Chapter Summaries

Karl slaughtered the Sea Soul Masters, including Qiu Hai, then attacked a Navy supply ship while the 23rd Fleet waited nearby. Zhang Yang detected Karl and Qiu Hai’s disappearance, leaped into the sea, and fired a Laser at Karl.

• Karl’s Ice Great White Sharks overwhelmed Qiu Hai and the other Sea Soul Masters, killing them and his own Pirates in the process.
• Karl killed the unconscious Sea Turtle Soul King, then swam toward the Navy’s warships to destroy another fleet.
• Karl reached the supply ship’s hull while the 23rd Fleet waited on the surface, unaware of him beneath the water.
• Zhang Yang sensed a soul power fluctuation under the ship and discovered through Observation Haki that Karl had breached its hull and was heading for other vessels.
• Zhang Yang leaped into the sea, completed his Spirit Infusion, and fired a Laser at Karl.

Zhang Yang killed Carl, recovered a Right Leg Bone, and joined the 23rd Fleet flagship after the Coral sank. The fleet returned to Vast Sea City, where Zhang Yang finished answering questions and finally had time to absorb the Soul Bone.

• Zhang Yang killed Carl with his Fourth Soul Skill, and the blast damaged a frigate while leaving behind an intact Right Leg Bone.
• Zhang Yang returned to the frigate, arranged rescue boats for the Coral, and reported that Carl had been weaker than expected at the fleet's tactical meeting.
• The Chief of Staff ordered the fleet to return to base without waiting for the Cargo Ship Alliance and assigned Zhang Yang to the flagship for the voyage.
• Zhang Yang replaced his lost copy of "Ambiguous Justice" and traveled with the fleet under strict supply rules until it reached Vast Sea City ten days without bathing.
• The Inspectorate and other naval authorities questioned Zhang Yang for three days before he was finally free to absorb the Soul Bone.

After absorbing the Ice Age Right Leg Bone, Zhang Yang rejected a promotion and skipped a Merchant Alliance banquet to avoid trouble and keep cultivating aboard a stable Supply Ship. With the 23rd Fleet grounded until a replacement ship arrived, he planned to spend the free time cultivating more than twenty-three hours a day.

• Zhang Yang obtained the Ice Age Right Leg Bone’s Soul Skill information, sent a newly framed Ambiguous Justice to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and returned to the naval base.
• Director Sun offered Zhang Yang the Executor Squad Captain position, but Zhang Yang refused because he preferred the stable Supply Ship for cultivation.
• Zhang Yang told Gamboa he would skip the Merchant Alliance banquet and avoid drawing the attention of Vast Sea City's Spirit Hall.
• At the banquet, Stephen learned that a naval Supply Ship Vice Captain had killed Carl but did not ask for Zhang Yang’s identity.
• The next day, Zhang Yang told Gamboa he would use the fleet’s downtime to cultivate for more than twenty-three hours each day.

After breaking through to Soul Power level 58, Zhang Yang arrived with the 23rd Fleet at Moon Tail Island, where he went sea fishing using Kenbunshoku Haki. He caught a sea fish and planned to make soup with it.

• Zhang Yang broke through to Soul Power level 58 and met Gamboa in the mess hall, where he learned the fleet would reach Moon Tail Island in three days.
• The 23rd Fleet escorted replacement troops to Moon Tail Island, where the base welcomed them with a banquet of fresh vegetables.
• The next day, Zhang Yang watched the outgoing garrison troops depart and asked Gamboa for permission to go sea fishing.
• Zhang Yang took five soldiers out in a skiff and used Kenbunshoku Haki to find fish around his bait.
• A fish called Gourmet Sea Fish swallowed the bait, and Zhang Yang hooked it and decided it would make soup.

Zhang Yang took Gamboa and his personal guard diving near Moon Tail Island in the ancient Dragon Abyss Boat. They reached a scenic stretch of seabed, where its beauty distracted everyone and sent the boat spinning.

• Zhang Yang shared a grilled fish with Gamboa, who explained that the Supply Ship would not join the three-day patrol and that they had free time.
• Zhang Yang suggested diving the next day, and Gamboa agreed after finishing the Supply Ship's remaining routine tasks.
• Zhang Yang and Gamboa discussed whether military dress uniforms could be replaced by capes, then headed to the bay with Zhang Yang's personal guard.
• Zhang Yang brought out the Dragon Abyss Boat, activated it with Soul Power, and took Gamboa and the guard underwater, where they rowed toward the nearshore area.
• Gamboa and Zhang Yang became absorbed in the seabed scenery, and a rowing mistake made the Dragon Abyss Boat spin in place.

