Chapter Summaries

Su Cheng guided Bibi Dong through Spirit Hall life, urging her to become strong, question her choices, and study widely while promising to help her cultivation in exchange for future assistance. After half a year of study transformed Bibi Dong’s knowledge and composure, Su Cheng told her they would leave Spirit City to travel the continent.

• Qian Daoliu persuaded Su Cheng to guide Bibi Dong, and Su Cheng agreed while resolving to return to Sea God Island within ten years.
• Su Cheng spoke with Bibi Dong about strength, rules, and her feelings for Yu Xiaogang, then assigned her books and challenged her to examine her choices.
• Su Cheng and Bibi Dong agreed that he would guide her cultivation and she would help him once in the future.
• Over the next half-year, Bibi Dong studied Su Cheng’s assignments while cultivating, and her knowledge and composure improved.
• Su Cheng told Bibi Dong that they would leave Spirit City the next day to travel across the continent, and she objected when he joked about her seeing Yu Xiaogang.

Su Cheng took Bibi Dong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she successfully plucked Lovesick Heartbreak Red and chose it as her Immortal Herb. He then set her a new trial: within a year, she had to kill Tang Hao without letting him escape, or Su Cheng would intervene himself.

• After traveling across the continent for more than three months, Su Cheng brought Bibi Dong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained the benefits and risks of its Immortal Herbs.
• Su Cheng described the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and Lovesick Heartbreak Red as possible choices for Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong lifted the Wu Jue Stone, watered Lovesick Heartbreak Red with her heart's blood, and successfully plucked it.
• Bibi Dong asked about Su Cheng's sincerity, but he refused to remove his mask and said he could not pluck the flower himself.
• Su Cheng told Bibi Dong to kill Tang Hao within a year, explaining that he was an ideal opponent and that Su Cheng would kill him himself if she failed.

After Bibi Dong killed Tang Hao in a duel, Su Cheng took her to the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed that he planned to use the Clear Sky Sect’s pursuit to train her. He gave her the first volume of his Innate Skill, which could improve her cultivation and prepare her body to cultivate her second Martial Soul.

• After a year of cultivation, Bibi Dong challenged Tang Hao and fought him alone while Su Cheng watched.
• When Tang Xiao and Ah Yin arrived, Bibi Dong exploited Tang Hao’s momentary distraction, pierced his heart, and fatally poisoned him before Su Cheng carried her away from Tang Xiao’s attack.
• Tang Xiao and Ah Yin tried to save Tang Hao, but Ah Yin could not counter the Death Spider Emperor’s venom, and Tang Hao died.
• Su Cheng explained that Tang Xiao would seek reinforcements and that he intended for Bibi Dong to face the Clear Sky Sect’s pursuit as training, with Su Cheng intervening only if necessary.
• Su Cheng gave Bibi Dong the first volume of his Innate Skill and warned her not to share it or cultivate her second Martial Soul until she had strengthened her body.

After Bibi Dong completed her trial by killing Tang Xiao and the other Clear Sky Sect pursuers, Su Cheng questioned her killing intent and refused to explain why he had spared Ah Yin. Ah Yin returned to the Blue Silver Emperor Forest, unsettled by her encounter with the masked man and wondering who he was.

• Bibi Dong finished her trial after killing Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect’s remaining Soul Douluo, and Su Cheng gave her the second volume of his technique on their way back to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong confronted Su Cheng about sparing Ah Yin, but he denied knowing her and warned Bibi Dong against meaningless slaughter.
• Bibi Dong took the manuscript and continued toward Spirit City, while Su Cheng resolved to keep his distance from her growing charm and sharpness.
• Ah Yin returned to the Blue Silver Emperor Forest, where the trees and grass welcomed her and calmed her distress.
• Ah Yin recalled the masked man’s warning to stay in her territory and cultivate until she reached the Titled Douluo realm, then wondered who he was.

After returning to Spirit City, Bibi Dong reviewed years of cultivation notes and studied Su Cheng’s Innate Skill Second Scroll, reflecting on her growth, her feelings for him, and the battles they had fought. She ended by resolving to become stronger than Su Cheng and uncover the feelings behind his mask.

• Su Cheng went to meet Qian Daoliu and informed him about the Clear Sky Sect, while Bibi Dong returned to the Pope’s Palace to handle Spirit Hall affairs.
• Bibi Dong studied the Innate Skill Second Scroll and revisited her old notes, which recorded how Su Cheng had taught her to study, cultivate, and think independently.
• Bibi Dong reflected on her past mistakes with Qian Xunji and on how Su Cheng had protected and helped her, while wondering what made her special to him.
• Bibi Dong reviewed her notes about Sea God Island, Immortal Herbs, the Innate Skill, and her battles with Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bibi Dong recalled that Su Cheng had asked her to spare Ah Yin and noted that his attitude toward her seemed to be changing.
• Bibi Dong wrote that she would become stronger than Su Cheng, stand proudly beside him, and eventually remove his mask.

