Chapter Summaries

Tang San and the Shrek Eight Devils survived the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's pressure, and Xiao Xiaoxiao heard a sorrowful Whale Song hidden within it. Bo Saixi revealed that their fifth trials would take them to the edge of the whale's territory to endure its pressure and sense its Root Confusion, leaving them three days to prepare.

• Tang San led the group out of the Soul Forging Abyss, and they recovered on shore while reflecting on their gains from the trial.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao explained that her Moonlight Domain had caught a faint Whale Song filled with unwillingness, rage, and sorrow.
• Tang San warned that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King might have noticed them, but insisted they continue their trials.
• Bo Saixi appeared and announced the fifth trials: the group would endure at the edge of the whale's territory and attempt to sense its Root Confusion.
• Bo Saixi gave them three days to rest before she took them to the trial site.
• Tang San assigned preparations for the coming trial and said his domain and Xiao Xiaoxiao's might need to resonate to withstand the whale's pressure.

After passing the fourth trial, the Shrek Eight Devils recovered through the Sea God's Light and spent three days preparing to face the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory. Bo Saixi brought them to the edge of the trial area, where Tang San led them forward as the fifth trial began.

• The Sea God's Light restored the Shrek Eight Devils and strengthened their bodies, Soul Power, and abilities, with Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao gaining especially notable improvements.
• Tang San warned the group not to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and assigned Xiao Xiaoxiao to focus on sensing the Whale Song and Root Confusion.
• For three days, the group trained on the Sea God's Light staircase and practiced resisting one another's oppressive auras while Xiao Xiaoxiao refined her perception of the Whale Song.
• Bo Saixi transported the Shrek Eight Devils to the dark, silent sea at the edge of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory and warned them to remain at the perimeter.
• Bo Saixi withdrew, the fifth trial began, and Tang San urged the group forward.

At the edge of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory, Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed the whale's complex emotions through its song and glimpsed a vision linking it to the Sea God. The enraged whale turned its attention on the Shrek Eight Devils and attacked them before their trial was halfway over.

• Tang San arranged the eight into a defensive formation while Ning Rongrong and Oscar provided support against the oppressive domain.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used her Moonlight Domain to locate the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's song, and Tang San joined his Blue Silver Domain with hers to protect the group.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao received the whale's song directly through her mind, sensing its rage, loneliness, longing, sorrow, and confusion.
• The whale noticed the group and unleashed overwhelming pressure, forcing Tang San to channel his power into Xiao Xiaoxiao to help her withstand the spiritual assault.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao glimpsed an ancient whale beneath a trident phantom and spoke of Sea God recognition, rejection, and shackles.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King roared and sent dark-energy tentacles surging from the sea toward the eight.

Tang San and the others survived the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's assault after Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed a flaw in its power and reached its confused soul with a fragment of her own Spiritual Power. The fifth trial was completed, and Xiao Xiaoxiao awakened a mysterious pale blue mark tied to the whale king.

• Tang San combined the Clear Sky Hammer and Sea God's Light to shield the group from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's tentacles.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed unstable voids in the whale king's energy, and Tang San guided the dark attacks into them with the group's combined Soul Power.
• The whale king formed a massive dark claw, and Xiao Xiaoxiao sent a fragment of her overdrawn Spiritual Power into its Soul Origin.
• The whale king's fury subsided, its claw dissipated, and the assessment imprints confirmed that the eight had completed the fifth trial.
• Bo Saixi returned the exhausted group to Sea God Island, where Tang San noticed a pale blue crystal-like mark beside Xiao Xiaoxiao's assessment imprint.

After surviving the Deep Sea Trial, Tang San and the others returned to Sea God Island with Xiao Xiaoxiao unconscious and her soul gravely weakened but stable. That night, all seven Sacred Pillars began resonating, hinting that the coming sixth trial and Xiao Xiaoxiao’s strange new mark were connected.

