Chapter Summaries

Tang San organized the group’s roles and precautions for their sea voyage, then led them aboard the Sea Dragon at Vast Sea City’s docks. After Captain Moratti set sail, the group watched the open sea as Tang San looked ahead to Sea God Island.

• Tang San assigned the group’s combat and support roles, including having Oscar prepare Flying Mushroom Sausages and the Phoenix users conserve their Soul Power.
• Oscar raised the danger of encountering powerful Sea Soul Beasts, and Tang San explained that they would follow a tested route and rent a ship.
• The next morning, Tang San and the others traveled to the docks and boarded the iron-armored Sea Dragon, captained by Moratti.
• Moratti ordered the Sea Dragon to raise anchor and sail out of Vast Sea City toward their destination.
• The group admired the sea from the ship’s deck, and Tang San silently vowed to reach Sea God Island.

Tang San and his companions completed an unusually smooth ten-day voyage to the waters near Devil Island, leaving him uneasy about the lack of Sea Soul Beasts. Captain Moratti warned them about the Great White Demon Sharks guarding the island, and the group set off in a lifeboat while the Sea Dragon returned home.

• Tang San and his companions reached Devil Island’s waters after an uneventful voyage, despite Tang San’s growing unease.
• Captain Moratti warned them that numerous powerful Great White Demon Sharks guarded the island and explained that they sometimes left to hunt.
• Moratti advised the group not to harm any sharks and said their best chance to cross was during the darkest part of the night.
• Tang San thanked Moratti, and he and his companions boarded a lifeboat as the Sea Dragon turned back toward home.

Tang San and the others tested the Giant Whale Boat and learned how to steer it through the sea. With Great White Demon Sharks blocking the way to Sea God Island, Tang San proposed waiting until nightfall to use a method he claimed would evade them.

• Tang San summoned the Giant Whale Boat, and the group boarded it and explored its sealed, transparent interior.
• Tang San connected to the boat's controls while the others operated its oars, and they discovered how quickly it moved and how its tail responded to Soul Power.
• The group practiced steering for two hours until they could control the Giant Whale Boat steadily beneath the sea.
• Tang San brought the boat to the surface when its air indicator showed they needed to breathe.
• Ning Rongrong praised the boat's value, but Tang San explained that they still needed their sea chart to avoid dangerous Sea Soul Beasts.
• When Dai Mubai suggested rushing to Sea God Island, Tang San warned that Great White Demon Sharks could surround them and said they should wait until nightfall to avoid detection.

Tang San and his companions used a hallucination-inducing solution to sneak their Giant Whale Boat past a Great White Demon Shark and reach Sea God Island. Yun Chuan sensed their arrival and planned to use the Sea God Assessment to delay Tang San’s path to godhood, while Tang San and his companions prepared to begin their trials.

• Tang San coated the Giant Whale Boat with a hallucination-inducing solution, and the group submerged and traveled toward Sea God Island.
• A Great White Demon Shark passed close to the camouflaged boat but failed to detect it and swam away.
• Tang San and his companions surfaced, landed on Sea God Island, and celebrated their safe arrival.
• Yun Chuan sensed their arrival through his Divine Sense and decided to make Tang San’s Sea God Assessment a devilish trial to hinder his progress toward godhood.
• Tang San admired Sea God Island’s scenery, thought of Xiao Wu, and renewed his anger toward the Spirit Hall Saint Child.
• After resting and recovering, Tang San and his companions prepared to begin their Sea God Island trials.

Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils insisted on accepting Sea God Island’s trials despite warnings that land Soul Masters could not survive them. They reached the Sea Horse Holy Pillar, where they would receive their trials, and discovered that even a patrol captain was a powerful Soul Douluo, revealing the island’s formidable strength.

• Dai Mubai told the yellow-clad Sea Soul Masters that his group wanted to pass the trials and join Sea God Island, but their leader ordered them to leave.
• Tang San and the others refused to leave and unanimously accepted the Sea God’s trial despite the warning that they could not withdraw once it began.
• As the group crossed the forest, Tang San found that an unseen force blocked his Blue Silver Domain from investigating, and the middle-aged leader warned him not to probe with Mental Power.
• The middle-aged leader brought Tang San’s group to the Sea in the Sea and explained that the Sea Horse Holy Pillar conveyed the Sea God’s will and delivered trials.
• The patrol captain revealed eight Soul Rings, showing that he was a Soul Douluo, and Tang San’s group was astonished by Sea God Island’s strength.

