Chapter Summaries

Li Chang'an crossed Hell Road, captured the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and flew toward the exit. As he passed through the Light Screen, Sea God used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to strip away Asura’s power before Divine Slaughter’s Domain could take hold.

• Li Chang'an used a Flame Tornado to destroy the swarm of Blood Bats and their Three-Headed Dark Golden Bat leader.
• Li Chang'an froze the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with the Ice God's Eye and sealed it inside a birdcage Soul Tool.
• Li Chang'an formed Wind Wings and flew across the blood-filled chasm to the exit of Hell Road.
• Li Chang'an entered the white void, where the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud emerged and surrounded him with a sea-blue barrier.
• Sea God expelled Asura's power from Li Chang'an to prevent him from obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain.

Li Chang'an returned from the City of Slaughter without gaining Divine Slaughter's Domain and reunited with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he studied the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core and seized it, leaving the serpent weak.

• Li Chang'an emerged from the strange space on a Desolate Mountain, found that only his Killing Intent remained, and decided to go to Sea God Island after resolving Dugu Yan and Xue Ke's problems.
• Li Chang'an returned to Heaven Dou City, where Dugu Yan and Xue Ke welcomed him home.
• Li Chang'an brought the caged Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and released it to study its abilities.
• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent attacked Li Chang'an with poisonous mist and began forming its Inner Core from the nine tumors on its back.
• Li Chang'an observed how the Inner Core formed and concluded that it combined essence, energy, and spirit, giving him ideas for a more advanced Inner Core.
• Li Chang'an seized the Inner Core and severed its connection to the serpent, leaving the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent limp and weak.

Li Chang'an killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with the Nine Infants True Form and collected its Inner Core and remaining power. He considered how Dugu Yan's Jade Scale Serpent should evolve and chose the Teng Snake as a promising direction, though he had not yet begun the transformation.

• Li Chang'an used the Nine Infants True Form to frighten the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent to death and took its Inner Core.
• Li Chang'an drew the serpent's remaining power into the Inner Core, leaving its body to crumble into dust.
• Li Chang'an weighed whether the Inner Core might elevate Dugu Yan's Jade Scale Serpent or replace it with the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
• Li Chang'an searched the Bloodline Plaza for serpent-related Divine Beasts and stopped at the Teng Snake statue.
• Li Chang'an considered the Teng Snake's divine nature and identified it as a potential evolution direction for Dugu Yan's Martial Soul.

Li Chang'an put aside relentless cultivation to enjoy life with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke, then proved his progress to his concerned mentors by revealing six Soul Rings. At seventeen, he gathered the women and Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to begin their martial soul evolutions, but the golden-red bead he revealed provoked an instinctive reaction from Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

• Li Chang'an chose the Teng Snake as the direction for Dugu Yan's martial soul evolution and decided to wait until he had enough Blessed Luck to transform both her and Xue Ke's martial souls together.
• With Tang San no longer posing an immediate threat, Li Chang'an slowed his cultivation and spent more time traveling and relaxing with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke.
• Xue Ye and the Three Education Commissioners summoned Li Chang'an to criticize his lax attitude toward cultivation, but he silenced them by revealing six Soul Rings.
• Xue Ye rewarded Li Chang'an with another fief, believing he had continued cultivating diligently in secret.
• At seventeen, Li Chang'an brought Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and opened a Jade Box containing a golden-red bead.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan instinctively retreated and released Emerald Green Soul Light when they sensed the bead, so Li Chang'an closed the box.

Li Chang'an helped Dugu Yan absorb the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core to evolve her Jade Phosphorous Serpent bloodline. As the power fused with her bloodline, red silk wrapped her in a cocoon, leaving her transformation underway.

• Li Chang'an explained the bead's powers to Dugu Bo and recommended that Dugu Yan absorb it.
• Dugu Yan trusted Li Chang'an and persuaded Dugu Bo to let her use the bead.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the bead, and Li Chang'an guided her as its scorching power spread through her body.
• Li Chang'an used his blessed luck to guide the inner core's power toward a Teng Snake-inspired evolution while preserving the strengths of Dugu Yan's bloodline.
• Red silk rapidly covered Dugu Yan and formed a cocoon around her as her transformation began.