• Bo Saixi confirmed that the group had passed the fifth trial and explained that Xiao Xiaoxiao’s soul was damaged but her soul core had survived.
• Tang San brought Xiao Xiaoxiao back to their residence, where he stayed beside her while the others rested.
• Tang San sensed a hum from his Sea God's Trident mark and the Sacred Pillars, and the others gathered after feeling the same disturbance.
• All seven Sacred Pillars glowed and resonated, prompting the group to wonder whether the cause was Xiao Xiaoxiao’s mark or the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s aura.
• Tang San urged everyone to recover quickly, warning that the sixth trial might leave them little time to prepare.

After the Seven Sacred Pillars stirred, Tang San watched over the unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao as Ning Rongrong used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to soothe her damaged spirit. The Oracle then announced the sixth trial, forcing the team to prepare to challenge the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians within seven days while Xiao Xiaoxiao remained unconscious.

• Tang San found Xiao Xiaoxiao's body stable but her consciousness shielded, then sensed her shattered crystal mark beginning to resonate with the Sea God's Heart.
• Ning Rongrong used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's Heart's Healing to nourish Xiao Xiaoxiao's damaged spiritual foundation.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao's mark sent out a gentle ripple that refreshed Tang San's Spiritual Power and showed Ning Rongrong a fleeting vision of a colossal pillar wrapped in a dragon.
• The Oracle announced the Pact of the Seven Sacred Pillars: the team had to challenge the guardians within seven days and trigger resonance with at least five Sacred Pillar sources.
• Tang San and the others learned that their trial rules restricted outside assistance, while Xiao Xiaoxiao was still unconscious and the seven-day deadline had begun.

After Xiao Xiaoxiao awakened, she proposed that the sixth trial required communicating with the sacred pillars’ power rather than defeating their guardians through brute force. With her recovering and the Shrek Eight Devils prepared, Tang San led the team toward the Seahorse Sacred Pillar to begin the trial.

• Tang San assigned the team to recover and prepare for the seven-day challenge while he and Ning Rongrong watched over Xiao Xiaoxiao.
• At dawn, Xiao Xiaoxiao awakened and learned about her resonance with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the sixth trial.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed that her domain and forehead mark could detect energy nodes, and she concluded that the sacred pillars needed communication rather than conquest.
• Tang San agreed to change their approach, and Xiao Xiaoxiao insisted she was well enough to participate.
• The Shrek Eight Devils gathered and followed Tang San toward the Seahorse Sacred Pillar as Bo Saixi watched from Sea God Mountain.

The Shrek Eight Devils faced Seahorse Douluo Ou Ya at the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and found a way to disrupt his defense and trigger Sacred Pillar Resonance. After passing the trial, they sensed a sharper, more aggressive aura from the Sea Spear Sacred Pillar, where their next challenge awaited.

• Ou Ya began the Seahorse Sacred Pillar trial, and his control of the pillar’s power repelled the Eight Monsters’ attacks.
• Tang San recognized that Ou Ya drew strength from the Sacred Pillar and shifted the group’s tactics toward disrupting that connection.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao identified the pillar’s tidal node and Ou Ya’s brief rhythmic gap, allowing Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to crack his defense together.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used her Moonlight Domain and forehead mark to trigger a dragon-chant resonance from the Seahorse Sacred Pillar.
• Ou Ya declared the trial passed and gave the group six hours to rest before the Sea Spear Sacred Pillar trial.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed a sharp, aggressive aura from the Sea Spear Sacred Pillar.

The Eight Monsters faced Sea Spear Douluo, whose attacks drew devastating piercing power from the Sea Spear Sacred Pillar. By finding and resonating with a vulnerable moment in its energy flow, Xiao Xiaoxiao helped the group pass the second trial, and they prepared to face the Sea Delusion Sacred Pillar after resting.