During Bibi Dong’s attempt to absorb her eighth spirit ring, Su Cheng realized her growing affection for him had become impossible to ignore. After she used a spiritual soul skill to embrace him, he told her to return to Spirit City and cultivate alone, promising to meet her again at level ninety.

• Over two years in Spirit City, Bibi Dong rapidly improved her knowledge and cultivation while growing increasingly affectionate toward Su Cheng.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Bibi Dong successfully absorbed a ninety-thousand-year Spider Emperor Soul Beast as her eighth spirit ring and advanced to Soul Douluo.
• Bibi Dong used a spiritual soul skill to surprise Su Cheng with an embrace and tried to remove his mask, but he pushed her away and demanded to know what she was doing.
• Su Cheng told Bibi Dong he had taught her everything he could and instructed her to return to Spirit City while he traveled across the continent.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Su Cheng was avoiding her, and he told her to find him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well when she reached level ninety.

Su Cheng reunited with Bibi Dong after eight years and took her to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. The chapter ended with them facing the Titan Giant Ape as Su Cheng asked whether Bibi Dong could kill it.

• Su Cheng examined his progress refining Innate Power and considered studying Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after breaking through to level ninety, and Su Cheng congratulated her.
• Su Cheng refused to teach Bibi Dong the Third Scroll of the Innate Skill until the remaining medicinal power in her body had settled.
• Su Cheng and Bibi Dong traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and found the Titan Giant Ape by a lake.
• The Titan Giant Ape rose and roared after Su Cheng asked Bibi Dong whether she could kill it.

Bibi Dong fought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape alone and defeated it with her Death Spider Emperor poison, while Su Cheng restrained the Sky Azure Bull Python. Bibi Dong prepared to absorb the Titan Giant Ape’s 100,000 Year Spirit Ring and soul bone, and Su Cheng kept the surviving beast under control.

• Su Cheng left Bibi Dong to fight the Titan Giant Ape alone while he watched from a nearby tree.
• Bibi Dong used her domains, webs, and Scythe Blade to evade the Titan Giant Ape and poison its chest with a deep wound.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python emerged from the lake to help, but Su Cheng immobilized it with his Tidal Domain and severed part of the Titan Giant Ape’s arm with Sword Qi.
• Su Cheng stopped the Titan Giant Ape from self-detonating and let Bibi Dong finish the battle, after which the beast died and produced a 100,000 Year Spirit Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Bone.
• Su Cheng told Bibi Dong to rest before absorbing the Spirit Ring and soul bone, while the Sky Azure Bull Python vowed to avenge its brother.

Bibi Dong absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s 100,000 Year Spirit Ring into her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, whose power awakened a dangerous instinct to consume souls. When she attacked Su Cheng under its influence, he endured the devouring until she regained control, leaving her shaken but having overcome a major test.

• Bibi Dong absorbed the Titan Giant Ape’s 100,000 Year Spirit Ring and soul bone, then killed the Sky Azure Bull Python under Su Cheng’s suppression and claimed its Spirit Ring and soul bone.
• Bibi Dong absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s Spirit Ring into her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, revealing a domain that gathered the souls of recently deceased creatures.
• Su Cheng realized the Martial Soul’s evil devouring instinct could threaten Bibi Dong’s nature and suspected it had shaped her path toward the Rakshasa God Test.
• After Bibi Dong’s eyes glowed green, she attacked Su Cheng with her spider lances and began draining his vitality, Soul Power, and soul power.
• Su Cheng let Bibi Dong continue until his voice reached her through her confusion, and she broke free of the instinct and dissolved her Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong wept and repeatedly apologized, while Su Cheng waited for her to calm down and reflected that she had overcome the instinct within her.

After Bibi Dong lost control while cultivating her second Martial Soul and devoured Su Cheng’s power, he reassured her and urged her to trust herself. They continued through the Star Dou Great Forest, where Su Cheng tasked her with arranging a trade for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as his mission entered its final stage.

• Bibi Dong asked why Su Cheng had not stopped her, and he told her he believed her because she had restrained her instincts and he acknowledged her, not the nature of her power.
• Su Cheng encouraged Bibi Dong to rely on her own will, then continued searching for Soul Beasts with her despite her lingering fear.
• Bibi Dong said Qian Daoliu had promised she could take over the Pope’s Palace after becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Su Cheng gave Bibi Dong the Aromatic Silk Beauty and asked her to trade it through Spirit Hall for the Heaven Dou Empire’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, warning her not to touch or probe the artifact with Soul Power or Spiritual Power.
• Su Cheng planned to test the Sea God’s divine thought within the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Bibi Dong’s rapid advancement brought his simulation mission to its final stage.

