Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang inspected the Sea God's three divine rewards and decided to absorb the God-Bestowed Spirit Bone. He asked Gu Rong to guard him as he began absorbing it.

• Bibi Dong accepted the matter of the Sea God's Nine Trials after Yu Xiaogang explained his exchanges with the Sea God.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that the sphere held a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring and considered when to use it.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that the triangular pyramid held a Sea God Martial Soul, which he disliked because it was modeled after the Sea God, but he considered using it for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with his own Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that the cube held a Hundred Thousand Year God-Bestowed Spirit Bone whose attributes matched him and whose location he could choose.
• Yu Xiaogang told Gu Rong he planned to absorb the Spirit Bone, and Gu Rong began guarding him.

After absorbing Sea God’s God-Bestowed Spirit Bone, Yu Xiaogang reached Level Sixty-Eight and joined the others to hear about their trials. Gu Rong revealed that his own trial required him to survive a fight with the High Priest for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

• Yu Xiaogang completed his three-day absorption of the God-Bestowed Spirit Bone, which raised him from Level Sixty-Four to Level Sixty-Eight and greatly enhanced his overall abilities.
• Gu Rong asked about the spirit bone, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Sea God had given it to him as an investment.
• Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong joined the others, and Yu Xiaogang learned that Flender and Bibi Dong had to climb Sea God’s Light while Yue Guan and Gui Mei had to defeat a Sacred Pillar Douluo individually.
• Gu Rong said the group lacked confidence in completing their trials and planned to follow Flender and Bibi Dong while forming their Soul Cores.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about Gu Rong’s trial, and Gu Rong revealed that he had to last against the High Priest for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Gu Rong struggled with the prospect of facing Bo Saixi for his Sea God trial, despite its enormous reward. Yu Xiaogang suggested Gu Rong wait to see whether Yue Guan and Gui Mei received similar trials, and the group went with Bo Saixi to the Sea God's Light.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned whether Gu Rong was joking about having to endure Bo Saixi for the time it took an incense stick to burn, but Gu Rong confirmed the trial was real.
• Gu Rong explained that passing would increase the age of all his Spirit Rings by twenty thousand years, potentially giving him eight black rings and one red.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed out that Gu Rong's trial did not forbid help, but Yue Guan and Gui Mei doubted they could challenge Bo Saixi as Soul Douluos.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested Gu Rong wait to learn whether Yue Guan and Gui Mei's second trials also required them to endure Bo Saixi, so they could face her together.
• Gu Rong laughed at Yue Guan and Gui Mei over the possibility, and the group continued to the meeting place before Bo Saixi led them to the Sea God's Light.

Gu Rong and Chen Xin discussed the challenge of facing a level-ninety-nine powerhouse as the Heavenly Screen showed the group reaching Sea God Island’s forbidden area. Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong found the Sea God’s Light manageable, while Flender struggled under its pressure at the foot of the stairs.

• Gu Rong asked Chen Xin whether he could endure a trial against Bo Saixi, and Chen Xin spoke of his long pursuit of a higher path of the sword.
• Bo Saixi brought the group to the Sea God Hall and explained that Sea God’s Light grew stronger along the stairs, which only qualified island members could normally climb.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to try the stairs, and Bo Saixi allowed the honored guests to climb as long as they caused no trouble.
• Yu Xiaogang and the others crossed the sea, fighting off attacking Soul Beasts along the way.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong entered Sea God’s Light and felt little difficulty, while Flender struggled to stand against the pressure at the first step.

Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Flender, and the others began climbing the Sea God's Light to gauge their limits. Yu Xiaogang's exceptional foundation let him match the stronger climbers, and he discovered that his Radiant Domain could reduce the pressure as the group continued upward.

• Yu Xiaogang suggested that the group climb as far as they could before making a plan, and they began ascending the Sea God's Light.
• Yu Xiaogang, Gu Rong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei climbed rapidly to the one hundred and eighth step, while Bibi Dong and Flender struggled behind them.
• Gu Rong was astonished by Yu Xiaogang's performance, and Yue Guan explained that Yu Xiaogang had the strength to contend with Titled Douluos after absorbing a God-Bestowed Spirit Bone.
• The pressure surged at the one hundred and ninth step, forcing Yue Guan and Gui Mei to struggle, while Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong continued upward.
• At around the one hundred and twentieth step, Gu Rong activated his Martial Soul Avatar, and Yu Xiaogang used his Radiant Domain to lessen the pressure before climbing on.

