Chapter Summaries

Yun Qi realized Sea God's Light could be used to strengthen the group, but advised everyone to delay completing their first trials so they could benefit from its pressure for as long as possible. Bo Saixi confirmed his deduction, arranged supplies for them, and then approached Yun Qi, whose teasing remark led to a brief clash of pressure.

• Yun Qi learned how many steps the women had climbed and explained that their support abilities could help one person pass through Sea God's Light.
• Yun Qi warned the women not to complete their first trials early, reasoning that Sea God's Light was meant to help them grow stronger before later trials.
• Bo Saixi applauded Yun Qi's insight and confirmed that he had uncovered the secret of Sea God's Light.
• Yun Qi asked Bo Saixi to provide food, drinking water, and clothing so the group could remain and cultivate on the steps.
• Bo Saixi said she had come mainly for Yun Qi, and he joked that she was beautiful but his heart belonged to another before resisting her playful pressure with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Bo Saixi gave Yun Qi a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and he endured its painful power while the women trained on the Sea God’s Light staircase. The women reached new limits with Gu Yue Na’s guidance, and Xiao Wu and Hu Liena received help as they descended.

• Yun Qi stopped resisting Bo Saixi, who tossed him into the Ring Sea before bringing him back and offering him a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Bo Saixi shattered the Golden Bead above Yun Qi, and he endured the spirit ring’s growing pain as a Full Moon appeared behind him.
• Gu Yue Na sent the women to cultivate on the Sea God Temple staircase while Purple Pearl stayed behind to absorb her spirit bones.
• Ning Rongrong buffed herself and Zhu Zhuqing, and the women climbed farther than before, with Zhu Zhuqing reaching the sixtieth step.
• Xiao Wu and Hu Liena reached the sixty-ninth step before turning back, and a life-filled aura and energy arms steadied them as they descended.

Yun Qi gained his seventh soul ring and discovered its powerful Moon Shadow Sword ability, while the others began cultivating under Sea God's Light. At Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue received the Angel’s Nine Trials, and Qian Daoliu promised to guide her.

• Yun Qi completed the formation of his hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring, and Posey departed after congratulating him.
• Yun Qi explained that his seventh soul skill boosted Moon Shadow Sword abilities and let him appear wherever his sword energy reached, while the girls teased him about his destroyed clothes.
• Gu Yue Na proposed that the group cultivate under Sea God's Light, and they found that its pressure accelerated their Soul Power circulation and recovery.
• Qian Renxue meditated before the Six-Winged Angel statue in Douluo Hall as Qian Daoliu appeared and revealed that she had received the Angel's Nine Trials.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that he would stay by her side while she completed the nine trials, and she kept her prior knowledge from Yun Qi to herself.

Yun Qi and the girls spent months cultivating under Sea God’s Light, steadily growing stronger as they prepared for their first Sea God trial. On the trial’s final day, the group watched Yun Qi climb the temple steps, ready to stake everything on their attempt.

• Bibi Dong recovered from a disturbing transformation during cultivation and wondered whether Xue'er had also embarked on the same path, then thought of Yun Qi.
• Yun Qi and the girls trained under Sea God’s Light for a month, gaining levels and learning to climb higher despite the crushing pressure.
• After another two months, Yun Qi broke through to Spirit Sage and discovered his resistance to pressure had greatly increased, allowing him to reach the 120th step.
• Yun Qi realized the 333-step trial would be difficult, then returned to the 100th step to continue cultivating rather than forcing his new strength.
• By the final day of the first trial stage, Shui Bing'er and the other girls had reached the Spirit Sage realm, and the group gathered at the foot of Sea God Mountain to watch Yun Qi climb.

Zhu Zhuyun and Purple Pearl reached the ninety-fifth stair of Sea God's Light, earning an upgrade to black-rank trials before Yun Qi's other companions began their climb. With Gu Yue Na's aid, the girls reached the one hundred and eighth stair and completed their first black-rank trial.

