Chapter Summaries

The Evil Orca King recovered from his fear of the gray-robed Master and the mermaid, then realized their hostility toward Sea God Island might let him pursue revenge. He decided to prove his clan’s usefulness, gather intelligence, and grow stronger as he prepared to serve their cause.

• The Evil Orca King recalled how the gray-robed Master had suppressed him and how the mermaid’s awakening strike had shaken him.
• He remembered Sea God Island killing the previous Orca King and driving his clan from its territory.
• The Evil Orca King concluded that the Master and the mermaid were hostile toward Sea God Island and powerful enough to make an attack possible.
• He decided to become a useful ally by providing deep-sea intelligence and fighters for the Master’s plans.
• The Evil Orca King resolved to grow stronger by hunting and devouring enemies while building strength for revenge.

The Demon Empress questioned Tieshan and Mo Yuan about their diminished bodies and learned that they had shared scarce food with weaker kin while following Kraken’s orders to remain concealed. Left Guard and Right Guard explained why they had brought in the Evil Orca King and his subordinates, but their answers left Kraken looking increasingly responsible for the shortages.

• The Demon Empress asked Tieshan and Mo Yuan why their bodies had shrunk, and they explained that they had given most nourishing food to weaker kin while recovering on meager energy.
• The Demon Empress noticed the three Evil Spirit Orcas, and Left Guard identified them as the Evil Orca King and his subordinates, brought in as potential allies against Sea God Island.
• The Demon Empress challenged Left Guard and Right Guard for bringing in more mouths while Tieshan and Mo Yuan were weak and hungry.
• Right Guard said Kraken had forbidden large-scale hunting to keep the rift concealed until the Demon Empress awoke, and that Kraken had approved bringing in the orcas.
• Kraken listened as the others’ explanations made him seem stingy and careless, and he sensed the Demon Empress’s attention turning toward him.

Demon Empress heard Kraken’s account and approved his proposal to gather strength through a carefully planned hunt against targets outside Sea God Island’s direct control. She placed Kraken in charge of planning while reserving final approval, then asked whether her new form hindered her.

• Demon Empress acknowledged Tieshan and Moyuan’s loyalty while criticizing their choice to weaken themselves by feeding the weak, and she praised Left Guard and Right Guard for their work.
• Demon Empress asked Kraken what he wanted, and he explained that he sought to gather Deep Sea forces against Sea God Island and exploit its weaknesses.
• Kraken proposed a concealed long-range hunt to obtain food and energy while identifying potential allies, and Demon Empress approved the plan with restrictions on targets and territory.
• Demon Empress ordered Kraken to prepare the detailed plan for her review and said the subdued Evil Spirit Orcas would join the hunt and prove their worth.
• Demon Empress asked whether her new form hindered her, leaving Tieshan, Moyuan, Left Guard, and Right Guard anxiously awaiting Kraken’s answer.

Kraken’s staged pursuit brought the wounded Evil Orca King before two Sea God Island Title Douluos, who intervened and accepted his offer to submit. Kraken withdrew after the plan’s first step succeeded, leaving the Evil Orca King in Sea God Island’s custody.

• Tieshan and Moyuan pursued and wounded the Evil Orca King while Kraken watched from concealed gray mist and waited for Sea God Island’s patrols.
• Two Sea God Island Title Douluos arrived, ordered the combatants to stop, and demanded that Tieshan and Moyuan leave.
• The Evil Orca King pleaded for rescue, claiming he had been hunted for wishing to serve Sea God Island.
• After assessing his wounds and emotions, the white-robed elder signaled agreement, and the trident-wielding Title Douluo claimed the Evil Orca King for Sea God Island.
• Tieshan and Moyuan retreated, while the white-robed elder began treating and restraining the Evil Orca King; Kraken then disappeared into the mist.

After two months of recovery, the Demon Empress and Kraken learned that Sea God Island planned to select a guardian for its vacant Seventh Sacred Pillar in about half a year. They ordered the Evil Orca King to gather more intelligence and began considering ways to exploit the selection.

