Master World, while the chapter then described Spirit City and its Pope Palace.

• Ye Cheng told Neptune that he held the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and proposed a duel, promising to give it to Neptune afterward regardless of who won.
• Neptune accepted the challenge, and he explained to Xiaobai that he wanted to test his strength against Ye Cheng.
• Spies spread news of the duel, which soon reached the public and stirred excitement throughout the Soul Master World.
• Spectators began arriving early at the duel site to watch the two experts fight.
• The chapter described Spirit City’s hexagonal walls, Spirit Hall patrols, and the Pope Palace on the hill.

Bibi Dong learned of the White Cloud City Lord and Neptune, then joined the many powerful Soul Masters gathering to watch their duel. As the crowd waited at the mountain venue, unnatural storm clouds formed and rain poured down, signaling that one of the combatants had arrived.

• Bibi Dong heard a report about the White Cloud City Lord and Neptune and decided to attend their duel to assess their strength and seek insight.
• Bibi Dong and other powerful Soul Masters, including figures from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Clear Sky Sect, traveled to the duel site.
• Tens of thousands of Soul Masters gathered in the mountains and waited through the morning as the scheduled duel approached.
• Dark storm clouds suddenly covered the sky, and the high-level Soul Masters sensed that someone had caused the unnatural weather.
• Lightning flashed and torrential rain drenched the crowd, and Bibi Dong realized that one of the combatants had arrived.

Neptune unleashed a storm that flooded the battlefield before confronting Ye Cheng on a mountaintop. Their first exchange shook the surrounding mountains, leaving the watching Soul Masters awed by their power.

• Neptune summoned clouds, rain, wind, and thunder, transforming the mountainous terrain into a flooded marshland.
• Bibi Dong recognized the storm as a manifestation of the Sea God's authority and marveled at Neptune's strength.
• Neptune called for the White Cloud City Lord, and Ye Cheng appeared on the opposite mountain, sheltered from the storm.
• Neptune opened the battle with a golden strike from the Sea God Trident, and Ye Cheng countered with a slash from the Crystal Longsword.
• The clash sent shockwaves through the mountains, forcing nearby Soul Masters to flee farther away.
• Bibi Dong and other hidden Titled Douluo questioned the fighters' immense Soul Power, which came from their Soul Cores and approached divine power.

Neptune unleashed a colossal water whale against Ye Cheng, but Ye Cheng dodged it and the flood endangered the watching Soul Masters. Neptune then switched to the Sea God’s Golden Thirteen Halberds, and Ye Cheng recognized the opening move as Unfixed Storm as their clash began.

• Neptune shaped gathered water into a gigantic whale and sent it crashing toward Ye Cheng.
• Ye Cheng flashed away, and the whale shattered a mountain peak, spreading a flood that swept away spectators.
• Ye Cheng urged Neptune to stop using water attacks that endangered bystanders, and Neptune agreed.
• Neptune invoked a divine technique passed down by the Sea God and attacked Ye Cheng with golden rings.
• Ye Cheng countered with sword light, which the rings erased, and he recognized Neptune’s move as Unfixed Storm.