• Zhu Zhuyun and Purple Pearl pushed through their limits to reach the ninety-fifth stair, then collapsed into Yun Qi's arms.
• Sea God Douluo Posey announced that the Sea God had upgraded Zhu Zhuyun and Purple Pearl's completed trials from purple rank to black rank.
• After feeding the two girls Immortal Beans, Yun Qi urged the others to begin their ascent of Sea God's Light.
• The girls struggled past the hundredth stair, and Gu Yue Na linked their fingers and replenished their vitality and Soul Power with green threads of light.
• The girls reached the one hundred and eighth stair and completed the first trial of their black-rank six trials, gaining one Soul Power level.

Yun Qi began his Sea God trial, climbing the staircase while Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Hu Liena, and Gu Yue Na supported him. He reached the three hundredth step, where the pressure intensified so sharply that he spat out purple-blue mist.

• Gu Yue Na helped the girls complete their trials, raising their soul power and allowing them to cultivate safely on the one hundred and eighth step.
• Yun Qi prepared himself and began climbing, using his abilities and Immortal Beans while the girls followed and helped ease the pressure.
• At the two hundred and twenty-second step, Sea God's Light transformed into a far more solid pressure, beginning the hardest part of Yun Qi's trial.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena completed their trials, gaining a soul-power level and five hundred years of power for each spirit ring's skills.
• Yun Qi pushed past the two hundred and seventieth step with Ning Rongrong's buffs and his own surging soul power, reaching the three hundredth step.
• The pressure at the three hundredth step intensified further, and Yun Qi spat out purple-blue light mist.

Yun Qi endured the intensified Sea God's Light, used his evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain and the Moon Shadow Sword's power to reach the summit, and passed his first trial. After the group received their second trial to break through the Ring Sea blockade, Yun Qi learned that he could not use any soul ring skills.

• Ning Rongrong sacrificed her heart’s blood to strengthen her enhancements as Yun Qi struggled toward the final ten steps.
• Gu Yue Na lent Yun Qi her origin power, allowing him to recover and climb until he was stopped by the Sea God's Light.
• Yun Qi unleashed Asura Hell and the Asura Whirlwind Killing Array, then summoned the Moon Shadow Sword to sever the Sea God's Light and reach the final stair.
• Seven beams of golden light healed Yun Qi and confirmed that he had passed the first trial, increasing his Sea God Affinity by five percent.
• Posey warned the group about the trials ahead, and Yun Qi asked to enter the Sea God Temple before deciding not to challenge her.
• The second trial began, requiring the group to defeat a Sea Spirit Beast and cross the Ring Sea blockade; Yun Qi revealed that he could not use soul ring skills.

After resting and training following the first trial, Yun Qi and the women began investigating the Ring Sea’s blockade. Yun Qi entered the water to test its dangers and discovered that its strange energy hindered movement, weakened support, and rapidly consumed Soul Power.

• Ning Rongrong suggested using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to cross the Ring Sea, but Yun Qi said its power was sealed.
• Zhu Zhuyun warned that the Spirit Beasts in the Ring Sea might be formidable, while Huo Wu raised concerns about food; Yun Qi returned with supplies through a spatial rift.
• Ning Rongrong, Yun Qi, Hu Liena, and Xiao Wu discovered their seventh Spirit Skills were sealed, while several women’s Second Spirit Rings had become purple after the first trial.
• Yun Qi proposed three days of rest, and he and the women relaxed before resuming training and practicing their skills together.
• About half a month later, Yun Qi set out to scout the Ring Sea with support from Gu Yue Na and Ning Rongrong.
• The Ring Sea engulfed Yun Qi and weakened Ning Rongrong’s amplifications; Yun Qi found that its water slowed him, drained his Soul Power, and obstructed his detection.

Yun Qi entered the Ring Sea trial and fought off the Arrow Fish without harming them, but an immense underwater force soon blasted him out of the water. Purple Pearl identified the attacker as likely the hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark, leaving Yun Qi and the women to wonder why it had appeared in the Ring Sea.

