Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Titan went to the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce in Vast Sea City to meet Lou Gao, but Ning Yun said Lou Gao was busy. A Sea God Island Titled Douluo tried to force Lou Gao out, and Ning Rongrong arrived to confront him.

• Tang San had Titan make a disturbance at the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce to draw out its steward and seek Lou Gao.
• Ning Yun met Tang San and Titan, warned Tang San about his presence in Vast Sea City, and said Lou Gao was crafting a Soul Tool and would not be available for a month.
• Sea Lance Douluo arrived and demanded that Lou Gao be brought out, damaging the chamber's floor with his spear.
• Ning Rongrong emerged from a Space-time Rift, repelled Sea Lance Douluo with a sword strike, and restored the damaged floor.
• Tang San recognized Ning Rongrong as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Young Sect Master and was astonished by her strength.

Ning Rongrong confronted Tang San over his plan to obtain Soul Tool manufacturing methods and warned him against using war against the Heaven Dou Empire. After she left, her spiritual attack’s cost became clear, and she prepared to help Purple Pearl and Wang Quanfugui break through their bottlenecks.

• Ning Rongrong told Tang San that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not interfere with his meeting with Lou Gao, but Soul Tools would be sold in one month and poaching Lou Gao would not be tolerated.
• Ning Rongrong warned Tang San that attacking the Heaven Dou Empire violated the unspoken rules among Spirit Masters, then left with Ning Yun and Ning Tian.
• Sea Lance Douluo coughed blood after Ning Rongrong’s spiritual attack and said Tang San would not see Lou Gao for a month unless the High Priest came in person.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Yun she had injured Sea Lance Douluo with a spiritual attack and planned to help Purple Pearl and Wang Quanfugui break through their bottlenecks.
• Ning Rongrong reassured Ning Yun that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s strength would deter Sea God Island, then prepared to open Purple Pearl’s and Wang Quanfugui’s meridians.

Tang San told Sea Lance Douluo what he knew about Ning Rongrong and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then discussed the secret plan against Vast Sea City. Sea Lance Douluo confirmed that a Beast Tide would take at least a month to assemble and that Sea God Island would proceed despite his misgivings.

• Sea Lance Douluo questioned Tang San about Ning Rongrong after her spiritual power left him badly weakened.
• Tang San recounted Ning Rongrong's history, his limited knowledge of her strength, and past clashes involving the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San blamed Spirit Hall for Dai Mubai's death and condemned Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing for their paths.
• Sea Lance Douluo and Tang San agreed to meet Lou Gao again in a month, while Tang San insisted on confirming Ning Rongrong's current combat strength.
• Sea Lance Douluo said the Sea Witch clan would join the operation against Vast Sea City and that gathering the Beast Tide would take at least a month.

Ning Rongrong painfully forced Wang Quanfugui's meridians open until he advanced to Quasi-Titled Douluo, then set out with him and Purple Pearl to find Soul Rings. The group sailed aboard the upgraded New Purple Pearl, which Ning Rongrong examined with interest.

• Ning Rongrong began opening Wang Quanfugui's meridians, repeatedly reversing time and replenishing his strength as he endured the pain.
• On her thirtieth attempt, Ning Rongrong raised Wang Quanfugui's Soul Power to level 89, and he meditated until he reached level 90.
• Wang Quanfugui completed his breakthrough, became a Quasi-Titled Douluo, and swore to repay Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong, Purple Pearl, Ning Yun, Dugu Yan, Lou Gao, and Wang Quanfugui boarded the upgraded New Purple Pearl to search for Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong admired the ship's functions and asked Lou Gao whether the New Purple Pearl was a Grade Seven Soul Tool.

Ning Rongrong learned about Purple Pearl’s Tier 7 capabilities and arranged to search the deep sea for suitable Ninth Soul Ring Soul Beasts for Purple Pearl and Wang Quanfugui. After they agreed on their targets, Purple Pearl entered Deep Sea Stealth mode and began its descent.

• Lou Gao explained that Purple Pearl had powerful defenses, surface and deep-sea travel modes, and several Tier 7 weapons.
• Purple Pearl revealed that it could dive to 11,034 meters, while Lou Gao described how its hull and interior handled the pressure.
• Ning Rongrong asked Purple Pearl and Wang Quanfugui which Soul Beasts they wanted for their Ninth Soul Rings.
• Purple Pearl chose a roughly Fifty Thousand Year Deep-Sea Viper, and Wang Quanfugui chose the Striped Swordfish.
• Ning Rongrong approved their choices and offered to seek another option with Wang Quanfugui if the Striped Swordfish proved unsuitable.
• Purple Pearl changed form and rapidly dived in Deep Sea Stealth mode.

