Chapter Summaries

Crayfish Douluo and Giant Claw Douluo prepared an ambush for the South Sea army at the edge of the East Sea. The attack began with Crayfish Douluo’s explosive sacrifice, leaving Sea Spear Douluo wounded and the South Sea force battered as Sea Star Douluo anticipated a larger threat.

• Crayfish Douluo learned that the South Sea was advancing with at least four hundred thousand fighters, including Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo.
• Crayfish Douluo summoned fifty thousand Diamond Crayfish and traveled with Giant Claw Douluo to the East Sea to prepare for the army’s arrival.
• Ao Can led Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo’s force toward the East Sea, while the two Sacred Pillars relaxed during the journey.
• Ao Can spotted danger, and Sea Spear Douluo thrust at a charging Diamond Crayfish that exploded before his spear could reach it.
• The blast wounded Sea Spear Douluo and killed or injured many South Sea Soul Beasts, prompting Sea Star Douluo to warn that a larger attack might follow.

After a suicide attack disrupted the South Sea force, Ao Can restored its formation and raised a defensive barrier. Crayfish Douluo and Giant Claw surrounded the force to exhaust its Soul Power, leaving Ao Can and the Douluos debating how to escape.

• Ao Can ordered the South Sea force to form a barrier after a suicide attack killed and wounded many fighters.
• Ao Can estimated the barrier could last four to six hours against repeated suicide attacks, while Sea Spear Douluo challenged the force’s ability to endure.
• Crayfish Douluo stopped Giant Claw from sending more suicide units and proposed surrounding the South Sea force until its barrier ran out of power.
• Giant Claw used a conch shell to summon a vast army, and fifty thousand Diamond Crayfish and fifty thousand Giant Claw Crabs sealed off the waters.
• After nearly an hour under siege, Ao Can warned that the barrier could last three days, but Sea Spear Douluo proposed leading an elite squad through the enemy line.
• Sea Star Douluo rejected Sea Spear Douluo’s plan because of his injuries, and Sea Spear Douluo demanded another way forward.

Sea Star Douluo persuaded Ao Can to use volunteer self-destruction to break the encirclement, allowing the South Sea force to escape toward the East Sea. As the journey remained unnaturally quiet, Sea Star Douluo feared something was wrong and stopped the force.

• Sea Star Douluo proposed that volunteers detonate their soul power to open a path through the enemy formation, and Ao Can asked for time to decide.
• Ao Can led a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and over a hundred wounded beasts in a suicide charge that blasted a gap through the encirclement.
• Giant Claw Douluo and Crayfish Douluo watched the South Sea force escape toward the East Sea and ordered their troops not to pursue.
• Sea Star Douluo, Sea Spear Douluo, Ao Can, and the survivors raced toward the East Sea to rendezvous with Hailong and the others.
• After finding no enemies or even hundred-year soul beasts along the way, Sea Star Douluo stopped the force and questioned the unnatural silence.

Huben told the South Sea group that the Deep Sea Army had devastated the East Sea and led them toward Hailong’s defenses at the East Sea Canyon. Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo suddenly attacked Huben, leaving Ao Can to cry out in disbelief.

• Huben reported that the Deep Sea Army had destroyed three King-level factions using self-destruct attacks and that Hailong was fighting near the East Sea Canyon.
• Huben said Sea Swallow had escorted the wounded to the Barnacle Jellyfish’s Vine Karst Cave Complex and offered to guide the group to Hailong by a hidden route.
• Huben led the South Sea group through a seabed trench toward the East Sea Canyon while Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo exchanged discreet glances.
• Sea Star Douluo unleashed a net of azure energy at Huben as Sea Spear Douluo charged at his nape with his spear.
• Ao Can reacted with shock and demanded to know why the Lords of the Sacred Pillars were attacking Huben, whom he called one of their own.

Huben framed Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo as traitors, then sent Ao Can's South Sea force toward East Sea Canyon while escorting the captives away. Giant Claw Douluo and Crayfish Douluo detonated wounded soul beasts hidden in the canyon, apparently destroying the South Sea army.

• Huben escaped Sea Spear Douluo's attack, accused Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo of treason, and had the South Sea force capture them.
• Huben sealed the two Sacred Pillar Douluos' Soul Power and took them toward the West Sea, while Ao Can led the South Sea force toward East Sea Canyon.
• Giant Claw Douluo and Crayfish Douluo watched the South Sea force enter the underwater passage and waited until its rearguard was inside.
• Crayfish Douluo ordered the concealed wounded soul beasts to detonate, triggering explosions throughout the passage.
• Giant Claw Douluo saw black and red Soul Rings rise from the ruins, and Crayfish Douluo declared that they had each completed the other's mission.

Huben continued escorting Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo toward Sea God Island and received a warning about strange soul beasts in the South Sea. At the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Kraken revealed his identity as the Blue King and questioned Sect Master Ning about betrayal.

