Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan and his companions reached Sea God Island, where the Sea Witch welcomed them and showed them the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar, which could test visiting Soul Masters. In the God Realm, Poseidon sensed that his Heart of the Sea God had appeared and summoned a curtain of water.

• Xu Fan and the others sailed across a calm sea, fishing and enjoying the voyage until Sea God Island appeared on the horizon.
• The group landed on Sea God Island, where the Sea Witch welcomed them and five guards withdrew after recognizing her.
• The Sea Witch led the group to the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar and explained that the Seven Sacred Pillars could test visiting Soul Masters.
• Poseidon opened his eyes in the Sea God Temple, declared that his Heart of the Sea God had appeared, and raised a curtain of water.

Poseidon considered Xu Fan unsuitable to inherit the Sea God Position and weighed Bo Saixi’s potential before deciding to keep searching for a successor. After the group arrived in Sea Maiden City, Sea Witch reported their journey to Bo Saixi, then led them to the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar the next morning to begin their trials.

• Poseidon sensed a violent aura on Xu Fan and ruled him out as the Sea God’s successor, then considered Bo Saixi while reflecting on his hundred-year search for a reformer.
• Sea Witch brought Xu Fan and the women to Sea Maiden City, where they rested before their trials.
• Sea Witch returned to the Sea God Temple and told Bo Saixi about the mainland and the Heart of the Sea God.
• Bo Saixi wondered what the Sea God thought of the news after Sea Witch and Xiao Bai left.
• The next morning, Ning Rongrong volunteered to go first at the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar, and Sea Witch prepared to begin the trial.

Ning Rongrong and the others received identical Black Level Six Trials, prompting Xu Fan to suspect the Sea God had interfered with their assessments. Xu Fan met Poseidon in the Sea God Temple, where Poseidon discussed choosing one of the women around him to inherit the Sea God Position and explained why Bo Saixi could not do so.

• Ning Rongrong received a Black Level Six Trial, and the others who underwent assessments received the same result.
• Xu Fan suspected Poseidon had deliberately set everyone’s assessment to Black Level Six.
• Xu Fan entered the Light Pillar and was transported to the Sea God Temple, where he met Poseidon.
• Poseidon told Xu Fan that he carried the aura of another deity and should inherit that deity’s God Position.
• Poseidon said he planned to choose one of the women around Xu Fan to inherit the Sea God Position, but had not decided whom.
• Xu Fan asked why Poseidon had not chosen Bo Saixi, and Poseidon explained that she could not elevate his God Position and divine artifact as required.

Xu Fan met Poseidon and agreed to help Bo Saixi become a candidate for the Sea God inheritance, while Poseidon also searched for another successor. After Xu Fan received a Black Level Seven Trial, Bo Saixi learned Poseidon had once intended her to inherit his position and wondered why he had changed his mind.

• Poseidon agreed with Xu Fan to pursue both paths: Xu Fan would help Bo Saixi, while Poseidon searched for a successor.
• Xu Fan returned to the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar and learned he had received a Black Level Seven Trial.
• Xu Fan told Ning Rongrong he had met the Sea God, and his companions realized Poseidon had deliberately lowered their trial levels.
• Bo Saixi learned Poseidon had originally intended her to inherit the Sea God Position and questioned why he had abandoned that plan.
• Xu Fan recalled that Poseidon wanted a successor capable of making the Sea God a sixth God King and agreed to help Bo Saixi reach that potential.

Bo Saixi learned that Xu Fan had once helped her inherit the Sea God’s God Position and resolved to become the Sea God quickly so she could protect him. Xu Fan received the Fighting Spirit Domain and the Martial God Cauldron, while the group prepared to begin the Sea God Trials the next day.

• Bo Saixi felt that her talent had nearly kept her from inheriting the Sea God’s God Position, then took heart from Xu Fan’s help in clearing her path.
• Bibi Dong reflected that Bo Saixi needed to become a God King earlier in this life to help Xu Fan face the God Realm’s Five Great God Kings.
• Bo Saixi resolved to complete the Sea God inheritance as soon as possible and avoid repeating the tragedy of her previous life.
• Xu Fan received the Fighting Spirit Domain and the divine artifact Martial God Cauldron, which complemented his Martial God Domain and Martial God Tower.
• The Sea Witch postponed the group’s Godly Trial until the next day, and Ning Rongrong looked forward to learning what the Sea God Trials involved.