Li Chang'an began Xue Ke’s risky transformation using the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and a protective pill. After enduring its effects, Xue Ke fell into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where her transformation was set to begin.

• Li Chang'an left Dugu Bo to watch over the cocooned Dugu Yan and took Xue Ke to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Chang'an told Xue Ke that he had a dangerous way to help her keep pace with him and Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke agreed to risk it.
• Li Chang'an gave Xue Ke a special pill to protect her before she took the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and entered the spring.
• Xue Ke endured the herb’s painful effects, reached the spring on her own, and collapsed into it.

Li Chang'an used his remaining Blessed Luck to help Xue Ke survive a dangerous transformation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with her Life and Death Attributes beginning to harmonize, though her survival depended on the rare convergence of his protection, the treasured land, and luck.

• Li Chang'an spent his remaining Blessed Luck to protect the unconscious Xue Ke as she sank into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Snow-Colored Swan Kiss intensified the toxins in Xue Ke while also strengthening her Life Attribute, causing the two forces to clash inside her body.
• Li Chang'an's pill, made with his essence blood, protected Xue Ke from the escalating conflict between poison and life.
• Xue Ke's poison attribute evolved into the Death Attribute, and the protection from Li Chang'an's essence blood finally faded.
• The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well helped Xue Ke's Life and Death Attributes begin to harmonize, while Li Chang'an's Blessed Luck had enabled her to survive long enough for the change.

Li Chang'an watched Xue Ke awaken with Life and Death Attributes balanced within her, both elevated to ultimate attributes. After discovering that her first Soul Skill had grown stronger, Xue Ke sensed that her new Death Attribute might also change how she could use it.

• Li Chang'an saw that Xue Ke’s Life and Death Attributes had reached a yin-yang balance, while Dugu Yan remained cocooned and still needed more time to transform.
• Xue Ke awoke in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Heterochromatic Eyes, then swam ashore and dressed after Li Chang'an turned away.
• Li Chang'an asked Xue Ke to test her Soul Skills because he believed her transformation had brought more than a new attribute.
• Xue Ke activated her Emerald Swan Soul and used Life Guardian on Li Chang'an, whose protective barrier and life-nourishing energy had grown stronger.
• Xue Ke sensed that the Death Attribute within her might also be able to activate her First Soul Skill.

Xue Ke discovered that she could switch her soul skills from the Life Attribute to the Death Attribute, changing their effects. Li Chang'an tested the altered skills with her and helped identify their properties.

• Xue Ke used her Death Attribute to transform her First Soul Skill into a black Prison Cage that trapped Li Chang'an and drained his life force.
• Li Chang'an asked Xue Ke to cancel the skill, and the cage returned the absorbed life force and soul power to her.
• Xue Ke used her Death Attribute version of Healing Feather on Li Chang'an, and he found that it made a small wound worsen instead of healing.
• Li Chang'an concluded that the altered Second Soul Skill prevented wounds from healing and made them grow more severe over time.

Li Chang'an tested how Xue Ke's four healing soul skills changed when converted to Death Attribute, using a Mottled Leopard as a test subject. After Xue Ke restored her Life Attribute and regrew the leopard's paws, Li Chang'an sent it away alive.

• Li Chang'an asked Xue Ke to test her remaining soul skills, but she worried about harming him, so he flew into Sunset Forest to capture a Mottled Leopard.
• Xue Ke used her Death Attribute third soul skill on the leopard, weakening all its attributes instead of dispelling negative statuses.
• Li Chang'an cut off the leopard's left forepaw, and Xue Ke's Death Attribute fourth soul skill made both forepaws rot.
• Li Chang'an asked Xue Ke to switch back to Life Attribute, and she used her fourth soul skill to regrow the leopard's forepaws.
• Li Chang'an kicked the healed Mottled Leopard away without killing it.