• The Evil Orca King reported that he had infiltrated Sea God Island’s patrols and learned details about six Sacred Pillar Guardians and the coming selection for the Seventh Sacred Pillar.
• The Evil Orca King said the selection would begin in roughly half a year, would emphasize strength, faith, ocean affinity, and resonance with the Sacred Pillar, and would take place while the pillar’s region remained weakly defended.
• The Demon Empress ordered the Evil Orca King to investigate the selection and the Seventh Sacred Pillar’s region while maintaining his cover, and Kraken warned him to conceal his hatred.
• Kraken proposed either disrupting the selection, destroying the pillar’s core, or manipulating the selection so a vulnerable candidate became guardian, while the Demon Empress considered his plan.

Six months after Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, Zhao Wuji, and their team vanished in Sunset Forest, Huo Wu struggled to raise her newborn son, Feng Nian, while grieving their disappearance. She learned that Ning Fengzhi had arrived at Shrek Academy with possible new developments, leaving her braced to hear the truth.

• Huo Wu recalled how Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang left for Sunset Forest and never returned, despite searches by Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Wu gave birth to Feng Nian after a difficult delivery and relied on Ye Lingling’s care while mourning the missing men.
• Huo Wu told Ye Lingling she planned to leave Shrek Academy with Feng Nian once her health improved, and Ye Lingling agreed to accompany her.
• A young teacher informed Huo Wu and Ye Lingling that Ning Fengzhi had arrived to discuss possible follow-up developments about Sunset Forest.
• Huo Wu held Feng Nian close and prepared herself to hear whatever news Ning Fengzhi brought.

Ning Fengzhi and Elder Bai told Shrek Academy that the Star Luo Empire was the likeliest culprit behind Zhao Wuji’s group disappearing, though they had no conclusive evidence. Huo Wu decided to leave Shrek with Feng Nian and raise him until he could protect himself, while the others vowed to keep investigating.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that the disappearance of Zhao Wuji, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and the others appeared to be a planned ambush rather than an accident.
• Elder Bai revealed that Star Luo Emperor Dai Tianfeng had ordered the Shrek team’s movements monitored before they vanished.
• Ning Fengzhi connected the suspected attack to Star Luo’s possible effort to weaken Heaven Dou and distract attention from an ancient ruin in the Forgotten Gobi.
• Flender demanded evidence, but Elder Bai said the attackers had concealed their actions and left few traces.
• Huo Wu said she would leave Shrek with Feng Nian, raise him, and tell him about his father and uncle.
• Ning Fengzhi promised that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy would continue investigating as Huo Wu left with Ye Lingling.

Dai Tianfeng rejected accusations that Star Luo had caused Zhao Wuji and the others to disappear, while suspecting an unknown third party had framed his empire. He ordered investigations and countermeasures as Star Luo prepared for rising tensions with Heaven Dou, Shrek Academy, and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Dai Tianfeng angrily reviewed a report saying Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect suspected Star Luo of murdering Zhao Wuji and the others, while Huo Wu vowed revenge.
• Dai Tianfeng and his ministers questioned whether Spirit Hall, Heaven Dou factions, or an unknown third party had carried out the clean attack near Sunset Forest.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered covert agents to investigate suspicious forces and Soul Power fluctuations, strengthened the border toward the Balak Kingdom, and accelerated the Forgotten Gobi investigation.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered close surveillance of Heaven Dou, Shrek Academy, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Huo Wu, and Liu Erlong, and directed agents to feed Xue Beng misleading information about the Gobi.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered an official protest demanding evidence or a public retraction, then vowed to retaliate against whoever had framed Star Luo.

The Demon Empress and Kraken planned to exploit the vulnerable period after Sea God Island chose a new Seventh Sacred Pillar Guardian, targeting one of three Level 90 candidates before they obtained a ninth Soul Ring. They left the Evil Orca King to gather more intelligence while Kraken prepared a separate hunt to replenish their strength.