Purple Pearl hunted a Deep-Sea Viper and absorbed its Soul Ring to gain her Seventh Soul Ring skill. As the Purple Pearl moved on to find a soul beast for Wang Quanfugui, Ning Rongrong sensed that someone was watching her and identified an unusual Shining Striped Swordfish.

• Purple Pearl found a roughly 50,000-to-60,000-year-old Deep-Sea Viper and attacked it with the Purple Pearl’s Soul Tools.
• Purple Pearl defeated the Deep-Sea Viper, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained the Sea Viper True Body skill.
• Ning Rongrong felt as though someone was watching her, but she detected no powerful soul beasts nearby and urged the group to leave.
• Purple Pearl brought the ship toward the swordfish territory to find a soul beast for Wang Quanfugui.
• Purple Pearl spotted a lone, mutated Striped Swordfish, and Ning Rongrong identified it as a Shining Striped Swordfish.

Ning Rongrong and the others tried to capture a mutated Striped Swordfish for Wang Quanfugui's Ninth Soul Ring, but its powers overwhelmed the Purple Pearl. Ning Rongrong realized that someone was spying on them through nearby sea creatures and decided to face the fish quickly before leaving.

• Ning Rongrong explained that the Striped Swordfish's mutations gave it immense speed, strength, and possible lightning and water abilities, and Wang Quanfugui chose to gamble on it as his Soul Ring.
• Purple Pearl fired the Purple Pearl's main cannon, but the Striped Swordfish used an electric force field to deflect the beam.
• Purple Pearl launched two more attacks and fled toward the surface, but the Striped Swordfish dodged or deflected them and rapidly pursued the ship.
• Ning Rongrong sensed a gaze watching her and realized that someone might be using nearby sea creatures to observe them.
• Ning Rongrong told Purple Pearl to stop the ship because she would deal with the Striped Swordfish herself.

Ning Rongrong sensed a powerful Soul Beast monitoring the ship, captured an eighty-thousand-year Striped Swordfish, and helped Wang Quanfugui reach level 91. After the Purple Pearl surfaced and headed for Vast Sea City, a massive whale Soul Beast approached, and Ning Rongrong spotted the Demon Empress hovering above the sea.

• Ning Rongrong knocked out the mutated Striped Swordfish, brought it aboard, and warned the crew that a terrifying Soul Beast was watching them.
• Wang Quanfugui absorbed the Striped Swordfish's Soul Ring and advanced from level 90 to level 91 as Purple Pearl steered the ship toward the surface.
• Ning Rongrong told the crew she had sensed faint Soul Power from a likely Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast monitoring them through small fish and shrimp.
• The Purple Pearl surfaced and continued toward Vast Sea City while Ning Rongrong avoided teleporting the ship because she could not safely pinpoint the destination.
• Purple Pearl spotted a whale-type Soul Beast at least one hundred and fifty meters long, and Ning Rongrong realized it was nearby but not the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Ning Rongrong saw the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's wife, the Demon Empress, hovering above the sea.

Ning Rongrong protected the Purple Pearl from Demon Empress after Demon Empress overwhelmed Wang Quanfugui’s strongest attack. She stayed behind to confront Demon Empress and suspected that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King might already have been killed by Tang Chen and Bo Saixi.

• Demon Empress appeared at sea and challenged the Purple Pearl’s crew, prompting Wang Quanfugui to attack her with his strongest Soul Skill.
• Demon Empress’s Water Cannon shattered Wang Quanfugui’s attack, but Ning Rongrong intercepted it with her divine sword and sent it into a spatial rift.
• Ning Rongrong told Wang Quanfugui to evacuate the Purple Pearl, then blocked Demon Empress from pursuing the ship until it escaped.
• Demon Empress identified Ning Rongrong’s sword as a divine weapon and accused humanity of threatening soul beasts with its sea-exploration vessel.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Demon Empress about hunting soul beasts and suspected that Tang Chen and Bo Saixi had killed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Ning Rongrong assessed Demon Empress as a roughly 590,000-year-old Limit Douluo-level opponent and lamented facing another overwhelming enemy.

Ning Rongrong fought the Demon Empress while buying time for the Purple Pearl to escape toward Vast Sea City. Ning Rongrong got away, and the Demon Empress decided to investigate the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Demon Empress attacked Ning Rongrong with Demon Emperor's Wrath, but Ning Rongrong used Space Jump and Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin to strike back.
• The Demon Empress unleashed Abyssal Sea Roar, and Ning Rongrong used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to defend herself while the Purple Pearl sailed out of range.
• Ning Rongrong deduced that the Demon Empress was concerned about Sea God Island and that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was badly injured, then revealed that she knew Di Tian.
• Ning Rongrong escaped by turning into specks of light, and the Demon Empress chose to let her go.
• The Demon Empress recalled that she and her husband had driven back Bo Saixi and Tang Chen, then set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ning Rongrong returned safely to the Purple Pearl and warned the crew that a massive Sea Soul Beast Tide might be forming. She ordered preparations for evacuation in Vast Sea City while suspecting the gathering was tied to larger schemes involving Tang San.