• Tang San arranged tactics for the Sea Spear trial, assigning Xiao Xiaoxiao to locate an energy node and telling the others to disrupt Sea Spear Douluo's attacks.
• Sea Spear Douluo struck Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San with nearly unavoidable blue rays, seriously wounding Dai Mubai and grazing Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao detected a brief energy vacuum at the Sea Spear Sacred Pillar's peak, and Tang San ordered everyone to target it as Sea Spear Douluo prepared a stronger attack.
• The Eight Monsters combined their attacks to disrupt the energy node, while Xiao Xiaoxiao guided her starlight into it and triggered a powerful resonance with the sacred pillar.
• Sea Spear Douluo acknowledged that the Eight Monsters had passed the second trial and named the Sea Delusion Sacred Pillar as their next challenge.
• After collapsing from exhaustion, Xiao Xiaoxiao told Tang San she was beginning to understand how her mark and domain let her understand the sacred pillars' voices.

The Eight Monsters faced Sea Delusion Douluo’s illusion trial, where their deepest fears threatened to overwhelm them. Xiao Xiaoxiao’s Purging Light helped Tang San regain clarity, and together the group shattered the illusion and passed the third trial, leaving them to rest before the Sea Ghost Sacred Pillar.

• The Eight Monsters reached the Sea Delusion Sacred Pillar, where Sea Delusion Douluo trapped each of them in an illusion shaped by their fears and regrets.
• Tang San struggled against visions of Xiao Wu, Tang Hao, Ah Yin, and Xiao Xiaoxiao dying, while Xiao Xiaoxiao confronted a cracked mirror and the conflicting forces within her shattered mark.
• Tang San’s call reached Xiao Xiaoxiao, who focused her power on protecting him and unleashed Purging Light that pierced her illusion and steadied Tang San’s mind.
• Tang San combined Sea God’s Light with the Blue Silver Domain and Xiao Xiaoxiao’s Purging Light, helping the Eight Monsters expose flaws in their illusions and break the domain together.
• Sea Delusion Douluo declared the third trial passed, and the Eight Monsters prepared to rest for four hours before facing the Sea Ghost Sacred Pillar.

The Eight Monsters faced Sea Ghost Douluo in a darkness that suppressed their senses and drained their strength. Xiao Xiaoxiao used her evolving Nether Dragon Eye to expose his connection to the Sea Ghost Sacred Pillar, helping the group pass the fourth trial before they headed toward the Sea Star Sacred Pillar.

• Sea Ghost Douluo ambushed the Eight Monsters from the darkness, wounding Dai Mubai and forcing the group to defend themselves against his netherworld attacks.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao sensed the Nether Core inside the Sea Ghost Sacred Pillar and identified the Shadow Pivot that could disrupt Sea Ghost Douluo's connection to it.
• Tang San directed the Eight Monsters to attack the Shadow Pivot while Xiao Xiaoxiao's Mental Fluctuation reached the Nether Core and briefly disrupted its power.
• Tang San marked Sea Ghost Douluo with Purple God Light, allowing Dai Mubai and the others to target him and overwhelm his concealment.
• Sea Ghost Douluo ended the fight and announced that the fourth trial was passed, granting the Eight Monsters five hours of rest before the Sea Star Sacred Pillar.

Tang San and the Eight Monsters defeated Sea Star Douluo by exploiting the limits of his Devouring Core, with Xiao Xiaoxiao’s mark turning a chaotic energy surge into a strike that overwhelmed it. After passing the fifth trial, they prepared to face the Sea Woman and Sea Dragon Sacred Pillars.

• Tang San warned the Eight Monsters that Sea Star Douluo could devour and transform their attacks, and Xiao Xiaoxiao offered to seek out the limits of his power.
• Sea Star Douluo trapped the group in his Devouring Domain, absorbing their attacks and draining their defenses.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao discovered that the Devouring Core could not quickly process conflicting or unusual energy, so Tang San ordered the group to create a chaotic field of different Soul Powers.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao infused the overloaded core with chaotic energy through her mark, causing the Devouring Domain to collapse and Sea Star Douluo to suffer backlash.
• Sea Star Douluo admitted defeat and declared the fifth trial passed, and Tang San ordered six hours of rest before the Sea Woman and Sea Dragon trials.

