Chapter Summaries

Ye Cheng and Neptune exchanged powerful attacks, displaying a level of strength that astonished the hidden spectators. Watching Ye Cheng fight, Ning Fengzhi regretted failing to protect the White Cloud City woman who had given birth to his son, a Twin Martial Souls genius who had no intention of returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ye Cheng avoided Neptune's immobilizing halos with nine images, then used the confusion to launch a sword strike.
• Neptune countered Ye Cheng's attack with the third move of the Golden Thirteen Halberds, and their clash shook the surrounding mountains.
• Bibi Dong watched the battle and judged that even at level 99, she would likely lose to either fighter without the Rakshasa God's Divine Artifact.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo how he would fare against the fighters, and Sword Douluo said he would not withstand a single move even with Ning Fengzhi's amplification.
• Ning Fengzhi regretted not bringing Ye Cheng's mother and son into the sect, knowing his son had Twin Martial Souls and had evolved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Ye Cheng and Neptune continued their duel as Ye Cheng revealed his self-created Flying Rainbow Seven Styles and Neptune answered with increasingly powerful water techniques. The chapter ended with Neptune summoning a colossal whale that threatened to crush the battlefield and everyone nearby as Ye Cheng realized the danger.

• Ye Cheng unleashed the first Flying Rainbow Seven Style, Scorching Fire Burns the Sky, and his Fire Phoenix clashed with Neptune’s water whale until both attacks dissipated.
• Sword Douluo recognized Ye Cheng’s move as a self-created soul skill that controlled fire and realized Ye Cheng had held back in their earlier fight.
• Ye Cheng used the second style, Earth Water Shattering Army, to send condensed water blades at Neptune, who deflected them with the Sea God Trident.
• Neptune drove back the water blades and summoned the Extreme Evil Art - Whale Devour and Extinguish, forming a whale over ten thousand meters long.
• The spectators panicked as the whale began falling, and Ye Cheng realized its impact could devastate the surrounding area and kill the Soul Masters.

Ye Cheng used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s Divine Light Shield to protect tens of thousands of soul masters from his descending Whale Devour and Extinguish attack. The shields held as the whale bore down, leaving the crowd safe from the impact.

• Ye Cheng summoned the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and chanted its eighth soul skill as the giant water whale descended.
• Sword Douluo worried that he could not protect Ning Fengzhi and the other soul masters from the attack.
• Ye Cheng’s enormous Pagoda Phantom covered the surrounding mountains, then dispersed into colored lights that shielded every soul master present.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Ye Cheng’s work and worried that granting protection to so many people would drain his Soul Power.
• Ye Cheng’s Divine Light Shields were powerful enough to withstand Whale Devour and Extinguish.

Ye Cheng and Neptune unleashed attacks so powerful that their duel transformed the battlefield into a vast lake, while Ye Cheng’s divine light shield protected the spectators. The two ended the battle without a winner and agreed to spar again, leaving the survivors relieved that the devastation had stopped.

• Neptune’s gigantic whale crashed into the ground and became a flood that obliterated the surrounding mountains and created a vast, circular lake.
• Spectators emerged from the water, still protected by Ye Cheng’s colorful divine light, and feared the duel was about to continue when they saw the two fighters’ giant phantoms.
• Ye Cheng’s Nine-Layered Glazed Treasure Pagoda and Neptune’s Sea God phantom faded, along with the protective light around the spectators.
• Ye Cheng declared that the battle ended without a winner because the area was too cramped for their full power, and Neptune agreed to spar again on Sea God Island.

Neptune returned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Neptune, then went to a mountain cave to earn the Sea God's divided divine consciousness’s recognition and prepare to complete the Sea God Trident. As the Shroud transformed into a gemstone and moved toward the Trident, it began draining Neptune’s power.