• Dugu Yan embraced Ning Rongrong in relief, and Ning Rongrong learned that Dugu Yan had reached level seventy-eight.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Yun to prepare the people in Vast Sea City for evacuation after the auction, warning that the sea’s situation was unusually dangerous.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that the Sea Witch Clan had gathered Sea Soul Beasts loyal to Sea God Island and hostile groups such as the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale Group, possibly to launch a Beast Tide.
• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan considered whether the gathering targeted the injured Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while Ning Rongrong worried that the conflict might instead be part of a scheme involving Tang San.
• Ning Rongrong resolved to make arrangements and see what Xue Ke intended, while the Purple Pearl sailed back toward Vast Sea City under autopilot.

The Demon Empress argued that she must seek the Silver Dragon King's help to recover from the Asura Divine Sword injury, while the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King hesitated over trusting the Star Dou Great Forest. In the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ke prepared to respond to the Sea Soul Beast attacks on Vast Sea City and sought help from Spirit Hall.

• The Demon Empress told the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that she had fought a human to a draw and planned to visit the human world for the Silver Dragon King's help.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King opposed her journey, but the Demon Empress warned that Sea God Island's growing power threatened their family and urged him to trust the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xue Ke asked She Long and Ci Xue how to answer the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's letter about the Sea Soul Beast attacks on Vast Sea City.
• Xue Ke asked She Long to contact the Second Worship so the Heaven Dou Empire could send aid without leaving her unprotected.

As Ning Rongrong considered how to strengthen herself and recruit Lou Gao, Ning Yun brought her two Soul Bones over 70,000 years old that had been offered for auction. She identified their abilities and decided the Deep Sea Mirage Demon Skull could benefit Lou Gao, while Ning Yun wondered whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could use it.

• Ning Rongrong decided to pursue the Extreme of Heart to advance toward the second level of perfection.
• Ning Yun visited Ning Rongrong late at night to ask her to appraise two Soul Bones offered for auction.
• Ning Rongrong identified a 72,000-year Deep Sea Monster Right Arm Bone that could bind an enemy with tentacles and absorb their Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong identified a 79,000-year Deep Sea Mirage Demon Skull that enhanced spiritual control and temporarily reduced Soul Power and spiritual power consumption.
• Ning Rongrong decided the skull would suit Lou Gao's meticulous Soul Tool work, while Ning Yun asked whether it could help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Ning Yun refused Ning Rongrong’s offer of a Soul Bone and discussed her succession plans and his wish to explore beyond the continent. Their conversation turned to a possible Sea God Island threat, and Ning Yun revealed that a teenage girl who brought the Soul Bones had an aura at least as powerful as a Titled Douluo’s.

• Ning Yun declined Ning Rongrong’s Soul Bone, arguing that it might suit Lou Gao better and that she should consider the sect’s interests.
• Ning Rongrong suggested Ning Yun could become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Sect Master, but he said he wanted to explore the distant sea with Purple Pearl.
• Ning Rongrong warned Ning Yun against entering the Outer Sea without great strength or a Tier 9 Soul Guidance Device, then shared her concern about suspicious Soul Bones and gathering Soul Beasts.
• Ning Yun said the Soul Bones had been brought by a mother and daughter, and that Wang Quanfugui sensed an exceptionally powerful aura from the fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl.
• Ning Rongrong froze in shock at the report that the girl’s aura was no weaker than a Titled Douluo’s.

Ning Rongrong learned that the mysterious mother and daughter visiting the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce were the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi, powerful Soul Beasts. She and Ning Yun planned to meet them the next day to discuss the Soul Bone, despite the danger.

• Ning Yun told Ning Rongrong that the blue-haired girl, Lan Fozi, seemed to have level 95 Soul Power and that her mother’s strength could not be sensed.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Lan Fozi’s name and realized the pair were likely the Demon Empress and her daughter.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Yun that the Demon Empress was the wife of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and that Lan Fozi was their daughter.
• Ning Yun panicked after learning he had calmly discussed the Soul Bone with the two powerful Soul Beasts.
• Ning Rongrong decided to meet the Demon Empress the next day to discuss the Soul Bone’s valuation, and Ning Yun worried they might fight again.

