Chapter Summaries

Rota rescued the badly wounded Nightmare Leviathan Whale from the Evil Spirit Orca pack, then learned that the whale had pursued the Sacred Pillar Stone to avenge his mate and protect his child from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. Rota began healing him and prepared to address the danger posed by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

• The Nightmare Leviathan Whale tried to escape the encircling Evil Spirit Orcas, who tore at his already wounded body.
• Rota froze the surrounding sea, stopping the Evil Spirit Orcas and allowing the Nightmare Leviathan Whale to survive.
• The Nightmare Leviathan Whale surfaced to thank Rota, who urged him to rest and asked why he had targeted the Sacred Pillar Stone.
• The Nightmare Leviathan Whale explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had killed his mate and forced him to flee with his child, driving him to seek power and revenge.
• Rota used Hashirama's life energy and Ulquiorra's Super Regeneration to heal the Nightmare Leviathan Whale, though Bo Saixi's injuries remained.

Kuzan helped Kais recover and reunite with his two children, then suggested they relocate to Sea God Island for safety. When the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King appeared and threatened Kais’s family, Kuzan drove him away, leaving Kais stunned by Kuzan’s strength.

• Kuzan accompanied Kais to his territory, where Kais found no sign of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and retrieved his two young children.
• Kais worried about finding a safe home for his children, so Kuzan proposed that the family become guardian soul beasts of Sea God Island.
• Kuzan introduced himself as Kuzan, and Kais gave his name as Melville Kais before they decided to head for Sea God Island.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King surfaced, mocked Kais, and threatened to eat his children.
• Kuzan confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who recognized him and fled rather than fight.
• Kais asked whether Kuzan had fought the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before, and Kuzan said he had beaten him on an earlier visit to Sea God Island.

Kuzan returned to Sea God Island with Kais and explained why the Nightmare Leviathan Whale had targeted the Sacred Pillar Stone. Bo Saixi heard Kais's account and was left to decide how to deal with him.

• Kuzan and Kais traveled back to Sea God Island, and Kais regretted having once planned to take the Sacred Pillar Stone.
• Bo Saixi told Oya she trusted Kuzan to give a satisfactory explanation and waited for his return.
• Kuzan, Kais, their young companions, and Little White arrived on Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi asked Kuzan to report his investigation.
• Kuzan explained that Kais had sought the Sacred Pillar Stone to take revenge on the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, not to target it intentionally.
• Bo Saixi asked Kais if Kuzan's account was true, and Kais confirmed it without hesitation.

Kais received Bo Saixi’s forgiveness and healing, then agreed to settle on Sea God Island and help protect it. After Kais left to settle in with the children, Little White revealed her humanlike mimicry to Rota, and they discussed her appearance and her plans to see him often.

• Bo Saixi apologized to Kais, healed his internal injuries, and invited him to settle on Sea God Island.
• Kais accepted the offer and promised to help protect the island, while Bo Saixi asked Little White to show him the work procedures the next day.
• Rota told Kais to take the children and get settled, and Kais thanked Rota for helping resolve the conflict.
• After Kais left, Little White teased Rota, then revealed her humanlike mimicry and fell into his arms when her legs tangled.
• Little White asked Rota whether she looked beautiful and admitted she had modeled her appearance on Bo Saixi.
• Little White asked whether she and Rota would see each other every day, and Rota said he would soon prepare some things and invited her to watch.

Rota helped Little White learn to walk and took her to a hot spring inn, where she enjoyed soaking with him. After Little White saw Rota’s severe burns and missing leg, she insisted on learning how he had been injured, and Rota agreed to tell her.

• Little White eagerly agreed to join Rota, who suggested they visit a hot spring after seeing her shiver in the cold wind.
• Rota caught Little White when she stumbled, then taught her to walk as they made their way to the hot spring inn.
• Little White struggled to part from Rota while changing, then arrived late at their private spring and found him already soaking.
• Rota used ice to make the water comfortable for Little White, and she relaxed in the spring beside him.
• Little White saw Rota’s burn scars and missing left leg, then watched him form an icy replacement leg.
• Little White asked how Rota had been injured, and Rota agreed to explain.

