Chapter Summaries

Xia Yang stabilized Vast Sea City with Spirit Hall’s cooperation, then expanded into Fasnuo Province until the Heaven Dou Empire sent Marshal Ge Long to suppress him. As the opposing armies faced each other, Xia Yang awaited the battle and planned to defeat Ge Long and demand compensation.

• Xia Yang warned Su Wen to keep Spirit Hall neutral while Su Wen asked Xia Yang to protect Spirit Hall’s personnel, and they agreed to cooperate.
• Over three months, Xia Yang’s forces captured nearly one-third of Fasnuo Province, prompting Xue Ye to send Marshal Ge Long west with an army.
• Xia Yang sent Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong to Sea God Island to seek help from the seven Title Douluo who guarded the Sacred Pillars.
• A month later, Xia Yang’s Soul Power reached level eighty-seven as Ge Long arrived with fifty thousand Soul Master soldiers.
• Xia Yang watched Ge Long’s army from the watchtower and activated Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Marshal Ge Long learned that Xia Yang had reached Soul Douluo despite his weak Martial Soul and challenged him to a duel before both armies. Three days later, the armies faced each other, but Sea God Island’s promised reinforcements had not arrived when the Heaven Dou army sounded its horn.

• Ge Long confirmed intelligence about Xia Yang, revealed his Rank 89 strength, and ordered a challenge for a battle three days later.
• Xia Yang inspected his disciplined Sea Soul Master camp, reassured his parents that he expected to win, and anticipated reinforcements led by the seven Holy Pillar Douluo.
• After three days, Xia Yang and Ge Long’s armies assembled on the plain, but Yuehua and Erlong had not returned with Sea God Island’s reinforcements.
• Xia Yang and his parents discussed their strength and plans as a horn sounded from the Heaven Dou formation.

Xia Yang led the Sea Soul Masters into battle against the Heaven Dou Army, using the sloping plain to strengthen their water assault. As Xia Yang and Ge Long clashed at the front, both armies fought across the plain and the two leaders prepared for another exchange.

• Xia Yang ordered nearly thirty thousand Sea Soul Masters to attack, and the Heaven Dou Army answered with a Heavenly Fire Meteor combination skill that the Sea Soul Masters partly blocked with Water Array Wall.
• Xia Shi ordered an Exploding Water Shockwave, sending a downhill torrent at the Heaven Dou Army, while Ge Long directed his troops to evade it and led the Soul Emperors in intercepting the flood.
• Xia Yang ordered the Sea Soul Masters' Soul Emperors to join the battle and used Gravity Control as he charged toward Ge Long.
• Ge Long transformed into his Dragon Blood Mammoth Martial Soul Avatar and used Giant Elephant Barrier to block and split the torrent.
• Xia Yang summoned Susanoo and struck Ge Long with eight Yasakani no Magatama, but Ge Long's layered defenses absorbed the attack without leaving him wounded.
• Xia Yang and Ge Long faced off and gathered strength for another clash as the two armies continued fighting below.

Xia Yang and Ge Long fought a destructive battle, with Xia Yang using his soul skills and Susanoo to overcome Ge Long’s traps and counterattacks. After burying Ge Long beneath the battlefield, Xia Yang unleashed eight Yasakani no Magatama blasts, leaving Ge Long’s fate unclear.

• Xia Yang used Gravity Control to suppress Ge Long, but Ge Long endured it and countered with War Roar.
• Xia Yang reflected Ge Long’s Sound Waves with Evil Mirror’s Destruction, then exchanged places with Ge Long and pierced his back with Dark Gold Fear Claw.
• Ge Long trapped Xia Yang’s claws and used Mountain Crushing Earth Splitting to destroy the ground, severing Susanoo’s left leg below the knee.
• Xia Yang regenerated Susanoo’s leg with Undying Body, struck Ge Long with Orca Demon’s Capture, and crushed him into the pit with Gravity Control.
• Xia Yang fired eight Yasakani no Magatama energy balls into the buried Ge Long, enlarging the pit to three hundred meters across and more than thirty meters deep.

