Chapter Summaries

Yang Wei arrived to confirm Tang Yuehua’s safety and test Xia Yang’s strength on behalf of the Clear Sky Sect. Xia Yang withstood Yang Wei’s powerful spear attack without damage, leaving Yang Wei vulnerable to Xia Yang’s counterattack.

• Yang Wei met Xia Yang’s group on their way to the harbor and told Tang Yuehua that her eldest brother had sent him to check on her.
• Yang Wei revealed that the Sect Master had also ordered him to test Xia Yang’s strength, and challenged him to a fight.
• Xia Yang and Yang Wei released their Martial Souls and Soul Power, surprising Yang Wei with Xia Yang’s rapid cultivation to level forty-six.
• Yang Wei combined his second, fourth, and fifth soul skills into a direct spear attack, while Xia Yang used defensive and enhancement skills to withstand it unharmed.
• Xia Yang scolded Yang Wei for losing focus and swung his skeletal Martial Soul arm toward Yang Wei’s head.

Xia Yang defeated Yang Wei and earned his approval to care for Tang Yuehua, then set out with his family and companions to hunt Spirit Rings at sea. At Vast Sea City's harbor, Xia Shi welcomed his longtime friends Aimei'er and Wei Long aboard their ship.

• Xia Yang defeated Yang Wei with his Dark Gold Fear Claw, and Xia Shi healed Yang Wei's wounds.
• Yang Wei admitted defeat, accepted Xia Yang's promise to care for Tang Yuehua, and left for the Clear Sky Sect outpost.
• Xia Yang and his companions headed to the harbor, where Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong praised his strength and Xia Yang sent greetings to Tang Yuehua's father and brother.
• The group boarded their reserved ship and waited for Sea Soul Masters who would help them hunt Spirit Rings.
• Aimei'er and Wei Long arrived, greeted Xia Shi warmly, and joined the group aboard the ship.

Xia Shi and Huo Yang brought their companions to Cold Pond Island to hunt a fifty-seven-thousand-year Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle, revealing that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had advanced after they consumed Immortal Herbs. They began unveiling the improved skill as the beast swam in the center of the pond.

• Xia Shi introduced Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong to his friends Aimei'er and Wei Long, who joined the group for the Soul Hunting Journey.
• Xia Shi and Huo Yang explained that they planned to hunt a Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle near Cold Pond Island and a Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast near the Volcano Archipelago, both estimated to be fifty to sixty thousand years old.
• Xia Shi revealed that consuming Immortal Herbs had greatly increased their Soul Power and transformed their Icefire Cage Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• After seven or eight days at sea, the group reached Cold Pond Island and learned that its central pond remained unfrozen year-round.
• The group found a fifty-seven-thousand-year Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle swimming in the pond, and Xia Shi and Huo Yang released their Martial Souls to demonstrate their new fusion skill.

Xia Shi and Huo Yang helped defeat the Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle, allowing Xia Shi to absorb its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and become a Soul Saint. At the Volcano Archipelago, the group battled a Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast, and Xia Yang moved in to attack as both sides grew exhausted.

• Xia Shi and Huo Yang fused into the Hard Armor Battle Turtle Top, freezing the pond and trapping the Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle long enough for Wei Long and Aimei'er to attack.
• Aimei'er pierced the Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle with her soul skills and summoned a Wood Dragon, while Wei Long struck its wounded neck with his Diamond Starry Sky Fist.
• Xia Shi delivered the final blow, absorbed the Mystic Ice Dragon Turtle's Soul Ring over three days, and reached Level Seventy-Two, though the beast left no Spirit Bone.
• At the Volcano Archipelago, Xia Shi and Huo Yang formed the fire-based Critical Strike Ferocious Tiger Spinning Top and joined Wei Long and Aimei'er in fighting the Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast.
• After an hour of fighting exhausted both the group and the Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast, Xia Yang quietly approached and used Dark Demon Evil God Transformation and Tear Heaven God Claw.

Xia Yang and Huo Yang killed the Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast, allowing Huo Yang to reach Level Seventy-Two and Xia Shi and Huo Yang to become Soul Saints. On Purple Pearl Island, Xia Yang reaffirmed his decision to undergo Sea God Island's tests, and the group set sail for the island the next morning without Aimei'er and Wei Long.

• Xia Yang blinded the Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast, and Huo Yang's Critical Strike Ferocious Tiger -- Spinning Top tore open its neck and killed it.
• Huo Yang absorbed the beast's black Spirit Ring after three days and two nights, reaching Level Seventy-Two alongside Xia Shi in the Soul Saint realm.
• Xia Yang's group arrived at Purple Pearl Island, where Aimei'er and Wei Long warned Xia Yang about Sea God Island's dangerous tests and the possibility that he would be trapped there for life.
• Xia Yang insisted he was willing to face the consequences, and Xia Shi explained Sea God Island and its tests to Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong.
• Tang Yuehua promised to stay by Xia Yang's side, and the two spent the night together.
• Xia Yang's group set sail for Sea God Island the next morning as Aimei'er and Wei Long prepared to return.

Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong arrived at Sea God Island with Xia Yang’s father, Xia Shi, who sought Sea Spear Douluo’s help with their entry assessment. Sea Spear Douluo recognized Xia Shi and welcomed the three young people, bringing Xia Yang closer to the Sea God Trial.

• Xia Shi brought Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong ashore on Sea God Island while Huo Yang remained on the ship.
• Xia Shi explained that he knew Sea Spear Douluo and led the group toward Sea Spear City.
• A purple-clad guard stopped them, then agreed to guide them to Sea Spear Douluo at the Sea Spear Holy Pillar.
• Xia Yang and his companions greeted Sea Spear Douluo respectfully at the pond.
• Sea Spear Douluo recognized Xia Shi and welcomed Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong.

Xia Yang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua began the Sea God Trial by crossing the Sea God's Light and then testing their trial ranks at the Sea Spear Holy Pillar. Liu Erlong received a Black Rank Six Exams assessment, while the other two had yet to be tested.

• Xia Shi confirmed that he and his companions understood they would have to remain on Sea God Island, then left at Sea Spear Douluo's order.
• Xia Yang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua entered the pond and struggled against the Sea God's Light without helping one another.
• Tang Yuehua used her Head Spirit Bone to copy Xia Yang's enhancement soul skill and pushed through the waves to reach the shore.
• Sea Spear Douluo declared that all three had qualified for the true trial and instructed them to place their hands on the Holy Pillar to determine their trial difficulty.
• Liu Erlong touched the Holy Pillar, which assigned her Black Rank Six Exams.

Xia Yang received a special Sea God assessment that could become the Sea God Nine Tests if he mastered switching between ice and fire, while Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua also received high-level trials. The group settled in Sea Spear City, where Liu Erlong worried about being trapped on Sea God Island and Xia Yang insisted they could leave if they became strong enough.

• Liu Erlong received the Black Rank Six Exams, which Sea Spear Douluo said made becoming a Title Douluo a sure thing.
• Xia Yang's test triggered the seven Holy Pillars and transformed into a half-red, half-gold beam, prompting Sea Spear Douluo to suspect a Sea God Nine Tests.
• Bo Saixi explained that Xia Yang had the Eight Point Five Trials and could earn the Ninth Assessment by learning to freely switch between ice and fire before completing the Eighth Examination.
• Tang Yuehua received the Top Tier Seven Tests, then linked her arm through Xia Yang's as he praised her progress.
• Sea Spear Douluo took Xia Yang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua to Sea Spear City to rest before starting their assessments the next day.
• At night, Liu Erlong asked if they could leave Sea God Island, and Xia Yang confidently said strength would let them go wherever they wanted.

Xia Yang and the others began their first Sea God Island examination, climbing the steps under the Sea God's Light. After a month of training, Xia Yang passed his goal of 333 steps and left Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong to continue at their own pace.

• Sea Spear Douluo led Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong to the Sea God Hall steps and activated the Sea God's Light for their first examination.
• Xia Yang climbed to the 320th step on his first attempt before stopping to recover, while Sea Spear Douluo marveled at his physical strength.
• Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong struggled upward more slowly as the three continued training on the steps day after day.
• One month later, Xia Yang reached the 333rd step and passed his First Test.
• Xia Yang encouraged Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong to keep climbing, then descended to Sea Spear Douluo, who asked whether he would continue using the Sea God's Light to temper his body.

Xia Yang abandoned training on the Sea God's Light and passed the Ring Sea assessment on his first attempt. He returned to Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong after arranging to begin the Third Assessment the next day.

• Xia Yang told Sea Spear Douluo that the Sea God's Light offered him little benefit and proceeded to the Second Examination.
• Sea Spear Douluo explained that Xia Yang had to cross the Ring Sea without using soul skills or harming Sea Soul Beasts, and Xia Yang immediately entered the water.
• Xia Yang used Bodyguard Qi to repel attacking Demon Soul Great White Sharks and continued across the seafloor.
• Xia Yang released his Martial Soul and defeated a ten-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark with his Purple Armor.
• Xia Yang reached the opposite shore and passed the Second Examination, impressing Sea Spear Douluo.
• Xia Yang agreed to begin the Third Assessment the next day and returned across the Ring Sea to Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong.