The Eight Monsters faced Sea Woman Douluo, whose harp ensnared them in illusions shaped from their deepest desires and fears. Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao resisted together, disrupted her connection to the Sea Woman Sacred Pillar, and passed the sixth trial, leaving the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar as their final test.

• The Eight Monsters entered the beautiful bay at the Sea Woman Sacred Pillar and met Sea Woman Douluo, who began playing her harp.
• Sea Woman Douluo's song trapped the Eight Monsters in illusions of happiness and peace, while Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao heard each other urge them to abandon the trials.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao recognized the illusions, reaffirmed their resolve, and helped the others break free.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used her forehead mark to disrupt the resonance between Sea Woman Douluo and the Sacred Pillar, allowing Tang San to strike the pillar and snap a harp string.
• Sea Woman Douluo admitted defeat and declared the sixth trial passed as she disappeared beneath the water.
• An immense pressure spread from the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, signaling the start of the final test.

The Shrek Eight Devils faced Sea Dragon Douluo after six consecutive Sacred Pillar challenges, but he bound seven of them with a single attack. With the others helpless, Xiao Xiaoxiao sacrificed her remaining power to force a resonance with the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, which began to tremble.

• The exhausted Shrek Eight Devils followed Tang San to the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar and agreed to face its challenge together.
• Sea Dragon Douluo unleashed his Dragon Might, and Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and the others struggled to resist it with their abilities and domains.
• Sea Dragon Douluo used Sea Dragon Bind to capture seven of the Eight Monsters, leaving Xiao Xiaoxiao as the only one still resisting.
• As dark-blue chains closed in on her, Xiao Xiaoxiao poured her remaining Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and Soul Origin into her mark and invoked Return to Origin of All Phenomena to trigger a resonance with the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar.
• The Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar trembled violently in response to Xiao Xiaoxiao's sacrifice.

Xiao Xiaoxiao nearly burned out her soul to break Sea Dragon Douluo’s restraints, prompting Tang San to awaken the Sea God’s will and save her. The Pact of the Seven Sacred Pillars was completed, and the group prepared to face the trials ahead.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao stirred the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar’s power and shattered the chains binding Tang San and his companions, but she began to lose consciousness as her soul burned.
• Tang San awakened the Sea God’s will through his fear and rage, calmed the Sacred Pillar, and stopped Xiao Xiaoxiao’s soul from burning away.
• Sea Dragon Douluo recognized Tang San’s connection to the Sea God, declared the Pact of the Seven Sacred Pillars complete, and the seven Sacred Pillars sent their light toward Sea God Mountain.
• The Seventh Trial was declared passed, and divine power healed the group, raised their cultivation levels, and strengthened Tang San’s Sea God imprint to twenty percent.
• Sea Dragon Douluo advised the group to let Xiao Xiaoxiao recover and warned them that greater trials remained before he disappeared into the Sacred Pillar.
• Tang San carried the sleeping Xiao Xiaoxiao and looked toward Sea God Mountain, resolved to continue their journey toward the Sea God’s throne.

After Xiao Xiaoxiao survived the Sea God Pillar trial, Tang San and the Shrek Eight Devils received the formidable requirements of their Eighth Trial. They decided to return to the continent to prepare, and Bo Saixi gave Tang San a protective treasure before they began their journey home.

• Tang San cared for the unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao while Ning Rongrong and Oscar helped tend to her.
• The group learned that Tang San had to reach the nine-ring level, gather four Clear Sky Sect Inheritance Soul Bones, and cross the Demon Whale Sea Domain to resolve the Eye of Returning Ruins' resentment within five years.
• Tang San decided the group needed to return to the Heaven Dou Empire and Shrek Academy to gather resources and prepare for the trial.
• Bo Saixi gave Tang San the Vast Sea Protective Cover and told him to take care of Xiao Xiaoxiao, whose existence might help resolve their predicament.
• Tang San and the Shrek Eight Devils set out from Sea God Island to return to the continent.

