Chapter Summaries

After the battle at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Dai Weisi assessed the losses and searched the palace treasury for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. He found the Shroud and looted the treasury’s treasures, including a soul bone he intended for Nana.

• Dai Weisi released the Star Luo Holy Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ye Lingling began treating Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing for their injuries and exhaustion.
• Dai Weisi surveyed the ruined Imperial Palace and considered how the deaths of fifty thousand Heaven Dou cavalry and two Spirit Hall consecrates could benefit the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Weisi used his Ice Fire Evil Eye to locate the treasury and flew there with the others.
• Dai Weisi tore open the treasury’s iron locks and collected its soul bones and other treasures, setting aside a seventy-thousand-year soul bone for Nana.
• Dai Weisi found the blue, pyramid-shaped Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud inside the treasury.

Dai Weisi failed to make the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud recognize him, then gave Anna a Soul Bone and searched Heaven Dou City for Xue Beng. He found Xue Ye dead from arrow wounds, and Xue Beng swore vengeance on Xue Qinghe.

• Dai Weisi tried to absorb the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but the Sea God's Heart rejected him.
• Dai Weisi gave Anna the Godly Wood Essence Quenched Left Arm Bone, and she began absorbing it while Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Lin Qiuyang, and the others stood guard.
• Dai Weisi searched Heaven Dou City and found Xue Beng grieving beside the dead Xue Ye.
• Xue Beng told Dai Weisi that Xue Qinghe's soldiers had pursued them and shot Xue Ye, who had already been poisoned.
• Dai Weisi blamed Xue Qinghe and Spirit Hall for Xue Ye's death, and Xue Beng vowed never to forgive Xue Qinghe.

Xue Beng followed Dai Weisi’s plan to rally the Heaven Dou Empire’s kingdoms against Xue Qinghe, while Dai Weisi gave Anna the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and urged her to seek its recognition. Anna worried Dai Weisi needed divine power more than she did, but he persuaded her to try absorbing it.

• Dai Weisi told Xue Beng to secure the Four Kingdoms’ support and use force if persuasion failed, with Dugu accompanying him.
• Xue Beng took Xue Ye’s body to Prince Xue Xing, who agreed to the plan, and they left for the Balak Kingdom after burying Xue Ye.
• Dai Weisi returned to the palace and learned that Anna had reached level seventy after absorbing the Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Dai Weisi gave Anna the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and explained that it was a Divine Soul Tool that might grant divine power to someone it recognized.
• Anna offered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Dai Weisi so he could gain power to face Spirit Hall, but he told her he had already failed to gain its recognition and urged her to try.

Anna absorbed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, gained the Sea God’s recognition, and awakened with four powerful skills. The Sea God’s phantom directed her toward Sea God Island, which Dai Weisi identified as a sacred place where she might earn further rewards and inheritance.

• Anna absorbed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud while Dai Weisi and the others stood guard, and the artifact fused with her Soul Bone after the Sea God recognized her.
• Anna awoke with greatly increased strength and learned that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had granted her four skills: Vast Sea Protection Shroud, Vast Sea Spirit Stabilization Shroud, Vast Sea Raging Waves, and Cosmos Demon Slayer.
• Anna told Dai Weisi that the Sea God’s phantom had repeatedly said “Sea God Island,” and Dai Weisi explained that it was likely the Sea God’s sacred ground.
• Dai Weisi suggested that Anna’s recognition might lead to further rewards, such as increased Soul Ring ages or the Sea God’s Domain.

Anna began using her Godly Wood Essence Left Arm Bone to temper her physique with plant essence, while Dai Weisi prepared her for the Sea God trials. After an initial attempt with an ordinary tree produced only modest gains, he decided to let her adapt before trying Immortal Herbs.

• Anna revealed that her Soul Bone granted the Godly Wood Body Tempering ability, and Dai Weisi urged her to strengthen her physique for the Sea God trials.
• Dai Weisi brought Anna and the others to Sunset Forest, where Lin Qiuyang began cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dai Weisi took Anna deeper into the forest and had her absorb the essence of a large tree with her Black Jade Divine Grass.
• Anna used Godly Wood Body Tempering to refine the absorbed essence, but felt only a modest increase in strength.
• Dai Weisi considered using Immortal Herbs to strengthen Anna's physique, then decided she should first adapt by absorbing ordinary plants.

Anna strengthened her body through months of cultivation and medicinal herbs until she could fight powerful soul masters without relying on her Soul Power. As Dai Weisi and the others advanced at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, news of the Heaven Dou Palace Coup and the deaths of two Super Douluos continued to shake the continent.