Xia Yang killed Ge Long, broke the Heaven Dou Empire’s resistance, and secured victory on the battlefield. As he reunited with Xia Shi and Huo Yang, a cyan-clad Title Douluo arrived, threatening the exhausted victors.

• Xia Yang finished off the wounded Ge Long with Susanoo’s Tear Heaven God Claw.
• Xia Yang crushed the Heaven Dou soldiers’ attempted last stand with Yasakani no Magatama and offered to spare those who surrendered.
• Xia Yang ordered the battlefield cleared and the prisoners handled according to his rules.
• Xia Yang checked on Xia Shi and Huo Yang, who said they had escaped injury and praised his decisive victory.
• A cyan-clad Title Douluo flew onto the battlefield, forcing Xia Yang’s people and the prisoners to retreat from the area.

Xia Yang confronted Dugu Bo, who revealed that he had come to repay a favor to Prince Xuexing and fight the Sea Soul Masters. The two moved to a remote forest and began a duel, where Xia Yang’s powerful attack cracked Dugu Bo’s defensive barrier.

• Xia Yang recognized Dugu Bo and denied stealing his Immortal Herbs, while warning him not to harm the Soul Masters on the battlefield.
• Dugu Bo admitted Xia Yang’s herbs had saved his life and helped him reach level 94, but said he had to fight because he owed Prince Xuexing a favor.
• Xia Yang and Dugu Bo flew to a remote mountain forest to fight without endangering the battlefield below.
• Dugu Bo praised Xia Yang’s strength and unleashed his Soul Power, withering the trees around them.
• Xia Yang summoned Susanoo and attacked with Tear Heaven God Claw, cracking Dugu Bo’s Snake Python Celestial Shield.
• Dugu Bo detonated the damaged shield.

Xia Yang fought Dugu Bo and endured his poison attacks before facing his self-created Ice Fire Double Dragon Meeting. He used Gravity Control to anchor Susanoo against the tornado, and declared that he had won as Dugu Bo panted from exhaustion.

• Dugu Bo unleashed five poison skills and his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar to fire Jade Phosphorous Divine Light at Xia Yang.
• Xia Yang used Invincible Golden Body to withstand the attack and explained that Immortal Herbs had made him immune to poison.
• Dugu Bo challenged Xia Yang to endure his self-created soul skill, Ice Fire Double Dragon Meeting, and summoned a massive red-and-white tornado.
• Xia Yang strengthened Susanoo with three soul skills, then used Gravity Control to anchor the giant when the tornado began lifting it.
• Xia Yang told Dugu Bo that he had won, while Dugu Bo stood on a tree, panting after exhausting himself.

Xia Yang studied Dugu Bo’s fused ice-and-fire tornado to seek insight into the Sea God’s trial, enduring it with his bare body after dismissing Susanoo. After six hours, he transformed his Primal Chaos Genuine Qi and began absorbing the tornado’s energy, while Dugu Bo watched in surprise.

• Dugu Bo’s ice-and-fire tornado fused into a bright pink force that cracked Xia Yang’s Susanoo armor.
• Xia Yang dismissed his Martial Soul Avatar and asked Dugu Bo not to withdraw the soul skill, intending to use it for tempering.
• Xia Yang activated the Hunyuan Technique and Golden Body Imperishable Divine Skill, then endured the tornado while studying its energy conversion.
• For six hours, Xia Yang sensed how the opposing ice and fire energies balanced and produced golden light.
• At dawn, Xia Yang unveiled transformed Primal Chaos Genuine Qi and synchronized his protective barrier with the shrinking tornado.
• Dugu Bo realized Xia Yang was absorbing the tornado rather than resisting it.

