Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang defeated Ghost Demon’s Soul Avatar, captured its soul, and sealed the remnants of its corpse. When he emerged from the collapsing Duel Space, the Demonic Cult’s forces panicked and fled as Yuwen Chengdu led a charge against them.

• Xiao Tianyang recognized that Ghost Demon was using a Soul Avatar and killed him after Ghost Demon threatened his loved ones.
• Xiao Tianyang used the Yin Yang Umbrella to capture Ghost Demon’s soul and sealed the furious face that appeared in the corpse’s blood mist.
• The Duel Space collapsed, and Xiao Tianyang emerged alone while Saber waited outside with his Life Card.
• The white-robed Titled Douluo ordered the Evil Soul Masters to run after they realized Ghost Demon had lost.
• Yuwen Chengdu led a force of Velociraptors in a charge, and the Demonic Cult’s troops fled without forming a defense.

After Yuwen Chengdu routed the Demonic Cult, Xiao Tianyang ordered him to secure East River Mouth against the Barbarian Tribe. The Black Martial Legion then appeared publicly, revealing its distinct emphasis on flexible, individual combat strength.

• Yuwen Chengdu led the Divine Might Legion to annihilate the Demonic Cult's forces while obeying Xiao Tianyang's order not to pursue the fleeing Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Tianyang left the battlefield with Saber, who explained that the Barbarian Tribe was now the main remaining threat and apologized for acting without telling him.
• Three days after Xiao Tianyang returned to Divine Might, Yuwen Chengdu returned with his troops, and Xiao Tianyang ordered him to station forces at East River Mouth to block the Barbarian Tribe's main route out of its territory.
• The Black Martial Legion officially appeared as the Divine Might Legion departed, showcasing a more flexible and mysterious approach than the conventional, coordination-focused Divine Might Legion.
• Saber and Madam Mingzhu had designed the Black Martial Legion around individual combat strength after distinguishing coordinated Mercenary Groups from the more self-reliant Bounty Hunters.

Xiao Tianyang’s Black Martial Legion quickly exposed more than a hundred spies in Shenwu City, prompting other factions to protest. After Saber asked how to handle the captured spies, Xiao Tianyang accepted Madam Mingzhu’s proposal to parade them through the streets.

• The Black Martial Legion uncovered more than a hundred spies and informants in Shenwu City within two days of arriving.
• Xiao Tianyang teased Madam Mingzhu in the Shenwu Hall office until Saber entered and interrupted them.
• Saber told Xiao Tianyang that other factions had sent envoys to protest the arrests and asked how to handle the captured spies.
• Madam Mingzhu suggested tying the spies to the arena and parading them through the streets for three days.
• Xiao Tianyang agreed to Madam Mingzhu’s proposal.

After resting in Divine Might, Xiao Tianyang returned to Sea God Island and told Bo Saixi about his recent battles and captured Soul Beasts. Bo Saixi decided to become his next opponent so he could face someone he could not defeat.

• Xiao Tianyang stayed in Divine Might for seven days, and Spirit Hall sent someone to apologize to Saber.
• Xiao Tianyang left for Sea God Island alone and went straight to the rear mountain, where Bo Saixi came down to meet him.
• Xiao Tianyang told Bo Saixi he had killed three puppets belonging to Ghost Demon, Worst Old Man, and explained that he had fought Shangguan Qing.
• Xiao Tianyang said he had driven away two of four divine-beast-breed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and captured the other two, absorbing one and giving the other to Bibi Dong.
• Bo Saixi declared that she would become Xiao Tianyang's next opponent because he needed someone he could not defeat.

Bo Saixi tested Xiao Tianyang’s strength in a fierce spar at sea, but he held back some of his abilities and left her curious about his limits. Afterward, she assigned him to deal with incoming prisoners at Deep Sea Prison, and he agreed before recovering from the fight.

• Bo Saixi and Xiao Tianyang fought from Sea God Island out to the open sea, while the Seven Sacred Pillars chose not to watch.
• Bo Saixi pushed Xiao Tianyang to reveal his limits, but he avoided using his Martial Souls, Soul Bones, and dangerous magical treasures.
• Xiao Tianyang returned injured and joked that Bo Saixi owed him compensation, narrowly dodging a water arrow she shot at him.
• Bo Saixi told Xiao Tianyang to welcome a coming batch of prisoners at Deep Sea Prison and warned him not to let them die before their sentences ended.
• Xiao Tianyang realized Bo Saixi was angry that he had withheld his full strength, accepted the task, and began regulating his breathing.

