Chapter Summaries

Tang San and the others rested after passing their first trial, then resumed cultivation and prepared to master their abilities before attempting the Ring Sea. Meanwhile, Yun Chuan went to the Star Dou Great Forest and found a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, seeking its time and space attributes to pursue a sudden idea.

• Tang San stopped Dai Mubai from testing the Ring Sea and proposed resting for three days before practicing skills and coordination.
• Tang San and the others took three days off, then resumed rigorous cultivation as their Soul Power became harder to advance.
• Yun Chuan entered the Star Dou Great Forest and spread his Plant Domain across it to locate his target.
• Yun Chuan teleported to the forest's core region, dispelled the darkness, and confronted a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Yun Chuan revealed that he wanted to devour the tiger for its time and space attributes and the rare skills he might gain.

Yun Chuan encountered a sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest. The tiger mistook him for an ordinary Soul Master and decided to attack, while Yun Chuan waited calmly to see what it would do.

• Yun Chuan recalled that Dark Demon Evil God Tigers were exceptionally powerful Soul Beasts that grew by devouring others and could challenge opponents above their rank.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed Yun Chuan’s pure energy and chose to risk attacking him in hopes of breaking through the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Yun Chuan realized the tiger had mistaken his concealed aura for that of an ordinary Soul Master and decided not to kill it immediately.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger advanced cautiously and stopped thirty meters from Yun Chuan, searching for an opening as they faced each other.
• Yun Chuan remained relaxed, confident that the tiger could not hurt him, and the beast grew furious at the way he looked at it.

Yun Chuan easily overwhelmed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger despite its strongest attack and deceptive feigned weakness. The tiger’s surprise strike also failed against Yun Chuan’s invisible defense, and it changed its eyes to deep blue.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger attacked Yun Chuan with its speed and claws, but Yun Chuan evaded its strikes with ease.
• Yun Chuan challenged the tiger to use its strongest moves, so it unleashed Dark Demonic Evil Lightning within a gray domain.
• Yun Chuan’s golden palm overpowered the lightning and blasted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger through the forest.
• The tiger pretended to be near death, but Yun Chuan saw through the act and sent it flying with a casual slap.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger extended its Evil God Hook toward Yun Chuan’s head, but an invisible barrier stopped it, and its eyes turned deep blue.

Yun Chuan pursued the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger into its Life and Death Arena after it tried to trap him with its ultimate move. The arena’s power reduced the tiger to a juvenile form, but Yun Chuan remained unaffected and prepared to face it.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger attacked Yun Chuan with its Evil God Thorn, opening a black hole between them.
• Yun Chuan used a Mental Attack through his Fiery Eyes of Truth to shatter the tiger’s protective black light while sparing its soul.
• Yun Chuan entered the black hole after the tiger to prevent it from escaping, and his Sea God Divine Armor neutralized the strange force inside.
• Yun Chuan arrived in the Life and Death Arena and found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger reduced to a small, juvenile form.
• The arena announced that the fight would end only when one side died, while Yun Chuan recognized that the tiger’s ability could not overcome his god-level strength.

Yun Chuan defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger by resisting its time power and killing it with a golden attack. He captured its Inner Core, raised its Soul Ring to one million years with Sea God's Faith Power, and began absorbing both.

• Yun Chuan realized the Sea God Divine Armor had automatically protected him from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's time power.
• Yun Chuan struck the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with a golden ray, and the creature died when the attack erupted inside it.
• Yun Chuan returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and seized the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Inner Core before it could escape into a black hole.
• Yun Chuan used Sea God's Faith Power to raise the beast's Soul Ring from sixty thousand years to one million years, then absorbed it.
• Yun Chuan swallowed the Evil God Pearl and used the Five Elements Power to digest the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's icy, evil energy.

After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Yun Chuan’s soul reached the River of Time and, with the Become a Saint Through the Physical Body Method rune’s help, entered its main current. He gained four innate time abilities and realized he could store energy over time to power long-distance Time Travel.

