Chapter Summaries

After recovering from an exhausting two-month seclusion and three days unconscious, Li Xuan explored the island and identified a hidden Canghai Golden Lotus in its central lake. At night, water-element Soul Beasts gathered reverently around the lake as the lotus began to emerge.

• Li Xuan woke after three days, reassured Zhu Zhuqing, bathed in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and ate with her.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Li Xuan that Zhou Chen had organized the island camp, built a dock, and found medicinal herbs that Bangchui could not identify or harvest.
• Li Xuan inspected the island map with Zhou Chen, then went with Zhu Zhuqing to meet Bangchui at the central lake.
• Li Xuan recognized that the lake held a Canghai Golden Lotus, explained its properties to Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui, and gathered other medicinal plants with Bangchui around the island.
• After sunset, Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui returned to the lake, where water-element Soul Beasts gathered and bowed as ripples spread across the water.

Li Xuan took a Canghai Golden Lotus seed, then returned to camp and provided mining Puppets to solve the shortage of workers. After setting plans for the expedition, he brought Zhu Zhuqing into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to prepare for her Soul Ring, where they saw a hundred-thousand-year Nether Fruit.

• Li Xuan used his Mental Power to take a Canghai Golden Lotus seed, healed the plant, and gave it Green Spirit Liquid before leaving with Bang Chui and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xuan returned to camp, reassured Zhou Chen, Lou Gao, Bai Chuan, and the others, and showed Lou Gao an eight-meter mining Puppet.
• Li Xuan said he had made several thousand Tier 4 Puppets over two months and left two mining Puppets to work the Blue Water Copper Mine.
• Li Xuan set the expedition’s usual stay on each island to one week and told Han Shucheng and Sun Mu to prepare a plan for exchanging Puppet parts for access to the Somatosensory Room.
• Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space, where she saw the hundred-thousand-year Nether Fruit.

Li Xuan helped Zhu Zhuqing absorb the Nether Fruit as her fifth Soul Ring, then arranged Soul Rings for other Spirit Masters aboard the fleet. As the Ba Hai Hao resumed its voyage toward Sea God Island, a sailor spotted a Dragon Water Spout.

• Li Xuan guided the Nether Fruit’s Sacrifice, and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum balanced its power as Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Soul Ring and rose from level 50 to level 60.
• Zhu Zhuqing gained Teleportation and Nether Destruction Kill, along with a Head Spirit Bone granting Etherealization and Nether Eye.
• Li Xuan prepared the Li-Fire Burning Heaven Wood for his seventh Soul Ring, then checked the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s Soul Beasts and arranged suitable Soul Rings for Spirit Masters who had reached bottlenecks.
• Three days later, Li Xuan and his group resumed sailing toward Sea God Island, which was still three or four months away.
• After ten days at sea, the sky darkened and an old sailor shouted that a Dragon Water Spout had appeared.

Li Xuan and Si Kai guided the Ba Hai Hao through a severe typhoon, only to discover more storms forming ahead. Li Xuan used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to calm the typhoon, leaving the ship facing a suddenly cleared sky.

• Si Kai ordered the passengers to secure themselves in their cabins and directed his crews to prepare the Ba Hai Hao for the storm.
• Li Xuan stayed in the Captain's Cabin, used his Mental Power to help Si Kai sense the surrounding waters, and reassured the passengers as waves battered the ship.
• The Ba Hai Hao escaped the first typhoon, but Li Xuan and Si Kai spotted additional typhoons forming ahead.
• Li Xuan removed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and sensed the ship's rocking ease.
• Li Xuan poured his Soul Power and the God of the Forest's Divine Power into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, dispersing the clouds and calming the typhoon.

After surviving the typhoon, Li Xuan and Si Kai faced a six-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Dragon Octopus that demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and attacked the Ba Hai Hao. The octopus dragged the ship underwater, where Si Kai ordered the crew to activate Diving Mode, surprising Li Xuan.