Rota and Little White stayed overnight at a hot spring hotel, where he explained the receptionist’s suggestive look and heard her confess that she liked him. The next morning, Little White left to show Kais his work, and Rota set out to plan a Tongbao Pavilion branch on Sea God Island.

• Little White grew angry when Rota told her about his old fight with Sakazuki, but Rota comforted her until she calmed down.
• Little White asked to stay with Rota, and he booked them a double room at the hot spring hotel.
• Little White asked what the receptionist’s knowing look meant, so Rota explained it to her.
• Little White confessed that she liked Rota while he pretended to be asleep, then she hugged him and fell asleep beside him.
• Rota woke to find Little White gone and learned she had left to take care of something before taking Kais around.
• Rota left the inn to plan the Sea God Island Tongbao Pavilion branch, beginning with choosing a location.

Rota found a site for Tongbao Pavilion's Sea God Island branch and prepared to return to the mainland. Little White joined him for the journey, leaving Kais to help guard the island.

• Bo Saixi finished healing Ai Qiu's scar, and Rota thanked her for the treatment.
• Rota told Bo Saixi he had chosen a site for Tongbao Pavilion's branch, and she agreed to let him handle the arrangements.
• Ai Qiu decided to stay on Sea God Island while Rota returned to the mainland.
• Little White asked to travel with Rota, and Bo Saixi gave her permission after Kais agreed to help protect the island.
• Rota and Little White set off across the sea on his bicycle, and Little White took human form and enjoyed the ride.

Rota and Little White reached Pates City, where they set out to buy Little White clothes. A noblewoman offered to guide them to a clothing store but led them into a deserted alley, and Rota realized she had ulterior motives.

• Rota and Little White arrived at the harbor, and Rota lent her his coat because she had no clothes of her own.
• Rota carried Little White into Pates City after the gate guards were too intimidated to stop them or register their information.
• Rota asked a noblewoman to recommend a clothing store, and she offered to lead them there.
• Little White worried that Rota had called her only his companion, but Rota reassured her that she was special.
• Rota followed the noblewoman into a sparsely populated alley and recognized that she had led them there for a reason.

Rota and Little White arrived in Pates City, where a noblewoman tried to lure them into a robbery, but Rota exposed the trap and froze her accomplices. After punishing the noblewoman, Rota learned the location of a clothing store and reached its enormous entrance with Little White.

• Rota followed a noblewoman to a dead end, where she and several black-robed men tried to rob him.
• Rota froze a Soul King who attacked him, shattered the man's arm, and made the other robbers flee.
• Rota rejected the noblewoman's pleas and froze her for deceiving travelers.
• Rota told Little White that he had recognized the noblewoman's suspicious behavior and continued looking for clothes.
• Rota asked a passerby for directions and arrived at a clothing store that surprised him with its size.

Kuzan took Little White to Star Moon Tower, where they bought her several outfits and went searching for food. They chose a restaurant on the second floor, leaving the story as they entered to eat.

• Kuzan and Little White entered Star Moon Tower and found its upscale clothing store.
• Little White chose a white top and black pants, tried them on, and approved of the comfortable fit.
• Kuzan bought Little White four outfits for thirty-five Gold Soul Coins.
• Kuzan and Little White searched the tower for a place to eat after they became hungry.
• Little White followed the food’s scent to a restaurant on the second floor, and they entered.

Rota and Little White joined a parade supporting Yue Longxing in Pates City’s leadership selection and learned how its voting rounds worked. They discovered that Yue Longxing usually led the first round but had repeatedly lost or tied in later rounds against Wang Qianjue.