• More than a hundred Arrow Fish surrounded Yun Qi, and he used the Moon Shadow Sword to repel them without injuring them.
• Yun Qi adapted to moving underwater and discovered that the Ring Sea's restrictive energy prevented him from accelerating toward the opposite shore.
• A massive creature approached, and a powerful current blasted Yun Qi out of the Ring Sea and into Sea God's Light, leaving him temporarily numb and weak.
• Huo Wu told Yun Qi that the attacker was a roughly twenty-five-meter white shark that had vanished after driving him from the water.
• Purple Pearl recognized the creature as a Demon Soul Great White Shark and suspected it was the hundred-thousand-year king that guarded Sea God Island.
• Xiao Wu asked why the Demon Soul Great White Shark's king had come to the Ring Sea.

Yun Qi and the women tested the Ring Sea’s blockade and discovered that the Demon Soul Great White Shark, Xiao Bai, was only meant to stop them from crossing, not kill them. Yun Qi’s Golden Tridente mark compelled Xiao Bai to kneel and recognize him as the Sea God, and she left after explaining her human form and warning that she would still obstruct their second trial.

• Purple Pearl reasoned that the Ring Sea connected to the outer sea and that Xiao Bai had come to prevent the group from completing their trial.
• Yun Qi concluded that Xiao Bai would not harm them and proposed using the encounter to improve their combat skills, while Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er tested the blockade and were blasted back to shore.
• Xiao Bai transformed into a human, noticed Xiao Wu’s connection to Yun Qi, and questioned him about their relationship.
• Yun Qi’s Golden Tridente mark shone, causing Xiao Bai and Sea God Douluo Posey to kneel, and Xiao Bai apologized to the Sea God.
• Xiao Bai explained that fish-type Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Spirit Beasts could take human form on land for up to two hours, then returned to the Ring Sea after promising to keep blocking the group.
• Yun Qi mocked Xiao Bai’s name, and she heard him and splashed water at him from the sea.

Yun Qi and the women trained for nearly a year in the Ring Sea under Xiao Bai’s attacks, improving their underwater combat skills before making their attempt at the second trial. They used Huo Wu’s fire to clear a path beneath the light barrier, but Xiao Bai unleashed her domain and sent the Sea Spirit Beasts to intercept them.

• Yun Qi proposed using Xiao Bai and the Ring Sea as underwater sparring partners, and the women began training after recovering their spirit power.
• Over the next three months, Xiao Bai repeatedly drove the women from the Ring Sea while their underwater skills and combat coordination improved.
• After nearly another year of training, Yun Qi reached level seventy-nine, and the group prepared to challenge the second trial.
• Huo Wu vaporized the seawater to create a temporary passage, allowing Yun Qi and the women to advance more than sixty meters without resistance.
• Yun Qi used Divine Slaughter’s Domain to shield the group and frighten nearby Sea Spirit Beasts as they neared the seventy-meter mark.
• Xiao Bai activated the Shark Demon Domain, slowed Huo Wu’s charge, and sent the Sea Spirit Beasts to attack the group from below.

Yun Qi and the girls pushed past Xiao Bai’s blockade in the Ring Sea, forcing her to evolve her domain into Crystallization. Yun Qi used the opening to wield the Ice Fire Dragon King Spirit Bone’s aura and began gathering power with his Moon Shadow Sword, leaving Xiao Bai shaken and retreating.

• Yun Qi buffed Huo Wu as Heavenly Fire Funeral struck the Ring Sea, while Xiao Bai used Solidification and Despair Light Wave to stop the group and target Ning Rongrong.
• Yun Qi’s Purple God Light clashed with Xiao Bai’s mental attack, briefly disrupting her domain but leaving Yun Qi temporarily blinded.
• Gu Yue Na rescued Ning Rongrong from Xiao Bai’s tail strike, and Yun Feng’s meteor struck Xiao Bai with scorching dragon-breath flames as the group advanced to nearly one hundred and thirty meters.
• Xiao Bai evolved the Shark Demon Domain into Crystallization, turning the Ring Sea into a barrier of hard blue crystal.
• Yun Qi had the other girls rest and asked Ning Rongrong to buff him, then swung the Moon Shadow Sword and cracked the crystal around them.
• The Ice Fire Dragon King Spirit Bone’s aura pressured Xiao Bai, while Yun Qi secretly accumulated energy with each sword swing.

