Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang defeated Sea Dragon Douluo in a battle of strength and earned the doubled reward for completing his Fifth Trial, raising his Soul Power to level ninety-eight. Tang San then defeated Sea Dragon Douluo in a fair contest using their Martial Souls, completed his Fifth Trial, and began the Sixth Trial.

• Sea Dragon Douluo nullified Zhang Yang’s Flash Domain with his Demon Breaking Domain, but Zhang Yang overpowered him in a series of fist-to-fist clashes.
• Both fighters were blasted into the Sea within a Sea, but Zhang Yang reached shore first and won the challenge against Sea Dragon Douluo.
• Zhang Yang received the doubled Fifth Trial reward, gained two Soul Power levels, and reached level ninety-eight.
• Tang San offered Sea Dragon Douluo recovery sausages, but Sea Dragon Douluo healed most of his physical injuries through the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar and then agreed to fight.
• Tang San and Sea Dragon Douluo fought without Soul Ring or Soul Bone Skills, and Tang San won through his Martial Soul techniques and combat skill.
• Tang San received his Fifth Trial reward and began the Sixth Trial, which required him to endure the combined attacks of the Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars Douluo for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Bo Saixi announced the restrictions for the Sixth Trial: the Shrek team had to withstand her attacks for one incense stick, while Zhang Yang faced her separately. As the assessment approached, Tang San planned their defense, and Dai Mubai offered to risk his future by seeking another Soul Ring before Zhang Yang and the others persuaded him to wait.

• Bo Saixi told Tang San and the others that they had three days to prepare to withstand her first six Soul Skills for one incense stick, without her domain or the sea and temple's power; Zhang Yang would face her alone under separate restrictions.
• Tang San chose the foot of Sea God Mountain as the assessment site, and Sea Dragon Douluo warned the group that Bo Saixi's guidance and power made her overwhelming even with restrictions.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed her God-Bestowed Soul Ring and gained a powerful single-target skill, while Tang San used the final day to plan how the group could survive Bo Saixi's assault.
• Zhang Yang offered to face Bo Saixi first to learn her Soul Skills, and Dai Mubai proposed obtaining a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to strengthen the team; Tang San rejected the plan, and the others persuaded Dai Mubai not to risk his future.
• Zhang Yang proposed using Oscar's Mirror Sausages to provide his Elementalization, and Oscar began preparing them while Tang San directed the team to conserve Soul Power for their defense.

Zhang Yang and the Shrek Seven Devils began their final assessment against Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi, with Zhang Yang summoning Borsalino to stall her. As Borsalino’s attacks forced Bo Saixi to reveal her Martial Soul, Zhang Yang prepared to unleash Sunshine Everywhere.

• Xiao Bai brought Zhang Yang and the others across the Ring Sea, then left them to face Bo Saixi while Bai Chenxiang joined the group.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang, and Tang San and Xiao Wu shared parting moments before the assessment began.
• Bo Saixi warned the group about the consequences of failure, moved Zhu Zhuqing and Bai Chenxiang to the Sea God Steps, and set a burning incense stick as the battle’s timer.
• Zhang Yang activated his buffs and summoned Borsalino, who attacked Bo Saixi with a Light Speed Kick and Laser before using the Yata Mirror and Yasakani no Magatama to keep her occupied.
• Bo Saixi summoned her Sea God Martial Soul and blocked Borsalino’s barrage with her fifth Soul Skill, while Zhang Yang appeared behind her and began charging Sunshine Everywhere.

Zhang Yang passed his Sixth Trial by using Sunshine Everywhere to burn through the required incense while fighting Bo Saixi, then restored the scorched ground with trees. Tang San and the others began their own trial by fleeing with copied Point-tailed Swift abilities, but Bo Saixi’s water-elemental vortex dragged them back, and Oscar moved to attack her.