• Yun Chuan’s soul left his body and swam upstream through a tributary toward the River of Time.
• The Become a Saint Through the Physical Body Method rune merged with Yun Chuan’s soul and gave it the strength to reach the main current.
• Yun Chuan’s soul entered the River of Time’s main current and underwent a transformation, gaining innate time-related abilities.
• Yun Chuan identified his abilities as Time Stop, Time Reversal, Time Acceleration, and Time Travel, each limited by his power or energy.
• Yun Chuan realized he could store his inexhaustible Five Elements Power in an external container and use it later to fuel Time Travel.

Yun Chuan tested his new Power of Time and began planning a treasure that could make time flow differently inside a cultivation space. On Sea God Island, Tang San tested the boundary of the Ring Sea and was swallowed by its waters.

• Yun Chuan reversed and accelerated time on a stone, restoring its cracks before aging it into dust, and noted the enormous energy cost.
• Yun Chuan realized his White Jade Gourd could serve as a cultivation mystic realm if he could give it the ability to regulate time inside and outside.
• After six months of training, Dai Mubai asked Tang San whether the Seven Monsters were ready to attempt their second trial.
• Tang San planned to scout the Ring Sea, asked Oscar for an Excitement Pink Sausage, and set off while his companions watched.
• Tang San crossed the boundary, but the Ring Sea erupted and swallowed him as the others saw a deep-blue underwater world.

Tang San began the second trial by entering the Ring Sea, where the water weakened his abilities and an Arrow-Shaped Fish swarm attacked him. He used the Clear Sky Hammer to repel them without harming them, but the fish regrouped and launched coordinated waves.

• Ning Rongrong enhanced Tang San, but the Ring Sea's energy weakened her boosts by thirty percent.
• Tang San found that the seawater restricted his movement, drained his Soul Power faster, and reduced his Blue Silver Domain's range.
• More than a hundred Arrow-Shaped Fish surrounded Tang San and charged at him.
• Tang San used his Clear Sky Hammer to scatter the fish without killing them.
• The Arrow-Shaped Fish regrouped into ten groups and attacked Tang San in successive waves.

Tang San fought through the Arrow-Shaped Fish in the Ring Sea but was suddenly blasted out by a powerful Great White Demon Shark before he could cross. He learned what had struck him and faced the challenge of trying the trial again.

• Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer's Vibration Word Perfection to knock many Arrow-Shaped Fish unconscious and drive the rest away.
• Tang San propelled himself deeper into the Ring Sea, only to be overwhelmed by a sudden pressure and undercurrent that hurled him out.
• Dai Mubai and the others helped Tang San and told him a huge, swift white shark had attacked him with blue light.
• Tang San recognized the attacker as a Great White Demon Shark and asked in surprise how one had appeared in the Ring Sea.

Tang San and the others realized the Great White Demon Shark King was guarding the Ring Sea to stop them from crossing, not to kill them. After Tang San and Dai Mubai tested the waters and were blasted back onto shore, the group accepted that the trial could serve as combat training, though the Shark King vastly outmatched them.

• Dai Mubai identified the enormous shark as the 100,000 Year Great White Demon Shark guarding Sea God Island, and Oscar reasoned that passages beneath the island could have let it enter the Ring Sea.
• Tang San concluded that the Shark King was meant to block their crossing rather than kill them, and proposed using it as a sparring partner to improve their combat ability in the water.
• Oscar agreed that the Sea God's trials also offered cultivation opportunities, while Ma Hongjun complained that he hated water.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai entered the Ring Sea together, but the Great White Demon Shark King blasted them out and sent them crashing against Sea God's Light.
• Tang San concluded that the Shark King bore them no ill will, and recognized that its control of the seawater had forced them out before they could resist.

Little White appeared in human form as the examiner for the Shrek Seven Devils’ second trial, which required them to cross the Ring Sea while she opposed them. Tang San decided they would use her and the sea as underwater combat training, while promising to help Ma Hongjun obtain a seventh Soul Ring.