• The Evil Orca King reported that Coral Douluo, Begonia Douluo, and the Sea Wolf Soul Master were the leading candidates for the Seventh Sacred Pillar, and that the Nine Trials of the Sea God would begin soon.
• The Demon Empress rejected interfering directly with the dangerous, tightly guarded trials and proposed attacking a candidate after the trials but before their ninth Soul Ring hunt was complete.
• Kraken suggested targeting Begonia Douluo or the Sea Wolf Soul Master and disguising the killing as an accident during a soul-beast hunt.
• The Demon Empress ordered the Evil Orca King to keep spying on the candidates, trials, and likely hunting locations without risking its cover.
• Kraken said he was preparing a hunt at a remote Deep Sea soul-beast settlement to obtain flesh, blood, and energy for Tieshan, Moyuan, and the Demon Empress.

The Evil Spirit Orca revealed that Sea God Island might reward the candidates for the Seventh Sacred Pillar with God-Bestowed Soul Rings, though the blessing was uncertain and risky. Kraken and the Demon Empress refined their plans to exploit the candidates’ vulnerable moments, while the Orca returned to Sea God Island to gather intelligence and Kraken’s group prepared to hunt.

• The Evil Spirit Orca explained that the Nine Trials of the Sea God might grant God-Bestowed Soul Rings, with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast hunts as a backup, and that both trials and ring absorption could leave candidates vulnerable.
• Kraken identified the end of the trials and the Soul Ring absorption period as opportunities to disrupt the candidates, and proposed creating diversions to draw guards away from Sea God Island’s core areas.
• The Demon Empress ordered the Evil Spirit Orca to investigate the trials’ timing and locations, the candidates’ weaknesses and rivalries, and Sea God Island’s defenses.
• The Demon Empress directed Kraken, Tieshan, and Mo Yuan to continue recovering and hunting to strengthen their forces.
• The Evil Spirit Orca returned toward Sea God Island on his intelligence mission, while Kraken, Tieshan, and Mo Yuan prepared to hunt Deep-Sea Soul Beasts.

Kraken, Tieshan, and Mo Yuan attacked the Shadow Sailfish clan in Rift Gorge, killing its two hundred-thousand-year kings and many other members. They collected the valuable corpses and soul bones, then began erasing the traces of their assault.

• Kraken, Tieshan, and Mo Yuan located the Shadow Sailfish Kings deep inside their lair while Kraken watched for Sea God Island's intervention.
• Tieshan and Mo Yuan launched a surprise attack, suppressing the kings and devastating the rest of the clan.
• Tieshan snapped the male king's horn and drained his vitality, while Mo Yuan drained the female king until both died.
• Kraken found a Head Soul Bone and a Torso Soul Bone among the kings' corpses, then stored the corpses in his ring.
• Kraken ordered Tieshan and Mo Yuan to erase the evidence and return to the rift valley.

The Demon Empress’s faction had spent three thousand years infiltrating Sea God Island, embedding dark marks in three Sacred Pillar Guardians and mapping the island’s sacred energy network. With a purification ritual approaching in ten days, they prepared to advance their plan from within the island’s heart.

• Three thousand years earlier, the Evil Orca King secretly delivered Sea God Island’s Free Transformation Secret Technique to the Demon Empress, enabling her to take human form.
• The Demon Empress met with Kraken, Tieshan, Moyuan, the Evil Orca King, and the compromised guardians of the Sea Swallow, Sea Turtle, and Coral Sacred Pillars in the Coral Family residence.
• The Evil Orca King reported that the outer perimeter and three passages to the Abyssal Rift were secure, while the Coral Sacred Pillar Guardian reported no abnormalities and announced a Seven Sacred Pillars gathering in ten days.
• Kraken presented an energy-flow map of the main hall ritual, explaining that its key nodes had been analyzed and the hidden poison remained undetected.
• The Demon Empress ordered her forces to continue their plan to undermine Sea God Island’s foundations and sacred power.

