Chapter Summaries

Xu Yu arrived at Sea God Island and began climbing the Sea God Mountain steps under Sea God's Light, aiming to reach the Sea God Palace and advance his strength. As he climbed past the limits expected of most challengers, he started binding a Coiled Dragon Staff to one of his clones.

• Xu Yu considered collecting nine top-tier weapons for his clones, including the Sea God Trident, and wondered which other weapons he could obtain.
• Xu Yu used Spatial Shift to cross the Ring Sea and began climbing Sea God Mountain, while Shui Rou and Xue Wu watched him.
• Xu Yu climbed to the 100th step and sat down to adapt to the pressure, determined to reach the Sea God Palace.
• The purple-clad mermaid saw Xu Yu pass the 200th step and swam away in shock as Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er tried the stairs.
• Shui Yue'er was thrown into the sea from the 40th step, while Shui Bing'er reached the 50th before retreating.
• Xu Yu reached the 360th step, released a clone, and began fusing a Coiled Dragon Staff with it.

Xu Yu reached the eight-hundredth step on Sea God Island while events elsewhere shifted after Tang San’s forces rescued Xiao Wu from Spirit Hall. The chapter ended with Shui Rou falling into Xu Yu’s chest after he walked past her without acknowledging her.

• Xu Yu gave Shui Bing'er a bottle of life essence, and she shared what remained with Shui Yue'er.
• Bibi Dong learned that Xiao Wu had been taken from Spirit Hall and ordered Guan Yue and Ye Mei to pursue the culprits.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s Sixth Elder left Tang San with the rescued Xiao Wu, while Tang San and his allies discussed uniting against Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue returned to welcome the allied forces and saw Tang San holding Xiao Wu as they discussed their plans.
• Xu Yu reached the eight-hundredth step, then walked down past Shui Rou without speaking to her.
• Shui Rou lost her footing under the pressure of the seventy-first step and fell into Xu Yu’s chest.

Xu Yu reconciled with Shui Rou on the Sea God's Light stairs, then gave Life Spirit Liquid to Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er and arranged to meet Xue Wu at midnight. He left Sea God Island and flew toward the Sea Witch Sacred Pillar, where one of the island's guardians came to welcome him.

• Shui Rou and Xu Yu resolved their misunderstanding and kissed, but she pushed him away after he suggested they become intimate.
• Xu Yu approached Xue Wu, asked why she had not called for help the previous night, gave her Life Spirit Liquid, and invited her to his room at midnight.
• Shui Bing'er absorbed the Life Spirit Liquid and broke through another level of Soul Power, nearing Level Seventy.
• Shui Yue'er deliberately threw herself against Xu Yu, claimed she was injured, and received some Life Spirit Liquid.
• Xu Yu flew toward the Sea Witch Sacred Pillar, and one of the island's guardians came forward to welcome him.

After exploiting a loophole in the Sea God's trial rewards, Xu Yu distributed spiritual liquid to the women of Heavenly Water and climbed Sea God Mountain. His extraordinary Spirit Rings shocked the women and drew Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi from the Sea God Palace.

• The Sea Witch told Xu Yu that crossing beyond the final stair without stepping on it could double the reward, and Xu Yu left after receiving the information.
• Shui Bing'er obtained spiritual liquid from Xu Yu, then questioned Xue Wu about her own supply and guessed that the dean had helped her.
• Xu Yu chose Shui Yue'er to support his hearing ability and gave her spiritual liquid, since she could not yet become Tang Yuehua's subordinate Soul Master.
• Xu Yu climbed past the eight-hundredth stair and released his Brilliant Gold Scepter and Spirit Rings, including a ten-thousand-year first ring and several 100,000-year rings.
• Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue'er wondered whether Xu Yu's Spirit Rings could advance, while Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi came out of the Sea God Palace, shocked by what she saw.

Xu Yu pushed through the pressure of Sea God's Light, broke through to level eighty-eight, and tried to leap from the nine hundred and ninety-eighth step to the thousandth. Unable to move his other foot, he drew Bo Saixi into a conversation about Tang Chen, leaving his climb unfinished.

