Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan and his companions used Xiao Wu’s battle plan and Oscar’s borrowed domain abilities to break through Xiao Bai’s blockade. Tang Lan passed the second Sea God trial in 59 seconds, and the third trial was unlocked.

• Xiao Wu ordered Tang Lan and the others to jump into the sea before Bo Saixi announced the trial, letting them cross the first defense line.
• Tang Lan guided Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar through the fish while the others used Oscar’s Copy Mirror Image Sausage to copy Zhu Zhuqing’s Shadow Step and hide in the shadows.
• Oscar used his soul bone skill to borrow Tang Lan’s Slaughter Domain and seal Xiao Bai’s soul skills and domain.
• Oscar activated the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, and Tang Lan controlled the ice to trap the fish wall without freezing the water around them.
• Tang Lan used Wave Treading to evade Xiao Bai and reach the far shore, passing the second trial in 59 seconds and unlocking the year-long Tidal Body Refining trial.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang Lan if her battle plan was good, and Tang Lan praised her.

After the trials, the group compared their soul-ring rewards, and Tang San’s weak first ring left his second ring short of a thousand years. Bo Saixi gave God-bestowed Soul Rings to several men, but Tang San’s refusal to acknowledge her as family angered Tang Chen and left Bo Saixi treating him formally.

• Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Jing Ling revealed upgraded soul rings, while Ning Rongrong showed that all six of hers had gained a thousand years.
• Ning Rongrong pressed Tang San about his rewards, and Tang Lan explained that Tang San’s eleven-year Soft Bone Rabbit ring had left his second ring just short of thousand-year quality.
• Ning Rongrong apologized for mocking Tang San, and Tang San grudgingly accepted the apology to avoid embarrassing Tang Lan.
• Bo Saixi gave Jing Ling a God-bestowed Soul Ring, then gave one each to Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Tang San.
• Tang Lan told Tang San to call Bo Saixi Great Grandmother, but Tang San addressed her as High Priest instead, prompting Tang Chen’s anger and Bo Saixi’s cold, formal response.

Tang Lan received another reward after Tang San’s dispute with Bo Saixi, then arranged his next divine trial and visited the Shui sisters with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing. Xiao Wu led the group back to Tang Sect Academy, where she and the others revealed a classroom surprise for Tang Lan.

• Bo Saixi took back Tang San’s God-bestowed Soul Ring and gave it to Tang Lan as a reward, allowing Tang Lan to gain the Fate Judgement skill and some of Tang San’s Luck.
• Bo Saixi agreed to begin Tang Lan’s third trial the next day, set different Tidal Body Refining levels for him, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, and accepted his plan to delay the fourth trial for a year.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing took Tang Lan to the Ice God Hall, where they invited Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er to join a surprise for him.
• Tang Lan brought the four women to Tang Sect Academy, where Xiao Wu told him to wait while they prepared something.
• Tang Lan saw Zhao Wuji and Liu Erlong leave together, then followed Xiao Wu’s message to a classroom and found the four women dressed as students, ready for him to play their teacher.

Bo Saixi brought Tang Lan, Tang San, and the others to the Raging Wave Desperate Situation for their third trial, where they had to endure waves while bound to Sunken Silver Pillars. As the first tide began, Tang Lan left his body to work on Artificial Soul Rings and spotted Bo Saixi and Tang Chen chatting together nearby.

• Bo Saixi explained that the group had to endure daily hours on the Sunken Silver Pillars for a year, with the required time depending on their trial level.
• Tang San recognized the pillars as being made from valuable Deep Sea Sunken Silver and asked Tang Lan to help him obtain some, but Tang Lan told him to wait and asked Bo Saixi about the trial instead.
• Bo Saixi bound the group to the pillars, turned them toward the sea, and began the trial with onefold tide pressure.
• Tang Lan left part of his consciousness behind and sent his soul elsewhere to study how to optimize Artificial Soul Rings.
• Tang Lan noticed Bo Saixi and Tang Chen whispering together on the cliff, then set up a workbench while Bi Ji watched.

Soul Tang Lan tested materials for Artificial Soul Rings while the others endured Bo Saixi’s increasingly powerful Tidal Body Refining trial. Ning Rongrong lasted six hours before resting, while Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang Lan remained bound below as the others collapsed on shore.