The Demon Empress and Lan Fozi visited the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce to sell two Soul Bones and request intelligence. After agreeing on a private purchase and information arrangements, they left, and Ning Rongrong told Ning Yun that two more Limit Douluo had arrived in Vast Sea City.

• Ning Rongrong sensed the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi approaching, then told Ning Yun to treat them as ordinary guests.
• Ning Rongrong met the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi, who brought two Soul Bones for the auction.
• Ning Rongrong offered to buy the 79,000-year Deep Sea Mirage Demon Soul Bone at a premium, and the Demon Empress accepted.
• The Demon Empress requested information about human powers and Soul Beast forces, and Ning Rongrong agreed to provide it that afternoon.
• After the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi left, Ning Yun asked about their intentions, and Ning Rongrong revealed that two more Limit Douluo had arrived in Vast Sea City.

Ning Rongrong sensed that both Bo Saixi and Golden Crocodile Douluo had arrived in Vast Sea City, while Golden Crocodile weighed whether to ask the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for help. He spotted the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi in the street, recognized Lan Fozi as a powerful Soul Beast, and chose not to interfere.

• Ning Rongrong detected Bo Saixi and Golden Crocodile Douluo in Vast Sea City and suspected trouble was coming.
• Golden Crocodile reviewed reports of Bo Saixi's arrival and decided to meet Ning Rongrong after the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce auction in three days.
• Golden Crocodile watched the Demon Empress and Lan Fozi from his window and sensed that Lan Fozi possessed at least rank-95 power.
• Golden Crocodile concluded that Lan Fozi was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and decided not to get involved.
• The Demon Empress noticed Golden Crocodile watching and decided to ignore him unless he interfered, reasoning that Spirit Hall and Sea God Island could fight each other.

Ning Rongrong worried that the powerful guests at the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce auction could threaten its security as the bidding began. In Supreme VIP Room Number Four, Tang San received 30 million Gold Soul Coins from Bo Saixi and prepared to bid on the finale items, starting with a Sixth-Order Melee Soul Guidance Device.

• Ning Rongrong learned that Golden Crocodile Douluo, the Demon Empress and her daughter, and Bo Saixi's group occupied the other Supreme VIP Rooms, and she feared she could not control the auction alone.
• Ning Yun welcomed the attendees, and the auction began with Healing Pills and other items that attracted eager bids.
• Bo Saixi gave Tang San an unregistered Gold Soul Card containing 30 million Gold Soul Coins and urged him to remember Sea God Island's kindness.
• Tang San told Bo Saixi he wanted the Sixth-Order Melee Soul Guidance Device and the 70,000-Year Soul Bone, and said his funds should be enough for both.
• After the auction sold the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons, the master of ceremonies brought the covered Soul Guidance Device onto the stage as the first of the final two items.

The auctioneer presented the sixth-tier Black Tassel Spear, a Soul Tool that might reveal Lou Gao’s manufacturing methods, and fierce bidding drove its price far beyond the opening offer. The Demon Empress won it with a bid of twenty-five million plus two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, leaving Tang San furious at Supreme VIP Room Number 3.

• The auctioneer revealed the Black Tassel Spear and warned bidders not to probe its core with spiritual power as they tried to learn its manufacturing methods.
• Qian Duoduo and other bidders pushed the spear’s price to fifteen million before the second-floor VIP Rooms fell silent.
• The Demon Empress bid sixteen million, then watched Supreme VIP Room Number 4 and Spirit Hall raise the price.
• The Demon Empress offered twenty-five million and two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and no one bid against her.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo gave up bidding, the auctioneer finalized the sale, and Tang San vowed that Supreme VIP Room Number 3 had courted death.

Ning Rongrong learned that Tang San, accompanied by Bo Saixi and others, wanted to meet Lou Gao, then challenged Bo Saixi’s pressure on the Nine Treasure Chamber of Commerce to leave Vast Sea City. She refused to withdraw, and Tang San’s talks with her and Lou Gao began.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo won the seventy-two-thousand-year Deep Sea Monster Right Arm Bone for twenty-four million Gold Soul Coins after Tang San stopped bidding.
• Ning Yun warned Ning Rongrong that Tang San, Titan, a Titled Douluo, and Bo Saixi wanted to meet Lou Gao, and urged her to leave if danger arose.
• Ning Rongrong decided to meet the visitors, confident that she had powerful allies and other ways to protect herself.
• Ning Rongrong brought Lou Gao and others to meet Tang San’s group and warned Bo Saixi that an attack would leave no one alive but the two of them.
• Bo Saixi asked Ning Rongrong to persuade the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to withdraw from Vast Sea City and warned that their actions could anger the Sea God, but Ning Rongrong refused.
• Tang San began talks with Ning Rongrong, and the discussion also involved Lou Gao.