Li Chang'an and Xue Ke renamed Xue Ke’s transformed Soul Skills while they waited for Dugu Yan to emerge from her cocoon. Dugu Yan awakened with a transformed Martial Soul, and they named it Teng Snake.

• Li Chang'an and Xue Ke settled new names for Xue Ke’s four Soul Skills after her change to the Death Attribute.
• After half a month, Dugu Yan’s cocoon cracked and burst, and she emerged as a huge white serpent with fiery-red wings.
• Dugu Yan transformed back into human form and told Li Chang'an she felt better than ever after absorbing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core.
• Dugu Bo identified Dugu Yan’s serpentine form as a state similar to Martial Soul Avatar, while Li Chang'an suggested the bead had enabled it before she reached Level 70.
• The group observed that Dugu Yan’s Jade Scale Serpent Martial Soul had evolved, and Li Chang'an proposed the name Teng Snake.

Dugu Yan's Martial Soul evolved into the Teng Snake, greatly strengthening her soul skills, and Li Chang'an planned to take Xue Ke to Sea God Island. He suspected Asura God was manipulating Tang San as part of a hidden scheme, then secured Xue Ye's permission by claiming the trip would be a journey across the continent.

• Dugu Yan named her evolved Martial Soul the Teng Snake, and its six soul skills gained stronger effects, including rapid limb regeneration from Molting Rebirth.
• Li Chang'an judged the Teng Snake to be a top-tier Martial Soul and considered the possibility that Dugu Yan and Xue Ke could eventually become gods.
• Li Chang'an suspected Asura God had arranged Tang San's arrival and cultivation for a concealed purpose, possibly using him as a pawn or fallback.
• Li Chang'an prepared supplies and money for a voyage to Sea God Island, then asked Xue Ye for permission to take Xue Ke traveling.
• Xue Ye agreed to let Li Chang'an take Xue Ke on the trip across the continent.

Li Chang'an explained Sea God Island and its Sea Soul Masters to Dugu Yan and Xue Ke as they traveled west, revealing that Xue Ke might need a God-given Soul Ring to preserve the balance of her life and death attributes. The three reached Vast Sea City, where they planned to secure their carriage before continuing by ship toward Sea God Island.

• Li Chang'an told Dugu Yan and Xue Ke that Sea God Island housed thousands of Sea Soul Masters and served as a place where the Sea God tested potential inheritors.
• Li Chang'an explained that a God-given Soul Ring could let Xue Ke add a soul ring without upsetting the balance between her life and death attributes.
• Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke traveled west by carriage and agreed to leave it with a carriage firm when they reached Vast Sea City.
• Li Chang'an and the two women arrived at Vast Sea City, passed the routine inspection, and entered the port city.

Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke rested in Vast Sea City, stocked up for their voyage, and set sail aboard the Wave-Breaking. Their journey began smoothly, with Captain Tom safely navigating them through occasional bad weather.

• Li Chang'an toured Vast Sea City with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke, drawing jealous stares as the women held his arms.
• The three stayed at a luxurious inn for a few days while they rested and bought supplies for the voyage.
• Li Chang'an rented the Wave-Breaking, captained by the experienced Tom, and boarded with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke.
• Captain Tom raised anchor and guided the Wave-Breaking out of the harbor toward its destination.
• Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke admired the sea together as the ship traveled safely through storms and other dangerous weather.

Li Chang'an brought Dugu Yan and Xue Ke to Sea God Island after freezing the sea to bypass the Demon Soul Great White Sharks guarding it. After they reached the island, Li Chang'an privately declared that it would belong to him.

• Captain Tom stopped the Wave-Breaking near Sea God Island and sent Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke onward in a small boat.
• Li Chang'an explained that hundreds of Demon Soul Great White Sharks guarded the island and attacked approaching ships.
• When the sharks surrounded their boat, Li Chang'an froze a wide stretch of seawater so the three could walk across the ice.
• Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke reached Sea God Island and found its climate warm and its landscape lush.
• Li Chang'an looked over Sea God Island and thought that it would all be his.