Xiao Tianyang used an Evolution Gene injection to strengthen his body in preparation for his Martial Soul’s further advancement, while using Soul Evasion to avoid the worst of the pain. As he began cultivating Mental Power, Bo Saixi watched from the shadows and saw another Xiao Tianyang beside his body.

• Xiao Tianyang decided to use his stored items to improve himself and had his Mimic Bio-human guard him by the river.
• Xiao Tianyang chose the Evolution Gene injection, hoping its effects would help his body withstand his god-grade Emperor Flame Martial Soul.
• Xiao Tianyang’s body underwent repeated destruction and regeneration, so he entered his soul state to escape the pain.
• Xiao Tianyang used Soul Evasion to cultivate Mental Power while his body convulsed nearby.
• Bo Saixi sensed the changes and saw another Xiao Tianyang beside his body.

After his soul returned to his body, Xiao Tianyang struggled to control his dramatically strengthened physique, prompting Bo Saixi to suspect he had used forbidden drugs. He clarified that his strength had increased too quickly for him to adapt, and Bo Saixi explained the grim history of forbidden drugs, leaving Xiao Tianyang wondering why Spirit Hall still kept the formula.

• Xiao Tianyang woke in his unfamiliar, powerful body, stomped a pit into the ground, and nearly fell before Bo Saixi caught and steadied him.
• Bo Saixi was pushed back by Xiao Tianyang's ordinary strength and questioned whether he had used forbidden drugs.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that he could not control his body because his strength had risen too quickly, and Bo Saixi accepted his explanation.
• Bo Saixi mistook the Mimic Bio-human for something connected to Ghost Demon and warned Xiao Tianyang against becoming an Evil Soul Master.
• Xiao Tianyang put away the Mimic Bio-human, and Bo Saixi explained that forbidden drugs had driven many Soul Masters to ruin and that Spirit Hall might still possess their formula.
• Xiao Tianyang questioned why Spirit Hall had kept the forbidden-drug formula, and Bo Saixi gazed toward the sea without an answer.

Xiao Tianyang used the [Apocalypse Compass] to improve the Emperor Flame, then formed a pill furnace with the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] and began refining himself to break through its first layer. Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillars guarded the area as he started this dangerous next stage.

• Xiao Tianyang prepared carefully before using the [Apocalypse Compass], wary of losing control of both his body and Martial Soul.
• Xiao Tianyang spent three days using the [Apocalypse Compass] to raise the Emperor Flame to its proper quality and gain finer control over his body.
• Bo Saixi watched as a nameless flame around Xiao Tianyang grew enormous, but she chose not to wake him during his critical cultivation.
• Xiao Tianyang opened his eyes and called forth the Heaven and Earth Furnace, drawing the attention of everyone on Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi ordered the Seven Sacred Pillars to guard the area and keep Tang San and the others away.
• Xiao Tianyang condensed the flames into a pill furnace and prepared to refine his essence, qi, and spirit to break through the first layer of the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon].

Xiao Tianyang used the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] to refine himself inside the Three-Legged Two-Eared Alchemy Furnace, creating a dangerous domain that Bo Saixi contained with divine power. When Bo Saixi discovered that the domain had slightly refined her Soul Power, she entered the barrier to seek the same chance to grow stronger.

• Xiao Tianyang cultivated the first layer of the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] inside the Three-Legged Two-Eared Alchemy Furnace, and his growing pressure forced the Seven Sacred Pillars to retreat.
• Bo Saixi ordered the Seven Sacred Pillars to leave and keep the event secret as the domain began overwhelming them.
• Bo Saixi used her divine power to contain Xiao Tianyang and stop the domain from spreading beyond the area.
• Bo Saixi realized that the domain had slightly refined her Soul Power and entered the barrier, staying at its edge to pursue the chance to grow stronger.

Xiao Tianyang completed a breakthrough in refining his body and [Emperor Flame], then discovered Bo Saixi had been burned unconscious while training in his flames. After she woke and confronted him, he sensed that her Soul Power had become much purer and stronger.

• Xiao Tianyang finished vaporizing his essence, qi, and spirit within his body, improving his reflexes and dynamic vision while strengthening his foundation.
• Xiao Tianyang found Bo Saixi unconscious and covered her with a robe before leaving her to recover.
• Bo Saixi woke at dusk and realized Xiao Tianyang had seen her after the [Emperor Flame] burned away her clothes.
• Bo Saixi confronted Xiao Tianyang, who joked that he would raise her for life, and then lifted him up to assert her authority.
• Xiao Tianyang sensed that Bo Saixi's Soul Power quality had increased by �% and her purification rate had reached forty percent.

Xiao Tianyang joked with Bo Saixi, who threw him into the water before later joining him for dinner. Over their meal, he explained that his flame Martial Soul was [Emperor Flame] and revealed his cultivation method, the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon], leaving Bo Saixi aware of its remarkable potential.