• Huben met Yan Qiang, leader of the South Sea Yan Qiang Tuna Group, who offered him a place to rest and warned that unknown soul beast groups were roaming the South Sea.
• Huben declined Yan Qiang's offer and continued west with Sea Star Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo in custody.
• Kraken presented his token at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and entered the sect alone, while Ning Tian and the others were told to wait elsewhere.
• Kraken met Sect Master Ning and three elders, then told them to stop addressing him by his false identity and called himself the Blue King.
• Kraken asked Sect Master Ning how long the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been betraying them, and Sect Master Ning fell to his knees to deny any betrayal.

Kraken questioned the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s leaders about Yo-Yo and discovered they had used soul rings from the Breeding Farm in hopes of overcoming their martial soul’s limit. He gave them eighth tiers for their pagodas, and they returned as Soul Douluos with new soul rings.

• Sect Master Ning told Kraken that Yo-Yo had served as the sect’s guest elder for three thousand seven hundred years.
• The Great Elder explained that Yo-Yo had told the core elders about Kraken’s destruction of the East Sea, and Kraken warned them to keep it secret.
• Kraken examined the leaders’ Seven Treasures Glazed Pagodas and told them to swear an oath before he helped them break their cultivation limit.
• Kraken infused the four pagodas, transforming Sect Master Ning’s and the Great Elder’s martial souls into Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagodas.
• The four leaders swore secrecy, bought ten thousand year soul rings at the Breeding Farm, and returned as Soul Douluos.

Kraken told Sect Master Ning and the three elders that Tieshan would stage an injury so he could adopt a direct-line disciple of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, strengthening the sect’s ties to the Loulan Imperial Family. Kraken’s projection then reported that Sea Star and Sea Spear had been imprisoned, new Sacred Pillars had been appointed, and only the South Sea remained outside their control.

• Kraken revealed that he had placed Evil Soul Masters in Body Province to keep Du Busi occupied, and that Tieshan would pretend to be wounded during the coming operation.
• Kraken explained that Tieshan’s staged injury would allow him to adopt a direct-line disciple of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Sect Master Ning promised to keep the plan secret.
• After Sect Master Ning and the elders left, Kraken met a projection of the clone that had stayed in the Golden Tree.
• The projection reported that the High Priest had stripped Sea Star and Sea Spear of their Sacred Pillar positions and imprisoned them permanently, then appointed the projection as Blue Ring and another candidate as Vast Sea.
• Kraken asked about the other seas, and the projection said the West Sea was their home base, the Right Guard Legion managed the North Sea, Kraken had wiped out the East Sea, and only the South Sea remained.

Kraken ordered Sea Swallow to spread fabricated evidence that Ao Yu had sided with the Deep Sea Army, hoping to use the South Sea factions to remove him. Sea Swallow presented the evidence to the faction leaders and arranged to lure Ao Yu to the palace, where they planned to subdue him; the chapter ended with someone approaching.

• Kraken told Sea Swallow to claim that evidence showed Ao Yu had sided with the deep sea and to persuade the South Sea factions to kill him.
• Sea Swallow showed the faction leaders images of Ao Yu meeting a Deep Sea Army envoy, and the gray catfish judged the images genuine.
• Flame Spear revealed that Sea Star and Sea Spear had also sided with the deep sea and had been imprisoned after losing their Sacred Pillar positions.
• The leaders agreed to summon Ao Yu under the pretext of discussing the East Sea war and to attack him together if he came.
• Sea Swallow sent someone to invite Ao Yu, and a heavy sound of water being cleaved came from outside the palace a day later.

Sea Swallow accused Ao Yu of defecting to the Deep Sea Army and presented a jade slip as evidence, but Ao Yu denounced it as fabricated and fled when the leaders moved to seize him. Sea Swallow and the others pursued him, and Ao Yu escaped Gray Catfish’s suction attack just as Sea Spider caught up.

• Ao Yu arrived at Sea God Island’s palace, where Sea Swallow accused him of defecting to the Deep Sea Army and mentioned Sea Star and Sea Spear’s betrayal.
• Sea Swallow showed Ao Yu a jade slip depicting him with a black-misted creature and swore in the Sea God’s name that its contents were genuine.
• Ao Yu rejected the accusation and tried to leave, but Sea Spider attacked him; Ao Yu knocked Sea Spider back and escaped the palace.
• Sea Swallow ordered the leaders to pursue Ao Yu, who fled toward his territory while insisting that he had been denied a fair chance to defend himself.
• Gray Catfish trapped Ao Yu with a powerful suction vortex, but Ao Yu countered it with a deep-blue tornado and escaped as Sea Spider caught up.