Tang San and the others reached the Sea Horse Holy Pillar and began receiving Sea God’s assessments. Dai Mubai received the Black Level Six Trials, leaving the group to learn that his assessment was among the hardest and had a grim record of failure.

• Sea Horse Douluo told Tang San and the others they could cross the Sea in the Sea without facing his old trial, and they hurried to the Sea Horse Holy Pillar platform.
• Sea Horse Douluo began the assessment with Dai Mubai, whose light shifted through several colors before turning black and covering the holy pillar.
• Six black light screens appeared for Dai Mubai, and their markings entered his forehead as a black six-pointed star; he sat down to contemplate his trials.
• Ma Hongjun asked Sea Horse Douluo to explain the assessment ranks, and Sea Horse Douluo described their difficulty, trial counts, and rewards.
• Sea Horse Douluo said that seven of the thirty-one people given Black Level Assessments in the past hundred years had passed, including himself and the current guardians of the Seven Holy Pillars.

Zhu Zhuqing accepted the Sea God's trial despite Sea Horse Douluo's warning that Black Level trials meant death for those who failed. Her assessment rose beyond Black Level Six and ended in the highest-level Red Level Seven Trials, leaving Sea Horse Douluo wondering whether she had been chosen as the new High Priest.

• Sea Horse Douluo explained the deadly Black Level trials and warned that Dai Mubai would not survive them.
• Tang San asked how Sea Horse Douluo had passed his own assessment, and Sea Horse Douluo described his near-fatal Black Level Four Trials.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to accept a trial, determined to grow strong enough to control her own fate and escape the marriage alliance with Dai Mubai.
• The Sea Horse Holy Pillar's assessment climbed past Black Level Six and changed into a dazzling red light.
• Seven red screens entered Zhu Zhuqing's forehead and formed a red Seven-Pointed Star, revealing that she had received the Red Level Seven Trials.

Zhu Zhuqing received the Red Level Seven Trials, and Sea Horse Douluo explained that the assessment marked her as the future successor to the High Priest. Oscar then received the Black Level Six Trials and was delighted, while Yun Chuan’s secret manipulation remained hidden from the group.

• Zhu Zhuqing awakened with a red seven-pointed mark, and Sea Horse Douluo pledged to help her after recognizing her Top Level Assessment.
• Sea Horse Douluo explained that Zhu Zhuqing’s Red Level Seven Trials could make her the High Priest’s successor, provoking Dai Mubai’s envy and resentment.
• Sea Horse Douluo said the Sea God judged people by their overall qualities, and Tang San and the others concluded Zhu Zhuqing’s willpower had earned her assessment.
• Yun Chuan had secretly granted Zhu Zhuqing special treatment, while the others’ unusually high assessments also served his own plans.
• Oscar stepped forward and received the Black Level Six Trials, then celebrated because he believed his potential matched Dai Mubai’s.

Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang received Top Level Seven Trials, while Ma Hongjun received the Black Level Six Trials. Tang San then received an unprecedented green assessment with eight curtains of light, leaving him with a flood of unclear information.

• Ning Rongrong received the Top Level Seven Trials and celebrated with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Bai Chenxiang also received the Top Level Seven Trials, encouraging her confidence.
• Ma Hongjun received the Black Level Six Trials, leaving Tang San as the last of the seven to be assessed.
• Tang San's assessment surged past the others' and changed from blood red to deep green.
• Eight green curtains of light entered Tang San's brow, bringing him a flood of information he could barely discern.

Tang San received the mysterious Sub-God Eight Trials and questioned Sea Horse Douluo about the green mark. Yun Chuan appeared disguised as Sea God Island's Grand Priest, concealed his identity, and offered to explain the trial.

• Green light gathered on Tang San's forehead and left an eight-pointed star mark, while he sensed changes in his body.
• Tang San asked Sea Horse Douluo what the green assessment meant, but Sea Horse Douluo admitted he had never seen a trial like it.
• Yun Chuan appeared and told them Tang San had received the Sub-God Eight Trials, not the Top Level Eight Trials.
• Sea Horse Douluo greeted Yun Chuan as the Sea God Island Grand Priest and followed Yun Chuan's instruction to conceal his identity.
• Yun Chuan studied Tang San and asked about his origins, while Tang San sensed danger and wondered why the Grand Priest was not Bo Saixi.
• Tang San asked Yun Chuan what the Sub-God Eight Trials meant and whether they could lead to inheriting the Sea God Position.