• Rota and Little White booked an inn near Star Moon Tower and explored Pates City, where they learned Yue Longxing and Wang Qianjue were competing to lead the free city.
• A spectator explained that tourists could vote, and Rota and Little White joined the parade supporting Yue Longxing.
• A member of the parade told Rota that the selection had four rounds, with victory going to the candidate who won two.
• Rota learned Yue Longxing usually received more votes in the first round but lost or tied in the next two, and a supporter warned him that Wang Qianjue used many tricks.

Yue Longxing and Wang Qianjue agreed to make the city leadership election their final contest, but Wang revealed he had arranged a way to undermine her advantage in the first round. As the parade neared the selection venue, the Free People Gang blocked its route, and Rota watched from the rear as Star Moon Tower members confronted them.

• Wang Qianjue proposed that the election be their final contest, and Yue Longxing accepted and signed an agreement with him.
• Wang warned Yue Longxing that she could not act in the first round and revealed that he had set her up to lose her usual advantage.
• Yue Longxing worried that Wang’s plan would also put her supporters at risk, while Wang rested confidently.
• Rota and Little White watched as the parade encountered a group blocking the road.
• Star Moon Tower members confronted the Free People Gang, whose members ordered the parade to turn back.

Rota intervened when Zhang Ling blocked Star Moon Tower’s group from reaching the selection venue, then froze and defeated him instantly. Star Moon Tower continued toward the venue, with Rota rejoining Little White at the rear.

• The Free People Gang blocked Star Moon Tower’s marching group and brought in Zhang Ling, a Soul Douluo, to stop them from reaching the venue.
• Zhang Ling demanded that Star Moon Tower abandon the venue, leaving its Soul Emperor torn between the mission and the group’s safety.
• Rota stepped in, introduced himself as Kuzan, and told Zhang Ling to stand aside, but Zhang Ling refused because he had accepted a commission.
• Rota used Freezing Time to turn Zhang Ling into an ice sculpture before he could complete his attack.
• Rota told Star Moon Tower to continue to the venue, then returned to Little White and followed at the rear.

Rota supported Yue Longxing after helping Star Moon Tower counter the Free People Gang’s interference in the first selection round. Yue Longxing’s support team arrived just before the deadline, leaving Wang Qianjue’s plan in doubt.

• Hong Fu thanked Rota for intervening, and Rota confirmed he supported Yue Longxing in the selection.
• Hong Fu explained that the selection’s first round was fixed, while the next two varied, and that Wang Qianjue had hired a Soul Douluo to disrupt Star Moon Tower’s support team.
• At the venue, Wang Qianjue taunted Yue Longxing when the Free People Gang’s team arrived but hers did not.
• With five minutes left before Star Moon Tower would forfeit, Hong Fu and Yue Longxing’s support team arrived, relieving Yue Longxing and upsetting Wang Qianjue.

Yue Longxing won the first round against Wang Qianjue, and the next round required them to deal with a dangerous soul beast outside Pates City. After learning that Kuzan had saved Hong Fu and the others from Wang Qianjue’s plot, Yue Longxing invited Kuzan and Little White to Star Moon Tower, while Wang Qianjue began plotting revenge.

• The official declared Yue Longxing the winner of the first round and announced that the second round would be decided by whoever resolved the threat posed by a powerful soul beast outside Pates City.
• Yue Longxing asked Hong Fu how he and the others had reached the venue safely, and Hong Fu revealed that Wang Qianjue had tried to eliminate them before Kuzan rescued them.
• Yue Longxing thanked Kuzan, invited him and Little White to Star Moon Tower the next day, and gave him a gold-trimmed calling card.
• Yue Longxing left the venue with her supporters, Kuzan, and Little White while Wang Qianjue watched them go and cursed them.
• Wang Qianjue devised a plan to win the second round and punish Yue Longxing and Kuzan.

Rota and Little White met Yue Longxing at Star Moon Tower, where she asked them to help with the competition’s second round by negotiating with a disaster-capable legendary soul beast. Rota agreed to leave with her the next day in exchange for three requests from Star Moon Tower, and he and Little White stayed there after a lavish banquet.