Yun Qi and his companions broke Xiao Bai’s blockade and passed the Sea God’s Second Trial, earning new rewards and learning that their next challenge was Tidal Body Refining. Posey led them to Wrathful Waves Despair, where she began explaining the trial’s setting.

• Yun Qi used his completed sword technique to break through Xiao Bai’s domain, letting the group escape the Ring Sea as Xiao Bai fell unconscious.
• Yun Qi healed Xiao Bai with an Immortal Bean, and Xiao Bai agreed to become his wife before returning to the sea.
• Yun Qi and his companions passed the Sea God’s Second Trial, gained their rewards, and learned that their third trial was Tidal Body Refining.
• Posey led the group across Sea God Island to Wrathful Waves Despair and asked them why the recessed valley existed.

Posey explained the Third Trial, Tidal Body Refining, and bound Yun Qi and the women to Deep Sea Silver pillars to endure relentless waves. They began a year of painful body tempering, gradually adapting as their bodies grew tougher.

• Posey revealed her powerful soul rings, calmed the valley’s waves, and raised ten Deep Sea Silver pillars from the sea.
• Posey explained that the group had to endure daily hours on the pillars for 365 days, with Yun Qi required to average twelve hours.
• The group was bound to the pillars, and the waves battered them until their bodies grew numb and their Soul Power ran low.
• Yun Qi used his Sword Qi Domain to help Ning Rongrong endure, while the women discovered support and self-enhancement skills were ineffective during the trial.
• Posey rescued the exhausted group after Yun Qi lasted just over three hours, and they suffered intense pain as their bodies recovered.
• Over the following months, Ning Rongrong gradually increased her endurance, and the group found that the waves were making their bodies tougher and their breathing attune to the tides.

After a year of Tidal Body Refining, Yun Qi awakened a new realm of the Purple Demon Eye and completed the third trial ahead of schedule. Posey confirmed his Spiritual Power rivaled or surpassed hers, and Yun Qi asked her what Sea God Affinity meant.

• Over twelve months at Raging Tide Despair, Yun Qi and the others strengthened their bodies enough to withstand the waves, while Yun Qi's soul power reached level eighty.
• While enduring the waves on the first day of the twelfth month, Yun Qi's Purple Demon Eye broke through the Vastness realm, greatly increasing his Spiritual Power and allowing him to sense the surrounding sea.
• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud returned to Yun Qi, and his roar sent the waves surging skyward before the third trial's light screen announced he had exceeded its requirements and gained fifteen percent Sea God Affinity.
• Xiao Wu and Hu Liena also completed the third trial, and the waves stopped harming all three of them.
• Yun Qi carried Xiao Wu and Hu Liena to shore, where Posey told him his Spiritual Power matched or surpassed hers and explained spiritual communication.
• Yun Qi asked Posey what Sea God Affinity was.

After completing the third Sea God trial, Yun Qi and the others rested for three months before setting out to find Xiao Bai and begin the fourth trial against the Evil Orcas. Yun Qi summoned the Demon Soul Great White Sharks by displaying his power and asked them to bring Xiao Bai to him.

• Posey told Yun Qi that completing the Sea God Nine Trials did not guarantee one hundred percent Sea God Affinity, and he revealed that his affinity had reached twenty-five percent.
• Yun Qi and his companions completed the third trial after three years of brutal Tidal Body Refining, and they learned that their fourth trials involved fighting the Evil Orcas or protecting the King of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Yun Qi and the women rested in Sea Horse City for three months, recovered from the trials, and decided to seek out the Demon Soul Great White Shark pod.
• Yun Qi released and amplified his Fire Dragon King Spirit Bone Skill above the sea to attract Xiao Bai's attention.
• Nearly thirty Demon Soul Great White Sharks attacked Yun Qi with Despair Light Waves, but he dissolved their attacks with his Spiritual Power and sent them a message asking to speak with Xiao Bai.

