Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang returned Song Sheng’s belongings to Song Shi and left Luoshang City with Ning Rongrong for Vast Sea City. On the road, he explained his theory that the sea might suit his Borsalino Martial Soul because its original owner was likely a naval officer.

• Zhang Yang gave Song Shi the recovered Storage Soul Tool, and Song Shi thanked him and Ning Rongrong before letting them pass.
• Ning Rongrong suggested they head straight to Vast Sea City so Zhang Yang could resume cultivating, and they promptly checked out and left Luoshang City.
• Song Shi learned they had departed and went to the western gate, but abandoned the pursuit after hearing they had already headed west.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong traveled nearly three hundred kilometers in a day, then rested at an inn in a small town.
• Ning Rongrong questioned whether the sea suited Zhang Yang’s Martial Soul, and Zhang Yang explained his reasoning for believing Borsalino belonged to a naval officer.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong arrived in Vast Sea City, where the sea air greatly increased Zhang Yang’s cultivation speed. After breaking through to level 53, Zhang Yang planned to buy land and recreate his Mimicry Training Environment before exploring the city with Ning Rongrong.

• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong entered Vast Sea City, and Zhang Yang felt his Soul Power stir in the sea air.
• Zhang Yang bought Ning Rongrong a necklace Soul Tool that filtered the salty air, and she spent the afternoon trying on outfits to match it.
• Zhang Yang cultivated through the night and broke through to level 53 after eighteen hours.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong planned to visit the Great Soul Arena and auction house, where the arena used a massive pool for Soul Battles.
• Zhang Yang told Ning Rongrong he had contacted the Brokerage to buy land and recreate a Mimicry Training Environment.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong toured Vast Sea City's Great Soul Arena and attended its auction, where Zhang Yang bought the Dragon Abyss Boat for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. The pair left amused by the locals' low opinion of the Soul Tool, while Zhang Yang considered using it for a sea voyage.

• Zhang Yang paid a deposit on a five-hundred-square-meter residence with courtyard space for a Mimicry Training Environment and arranged to inspect it the next day.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong watched two pool battles and discussed the dangers Sea Soul Masters posed to land Soul Masters in underwater combat.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong attended the auction in masks and listened as the auctioneer described the Dragon Abyss Boat's abilities and limitations.
• Zhang Yang bid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Dragon Abyss Boat after the other guests showed little interest in it.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong joked that the locals considered them suckers, and Ning Rongrong leaned into Zhang Yang's embrace.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong bought a Sea Calming Pearl at auction, then set out aboard a tour boat to test whether cultivating at sea would improve Zhang Yang’s cultivation. The pearl steadied the ship, and Zhang Yang began cultivating while Ning Rongrong stood guard.

• Zhang Yang outbid a black-tier guest and bought the Sea Calming Pearl for thirty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Rongrong inspected the auction items and paid for them with her black savings card before she and Zhang Yang returned to their hotel.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong completed their property purchases and arranged construction of the Mimicry Training Environment.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong boarded the Green Fish with Captain Li Ke and sailed from Vast Sea City’s docks.
• Ning Rongrong activated the Sea Calming Pearl, creating a calm area around the ship and reporting that it could run for more than ten hours.
• Zhang Yang began cultivating on a waterproof cushion while Ning Rongrong cocked a Godly Zhuge Crossbow to guard him.

Zhang Yang discovered that cultivating at sea tripled his cultivation speed, so he and Ning Rongrong stayed in Vast Sea City and tried out their Dragon Abyss Boat. They descended beneath the surface and prepared to test how sea cultivation affected him.

• Zhang Yang confirmed that his cultivation speed at sea was about three times faster than usual, and Ning Rongrong agreed to remain in Vast Sea City with him.
• Zhang Yang stopped the Green Fish so he and Ning Rongrong could try the Dragon Abyss Boat before lunch.
• Zhang Yang expanded the Dragon Abyss Boat and boarded it with Ning Rongrong, then used Soul Power to seal its hatch.
• Ning Rongrong piloted the boat underwater and found that it traveled quickly but consumed a lot of Soul Power.
• Zhang Yang pointed out that the boat’s oars could help conserve Soul Power and asked Ning Rongrong to steer farther from the Green Fish so he could test cultivating at sea.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong cultivated aboard the Dragon Abyss Boat while waiting for the Gentle Wind Training Room to be built in Vast Sea City. Once it was finished, its murals gave Zhang Yang a 4.2-fold cultivation speed increase, and the pair moved their training there.