• Soul Tang Lan used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Soul Power to test replacement materials and Soul Skill age limits for Artificial Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong struggled against the relentless waves, so Soul Tang Lan used his Life Spirit Domain to strengthen her self-healing and later the others’ as well.
• Ning Rongrong used her martial soul to augment the group, but Bo Saixi intensified the waves and Soul Tang Lan explained that augmentation skills were forbidden in the trial.
• Tang Chen flirted with Bo Saixi, who decided they would discuss having a child after the third trial.
• Over the next day, Ning Rongrong lasted six hours and Jing Ling lasted eight before Bo Saixi rescued them; the group collapsed on shore while Tang Lan, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing continued enduring the waves.

Over a month of training on Sea God Island, Tang Lan and the others improved their tidal body refining before Di Tian arrived to ask about high-level Artificial Soul Rings. After learning Tang Lan could already make rings exceeding forty thousand years, Di Tian supplied more materials and asked him to produce a batch for the soul beasts.

• Tang Lan and Bi Ji helped the group endure longer in Tidal Body Refining, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing developed a breathing technique that improved their training efficiency.
• Di Tian arrived on Sea God Island and overpowered Seahorse Douluo and the other guardians before Bo Saixi identified him as an honored guest.
• Di Tian gave Tang Lan two Storage Rings of materials and asked how long it would take to develop ten-thousand-year Artificial Soul Rings; Tang Lan estimated he could produce results within a year.
• Bi Ji revealed that Tang Lan had already made Artificial Soul Rings with a minimum age of forty thousand years, and Di Tian inspected a ring aged forty-five thousand, one hundred and forty years.
• Di Tian doubled his promised material deliveries and asked Tang Lan to produce high-age rings for soul beasts, so Tang Lan began making them with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stabilizing the formation.

As the Sect Ranking Competition approached, Soul Tang Lan decided to let his physically tempered team test their strength against the other sects. He arranged new Soul Rings for the group, but the chapter ended as he began explaining a breakthrough in Artificial Spirits to Tang San.

• Six months into the third trial, Soul Tang Lan received Zhao Wuji’s invitation to attend the Sect Ranking Competition and proposed that the team qualify to challenge for the Upper Three Sects by defeating all seven of them.
• Soul Tang Lan decided Zhu Zhuqing should use a God-bestowed Soul Ring for her Seventh Soul Ring because her Shadow Spirit Cat’s Martial Soul Avatar was especially important.
• Oscar chose a God-bestowed Soul Ring over a healing skill from Bi Ji, and Soul Tang Lan protected him while he began absorbing it.
• Dai Mubai accepted a 120,000-year Artificial Soul Ring containing Bear Monarch’s Sky-Rending Claw, despite the painful risks of absorbing it.
• Soul Tang Lan told Tang San to raise his rank to 70 before obtaining a better Soul Ring for Blue Silver Grass, then promised that his Clear Sky Hammer could later receive Soul Rings over one hundred thousand years.
• Soul Tang Lan handed Tang San an Artificial Soul Ring and began describing his latest breakthrough in Artificial Spirits.

Tang Lan created an artificial Soul Ring infused with one of his own Soul Skills, and Tang San chose Life Burial for his Sixth Soul Ring. Jing Ling then completed his God-bestowed Soul Ring and transformed his Giant Skeleton into a Susanoo-like form, with a full body and himself embedded in its forehead.

• Tang Lan explained that he could infuse a human Soul Skill into an Artificial Soul Ring and offered Tang San one of his Soul Skills.
• Tang San chose Life Burial for his Sixth Soul Ring and planned to pursue Tang Lan's other skills for his later rings.
• Tang Lan infused an Artificial Soul Ring with Life Burial and gave it to Tang San to absorb.
• Tang Lan told Jing Ling to imagine a complete Giant Skeleton while absorbing a God-bestowed Soul Ring, and Jing Ling showed him a drawing of the form he wanted.
• Jing Ling finished absorbing the ring and used Giant Skeleton to create a full-bodied giant elephant, embedding himself in its forehead.

Jing Ling demonstrated the immense power of his enhanced soul skills, while Tang San and Oscar advanced their cultivation with new soul rings. Oscar’s 100,000-year ring granted him an invisibility skill, but he unexpectedly reappeared in front of Soul Tang Lan.