Zhang Yang took Gamboa and his personal guard on a ride in the Dragon Abyss Boat, but they encountered a three-thousand-year Squid Soul Beast near Moon Tail Island. After getting the others safely back to the harbor, Zhang Yang returned underwater to kill the creature before it threatened the fleet’s patrols.

• Gamboa and his personal guard marveled at the undersea scenery as Zhang Yang reflected on friends and family he had not seen in months.
• Gamboa spotted a Squid Soul Beast approaching the Dragon Abyss Boat, and Zhang Yang sensed that it was roughly three thousand years old.
• Zhang Yang ordered Gamboa and his personal guard to row away from the squid and steered the boat back to Moon Tail Island’s harbor.
• Zhang Yang helped the shaken personal guard ashore and told Gamboa he would return to kill the squid.
• Gamboa and his personal guard hurried to the base to report the encounter while Zhang Yang descended in the Dragon Abyss Boat toward the Squid Soul Beast.

Zhang Yang tracked the Giant Squid but discovered it belonged to a huge group of powerful Giant Squids and chose not to attack. He returned to Moon Tail Island to report the group’s strange formation and suspected that the creatures were guarding something.

• Zhang Yang abandoned the slow Dragon Abyss Boat, used Spirit Infusion and his Second Soul Ring skill to pursue the Giant Squid, and found it among more than thirty Giant Squids, most of them over ten thousand years old.
• Zhang Yang decided against attacking the group because killing one could provoke the others and endanger naval patrols.
• Zhang Yang noticed the Giant Squids were arranged in a long line and suspected they were guarding a mysterious existence, but chose to return to Moon Tail Island and inform the base first.
• Zhang Yang reached the Moon Tail Island base, passed a patrol squad’s identity check, and encountered Gamboa, who said the Base Chief had no records of Giant Squids attacking warships.
• Zhang Yang declined Gamboa’s offer to accompany him and went to report his discoveries to the Base Chief alone.

Zhang Yang secretly investigated the layers of Sea Soul Beasts guarding what he believed was the One Piece. After evading an ambush and flying past a powerful shark group, he reached a lush green place on the horizon and declared that he had found it.

• Zhang Yang reported discovering a three-thousand-year Giant Squid to the Base Chief but concealed the group’s deeper significance.
• Zhang Yang sailed west from Moon Tail Island and used a compass and sea chart to search beyond the Giant Squid group.
• Zhang Yang found successive layers of guards: vast Piranhas, a Seabed Forest filled with powerful Plant Sea Soul Beasts, and a group of Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Ocean Sunfish ambushed Zhang Yang while he rested, but he used [Elementalization] to avoid their ice-cone attacks and continued onward.
• Zhang Yang flew over the Demon Soul Great White Sharks and reached a lush green patch at the edge of the sea, declaring that he had found the One Piece.

Zhang Yang reached Tanggu and discovered that its guardian, the Great Willow Tree Fusang, could speak by moving its branches. Fusang told him that he qualified for a trial to inherit Apollo’s Sun God position, leaving Zhang Yang eager to learn more.

• Zhang Yang stayed several kilometers from the island while Fusang used its black willow branches to speak with him.
• Fusang identified the island as Tanggu and revealed that its name was Fusang, surprising Zhang Yang with the connection to ancient myths.
• Fusang explained that a Three-legged Golden Crow named Apollo had been born on the island, become the Sun God, and gone to the God Realm.
• Fusang said Apollo had sent the Heart of Inheritance ten thousand years later and instructed it to find a successor for his position.
• Zhang Yang learned he qualified to undergo the Sun God inheritance trial and became interested in it.

Zhang Yang questioned the Willow Tree’s claim that Tanggu held the Sun God Apollo’s inheritance and demanded proof. The Willow Tree agreed to bestow the trial directly, leaving Zhang Yang preparing to receive it.

• Zhang Yang asked the Willow Tree to prove that Tanggu was the Sun God’s inheritance site.
• The Willow Tree explained how it had survived for two hundred thousand years by cultivating its left and right branches in separate cycles.
• Zhang Yang continued to doubt the Willow Tree and demanded convincing evidence that he could receive the inheritance trial.
• The Willow Tree said it could bestow Apollo’s trial on Zhang Yang while he remained within its sight.
• Zhang Yang stayed in midair as the Willow Tree prepared to grant him the Sun God’s God Inheritance trial.