The Sea Witch brought Xu Fan, Huo Wu, and the others to the Sea God Temple for their first assessment: climbing 108 levels under the Sea God's Light. Huo Wu discovered they could use amplification soul skills, while Xu Fan chose to climb alone and quickly advanced with ease.

• The Sea Witch explained that the Sea God's Light repelled attacks and that everyone had to climb the temple stairs using their own strength.
• Huo Wu climbed to the thirtieth level, then returned and suggested the group use amplification soul skills to help one another.
• Xu Fan agreed with Huo Wu's plan, and Ning Rongrong realized she would provide support while the others helped carry her.
• Xu Fan said he would climb alone so the women could challenge themselves, then rapidly ascended to around the fiftieth or sixtieth level without slowing.

Xu Fan easily climbed all 108 stairs of Sea God's Light, completing the first trial of the Black Level Seven Trials and gaining two levels of Soul Power. After the women praised him and prepared to attempt their own assessments, he offered Tang Yuehua an Immortal Herb in exchange for a kiss.

• Huo Wu, the Sea Witch, and Gu Yue Na marveled at Xu Fan's strength as he climbed Sea God's Light without using a soul skill.
• Bo Saixi and Poseidon watched Xu Fan's effortless ascent and became convinced of his extraordinary potential.
• Xu Fan reached the 108th stair, completed the first trial, and rose from level 64 to level 66.
• Xu Fan descended and encouraged the women with Sea God Assessments to try climbing the stairs.
• Xu Fan teased Tang Yuehua by offering her an Immortal Herb if she would give him a kiss.

Xu Fan gave Tang Yuehua an Immortal Herb after she kissed him, and she used it to overcome her inability to cultivate. Her Martial Soul successfully mutated, and her Innate Domain became a powerful cultivation support field.

• Tang Yuehua kissed Xu Fan, and he gave her an Immortal Herb that could repair her Martial Soul Origin and let her cultivate.
• Tang Yuehua took the Immortal Herb under Xu Fan's guidance while he and the others stood guard.
• Tang Yuehua's Martial Soul mutated into a jade-colored ring, and her Soul Power reached level ten.
• Tang Yuehua's Noble Ring domain expanded and began increasing the cultivation speed of those around her.
• Tang Yuehua excitedly told Xu Fan she could cultivate, and he explained the new strength of her domain.

Tang Yuehua awakened the Haotian Wheel, a versatile support Martial Soul, and Xu Fan took her to obtain two Soul Rings. She returned to Sea God Island with new skills that calmed minds and cleared meridians, where the others eagerly gathered to see her demonstrate them.

• Tang Yuehua explained that the Haotian Wheel could soothe minds, repair meridians, and strengthen other support effects, and Xu Fan offered to help her obtain Soul Rings.
• Xu Fan took Tang Yuehua into the sea, where he hunted two suitable Sea Soul Beasts and the Soul Rings she absorbed advanced to a thousand years.
• Tang Yuehua gained Calm Heart and Channel Clearing, skills that improved cultivation, Soul Power circulation, recovery, and minor meridian healing.
• Ning Rongrong and the others returned from completing three-quarters of the first trial and learned from Ah Yin that Tang Yuehua could now cultivate and had a new Martial Soul.
• Xu Fan returned with Tang Yuehua, and the women crowded around her as she demonstrated the Haotian Wheel and its calming domain.

Xu Fan comforted Ah Yin while the women trained under Sea God's Light, then helped them complete their first trial after half a month. Their next assessments seemed far beyond their current abilities, while Bai Chenxiang regretted missing the chance to join them and resolved to seek Xu Fan's help later.

• Xu Fan held Ah Yin's hand and reassured her that she would have good fortune and be happier with him by her side.
• For half a month, Ning Rongrong, Huo Wu, Shui Yue'er, and the others trained under Sea God's Light with support from Tang Yuehua's domain and Soul Skill, while Xu Fan guided them.
• The women coordinated their efforts to reach the one hundred and eighth step and received a reward that increased their Soul Power by one level.
• After learning that later trials would require them to challenge a Title Douluo and Bo Saixi, the women worried about their chances and resolved to cultivate harder.
• At the Speed Clan, Bai Chenxiang regretted hesitating to go to Sea God Island, then resolved to train and seek Xu Fan when he returned to Heaven Dou City.