Ao Yu escaped the pursuing leaders by creating phantom dragons, while Sea Swallow promised a Sacred Beast title to whoever caught Ao Yu’s true body. Sea Swallow secretly pursued Flame Spearfish, killed him with an Annihilation Decomposition Ray, and took his Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Ao Yu knocked Sea Spider back, then used blood essence to create phantom dragons and scatter the pursuers.
• Sea Swallow persuaded the leaders to split up by promising that the clan of whoever caught Ao Yu’s true body would become a Sacred Beast clan.
• Flame Spearfish and the other leaders each pursued a different phantom dragon, while Sea Swallow sent a message with a deep-blue conch before following Flame Spearfish.
• Flame Spearfish discovered his phantom dragon had vanished, and Sea Swallow approached him with a dark-purple Soul Tool.
• Sea Swallow shot Flame Spearfish with the Annihilation Decomposition Ray, then collected his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

After the South Sea leaders returned from chasing Ao Yu’s decoys, Sea Swallow proposed intercepting him while secretly reporting to an unknown ally. He later met Ao Yu in a coral reef and revealed that the apparent pursuit was part of a plan to expose deep-sea agents among the leaders.

• The South Sea leaders realized their targets were decoys and concluded Yan Qiang and another leader had been killed by Ao Yu.
• Sea Swallow promised to recommend Yan Qiang’s school and the other leader’s clan for Sacred Beast status, then distributed tracking crystals to the leaders.
• Sea Swallow told an unknown contact that the leaders still trusted him, and the contact instructed him to begin the plan’s second step.
• Sea Swallow changed course and met Ao Yu in a coral reef, explaining that the staged pursuit had convinced the leaders Ao Yu was fleeing.
• Ao Yu realized Sea Swallow suspected deep-sea agents among the South Sea leaders, and Sea Swallow questioned whether a forged jade slip alone could have turned every force against Ao Yu.

Sea Swallow persuaded Ao Yu to stage a defection to the deep sea so hidden agents in the South Sea would approach him. Ao Yu agreed to fake an attack on Sea God Island before turning against the Deep Sea Right Guard, and Sea Swallow reported that the second step could begin.

• Ao Yu confronted Sea Swallow about setting him up, and Sea Swallow asked him to pretend to defect to the deep sea to draw out hidden agents.
• Sea Swallow explained that Ao Yu had to make the defection believable by showing hesitation and offering a pledge of allegiance.
• Ao Yu balked at attacking Sea God Island, but Sea Swallow revealed that the Deep Sea Right Guard was attacking the West Sea with the Iron-Backed Swordfish Legion.
• Sea Swallow proposed that Ao Yu appear to attack Sea God Island, then turn his forces against the Deep Sea Right Guard when they met.
• Ao Yu agreed to the plan and returned to muster trusted troops and stage evidence of contact with a Deep Sea Envoy.
• After Ao Yu left, Sea Swallow used the Deep Wave Sound-Transmission Conch to report that Ao Yu had taken the bait and the second step could begin.

Sea Swallow staged a battle and pretended to be wounded so the South Sea leaders would pursue Ao Yu toward the West Sea. After confirming the ruse was working, Ao Yu summoned his nine trusted commanders to address rumors that he had joined the Deep Sea Army.

• Sea Swallow wrecked a coral forest, wounded himself, and hid among the debris to make it look as if he had fought Ao Yu.
• Sea Spider, Gray Catfish, and the other leaders found Sea Swallow, who claimed Ao Yu had fled toward the West Sea and planned to join forces with the Deep Sea Right Guard against Sea God Island.
• Sea Spider, Gray Catfish, and the other leaders set off to intercept Ao Yu, while Sea Swallow revealed that the pursuit was part of a plan and reported that its third step was complete.
• Ao Yu returned to his volcanic-basin territory and gathered his nine trusted commanders.
• A commander asked Ao Yu about rumors that he had joined the Deep Sea Army and that Sea Swallow was rallying leaders to hunt him down.

Ao Yu revealed to his followers that his alliance with the Deep Sea Army was a sham, and sent 3.6 million troops to Sea God Island as part of a plan to expose spies. When Sea Spider and the other leaders confronted him, Ao Yu pretended to betray them and fought back, leaving the clash underway.

• Ao Yu explained Sea Swallow's plan to feign allegiance to the Deep Sea Army and root out spies in the South Sea to his nine trusted followers.
• Ao Yu ordered his followers to march 3.6 million troops to Sea God Island, stage a show of force, and turn against the Deep Sea Army once they joined it.
• After the army departed, Sea Spider, Gray Catfish, and the other leaders arrived, and Ao Yu claimed that he had pledged allegiance to the deep sea and sent his army to support the Right Guard.
• Ao Yu challenged the leaders and blocked Sea Spider's charge with a crimson saber, sending the enormous creature skidding backward.
• Gray Catfish enlarged his body and spat corrosive slime at Ao Yu, who dodged it as it ate through the wall.