• Jing Ling used his Fifth Soul Skill to enhance his other skills, transforming his armor and bone blade into formidable forms before Soul Tang Lan told him to stop.
• Jing Ling explained that his 45,000-year Fifth Soul Ring enhanced his own soul skills, and Soul Tang Lan praised his determination to endure beyond his expected limit.
• Tang San tested his new Fourth Soul Skills on Soul Tang Lan, then chose to absorb a Seventh Soul Ring at Rank 70 so he could reach Soul Douluo sooner.
• Soul Tang Lan created an Artificial Soul Ring for Tang San, who began absorbing it and planned to use future Soul Spirits to strengthen his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Oscar completed his 100,000-year Sixth Soul Ring and revealed that his Invisible Garlic Sausage concealed his body and Soul Power, but he suddenly reappeared while demonstrating it.

Oscar revealed how his Invisible Garlic Sausage concealed him and chose a God-bestowed Soul Ring for his Seventh Soul Ring. As the group continued their trials on Sea God Island, Zhu Zhuqing returned after reaching a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Ning Rongrong asked her to demonstrate her new soul skill.

• Oscar explained that his Invisible Garlic Sausage concealed his form and non-offensive soul skills, and Ning Rongrong asked him to make her a Storage Ring full of them.
• Soul Tang Lan gave Oscar the choice between seeking a powerful ferocious beast for a Soul Ring and using a God-bestowed Soul Ring, while Bi Ji warned that hunting a beast would harm Tang Lan's plan to gather Soul Beast faith.
• Soul Tang Lan rebuked Bi Ji for interfering in Tang Sect affairs, then reassured Oscar that a hunted Soul Beast could be revived after he became a god.
• Oscar chose a God-bestowed Soul Ring, and Soul Tang Lan said he could obtain more from Qian Daoliu if their reserves ran low.
• Jing Ling and Ning Rongrong returned to the Sunken Silver Pillars to continue their trials, while Zhu Zhuqing completed her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and started back to the pillar.
• Ning Rongrong stopped Zhu Zhuqing and asked her to show everyone her new soul skill.

Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her powerful Shadow True Body, and Dai Mubai survived absorbing Bear Monarch’s Sky-Rending Claw as an Artificial Soul Ring. He then chose to risk absorbing Tang Lan’s Divine Power · Three Heads Six Arms as his Seventh Soul Ring, leaving Tang Lan uncertain whether the experiment would succeed.

• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that Shadow True Body let her travel through darkness without a cooldown and gave her attacks 50% armor penetration.
• Soul Tang Lan praised Zhu Zhuqing’s assassination ability, and she returned to enduring the crashing waves alongside him.
• Dai Mubai completed his absorption of Sky-Rending Claw and revealed that his fourth, fifth, and sixth Soul Rings were red.
• Soul Tang Lan offered Dai Mubai either a God-bestowed Soul Ring or an Artificial Soul Ring containing his Self-Created Soul Skill, Three Heads Six Arms.
• Dai Mubai chose the Artificial Soul Ring, and Soul Tang Lan began guarding him as he started absorbing it despite the uncertain odds.

Tang San absorbed his Seventh Soul Ring and discovered that it had weakened and failed to raise his Soul Power, while Soul Tang Lan kept watch over Dai Mubai. Oscar then completed his own Seventh Soul Ring and prepared to demonstrate its unusual effects as Soul Tang Lan investigated whether its enhancements could be stored in a Storage Ring.

• Tang San used his Seventh Soul Ring, gaining a Blue Silver Avatar with a 72% boost to Blue Silver Grass abilities and the power to travel through it; Soul Tang Lan received a reward after the ring's age degenerated to 72,000 years.
• Tang San realized the Artificial Soul Ring had not raised his Soul Power beyond level 70, but insisted on continuing the experiment after Soul Tang Lan suggested switching methods.
• After two shichen, Oscar completed his one-hundred-thousand-year Seventh Soul Ring, and Soul Tang Lan marked Dai Mubai as a safeguard before turning to Oscar.
• Oscar explained that his Seventh Soul Ring increased his Sausage-making speed and all Sausage effects by 50%; Soul Tang Lan urged him to test whether the enhanced Sausages could be stored long-term in a Storage Ring.
• Oscar warned that demonstrating his soul skill required a specific incantation and movements, then shut his eyes and began.