• Zhang Yang tested cultivation aboard the Dragon Abyss Boat and found its speed was still about three times faster than normal.
• Ning Rongrong read romance novels while supporting Zhang Yang, and he urged her not to neglect cultivation as she neared rank fifty.
• After half a month, the replica Gentle Wind Training Room was completed at Zhang Yang's residence in Vast Sea City.
• The room's ocean-wave murals raised Zhang Yang's cultivation speed to 4.2 times normal, so he and Ning Rongrong began spending their time training there.

While Ning Rongrong cultivated in Zhang Yang’s training room, Zhang Yang practiced Kenbunshoku Haki and imagined how a Head Soul Bone could help him summon a meteor. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s delegation arrived in Vast Sea City, where Ning Yueyang checked on the young couple and secretly assessed their relationship on Ning Fengzhi’s behalf.

• Zhang Yang trained his Spiritual Power while guarding Ning Rongrong, hoping to expand and sharpen his Kenbunshoku Haki.
• Zhang Yang imagined using a Head Soul Bone and his gravity ability to pull a meteor down from the sky.
• Ning Yueyang arrived at the Zhang Residence with a squad of inner disciples after a month and seven days of travel.
• Zhang Yang told Ning Yueyang that Ning Rongrong was cultivating and nearing level 50, then went to wake her.
• Ning Rongrong happily greeted Ning Yueyang, who inspected her and concluded that she and Zhang Yang had behaved properly and remained close.

Ning Rongrong and Zhang Yang settled in Vast Sea City under the protection of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect guards, and Ning Rongrong broke through to Soul King. The group then traveled to Beast Roar Forest to hunt a suitable Fifth Soul Ring that would enhance her allies’ attack power.

• Ning Yueyang arranged for the guards to occupy nearby residences, while Zhang Yang ordered them to conceal their sect affiliation and avoid registering their Martial Souls with Spirit Hall.
• A week after the guards arrived, Ning Rongrong broke through to level fifty, and everyone celebrated with a lavish meal.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong traveled with Ning Yueyang and ten guards to Beast Roar Forest to hunt Ning Rongrong’s Fifth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong chose an attack-power enhancement for her Fifth Soul Skill, and the group ventured into the forest’s Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast territory cautiously.

Zhang Yang led Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members through Beast Roar Forest to find a suitable Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After Zhang Yang drove off a Golden-Eyed Crane Stork they did not need, the group continued deeper into the damp, lightless forest.

• Zhang Yang and the group decided to bypass the Thousand-Year Soul Beast region and head directly into the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast territory.
• Ning Yueyang handed a sect guard a Soul Tool that illuminated the dark forest, and Zhang Yang guided everyone past Soul Beasts using Kenbunshoku Haki.
• The group encountered a Golden-Eyed Crane Stork, which fled into the forest after Ning Yueyang's Soul Tool exposed it to light.
• Zhang Yang saw through the Golden-Eyed Crane Stork's attempt to circle behind them and struck it with a Laser and Explosive Flame, forcing it to flee.
• Zhang Yang activated Elementalization and led the group toward another Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast while Ning Rongrong complained about the damp forest.

Zhang Yang identified a Crescent White Bear and a Bloodthirsty Bat Swarm inside a cave and devised a way to fight them without entering. He used a boulder and repeated Laser explosions to damage the bats and drive the bear toward the entrance.

• Zhang Yang explained that the Crescent White Bear and Bloodthirsty Bats lived cooperatively in the cave, and warned that the swarm would make entering dangerous.
• Zhang Yang had several Battle Soul Kings push a boulder across the cave entrance, leaving a narrow gap.
• Zhang Yang fired three Lasers through the gap, filling the cave with Explosive Flame and damaging the bats and Crescent White Bear.
• The Crescent White Bear struggled toward the entrance as the cave’s oxygen dwindled, while hundreds of surviving bats flew toward the exit.
• Zhang Yang fired three more Lasers, killing most of the bats, and the Crescent White Bear charged to the cave entrance.

Zhang Yang defeated a ten-thousand-year Crescent White Bear and helped Ning Rongrong begin absorbing its Soul Ring. While she absorbed it, Zhang Yang found a rare Soul Bone in the bear’s right foreleg and secretly stored it away.