After the group prepared to begin the Sea God's Second Trial, Xiaobai appeared on the shore in human form and met Xu Fan and the women. When the others left to train, Xiaobai approached Xu Fan and remarked that he smelled unusually good.

• Hu Liena surveyed the Ring Sea and reported that the Sea Soul Beasts were numerous but manageable if the group cooperated.
• A colossal sea creature emerged from the water and transformed into the young woman Xiaobai, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Soul Great White Shark.
• Ning Rongrong identified Xiaobai, and the women gathered around her with questions before leaving with Ning Rongrong to prepare for the trial.
• Xiaobai approached Xu Fan and told him that he smelled fresh and comfortable.

Xu Fan teased Xiaobai about sensing his scent because she had fallen in love with him, leaving her flustered and fleeing into the sea. After everyone completed Sea God’s Second Trial and gained Soul Power, Bo Saixi arrived and met Xu Fan and the others.

• Xiaobai insisted she could smell a wonderful fragrance on Xu Fan, and he teased her that it meant she had fallen in love with him.
• Xiaobai blushed and ran into the sea, while Ah Yin scolded Xu Fan for frightening her.
• The group completed Sea God’s Second Trial in ten days, and the women gained one rank while Xu Fan gained two.
• Bo Saixi walked across the waves to meet the group, and Xu Fan recognized her as the High Priest.
• Bo Saixi regarded Xu Fan with quiet approval, thinking of him as the man she was destined to follow.

Bo Saixi brought Xu Fan and the women to the Raging Wave Desperate Realm, where towering waves and fierce winds made the site of their Third Assessment clear. She explained how the valley formed and began using her Sea God Martial Soul to calm the conditions below.

• Bo Saixi noticed Xu Fan's remarkable cultivation and the powerful auras around him, then led the group away from Sea God Mountain.
• After a two-hour trek, Bo Saixi stopped at a vast coastal valley filled with towering, violent waves, leaving the women exhausted and alarmed.
• Bo Saixi named the valley the Raging Wave Desperate Realm and explained that constant wave impacts had carved it and hardened its black rocks.
• Bo Saixi summoned her nine Soul Rings and Sea God Martial Soul, spreading blue light through the valley and easing the wind and waves.

Bo Saixi began the women’s Third Assessment, requiring them to endure four hours daily on Sinking Silver Pillars as relentless waves battered them. Xu Fan and the others watched from shore while the women gritted their teeth and held on.

• Bo Saixi summoned seven Sinking Silver Pillars and explained that the Black Level Six Trials required two months of enduring on them for four hours each day.
• Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, Huo Wu, Shui Yue'er, and three others took their places on the pillars, where Bo Saixi bound them to the crossbeams.
• Bo Saixi withdrew her power, allowing the sea’s pressure to return and enormous waves to crash over the women.
• Ling Yuan worried that the waves would injure the women, but Xu Fan and Ah Yin reassured her that the assessment would strengthen them.
• The women endured the repeated waves without calling for help, determined to improve and not hold Xu Fan back.

Bo Saixi guarded the women during the shortened Third God Assessment while Bibi Dong considered visiting Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City. Qian Renxue devised a plan to put Xueke on the throne so she could pursue a Godly Trial, and Ye Qingli remained uncertain about her future with Xu Fan.

• Bo Saixi realized the Sea God had shortened the Third Assessment to favor Xu Fan and his companions, and she wondered what trials she might face in Xu Fan's God of War Tower.
• Bibi Dong, bored in the Papal Palace, considered visiting Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City to check on her progress and resolve their relationship.
• Qian Renxue planned to put Xueke on the throne so she could undergo a Godly Trial, after dealing with Xue Ye, Xue Beng, and Prince Xuexing and securing Spirit Hall's support.
• Ye Qingli wondered whether she would truly become Xu Fan's woman, and decided she needed to understand his feelings before choosing whether to cut ties with him.

After the three-month Tidal Body Tempering assessment ended, Xu Fan and the women received their rewards, and Xu Fan advanced to level seventy. He began absorbing a God-given Soul Ring while the others gathered to guard him and wondered how powerful it would become.

