Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang and his companions reached Sea Horse Douluo’s platform to receive the Sea God’s trials, but Zhang Yang’s Three-legged Golden Crow disrupted the first attempt. After a divine intervention and a secret bargain between Sun God and Sea God, Zhang Yang received the unprecedented Top Nine Trials instead of the Sea God Nine Trials.

• Zhang Yang, Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, Bai Chenxiang, Dai Mubai, and the others crossed the Sea within a Sea and passed Sea Horse Douluo’s trial.
• Sea Horse Douluo suspected the group might have been sent by Spirit Hall and began assigning the Sea God’s trials.
• The Three-legged Golden Crow blocked the first blue pillar of light directed at Zhang Yang, prompting Sea Horse Douluo to receive a divine decree and try again.
• Zhang Yang’s second trial light changed through six colors, and nine red curtains marked him with the Top Nine Trials.
• Sea Horse Douluo congratulated Zhang Yang, while the narration revealed that Sun God and Sea God had secretly agreed to prevent Zhang Yang from inheriting the Sea God’s position in exchange for help finding Sea God’s Heart.

Bo Saixi arrived at the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar after the group received their trials and welcomed them as honored guests, warning Tang San that failure would threaten Sea God Island. The group settled in Sea Horse City and discovered that they shared the same first trial, Crossing, Sea God's Light.

• Bo Saixi met the trial candidates, recognized Tang San as Tang Chen's great-grandson, and told him no one on Sea God Island was worthy of his salute.
• Bo Saixi ordered Ou Ya to treat the nine candidates as honored guests, house them in Sea Horse City, and gather the other Sacred Pillar guardians at Sea God Hall.
• Bo Saixi warned Tang San that his trials concerned Sea God Island's survival and that failure would bring consequences worse than death.
• Sea Horse Douluo led the group to the City Lord's Mansion, where Tang San received the spacious third-floor room and the others stayed on the second floor.
• Tang San cautioned his companions not to take their trials lightly, and they discovered that everyone's first task was Crossing, Sea God's Light.

Zhang Yang and the others reached Sea God Mountain to begin their trials, but the Sea God's Light repelled their first attempt to climb its steps. After Zhang Yang saved Bai Chenxiang from a Sea Soul Beast attack on the way, the group prepared to test the trial again.

• Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Ning Rongrong compared their assigned step counts, and Zhang Yang urged everyone to wait until they saw the forbidden grounds before judging the trials.
• The group traveled to Sea God Mountain, crossed the Ring Sea, and saw the Sea God Hall and its thousand-and-one steps.
• A black fish attacked Bai Chenxiang, but Zhang Yang intercepted it and used his Conqueror's Haki to knock out nearly a hundred Sea Soul Beasts.
• Zhang Yang, Tang San, and Dai Mubai charged toward the steps and were hurled back by the Sea God's Light.
• Zhang Yang explained that the Sea God's Light reflected both physical and energy impacts, and Tang San proposed that they climb step by step while using defensive and enhancement skills.

Zhang Yang easily climbed Sea God's Light to the 175th step before being blasted away and quickly returning, while Tang San reached the 50th step and was thrown into the Ring Sea. The others began testing the trial, and Xiao Wu set a new record of 70 steps as Ning Rongrong struggled at the 20th.

• Zhang Yang ignored Sea God's Light's pressure and climbed to the 50th step, where Tang San lost focus beside him and was blasted into the Ring Sea; Dai Mubai rescued him.
• After Tang San recovered, Zhang Yang climbed to the 175th step without activating his Soul Bones, then leapt away and returned beside the group.
• Ma Hongjun tried the stairs, stalled at the 20th step, and began meditating; Zhang Yang encouraged Bai Chenxiang to try despite her not receiving a trial, and she joined the others.
• Xiao Wu climbed farther than the rest, using her strength and force-dispersing technique to reach the 70th step and surpass Tang San's record.
• Ning Rongrong exhausted herself at the 20th step while Zhang Yang watched over the cultivating Tang San and Ma Hongjun.