Yu Xiaogang reached the 156th step of Sea God's Light before its pressure forced him to stop, then decided to use the area for cultivation. Bo Saixi praised his achievement and asked whether he had refused the Sea God's Nine Trials.

• Gu Rong struggled to endure the pressure at the 137th step as Yu Xiaogang continued climbing.
• Yu Xiaogang used Martial Soul Possession with Little Dragon at the 140th step and climbed to the 156th before reaching his limit.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Gu Rong, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Bibi Dong, Flender, and Bo Saixi reacting to his ascent, then descended and reunited with them.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed cultivating within Sea God's Light, and Bo Saixi explained that it doubled cultivation efficiency and would remain open to the group until Bibi Dong completed her trial.
• Bo Saixi told Yu Xiaogang that the Sea God had held him in special regard and asked whether he had refused the Sea God's trial.

Yu Xiaogang explained why he had refused the Sea God's Nine Trials, while Bibi Dong prepared to pursue her own path to godhood. As the group settled into cultivation on Sea God Island, Yu Xiaogang discovered two powerful abilities in his God-Bestowed Spirit Bone and wondered about the wider God Realm.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bo Saixi that he had refused the Sea God's trial because accepting it required him to replace Little Dragon, whom he considered family.
• Bo Saixi warned Bibi Dong that she would have to complete the Sea God's Nine Trials without help from Sea God Island or support soul masters, and Bibi Dong vowed to work harder.
• Yu Xiaogang and his group bought supplies, settled on Sea God Island, and began climbing the stairs of Sea God's Light, where their Soul Power soon rose rapidly.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that Light Space created an expandable world inside a cube, and he bought building materials to construct a house within it.
• Yu Xiaogang found that Light Traversal could send attacks through passages between lights and let him teleport by transforming into light, though it consumed substantial Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang speculated that his Spirit Bone might have come from a Spatial Type god and wondered how many worlds existed beyond Douluo Planet.

The Heavenly Screen revealed the powerful skills of Yu Xiaogang's God-Bestowed Spirit Bone, while the spectators wondered about worlds beyond Douluo Planet. After more than a year of cultivation under Sea God's Light, Flender reached the hundredth step and advanced from Level Fifty-Four to Level Sixty-Three, leaving his future full of promise.

• Flender and Tang San envied Yu Xiaogang's Light Space and Light Traversal skills, while the others speculated about the God Realm and other worlds.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that the Sea God had imposed unusually lenient conditions because securing Yu Xiaogang as a successor mattered more than restricting the others' trials.
• Flender continued training under Sea God's Light, reaching the hundredth step despite the remaining eight steps' immense pressure.
• Flender advanced from Level Fifty-Four to Level Sixty through relentless training and gained a God-Bestowed Sixth Spirit Ring nearing thirty thousand years old.
• The God-Bestowed Spirit Ring brought Flender to Level Sixty-Three and improved his Martial Soul, raising the possibility of further evolution with his next Spirit Ring.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei broke through to Titled Douluo, defeated their chosen Sacred Pillar Douluos, and received trial rewards that brought Yue Guan’s Ninth Spirit Ring to 99,000 years. Their next trial required them to endure against Bo Saixi, while Bo Saixi joined the Soul Core research after Yu Xiaogang explained it to her.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei reached level ninety, obtained God-Bestowed Spirit Rings, and broke through to level ninety-two with Ninth Spirit Rings of about 93,000 and 88,000 years, respectively.
• Yu Xiaogang continued developing his Soul Power Vortex into a semi-solid Soul Core, and he, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gu Rong developed a safe method for condensing Soul Power Vortices.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei used their Soul Power Vortices to defeat their chosen Sacred Pillar Douluos and completed their first trial, earning a 6,000-year increase to all their Spirit Rings.
• Yue Guan’s Ninth Spirit Ring reached 99,000 years, and the second trial required him and Gui Mei to endure against Bo Saixi for the time it took one incense stick to burn, with an 8,000-year Spirit Ring increase as the reward.
• Gu Rong advanced to level ninety-three and felt envious of Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s rewards, but his own trial left him discouraged.
• Yu Xiaogang explained the Soul Core to Bo Saixi, who praised the idea and agreed to join the research while promising not to use the Soul Core in trials.

Bo Saixi helped Yu Xiaogang’s group develop a safe method for condensing Soul Power Vortices, while explaining why his Ultimate Martial Soul had suddenly accelerated his cultivation. Yu Xiaogang reached Level Seventy-Seven and realized he could become a Titled Douluo as early as twenty-five, though he refused to rush his cultivation by hunting Spirit Beasts for his second Martial Soul.