• After the typhoon passed, Li Xuan sensed a powerful Soul Beast approaching and warned Si Kai to return everyone to their cabins.
• Li Xuan used a Swimming Fish Puppet to spot a giant octopus, and Si Kai ordered the Ba Hai Hao's Heaven-Shaking Cannons to fire at it.
• Li Xuan discovered the octopus was a Deep Sea Dragon Octopus with 674127 years of cultivation after several cannon volleys severed two of its tentacles.
• The Deep Sea Dragon Octopus attacked the Ba Hai Hao and demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Li Xuan offered to give it the treasure after the crew returned from Sea God Island.
• When Li Xuan refused to hand over the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud immediately, the octopus attacked, and Li Xuan, Si Kai, and the ship's weapons fought back.
• The Deep Sea Dragon Octopus seized the Ba Hai Hao and dragged it underwater, so Si Kai ordered the crew to inspect the ship and activate Diving Mode.

Li Xuan and Si Kai survived the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus’s attack when the Ba Hai Hao revealed it could dive, and they used the ship’s weapons to drive the beast away. After securing the vessel and confirming the surrounding waters were safe, they set course for a nearby Sea Trench to search for treasure.

• Si Kai explained that the Ba Hai Hao could withstand deep-sea pressure, and Li Xuan helped bombard the wounded Deep Sea Dragon Octopus until it fled.
• Li Xuan branded the escaping octopus with a Burning Heart Array while Si Kai ordered the Ba Hai Hao into Diving Mode and stabilized the ship.
• Li Xuan combined the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s shield with the Ba Hai Hao’s shield, reducing the ship’s energy consumption by fifty percent.
• Li Xuan and the sailors scouted nearby waters with Swimming Fish Puppets, while Si Kai used a compass and sea chart to locate the ship in the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus’s territory.
• Si Kai confirmed the area was safe and announced that the crew could leave their cabins; Li Xuan concealed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s aura inside a box made from Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat bones.
• Si Kai turned the Ba Hai Hao toward a nearby Sea Trench, and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Li Xuan and eagerly agreed to search the seabed for treasure.

Li Xuan investigated the Sea Trench with Puppets while the Ba Hai Hao anchored nearby, and discovered that it was a graveyard filled with remarkably well-preserved Soul Beast corpses. He reached the trench’s bottom and found corpses ranging up to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, leaving him eager to salvage the enormous trove.

• The Five-Thunder Puppets returned with Deep Sea Dragon Octopus tentacles, blood, and ink, which Li Xuan processed and distributed for cooking and storage.
• Si Kai told Li Xuan that the Ba Hai Hao had reached the vicinity of the Sea Trench, and Li Xuan deployed Puppets to investigate it.
• Li Xuan sent a Swimming Fish Puppet into the trench and saw Sea Soul Beasts enter the depths, where many stopped breathing and floated as corpses.
• Li Xuan descended through increasingly dense water and, after three hours, reached the bottom of the Sea Trench.
• Li Xuan found countless preserved Soul Beast corpses, including Hundred-Thousand-Year specimens, and recognized their potential value.

Li Xuan tested a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beast corpse from the Sea Trench and recovered a degraded 126,372-year torso Spirit Bone. He began harvesting the trench’s vast supply of corpses, processing their bones and meat, but realized he needed more ordinary Puppets to keep up.

• Li Xuan retrieved a giant sea turtle corpse from the Sea Trench and built a pool inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space to test and process it.
• Li Xuan confirmed the corpse was not toxic, dismantled it, and found a red-quality 126,372-year Profound Armor Barrier Spirit Bone.
• Li Xuan sent a giant Puppet equipped with a Void Eye and hundreds of other Puppets to transport more Soul Beast corpses from the trench.
• Li Xuan used Salt Ball Fruit Trees to extract salt from the turtle’s cured meat and planned to reinforce the pool with pillars for more trees.
• After resting, Li Xuan found that the Puppets had collected more than a thousand Soul Beast corpses and processed their meat into feed and refined salt.
• Li Xuan built a second pool to increase processing capacity but discovered he did not have enough ordinary Puppets.