Zhang Yang received the Sun God Inheritance from Fusang and learned that his first trial was to collect one hundred kilograms of deep-sea soil from Tanggu’s seabed without tools. He began diving to attempt it, but strange caves in the underwater mountain and growing darkness marked the start of the challenge.

• Fusang used sunlight to brand Zhang Yang with a Three-legged Golden Crow mark and pass the Sun God Inheritance to him.
• Zhang Yang accepted Fusang’s identity and learned that he had five years to dig up one hundred kilograms of deep-sea soil without tools.
• After recovering his Soul Power, Zhang Yang plunged into the sea beside Tanggu and was surprised by the island’s vast underwater mountain.
• While descending, Zhang Yang spotted evenly spaced caves in the rock wall but continued toward the seabed.
• As Zhang Yang descended deeper, the surrounding water grew dark, presenting his first problem.

After Zhang Yang’s first deep-sea dive for the Sun God Inheritance trial, Fusang explained the underwater Adaptation Points and refused to ease the requirement of collecting one hundred kilograms of Seabed Silt. Fusang advised Zhang Yang not to rush the trial and instead use the Adaptation Points to strengthen his body.

• Zhang Yang used his [Flash Physique] to reach the marked seabed, collected twelve grams of Seabed Silt, and escaped the deep sea.
• Fusang explained that it had Sea Soul Beasts dig Adaptation Points into the seabed cliff so Soul Masters could train under pressure and breathe through its terminal roots.
• Zhang Yang asked to use tools or reduce the one-hundred-kilogram silt requirement, but Fusang said Apollo alone could judge the trial and it lacked authority to change the task.
• When Zhang Yang asked what preferential treatment Fusang could offer, Fusang said it could give him one piece of advice: do not rush to complete the trial.
• Fusang urged Zhang Yang to train at the Adaptation Points, improve his physical fitness, and prepare to absorb older Soul Rings.

Zhang Yang planned to train before tackling the Seabed Silt trial and returned to Vast Sea City to request leave. He arrived back at Moon Tail Island, where Gamboa was waiting to eat with him.

• Zhang Yang decided to improve his physical fitness before transporting the hundred kilograms of Seabed Silt, and planned to use his Ice Age Right Leg Bone to freeze the silt into large chunks.
• Fusang gave Zhang Yang a Willow Leaf that let him sense the way back to Tanggu and explained that only one person could undergo the Sun God's trial at a time.
• Zhang Yang left Tanggu to return to Vast Sea City and request a long leave from his superiors.
• Gamboa waited anxiously for Zhang Yang, having been assigned to look after him after the navy accepted his service and accomplishments.
• Zhang Yang returned to Moon Tail Island, and Gamboa invited him to dinner because eating with Zhang Yang made him feel like eating more.

Zhang Yang told Gamboa that he had failed to find the Giant Squid and learned the Supply Ship would return to Vast Sea City in about a week. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong imagined a woman named Xiao Xian who might attract Zhang Yang, then forgot about her when she heard her favorite Purple Jade Sticky Rice was served for lunch.

• Zhang Yang told Gamboa that he had searched for the Giant Squid but could not find it.
• Gamboa said the Supply Ship would likely return to Vast Sea City in about a week, and Zhang Yang considered using the timing to return to Tanggu for diving training.
• Ning Rongrong missed Zhang Yang and imagined that he might be tempted by a beautiful, obedient woman.
• Ning Rongrong invented Xiao Xian as the kind of woman Zhang Yang might fall for.
• A maid told Ning Rongrong that her father had invited her to lunch and that Purple Jade Sticky Rice was on the menu, so Ning Rongrong rushed to the dining room and forgot about Xiao Xian.

Ning Rongrong reviewed a proposal to establish a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect outpost in Vast Sea City and rejected it, deciding that finding a way to stabilize Zhang Yang’s ship would better support his cultivation. After Ning Fengzhi praised her judgment, he offered her intelligence about Ma Hongjun and Oscar.

• Ning Rongrong seriously considered the proposed Vast Sea City outpost and concluded that it would not meaningfully help Zhang Yang.
• Ning Rongrong rejected the outpost proposal and ordered the sect to find a Water Calming Bead or another way to reduce the waves’ effect on Zhang Yang’s cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Ning Rongrong’s thorough reasoning, while Bone Douluo said she was becoming more like a sect master.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Ning Rongrong intelligence about Ma Hongjun and Oscar, and she eagerly asked how he had obtained it.