• Xu Yu used several spirit abilities to withstand Sea God's Light and reached the nine hundredth step, where the pressure helped him break through to level eighty-eight.
• Xu Yu climbed to the nine hundred and ninety-eighth step and waited until dusk before leaping over the next step to land on the thousandth.
• Xu Yu found that one foot was stuck on the lower step and asked Bo Saixi for help by claiming he had information about the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi confirmed that she had once promised a request to whoever became a god, but denied loving Tang Chen and explained that he had invaded Sea God Island and confessed after burying his wife.

Xu Yu completed the first Black... Nine Trials by enduring the Sea God's Light beyond rank, using Bo Saixi's reaction to escape the crushing pressure of the 1,001st step. The doubled reward raised him to level ninety and greatly increased his soul ring ages, leaving Bo Saixi alarmed by his sudden power and the energy drained from Sea God Palace.

• Xu Yu offered Bo Saixi information about Tang Chen in exchange for something of equal value, then grabbed her leg and provoked her into kicking him off the 1,001st step.
• Xu Yu climbed back to the 999th step, shattered the black mark between his brows, and completed his first trial.
• Bo Saixi accused Xu Yu of using her and left, while Xu Yu received a doubled reward that increased his Soul Power by two levels and raised his soul ring ages by twenty thousand years.
• Xu Yu advanced to level ninety as his body strengthened, and the four women below were shocked by his powerful heartbeat.
• Bo Saixi sensed Xu Yu's new threat and realized Sea God Palace's energy was draining into his reward, while Xu Yu's soul ring contractors also gained levels.

Xu Yu’s soul-ring upgrade caused several people’s cultivation to rise, while Blood Red prepared to leave Spirit City for Star Luo City. Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to meet with her before announcing her as Spirit Hall’s Saintess.

• Ye Lingling’s Soul Power broke through to level sixty while she cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Ninth Elder reached level ninety-one in Spirit City.
• Blood Red’s cultivation increased by twenty thousand years, and she killed Li Kai after finding him drugging Zhang Ping before sleeping with Zhang Ping.
• Blood Red told Zhu Yueru she planned to leave Spirit City, and Zhu Yueru encouraged her to visit the Zhu and Dai families in Star Luo City and gave her a letter.
• Blood Red left Spirit City conspicuously, causing both Pope’s Palace and Spirit Hall to become wary of the strength the other had concealed.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to tell Hu Liena to meet with her the next day so she could soon announce Hu Liena as Spirit Hall’s Saintess.

Snow Woman investigated Snow Lotus and Snow White's sudden cultivation increases and considered leaving Suotuo City, then discovered that the Treasure Codex had gained a chat group feature. The group listed Xu Yu as its owner and included several of his companions and soul beasts.

• Snow Lotus told Snow Woman that her cultivation had suddenly increased by twenty thousand years, and Snow Woman suspected Xu Yu's soul ring growth had caused it.
• Snow Woman brought Snow Lotus and Snow Spirit to check on Snow White, who had entered meditation in her office while Doudou guarded her.
• Snow White's cultivation rose to eight hundred thousand years, and Snow Woman used the Summoning Tome to protect her in case a heavenly tribulation struck.
• Snow Woman told Snow White she might leave soon and entrusted the Treasure Codex to her, with instructions to pass it to Ah Yin if she did not want it.
• Snow Woman opened a new chat group in the Treasure Codex and saw Xu Yu listed as its owner alongside Snow White, Ah Yin, A Lan, Blood Red, Snow Lotus, and others.

Blood Red, A Lan, Ye Lingling, and others discovered a mysterious group chat that exposed their complicated feelings for Xu Yu, who logged off rather than read more. On Sea God Island, Xu Yu learned that Bo Saixi would guard his Ring Sea trial, then persuaded Shui Rou to help him cultivate while he prepared to face Bo Saixi.