• Rota and Little White woke late, then met Yue Longxing outside Star Moon Tower and followed her to her office.
• Yue Longxing asked Rota to help stop a legendary soul beast from destroying things, explaining that she hoped to negotiate with it rather than kill it.
• Rota agreed to accompany Yue Longxing the next day in exchange for three requests from Star Moon Tower, and he arranged for Little White to come too.
• Yue Longxing hosted Rota and Little White at a banquet, where they ate their fill.
• Yue Longxing offered Rota and Little White rooms at Star Moon Tower for the night.

Wang Qianjue found the legendary Hellflame Dragon and persuaded him to attack Yue Longxing in exchange for a promise. As the dragon approached Pates City, Rota and Yue Longxing sensed the danger and prepared to face him.

• Wang Qianjue followed the scorched terrain outside Pates City and encountered the Hellflame Dragon.
• Wang Qianjue proposed a plan to the Hellflame Dragon, who agreed to attack Yue Longxing in exchange for a promise.
• Rota woke from an ominous premonition, joined Yue Longxing at the Star Moon Tower, and sensed the Hellflame Dragon flying toward Pates City.
• The Hellflame Dragon fired at Rota and Yue Longxing, and Yue Longxing countered with her First Soul Skill, Moonlit Radiance.
• Rota judged the Hellflame Dragon to be as powerful as Di Tian and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and noted that the dragon's flames put him at a disadvantage.

Yue Longxing and Rota fought the Hellflame Dragon as it threatened Pates City and attacked its fleeing residents. Rota and Kuzan stopped the dragon’s firestorm, and Rota struck it hard, beginning their counterattack.

• The Hellflame Dragon appeared before Yue Longxing and Rota and attacked with flames, but Yue Longxing blocked them with her Shimmering Lunar Ring and answered with her Ninth Soul Skill.
• Yue Longxing’s strongest attack failed to injure the Hellflame Dragon, which threatened Pates City’s residents and unleashed Falling Starfire.
• Rota rescued an elderly grandmother and her granddaughter by freezing a fireball and carrying them away on ice.
• Kuzan froze the falling fireballs and raised ice spires throughout Pates City, revealing his power to Yue Longxing.
• Rota returned to his true form, appeared before the Hellflame Dragon in a flash of golden lightning, and punched it nearly a hundred meters backward.

Rota arrived to help Kuzan, Little White, and Yue Longxing fight Hellflame Dragon and moved the battle away from Pates City. He exchanged blows with the dragon and charged into another attack as Kuzan and the others watched.

• Rota appeared and greeted Kuzan, who introduced him to Little White and Yue Longxing as a friend and Tongbao Pavilion elder.
• Rota and Kuzan attacked Hellflame Dragon and drove him far beyond Pates City to protect the residential district.
• Rota challenged Hellflame Dragon, while Kuzan told Little White and Yue Longxing that Rota could handle the fight.
• Hellflame Dragon struck Rota with an explosive tail attack, but Rota recovered unharmed and acknowledged the dragon's strength.
• Rota dodged Hellflame Dragon's dragon breath and charged with Armament Haki: Thunder Collapse Fist.

Rota fought Hellflame Dragon, proving faster and stronger in their exchanges and provoking the dragon to unleash his full power. After transforming into a red-haired man covered in flaming dragon scales, Hellflame Dragon prepared to continue the battle.

• Hellflame Dragon praised Rota's strength and claimed that he surpassed ordinary dragons and even Di Tian, while Rota challenged him to stay away from Pates City if he lost.
• Hellflame Dragon attacked with Blazing Dragon Claw, but Rota blocked the flames with Thunder Barrage and knocked the dragon's claws aside.
• Rota unleashed his spiritual pressure, then struck Hellflame Dragon in the stomach with a powerful punch that made him spit dragon blood.
• Hellflame Dragon erupted in flames and fought Rota with Dragonflame Fury, but his large body made it difficult to land attacks on the faster opponent.
• Hellflame Dragon ignited his body and transformed into a red-haired man covered in flaming dragon scales.