• Zhang Yang’s Sunshine Everywhere melted the beach and burned up the incense, completing his Sixth Trial and raising his Soul Power to level 99.
• Zhang Yang regrew a vast forest at the foot of Sea God Mountain, and Bo Saixi recovered her Soul Power before starting Tang San and the others’ trial.
• Ma Hongjun tried to light Bo Saixi’s incense with Phoenix Flame and question its length, but Bo Saixi saw through the ploy and began the trial.
• Tang San and the others used Mirror Sausages to copy Bai Chenxiang’s Point-tailed Swift Martial Soul, then scattered through the air while releasing detection-interfering ripples.
• Bo Saixi created a water-elemental vortex that slowed or pulled the fleeing group toward her, and Oscar used a Mirror Sausage to rush in and deliver a Light Speed Kick.

Oscar and Tang San fought Bo Saixi long enough for the others to escape, then Tang San used the Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars Guardian Douluo’s intervention to force the Sixth Trial’s rules to change. The group passed the trial, and Tang San’s Sea God Affinity rose to seventy percent.

• Oscar used his Light Speed Kick, laser, and Light Hammer to knock Bo Saixi back, giving the others time to flee and Ning Rongrong time to recover.
• Bo Saixi struck Oscar with a spiritual attack, but Tang San intercepted her and clashed with her using Purple Demon Eyes before drawing her toward Sea God Hall.
• Tang San threatened Sea God Hall with ten Light Arrows, prompting the Seven Sacred Pillars Guardian Douluo to intervene and trigger a change to the trial rules.
• The Sea God permitted the examinees to leave Sea God Island to pass, and Tang San used Yata Mirror to escape the examination grounds.
• Tang San and the others received their Pass Rewards, and Tang San’s Sea God Affinity increased by twenty percent to seventy percent.

Tang San passed the Sea God Sixth Trial after surviving Bo Saixi’s attempt to kill him, and she acknowledged his insight while warning that the remaining trials still threatened his life. After recovering, he learned Zhang Yang would return to the Douluo Continent for his Seventh Trial and decided to send letters home with him.

• Tang San passed the Sixth Trial, earning twenty percent Sea God Affinity, and Bo Saixi admitted that his reasoning about her intentions was largely correct.
• Bo Saixi warned Tang San that failing any remaining Sea God Nine Trial would still mean certain death, then promised to prepare for his Seventh Trial.
• Bo Saixi granted Zhang Yang permission to leave Sea God Island and revealed his Seventh Trial was to retrieve the Sea God's Heart within one year.
• Tang San collapsed from exhaustion and slept for a day and night while his companions prepared letters for Zhang Yang to deliver home.
• After waking beside Xiao Wu, Tang San learned Zhang Yang had not yet set out and asked to write letters for him to carry.

After returning from Sea God Island, Zhang Yang learned that Xue Ye was dying and Xue Qinghe would soon become emperor. Zhang Yang also discovered that the Sea God's Heart was the Heaven Dou Empire's national treasure, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, leaving him needing to obtain it from the Imperial Family.

• Zhang Yang and his companions prepared letters for their families and teachers before he took Bo Saixi's scroll about the Sea God's Heart and returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo welcomed Zhang Yang, who revealed that his Soul Power had reached level 99.
• Zhang Yang learned that most spies watching the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect belonged to the Imperial Family, and Ning Fengzhi explained that Xue Ye was gravely ill and Xue Qinghe would soon ascend the throne.
• Zhang Yang asked Ning Fengzhi to help locate the Sea God's Heart, and Ning Fengzhi identified it as the Heaven Dou Empire's national treasure, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Zhang Yang sought a way to secure the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud by offering the Heaven Dou Empire a military version of the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons. After delivering letters and collecting a prototype and blueprints, he returned to Sea God Island, where he learned Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were still asleep after celebrating their escape from the Black-tier Six Trials.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Zhang Yang that Xue Qinghe’s influence made the Heaven Dou Imperial Family wary of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and advised trading military aid for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Zhang Yang proposed asking the Tang Sect to adapt its hidden weapons for soldiers, and Titan described a cheaper military Godly Zhuge Crossbow with armor-piercing and explosive bolts.
• Zhang Yang delivered letters to friends and sect members, then visited Shrek Academy, where Master was astonished to hear he had reached level 99.
• Titan gave Zhang Yang the military Godly Zhuge Crossbow blueprints and arranged for him to take two physical prototypes to Tang San.
• Three days later, Zhang Yang returned to Sea God Island and discovered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had not gotten up since three hours earlier, prompting Xiao Wu to complain about men.