Xia Yang completed his year-long Third Examination of tidal body refinement at Raging Waves Desolation and broke through to level 50. He left the trial having demonstrated a powerful sound-wave attack, which Liu Erlong wondered might be a Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Sea Spear Douluo brought Xia Yang to Raging Waves Desolation and explained that he had to endure the waves for eight shichen a day for a year.
• Xia Yang endured the tidal body refinement while cultivating, eventually advancing from level 46 to level 49.
• Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong joined Xia Yang at the trial site and encouraged him on the final day of his examination.
• As the Third Examination ended, Xia Yang broke through to level 50 and released a sound wave that collided with and dispersed a Huge Wave.
• Liu Erlong asked Xia Yang whether his sound-wave attack counted as a Self-Created Soul Skill.

Xia Yang received a God-given Soul Ring after surpassing the limits of his trial, then pushed his body to absorb it at an extraordinary Year Limit. He survived the dangerous attempt with a fifty-thousand-year Fifth Soul Ring and reached level fifty-six.

• Sea Spear Douluo explained that a God-given Soul Ring formed according to its absorber and could reach a high Year Limit if their body could withstand the energy.
• Xia Yang rested overnight, then began absorbing the God-given Soul Ring while Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong continued training on the stone pillars.
• Xia Yang's Fifth Soul Ring rapidly rose in Year Limit, passing forty thousand years as the energy strained his body.
• Xia Yang endured the pain and raised his Fifth Soul Ring to fifty thousand years before cutting off the energy and collapsing slightly after spitting blood.
• Sea Spear Douluo expressed shock at Xia Yang's achievement, and Xia Yang revealed that his Soul Power had reached level fifty-six.

After reaching Soul Power Level 56, Xia Yang postponed the Fourth God Exam to claim his earlier rewards and strengthen himself before facing the hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King. He discovered that his fifth soul skill, Soul Guard, protected his Sea of Consciousness from the Black Ball, and after half a year of cultivation and claiming his rewards, he reached the threshold of level 60.

• Sea Spear Douluo reminded Xia Yang that he had not claimed the rewards from his First Three Exams and advised him to prepare before challenging the Evil Orca King.
• Xia Yang activated his fifth soul skill, Soul Guard, and formed a golden barrier in his Sea of Consciousness that contained the Black Ball.
• Xia Yang shared a bonfire meal with Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong after their day's cultivation.
• Xia Yang spent the following six months cultivating at the tidal training area and the divine exam staircase while claiming his earlier exam rewards.
• The Sea God's rewards raised Xia Yang's Soul Power by one level, and his cultivation brought him to the threshold of level 60.

Xia Yang asked Bo Saixi for permission to leave Sea God Island so he, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong could obtain Spirit Rings. When Bo Saixi limited their absence to half a year, Xia Yang revealed that he knew where Tang Chen was, provoking an urgent reaction from her.

• Liu Erlong asked Xia Yang how they could obtain Spirit Rings despite Sea God Island's restrictions, and Xia Yang said he would ask Bo Saixi for an exception.
• Xia Yang visited Sea God Hall and requested permission for the three of them to leave the island and hunt Spirit Beasts.
• Bo Saixi learned that Xia Yang had reached rank 60 and granted permission for half a year away before he had to return for the Fourth God Examination.
• Xia Yang argued that half a year was too short and revealed that he knew where Tang Chen was.
• Bo Saixi erupted with a terrifying aura and urgently asked Xia Yang whether he truly knew Tang Chen's whereabouts, while Xia Yang cautiously raised the time limit again.

Xia Yang received permission to leave Sea God Island for a year and a half to hunt Spirit Rings, while Bo Saixi worried over Tang Chen, trapped in the City of Slaughter. At the shore, Xia Yang and Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong planned their Spirit Ring hunts and prepared for the next Divine Exam.

• Bo Saixi gave Xia Yang a year and a half to hunt Spirit Rings, and Xia Yang told her Tang Chen was trapped in the City of Slaughter and not of sound mind.
• Bo Saixi decided she would have to wait until Xia Yang completed the Eighth Examination before she could leave Sea God Island to find Tang Chen.
• Xia Yang told Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong he had permission to leave the island, and he planned to hunt a Golden Hawksbill Turtle for his Sixth Soul Ring despite the risk of temporarily disrupting his Martial Soul’s ice-fire balance.
• Liu Erlong planned to hunt a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast, while Tang Yuehua planned to hunt an eight-thousand-year-old Bewitching Sea Demon.
• Xia Yang comforted Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong and said their increased strength would help them face the Evil Orca King in the Fourth Examination.

Xia Yang's group left Sea God Island and traveled with Sea Spear Douluo to hunt an eight-thousand-year-old Bewitching Sea Demon for Tang Yuehua's Fourth Soul Ring. They killed the chosen Spirit Beast, and its Spirit Ring appeared as the chapter ended.