Li Xuan summoned the Yellow Turban Warriors to build pools for processing the Sea Soul Beast corpses and organized Puppet production to handle the huge workload. After the Ba Hai Hao returned to the surface, he checked the construction plans and resumed absorbing soul fragments to prepare for making more Puppets.

• Li Xuan summoned a Yellow Turban Warrior, then called all eight hundred Yellow Turban Warriors and ordered them to construct one hundred first-stage and twenty second-stage Salt-Removing Pools.
• Li Xuan assigned ordinary Puppets to make parts for more ordinary Puppets and left the Carpenter's Courtyard to produce Tier 4 Puppet parts.
• Si Kai told Li Xuan that the Ba Hai Hao's Air System was running low, and Li Xuan agreed to leave the Sea Trench after arranging for Puppets to mine its resources.
• Si Kai guided the Ba Hai Hao back to the surface, and the ship emerged with only a brief shake.
• Li Xuan reviewed the Yellow Turban Warriors' pool blueprints and learned that construction would take about a month.
• Li Xuan released the Five-Thunder Puppets to help produce parts, then used the Fusang Divine Tree to absorb soul fragments.

After docking on a safe island, Li Xuan gave his group time to rest and checked the growing operations inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle. He acquired a Tier 4 Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixir recipe and realized he could use the stored Soul Beast bones to brew it.

• Li Xuan stopped making Puppet components when Si Kai told him the Ba Hai Hao could dock at an island, and the group went ashore and established a camp.
• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle in the flesh, relaxed in its hot spring, and learned that the Salt-Removing Pools would take another half month to finish.
• Li Xuan told Yang Wudi, Bai He, Zhou Chen, and the others that the group would take a longer rest on the island after the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus encounter.
• Li Xuan exchanged points for the Tier 4 Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixir recipe and a Tier 4 Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• Li Xuan studied the recipe, learned that the elixir strengthened bones and used spirit beast bones, and stored both the recipe and pill in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.

Li Xuan finished making thousands of Puppets, prepared to resume the voyage to Sea God Island, and inspected the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s operations. He then used Soul Beast bones to successfully refine eight intermediate Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixirs.

• Li Xuan spent a month making seven thousand ordinary Puppets and eight hundred Tier 4 Puppets, then emerged from seclusion and told Zhu Zhuqing and Si Kai that the crew would set sail the next day.
• Li Xuan inspected the completed Salt-Removing Pools, the farming and Soul Beast operations, and the warehouse holding Spirit Bones collected from the Sea Trench.
• Li Xuan gathered Soul Beast bones and herbs and began refining the Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixir in the Bamboo House’s Alchemy Room.
• Li Xuan successfully refined eight intermediate Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixirs and gained 400 Alchemist experience for refining an Elixir beyond his level.

Li Xuan discovered that the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus had recovered and was pursuing the Ba Hai Hao, so he helped Si Kai prepare the ship and bombard it with Heaven-Shaking Cannons. The octopus abandoned its attack after sensing another creature, and Si Kai realized the ship had entered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory.

• Li Xuan refined piles of bones into Bone Essence while the Ba Hai Hao sailed toward its next destination.
• Li Xuan spotted the healed Deep Sea Dragon Octopus searching for the ship and warned Si Kai.
• Si Kai ordered the crew to activate the emergency plan and accelerated the Ba Hai Hao toward Sea God Island as Li Xuan tracked the pursuer.
• The weapons team fired repeated volleys of Heaven-Shaking Cannons at the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus, but its tough body endured the attacks.
• A whale-like call sounded from the deep, and the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus turned away; Si Kai then recognized that the Ba Hai Hao had entered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory.

Li Xuan and Si Kai escaped the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory, then continued toward Sea God Island as Li Xuan reflected on his lack of strength. After weeks at sea, Li Xuan and a small group reached the island, where a black-robed man and purple-clad attendants welcomed them.