Tang San and Zhang Yang planned to develop the Tang Sect through cooperation with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, while Zhang Yang identified the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as a likely key to their divine trials. After a day of shopping and teasing among the group, Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong spent the night together.

• Tang San chose cooperation with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family as the best path for the Tang Sect, and Zhang Yang agreed to arrange discussions through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Zhang Yang argued that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was probably the Sea God's Heart needed for the Sea God trials, and Tang San agreed it might unlock his Seventh Trial.
• Ning Rongrong received hundreds of garments from her father and made Zhang Yang help her sort and coordinate outfits.
• Dai Mubai arrived at dinner exhausted beside Zhu Zhuqing and ate the brothers' deliberately nourishing seafood dishes in silence.
• The group returned to their rooms with letters from Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong spent the night together.

Zhang Yang and Ning Fengzhi hurried to negotiate with Emperor Xue Ye over the Sea God's Heart and the improved Godly Zhuge Crossbow, aiming to secure the exchange before Xue Qinghe's succession. They entered Xue Ye's bedchamber with Tang Sect Elder Titan, granted only half an hour for the audience.

• At dinner, Zhang Yang joked with Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai over the oysters before the group discussed how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tang Sect should negotiate with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhang Yang returned to Heaven Dou City, delivered the girls' clothing orders, and told Ning Fengzhi about Tang San's proposal to have the Tang Sect support the deal.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to contact Titan and push for a transaction within three days, while Zhang Yang delivered Tang San's letter to Titan and arranged a meeting with Xue Ye.
• The next morning, Zhang Yang and Ning Fengzhi joined Titan at the Tang Sect and traveled together to Heaven Dou Palace.
• After a palace guard limited their audience to half an hour, Ning Fengzhi led Zhang Yang and Titan into Xue Ye's bedchamber.

Ning Fengzhi and Tai Tan negotiated with Xue Ye to exchange the Tang Sect’s improved Godly Zhuge Crossbows for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. After Zhang Yang revealed that he was a level 99 Super Douluo, Xue Ye presented him with the treasure, which Zhang Yang recognized as the Sea God’s Heart.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced Tai Tan, who offered the Heaven Dou Empire improved Godly Zhuge Crossbows for its army.
• Ning Fengzhi persuaded Xue Ye to trade the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for the crossbows and strengthen ties with the Tang Sect.
• Xue Ye asked why the Tang Sect wanted the treasure, and Ning Fengzhi explained that Zhang Yang and Tang San urgently needed it for their travels abroad.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had reached level 99 and demonstrated his overwhelming Soul Power, shocking Xue Ye, Prince Xue Xing, and the others.
• Xue Ye ordered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud delivered to Zhang Yang, who recognized the crystalline blue object as the Sea God’s Heart.

Zhang Yang secured the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, prompting Xue Qinghe and Spirit Hall to worry about his strength and plans. After deciding to confront Dugu Bo over an old injury, Zhang Yang met Xue Beng, who knelt before Ning Fengzhi and begged him to save his life.

• Zhang Yang stored the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xue Ye told Xue Qinghe to strengthen ties with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and secretly develop Godly Zhuge Crossbow troops.
• Xue Qinghe questioned a Spirit Hall agent about Zhang Yang, concluded he might have inherited a Deity's legacy, and sent a report that left Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall's leaders alarmed.
• Zhang Yang told Ning Fengzhi he planned to confront Dugu Bo for breaking his legs and ribs ten years earlier, and Ning Fengzhi warned him about Dugu Bo's ties to Dugu Yan, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xue Beng, Prince Xue Xing, and Dugu Bo arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to visit Zhang Yang, and Xue Beng immediately knelt before Ning Fengzhi to plead for his life.
• Ning Fengzhi rejected Xue Beng's gesture, Bone Douluo hauled him up, and Zhang Yang ordered the servants and guards to leave and keep the matter secret.

Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng asked Zhang Yang to protect them from Xue Qinghe, who they said had poisoned the emperor and secretly recruited two powerful Titled Douluo. Zhang Yang rejected their appeal, humiliated Dugu Bo over an old grievance, and then revealed that two unfamiliar Titled Douluo were near the Heaven Dou City Spirit Hall.

• Prince Xue Xing told Ning Fengzhi that Xue Luochuan and Xue Haicang had been poisoned and accused Xue Qinghe of arranging their deaths.
• Prince Xue Xing said Poison Douluo had found the same poison in Xue Ye, and Xue Beng revealed that Xue Qinghe had two Titled Douluo stronger than Dugu Bo.
• Zhang Yang said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should not interfere in the Imperial Family's affairs, but Dugu Bo appealed to him on Tang San's behalf.
• Zhang Yang seized Dugu Bo by the throat, reminded him that he had broken Zhang Yang's legs and ribs ten years earlier, and warned that he would repay the debt.
• Zhang Yang ordered Dugu Bo, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Beng to leave, then revealed that two unfamiliar Titled Douluo were near the Heaven Dou City Spirit Hall.

Zhang Yang returned to Sea God Island with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, completing his seventh Sea God Trial and fifth Sun God Trial. Tang San bonded with the Sea God's Heart and received its knowledge overnight, while Zhang Yang prepared to finish his remaining trials and bring Ning Rongrong back.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Zhang Yang that Xue Qinghe's ties to Salas and two Titled Douluo suggested greater plans, and urged him to return to Sea God Island and complete his trials quickly.
• Zhang Yang returned to Sea Horse City with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, triggering the completion of his seventh Sea God Trial and fifth Sun God Trial and fully repairing his Gravity Light Left Arm Bone.
• Bo Saixi instructed Tang San to drip his blood onto the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which absorbed it and revealed a phantom that recognized his physique as suitable for bearing Vast Sea Power.
• Tang San lost consciousness after the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud absorbed his blood, and Bo Saixi announced that his seventh trial would begin in one week.
• After waking, Tang San poured Soul Power into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and received its knowledge in a vision, remaining enveloped in blue light until dawn.

Tang San learned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s abilities and discovered that his Seventh Trial required him to draw the Sea God’s Trident. Bo Saixi explained that the trial would determine whether Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu could continue as the Sea God’s heirs, and Tang San approached the Trident as Zhang Yang arrived at the Sun God Bow.

• Tang San demonstrated the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s protective barrier and its ability to immobilize a chosen target, then explained its other skills.
• Tang San learned that his Seventh Trial was to draw the Sea God’s Trident, while Zhang Yang revealed that his Eighth Trial required him to draw the Sun God Bow.
• After resting for three days, Tang San brought Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to Sea God Hall, where Bo Saixi explained the Sea God’s legacy and the path to becoming a god.
• Bo Saixi told Tang San that drawing the Trident and earning its recognition would pass all three of their Seventh Trials, while failure would leave their fate beyond her control.
• Tang San walked toward the Sea God’s Trident with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu beside him, while Zhang Yang arrived at the Sun God Bow under Fusang’s guidance.

Zhang Yang retrieved the Sun God Bow from Fusang and completed the Sun God Trial and Sea God's top-tier Eighth Trial, gaining powerful new abilities and rewards. The gods then ordered him to kill Titled Douluo affiliated with Spirit Hall, leaving him facing a five-year deadline and a looming massacre.

• Fusang explained that the Sun God Bow would acknowledge Zhang Yang because his Sun God Affinity and Soul Power exceeded its requirements, and urged him to retrieve it before Xiao San pulled out the Sea God's Trident.
• Zhang Yang touched the Sun God Bow, which absorbed his blood and transformed as golden patterns spread across its body.
• A pillar of sunlight appeared, allowing Zhang Yang to pull the Sun God Bow free and complete both his Sun God Sixth Trial and Sea God's top-tier Eighth Trial; his remaining black Soul Rings became red.
• Zhang Yang learned that the Sun God Bow could create sunlight strings and arrows, and that its Guidance Arrow could turn sunlight falling on a marked target into damaging arrows.
• The Sun God ordered Zhang Yang to kill ten Titled Douluo affiliated with Spirit Hall within five years, while the Sea God ordered him to kill one within the same period.

