Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing and Tang San tried to study the ocean’s rhythms as a way to strengthen their bodies, but struggled to stay balanced in the waves. A pod of orcas hunted the nearby sea dogs, and one rewarded Zhou Qing with a large shell.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San jumped into the sea to sense its vibrations, but both lost their balance and had to be pulled back onto the reef.
• Tang San and Zhou Qing agreed to practice gradually from the beach before attempting to train in open water again.
• Ariel explained that the approaching creatures were orcas, not sharks, and that they usually did not attack humans.
• The orcas hunted sea dogs in the water, while Zhou Qing fed one orca part of a carcass.
• An orca repeatedly tossed a fan-shaped shell toward Zhou Qing, who caught it before the orca returned to the hunt.

Zhou Qing received a rare Silverlight Clam from an Evil Orca, and Ariel explained that the shellfish Soul Beast contained its essence in the pearl it nurtured. Ariel recognized it as a miracle born of the Great Sea, leaving her to wonder why one had appeared for Zhou Qing.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu watched the Evil Orcas hunt Sea Dogs, while Ariel explained that orcas could be intelligent and repay kindness by bringing food.
• Zhou Qing learned that the orcas were Evil Orcas, and Tang San argued that their bloody hunting methods did not make them inherently evil.
• Zhou Qing opened the black shell and found a glowing pearl inside; Ariel identified the creature as a Silverlight Clam, a nearly extinct Soul Beast that produced no Soul Ring when it died.
• Ariel explained that Silverlight Clams were rare individuals nurtured by the Great Sea, not an actual species, and recalled that Poseidon had been the last person known to obtain one.

Ariel explained the Star of the Ocean’s extraordinary ability to grant a Soul Ring whose age depended on the absorber’s endurance, and Zhou Qing stored it for later. She then revealed that Evil Spirit Orcas helped maintain the Great Sea’s ecological balance by controlling overpopulated Sea Dogs, while hinting that humans had disrupted the waters.

• Ariel told Zhou Qing that the Star of the Ocean could increase Spiritual Power or grant an evolving Soul Ring, and advised him to wait until he was stronger before absorbing it.
• Zhou Qing compared the Star of the Ocean to a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and wondered whether Poseidon had modeled those rewards on it.
• Ariel warned Zhou Qing not to treat the Great Sea cruelly, then asked him and the others what they thought of the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Zhou Qing described the Evil Spirit Orcas as predators that maintained ecological balance, and Ariel confirmed that they hunted Sea Dogs whose numbers had grown after human Soul Masters removed their natural predators.
• Ariel explained that Evil Spirit Orcas below the ten-thousand-year level fed on Sea Dogs and helped other marine life thrive, then began to add a qualification.

Ariel explained the Sea God’s ancient persecution of the Whale Species and the near-extinction of the Evil Spirit Orcas and Deep Sea Demonic Whales, prompting Zhou Qing to consider them possible allies against gods. That night, the group waited by the reefs for Rubik’s Cube Octopuses to emerge, and Tang San spotted one crawling into the moonlight.

• Ariel recounted how the Sea God’s followers waged a Genocide War against the Whale Species, leaving the Evil Spirit Orcas and Deep Sea Demonic Whales close to extinction.
• Zhou Qing considered whether the whale species might become his allies if he opposed gods, while Ariel’s crew dismissed her story as exaggerated.
• Ariel hosted Zhou Qing’s group aboard the Mermaid and explained that Rubik’s Cube Octopuses emerged onto the reefs to bathe in the moonlight.
• Ariel ordered the crew to prepare fishing nets and allowed them to catch up to seven or eight Rubik’s Cube Octopuses.
• Tang San spotted a faintly glowing Rubik’s Cube Octopus crawling to the top of a distant reef.

Zhou Qing and the others learned how Rubik's Cube Octopuses cultivate and build Mental Worlds, while Ariel revealed that the Sea God's followers had nearly wiped out the clan. The chapter left the surviving octopuses rare and their growth tightly controlled.

• Ariel explained that Rubik's Cube Octopuses measured their age by the Golden Thread Coral around their brains and cultivated by absorbing moonlight and sunlight.
• Zhou Qing guessed that their cubic brains and ring-shaped coral imitated the idea of Round Sky Square Earth, and Ariel confirmed that they used Spiritual Power to construct Brain Worlds.
• Ariel said that Hundred-Thousand-Year Rubik's Cube Octopuses could create Mental Worlds, whose remnants became Mental Beads that could later merge with another member of the clan.
• Ariel explained that intelligent soft-bodied Sea Soul Beasts had resisted submitting to the Sea God, and the Rubik's Cube Octopus Clan had angered him by demanding benefits.
• The Sea God's fanatical followers besieged the clan's Hundred-Thousand-Year members, leaving few older octopuses alive and preventing new ones from reaching ten thousand years for twenty thousand years.