• Ye Cheng tossed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Neptune, who rode the waves back to shore while Ye Cheng vanished with a spatial soul skill.
• Xiaobai welcomed Neptune and agreed to return to land with him someday after he became a god.
• Neptune drove a bear from its cave, cleaned the den, and had Xiaobai guard its entrance while he worked inside.
• Neptune let the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud absorb his blood, and the Sea God's divided divine consciousness recognized the divine trial and sent a nourishing force through his body.
• Neptune summoned the Sea God Trident, and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud transformed into a dark-blue gemstone that began draining his Soul Power, spiritual power, and Sea God's Light.

Neptune completed the Sea God's Eighth Trial by restoring the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to the Sea God Trident, reaching one hundred percent Sea God affinity. He learned that his Ninth Trial required him to subdue or kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and defeat the High Priest before beginning the final inheritance.

• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud became part of the Sea God Trident, completing Neptune's Eighth Trial and raising his Sea God affinity to one hundred percent.
• Neptune realized the Sea God could not increase his spirit ring ages from afar and expected those rewards when he formally inherited godhood.
• Neptune examined the restored golden Sea God Trident and stored it in the mark on his brow.
• Neptune learned that the Ninth Trial required him to subdue or kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then defeat the High Priest.
• Neptune reflected that the Sea God had also tasked him with exterminating the Evil Spirit Orca clan because they had resumed their slaughter after the Sea God left the mortal world.

After completing the Eighth Trial, Neptune hurried back to the sea with Xiaobai to prepare for the Ninth Trial and claim the Sea God's power, which could strengthen Ye Cheng and his other incarnations. As they headed to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Xiaobai warned Neptune that the creature was far more powerful than the so-called Ocean Three Overlords.

• After learning the Ninth Trial's requirements, Neptune left the continent with Xiaobai so he could quickly pursue godhood and help Ye Cheng's other Personas grow stronger.
• Neptune and Xiaobai reached the shore, where Xiaobai transformed into a Demon Soul Great White Shark and carried him back toward the sea.
• Neptune and Xiaobai set out to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before returning to Sea God Island for Neptune's final trial against Bo Saixi.
• Xiaobai warned Neptune that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was vastly stronger than she or the Evil Orca King and had even resisted the Sea God before he became a god.
• Xiaobai explained that the ocean held many more Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts than the land, making the title Ocean Three Overlords misleading outside the near seas.

Neptune reached the Demon Whale Sea Area after three days of travel and prepared to confront the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. He hovered above the ocean as the whale’s presence stirred beneath the darkening water.

• Neptune reassured Xiaobai that he understood the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s strength, then learned they were three days from its waters.
• During the journey, Neptune adapted to the Sea God Trident and felt his strength grow.
• At the Demon Whale Sea Area, Neptune sensed the whale’s near-divine power and explained to Xiaobai that it could never complete its transformation into a Beast God under Douluo Star’s rules.
• Neptune told Xiaobai to stay behind and flew into the whale’s waters, releasing his full aura and drawing the attention of nearby Sea Soul Beasts.
• Neptune hovered about five hundred meters above the sea as the water darkened and stilled, then summoned his soul rings and waited for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Neptune confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose water-based attacks and domain failed against Neptune’s control over water. The whale’s powerful strike was easily dispersed, leaving Xiaobai confident that Neptune had the advantage.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King rose from the sea and recognized Neptune, then decided to attack first.
• The whale struck the sea and sent a barrage of water droplets at Neptune, but Neptune’s blue light dissolved them.
• The whale summoned its domain and fired a concentrated beam of ocean energy at Neptune.
• Neptune commanded the beam to collapse into ordinary seawater and scattered it back into the ocean.
• Xiaobai watched Neptune counter the attack and became confident that the whale was outmatched.

Neptune confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, which believed its near-godly body made it stronger than him. Neptune revealed that soul beasts could not become gods and were livestock left by the God Realm to provide humans with soul rings, leaving the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King shaken.

• Neptune struck the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with the Sea God Trident, but the attack only scraped its tough body.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King underestimated Neptune and declared that it would devour him to complete its transformation into a Beast God.
• Neptune told the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that soul beasts could not become gods and would die if they tried.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King grew uneasy as Neptune questioned why soul beasts produced rings and bones for humans and alone faced Heavenly Tribulations.
• Neptune revealed that soul beasts were livestock left by the God Realm for humans to slaughter and that the path to godhood was a scam.