After absorbing the Ice Fire Energy in Dugu Bo’s tornado, Xia Yang broke through to Soul Power Level 88 and won their match, securing Dugu Bo’s promise not to interfere in the conflict with the Heaven Dou Empire. Xia Yang began seclusion to consolidate his cultivation, but a mysterious voice called to him from outside his tent.

• Xia Yang absorbed the tornado’s Ice Fire Energy, broke through to level eighty-eight, and felt his control over ice and fire improve.
• Dugu Bo conceded defeat, promised to stop interfering in matters between Xia Yang’s side and the Heaven Dou Empire, and left.
• Xia Yang reassured his parents that he was unharmed and learned that the captured Heaven Dou Soul Masters awaited postwar negotiations.
• Xia Yang entered seclusion while Xia Shi and Huo Yang handled military affairs and contacted the Heaven Dou Empire about compensation and prisoners.
• After a day of cultivation, Xia Yang heard a cold, sharp voice call to him from outside the tent.

Xia Yang was summoned by Sword Douluo Chen Xin, who had come at Xue Ye’s request to stop the Sea Soul Masters’ campaign in the Heaven Dou Empire. Chen Xin agreed to fight him, and Xia Yang launched the first attack.

• Xia Yang sensed a powerful presence near the camp, and Chen Xin revealed himself as Sword Douluo and summoned Xia Yang north.
• Xia Shi and Huo Yang warned Xia Yang not to go, but he flew toward the sword phantom after reassuring them.
• Xia Yang met Chen Xin in the mountains and learned that Xue Ye had asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to intervene.
• Chen Xin said the battle could not be avoided and let Xia Yang attack first.
• Xia Yang teleported behind Chen Xin and struck with his Dark Gold Fear Claw as Chen Xin activated Seven Kill Real Body and Human Sword Unity.

Xia Yang endured Chen Xin’s powerful sword attacks and earned the Sword Douluo’s approval. Chen Xin prepared one final attack after offering to spare Xia Yang if he led the Sea Soul Masters back out to sea, and Xia Yang braced himself to face it.

• Chen Xin’s Myriad Swords Return to the Ancestor battered Xia Yang’s Invincible Golden Body until the attack weakened, leaving Xia Yang unharmed but drained.
• Chen Xin used Move Mountains and Fill the Sea, and Xia Yang countered with Susanoo, Tear Heaven God Claw, and Yasakani no Magatama before Chen Xin’s sword qi stopped the last energy ball.
• Chen Xin praised Xia Yang for withstanding his attacks and offered to let the matter go if Xia Yang led the Sea Soul Masters back out to sea.
• Xia Yang refused to back down and activated Skeleton Bodyguard, Evil God’s Protection, Undying Body, and Gravity Control to prepare for Chen Xin’s final move.
• Chen Xin waited as Xia Yang pushed the Hunyuan Technique and Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill to their limits, with all eight of Xia Yang’s Spirit Rings appearing.

Xia Yang was nearly overwhelmed by Chen Xin’s Ninth Soul Skill until Sea Dragon Douluo and the six other Sea God Island pillar guardians arrived. With the reinforcements at his side, Xia Yang warned Chen Xin that escalating the conflict could draw the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into the fight.

• Chen Xin unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, and its black-and-white sword aura broke through Xia Yang’s defenses and repeatedly cut into Susanoo as Xia Yang struggled to heal it.
• Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong arrived with Sea Dragon Douluo, who used his Sea Dragon Real Body and Ninth Soul Skill to strike the sword aura.
• The six other Holy Pillar Douluo appeared, and Sea Dragon Douluo caught Xia Yang after he dispelled Susanoo.
• Xia Yang and Sea Dragon Douluo confronted Chen Xin, who questioned where the seven unfamiliar Title Douluo came from.
• Xia Yang warned Chen Xin that continued fighting could involve the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong revealed their Martial Souls.