• Bo Saixi joined the Soul Core research project and brought several Sacred Pillar Douluo to help resolve the group’s problems.
• Gu Rong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei safely condensed Soul Power Vortices, then Yue Guan and Gui Mei defeated the Sacred Pillar Douluo they challenged.
• Yu Xiaogang absorbed the Sea God’s God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, entered the Soul Saint realm at Level Seventy-Six, and found that his cultivation had become dramatically faster.
• Bo Saixi explained that Ultimate Attribute soul masters cultivated slowly from Level Thirty to Seventy, after which their Soul Power was refined and their cultivation speed increased.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through to Level Seventy-Seven and estimated that he could reach Level Ninety before turning twenty-five, but rejected the faster route of raising his level through his second Martial Soul.

Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong made rapid progress on Sea God Island, while the Vast Ocean Team seized the chance to cultivate alongside them. More than a year later, Lu Jinjue was close to becoming a Soul Emperor, and the others were advancing as well.

• Yu Xiaogang reached Level Seventy-Seven, and Bibi Dong rose from Level Fifty-Eight to Level Seventy-Four while advancing to the three-hundredth step of Sea God's Light.
• Bo Saixi praised Bibi Dong's perseverance and admitted that she had surpassed Bo Saixi's own performance at the same trial.
• Bibi Dong absorbed a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring at Level Sixty and later a nearly ninety-thousand-year Sea Demon Spider as her Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang ended the Vast Ocean Team's employment early but offered Lu Jinjue, Liang Chen, and Zhu Weiwei the chance to cultivate on Sea God Island.
• Lu Jinjue and the other two endured Sea God's Light, and after more than a year Lu Jinjue came within one step of becoming a Soul Emperor.

Yu Xiaogang fought Xiao Bai, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Soul Great White Shark who guarded Sea God Island and served as the Sea God's mount, while testing his self-created Soul Skills. He had defeated her before and accepted her challenge to gauge the strength of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Yu Xiaogang blocked Xiao Bai's charge with a giant Soul Power hand and punched her back into the sea.
• Xiao Bai complained that Yu Xiaogang kept using the same move, and he asked why she was so interested in him.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled that Xiao Bai had become curious about his many unusual Self-Created Soul Skills and had challenged him while he tested them at the beach.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Xiao Bai's challenge and chose the sea as their arena to assess her strength and prepare for obtaining his Eighth Spirit Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang won their battle, leaving Xiao Bai frustrated whenever she saw him afterward.

Xiao Bai challenged Yu Xiaogang, confident that her strength as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would match his. After he repeatedly defeated her, she began to admire him and wonder whether he might even surpass the Sea God.

• Xiao Bai fought Yu Xiaogang cautiously at first, but his increasingly powerful soul skills soon injured her.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Xiao Bai that his next moves could hurt her badly, and she angrily insisted that they continue.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that his level seventy-seven strength had grown enough for him to contend with a level ninety-five Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Bai used her shark teeth, spiritual attack, and water control against Yu Xiaogang, but his abilities nullified all three.
• After losing to Yu Xiaogang several times, Xiao Bai accepted that she could not defeat him and began secretly observing him with admiration.
• Xiao Bai wondered whether Yu Xiaogang was stronger than the Sea God, though he had not yet become a god.

Yu Xiaogang developed an array of powerful Spirit Skill clones, including a firepower-focused combat clone and an all-purpose support clone. Xiao Bai watched his work and looked forward to having him help the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan defeat its mortal enemy.

• Shrek Academy's students discussed the many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts Yu Xiaogang had encountered and wondered how strong he would become.
• Xiao Bai observed Yu Xiaogang cultivating, while he completed several Spirit Skill clones through repeated experimentation.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated a devastating burst-type clone with a self-destruct attack, alarming Gu Rong and impressing Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Xiao Bai, and Bo Saixi.
• Yu Xiaogang continued designing assassination, defense, control, medical, and support clones, and finalized a defensive Fifth Soul Skill for his all-purpose support clone.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the support clone enhanced Soul Power, physical strength, mental power, and speed, and could reflect long-range attacks.
• Xiao Bai praised Yu Xiaogang as a reassuring ally and anticipated that he would help the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan take revenge on its mortal enemy.

Yu Xiaogang reached the 601st step of the Sea God's Light, while Bibi Dong decided to complete her First Trial. After Yu Xiaogang boosted her with his support clone, Bibi Dong climbed to the 333rd step and received confirmation that she had succeeded.