Su Cheng used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to destroy the Sea God's Heart, drawing out the Sea God's divine sense. The god confronted Su Cheng while Bibi Dong watched from a distance, ready to interfere if needed.

• Su Cheng studied the Great Sumeru Hammer secret technique after obtaining it from Tang Tian, and he left Tang San unharmed when he found him among the Clear Sky Sect's younger disciples.
• Bibi Dong brought Su Cheng the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which contained the Sea God's Heart.
• Su Cheng tossed the Sea God's Heart into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used the Tidal Domain to stir the spring's icy and fiery energy.
• The Sea God's Heart released a golden phantom, and Su Cheng told Bibi Dong that it was a god's single thought and ordered her to use the Soul Devouring Domain from a distance.
• The Sea God's divine sense confronted Su Cheng, asking whether he knew what he was doing, while Su Cheng waited and Bibi Dong watched tensely.

Su Cheng destroyed the Sea God’s lingering divine sense after a desperate battle at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He told Bibi Dong he would return to Sea God Island, then gently postponed the words she wanted to confess.

• Su Cheng wounded the Sea God’s divine sense with Innate Sword Qi and pressed the attack while the Sea God unleashed a tsunami and tried to escape.
• Su Cheng used Bright Moon, then fused his sword and martial soul into the sword form to break the Sea God’s restraint and erase his divine sense and Sea God’s Heart.
• Su Cheng collapsed from exhaustion and told Bibi Dong that the Sea God was real, but the figure they fought had only been his lingering divine sense.
• Su Cheng told Bibi Dong he was returning to Sea God Island and asked her to cultivate before meeting him at sea in a few years.
• Bibi Dong reached for Su Cheng’s mask to tell him something, but he called her Dong’er, took her hand, and asked her to save her words for later.

Su Cheng returned to the sea after more than ten years and learned that thousands of Bright Cult members had cultivated Soul Power. He reunited with Lorelai, tested her Sea Calming Divine Melody, and prepared to meet Bo Saixi and investigate changes to the Seven Sacred Pillars.

• Li Qing reported that more than three thousand ordinary Bright Cult members had successfully cultivated Soul Power, and Su Cheng ordered preparations to spread the teachings across the seas in three months.
• Lorelai met Su Cheng and complained that he had been away for over ten years; he promised not to leave again and said they would soon do something big.
• Lorelai told Su Cheng that she had reached level ninety-two and demonstrated her ninth soul skill, Sea Calming Divine Melody, which Su Cheng used to temper his body and power.
• Su Cheng said he was probably stronger than Bo Saixi and asked Lorelai about the Seven Sacred Pillars, but she had noticed no changes.
• Su Cheng told Lorelai that Bo Saixi would arrive soon, and Lorelai left, wondering how he would inform the High Priest of his return.

Su Cheng returned to Sea God Island and reunited with Bo Saixi, who marveled at his strength and questioned his Bright Cult’s spread of a cultivation method that let ordinary people become soul masters. He defended their freedom to choose, and when he asked whether she had any regrets, Bo Saixi said she had none, leaving Su Cheng pleased that she had found a new emotional anchor.

• Su Cheng’s aura startled Sea God Island’s powerful figures, and Bo Saixi flew to meet him on a nearby island.
• Su Cheng and Bo Saixi reunited after more than ten years, exchanged warm teasing, and discussed his decision not to return to Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi questioned Su Cheng about the Bright Cult and its cultivation method, which allowed ordinary people to cultivate Soul Power.
• Su Cheng argued that ordinary people had the right to pursue strength and accept the consequences of their choices, while Bo Saixi worried that more soul masters would bring chaos.
• Su Cheng asked Bo Saixi whether she had any regrets, and she answered that she had none.

Su Cheng urged Bo Saixi to leave Sea God Island more often and experience the wider world, helping her reflect on her life and her old ties to Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen. Over the next five years, he traveled the seas with her while advancing the Bright Cult’s growth and investigating Sea God Island’s defenses.

• Su Cheng told Bo Saixi about meeting Qian Daoliu and argued that the Sea God’s trials had limited her growth by shielding her from worldly experience.
• Su Cheng encouraged Bo Saixi to travel beyond Sea God Island, and she described the games, trade, and daily life she had come to enjoy among the Sea People.
• Bo Saixi revealed that she had rejected both Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen unless one of them could become a god, while Su Cheng admitted that a woman he had met on the mainland had exceeded his expectations.
• Over the next five years, Bo Saixi went out to sea with Su Cheng, and they traveled among ordinary Sea People while he observed her growing connection to them.
• Su Cheng expanded the Bright Cult and helped its core membership grow to nearly a million, then secretly examined the Seven Sacred Pillars and found that they could form a powerful defensive formation.