After Xia Yang survived a battle with Sword Douluo Chen Xin, he returned to camp with the Sea God Island reinforcements and joined the generals to plan their campaign against the Heaven Dou Empire. He decided to secure Fasnuo, Yidefu, and Beidi Provinces while avoiding the Balak and Silves Kingdoms for now.

• Chen Xin recognized Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong's connections to the Three Upper Clans, ended the fight as a friendly exchange, and left after warning Xia Yang to take care.
• Xia Yang collapsed from exhaustion after Chen Xin departed, and Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Sea Dragon Douluo supported him.
• Sea Dragon Douluo explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's feeding had caused the storms that delayed the Sea God Island reinforcements.
• Xia Yang and the reinforcements returned to camp, where the commanders agreed to continue the offensive against the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xia Yang rejected plans to attack Balak and Silves and ordered the army to focus on taking Fasnuo, then advancing north into Yidefu and Beidi.

Xia Yang and the Sea Soul Master Allied Army completed their conquest of Fasnuo, Yidefu, and Beidi Provinces and gathered at Fasnuo City to discuss founding a duchy. Their celebration was interrupted by news that the Star Luo Empire had invaded, and Xia Yang ordered Sea Spear Douluo to lead thirty thousand troops south to stop them.

• Xia Yang divided the army into three routes, while Sea Witch Douluo used Vast Sea City and the fleet to supply the campaigns.
• Over the following months, the armies pacified Fasnuo Province, captured Yidefu Province's major cities and forts, and brought most of Beidi Province under their control.
• The three armies converged at Fasnuo City, and Xia Yang reached level 89 as he prepared to establish a duchy.
• At the celebration banquet, Sea Witch Douluo asked whether they should officially found a nation, and Xia Yang said their current territory only justified a duchy.
• A messenger reported that thirty thousand Star Luo Empire troops led by White Tiger Sect Grand Elder Huo Yun had crossed the southern Border Mountains and were approaching Notting City.
• After Huo Yang assessed Huo Yun's strength, Xia Yang appointed Sea Spear Douluo commander and ordered him to lead thirty thousand elite troops south.

Xia Yang prepared for the conflict with Star Luo while Sea Spear Douluo led troops to the southern front. A Spirit Hall messenger brought Bishop Salas’s request for a meeting, and Xia Yang arrived outside Fasnuo City to find Salas accompanied by two Title Douluo.

• Xia Yang ordered Sea Horse Douluo to secretly accompany Sea Spear Douluo’s army as support.
• Sea Spear Douluo led thirty thousand soldiers toward Notting City, while Xia Yang watched them depart.
• At breakfast, Xia Yang’s family worried about the fighting and discussed Sea Spear Douluo’s reinforcements.
• A messenger said Bishop Salas was waiting outside Fasnuo City and had requested a meeting with Xia Yang.
• Xia Yang brought Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Illusion Douluo to meet Salas, where he noticed two similar-looking Title Douluo standing behind the bishop.

Xia Yang agreed to Spirit Hall’s terms to end the war and arranged a ceasefire with the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. After the agreements were signed and compensation arrived, he and his family prepared to reward their forces when they founded their nation three months later.

• Salas delivered the Pope’s terms, and Xia Yang agreed to stop invading Heaven Dou, sign a ceasefire, and suspend hostilities with Star Luo unless another nation attacked first.
• Qianjun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo judged Xia Yang and the two Sea God Island Title Douluo too strong to challenge, then left to report to the Pope.
• Xia Yang’s parents negotiated compensation with Heaven Dou, and the ceasefire agreement was signed a month later as the Star Luo Army withdrew.
• Sea Lance Douluo, Sea Horse Douluo, and their troops returned, while Heaven Dou’s first compensation materials arrived in Fasnuo City.
• Xia Yang agreed to distribute rewards when the nation was founded and accepted his parents’ chosen date, the first day of the second month, three months later.