Demon Empress and her inner circle discussed how the surge of Sea God faith on the continent could sharpen the Sea God's awareness of Sea God Island and expose their infiltration. She approved Kraken's plan to conceal their operations, exploit outward-facing distractions, and strengthen hidden forces.

• Kraken reported that faith in the Sea God had reached an unprecedented peak, potentially making the Sea God's perception of Sea God Island clearer.
• Kraken warned that the Deep Sea faction's infiltration of the Sacred Pillars would face greater risks if it continued its aggressive expansion.
• Kraken proposed stabilizing their control of the Sacred Pillars, shifting the Sea Beast Patrol Team toward concealment and observation, and using exchanges between Sea God Island and the continent to divert attention.
• Kraken revealed that Left Guard and Right Guard were cultivating in seclusion at the Sea Turtle Sacred Pillar and that transformed Soul Beast elites were hidden beneath the Sea Swallow Sacred Pillar.
• Demon Empress ordered every division to follow Kraken's strategy and instructed them to monitor continental faith, while remaining willing to fan its flames when advantageous.

Kraken delivered five live Demon Soul Great White Sharks to the Ice Empress under an agreement between the deep sea and the Far North. He suspected the Snow Empress was in seclusion and that the gifts might have hastened her approaching heavenly tribulation, then left to report back.

• The Demon Empress ordered Kraken to capture and deliver more live Demon Soul Great White Sharks to the Far North.
• Kraken brought five sleeping sharks to the Ice Palace and asked the Ice Empress where the Snow Empress was.
• The Ice Empress reacted with irritation and worry, while Kraken inferred that the Snow Empress might be digesting the gains from earlier gifts and nearing her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Kraken asked whether the Far North's agreed method was progressing, and the Ice Empress said the Far North would honor the agreement but that its internal affairs were not his concern.
• The Ice Empress carried the sharks into the palace and looked toward the Snow Empress's sealed chamber with worry as Kraken departed for the sea.

Kraken presented Demon Empress with plans to protect Left Guard and Right Guard during their Five-Hundred-Thousand-Year tribulations and to awaken intelligence in powerful soul beasts earlier. Demon Empress approved secret preparations for both projects and ordered the Intelligence Awakening trials to continue under close assessment.

• Kraken proposed using Thunder-Pattern Electric Rays and Lightning-Attracting Jellyfish to build a Lightning-Guiding Array for Left Guard and Right Guard, and Demon Empress authorized the secret plan.
• Kraken estimated that preparations for the array would take one hundred and fifty years, and Demon Empress told him to proceed immediately.
• Kraken explained that his Spiritual Wisdom Enlightenment trials had allowed more than eighty percent of selected Eighty-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to speak, think logically, and cooperate more effectively.
• Demon Empress ordered Kraken to continue testing Intelligence Awakening at the Sea Swallow Habitat and to assess the subjects' stability, temperament, and obedience for a hundred years.
• Demon Empress directed Kraken to take full responsibility for the Lightning-Guiding Array, then dismissed Kraken, Tieshan, Moyuan, and Huben.

Kraken and the Demon Empress oversaw Left Guard and Right Guard’s five-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, using a Lightning-Guiding Array and sacrificing most of its specially prepared soul beasts to help them survive. The Demon Empress judged the method viable but costly and ordered the survivors cared for before Left Guard and Right Guard joined the Intelligence Awakener at the Sea Swallow Habitat.

• Kraken and the Demon Empress watched as heaven’s tribulation struck Left Guard and Right Guard in the Mystic Heavy Abyss Sea.
• Thunder-pattern electric rays deflected part of the lightning, while lightning-attracting jellyfish absorbed and guided the rest through the array.
• After eighteen hours of tribulation, most of both soul-beast populations had perished, but Left Guard and Right Guard crossed the five-hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• The Demon Empress assessed the method as viable for weaker tribulations but warned that stronger ones would demand unsustainable sacrifices.
• Kraken acknowledged the method’s limits, and the Demon Empress ordered the surviving populations to recover and Left Guard and Right Guard to join the Intelligence Awakener at the Sea Swallow Habitat.