• The Crescent White Bear broke out of the cave and attacked Zhang Yang, who knocked it unconscious with several strikes to its sensitive nose.
• Ning Rongrong used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to kill the bear and summoned its Black Soul Ring.
• Zhang Yang explained why the Crescent White Bear’s Soul Ring might grant Ning Rongrong an attack-enhancement skill, and she began absorbing it as the sect Soul Masters stood guard.
• Zhang Yang recovered the crossbow bolts and searched the bear’s body for a Soul Bone.
• Zhang Yang found an incomplete Right Arm Bone and, with Ning Yueyang’s help, secretly placed it in his Storage Soul Tool.

Zhang Yang concealed the Crescent White Bear's incomplete Right Arm Soul Bone and discussed exchanging it through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for a bone better suited to him. After returning to Vast Sea City, he resumed cultivation and reached level fifty-four, realizing his progress had slowed.

• Zhang Yang hid the Crescent White Bear's incomplete Right Arm Soul Bone by mutilating the corpse, while Ning Rongrong safely absorbed the beast's Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and gained a Fifth Soul Skill that boosted attack power by sixty percent.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong agreed to hand the Soul Bone to the sect and ask whether it could be exchanged for a Complete Leg Bone; Ning Yueyang later recommended the same plan in a private conversation with Zhang Yang.
• Ning Yueyang said he did not know what Soul Bones the sect held, so Zhang Yang set the matter aside and focused on cultivation in the 4.2-times Gentle Wind Training Room.
• A month later, Zhang Yang reached level fifty-four and reflected that he had become less diligent about cultivation, deciding that he needed to change something.

Zhang Yang brought Ning Rongrong back to Seven Treasure City so she could live safely while he focused on cultivation. After returning, he presented her Crescent White Bear Soul Bone to the sect, and Ning Fengzhi decided it suited Rongrong’s abilities.

• Zhang Yang persuaded Ning Rongrong to return to Seven Treasure City and set out with her and Ning Yueyang’s guards.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong reached Seven Treasure City after traveling for half a month, and Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.
• Zhang Yang explained that he had brought Rongrong back because Vast Sea City was unsafe and he needed to devote himself to cultivation.
• Zhang Yang showed the elders the Crescent White Bear Right Arm Bone and explained that Rongrong had absorbed the bear’s Fifth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong asked to exchange the Soul Bone for a complete leg bone for Zhang Yang, but Ning Fengzhi refused because their relationship lacked formal status.
• Ning Fengzhi decided Rongrong should absorb the Soul Bone, believing it would strengthen her Fifth Soul Skill.

After Ning Rongrong became a Soul King and gained a powerful amplification Soul Bone, Zhang Yang asked Ning Fengzhi to help him join the Heaven Dou Navy so he could test whether a naval post would accelerate his cultivation. The next day, Zhang Yang traveled to Heaven Dou City and went to Shrek Academy to visit Master.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that Ning Rongrong's Soul Bone Skill amplified Zhang Yang's attack power by up to 120% because it complemented her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhang Yang told Ning Fengzhi he wanted a post in the Heaven Dou Navy to test whether working at a naval base or aboard a warship would speed up his cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to raise the matter with Xue Ye when he went to Heaven Dou City the next day.
• Zhang Yang traveled to Heaven Dou City with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, then separated from them and headed to Shrek Academy.
• A junior student stopped Zhang Yang at Shrek Academy's gate and explained the visitor registration rules, after which Zhang Yang registered and met Master.

Zhang Yang reunited with Master and Liu Erlong, then obtained a Military Headquarters commission to join the Heaven Dou Navy. He traveled to Vast Sea City and reported to its Military District, where the gate guards verified his papers and escorted him inside.

• Zhang Yang visited Master and Liu Erlong at Shrek Academy and discussed his travels, family, Ning Rongrong, and Tang San’s plans for secret training.
• Zhang Yang ate at the academy before meeting Ning Fengzhi, who gave him a Military Headquarters commission for a Vice Captain post in the Heaven Dou Navy.
• Zhang Yang traveled rapidly back to Vast Sea City and recovered his Soul Power in the Gentle Wind Training Room.
• Zhang Yang presented his commission at the Heaven Dou Navy’s Vast Sea City Military District, and the squad captain verified it and escorted him inside.

Zhang Yang enlisted in the Heaven Dou Navy as Vice Captain of the Coral Supply Ship, choosing an easy post that let him sail with the fleet and cultivate. After setting up his office in Vast Sea City, he discovered its furnishings and Wanted Posters raised his cultivation speed to 5.6 times normal, and he left for the night after Yue Yun guarded him through his training.