• Bo Saixi scolded Xiao Tianyang for teasing her, threw him into the water, and warned him to stay there if he kept acting that way.
• Xiao Tianyang caught seafood and cooked a clay-pot stew, which Bo Saixi later ate while he made instant noodles for himself.
• Bo Saixi asked about Xiao Tianyang's flame Martial Soul, and he named it [Emperor Flame] and described its many abilities.
• Bo Saixi asked how Xiao Tianyang turned flames into a pill furnace, and he explained the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] and its three cultivation realms.
• Xiao Tianyang discreetly blocked their conversation from the Sea God as he described the technique's potential and his ambition to reach the summit of Douluo Continent.

After sharing the first four levels of the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] with Bo Saixi, Xiao Tianyang entered the Deep Sea Prison to cultivate and pursue a system quest. He resolved to reach its lowest level within ten days, hoping to grow stronger before Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion and moved against Sea God Island.

• Xiao Tianyang passed the first four levels of the [Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon] to Bo Saixi, who left after gazing at him affectionately.
• Xiao Tianyang misunderstood Bo Saixi's feelings, then entered the Teleportation Gate to begin cultivating in the Deep Sea Prison.
• The system assigned Xiao Tianyang a ten-day quest to reach the prison's lowest level in one attempt and defeat its ten prisoners.
• Xiao Tianyang plunged into the Deep Sea Prison, intending to improve his combat skills through continuous battles.
• Xiao Tianyang considered Bibi Dong's growing power and resolved to strengthen himself before she left seclusion for Sea God Island.

Xiao Tianyang trained in the deep sea by sparring with the Devil Great White Shark, which he had helped through a tribulation and raised to five hundred thousand years of cultivation. After rewarding the shark, he prepared to enter the Deep Sea Prison and told it to return to its territory.

• Xiao Tianyang concealed himself in the seawater and split an apple atop a Great White Shark's head, knocking it unconscious without harming it.
• Xiao Tianyang reflected that deep-sea training had helped him master Lifting the Heavy as Light, leaving him to learn lifting the light as heavy.
• Xiao Tianyang recalled helping the Devil Great White Shark overcome its tribulation, raising its cultivation, and training it to obey him in exchange for medicinal pills.
• Xiao Tianyang praised the Devil Great White Shark for its efforts and gave it a pill, warning it to take three doses over three days.
• Xiao Tianyang said he would enter the Deep Sea Prison and told the Devil Great White Shark to return home, but it refused to leave him.
• Xiao Tianyang had given the Devil Great White Shark a Concentric Pill so he could understand the meaning of its movements.

Xiao Tianyang continued training in the Deep Sea Prison, using the pressure to master combat techniques that would let him fight as though he were on land. On the fifth level, he met three wary Sea Soul Beasts and offered them Concentric Pills so he could understand them.

• Xiao Tianyang let the Devil Great White Shark stay, warning it not to wander, then entered the Deep Sea Prison to train against the deep-sea pressure.
• Xiao Tianyang practiced Lifting the Heavy as Light and Lifting the Light as Heavy, hoping to fight without the pressure affecting his abilities.
• Xiao Tianyang passed the fourth level and reached the fifth, where three Sea Soul Beasts—a turtle, an octopus, and a crocodile—saluted him and kept their distance.
• Xiao Tianyang recognized that the three Sea Soul Beasts were eighty or ninety thousand years old and asked what they had done to be imprisoned.
• The octopus tried to communicate through gestures, so Xiao Tianyang tossed the three Sea Soul Beasts Concentric Pills to help him understand them.

Xiao Tianyang left three intelligent Sea Soul Beasts on the fifth floor and fought his way through the prison toward the tenth floor. There, he found a dark area filled with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, whose attacks he countered with a sweeping slash that sent them retreating.

• Xiao Tianyang told the three Sea Soul Beasts to stay alive until he returned and promised to take them with him.
• Xiao Tianyang crossed the sixth through ninth floors, explaining that he stored ordinary Soul Rings and could imprison near-dead Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Dark Space.
• Xiao Tianyang entered the tenth floor and sensed at least ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts within a hundred meters.
• Two Sea Soul Beasts attacked Xiao Tianyang in succession, but he dodged both and prepared to retaliate with the Congyun Blade.
• Xiao Tianyang unleashed a sweeping slash at nearly every Sea Soul Beast present, forcing them to retreat to avoid being killed or crippled.

Xiao Tianyang fought the Sea Soul Beasts underwater, killing an alligator snapping turtle and storing its body and Soul Ring in a Time-Space Capsule. After another beast cut his face, he turned his attention toward the attacker, while the other Sea Soul Beasts stayed back.