Kraken offered the Ice Empress a Lightning-Guiding method that could help her survive her approaching four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, while admitting it was unlikely to aid the Snow Empress’s seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation directly. He proposed that a stronger Ice Empress might help shield the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress asked him to name his price.

• Kraken arrived at the Mystic Ice Palace and told the wary Ice Empress about two methods developed by his side.
• Kraken explained how thunder-pattern electric rays and lightning-attracting jellyfish could divert and absorb some tribulation lightning, citing two successful five-hundred-thousand-year breakthroughs.
• Kraken warned that the method was unlikely to help the Snow Empress face a seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but said it could give the Ice Empress over an eighty percent chance of surviving her own four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Kraken suggested that after advancing, the Ice Empress might combine her strength and the Far North’s origin power with his method to withstand crucial strikes for the Snow Empress.
• The Ice Empress asked Kraken what the deep sea wanted in return, and he began to name his terms.

Kraken urged Ice Empress to join a Soul Beast survival alliance, using the Sunset Forest migration and its poisonous miasma to argue that all factions faced hidden threats. Ice Empress tentatively agreed to consider coordinated beast tides after first testing Kraken’s methods to help her survive her Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation.

• Kraken proposed that Soul Beast factions launch synchronized containment offensives whenever one faction faced a large-scale human attack, provoking Ice Empress’s anger.
• Kraken recounted how Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma threatened its Soul Beasts and claimed the calamity showed that every faction needed allies against future threats.
• Kraken presented coordinated beast tides as deterrence and described the Lightning Guidance Method and Enlightenment Technique as ways to strengthen Soul Beasts.
• Ice Empress reflected on the danger of the Far North facing disaster alone and asked Kraken to provide his method so she could test whether it would help her overcome her tribulation.
• Ice Empress tentatively accepted the idea of an alliance, insisting its rules and responsibilities be decided jointly, and Kraken agreed to leave her the array diagrams and ritual instructions.

Kraken negotiated with the Ice Empress, giving her two techniques while hinting that the Far North’s supply of Demon Soul Great White Sharks was vulnerable. The Ice Empress accepted the jade slips and resolved to do whatever was necessary to help Snow Empress survive her tribulation and protect the Far North.

• The Ice Empress questioned Kraken about the conditions for cooperation, and he brought up the Demon Soul Great White Sharks as an apparent concern.
• Kraken described the sharks’ weakened state and hinted that Sea God Island could disrupt the supply that helped maintain peace among the Far North’s low-rank soul beasts.
• Kraken dismissed the sharks as an offhand remark and gave the Ice Empress jade slips containing the Lightning Guidance Method and the Enlightenment Technique.
• The Ice Empress examined and kept the jade slips before dismissing Kraken from the Mystic Ice Palace.
• After Kraken left, the Ice Empress looked toward Snow Empress and vowed to risk everything to help her survive her tribulation and protect the Far North.

Kraken met with the Demon Eye Demon Tree King on the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest’s core zone to discuss cooperation between the deep sea and Star Dou. The Demon Eye Demon Tree King accepted Kraken’s Enlightenment Technique for testing, leaving a possible alliance dependent on its results.

• Kraken discreetly contacted the Demon Eye Demon Tree King and asked to share methods and seek an alliance.
• Kraken explained the Lightning-Guiding Array, but the Demon Eye Demon Tree King said lightning-affinity Soul Beasts in Star Dou had been hunted nearly to extinction.
• Kraken introduced the Enlightenment Technique, which could awaken clear intelligence and speech in Eighty-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• The Demon Eye Demon Tree King showed strong interest, accepted the method on a jade slip for testing, and considered whether Star Dou could adapt the lightning-guidance idea.
• Kraken offered to remain nearby for three days to answer questions, then withdrew into the forest.