Oscar revealed his hundred-thousand-year Martial Soul Avatar, Erect Golden Fly, which doubled the power of a same-rank Soul Master's next soul skill. The group adopted a plan to challenge Titled Douluo, and Ning Rongrong discovered that her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could amplify the Avatar's effect too.

• Oscar performed his Martial Soul Avatar, Erect Golden Fly, shocking everyone with its embarrassing name and pose.
• Soul Tang Lan asked Oscar to explain the Avatar's effect, and Oscar revealed that it increased the next soul skill's power by 100% for a same-rank Soul Master.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar proposed testing sects seeking Upper Three Sects status by having them fight the group, and Soul Tang Lan approved the plan.
• Soul Tang Lan restored Oscar's Soul Power, and Oscar began producing Erect Golden Flies while the others imagined using them against Titled Douluo.
• Ning Rongrong ate an Erect Golden Fly and used her speed boost on Oscar, who found his speed had increased by 140%, confirming that her Pagoda's amplification stacked with the Avatar.

Ning Rongrong and Oscar demonstrated how Erect Golden Flies could greatly strengthen the group, while Soul Tang Lan began considering a special operations legion built around Oscar’s copied abilities. Dai Mubai completed his new soul ring and challenged Soul Tang Lan, but his powerful Martial Soul Avatar could not overcome the Sect Master’s domain.

• Ning Rongrong declared that the group could use Erect Golden Flies to challenge even powerful Titled Douluo, and Tang Chen and Bo Saixi imagined them fighting Qian Daoliu.
• Oscar explained that his amplified Copy Mirror Image Sausages could last twenty minutes and reach 100% effectiveness for himself, prompting Soul Tang Lan to consider forming a special operations legion.
• Dai Mubai’s Artificial Soul Ring 2.0 became a red soul ring, giving him seven soul rings, including four one-hundred-thousand-year rings.
• Dai Mubai activated his Eight-Armed Flame Tiger Avatar and attacked Soul Tang Lan with a barrage of fire and claws.
• Soul Tang Lan froze Dai Mubai’s fireballs with Ultimate Ice, then used the Water Thunder Tribulation to block the tiger’s attacks and rapidly drain its soul power.

Dai Mubai unleashed the Sky-Rending Claw against Soul Tang Lan, who shattered it and then sent him to endure harsher training. As the Sect Ranking Competition approached, its organizers realized Tang Lan had left them without instructions on the event format.

• Dai Mubai's Sky-Rending Claw tore open space, but Soul Tang Lan countered it with his Thunder Flame Ice Haotian Hammer and won the clash unharmed.
• Soul Tang Lan praised Dai Mubai's strength, then ordered him to raise his tidal body tempering to four times; he also sent Oscar to begin three-times training.
• Tang Sect and Spirit Hall hosted the Sect Ranking Competition at Slaughter Town, where their Enforcement Team sent captured troublemakers into Slaughter City.
• Ning Fengzhi, Zhao Wuji, and Tang Xiao waited at the central building and discovered that Tang Lan had not told them whether the competition would use individual or team matches.

Soul Tang Lan arranged the Upper Three Sects’ assessment and persuaded Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao to join forces against Golden Crocodile Douluo. He then told Xiao Wu and the others that they would fight the Second Worship the next day.

• Zhao Wuji, Ning Fengzhi, and Tang Xiao struggled to decide on a fair format for the Sect Ranking Competition until Soul Tang Lan arrived and gave Zhao Wuji a plan.
• Soul Tang Lan revealed that he was a soul separated from his body, which was still undergoing a trial, and then departed using the Blood Escape Technique.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Tang Hao would not fight for Clear Sky Sect and considered Tang Xiao and the sect’s other elders manageable opponents.
• Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao received the competition rules, then agreed to join forces and choose Golden Crocodile Douluo for the Upper Three Sects’ assessment.
• Soul Tang Lan told Xiao Wu and the others that they would fight Golden Crocodile Douluo the next day.