Zhang Yang reassured Ning Rongrong that the group could help one another pass their Sea God trials and urged them to use the year under Sea God’s Light to grow stronger. As Oscar broke through to level 60, Bo Saixi bestowed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring on him, and Zhang Yang joked that Oscar most needed an offensive Soul Skill to deal with Ma Hongjun.

• Zhang Yang calmed Ning Rongrong’s fears and explained that the group could combine their support skills and Tang San’s domains to help each other climb the Sea God’s Light.
• The group decided to camp beside Sea God’s Light and cultivate for a year, while Zhang Yang handled their food and water supplies.
• After only a few days, Oscar broke through from level 59, and Bo Saixi appeared to bestow a God-Bestowed Soul Ring on him.
• Bo Saixi explained that Black Level Trial participants received one God-Bestowed Soul Ring at their first bottleneck, prompting Zhang Yang to describe his own experience absorbing three.
• When Dai Mubai asked which Soul Skill Oscar needed most, Zhang Yang claimed Oscar wanted an offensive skill to punish Ma Hongjun for the trouble he had caused.

Oscar gained his sixth Soul Ring and an offensive skill that let him copy Zhang Yang’s abilities for three minutes. He tested it on Ma Hongjun, then asked Zhang Yang for another drop of blood as the battered Ma Hongjun cursed from a sand pit.

• Zhang Yang explained that Oscar needed an offensive Soul Skill so he could protect himself rather than depend on others.
• Oscar gained his sixth Soul Ring, then revealed his Mirror Sausage skill and used a drop of Zhang Yang’s blood to transform into a powerful copy.
• Oscar challenged Ma Hongjun to test the skill, and Ma Hongjun attacked him with his Phoenix flames.
• Oscar dodged Ma Hongjun’s fire and struck him with a Light Speed Kick, sending him crashing into the sand.
• Oscar asked Zhang Yang for another drop of blood while Ma Hongjun raised his middle finger and cursed.

Oscar explained the strengths and limits of his Mirror Sausage, and Ma Hongjun gained his sixth soul skill before the group spent a year training for the Sea God trial. Bai Chenxiang pushed herself to the sixty-first step and had her trial upgraded from Yellow-tier to Purple-tier, after which Tang San began organizing the Shrek Seven Devils’ attempt.

• Oscar told Tang San and the others that his Mirror Sausage could copy a blood donor’s Martial Soul and Soul Skills, and the group contributed blood so he could make more sausages.
• Ma Hongjun reached rank sixty, absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring granted by Bo Saixi, and gained the ranged attack Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike.
• After a year of training, Tang San reached rank seventy-five, Dai Mubai broke through rank seventy, and the rest of the group strengthened their cultivation and resolve.
• Bai Chenxiang climbed to the sixty-first step despite severe pressure and exhaustion, and Ma Hongjun caught her as she fell.
• Bo Saixi announced that Sea God had upgraded Bai Chenxiang’s completed Yellow-tier One Trial to Purple-tier One Trial, granting her new authority and access to Sea God Mountain.
• Tang San assigned the Shrek Seven Devils their order for attempting the first trial, with Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing going first.

Oscar, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun passed the first Sea God's Light trial, while Zhang Yang helped Ning Rongrong climb to her trial’s finish. Zhang Yang and Tang San also completed their trials, with Tang San gaining five percent Sea God Affinity.

• Oscar used Dai Mubai’s copied skills, Ning Rongrong’s support, and Tang San’s domains to reach the hundred and eighth step, passing his first trial and rising from Level 68 to Level 69.
• Dai Mubai passed his trial at the hundred and eighth step, while Xiao Wu continued to the hundred and thirty-sixth step and completed hers.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ma Hongjun passed their trials, and Zhu Zhuqing broke through to Level 70; five of the eight had now completed the first trial.
• Zhang Yang carried Ning Rongrong through Sea God’s Light while Tang San used Devouring Golden Silk to transfer Zhang Yang’s Soul Power to her, enabling her to reach the hundred and thirty-sixth step and pass her trial.
• Zhang Yang climbed to the hundred and seventy-sixth step, passed his first trial, and rose to Level 87 as his Soul Ring skills gained a thousand years of power.
• After recovering, Tang San reached the hundred and seventy-sixth step and completed his trial, gaining five percent Sea God Affinity.