• Li Xuan and Si Kai fled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's waters, then ordered the Ba Hai Hao to sail day and night toward Sea God Island.
• Li Xuan comforted Zhu Zhuqing, reassured the crew that they were safe, and rested after the ordeal.
• Two weeks later, Si Kai announced they were one day's journey from Sea God Island, and Li Xuan told the crew to follow the island's rules and avoid conflicts.
• The Ba Hai Hao stopped near the island overnight, and the crew celebrated their imminent arrival before Li Xuan and several companions prepared to go ashore.
• Li Xuan froze a path across the sea, then led Lou Gao, Bai Chuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui onto Sea God Island.
• A black-robed middle-aged man descended before the group as more than a dozen purple-clad people emerged from the forest and welcomed them.

Li Xuan and his companions arrived at Sea God Island, where Sea Horse Douluo welcomed them on Bo Saixi’s orders and arranged their lodging. After learning that Li Xuan was invited to meet Bo Saixi at Sea God Mountain, Li Xuan organized his people to seek Sea God’s Trials at the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar the next day.

• Li Xuan stopped his companions from confronting Sea Horse Douluo and accepted his invitation to settle in Sea Horse City.
• Sea Horse Douluo hosted Li Xuan and explained that Bo Saixi had invited him to meet her at Sea God Mountain the following day.
• Li Xuan and his companions drank with Sea Horse Douluo, then returned to their camp after Bangchui confirmed they were only drunk.
• Li Xuan told his companions that Bo Saixi’s welcome showed no ill intent and asked them to wait for his meeting with her.
• Li Xuan explained that the group could earn rewards through trials at the Sea God Sacred Pillars and assigned leaders to take their people to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar the next day.

Li Xuan met Bo Saixi at Sea God Mountain, returned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and received a fragment of the Sun God Bow as a lead toward a suitable inheritance. After tasting Li Xuan’s Enlightenment Tea, Bo Saixi entered a state of enlightenment, leaving Li Xuan to return to the shore alone.

• Li Xuan asked Zhu Zhuqing and the children to take their Sea God Trials without him that day, and they agreed to wait and test together with him tomorrow.
• Sea Horse Douluo escorted Li Xuan to Sea God Mountain, where Li Xuan climbed the divine-pressure stairway to the summit.
• Bo Saixi said the Sea God had anticipated Li Xuan’s reasons for coming and offered him guidance, while Li Xuan explained he wanted to strengthen his people and find a suitable Godhood inheritance.
• Li Xuan returned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Sea God Island, and Bo Saixi gave him a fragment of the Sun God Bow and information about the Sun God inheritance.
• Bo Saixi drank Li Xuan’s Enlightenment Tea and entered a state of enlightenment, so Li Xuan left Sea God Mountain to return to the shore.

Li Xuan helped the people from Ladi Canyon receive their Sea God trials, and several of his companions obtained powerful trials, including Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing’s top-tier trials. When Li Xuan took his own test, its light shifted between red and gold before he found himself in the Sea God Temple facing the Sea God.

• Li Xuan returned to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and helped the waiting Spirit Masters receive and record their trials.
• Yang Lin and Bai Feng received Black-Level Six Trials, while Xu An received Black-Level Five Trials.
• Bangchui received a top-tier Seven Trial and accepted the Sea God’s offer to become an offering priest of Sea God Island.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s test produced another blood-red top-tier trial, and Sea Horse Douluo invited Li Xuan to take his test.
• Li Xuan’s trial light changed from purple to black, red, gold, and back to red before he appeared in the Sea God Temple before the Sea God.

Li Xuan rejected the Sea God's offer of inheritance but agreed to protect Sea God Island and learned where a Sun God Bow fragment lay in the dangerous Sea Dragon Ruins. After returning to camp, he prepared to explore the ruins and began organizing his group’s Sea God trials.