• The Great White Demon Shark King transformed into Little White and told the group they had to cross the Ring Sea past her to pass the trial.
• Tang San asked how Little White could take human form, and she explained that 100,000-year aquatic Sea Soul Beasts could transform on land but weakened if they stayed away from water too long.
• Little White returned to the Ring Sea, and Tang San proposed that the group practice underwater combat against her and the Sea Soul Beasts.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun to focus on reaching rank seventy and promised he would find a way for him to obtain a seventh Soul Ring.
• The group restored their Soul Power before beginning daily underwater training in the Ring Sea.

Tang San and his companions spent two years battling Little White in the Ring Sea while their combat skills improved and their Soul Power growth slowed. After preparing for their second trial, they launched a coordinated assault across the sea, with Bai Chenxiang leading the charge in her Martial Soul Avatar.

• Tang San broke through to rank eighty, gained a 70,000-year God-given Soul Ring, and reached level eighty-two, while Ma Hongjun remained the group’s weakest member at level sixty-eight.
• The group’s Soul Power advanced slowly during two years of training, but their teamwork and practical combat abilities improved through daily battles in the Ring Sea.
• Tang San and the others rested for three days, then gathered before the Ring Sea to challenge the second trial guarded by Little White and nearly a thousand Sea Soul Beasts.
• Tang San gave the signal, and all seven released their Martial Souls and entered the water together.
• Bai Chenxiang transformed into a blazing Swallowtail Swift with her Seventh Soul Skill and led the charge as the others formed behind her and Ning Rongrong’s enhancements strengthened her.

Bai Chenxiang led Tang San and the others through the Ring Sea by flying beneath the restrictive screen, using her Phoenix abilities to counter Little White’s domain. The group broke past the hundred-meter mark as Bai Chenxiang revealed her Phoenix Domain and kept the Sea Soul Beasts at bay.

• Bai Chenxiang vaporized a path through the seawater with her Phoenix Flame, and Tang San and the others followed through it beneath the light screen.
• Tang San used Slaughter God Assault to shield the group and frighten nearby Sea Soul Beasts as they advanced beyond seventy meters.
• Little White activated her Demon Shark Domain, slowed Bai Chenxiang, and sent the Sea Soul Beasts to attack the group.
• Bai Chenxiang used Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens to transform into a Flame Phoenix and push through Little White’s seawater pressure.
• Bai Chenxiang unleashed her Phoenix Domain, strengthening her flames and keeping the Sea Soul Beasts outside as the group neared the hundred-meter mark.

The Shrek Seven Devils used Bai Chenxiang’s Phoenix Domain and their coordinated support to push deeper into the Ring Sea, while Little White unleashed her strongest abilities to stop them. Tang San drew Little White’s attention with a mental attack, and she suddenly lost control of the Ring Sea as a terrifying heat surrounded her.

• Bai Chenxiang used her Phoenix Domain and soul bone skill to counter Little White’s control of the seawater as the group advanced.
• Little White solidified the Ring Sea and released Despair Light Wave, then charged at Ning Rongrong to disrupt her support.
• Tang San attacked Little White with concentrated mental energy, forcing her to focus her defenses on him.
• Tang San grinned as Little White sensed the Ring Sea slip from her control and felt an overwhelming scorching aura that stalled her charge.

Tang San’s group continued their attempt to cross the sea as Little White attacked, while Yun Chuan completed and explored a time-adjusting pocket world. He named it the Sumeru Grotto-heaven, where time could pass up to three hundred times faster than outside.

• Tang San’s mental clash with Little White briefly disrupted her attack, but she recovered and swung her tail toward Ning Rongrong.
• Ma Hongjun charged into Little White’s tail, using his flames to knock it back and buy the group time to advance.
• Little White spread grayish-blue light across her body as the seven neared the shore, preparing another way to stop them without seriously injuring them.
• Yun Chuan finished a transparent, droplet-like treasure that contained a space with adjustable time flow.
• Yun Chuan used Five Elements Power to create a small world of seven islands, a sea, and cultivation environments, then named it the Sumeru Grotto-heaven.
• Yun Chuan set the grotto-heaven’s maximum time ratio at three hundred years inside for every year outside.

After the Shrek Seven Devils passed their second trials and received a one-rank Soul Power increase, Yun Chuan led them to Raging Wave Desperation to begin their third trial, Tidal Body Refining. The chapter ended as Yun Chuan released a ring of sea-blue light at the trial site.