After completing the first trial, the Shrek Team began the second trial, breaking through the Ring Sea Lockdown. Tang San and Zhang Yang learned they could not use Soul Ring skills, while Ning Rongrong discovered her Seventh Soul Skill had been sealed; Tang San proposed three days of rest before the team trained together.

• Bo Saixi offered to count the trials as completed if the team defeated her, but Zhang Yang said they could not win and declined.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing completed their God-Bestowed Soul Ring trials, and a golden barrier appeared over the Ring Sea as the second trial began.
• Dai Mubai read the trial conditions: the team had to cross the Ring Sea with a Sea Soul Beast as a prerequisite, while Tang San and Zhang Yang were forbidden from using Soul Ring skills.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seventh Soul Skill, Nine Treasure True Body, was sealed for the trial, while Zhu Zhuqing could use her Spirit Cat True Body.
• Tang San told the team that his reward was five percent Sea God Affinity, and Zhang Yang explained that divine affinity might measure progress toward inheriting a deity's position.
• Tang San urged the team to rest for three days before practicing their abilities and coordination, and Zhang Yang jokingly invited Ning Rongrong to find somewhere to sleep.

After a month of training, Zhang Yang tested the Ring Sea’s blockade and discovered that the Demon Soul Great White Shark king could repel them without trying to kill them. Tang San decided the group would train underwater to improve their teamwork, while Ma Hongjun continued cultivating toward level seventy.

• After Zhang Yang suggested testing the second trial, Tang San sent him into the Ring Sea, where Ning Rongrong’s support buffs were weakened by the seawater and arrowfish surrounded him.
• Zhang Yang used Conqueror’s Haki to incapacitate the arrowfish, but the Demon Soul Great White Shark king swept him back to shore before he could cross.
• Zhang Yang and Tang San concluded that the trial tested their ability to cross the sea rather than defeat its guardian, and Tang San proposed using it to improve their underwater combat skills.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun entered the Ring Sea but were quickly driven back by the Demon Soul Great White Shark king, while Tang San also tested the water and was forced ashore.
• Tang San assigned the group to practice underwater combat and told Ma Hongjun to focus on reaching level seventy, promising he had a way to help him obtain a seventh Soul Ring.

Ma Hongjun broke through level seventy and gained a seventh Soul Ring by absorbing Tang San’s Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent inner core, which also made him lose weight. Months later, Tang San and the others defeated the Demon Soul Great White Shark King’s trial and crossed the Ring Sea, where she transformed into a young woman named Xiao Bai.

• Ma Hongjun arrived after breaking through level seventy, and Tang San gave him the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent inner core to use as his seventh Soul Ring.
• With Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar assisting, Ma Hongjun absorbed the inner core, became a Seven-Headed Fire Phoenix, and shed his fat; Zhang Yang then sent him flying with the Demon Soul Great White Shark King during another sparring match.
• Five months later, Tang San led the group in a formal attempt to cross the crystalized Ring Sea, while Zhang Yang used Tree Realm Descent to help the Hell White Tiger confront the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.
• Tang San shattered the Ring Sea with Nine-Nine Returns to One, and Zhang Yang used his trees to carry the group beyond the trial’s hundred-meter boundary.
• The defeated Demon Soul Great White Shark King recovered, transformed into a young woman, and introduced herself as Xiao Bai.

Zhang Yang and the others began the Sea God trial of Tidal Body Tempering, enduring relentless waves while bound to Sinking Silver Pillars. Zhang Yang used the ordeal to train Iron Body and pursue Armament Haki, and the story left him still on the pillar after eighteen hours.