• Officer Sun processed Zhang Yang's enlistment and appointed him Vice Captain of the Coral Supply Ship, responsible for combat.
• Clerk Lin guided Zhang Yang as he collected his uniform and equipment, received Yue Yun as his personal guard, and met Commander Qiu Hai and the Coral Supply Ship's Captain.
• Zhang Yang inspected the ship's fifty ordinary soldiers and decorated his office with Ambiguous Justice, an ashtray, and Pirates Wanted Posters.
• Zhang Yang cultivated in his office and found that its bonuses increased his cultivation speed to 5.6 times normal.
• Yue Yun left a meal for Zhang Yang while he cultivated, then continued guarding the door until Zhang Yang woke late at night and told him to rest.

Zhang Yang joined the 23rd Fleet’s patrol and learned that protecting the Supply Ship from Sea Soul Beasts and Pirates was his responsibility. After the fleet pursued Pirates who had plundered a merchant ship, Zhang Yang was called to prepare the Coral’s defenses.

• Zhang Yang attended the fleet’s pre-departure meeting and was assigned to command the Coral’s defense force.
• The 23rd Fleet loaded supplies and sailed on its month-long patrol, with Zhang Yang cultivating aboard the Supply Ship.
• Captain Gamboa explained Zhang Yang’s duties and warned him about Sea Soul Beasts and Pirates attacking ships.
• A navy soldier reported that a Cruiser had spotted a plundered merchant ship and that the fleet was pursuing the Pirates.
• Gamboa told Zhang Yang to prepare the Coral’s defenses.

Zhang Yang learned that pirates had looted a merchant ship, but the 23rd Fleet continued its mission to escort the Vast Sea City Merchant Alliance’s cargo fleet and catch Karl’s Gang. On the return voyage, Zhang Yang reached level 55, and a Cruiser spotted the pirate crew.

• Zhang Yang ordered the Coral Supply Ship’s soldiers to heighten their vigilance and investigated the looted merchant ship’s report with Gamboa.
• The 23rd Fleet recorded the merchant ship’s information and continued its route instead of searching for the pirates.
• After fifteen days at sea, the 23rd Fleet joined the Merchant Alliance’s cargo fleet and began escorting it back to Vast Sea City.
• Zhang Yang’s Soul Power reached level 55 during the return voyage, and a patrolling Cruiser spotted traces of Karl’s Gang.
• The navy’s intelligence described Carl as a five-ring Soul King who led eleven Soul Master pirates and demanded ransoms from the Merchant Alliance rather than killing sailors or keeping unsuitable cargo.

Carl and her pirate gang were ambushed by Merchant Alliance Soul Masters, but the fight revealed that Carl was a six-ring Soul Emperor, not the five-ring Soul King the Alliance expected. When Qiu Hai arrived with fifteen Sea Soul Masters to reinforce the Alliance, Carl remained calm as the battle turned against her gang.

• The Merchant Alliance and the Heaven Dou Navy set a trap to capture Carl's Gang, using hired Soul Masters and naval forces to block their escape.
• Carl boarded Captain Zhao's cargo ship and exchanged threats with him while their forces prepared to fight.
• A lookout's warning about an approaching Merchant Alliance sailboat triggered the ambush, and Carl's Gang and the hired Soul Masters plunged into the sea to battle.
• Carl revealed her Great White Shark Martial Soul and six Soul Rings, surprising the Sea Turtle Soul King, who had expected to face a five-ring Soul King.
• The pirate and Alliance Soul Masters fought underwater, while Carl and the Sea Turtle Soul King held back and waited for the other to make a move.
• Qiu Hai arrived with fifteen Sea Soul Masters and joined the Merchant Alliance forces, but Carl remained composed as he confronted her.

Carl used her Soul Bone skill to turn her water-based attacks into ice and overwhelmed Qiu Hai and the allied Soul Masters. She activated her Sixth Soul Skill to summon over a hundred water Great White Sharks, then began freezing them as the battle reached its climax.

• Qiu Hai confronted Carl, but she revealed a Soul Bone skill that enhanced her attacks with pale blue light.
• Carl's Ice Great White Shark broke through the Sea Turtle Soul King's defenses, killed the Octopus Soul Ancestor, and left the Penguin Soul Elder frozen until the Seal Soul Elder rescued him.
• Carl used Ice Bullets to freeze the Sea Turtle Soul King, and Qiu Hai broke the ice to free him.
• Carl activated her Sixth Soul Skill and summoned over a hundred water Great White Sharks to attack both sides indiscriminately.
• Carl's tail fin glowed blue again, and Qiu Hai and the Sea Turtle Soul King realized the summoned sharks were about to be affected by her ice power.