• Blood Red, A Lan, and Ye Lingling joined the group chat and discussed how they knew Xu Yu, while the chat's automatic stickers embarrassed A Lan.
• Xu Yu logged off after reading the women's messages, then considered his upgraded 800,000-year Spirit Ring and the Ring Sea trial's restrictions.
• Bo Saixi revealed that she was the guardian of Xu Yu's second trial and went to guard the Ring Sea after he provoked her.
• Xu Yu asked Shui Rou to help him cultivate on the white jade steps, and she agreed to do so late at night; Xue Wu also offered to help.
• Xu Yu teased Bo Saixi at the Ring Sea and offered to bring Tang Chen to see her, but she refused and threatened to kill him.
• A Demon Soul Great White Shark circled Sea God Mountain, searching for the tiger that had urinated in the Ring Sea.

Xu Yu continued cultivating with Shui Rou on Sea God Mountain until his fifth soul ring’s fusion was complete, while the Demon Soul Great White Shark clashed with his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. A message from Snow Woman revealed that Spirit Hall’s Hunting Operation was approaching and that she had reached level ninety; after misunderstanding Xu Yu’s happy response, she decided to leave Suotuo City for the Extreme North.

• Xu Yu saw that his fifth soul ring was seventy percent fused and considered making Bo Saixi his Life Guardian Battle Beast.
• The Demon Soul Great White Shark dragged Xu Yu’s Dark Demon Evil God Tiger underwater, but its domain let it overpower her until Bo Saixi knocked both beasts away.
• Xu Yu learned from Snow Woman that Spirit Hall’s Hunting Operation was approaching and that she had broken through level ninety.
• Snow Woman misread Xu Yu’s laughing meme as happiness that she would leave, admitted to Snow White that she liked him, and began packing for the Extreme North.
• Snow White comforted Snow Woman and offered to accompany her to the Extreme North, while Xu Yu and Shui Rou finished fusing his fifth soul ring.

Xu Yu tested his transformed Soul Tool summons and clone against Bo Saixi while trying to provoke her into using soul skills, which she appeared to be forbidden from doing during the Ring Sea trial. He entered the sea with several clones and enraged Bo Saixi by calling her “Xi'er,” leaving their confrontation on the verge of escalating.

• Shui Rou reached Level Eighty-Eight, and Xu Yu went to meet Bo Saixi after assuring her that he no longer feared her control over the sea.
• Bo Saixi attacked Xu Yu after learning that he was involved with Qian Daoliu's granddaughter, but she could not control seawater within Xu Yu's domain.
• Xu Yu sent his Coiled Dragon Staff clone and Soul Tool spirit beasts against Bo Saixi, testing their strength and discovering that the clone could withstand her attacks.
• Xu Yu used his Second Soul Skill, Transform, to evolve the tyrannosaur and other Soul Tool summons, but Bo Saixi swept the summons away with seawater.
• Xu Yu entered the Ring Sea with eight clones and called Bo Saixi “Xi'er,” provoking her into a fury as Big White led the Sea Spirit Beasts away.

Xu Yu wore down Bo Saixi in a month-long battle, then trapped and kissed her before making her live with him. As Shui Rou and the others left with Bo Saixi, Xu Yu saw Shui Bing'er licking Xue Wu's thigh and wondered if another romance between women was starting.

• Xu Yu used his clones and soul skills to exhaust Bo Saixi, then overpowered her when she was too tired to fight back.
• Bo Saixi agreed to attack Xu Yu with a soul skill, but tried to escape and was caught in a net of branches.
• Xu Yu kissed Bo Saixi and used branches to drain her Soul Power and suppress her recovery, then required her to live with him.
• Bo Saixi told Shui Rou that she had found herself a good friend, while Shui Rou misunderstood her meaning and felt pleased.
• Xue Wu worried that Xu Yu might want her company, and Shui Bing'er grew upset that Xue Wu would not share what was troubling her.
• Shui Bing'er licked Xue Wu's thigh as the women prepared to leave, and Xu Yu was startled by what he saw.