• The Sea God offered Li Xuan his Godhood, but Li Xuan refused because his powers were rooted in fire; he accepted the role of Sea God Island’s chief worshipper instead.
• The Sea God revealed that a Sun God Bow fragment lay in the Sea Dragon Ruins, where poisonous waters and the remains of a fallen god made exploration dangerous.
• Li Xuan returned to Sea God Island with Zhu Zhuqing, declined the guardians’ invitation to stay in Sea Dragon City, and resolved to explore the ruins using Puppets and Soul-Nurturing Wood Boxes.
• Li Xuan told Zhou Chen that the group could share its seeds and farming knowledge with Sea God Island, except for Dragon Tooth Rice seeds.
• Li Xuan checked his Top-tier Eight Trials and found that his first task was to pass through Sea God’s Light.

Li Xuan escorted his companions to begin the Sea God’s Light trial and learned from a secret letter that war and mass upheaval had engulfed Douluo Continent. After helping the others settle into cultivating on the stairs, he tested his own trial and reached the 332nd step before being thrown back, then planned to continue while developing Puppets for the Sea Dragon Ruins.

• Li Xuan led twenty people, including Zhu Zhuqing, to Sea God Mountain and advised them to climb as far as they could before cultivating under the Sea God’s Light.
• Li Xuan received a letter reporting that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires were at war, Slaughter City had been breached, and factions across Douluo Continent had joined the conflict.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing discussed the devastation, then watched the group climb the stairs and cultivate; Li Xuan caught a Breaking Clan member who was thrown out by the pressure.
• While the others cultivated, Li Xuan worked on blueprints for a powerful new Puppet to make exploring the Sea Dragon Ruins safer.
• At dusk, Li Xuan called the others down and entered the Sea God’s Light, climbing to the 332nd step before leaping out and teleporting back to the ground.

Li Xuan absorbed the Li-Fire Burning Heaven Wood’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, reaching level eighty and gaining powerful flame-based abilities, including Nanming Li Fire. After stabilizing his new strength, he harvested the tree’s seeds and Fire-Avoiding Bead before leaving the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.

• Li Xuan began the Li-Fire Burning Heaven Wood’s Sacrifice while Zhu Zhuqing and Bang Chui guarded him, and the tree’s flames formed a giant armored Flame Giant around him.
• The Sacrifice ended safely, and Li Xuan spent two hours comprehending the four Spirit Skills from his Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Li Xuan revealed his Nine Hearts Nine Flames Lotus Martial Soul Avatar and Fire Virtue True Body, along with a torso Spirit Bone that granted Fire Spirit Body and Vermilion Bird True Body.
• Li Xuan demonstrated his control of Nanming Li Fire and flaming Vermilion Birds, then began adapting to the Soul Power increase that had raised him to level eighty.
• Zhu Zhuqing brought Li Xuan tea before leaving to rest, and Li Xuan harvested the tree’s seeds and removed its Fire-Avoiding Bead core.

Li Xuan rescued the people injured when Bo Saixi’s breakthrough overwhelmed Sea God Mountain, then learned that she had reached Level one hundred as a Demigod. Back at camp, he entrusted the Yellow Turban Warriors with improving and processing the parts for his Puppet design.

• Li Xuan asked Lou Gao to review his oversized multi-function Puppet design, and Lou Gao suggested turning it into a transport vehicle carrying specialized Puppets.
• Bo Saixi’s breakthrough unleashed pressure that injured and hurled people from Sea God Mountain, and Li Xuan used repeated Teleportations to save them from crashing to the ground.
• Bo Saixi emerged from a blue pillar of light as a Level one hundred Demigod and explained that she needed to advance further and complete Sea God’s final trial to obtain his Godhood.
• Li Xuan promised to help Bo Saixi take another step forward if she had not done so within ten years, then left as Sea Dragon Douluo and the others arrived.
• Li Xuan released the injured people from the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, treated them with Healing Pills, and selected materials for his completed Puppet design.
• Li Xuan asked the Yellow Turban Warriors to process the Puppet parts, and they offered to improve the blueprints and finish the work in three days.