Zhou Qing helped Romantina obtain a Rubik's Cube Octopus as her Second Spirit Ring, hoping its Soul Skill would enhance her Brain Martial Soul's ability to process information. Romantina completed the absorption and Secondary Refinement, but the chapter ended before she revealed the skill's unusual manifestation.

• Ariel explained that Rubik's Cube Octopuses were weakened on land and advised Zhou Qing to search for one among the reefs.
• Tang San identified a roughly nine-hundred-year-old Rubik's Cube Octopus, and Romantina chose it for her Second Spirit Ring.
• Zhou Qing leapt onto a Blue Silver Tree and captured the octopus, which wrapped its tentacles around his arms.
• Romantina killed the octopus with a dagger, and it sprayed black ink over her and Xiao Wu.
• Romantina absorbed and refined the Spirit Ring in an hour, and its markings formed eight tentacles around a cube-shaped brain.
• Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu wondered about Romantina's new Soul Skill, whose powers matched Zhou Qing's hopes but manifested in an unusual way.

Romantina learned that her one-use Second Soul Skill created eight permanent consciousnesses, then used it to split off eight versions of herself. She discovered she could control them and began organizing the lively new additions to her Sea of Spirit.

• Romantina explained that her Second Soul Skill could be used only once and would create eight lasting consciousnesses, leaving her unsure whether to use it.
• Zhou Qing advised Romantina to use the skill, reasoning that the consciousnesses could help her control her Brain Martial Soul.
• Romantina activated the skill, and eight consciousnesses identical to her appeared in her Sea of Spirit.
• The eight consciousnesses fought over who was the real Romantina until Romantina stopped them and gave them codenames from Na Yi to Na Ba.
• Romantina ordered the eight consciousnesses to identify their individual strengths.

Romantina’s Second Soul Skill split her into eight consciousnesses, each with a different ability, and Na Ba’s power briefly opened a path to twenty-four Mental Beads. Afterward, Na Qi took control of Romantina’s body and explained the skill to Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.

• Na Yi, Na Er, Na San, Na Si, Na Wu, Na Liu, and Na Qi described their abilities, while Na Er’s recording prompted Romantina to forbid replaying an embarrassing memory.
• Na Ba linked all eight consciousnesses with Romantina’s main consciousness, creating a rune that opened a spiritual space before the passage closed due to Romantina’s weak Spiritual Power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress explained that Romantina might claim twenty-four Mental Beads and their Mental Worlds once she reached the Titled Douluo realm.
• Romantina woke and told Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu that Na Qi was controlling her body, then Na Qi joked with Zhou Qing while eating ink-dipped rations.

Zhou Qing discovered that Romantina’s eight sub-consciousnesses could handle specialized tasks while her main consciousness rested, and assigned her night watch duty aboard the Mermaid. After returning to the ship, the group washed off Rubik's Cube Octopus ink and treated their injuries as Ariel prepared to reach Vast Sea City before dawn.

• Zhou Qing learned the roles of Romantina’s eight sub-consciousnesses and realized they could keep working while her main consciousness rested.
• Romantina bragged that she could stay awake for three days and three nights, so Zhou Qing assigned her night watch aboard the large ship.
• Ariel explained that Rubik's Cube Octopus ink would fade in a few days, and the group washed the sticky ink off in the ship's shower room.
• Ariel gave Zhou Qing ointment for the octopus wounds, and Zhou Qing's numbness and itching quickly disappeared.
• Ariel told Zhou Qing that the Mermaid would return to the port around four or five in the morning.

Romantina and the others were attacked at sea by mermaids whose song put the crew to sleep. As Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina resisted the song, Ariel revealed her powerful Trident Martial Soul.

• Romantina paced outside the rooms and reflected on the Brain Martial Soul and her hopes of becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Sea Soul Beasts churned beneath the Mermaid, and Ariel struggled to steer the ship as its rudder broke.
• A crew member spotted mermaids around the hull, and their song made the crew and passengers drowsy.
• Zhou Qing used the Innate Internal Scripture Chart to resist the song, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina used their abilities to withstand or study it.
• Ariel examined the group's unusual Spirit Rings, then revealed her black-and-gold Trident Martial Soul.

Ariel revealed that she was a mermaid and the Daughter of the Sea, a life born from the Great Sea itself. As the mermaids’ bubble carried the ship toward their territory, she explained her origins, leaving Zhou Qing and the others to hope they could resolve the situation by speaking with her father.