Oscar waited in Wen'an City for Ma Hongjun, who arrived more than ten days late after being delayed on the road. They reunited at Wind Moon Hotel and prepared to share a meal while Ma Hongjun explained what had happened.

• Oscar waited for Ma Hongjun in Wen'an City and cultivated in Wind Moon Hotel's kitchen after he failed to arrive as planned.
• A hotel runner told Oscar that a medium-height, round Soul Master had been found, and Oscar recognized the description as Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun ordered an elaborate meal, and Oscar found him sitting alone in the restaurant.
• Oscar teased Ma Hongjun about his weight and scolded him for arriving late.
• Ma Hongjun said he had left home a month earlier but had been delayed on the road, then proposed discussing the details over wine and food.

Ma Hongjun’s journey to Wen'an City was interrupted when bandits stopped his carriage convoy and seized a disguised young woman. After the bandits killed her steward, Ma Hongjun revealed himself as a Soul Ancestor and attacked, leaving the girl free to mourn Uncle Chen.

• Ma Hongjun let the bandits restrain him while he watched them take control of the travelers on the mountain road.
• A bandit discovered that the young traveler was a girl in disguise and reported her to Zhang San.
• Zhang San seized the girl and began dragging her toward a carriage as his men collected valuables.
• Uncle Chen tried to rescue the girl, but a bandit slashed his throat and killed him.
• Ma Hongjun attacked the bandits and revealed his Phoenix Martial Soul and four Soul Rings.
• The girl broke free from Zhang San and crawled to Uncle Chen’s body, crying.

Ma Hongjun recounted how he forced Zhang San to kill the bandit who had murdered an old steward, then used his Phoenix Wings Skyward skill to burn down the fleeing bandits. He left the rescued travelers to continue their journey and explained to Oscar why Rong'er had shared his carriage.

• Ma Hongjun told Zhang San to trade a life for a life, and Zhang San killed the bandit who had murdered the old steward.
• Ma Hongjun dismissed Zhang San, then pursued the fleeing bandits into the forest and killed them with his third Soul Skill, Phoenix Wings Skyward.
• Ma Hongjun told the young girl that Zhang San had been brought to justice, and the travelers packed up and continued their journey.
• Ma Hongjun said that only Rong'er had shared his carriage for the rest of the trip because her gender made it inconvenient for her to travel with the men.
• Oscar teased Ma Hongjun about riding alone with Rong'er, and Ma Hongjun insisted he had no improper intentions.

Ma Hongjun told Oscar how he rescued Rong'er from bandits, escorted her to the Duan Family to claim her allowance, and helped her settle in a small city. After hearing that Rong'er promised to repay him by toiling like an ox or horse in her next life, Oscar and Ma Hongjun planned to travel south.

• Oscar questioned Ma Hongjun about why he spent more than ten days accompanying Rong'er, and Ma Hongjun explained her mother and old butler had died.
• Ma Hongjun said he revealed his four Soul Rings to persuade the Duan Family to give Rong'er her allowance and funeral expenses.
• Rong'er rejected her father's invitation to move into the Duan Family Mansion, and Ma Hongjun took her back to the countryside to collect her belongings before helping her settle in a small city.
• Oscar asked whether Rong'er had offered herself to Ma Hongjun, and Ma Hongjun recalled her promise to toil like an ox or horse in his next life.
• Oscar suggested that they travel south, and Ma Hongjun agreed to plan their route after dinner.

A year and a half after leaving Wen'an City, Ma Hongjun and Oscar reached Star Luo City after traveling across the continent and becoming Soul Kings. They planned to find Zhu Qing to learn how Dai Laoda was faring, but Ma Hongjun's attention was quickly caught by a brothel.

• Ma Hongjun sang off-key on the road while Oscar complained and asked whether they would find Dai Laoda and Zhu Qing in Star Luo City.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun recalled traveling for a year and a half, reaching rank fifty, and obtaining Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Oscar doubted that Dai Laoda had easily overcome Dai Weisi, and Ma Hongjun suggested finding Zhu Qing instead.
• After passing the Star Luo City guards, Oscar and Ma Hongjun entered the city and spotted an officially operated brothel.
• Oscar mocked Ma Hongjun for investigating brothels, then pushed him onward to find lunch.