Xia Yang absorbed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, gained the Sea God's acknowledgment, and broke through to level ninety before preparing to found the Vast Sea Kingdom. At the founding ceremony, Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived on Spirit Hall's behalf and fixed his attention on the Sea God statue.

• Xia Yang resonated with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and Sea God Trident, absorbed the Shroud, and broke through to level ninety as the seven Holy Pillar Douluo witnessed the Sea God's acknowledgment.
• Xia Yang announced that the nation would be founded in three months, and the Vast Sea Kingdom named Tang Yuehua Queen, Xia Tian Crown Prince, and the seven Holy Pillar Douluo Kingdom Protectors.
• Ah Yin returned from the Star Dou Great Forest before the founding, and representatives of the Three Upper Clans and both empires gathered in Fasnuo City.
• Xia Yang and the Sea Soul Masters began the founding ceremony atop the altar on the Huangjin Plain outside Fasnuo City.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo interrupted the ceremony, identified himself as a level ninety-eight Super Douluo sent by Spirit Hall's Great Offering, and turned his gaze toward the Sea God statue.

Xia Yang founded the Vast Sea Kingdom despite tensions with Spirit Hall, then married Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Ah Yin. At the wedding banquet, Tang Hao told him that Tang Chen had returned to the sect and invited him to bring Yuehua there.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged the Sea God worship at the founding ceremony, and Xia Yang had an Angel God Statue placed beside it to ease the confrontation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo reminded Xia Yang that someone in Spirit Hall awaited him and asked him to register as a Title Douluo; Xia Yang agreed to visit Spirit Hall.
• Xia Yang proclaimed the founding of the Vast Sea Kingdom and declared that it sought peaceful relations but would kill anyone who violated its borders.
• The next day, Tang Hao, Yu Luomian, and Sea Witch Douluo escorted Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Ah Yin to Xia Yang for their wedding.
• At the wedding banquet, Tang Hao told Xia Yang that Tang Chen had returned to the sect and asked him to bring Yuehua there when he had time.

At his wedding banquet, Xia Yang accepted Tang Hao’s challenge and faced him above the Huangjin Plain outside Fasnuo City. Xia Yang launched the first of the Sea God Thirteen Styles against Tang Hao’s ninth Spirit Skill, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Tang Hao challenged Xia Yang to a rematch, and Xia Yang agreed to fight before the wedding guests.
• Xia Yang and Tang Hao flew outside Fasnuo City, where Tang Hao formally challenged him as a Clear Sky Sect disciple.
• Tang Hao revealed his Title Douluo strength, nine Spirit Rings, and a Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth Spirit Ring.
• Xia Yang summoned Susanoo and the Sea God Trident, then offered to defeat Tang Hao with one move.
• Xia Yang used Sea God Thirteen Styles: Uncertain Turbulence, while Tang Hao countered with Ninth Soul Skill: Nine Kills Shattering Souls.

Xia Yang defeated Tang Hao in a fierce battle during the wedding festivities, then learned that Tang Yuehua was pregnant. The guests departed the next day as news of the Vast Sea Kingdom’s nine Title Douluo and Xia Yang’s strength spread across the continent, leaving other factions wary of what he might do next.

• Xia Yang overcame Tang Hao’s Ninth Soul Ring attack with the Sea God Thirteen Styles and knocked him unconscious.
• Xia Yang returned to the wedding banquet, where Ah Yin and Liu Erlong told him that Tang Yuehua was pregnant and resting nearby.
• Tang Hao awoke in the guest courtyard, reflected on his first defeat, and wondered how Xia Yang had become so powerful.
• The wedding guests and Tang Hao’s party departed the next day as word spread that the Vast Sea Kingdom had nine Title Douluo and Xia Yang had defeated Rank 92 Tang Hao.
• Various Factions watched the Vast Sea Kingdom with concern, fearing Xia Yang’s growing power would disrupt the continent’s balance.