• Yu Xiaogang climbed from the 588th step to the 601st, demonstrating strength comparable to a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo.
• Gu Rong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei watched Yu Xiaogang succeed, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei wondered what secret made Gu Rong so confident in him.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Bibi Dong and urged her to attempt the 333rd step, and she agreed to complete her First Trial.
• Yu Xiaogang used his support clone's Soul Skills to strengthen Bibi Dong, who then climbed from the 301st step to the 333rd.
• Bibi Dong stood firmly on the 333rd step and received confirmation that she had completed the First Trial.

After Bibi Dong completed the first Sea God's trial, Bo Saixi explained that her next task was to recover the Sea God's Heart, a divine artifact needed for later trials. Yu Xiaogang recognized it as the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, a Heaven Dou Empire national treasure, leaving them to figure out how to obtain it.

• Bibi Dong received 5% Sea God affinity for completing the first trial and learned that her second trial required recovering the Sea God's Heart.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that gods likely faced rules limiting how they could reward or assist their heirs.
• Bo Saixi arrived and explained that the Sea God's Heart had left Sea God Island to find potential heirs on the mainland.
• Bo Saixi described the Sea God's Heart as a blue triangular gemstone with a surface like flowing water.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the description as matching the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which he had seen in the Heaven Dou Empire's Collection Vault.

Qian Renxue learned that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could lead to the Sea God’s succession and arranged to steal it for Spirit Hall. On Sea God Island, Bibi Dong learned the Shroud was the Heaven Dou Empire’s national treasure and resisted returning home before she could impress everyone with her progress.

• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to seize the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud while she went to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Xue Ye learned that two Titled Douluo had stolen the national treasure, while Qian Renxue concealed her satisfaction and other factions began reacting to the news.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that the Sea God’s Heart was the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and that asking the Heaven Dou Imperial Family for it would be difficult.
• Bibi Dong considered the problems of obtaining the Shroud, and Yu Xiaogang suggested returning to Spirit Hall so her teacher and the Grand Pontiff could handle it.
• Bibi Dong resisted returning to the Douluo Continent because she wanted to grow stronger first and astonish everyone at Spirit Hall.

Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong decided to delay their return to Douluo Continent and explore a distant continent overseas, taking their companions with them. Bo Saixi let them leave, though their carefree attitude toward the Sea God Trials made her question whether Lord Sea God was reliable.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang she wanted to grow stronger before returning, and Yu Xiaogang agreed while looking forward to surprising Qian Xunji and the others.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had confirmed the existence of a vast continent overseas with help from Xiao Bai and planned to take Bibi Dong there.
• Yu Xiaogang helped Flender complete his first trial, earning Flender a Soul Power increase and improved constitution before he began Tidal Body Tempering.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender, Bibi Dong, the Vast Ocean Team, and Gu Rong’s group that they would leave Sea God Island temporarily, and they chose to follow him.
• Bo Saixi watched the group depart to relax and wondered whether Lord Sea God was reliable.

After leaving Sea God Island, Yu Xiaogang led the group across the ocean to find a new continent. After two and a half months at sea, they finally spotted land on the horizon.

• The group sailed away from Sea God Island, and Yu Xiaogang revealed that he planned to explore beyond the Douluo Continent rather than return home.
• The group agreed to search for the end of the ocean and used Soul Guidance devices to propel their ship across the sea.
• After two and a half months without sighting land, the dwindling supplies made the group consider turning back, but Yu Xiaogang believed their destination was near.
• Yu Xiaogang stayed at the bow for several days, and Bibi Dong joined him as they approached the expected destination.
• Bibi Dong spotted a black dot on the horizon, which grew into a vast landmass with mountains and vegetation.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions reached an unfamiliar continent, confirming his theory that another land lay beyond Douluo Continent. As Gu Rong and the others imagined the opportunities it offered, the group prepared to explore.

• Bibi Dong called everyone to the bow, where they saw a continent on the horizon.
• Flender and Lu Jinjue wondered whether they had returned to Douluo Continent, while Gu Rong asked Yu Xiaogang if this was the surprise he had promised.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that unfamiliar writing and objects found in shipwrecks had led him to believe another culture existed beyond Douluo Continent.
• Gu Rong and Yue Guan speculated about the continent's powerful figures, Soul Beasts, soul bones, and potential riches.
• Gu Rong and the others began imagining how exploring the new land could help them acquire wealth and soul bones.