• After a month of tempering her body in Sunset Forest, Anna juggled massive boulders and shattered them with her punches.
• Dai Weisi brought Anna to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gave her a Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma, whose essence greatly increased her physical strength.
• Dai Weisi told Anna to keep cultivating with the Supreme Medicinal Herbs, and she began absorbing another Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma.
• Three months later, Dai Weisi had reached peak level 89, Ye Lingling had reached Level 62, and Zhu Zhuqing had reached Level 68.
• Anna's body had grown strong enough to defeat a Soul Sage, and she could fight a Soul Douluo when using her Martial Soul and soul bones.
• News spread across Douluo Continent that Dai Weisi had killed Mighty Lion Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo during the Heaven Dou Palace Coup.

Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng divided the Heaven Dou Empire between their rival factions, shifting the continent’s balance of power toward Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire. Dai Weisi then prepared to take Anna and his companions to Sea God Island so she could pursue the Sea God Position.

• Xue Qinghe won the support of three kingdoms, a duchy, and several provinces, while Xue Beng retained the Balak Kingdom and other northern territories, splitting the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Qinghe established a rival Heaven Dou Empire allied with Spirit Hall, while Xue Beng renamed his realm the Dou Ling Empire and allied with the Star Luo Empire.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan joined the Star Luo Empire, which now had eleven Titled Douluo.
• Dai Weisi told Dai Pojun, Dai Tianxing, and Anna that Anna had received the Sea God’s recognition, and they approved his plan to take her to Sea God Island.
• Dai Weisi gave Dai Pojun three pills for Lie Tianhu and to use as leverage with Ning Fengzhi, then agreed to bring Tang Yuehua to Sea God Island so she could pursue the trials.
• Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang Yuehua, and Anna said farewell to Dai Pojun and set out for the western Star Luo Empire.

Dai Weisi reached the Star Luo Empire’s naval base and asked General Sha Hengtian to take him and his companions to Sea God Island. Sha Hengtian warned that the island was perilous, but Dai Weisi revealed his eight soul rings to show that the group could protect themselves.

• Dai Weisi led Zhu Zhuyun and the others secretly to the Pelaji Kingdom and sought help from the Star Luo navy.
• Dai Weisi presented the White Tiger Token and met the navy’s commander, Sha Hengtian, at the naval base.
• Sha Hengtian was surprised by Dai Weisi’s strength and praised the talents of his companions.
• Dai Weisi asked Sha Hengtian to take the group to Sea God Island, and Sha Hengtian warned them about its dangers.
• Dai Weisi revealed his eight soul rings and assured Sha Hengtian that they could protect themselves.

Dai Weisi revealed his peak Level 89 Soul Douluo strength to Sha Hengtian, who prepared the Mad Shark Fleet to take him and his companions to Sea God Island. The fleet sailed with Dai Weisi aboard its flagship, and after a month at sea it crushed pirates that tried to attack.

• Dai Weisi told Sha Hengtian he was a peak Level 89 Soul Douluo with two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, convincing Sha to prepare the fleet’s departure.
• Anna ate charcoal-grilled shark Soul Beast meat and said it seemed to increase her Soul Power.
• Sha Hengtian showed Dai Weisi and his companions the Mad Shark Fleet, including its ten Ironclad Ships, and they boarded the flagship Mad Shark.
• The fleet sent thirty ships toward Sea God Island, with Sha Hengtian and Dai Weisi commanding the Mad Shark.
• After a month at sea, the fleet kept pirates at a distance and crushed those who attacked; Sha Hengtian fed the defeated pirates to the sharks.

Dai Weisi chose to fight a group of Evil Spirit Tiger Whales to gain experience before reaching Sea God Island. He killed the eighty-thousand-year leader, while the rest of the battle remained underway.

• A soldier reported that twenty Evil Spirit Tiger Whales, led by one with more than eighty thousand years of cultivation, were ahead of the Mad Shark Fleet.
• Dai Weisi rejected Sha Hengtian's suggestion to avoid the whales and ordered the soldiers to prepare the cannons while he and his companions fought.
• Dai Weisi assigned Anna, Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Qing, and Tang Yuehua to fight the other whales and protect one another.
• Dai Weisi charged the leader, blocked its Wrath of Demon with Thousand Jun Battle Armor, and reached its back.
• Dai Weisi pierced the leader's blowhole with Dark Gold Terrorclaw and killed it with Titan Sky Cannon.

Dai Weisi killed the eighty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Tiger Whale and discovered an eighty-thousand-year Torso Bone on its corpse. After defeating the five Evil Spirit Tiger Whales that surrounded him, he extracted the leader’s Torso Bone.