Yun Chuan lured Tang San and his companions into accepting fabricated Sub-God Eight Trials, intending to keep Tang San occupied and delay his rise to godhood. After warning them that the trials could be dangerous and ordering Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya to host them, Yun Chuan vanished, leaving Tang San determined to succeed.

• Yun Chuan explained that completing the Sub-God Eight Trials would lead to the Ninth Sea God Trial and a chance to inherit the Sea God Position, while secretly planning to use the trials to delay Tang San.
• Yun Chuan warned Tang San and his companions that the trials might be dangerous, though he intended to keep them safe and make the trials time-consuming.
• Yun Chuan ordered Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya to treat the seven as honored guests, accommodate their requests, house them in Sea Horse City, and summon the other Holy Pillar Guardians for a meeting.
• Yun Chuan told Tang San that the trials had no time limit but might be impossible to finish, then disappeared in a flash of red light.
• Oscar described how overwhelming Yun Chuan's aura had felt, while Tang San resolved to complete the trials, inherit the Sea God Position, defeat Spirit Hall, kill his enemy, and rescue Xiao Wu.

Tang San and his companions settled into Sea Horse City on Sea God Island and discovered that their first trials required them to climb steps under the Sea God’s Light. After resting, they set out for the forbidden ground, where their trials would begin.

• Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya led Tang San’s group across the Sea in the Sea and escorted them into Sea Horse City, explaining the island’s rules and customs.
• Tang San’s group settled in the City Lord’s Manor and learned that everyone’s first trial was Crossing Sea God’s Light, while Tang San had to climb 333 steps instead of their 108.
• Tang San suggested that the Sea God’s Light might pressure them in a way that stimulated their potential, and the group agreed to inspect it after resting.
• After lunch and an hour’s rest, Tang San’s group asked a Purple-Robed Sea Soul Master to lead them to the forbidden ground.
• Tang San reasoned that the islanders trusted them because of their trial marks and the forbidden ground’s powerful defenses, then the group learned it lay nearly two hundred li away.
• The Purple-Robed Sea Soul Master released his Martial Soul and revealed eight soul rings as he prepared to lead them at full speed.

Tang San and the others reached Sea God Island’s sacred Sea God Hall and discovered that Sea God’s Light blocked the stairs, reflecting anyone who tried to use attacks. Tang San climbed to the fifty-fifth step before being thrown into the Ring Sea, then recovered through cultivation and resolved to keep training toward his goal of three hundred and thirty-three steps.

• The purple-robed sea soul master led Tang San and the others to the forbidden ground and explained that only those with qualifying assessments could enter the Sea God Hall.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai tried to fly onto the stairs but were repelled by Sea God’s Light, which Tang San concluded would punish offensive skills.
• Tang San climbed the stairs with Dai Mubai, using his domains to advance farther after Dai Mubai was thrown into the Ring Sea at the thirty-eighth step.
• Tang San reached the fifty-fifth step before the pressure blasted him into the Ring Sea, and Ma Hongjun rescued him.
• Tang San and the others cultivated after their attempts, and Tang San woke refreshed, eager to continue training toward three hundred and thirty-three steps.

Tang San tested Sea God's Light and proposed using the group’s support skills to help one person pass the trial. He warned that completing the trial too easily might be a trap, and began explaining why he believed the climb was meant to prepare them for later trials.

• Tang San climbed to the fiftieth step using his domains to reduce the pressure, then returned to the foot of the mountain.
• The group compared their progress, and Oscar reported that he and Ning Rongrong had struggled most because they were support-type Soul Masters.
• Tang San proposed that the group combine their domains and support skills to help Dai Mubai cross Sea God's Light.
• Tang San stopped Dai Mubai from attempting the trial immediately, saying Dai Mubai should be among the last to finish.
• Tang San argued that the Sea God would have anticipated their cooperation and that relying on it too soon could make the next trial deadly.

Tang San realized that the Sea God's Light was meant to strengthen the group, and Yun Chuan confirmed his deduction while secretly planning to slow their progress. Yun Chuan provided supplies and told Bai Chenxiang she could receive a God-given Soul Ring, leaving her ready to advance to Soul Emperor once she obtained it.

• Tang San explained that the group should delay completing the first trial so they could keep cultivating under the Sea God's Light.
• Yun Chuan, disguised as the Sea God Island Grand Priest, praised Tang San for understanding the trial and confirmed his reasoning.
• Tang San requested food and clean water so the group could stay and cultivate, and Yun Chuan agreed while suggesting they use the Ring Sea to wash.
• Yun Chuan told Bai Chenxiang that those with red-level or higher assessments could receive one God-given Soul Ring at their first bottleneck.
• Bai Chenxiang, already at level 60 after breaking through under the Sea God's Light, stood to become a Soul Emperor once she obtained a Soul Ring, while Ma Hongjun remained at level 59.