• After the first four-hour assessment, Ning Rongrong and Shui Yue'er described how the waves had strengthened them but left them exhausted, and Xu Fan promised a seaside barbecue after the Third Assessment.
• Xu Fan and Bo Saixi praised the women for enduring the trials, while Ah Yin leaned against Xu Fan and Gu Yue Na watched the sea in silence.
• Three months later, the final group completed Tidal Body Tempering, and golden light granted Soul Power rewards to Xu Fan and the others.
• Xu Fan’s Soul Power rose from level sixty-eight to level seventy, and a God-given Soul Ring appeared before him when his Golden Behemoth Soul Spirit proved too young to provide his seventh ring.
• Xu Fan began absorbing the God-given Soul Ring as Ning Rongrong, Ah Yin, Bo Saixi, and the others stood guard and speculated about its lifespan.

Xu Fan absorbed a God-given Soul Ring that reached 280,000 years and rose to Level 73, while Poseidon considered him a future Sixth God King and a safeguard against Asura God. After everyone completed their assessments and celebrated their gains, Xu Fan hosted a beach barbecue for his companions and Xiaobai and the Sea Witch.

• Xu Fan absorbed a 280,000-year God-given Soul Ring and advanced from Level 70 to Level 73.
• Poseidon watched Xu Fan through a water mirror, dismissed the Soul Ring's Divine Power cost, and decided Xu Fan could help Bo Saixi inherit the Sea God Position and oppose Asura God's plans.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Huo Wu, and the others finished absorbing their God-given Soul Rings and celebrated their improved levels.
• Xu Fan promised Ning Rongrong a barbecue, and everyone gathered food and supplies for a beach feast.
• Xu Fan invited Xiaobai and the Sea Witch, then grilled seafood as the group enjoyed the meal by the shore.

After a joyful barbecue on Sea God Island, Xu Fan planned to return to the continent and recruit or eliminate the Four Single-Attribute Clans. Bibi Dong prepared to help him target the Strength Clan, while Bai Chenxiang anticipated Xu Fan’s support for the Speed Clan and feared the Strength Clan’s stubborn loyalty to Tai Tan would doom it.

• Xu Fan and the others shared a lively barbecue as Bo Saixi watched them from a distant hillside before leaving late that night.
• Xu Fan planned to finish the remaining Godly Trials, return to the continent in half a year, and deal with Clear Sky Sect and the clans that might aid Tang San.
• Bibi Dong learned of Xu Fan’s plans, agreed that Tai Tan’s Strength Clan deserved its nickname, and ordered an investigation into its base, forces, and weaknesses.
• Bai Chenxiang learned Xu Fan intended to win over the Three Great Clans and hoped his support would rescue the Speed Clan.
• Bai Chenxiang regretted that the Strength Clan’s loyalty to Tai Tan put it at odds with Xu Fan and thought it would be destroyed unless Tai Tan died.

Bai Chenxiang weighed her loyalty to the Strength Clan against her desire to follow Xu Fan, while Xu Fan considered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan a future target. On Sea God Island, Xiaobai warned Xu Fan and the women that their Fourth Assessment would pit them against the brutal Evil Spirit Orcas and their Hundred-Thousand-Year Orca King.

• Bai Chenxiang decided the Speed Clan’s future mattered most and hoped Xu Fan would spare the surviving members of the Strength Clan.
• Xu Fan considered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan aligned with the Clear Sky Sect and received an eighty-thousand-year Soul Spirit lifespan and a fifty-thousand-year physical body.
• Xu Fan and the women visited Xiaobai to begin the Fourth Assessment, and they insisted they were ready despite her warning that it could cost them their lives.
• Xiaobai revealed that the Evil Orca King had killed her little brother and described the Evil Spirit Orcas as vicious creatures that slaughtered other life without need.
• Xiaobai explained that an Evil Spirit Orca group lived about five hundred kilometers away, was the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan’s mortal enemy, and that one adult Orca could match two adult sharks.

Xiaobai warned Xu Fan and the others about the powerful, merciless Evil Spirit Orca pod and led them to its habitat for the Fourth Assessment. They found the pod and its Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King, and Xu Fan assigned himself the king while Ling Yuan prepared to protect the others.

• Xiaobai explained that the Evil Spirit Orca pod had roughly three hundred members, including about two hundred adults, and warned the group to be careful.
• Xu Fan promised Xiaobai that they would complete the assessment and avenge her little brother, then followed her to the pod’s habitat on the backs of Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Xiaobai brought the group to the blood-scented Evil Orca Sea, where hundreds of Evil Spirit Orcas surfaced around them.
• Ning Rongrong prepared to support the group as Xu Fan identified the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King and assigned himself to fight it.
• Ling Yuan agreed to protect the others while they fought the remaining Evil Spirit Orcas.