• Xiao Tianyang used Dark Water to pull an alligator snapping turtle toward him, then slashed its shell and disrupted the surrounding Sea Soul Beasts with a shock wave.
• Xiao Tianyang unleashed One Slash, killing the wounded alligator snapping turtle and gravely injuring nearby Sea Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Tianyang used a Time-Space Capsule to store the turtle and its Soul Ring, relieved that the Soul Ring had been preserved.
• A Sea Soul Beast turned a crab claw into a water blade and cut Xiao Tianyang’s face as he retrieved the capsule.
• Xiao Tianyang saw blood on his fingertip and looked up with crimson flashes in his eyes, while the other Sea Soul Beasts feared approaching him.

Xiao Tianyang brought four Sea Soul Beasts from Deep Sea Prison to Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi agreed to have three of them work for the island for three months. Octopus Boss pledged obedience after recalling how badly outmatched it was by Xiao Tianyang.

• Xiao Tianyang arrived at Sea God Island with four Devil Great White Sharks and beat them for splashing him.
• Bo Saixi questioned how Xiao Tianyang had freed the three prisoners and learned they had agreed to work for Sea God Island for three months.
• Xiao Tianyang told Octopus Boss, Crocodile Second Brother, and Turtle Third Brother that Bo Saixi would decide their duties, and Octopus Boss promised to obey her.
• Octopus Boss remembered Xiao Tianyang's overwhelming strength and abandoned its plan to escape, then claimed to know of a possible secret ocean treasure when Xiao Tianyang startled it.
• Octopus Boss apologized to Bo Saixi and vowed that the three Soul Beasts would complete any work she assigned, even at the risk of their lives.

Bo Saixi asked Xiao Tianyang why he trusted her, and he dodged the question with jokes before finally claiming he had a third Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Bo Saixi dismissing the claim as impossible.

• Bo Saixi invited Xiao Tianyang and the three sea creatures to accompany her, while Xiao Tianyang teased Octopus Boss about cooking its tentacles.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that he had taken in the three creatures because they were interesting and obedient, and Bo Saixi asked why they wanted to follow him.
• Bo Saixi pressed Xiao Tianyang to explain why he trusted her, and he joked about using the sleeping Devil Great White Shark as a sofa before claiming he could foresee the future.
• Bo Saixi rejected Xiao Tianyang's claim that he could foresee the future, and he admitted he had personal reasons for going to Spirit Hall and had not expected the Barbarian Tribe to attack him.
• When Bo Saixi demanded a serious answer, Xiao Tianyang joked that he trusted her because she was beautiful, then claimed he had a third Martial Soul; Bo Saixi said she had never heard of Triple Spirit.

Xiao Tianyang tricked Bo Saixi with his third Martial Soul and provoked her with a teasing remark, leading to a scuffle atop the Devil Great White Shark. Bo Saixi pinned him down and demanded a sincere apology, leaving Xiao Tianyang with one last chance to avoid being confined beneath Sea God Mountain.

• Xiao Tianyang claimed his third Martial Soul came from his grandfather's generation, then used his eyes to trap Bo Saixi in an illusion.
• Bo Saixi recovered, realized Xiao Tianyang had called her mature, and threw him onto the Devil Great White Shark, causing it to faint.
• Xiao Tianyang escaped Bo Saixi's grasp, but the two collided head-on, and Bo Saixi pinned him to the ground.
• Xiao Tianyang offered to treat Bo Saixi to a meal, then joked about cooking several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, making Big White faint again.
• Bo Saixi rejected Xiao Tianyang's apology and warned that if he failed to think of something sincere, she would press him beneath Sea God Mountain.

Xiao Tianyang was caught in an awkward moment with Bo Saixi when Sea Witch Douluo unexpectedly arrived, revealing her feelings for him. He gave Bo Saixi a mysterious wooden box, whose contents left her and Sea Witch Douluo entranced.

• Sea Witch Douluo arrived with a tray of sea fruit and mistakenly thought Xiao Tianyang and Bo Saixi were lovers.
• Bo Saixi released Xiao Tianyang, and he joked that she had only been giving him a massage before she struck him for his remarks.
• Bo Saixi questioned Sea Witch Douluo about entering the back mountain, while Xiao Tianyang eased the tension and noticed Sea Witch Douluo's embarrassment.
• Bo Saixi accepted the wooden box Xiao Tianyang offered and opened it despite his warning to keep its contents from Lord Sea God.
• Two rays of moonlight-soft radiance emerged from the box, captivating Bo Saixi and Sea Witch Douluo with the beauty of what they saw.