Yun Chuan helped Bai Chenxiang absorb a golden pearl that awakened and strengthened her Phoenix Bloodline, while Tang San led the others to test their limits in Sea God's Light. The chapter left Bai Chenxiang still absorbing her soul ring as the group began climbing the Sea God Hall staircase.

• Yun Chuan used the golden pearl and Five Elements Power to help Bai Chenxiang absorb a soul ring and advance her Phoenix Bloodline.
• A Flame Phoenix phantom appeared around Bai Chenxiang, and Ma Hongjun felt her bloodline suppress his own Fire Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Yun Chuan explained that Bai Chenxiang could eventually evolve into a true Phoenix, while Ma Hongjun brooded over being the only Shrek Seven Devil who had not reached Soul Emperor level.
• Tang San led the others to the Sea God Hall staircase and instructed them to test their individual limits under Sea God's Light.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar activated their respective support abilities before entering Sea God's Light.

Tang San and the others tested how far they could climb under the Sea God’s Light, while Bai Chenxiang completed her breakthrough and gained a sixth soul ring. Yun Chuan left after concealing the girls from the others, promising to return when another person reached a bottleneck.

• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing climbed the Sea God’s Light after applying their domains and support skills.
• Ning Rongrong stopped at the twenty-sixth step, Ma Hongjun at the thirty-eighth, and Zhu Zhuqing at the thirty-ninth before retreating.
• Dai Mubai reached the forty-sixth step and withdrew with Tang San, who helped steady him as they descended.
• Bai Chenxiang transformed during her breakthrough and gained her sixth soul ring as a Fire Phoenix entered her body.
• Yun Chuan blocked Tang San and the other men from seeing Bai Chenxiang, then left and said he would return when another person reached a bottleneck.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing helped Bai Chenxiang dress after telling her that her clothes had burned away.

After Bai Chenxiang’s Martial Soul evolved toward a Fire Phoenix and she gained the Meteor Fire Rain skill, Tang San proposed cultivating under Sea God’s Light. A month later, the group had advanced to the tenth step, grown stronger, and learned to use the staircase’s pressure to accelerate their cultivation.

• Bai Chenxiang summoned her changed Needle-Tailed Swift Spirit, sensed her flames had grown stronger, and revealed her sixth soul skill, Meteor Fire Rain, from a God-given Soul Ring equivalent to one over sixty thousand years old.
• Tang San suggested that the group cultivate within Sea God’s Light, and they agreed to begin on the first step.
• Tang San helped Oscar make Recovery Sausages, and the six friends began cultivating under Sea God’s Light, discovering that the pressure accelerated their Soul Power circulation and recovery.
• After a month, the group had reached the tenth step, and everyone besides Tang San had gained a level; Ma Hongjun also broke through to level sixty.
• The group adapted to the pressure and used repeated climbs to their limits followed by cultivation on lower steps to boost their strength.

After two years training under the Sea God’s Light, Tang San and his companions prepared to complete their first trial when the cultivation benefit faded. Dai Mubai cleared the 108 steps first and gained a level as his reward.

• Tang San trained relentlessly while the group endured the Sea God’s Light, and they later helped Ma Hongjun obtain a thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Two years later, the group decided to finish the first trial after the Sea God’s Light stopped aiding their cultivation at their current strength.
• The group’s Soul Power had risen substantially, with Tang San at Level 79 and Ma Hongjun at Level 66.
• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger support skills and climbed the Sea God’s Light stairway to the 108th step.
• Dai Mubai passed the first trial and received a one-level increase, rising from Level 71 to Level 72.

After passing their first trials, Tang San and the others received rewards, and Yun Chuan assigned them the Ring Sea Lockdown as their second assessment. Tang San learned that he faced an added restriction against using any soul ring skills as the new trial began.

• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Bai Chenxiang, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun passed the first trial after years of training in Sea God's Light.
• Yun Chuan rewarded Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Bai Chenxiang by raising their Fourth Soul Rings to ten-thousand-year age, while Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun received Soul Power increases.
• Tang San completed the trial and received a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, bringing his Soul Ring configuration to two yellow and five black rings.
• Yun Chuan assigned Tang San and the others the Ring Sea Lockdown, requiring them to reach the opposite shore without killing any Sea Soul Beasts.
• Tang San told the group that his trial also forbade him from using any soul ring skills.