• Ariel used her Sea Halberd to shield the group from the mermaids’ song and explained that the Mermaid Clan was pursuing her.
• Ariel revealed that she was a mermaid, transforming her legs into a tail with seawater, and joked about mermaids taking human men to reproduce.
• More than a hundred mermaids surrounded the ship with the combined Soul Skill Sound of the Ocean and began carrying it beneath the sea.
• Ariel told Zhou Qing that she trusted him because he had received the Star of the Ocean, then revealed that she was the Daughter of the Sea, born from the Great Sea’s primordial energy.
• Ariel explained that Neptune had adopted her as the Mermaid Clan’s princess, and Xiao Wu and Romantina guessed that the clan wanted her to return home.

Ariel told Zhou Qing and Tang San how Poseidon killed her father Neptune to seize the Mermaid Clan’s submission and become a god. After Poseidon took Ariel’s Sea Bloodline and gave it to Nicole, Ariel survived as the Daughter of the Sea, still protected by the Great Sea.

• Ariel explained that Poseidon challenged Neptune after conquering the other Sea Soul Beast clans, using the lives of mermaids to force Neptune to fight.
• Neptune lost to Poseidon, who killed him and destroyed his Soul Bone to erase his legacy and remove the Sea Soul Beasts’ original object of faith.
• After Neptune’s death, Nicole submitted to Poseidon out of jealousy toward Ariel, and the Mermaid Clan followed her lead.
• Poseidon discovered Ariel’s identity as a Spirit born from the Great Sea, stripped away her Sea Bloodline, and gave it to Nicole, who became the Sea Princess and ordered Ariel’s death.
• Ariel hid for twenty thousand years, later awakened the Sea Halberd, and realized that the Great Sea still recognized her as its Daughter and would reject Poseidon if he killed her.

Ariel explained how Poseidon stripped away her Sea Bloodline and gave it to Nicole, while Zhou Qing concluded that her bloodline was only faintly recovering. The Mermaid was carried toward the Sea King's Palace through the Undercurrent Channel, leaving the group to await their arrival and see whether Ariel could help them return to shore.

• Ariel told Zhou Qing that Poseidon had taken her Sea Bloodline and bestowed it on Nicole, and that hers would take a million years to fully recover.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that Poseidon had likely removed Ariel's Bloodline Power rather than her underlying bloodline information, and Ariel trusted his conclusion.
• After Tang San confirmed the sailors were unharmed, Ariel said the mermaids were taking the Mermaid to the Sea King's Palace, where Nicole was now in charge.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu discussed the danger of leaving the deep-sea bubble and their uncertain return to Nuoding Academy.
• Ariel explained that she could create connected bubbles to guide them through the Undercurrent Channel if things went smoothly.
• More than one hundred mermaids pulled the Mermaid into the Undercurrent Channel, sending the ship rapidly toward the Sea King's Palace.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Ariel were taken to a merfolk prison after their ship reached the deep-sea settlement. The Sea Princess revealed that she had captured human ships while searching for a human Soul Master with a Rubik's Cube Octopus Martial Soul who could lead her to the stored Mental Beads.

• The Mermaid left the undercurrent channel and reached a glowing merfolk settlement beneath the sea.
• Mermaids wrapped the ship's passengers in bubbles and imprisoned them in a cavern, while Zhou Qing and the others studied how the bubbles let them breathe and move freely.
• Ariel suspected the merfolk had captured them for a reason other than her connection to the Sea Princess.
• The Sea Princess explained that she had sensed someone opening the Rubik's Cube Octopus clan's Mental Bead storage space near the Reef Sea Area.
• The Sea Princess said she had captured nearby human ships to find the Soul King with a Rubik's Cube Octopus Martial Soul and intended to befriend him.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Ariel, Xiao Wu, and Romantina were captured by merfolk and learned that Heidel, a pirate who targeted nobles and wealthy merchants, was among the prisoners. After debating the pirates’ impact on common people, they were summoned to meet the Sea Princess, while Ariel explained how merfolk chose between Soul Master and Soul Beast cultivation.

• Zhou Qing recognized the prison bars as Deep Sea Silver, and he and Ariel realized the captured ship was the Sea Demon from Vast Sea City, captained by Heidel.
• Ariel identified Heidel as a member of the Purple Pearl Pirate Group who robbed nobles and wealthy merchants, and Zhou Qing argued that the pirates’ actions would worsen life for common people and fuel conflict.
• Tang San reflected on cycles of oppression and rebellion, then understood that Zhou Qing intended to challenge the existing order.
• A mermaid freed Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina and ordered them to follow her to meet the Sea Princess.
• Ariel explained that most merfolk followed the Soul Beast cultivation path because hunting Sea Soul Beasts as Soul Masters would provoke attacks from others.
• The mermaid leading them wondered whether Ariel had failed Sea God's trial and settled on the continent's coast, but Ariel did not answer.