Xu Yu passed the Ring Sea trial, gained increased Spirit Ring ages, and began a dangerous deep-sea body-tempering trial. Shui Rou became a Titled Douluo as her fifth Spirit Ring crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold, while Bo Saixi told Xu Yu about a mysterious Great Space Rift west of Sea God Island.

• Xu Yu crossed the Ring Sea, received a Soul Power level and Spirit Ring age increases, and began the Deep Sea Body Tempering trial requiring him to reach the ten-thousand-meter seabed.
• Xu Yu's Soul Power rose to rank ninety-one, and his fifth Spirit Ring broke the hundred-thousand-year threshold, causing Shui Rou to break through to rank ninety and become a Titled Douluo.
• Shui Yue'er tried rubbing Xue Wu after seeing Shui Rou's breakthrough, and Shui Bing'er scolded her.
• Bo Saixi suspected a connection between Shui Rou's breakthrough and Xu Yu's fifth Spirit Ring, then crossed the Ring Sea to join Xu Yu and the others.
• Xu Yu asked Bo Saixi about Sea God Island's hidden inheritances, and she described a Great Space Rift a hundred thousand sea miles west of the island as both a danger and an opportunity.

Xu Yu brought Bo Saixi and the girls to Mermaid City, where he prepared spirit liquid for them while concealing the Chaos Ancient Tree Seed inside Bo Saixi. As Snow White asked him to persuade Snow Woman to stay, Xu Yu avoided the request, and the chapter ended with Shui Bing'er asking him to show her an illusion.

• Xu Yu poured spirit liquid over Bo Saixi and planned to let Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu use it to advance their Soul Power.
• Bo Saixi told the Merfolk Clan chief she would stay in Mermaid City and guide her students, concealing that Xu Yu had threatened her.
• Snow White messaged Xu Yu that Snow Woman planned to leave once she became a Titled Douluo, but Xu Yu did not reply before Snow Woman set off north.
• Xu Yu learned that Blood Red was with the Zhu Family in Star Luo City and told her she could stay there.
• Bo Saixi agreed to share a room with Xu Yu, who brought out a separate bed, and Shui Bing'er later slipped into his room to ask for the promised illusion.

Xu Yu used his domain to create a horror movie for Shui Bing'er, then checked Bo Saixi’s seal and found she would not finish refining it before he left Sea God Island. Bo Saixi began to suspect the domain imposed its own rules on everyone inside it.

• Xu Yu created a movie-like domain for Shui Bing'er, who chose a horror film and clung to his arm as she watched.
• Xu Yu left the room and spoke with Bo Saixi, who questioned the strange power she had sensed inside it.
• Xu Yu returned after two hours and told Bo Saixi he had knocked out the girl inside, then pushed Bo Saixi into the room and carried her to bed.
• Xu Yu inspected Bo Saixi’s seal and concluded she would not fully refine the Seed before he left Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi watched the horror movie and suspected Xu Yu’s domain suppressed Soul Masters and forced those inside to obey its laws.

Xu Yu was caught sleeping beside Shui Rou by Shui Yue'er, who discovered their secret and asked him to be her boyfriend so she could improve her cultivation. After Xu Yu kissed her, Shui Yue'er ran off crying and threatened to tell the dean.

• Xue Wu went to Xu Yu's room to find Shui Bing'er, while Xu Yu slipped into Shui Rou's bed and slept beside her.
• Shui Yue'er found Xu Yu in bed with Shui Rou and believed his excuse that Shui Rou and the others had gone to watch a movie.
• Shui Yue'er revealed that she had seen Shui Rou curled up in Xu Yu's arms, and Xu Yu tried to keep her from exposing their relationship.
• Xu Yu claimed that having a boyfriend might help Shui Yue'er improve her cultivation, so she asked him to be her boyfriend temporarily.
• Xu Yu kissed Shui Yue'er, who then ran away crying and threatened to tell the dean about it.