• The Shrek Seven Devils escaped Little White's blockade, and their second-trial rewards raised each of their Soul Power ranks by one.
• The seven learned that their third trial was Tidal Body Refining, with Tang San facing a doubled version.
• Yun Chuan appeared in disguise and led the group across Sea God Island toward the third trial site.
• Yun Chuan showed them Raging Wave Desperation, where enormous waves battered a valley of exceptionally dense rock.
• Tang San asked what their mission was, and Yun Chuan spread a circle of sea-blue light outward.

Yun Chuan revealed the seven Sinking Silver Pillars where Tang San and the others would undergo their third Sea God trial, Tidal Body Refining. The group began enduring the relentless waves, which soon turned from bearable impacts into numbing pain.

• Yun Chuan calmed the raging sea with blue light and raised seven enormous pillars of Deep Sea Sinking Silver from the water.
• Yun Chuan explained that the group had to endure the waves on the pillars for daily periods based on their assessments, with Tang San required to stay for twelve hours on average.
• Tang San agreed to begin the trial, and Yun Chuan used blue light to place and fasten all seven onto the pillars.
• The waves resumed and struck the group, at first seeming manageable before an unending barrage left them numb and then in pain.
• After hundreds of impacts, the group had too little Soul Power left to protect themselves and had to endure the waves directly.

Yun Chuan secretly strengthened Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bai Chenxiang as the seven endured the third trial, in which relentless waves battered their bodies and prevented them from using support or enhancement skills. Over two years, they grew far tougher and learned to withstand the waves on their own.

• Yun Chuan secretly used the Five Elements Power to nourish Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bai Chenxiang as the seven faced the waves.
• The seven discovered they could not use support or self-enhancement skills, and Yun Chuan rescued them after their first attempt ended in hours of torment.
• Ning Rongrong and the others gradually increased the time they endured the waves, while their bodies grew stronger despite the pain.
• After a year, Ning Rongrong found that her strikes carried the sound of a tsunami, and Zhu Zhuqing discovered that her skin could disperse incoming force like waves.
• After two years at the Raging Wave Desperate Situation, the seven could reach their positions and temporarily suppress the waves without help from the Sea God Island Grand Priest.

Four years after beginning the trials in Raging Wave Desperation, Tang San and the others completed Tidal Body Refining and received their Sea God rewards. Yun Chuan strengthened the men's Soul Rings and began evolving the three girls' Martial Souls, leaving further stages for the remaining trials.

• Yun Chuan secretly declared the seven had passed the third trial, ending their four years of Tidal Body Refining.
• The seven gained one Soul Power rank each, and Ma Hongjun absorbed a God-given Soul Ring that raised him to Rank 71.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Oscar received increased Soul Ring Ages, while Zhu Zhuqing, Bai Chenxiang, and Ning Rongrong received the first stage of Spirit Evolution.
• Zhu Zhuqing's Netherworld Spirit Cat gained greater strength, Bai Chenxiang's Needle-Tailed Swift developed crimson plumage and stronger flames, and Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda gained an eighth level.

Yun Chuan used the Sumeru Grotto-heaven’s cosmic energy and accelerated time to build a powerful force while Tang San and the others continued their trials. After twelve hundred years inside, he began planning to gather energy for a journey through time and space.

• Tang San and the others grew eager for more trials after receiving Spirit Evolution rewards, giving Yun Chuan more time to delay Tang San’s ascension.
• Yun Chuan placed the Sumeru Grotto-heaven in the universe, where it absorbed and converted cosmic energy to sustain its accelerated cultivation environment.
• Yun Chuan cultivated more than a thousand God-rank human Soul Masters, including over a hundred Level Two Gods, and bestowed Divine Thrones on rising talents.
• Yun Chuan brought powerful Soul Beasts into the grotto-heaven, where eight became Level One Gods, including the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, while the Titan Snow Demon King remained a Level Two God.
• Yun Chuan kept the grotto-heaven’s details from the Silver Dragon King and decided to accumulate energy to travel through time and space.