• Zhang Yang and the others received their second-trial rewards and learned that their third trial was Tidal Body Tempering.
• Bo Saixi led them to Raging Waves Peril and explained that they had to endure the crashing waves on Sinking Silver Pillars for a required daily duration over 365 days.
• Bo Saixi secured the eight trial-takers to the pillars, where repeated waves battered them and disabled their support and body-enhancing Soul Skills.
• Tang San and the others lasted a little over three hours before Bo Saixi rescued them, leaving them numb and in severe pain as they recovered ashore.
• Zhang Yang remained on his pillar for eighteen hours after Borsalino advised him to use Iron Body to train toward Armament Haki.

During the Third Trial, Zhang Yang and the Shrek group completed Tidal Body Tempering, while Oscar obtained his seventh Soul Ring. Zhang Yang became a Level 93 Titled Douluo after absorbing a hundred-thousand-year God-Bestowed Soul Ring, awakened a domain, and chose the title Yellow Ape Douluo.

• Zhang Yang revealed that he used Iron Body to endure the Sinking Silver Pillar for twenty hours before Bo Saixi returned the group to their crosses.
• Oscar hunted a sea fish Soul Beast and gained his seventh Soul Ring, which produced powerful Fish Meat Sausages that enhanced others’ next skills.
• After months of Tidal Body Tempering, the group gained stronger bodies and the ability to disperse impacts through their skin, while Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes reached the Vast realm.
• Zhang Yang received the Sea God trial reward and a Sun God-bestowed Soul Ring, reaching Level 93 and awakening a dazzling domain.
• Zhang Yang woke after forty-eight hours, ate lobster, and declared that his Titled Douluo title would be Yellow Ape Douluo.

Zhang Yang explained his ninth Soul Ring skills and domain before the group rested for three months and prepared to face the Evil Spirit Orcas in their Fourth Trial. They met Xiao Bai, who warned them about the orcas and revealed that the Evil Orca King had killed her younger brother.

• Zhang Yang described Solar Flare, Light Blade, and Flash Domain, then agreed with Tang San that the group should return to Sea Horse City to rest before the trial.
• The group spent three months recuperating, during which their cultivation improved, and then set out to find Xiao Bai and complete the Shark-Whale Battle.
• Bai Chenxiang insisted on joining the expedition as an aerial scout, and Ma Hongjun reluctantly agreed to let her come.
• Zhang Yang located Xiao Bai with Observation Haki, and Tang San used Divine Slaughter's Domain to summon her and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Xiao Bai transformed and met Tang San's group, warning them that the Evil Spirit Orcas were vicious and revealing that the Evil Orca King had killed her younger brother.

Xiao Bai led the Demon Soul Great White Sharks and the group toward the Evil Spirit Orcas, while Tang San planned to minimize casualties with Zhang Yang’s Conqueror’s Haki. The rival pods met in battle, and Zhang Yang unleashed his power above the Orcas.

• Xiao Bai explained that the Evil Spirit Orcas were powerful, numerous, and mortal enemies of her clan, then agreed to lead the Demon Soul Great White Sharks into battle.
• Xiao Bai asked Tang San to protect the clan’s young if she did not return, and Tang San reassured her that Ning Rongrong’s trial required her survival.
• The group traveled across the open sea, and Zhang Yang detected the Evil Spirit Orca pod resting near its territory.
• Tang San revealed that Zhang Yang’s Conqueror’s Haki would give them an advantage, and Xiao Bai was stunned by its strength.
• The two pods met, and Xiao Bai confronted the Evil Orca King over her brother’s death before charging into battle.
• Tang San assigned his companions their roles, and Zhang Yang rose above the Evil Spirit Orcas and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki.

Zhang Yang, Tang San, and the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan overwhelmed the Evil Spirit Orcas during the Shark-Whale Battle, but the Evil Orca King tried to destroy everyone by self-destructing. Borsalino stopped him, and the trial ended with rewards for the group while Zhang Yang advanced to rank ninety-five.