• Xia Yang asked Sea Spear Douluo to help find an eight-thousand-year-old Bewitching Sea Demon for Tang Yuehua, explaining how Whale Rubber allowed Soul Masters to absorb stronger Spirit Rings.
• Sea Spear Douluo accelerated their sailing ship with his Soul Power, and the group reached the boundary between the deep and shallow sea three days later.
• Sea Spear Douluo attacked underwater with his Fifth soul skill, forcing several Bewitching Sea Demons to surface.
• Tang Yuehua selected an eight-thousand-year-old Bewitching Sea Demon, and Sea Spear Douluo pierced its shell with his Sixth soul skill.
• Tang Yuehua used her Second and Third soul skills to make the wounded Bewitching Sea Demon attack itself until it died, and its deep purple Spirit Ring appeared.

Tang Yuehua absorbed an eight-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Liu Erlong gained her Sixth Soul Ring during the journey to Purple Pearl Island. There, Xia Yang followed a suspicious dockworker to a remote warehouse said to be the Purple Pearl Chamber of Commerce headquarters and stopped him from leaving.

• Tang Yuehua absorbed the Bewitching Sea Demon's Spirit Ring, reaching Level Forty-Six.
• Sea Spear Douluo took the group to the Volcano Archipelago, where Liu Erlong absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Blazing Flame Sea Dragon Beast Spirit Ring and advanced to rank 62.
• Sea Spear Douluo brought Xia Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong to Purple Pearl Island before returning to Sea God Island.
• Zhang Niu, a worker for the Purple Pearl Chamber of Commerce founded by Xia Yang's parents, offered to take Xia Yang to its headquarters.
• Xia Yang and his companions followed Zhang Niu to a remote warehouse, grew suspicious of his behavior, and Xia Yang grabbed him when he tried to leave.

Xia Yang and his companions survived an ambush at the warehouse, where Xia Yang killed the Soul Emperor Ke Mulin. Xia Shi explained that Ke Mulin was a pirate leader who opposed the family’s merchant association, and the chapter ended with Xia Yang learning his parents had rushed to help him.

• Xia Yang dragged Zhang Niu to the warehouse, where ambushing Soul Masters attacked the group with sound waves and poison mist.
• Liu Erlong shielded Xia Yang and Tang Yuehua, while Xia Yang threw Zhang Niu into an attacker’s path and Zhang Niu was torn in half.
• The attacker used clones and poison mist to conceal his movements, but Tang Yuehua exposed one clone and Xia Yang blocked a surprise sound-wave attack with his armor.
• Xia Yang killed the attacker, a level sixty-five Soul Emperor, with his Tear Heaven God Claw.
• Xia Shi and Huo Yang arrived and identified the dead man as Ke Mulin, a pirate leader who opposed their merchant association on Purple Pearl Island.

Xia Yang planned an ambush on Ji Hanfei, the flying pirate leader who had evaded Xia Shi and Huo Yang for years, and convinced his parents to help despite the danger of using the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Bone Skill. The group attacked Ji Hanfei's ship, drawing him out as Xia Yang and Xia Shi approached from the sea.

• Xia Shi explained that Ji Hanfei, Ke Mulin's sworn brother, was a rank 78 Soul Saint who could escape by flying.
• Xia Yang persuaded Xia Shi and Huo Yang to ambush Ji Hanfei, proposing that they make him believe he had the advantage while Xia Yang sought direct contact.
• Tang Yuehua and Huo Yang worried that Xia Yang would risk losing control by using the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Bone Skill, but Xia Yang insisted on proceeding.
• Xia Yang and Xia Shi swam toward Ji Hanfei's ship while Huo Yang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua launched the frontal assault.
• Huo Yang and Liu Erlong attacked the ship and set its sails ablaze, bringing Ji Hanfei out of the cabin.

Xia Yang and his allies fought Ji Hanfei and the pirates aboard their ship, and Tang Yuehua’s mental attacks gave Xia Yang the opening to kill Ji Hanfei by devouring his Soul Power. The remaining pirates were executed while Xia Yang absorbed the energy, leaving his parents uneasy about what he had become.

• Ji Hanfei attacked Huo Yang, but Xia Shi emerged from the sea and helped defend against him.
• Tang Yuehua trapped Ji Hanfei in a mental illusion, allowing Xia Yang to launch a surprise attack from the mast.
• Ji Hanfei broke free and struck Xia Yang, but Xia Yang’s defenses held and his Soul Bone Skill drained Ji Hanfei’s Soul Power until he died.
• Xia Yang told his parents to kill the remaining pirates and conceal what had happened to him, then began absorbing the energy from Ji Hanfei.
• Xia Shi, Huo Yang, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong executed the pirates and gathered around Xia Yang to guard him.