Ao Yu fought off a coordinated attack from the leaders in the hall while wondering whether his deliberate restraint had exposed his plan to Deep Sea's agent. As the leaders closed in for another assault, Ao Yu decided to stop holding back.

• Ao Yu dodged the gray catfish's corrosive slime and attacked, but a leader covered in pitch-black spines interrupted him.
• The leaders unleashed their Soul Power, and Ao Yu shook the hall with his Origin power as Sea Spider warned them to watch out.
• The gray catfish, Sea Spider, the spined leader, and the other leaders attacked Ao Yu from every direction, and he deflected their attacks with lava defenses and blade energy.
• Ao Yu wondered whether his restraint had revealed his intentions to Deep Sea's agent, but feared that fighting at full strength would ruin his plan.
• Sea Spider and the gray catfish launched a stronger follow-up attack as the other leaders formed an encirclement, and Ao Yu decided what to do.

Ao Yu split into eight figures and battled Sea Spider’s chiefs, who tried to identify his true body. After Gray Catfish exposed the real Ao Yu and the seven clones merged back into him, Ao Yu unleashed a powerful counterattack, leaving Thorny Sea Urchin in the path of his Blade Aura.

• Ao Yu created seven clones, and Sea Spider ordered the chiefs to surround and fight all eight figures.
• Ao Yu’s clones fought off coordinated attacks from Sea Spider, Gray Catfish, and Thorny Sea Urchin.
• Gray Catfish tested another clone by striking its Crimson Shield, causing it to shatter and revealing the true body through the clone’s brief hesitation.
• Sea Spider called the chiefs to attack Ao Yu’s true body, but the seven clones returned to him and greatly increased his power.
• Thorny Sea Urchin launched ten spines at Ao Yu, who swept his Molten Fire Longblade and sent a crescent of Blade Aura toward Thorny Sea Urchin’s waist.

Ao Yu fought off the sea leaders and transformed the hall floor into a lake of magma. As the leaders fled, the sea spider began charging a self-destructive attack to hold Ao Yu back.

• The gray catfish shielded the sea urchin from Ao Yu’s blade aura, then rescued the sea spider from Ao Yu’s descending strike with a powerful suction.
• The sea spider urged the leaders to work together and surround Ao Yu, but Ao Yu melted the lava-stone floor into a lake of magma, forcing them to retreat to the edges.
• The sea spider told the gray catfish that someone had to hold Ao Yu back so the others could escape, then began overloading his Soul Power until cracks appeared across his carapace.
• The thorny sea urchin and the other leaders fled across the magma lake’s edge, while the gray catfish reluctantly followed after glancing back at the sea spider.

After Sea Spider sacrificed himself to help the leaders escape Ao Yu, Sea Swallow led the wounded survivors to a hot spring camp to recover. He secretly reported that the leaders had gathered at the designated location, setting a trap in motion as the chapter ended with the camp’s atmosphere beginning to shift.

• The leaders escaped the lava lake, and Sea Spider’s apparent death left Gray Catfish and the others grieving and enraged at Ao Yu.
• Sea Swallow appeared, offered to avenge Sea Spider, and urged the injured leaders to recover before planning their next move.
• Sea Swallow led the leaders to a canyon hot spring, where they began healing while he claimed he would scout for pursuers.
• Sea Swallow secretly marked the canyon perimeter with soul power to monitor anyone leaving.
• Sea Swallow used the Deep Wave Sound-Transmission Conch to report Sea Spider’s death and the leaders’ location, and his contact told him to keep them settled until reinforcements arrived.
• Sea Swallow watched the recovering leaders with a trace of coldness in his eyes as the hot spring’s atmosphere began to change.

Gray Catfish and Thorny Sea Urchin suspected the Sea Swallow Sacred Pillar had hidden motives behind the hot spring and agreed to investigate discreetly. After the leaders recovered, Sea Swallow introduced Blue Ring, the successor to the Sea Star Sacred Pillar, and the group prepared to discuss how to defeat Ao Yu.

• Gray Catfish and Thorny Sea Urchin suspected the hot spring was not natural and considered whether the Sea Swallow Sacred Pillar had arranged it.
• Gray Catfish persuaded Thorny Sea Urchin not to warn the other leaders yet, and proposed secretly sounding out Sea Swallow after they left the canyon.
• Gray Catfish and Thorny Sea Urchin resumed healing while the other leaders recovered in the hot spring.
• Sea Swallow arrived with Blue Ring and introduced him as the successor to the Sea Star Sacred Pillar.
• Gray Catfish asked whether Blue Ring Douluo had a strategy for defeating Ao Yu, and Sea Swallow proposed reviewing their information before planning their next move.