Yun Qi reunited with Xiao Bai and learned that his Fourth Trial required helping her Demon Soul Great White Shark clan destroy the powerful Evil Orca pod. After marrying Xiao Bai in Sea Horse City, he and the women set out with two hundred sharks to fight the Evil Orcas.

• Yun Qi used his enhanced Spiritual Power to drive off the attacking Demon Soul Great White Sharks, and Xiao Bai came ashore to meet him.
• Xiao Bai explained that the Evil Orcas outnumbered and outmatched her clan, and that their pod had killed her younger brother.
• Yun Qi promised to protect Xiao Bai and her clansmen as best he could, and Xiao Bai agreed to join the battle after he married her.
• Yun Qi and Xiao Bai held their wedding in Sea Horse City, then spent several days there before rejoining the women.
• Xiao Bai asked Yun Qi to care for the juvenile sharks if she died, but he reassured her that they would all survive and revealed that Ning Rongrong's Fourth Trial required Xiao Bai to live.
• Xiao Bai summoned two hundred Demon Soul Great White Sharks, and Yun Qi, the women, and her clan departed for the Evil Orcas' territory.

Zhu Zhuyun devised a stealthy poison ambush to weaken the Evil Orcas while avoiding a direct battle that could devastate Xiao Bai’s pod. Yun Qi and Xiao Bai reached the Evil Orcas’ location undetected, where Yun Qi’s shared mental detection revealed the extent of his Spiritual Power.

• Zhu Zhuyun proposed testing poison against the Evil Orcas, and Yun Qi demonstrated a skill that made himself invisible.
• Yun Qi asked Xiao Bai to carry him on a stealth mission while the others stayed back and waited for his signal.
• Xiao Bai carried Yun Qi toward the Evil Orcas, and Yun Qi concealed them both with the Vast Sea Protective Cover.
• They approached the pod underwater, and Yun Qi’s Spiritual Power merged with the seawater without alerting the Evil Orcas.
• Yun Qi shared his mental detection with Xiao Bai, who realized his Spiritual Power surpassed that of the Evil Orca King.

Yun Qi used the Vast Sea Protective Cover and his merged Spiritual Power to hide with Xiao Bai while he attacked the Evil Orcas using bolts carrying Scorching Yang Spring water. After the Evil Orca King’s searches failed, Yun Qi remained concealed as a third poisoned orca went mad and the group resumed its frantic search.

• Yun Qi probed the Evil Orca territory with his Spiritual Power and guided Xiao Bai closer without disturbing the water.
• Yun Qi loaded a drop of Scorching Yang Spring water into a Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolt and secretly killed an Evil Orca, which went berserk and bit another orca to death.
• The Evil Orca King inspected the charred corpse, but Yun Qi stayed hidden as a second poisoned Evil Orca went mad and the king killed it.
• The Evil Orca King ordered his people to search the sea, but they failed to find Yun Qi and Xiao Bai after half an hour.
• A third Evil Orca suddenly went mad and injured a companion, prompting the group to begin searching again as Yun Qi withdrew into the deep sea.

Yun Qi’s ambushes and pursuit killed or wounded nearly a quarter of the Evil Orca clan before the Demon Soul Great White Sharks launched their final assault. As Yun Qi’s domain weakened the exhausted Evil Orcas and the women joined the battle, Xiao Bai fought the Evil Orca King to a standstill.

• Yun Qi repeatedly ambushed the Evil Orca clan with his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, killing eight orcas and driving the Evil Orca King to flee with his clansmen.
• Yun Qi and Xiao Bai pursued the fleeing orcas, while Gu Yue Na tracked them from above and the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan followed at a distance.
• After Yun Qi fired his forty-eighth bolt, he sent a red signal flare, and Xiao Bai led him back to join the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan for the final assault.
• Xiao Bai confronted the Evil Orca King over her younger brother’s death, and Yun Qi told his wives to complete their tasks while Rong Rong enhanced Xiao Bai.
• Yun Qi unleashed Asura Hell, strengthening the Demon Soul Great White Sharks and weakening the exhausted Evil Orcas as the women attacked across the battlefield.
• Xiao Bai fought the Evil Orca King to a standstill, making him realize that the battle was not going as he expected.