• Dai Weisi killed the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale with his Titan Sky Cannon and spotted an eighty-thousand-year Torso Bone on its corpse.
• Dai Weisi trapped five surrounding Evil Spirit Tiger Whales in his fused domains, where the Killing Intent Storm killed two of them.
• Dai Weisi killed another Evil Spirit Tiger Whale with his White Tiger Earth Splitting Slash and pierced a second one’s breathing hole with his light sword.
• Dai Weisi used his Ice Fire Evil Light Soul Bone Ability to kill the fifty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Tiger Whale after it crystallized his sword energy.
• Dai Weisi dug a black Torso Bone out of the dead Evil Spirit Tiger Whale leader.

Dai Weisi’s group defeated the attacking Evil Spirit Orcas, with Anna killing a sixty-thousand-year orca using her soul skills and the Sea God’s power. After collecting the spoils, Dai Weisi gave an eighty-thousand-year torso bone to Tang Yuehua and prepared to leave before the blood scent attracted more Sea Soul Beasts.

• Dai Weisi stored the defeated leader’s eighty-thousand-year soul bone while Anna fought a sixty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca.
• Anna used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, her soul bones, and the Sea God’s aura to immobilize and kill the Evil Spirit Orca with a barrage of waves.
• The Mad Shark Fleet and Dai Weisi’s companions killed the remaining Evil Spirit Orcas and collected two soul bones and the beasts’ flesh and blood.
• Dai Weisi told Sha Hengtian to salvage the orcas with cultivation over ten thousand years and leave the area quickly.
• Dai Weisi gave the eighty-thousand-year torso bone to Tang Yuehua, while Zhu Zhuqing kept the forty-thousand-year Left Arm Bone to absorb.

Zhu Zhuqing and Tang Yuehua absorbed soul bones and gained new abilities as the Mad Shark Fleet sailed toward Sea God Island. After Tang Yuehua reached Spirit King and obtained her fifth soul ring, a gigantic whale watched the fleet from the deep sea and plotted to devour Anna, the Sea God's inheritor.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale Left Arm Bone, reached level sixty-nine, and gained the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale Mirror of Annihilation ability.
• Sha Hengtian salvaged the valuable Evil Spirit Tiger Whale corpses, while Dai Weisi and Anna used their powers to frighten off nearby Sea Soul Beasts as the fleet advanced.
• A colossal whale sensed Anna's Sea God aura, judged her and Dai Weisi dangerous, and decided to wait for a chance to devour Anna and reach the Demon God realm.
• Tang Yuehua absorbed an eighty-thousand-year torso bone, reached level fifty, and gained the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale's Wrath of Demon ability.
• Dai Weisi and Anna helped Tang Yuehua hunt a fifteen-thousand-year Three-Headed Sea Serpent, which Tang Yuehua killed before absorbing its soul ring and gaining the Clone Shadow Transformation ability.

Dai Weisi and Anna reached Sea God Island and fought off sharks before meeting its guardian, Xiao Bai. After Anna revealed the Sea God's aura, Xiao Bai welcomed the group and led them onto the island to take the trials.

• Dai Weisi and Anna flew toward Sea God Island, where two giant sharks attacked them.
• Anna punched one shark back into the sea, and Dai Weisi used Gravity Quagmire to force the others underwater.
• Xiao Bai appeared and told Dai Weisi and Anna that only Sea Spirit Masters could take the trials.
• Dai Weisi claimed the Sea God had sent them, and Anna released the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to prove it.
• Xiao Bai welcomed them, and Dai Weisi called Zhu Zhuyun over to join the group before Xiao Bai escorted them toward the island.

Xiao Bai brought Anna, Dai Weisi, and the others to Sea God Hall, where Bo Saixi confirmed Anna as the Sea God's heir and explained that she could attempt the Sea God Nine Trials. Bo Saixi then recognized something familiar in Tang Yuehua and asked who her grandfather was.

• Xiao Bai transformed into her Demon Spirit Great White Shark King form and carried Anna, Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang Yuehua, and the others to Sea God Island.
• Xiao Bai led the group to Sea God Hall, where Dai Weisi sensed a powerful Soul Pressure surrounding the palace.
• Xiao Bai introduced the group to Bo Saixi and explained that Anna was the Sea God's heir.
• Anna used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to show Bo Saixi the Sea God's aura, and Bo Saixi said Anna could begin the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi revealed that she was a Level 99 Sea God Douluo, astonishing everyone except Dai Weisi.
• Bo Saixi sensed a familiarity in Tang Yuehua and asked who her grandfather was.