Zhang Yang showed off the Sun God Bow as Tang San recovered and announced that the group could leave Sea God Island. The companions set out for the mainland, with Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing deciding to give up their claim to the Star Luo throne.

• Ma Hongjun admired Zhang Yang's Sun God Bow, and Zhang Yang explained that its six-thousand-degree heat made it dangerous for anyone else to touch.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu returned from Sea God Mountain and told the group that Tang San was recovering in Sea God Hall; Ning Rongrong safely touched Zhang Yang's bow.
• Tang San emerged fully recovered, received the Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars Guardian Douluo's salute, and said the group would leave for the mainland before returning within five years for the Ninth Trial.
• Dai Mubai told the group that he and Zhu Zhuqing would give up the Star Luo throne to his elder brother and return to Heaven Dou City with their friends.
• Tang San wrapped the Sea God's Trident, and Xiao Bai brought Demon Soul Great White Sharks to carry the group from Sea God Island toward Vast Sea City.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, the Shrek Team learned that Xue Qinghe and Spirit Hall were preparing against them while Zhang Yang and Ning Fengzhi discussed how to handle Spirit Hall. Ning Fengzhi then pressed Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong to have a child, leaving Zhang Yang embarrassed and promising to discuss it with his wife.

• Xiao Bai escorted Tang San and the others back to the continent, and the group traveled to Heaven Dou City before splitting up to return to their homes and sects.
• Xue Qinghe learned that the Shrek Team had returned, and Spirit Hall's elders linked Zhang Yang's level 99 strength to a divine inheritance and proposed dividing the team while advancing the Shadow Dancer Project.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Zhang Yang against attacking Spirit Hall recklessly and urged him to plan carefully around Qian Daoliu and the risk of retaliation.
• Zhang Yang joked about dropping a meteor on Spirit City, but Ning Fengzhi cautioned him not to damage Douluo Hall or provoke Soul Masters across the continent.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Zhang Yang when he and Ning Rongrong would have a child, and Zhang Yang blushed and said he would discuss it with her.

Ten days after recovering, Ning Rongrong returned to Tang Sect and told Xiao Wu she wanted a child with Zhang Yang. Tang San discussed his plan to raise his Soul Power by adding Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer, while Zhang Yang reflected on their families’ hopes and the limited time they had with their parents.

• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu went to the Finance Office, leaving Zhang Yang and Tang San to talk in the Council Hall.
• Tang San explained that his teacher had suggested adding Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer to help him reach the Titled Douluo level within five years.
• Tang San said he planned to take Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings and that Tang Sect’s major work was fulfilling a large equipment order for the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhang Yang told Tang San that their families were urging him and Ning Rongrong to have a child, and he worried they might not have as much time with their parents as they assumed.
• Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu she and Zhang Yang wanted a child after six years of marriage, and planned to let Ning Fengzhi help raise the child while they took on sect responsibilities.

The Heaven Dou Empire equipped and trained its Divine Crossbow Troops with Godly Zhuge Crossbows supplied by the Tang Sect. At the troops’ first demonstration before Xue Qinghe, one volley killed a charging Iron Armored Rhinoceros, and the chapter ended with the spectators impressed by the weapon’s power.

• The Tang Sect delivered the first thousand Godly Zhuge Crossbows and custom equipment to the Secret Troops at the Royal Hunting Ground.
• Commander Kyle trained the soldiers to use their new weapons and led them through a month of fully equipped drills.
• Xue Qinghe, Tang San, Ning Fengzhi, and other officials arrived to inspect the troops and watch their first live demonstration.
• Commander Kyle introduced a two-thousand-year Iron Armored Rhinoceros as the first target and ordered thirty elite soldiers to fire.
• The soldiers’ synchronized volley struck the rhinoceros with hundreds of bolts and killed it before it could reach them.
• Xue Qinghe praised the demonstration as the spectators reacted with excitement.