Neptune told the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that soul beasts could no longer become gods because divine beasts once rebelled against the God Realm and were slaughtered. The whale king was left reeling as Neptune warned that ascending would bring the God Realm’s punishment, and Neptune continued trying to make him abandon his own path to godhood.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked Neptune, who blocked the strike with the Sea God Trident.
• Neptune explained that the whale king’s tribulations and blocked path to godhood were consequences of the God Realm’s rules.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked whether soul beasts had once been able to become gods, and Neptune confirmed they had.
• Neptune recounted how the Dragon God led divine beasts in a war against the gods, after which the victorious gods forbade beasts in subordinate worlds from becoming gods.
• Neptune warned that if the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King became a god, the God Realm would likely destroy or enslave him.

Neptune revealed why Soul Beasts were barred from becoming gods, leaving the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King despondent until Neptune offered to make him a subordinate Divine Official. The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King accepted Neptune’s offer, while Neptune’s Sea God trial still required him to subdue or kill the whale king.

• Neptune explained that the God Realm’s rules deliberately prevented Soul Beasts from becoming gods and that even powerful beasts faced death or servitude to humans.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, believing his efforts had no future, turned to return to the deep sea.
• Neptune called him back and offered to take him in as a subordinate god without a divine position after becoming the Sea God.
• Neptune said the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was an objective of his final Sea God trial and warned he would kill him if he resisted.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King considered his wife and daughter and ultimately yielded to Neptune.

Neptune completed the Sea God's Ninth Trial by subduing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, bypassing the requirement to fight Bo Saixi. He returned to Sea God Island to begin the final trial of inheriting godhood, where Bo Saixi awaited him with a resigned air as the guardians mourned.

• Neptune subdued the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and completed the Ninth Trial beyond requirements, avoiding its second half against Bo Saixi.
• Neptune instructed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then rode Xiaobai back toward Sea God Island to begin inheriting godhood.
• Xiaobai wished Neptune luck, and the Sea God Seven Saint Pillar Douluo met him at the island's shore with sorrowful expressions.
• Sea Dragon Douluo claimed the guardians were melancholy because their duty would end after Neptune's inheritance, but Neptune suspected another cause.
• Neptune saw Bo Saixi waiting at Sea God Mountain and surmised that the guardians were grieving because she might sacrifice herself.
• Neptune flew to Sea God Hall, where he met Bo Saixi's complex, resigned gaze.

Bo Saixi told Neptune how she had loved a genius who left to seek godhood and how she had waited decades for his return. She accepted that Neptune must complete the final Sea God ritual, and began preparing it in the Sea God Hall.

• Bo Saixi recounted receiving the Sea God Martial Soul as a child and eventually becoming Sea God Island’s High Priest.
• Bo Saixi described falling in love with a mainland genius who left after she said she would marry whichever suitor became a god first.
• Bo Saixi explained that decades without news made her believe the genius had died or abandoned his goal, and that she would not obstruct Neptune’s trials because the ocean’s future depended on him.
• Neptune promised to try to revive Bo Saixi after becoming a god, but she said she accepted her sacrifice as an honor.
• Bo Saixi directed Neptune to stand on the platform and raised her Golden Scepter to begin the final ritual.

Bo Saixi began the Sea God’s final inheritance ceremony for Neptune in Sea God Hall, testing his readiness and resolve. Neptune answered her questions confidently, and the ritual’s array and six pillars of light activated around them.

• Bo Saixi released the Sea God’s power, revealing her golden soul rings and filling Sea God Hall with sacred light.
• Bo Saixi positioned herself before Neptune as the hall’s array lit beneath them and beams of light rose from its six platforms.
• Bo Saixi asked whether Neptune was ready to inherit the Sea God’s power, and he said he was.
• Bo Saixi questioned whether Neptune would protect his people, uphold justice, and spread the Sea God’s authority; Neptune agreed to each demand.
• Bo Saixi searched Neptune’s eyes as he accepted her questions without hesitation, continuing the inheritance test.