Li Chang'an arrived on Sea God Island with Dugu Yan and Xue Ke, claiming the Sea God had guided him there to take the test. He overwhelmed the island’s patrolmen and spread his power across the island, forcing Bo Saixi to notice his arrival.

• Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke admired Sea God Island’s scenery as they walked toward its interior.
• Six yellow-robed Sea Soul Masters confronted the newcomers, and Li Chang'an said he had come to accept the Sea God’s test and demanded to be taken to a Holy Pillar.
• The patrolmen rejected Li Chang'an’s claim and attacked, but he used his Martial Soul Avatar to blow all six to the ground.
• Li Chang'an rose into the air and unleashed his Soul Power, forming a vast storm over Sea God Island and drawing the attention of its inhabitants.

Bo Saixi welcomed Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke to Sea God Island after Li Chang'an said they had come to accept the Sea God's test. At the Seahorse Saint Pillar, Dugu Yan received the red-level Top Eight Trials, leaving Bo Saixi and Seahorse Douluo stunned.

• Bo Saixi sensed Li Chang'an's overwhelming strength and escorted him, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke to the Seahorse Saint Pillar.
• Bo Saixi told Seahorse Douluo that the three visitors had come to accept Lord Sea God's test.
• Dugu Yan volunteered to undergo the test first.
• Seahorse Douluo activated the Seahorse Saint Pillar, and its light changed from blue through white, yellow, purple, and black to red.
• Eight red Light Screens entered Dugu Yan's forehead, granting her the Top Eight Trials and astonishing Bo Saixi and Seahorse Douluo.

Dugu Yan and Xue Ke received Red-Level Eight Tests on Sea God Island, and Li Chang'an's trial triggered an unprecedented display of power. The chapter ended as golden light from all seven pillars descended upon him.

• Seahorse Douluo explained that anyone who received a Red-Level Trial could become Sea God Island's Great Enshrinement successor.
• Xue Ke underwent the test and received a Red-Level Eight Tests, matching Dugu Yan.
• Li Chang'an stepped forward as Bo Saixi silently feared he would receive the Sea God Nine Trials.
• The trial's light surged through every level, and blood-red patterns reached the top of the Seahorse Pillar.
• All seven pillars sent blood-red beams skyward, which converged before golden light descended and bathed Li Chang'an.

Li Chang'an received the Sea God Nine Trials, and the Sea God's Light conditioned his body and left a Trident Mark on his forehead. Bo Saixi recognized him as the Sea God's chosen successor and arranged for him, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke to stay in Seahorse City as honored guests.

• The Sea God's Light flooded Li Chang'an with trial information, conditioned his body, and left a golden Trident Mark on his forehead.
• Bo Saixi accepted that the Sea God had chosen Li Chang'an and learned that he intended to introduce Dugu Yan and Xue Ke as his fiancées.
• Bo Saixi ordered Seahorse Douluo Oya to treat the three as honored guests, meet their requests, and summon the other six enshrined guardians for a gathering.
• Bo Saixi left, and Oya formed a bridge from seawater to guide Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke toward Seahorse City.
• Oya explained the trial process and the island's restrictions as he led the three into Seahorse City.

Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke settled in Seahorse City and learned that their First Tests required them to traverse Sea God's Light. The next morning, they reached Sea God Island's forbidden area, where the test's staircase awaited them.

• Seahorse Douluo brought Li Chang'an, Dugu Yan, and Xue Ke to Seahorse City and lodged them in the City Lord's Mansion.
• Dugu Yan and Xue Ke learned their First Test was Traverse Sea God's Light, while Li Chang'an's version was twice as difficult.
• The three rested, explored Seahorse City, and enjoyed a seafood lunch before deciding to attempt the test the next day.
• A Purple Robe Sea Soul Master guided the three to the forbidden area and explained that Sea God's Light guarded the staircase to Sea God Hall.