Soul Tang Lan prepared his companions to fight Golden Crocodile Douluo, then the Sect Ranking Competition began with the newly formed Earth Three Sects facing the Elephant Armor Sect. The Earth Three Sects’ Tang Sect techniques revealed their affiliation as a subordinate sect, while their match was still underway.

• Soul Tang Lan told the seven companions they would fight Second Worship and Golden Crocodile Douluo, then praised their caution and explained they could use Tang Lan’s abilities and support skills to challenge him.
• Soul Tang Lan asked Bo Saixi to give the excited group a super-sized bonus.
• The Sect Ranking Competition drew more than ten thousand Soul Masters, and the chapter introduced the newly established Earth Three Sects under Ye Nishang, with Chen Xin and Ma Hongjun among its members.
• Huyan Zhen mocked the Earth Three Sects before their team match, confident that the Elephant Armor Sect’s defense would overwhelm them.
• After the match began, the Earth Three Sects evaded the Elephant Armor Sect’s advance using Lingbo Microstep, prompting spectators to reveal that the group belonged to a Tang Sect subordinate sect.

Ye Nishang’s firearms and healing turned the match against the Elephant Armor Sect, while Zhao Wuji revealed his Titled Douluo strength and joined forces with Tang Sect allies to suppress Bibi Dong. Tang Hao then joined the combined formation, breaking Spirit Hall’s resistance and leaving Bibi Dong pale.

• Ye Nishang’s team used Vulcan Cannons and flashbangs to break the Elephant Armor Sect’s defenses and evade their Martial Soul Avatars.
• Ye Nishang revealed her Nine Hearted Begonia and healed Flender and the others, allowing them to keep fighting despite the Elephant Armor Sect’s attacks.
• Bai He’s livestream and the Tang Sect commentators mocked the Elephant Armor Sect and Spirit Hall, prompting Bibi Dong to confront Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji revealed nine Soul Rings and a full set of soul bones, then joined Wang Dali, Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong to suppress Bibi Dong.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo resisted the combined pressure, and Tang Hao joined Zhao Wuji’s formation, shattering Spirit Hall’s resistance.

Tang Hao and Soul Tang Lan confronted Spirit Hall at the Sect Ranking Competition, then Soul Tang Lan challenged Golden Crocodile Douluo and his evaluation team to a fight over the fairness of the selection. The groups flew to a new battlefield, while Huyan Zhen realized the Elephant Armor Sect had to win its match.

• Tang Hao and five Tang Sect members released their auras, forcing Golden Crocodile Douluo to transform and shield Spirit Hall's young fighters.
• Soul Tang Lan arrived, and Tang Hao mocked Bibi Dong after she threatened all-out war; Soul Tang Lan then threatened to summon Sister Xi and Great Grandfather, making Bibi Dong fall silent.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo criticized the Tang Sect's commentators, but Soul Tang Lan defended them and proposed that the Tang Sect and Spirit Hall evaluation teams fight to test the selection rules.
• Bibi Dong ordered Xiong Mo to arrange commentators to insult the Tang Sect, while Golden Crocodile Douluo accepted Soul Tang Lan's challenge.
• Soul Tang Lan led Golden Crocodile Douluo and the gathered spectators to a battlefield ten thousand meters away; Huyan Zhen feared the Elephant Armor Sect would face dire consequences if it lost.

Ye Nishang led the Earth Three Sects to defeat the Elephant Armor Sect with a devastating Ring Fusion attack, while Flender reflected on his past failures and Ma Hongjun's lost opportunity. The Tang Sect prodigies then faced Golden Crocodile Douluo, whose challenge was interrupted by a sudden pressure from the arena.

• Huyan Zhen launched the Elephant Armor Sect's final assault, and Suppressing Kill sent Flender and his companions falling toward the attackers.
• Ye Nishang broke free with her Soul Bone, used Ring Fusion to unleash Sky-Rending Claw, and killed an Elephant Armor Sect Soul Douluo while badly injuring Huyan Zhen.
• The referees declared the Earth Three Sects the winners, and Ye Nishang recovered after the Life Spirit Heart restored her.
• Flender watched Ma Hongjun tremble, reflected on the opportunities he had squandered, and left with Ye Nishang to watch the Tang Sect prodigies.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo offered to let each of the seven Tang Sect prodigies strike him once, but a sharp pressure from the arena made him look away.