Zhou Qing and his companions were brought to the Mermaid Clan’s Crystal Palace, where Ariel was revealed as the Sea Princess’s long-lost younger sister and the Daughter of the Sea. After Zhou Qing showed the Star of the Ocean, the Sea Princess abandoned her hostility and gave four humans Water Repelling Beads.

• Mermaids brought Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and other captives to their Crystal Palace and presented them before the Sea Princess and her two daughters.
• The Sea Princess recognized Ariel as her younger sister, and Ariel transformed into a mermaid before the gathered crowd.
• Ariel condemned the Sea Princess for submitting to Poseidon after he killed their father, and the Sea Princess’s Golden Bloodline pressured those in the hall.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Zhou Qing resisted the pressure through their bloodlines and powers, while Zhou Qing’s Mind-Sense Qi Field incapacitated many Soul Masters and mermaids.
• Ariel identified Zhou Qing as the holder of the Star of the Ocean, and the Sea Princess realized that harming him could bring the sea’s rejection upon her clan.
• The Sea Princess gave Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina Water Repelling Beads that let them breathe underwater.

Zhou Qing and his companions received Water Repelling Beads from the Sea Princess, while Ariel accused her of stealing her Golden Bloodline and serving the Sea God. The Sea Princess then revealed that she had summoned them because the Rubik's Cube Octopus Clan's spiritual space had been disturbed, and Zhou Qing denied they had an octopus Martial Soul—prompting Heidel to realize his mutated octopus Martial Soul might matter.

• Zhou Qing distributed the Sea Princess's Water Repelling Beads to Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina, and they thanked her.
• Ariel accused the Sea Princess of betraying their father and receiving Ariel's stolen Golden Bloodline from the Sea God.
• The Sea Princess's daughters and the younger mermaids were shaken when the older mermaids' silence supported Ariel's claims.
• Zhou Qing interrupted Ariel and the Sea Princess's argument and asked why she had invited them to the Crystal Palace.
• The Sea Princess said she sensed a disturbance in the Rubik's Cube Octopus Clan's spiritual space, and Zhou Qing denied that anyone in his group had an octopus Martial Soul.
• Heidel realized that his mutated octopus Martial Soul might be relevant.

The Sea Princess hosted Zhou Qing and his companions while Heidel feared they would be punished for what they had overheard. Ariel used her Sea Bloodline to spirit the group back to their prison cell, leaving them to consider the nature of her bubble-travel ability.

• The Sea Princess offered to show Zhou Qing and the others around the underwater world, and Ariel went with them.
• The Sea Princess questioned Heidel, confirmed that his Martial Soul was not a Rubik's Cube Octopus, and ordered him and his companions guarded as potential breeding stock.
• Ariel scattered into bubbles, swept Zhou Qing and the others along, and vanished before the mermaids could stop her.
• Ariel brought the group back to their unguarded prison cell while the mermaids searched for them.
• Ariel explained that her Sea Bloodline let her transform into bubbles and travel through seawater, prompting Zhou Qing and Tang San to ponder the ability's underlying principle.

Ariel explained why the Mermaid Clan had moved to the Extreme North and admitted she had never been to the undersea region before. The group planned to find a mermaid who could guide them to an undercurrent channel leading toward Vast Sea City.

• Ariel tested Zhou Qing’s Gray Pouch and confirmed it could hold living creatures, then had him store her crew inside it.
• Tang San asked how the group could leave the prison without attracting the other mermaids, and Ariel explained they would need a different undercurrent channel to return to Vast Sea City.
• Ariel revealed the Mermaid Clan had once lived near Sea God Island, but migrated north so the ice sea could help Nicole endure Ariel’s Bloodline Power.
• Ariel said the Mermaid Clan had also been displaced because the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan received its warm waters and territory after submitting to Sea God.
• Ariel admitted she did not know which undercurrent channel led toward Vast Sea City, so the group decided to find a mermaid and ask.

Ariel and Zhou Qing escaped the prison with the rescued Mermaid and Sea Demon crews, while the Sea Princess ordered the mermaids to search for Ariel and persuade her rather than attack. Liya found Ariel’s hiding place, and Ariel considered the younger princess innocent despite the stolen bloodline’s influence.

• The Sea Princess reassured her daughters that the Sea God had rightly given her Ariel’s bloodline, then ordered them to search for Ariel.
• Liya questioned whether she and her sister truly belonged to the Sea God, but her elder sister rebuked her and told her to follow their mother’s orders.
• Zhou Qing rescued the unconscious Sea Demon crew as well as the Mermaid crew, and Tang San collected the Deep Sea Silver prison bars.
• Ariel hid Zhou Qing and the others inside an invisible bubble space, but Liya sensed the disturbance and teleported back to find them.
• Ariel recognized that Liya’s bloodline came from her own and reflected that Liya could still turn away from the Sea God’s influence.