• Zhang Yang used Conqueror's Haki to knock out most of the Evil Spirit Orcas, allowing Dai Mubai's group and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to carry out their planned attacks.
• Tang San unleashed Asura Hell, weakening the Evil Spirit Orcas and strengthening the Demon Soul Great White Sharks as the battle rapidly turned into a slaughter.
• Xiao Bai fought the Evil Orca King while Borsalino harried him, until the desperate king began to self-destruct and created a powerful magnetic field.
• Borsalino used Armament Haki to withstand the field and pierced the Evil Orca King's eye, stopping his self-destruction and killing him.
• The Shrek group and Xiao Bai received trial rewards, while Zhang Yang received two Soul Power levels and 2,000 years of Soul Ring age, reaching rank ninety-five.

Tang San gained greater Sea God Affinity and began absorbing a Soul Ring while Zhang Yang received a divine revelation that let him fuse two Soul Rings and absorb the Evil Orca King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Zhang Yang also gained a powerful External Soul Bone, leaving him at level ninety-six with greatly amplified abilities as the group returned to Sea God Island.

• Tang San's Golden Trident released Sea God's Light, which intimidated the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, and Xiao Bai thanked him and the others for defeating the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Zhang Yang kept the Evil Orca King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Bone while Tang San selected a high-aged Soul Ring to absorb.
• A golden beam descended on Zhang Yang, and the Sun God's power fused his fourth and fifth Soul Rings into one red Soul Ring to make room for the Evil Orca King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Yang absorbed the Evil Orca King's Soul Ring, gained a level, and received a Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone that amplified his abilities; his Navy Uniform Soul Bone Set also changed.
• Zhang Yang explained the fusion and the External Soul Bone's effects to the group as they returned to Sea God Island.

Zhang Yang explained his plan to use the Sea God's Fifth Trial to test the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluos and prepare to confront Dugu Bo, who had crippled him ten years earlier. He began the trial against Sea Horse Douluo and defeated him with a devastating Light Speed Kick, leaving six opponents ahead.

• Zhang Yang told the group he would use his Soul Bone's recovery ability and the trial's battles to assess the Sea Douluos before the others chose their opponents.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Zhang Yang wanted to defeat Dugu Bo head-on and repay the injuries from ten years earlier, while Tang San kept Dugu Bo's Head Soul Bone secret.
• At midnight, Zhang Yang began his Fifth Trial before Sea Horse Douluo, with twenty-four hours to defeat all seven Sacred Pillar Douluos.
• Zhang Yang activated Flash Domain, struck Sea Horse Douluo with an enhanced Light Speed Kick, shattered his armor, and left him unable to continue fighting.

Zhang Yang and the Shrek Team defeated several Sacred Pillar guardians by taking advantage of Zhang Yang’s victories, then Tang San broke Sea Illusion Douluo’s reality-shaping illusion domain. Zhang Yang entered the domain next and found himself facing a listening examination.

• Zhang Yang defeated Sea Horse Douluo, and Oscar and Tang San followed by completing their trials against the injured guardian.
• Zhang Yang defeated Sea Spear Douluo, after which Dai Mubai and Tang San completed their trials against him.
• Tang San entered Sea Illusion Douluo’s domain, broke the illusion with his power, and warned Zhang Yang that injuries inside it could be real.
• Zhang Yang entered the domain and was confronted with a listening test about the price of a shirt.

Zhang Yang passed Sea Illusion Douluo’s trial by having Borsalino shatter an illusion that recreated his college entrance exam, then continued with the group toward the final Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar. Zhu Zhuqing completed her Black-tier Five Trials and received two levels of Soul Power and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring; the chapter ended as Zhang Yang recognized Sea Dragon Douluo as Lin Lei Baruch.

• Zhang Yang relived his failed English exam in Sea Illusion Douluo’s Domain Environment, and Borsalino shattered the illusion so Zhang Yang could pass.
• The group defeated Sea Ghost Douluo, Sea Star Douluo, and Sea Woman Douluo as they advanced through the Fifth Trial.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed her Black-tier Five Trials, gained two Soul Power levels, and received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring that could take her to level eighty.
• Zhang Yang left Zhu Zhuqing to absorb her Soul Ring under Bai Chenxiang’s protection and led the others toward the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar.
• Sea Dragon Douluo transformed and revealed his nine Soul Rings, and Zhang Yang recognized him as Lin Lei Baruch.