After five years of searching, Bibi Dong found Su Cheng and agreed to help him confront the Sea God’s power on Sea God Island. Su Cheng planned to have her hold off Bo Saixi while he attacked Sea God Mountain and Sea God Hall, with the Bright Cult supporting him.

• Bibi Dong reached level ninety-eight, completed her second martial soul’s Soul Rings, and sailed to find Su Cheng by following clues about the Bright Cult.
• Su Cheng disguised himself as the Divine Envoy before Bibi Dong arrived, and the two reunited on a remote island.
• Su Cheng explained that he had built the Bright Cult to give ordinary people a chance to shape their own fate, and Bibi Dong pledged to help him.
• Su Cheng asked Bibi Dong to hold off Bo Saixi while he flattened Sea God Mountain and destroyed Sea God Hall.
• Bibi Dong questioned whether Su Cheng was willing to make Bo Saixi hate him, and he admitted that his choice was selfish.
• Su Cheng assured Bibi Dong that he could handle Sea God Island’s other defenders and said the Bright Cult would help him.

Su Cheng rallied the Bright Cult’s core members against the Sea God’s authority, urging them to free themselves from spiritual shackles and risk their lives to topple Sea God Mountain. The members chose to follow him, giving Su Cheng a way to undermine Sea God Island’s faith while limiting Bo Saixi’s options.

• Su Cheng told the Bright Cult’s core members that their faith in the Sea God and the sea’s social order kept them from being free, and challenged Mi Wei to pursue her dream of sailing with her own fleet.
• He claimed that his teachings offered a path beyond the privileges of soul masters and gods, then urged the crowd to sever their spiritual shackles and confront Sea God Island.
• Su Cheng warned the members that they would die on the voyage, admitted that he feared death too, and promised to stand at the front until he died.
• The members declared their willingness to fight for themselves, and their resolve strengthened through the resonance of their souls.
• Su Cheng intended to use their backlash against the Seven Sacred Pillars’ faith and their ties to the Sea God to constrain Bo Saixi, while recognizing that the Sea God himself could still destroy them.

Bibi Dong confronted Bo Saixi over the Bright Cult’s rebellion and fought to keep her occupied. Bo Saixi’s connection to the sea weakened as the people’s faith turned against the Sea God, and she realized the Seven Sacred Pillars had been destroyed while Su Cheng moved against them.

• Bibi Dong met Bo Saixi above the sea and dismissed her questions about the Bright Cult and Su Cheng.
• Bibi Dong summoned her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor and revealed nine 100,000 Year Spirit Rings, shocking Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi summoned the Sea God Martial Soul, but discovered the ocean’s faith was rejecting its power.
• Bo Saixi hesitated to attack the Bright Cult members, allowing Bibi Dong to prolong their battle.
• Bo Saixi sensed that the Seven Sacred Pillars had been destroyed, while Su Cheng had landed on Sea God Island and headed toward them.

Su Cheng confronted the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo on Sea God Island, destroyed all seven sacred pillars, and climbed Sea God Mountain toward Sea God Hall. Lorelai was left questioning how little she understood him as he reached the hall, while Bo Saixi remained away.

• Lorelai summoned the other Sacred Pillar Douluo after sensing that Su Cheng’s arrival signaled trouble.
• Su Cheng trapped the seven Douluo with his Tidal Domain, severing their connection to the sacred pillars, then destroyed the Sea Maiden Holy Pillar despite its divine protection.
• Su Cheng cut down the remaining six sacred pillars as the Douluo followed, unable to stop him.
• At the Ring Sea, Su Cheng warned the Douluo not to test his patience and flew to the foot of Sea God Mountain.
• Su Cheng resisted the Sea God’s Light with Innate Power and reached Sea God Hall, while Lorelai realized she had never truly understood him.

Su Cheng entered the Sea God Hall and found the Seven Sacred Pillars’ cores and Sea God’s Trident, then unleashed a force that shattered the hall. Bo Saixi sensed the destruction but remained locked in battle with Bibi Dong, leaving Su Cheng’s next move unclear.

• Su Cheng found the seven platforms beneath the Sacred Pillars and identified them as their true cores.
• Su Cheng examined Sea God’s Trident and sensed the immense divine power held within the dormant artifact.
• Su Cheng called down moonlight, and the Sea God Hall shattered with a thunderous crash.
• Bo Saixi sensed the destruction on Sea God Mountain, knocked Bibi Dong back, and tried to leave to question Su Cheng.
• Bo Saixi and Bibi Dong exchanged words, but Bibi Dong refused to stop delaying her and resumed the fight.
• Bo Saixi and Bibi Dong clashed again, their domains locking together as waves surged across the sea.