Neptune began the Sea God’s final inheritance trial after Bo Saixi sacrificed herself to open the crimson-gold gate. He entered the Sea God’s underwater domain and reached the great Sea God Hall, where the inheritance was expected to continue.

• Bo Saixi used her scepter to begin Neptune’s ninth Sea God trial and summon the inheritance gate.
• Bo Saixi shattered her scepter and nine soul rings, sacrificing herself to form a gate of crimson-gold flames.
• Neptune entered the gate and arrived in an underwater world between reality and illusion.
• Neptune used his water-controlling ability to stop his descent and spotted a vast palace below.
• The Sea God Trident carried Neptune through the palace’s golden barrier, and he descended toward the Sea God Hall.

Neptune entered the Sea God Temple and challenged Poseidon over Bo Saixi’s sacrifice. Poseidon explained that Bo Saixi had chosen her fate and revealed how mortal-world gods could become true, immortal gods in the God Realm.

• Poseidon summoned Neptune into the Sea God Temple, where Neptune calmly approached the throne and said he had come to accept the final inheritance.
• Poseidon asked why Neptune had not knelt, and Neptune replied that he was an inheritor, not a servant.
• Neptune said Bo Saixi had not wanted to die and that her sacrifice was unfair; Poseidon insisted she had chosen it herself.
• Poseidon explained that Bo Saixi’s soul would survive her sacrifice and travel to the world where gods went after death.
• Poseidon told Neptune that hundredth-rank gods lacked true Divine Bodies and had to go to the God Realm for Immortal Spiritual Energy to become immortal and wield their full power.

Neptune agreed to inherit the Sea God’s godhood so he could prepare for the Extraterrestrial Meteorite, and the Sea God began the six-part inheritance. Neptune arrived in a golden sea and began the first trial, in which a soul bone was forcibly removed from his left arm.

• The Sea God explained that Bo Saixi’s soul would live eternally after death, then admitted that the God Realm’s loneliness and rules had made him want to pass on his godhood.
• Neptune chose to inherit godhood to prepare for the Extraterrestrial Meteorite, and the Sea God warned him that the six trials would test his pain and resolve.
• The Sea God activated the inheritance, transporting Neptune from the Sea God Temple into a golden world with six small platforms.
• Golden light immobilized Neptune, and the first trial began by painfully extracting the soul bone from his left arm.
• A prompt warned Neptune that obstructing the extraction, leaving the platform’s radius, or changing his body position could end the inheritance, with erasure as the worst consequence.

Neptune passed the Sea God's sixth desire trial and watched his five elemental soul bones transform into god-grade armor. The five elements awakened the Five Elements Kirin and its Grand Five Elements Divine Light.

• Neptune broke free of the emotional desire illusion and completed all six trials, with his soul bones enhanced by the Sea God's Power.
• The Emerald Green Dragon soul bone became armor on Neptune's left arm and drew in golden seawater to strengthen him.
• The Fire Phoenix, Giant Tortoise, and White Tiger soul bones transformed into armor on Neptune's left leg, right leg, and right arm.
• Neptune's Kirin soul bone became torso armor, completing the five elements and transforming into the Five Elements Kirin.
• Neptune gained the Grand Five Elements Divine Light, an ability that disintegrated material and energy attacks into their primordial energy.

Neptune completed the Sea God inheritance, transforming his armor and soul and receiving a god-level Tenth Soul Ring. After testing his newfound control and power, he returned to the empty Sea God Temple.

• Neptune's Head Soul Bone transformed into a headband, completing his Sea God Armor and awakening his Divine Soul.
• Neptune grasped the Sea God Trident as the Sea God's Ninth Trial ended and his divine position fused with him.
• Neptune received a fifty-thousand-year increase to all Soul Ring cultivation, leaving him with nine red Soul Rings and a blue-gold Tenth Soul Ring.
• Neptune swept the Sea God Trident through the air, opened a crack in space, and passed through it.
• Neptune returned to the Sea God Temple and found that the Sea God had left.