Bo Saixi learned that Tang Yuehua was Tang Chen’s granddaughter and explained the Sea God Nine Trials to Anna, who insisted on attempting them despite her youth. Bo Saixi brought Anna to Sea Dragon Douluo’s sacred pillar to begin the trial, where Anna revealed her powerful cultivation.

• Tang Yuehua told Bo Saixi that her grandfather was Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi excitedly asked about him before learning he had been missing for decades.
• Bo Saixi recounted her history with Tang Chen and explained that Anna might trigger the Sea God Nine Trials and inherit the Sea God’s position.
• Bo Saixi warned Anna that land Spirit Masters had only one year to complete the trials and advised her to wait, but Anna insisted on beginning immediately.
• Bo Saixi took Anna to Sea Dragon Douluo’s sacred pillar and announced that she would start the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Sea Dragon Douluo doubted that Anna was strong enough, but Anna released her Soul Pressure and revealed six soul rings and Quasi Soul Saint cultivation.

Anna triggered the Sea God Nine Trials, and her first trial required her to climb 333 steps of Sea God Mountain under the crushing pressure of Sea God's Light. Bo Saixi explained the trial's danger and warned that Anna's status as a Tool Spirit Master would make it harder.

• Sea Dragon Douluo invited Anna and the others to stand on the platform before the Sacred Pillar and undergo the Sea God's test.
• Sea Dragon Douluo channeled his soul power into the Sacred Pillar, and all seven Sacred Pillars released beams that changed from blue through red to gold.
• Bo Saixi recognized the golden light as the Sea God Nine Trials, while the island's soul masters knelt in reverence.
• Golden text revealed Anna's first trial: pass through Double Sea God's Light and climb 333 steps of Sea God Mountain for a five-percent increase in Sea God affinity.
• Bo Saixi explained that Sea God's Light intensified with each step and that the deep-sea-like pressure would make the climb especially difficult for Anna as a Tool Spirit Master.

Anna learned that she could not turn back from her Sea God trial and prepared to face Sea God's Light, while Dai Weisi's companions began their own trials. Zhu Zhuyun received a Top Level Eight Trial, and Dai Weisi's trial began with a rapid shift of light to red.

• Bo Saixi warned Anna that starting the Sea God trial left her no way to turn back, and Anna eagerly asked to visit Sea God Mountain.
• Tang Yuehua received a Black Level Five Trial to climb 160 steps, with a one-level Soul Power increase as her reward.
• Zhu Zhuqing received a Black Level Seven Trial with the same climb and reward as Tang Yuehua.
• Zhu Zhuyun triggered a Top Level Eight Trial to climb 300 steps, with a reward that increased all her Soul Ring ages by 500 years.
• Dai Weisi stepped onto the platform, and the light pillar turned red in less than ten seconds.

Dai Weisi received a Top Level First Trial requiring him to help Anna inherit the Sea God Position, with rewards for each trial she passed. He tested Sea God's Light, climbed to the six hundredth step, and helped Zhu Zhuyun reach the three hundredth step as Anna began her climb.

• Dai Weisi learned that his trial was to assist Anna and earn rewards whenever she passed one of her trials.
• Bo Saixi led Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and Anna to Sea God Mountain and designated the area as restricted for their trials.
• Dai Weisi climbed to the six hundredth step using his spirit abilities and soul bone abilities, then flew back down the mountain.
• Anna climbed to the two hundred eightieth step, while Zhu Zhuyun reached the two hundred ninetieth step.
• Dai Weisi encouraged Zhu Zhuyun and helped her use her Invincible Golden Body to reach the three hundredth step.

Zhu Zhuyun completed the Sea God’s first trial, increasing her soul ring age limits, and Zhu Zhuqing and Tang Yuehua began their own climbs. Eight months later, both had passed their first trials, but the second assessment had yet to begin, and Dai Weisi suspected it was waiting for Anna.

• Zhu Zhuyun passed the first trial and received a five-hundred-year increase to her soul ring age limits, turning her second soul ring into a thousand-year ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing climbed Sea God Mountain to pursue a breakthrough, while Bo Saixi warned Tang Yuehua to climb carefully and Dai Weisi secured healing vines around her waist.
• Tang Yuehua used her spirit ability and Gengjin Circle to continue climbing past the first hundred steps.
• Over the next eight months, Zhu Zhuqing and Tang Yuehua passed the first assessment, and Zhu Zhuqing became a level 72 Soul Saint after receiving a seventy-thousand-year God-Given Soul Ring.
• Dai Weisi guessed that the second assessment would begin for them after Anna completed the Sea God First Trial.