Xu Yu completed the fourth and fifth Sea God trials, gaining Soul Power and Spirit Ring upgrades before receiving a sixth trial that required him to endure Bo Saixi’s attacks for twelve hours. The Sea God’s changed reward rules left him facing a much harder challenge, while Bo Saixi realized he might seriously hurt her to claim its rewards.

• Xu Yu passed the third, fourth, and fifth trials over several months, raising his Soul Power to Level Ninety-Three and increasing his Spirit Rings’ ages by 55,000 years; Shui Rou gained an Evil Spirit Orca’s 100,000-year Spirit Ring and spirit bone.
• Shui Bing’er questioned why Shui Rou’s Soul Power rose whenever Xu Yu passed a trial, while the Skywater Academy women continued their first trial and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger endured its third.
• Ye Lingling and the Ninth Elder broke through again, while Blood Red reached 985,000 years of strength, recovered her rationality, and decided to seek the Asura God’s divine position in the City of Slaughter.
• Xu Yu received the sixth trial’s requirement to endure Bo Saixi’s attacks for twelve hours, returned to their residence, and urged her to attack him so the trial would begin.
• Xu Yu provoked Bo Saixi into kicking at him, then saw the trial’s reward bonus marked white and realized the Sea God’s will had changed the reward rules; he faced the prospect of hurting Bo Saixi to gain the reward.

Xu Yu used the red reward from Bo Saixi to greatly strengthen his spirit bones, but the million-year evolution of his left leg bone began draining energy uncontrollably. After exhausting Bo Saixi and his summoned beasts, he rushed toward the Sea God Palace, leaving Bo Saixi to pursue him while still weakened.

• Xu Yu tested the reward symbol on Bo Saixi and received a red hundred-thousand-year reward after their encounter.
• The reward strengthened all four of Xu Yu's spirit bones, including evolving his left leg bone toward a million years.
• Xu Yu's left leg bone drained his Soul Power, so he drew energy from Bo Saixi and summoned beasts for three days and three nights.
• Blood Red and the others questioned Xu Yu when his left leg bone continued absorbing energy.
• Xu Yu transformed into a streak of light and charged into the Sea God Palace, while Bo Saixi recovered her cultivation and followed him.

Xu Yu absorbed the Sea God Trident’s energy in Sea God Palace, advancing his Blood Red Left Leg Spirit Bone to a million years and provoking the Sea God. As the Sea God flooded him with more power, Xu Yu diverted it to others, while two women in the Extreme North closed in on a hidden soul beast.

• Xu Yu sent the seven Sacred Pillar Guardians flying and entered Sea God Palace, where he gripped the Sea God Trident and absorbed its energy as Bo Saixi watched helplessly.
• The Sea God spoke through his statue and replenished the palace’s energy, but Xu Yu ignored him and advanced his Blood Red Left Leg Spirit Bone to a million years.
• The Sea God suspected Xu Yu had destroyed the Divine Sense on the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then sent down more energy before closing the passage between realms.
• Xu Yu used the Summoning Tome to vent the excess energy, restoring Bo Saixi and helping Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu advance to Soul Saints, while Shui Yue'er lamented her lack of progress.
• In the Extreme North, two identical-looking women tracked a soul beast that had swallowed all the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Die negotiated with Snow Woman and Snow White over the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, but a sudden flood of energy interrupted them and Snow Woman absorbed Die’s remnant soul as her ninth spirit ring. The same energy spread across the continent, causing Qian Renxue, Tang Yuehua, and others to break through as Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire’s forces prepared for conflict.

• Die offered Magic Cores, a Heavenly Flame Seed, and then an ice-attributed remnant soul and its weapon in exchange for the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Snow Woman accepted the remnant soul, but the Treasure Codex suddenly surged with immense energy, and Snow Woman absorbed the soul as her ninth spirit ring while Snow White guarded against Die.
• In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue was struck by the energy and later broke through to Spirit Douluo.
• Tang Yuehua woke to find that she had broken through to Soul Elder and thought of Xu Yu and Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin, A Lan, Old Bi, Zhu Zhuyun, Moss Head, and others across the continent also broke through.