The Shrek Eight Devils sailed away from Sea God Island with the unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao as Bo Saixi read her warning that Tang Chen was trapped and being consumed by an Inner Demon. Bo Saixi resolved to wait for Tang San and the return of starlight, while Tang San continued toward the continent unaware of the message.

• The Shrek Eight Devils departed Sea God Island aboard their protected vessel, and Tang San looked back on the island as it faded from view.
• Bo Saixi received and read Xiao Xiaoxiao's sealed message, which warned that Tang Chen was trapped in the domain of slaughter and endangered by his Inner Demon.
• Bo Saixi realized that Tang San, the Sea God's Trident, pure love, and the Sea God's Heart were tied to Tang Chen's chance of survival.
• Bo Saixi chose not to interfere and vowed to wait for Tang San to grow strong enough and for the starlight to return.
• Tang San comforted the sleeping Xiao Xiaoxiao as the ship continued toward the continent, unaware of Bo Saixi's discovery.

As the Shrek Eight Devils sailed back toward Douluo Continent, they guarded the still-unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao until Purple Pearl and her pirate group surrounded their ship. Purple Pearl demanded their vessel and the treasure aboard, and Tang San prepared to fight when she refused to let them pass.

• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu cared for Xiao Xiaoxiao, who had remained unconscious for three days, while Tang San and the others kept watch during the voyage.
• Zhu Zhuqing detected hostile Sea Soul Beasts approaching, and Tang San spotted a group closing in on the ship.
• Purple Pearl surfaced on a ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast as her pirates surrounded the ship, revealing that she was a newly established Soul Douluo and captain of the Purple Pearl Pirate Group.
• Purple Pearl sensed Xiao Xiaoxiao's Sea God-related energy and demanded the ship and the treasure aboard, threatening the group and making lewd offers.
• Tang San asked Purple Pearl to let them pass, but she refused, and he manifested the Sea God's Trident Phantom as battle became imminent.

The Shrek Eight Devils fought off Purple Pearl and her pirate group at sea, with Tang San overcoming Purple Pearl’s domain and forcing her to flee. The ship resumed its journey, while Xiao Xiaoxiao’s Starlight Mark stirred faintly as she slept.

• Purple Pearl and her pirates attacked the ship, but the seven conscious Shrek Eight Devils defended it with coordinated attacks and support.
• Purple Pearl unleashed her Soul Douluo power and Corrosive Bewitchment Domain, but Tang San’s Sea God’s Light dispersed it.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Tang Sect techniques to overpower Purple Pearl in close combat.
• Purple Pearl ordered a retreat, but Tang San struck her with Sea God’s Light, Purification, leaving her badly injured as she escaped with the One-Horned Demon Shark.
• The remaining pirates fled, and Tang San ordered the ship to continue sailing after checking that Xiao Xiaoxiao was safe.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao’s eyelashes seemed to tremble as the Starlight Mark on her forehead quietly flowed.

As the sea ship continued its journey home, Tang San found that Xiao Xiaoxiao’s Soul Origin was slowly recovering, while a distant fleet passed without discovering them. He reminded his companions of the dangers and trials ahead as they renewed their resolve to grow stronger.

• Ning Rongrong noticed that Xiao Xiaoxiao looked better, and Tang San confirmed that her Soul Origin was recovering.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a distant fleet, and Tang San ordered the ship to keep its distance and observe in secret.
• Oscar gave Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu Calming Blood Nourishing Sausages to help restore their Spiritual Power.
• Tang San warned Ma Hongjun that their trials, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Spirit Hall still threatened them.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing voiced their determination to keep advancing, while the distant fleet passed without contact.