Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan learned from Bo Saixi that the Sea Dragon Ruins were deadly even at their entrance, but he decided to explore them for a fragment of the Sun God Bow. With the Yellow Turban Warrior’s help, he built a heavily equipped fish-shaped Puppet called Swordfish and sent it toward the ruins.

• Li Xuan inspected the renovated Bamboo House, Salt-Removing Pool, and Beast Garden inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Bo Saixi visited Li Xuan to ask about Tang Chen, and he told her that Slaughter City had been destroyed and Tang Chen’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Li Xuan asked Bo Saixi about the Sea Dragon Ruins, and she revealed that her trial had sent her to retrieve an item at their entrance, where deathly energy and poisonous gas nearly killed her.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior completed Li Xuan’s fish-shaped Puppet, which he named Swordfish and equipped with Soul Tools, Tier 4 Puppets, and Eyes of Investigation.
• Li Xuan sent Swordfish toward the Sea Dragon Ruins and began refining a Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixir while monitoring its journey.

Li Xuan began a cautious exploration of the Sea Dragon Ruins, creating poison-repelling crystals so his Puppets could withstand the toxic waters. After mapping the vast ruins and starting the first stage of exploration, he prepared a Netherworld herb for Zhu Zhuqing’s future Soul Ring and continued searching for the toxin’s source.

• Li Xuan sent Puppets to map the outskirts of the Sea Dragon Ruins and discovered that the seawater corroded them, so he crafted Poison-Repelling Crystals and equipped the Puppets with them.
• The Surveying Puppets completed a map showing that the Sea Dragon Ruins covered more than a million mu, and Li Xuan began a slow exploration with Surveying, Swimming Fish, Exploration, and Mining Puppets.
• Li Xuan found an Azure Nether Cloud Fruit in the Herb Garden, transplanted it, and arranged for a Puppet to cultivate it for Zhu Zhuqing’s future sixth Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan took Lou Gao and the others to Sea God Mountain, then used the Swordfish-class to investigate the ruins and clear construction materials while searching for the toxin’s source.

Li Xuan recovered a Sea Dragon corpse from the poisonous Sea Dragon Ruins and developed a low-cost antidote to process it. After harvesting the hundred-thousand-year Ao Hai Blue Dragon’s remains, he resumed exploring the ruins, hoping to find more resources.

• Li Xuan pushed the Swordfish-class vessel deeper into the Sea Dragon Ruins, found a massive Sea Dragon corpse, and stored it in the Small Cave-Heaven before retreating as the Poison-Repelling Crystal drained its Soul Power.
• Li Xuan asked the Yellow Turban Warriors to build a pool, then spent the day and night developing an inexpensive Detoxification Pill formula for the ruins’ poisonous water.
• Li Xuan placed the dragon corpse in the pool and used the Ice Soul Spirit Fire and Filthy Flame to cleanse its toxins, converting them into pure Soul Power.
• Li Xuan dismantled the corpse and identified a 104,620-year-old Ao Hai Blue Dragon Spirit Bone and a depleted Dragon Pearl among its remains.
• Li Xuan further detoxified the dragon’s scales, bones, and meat, then returned to camp and set out again with the group to investigate the Sea Dragon Ruins.

Li Xuan explored the Sea Dragon Ruins, salvaged materials from the Ao Hai Blue Dragon, and created an array to purify toxic seawater into a source of Soul Power. After a night of automated purification, the toxins had not visibly weakened, so he decided to clear the Coral Forest first and postpone deeper exploration.

• Li Xuan had the mining Puppets cut down the ruined corals around the Sea Dragon Ruins and found that the area’s toxins required stronger Poison-Repelling Crystals for further exploration.
• Li Xuan processed the detoxified Ao Hai Blue Dragon remains and implanted its Dragon Pearl in a White-Striped Silver Python so the snake would nurture it.
• Li Xuan built an array around the Filthy Flame Lotus Platform that used Filthy Flame and Ice Soul Spirit Fire to purify toxic seawater and release Soul Power, then assigned a Tier 4 Puppet to manage the cycle.
• Li Xuan returned to Sea God Island, rested overnight on the beach, and checked the Sea Dragon Ruins the next morning.
• Li Xuan found that the toxins had not weakened overnight and chose to clear the Coral Forest before exploring deeper into the ruins.

Li Xuan finished arranging the work at the Sea Dragon Ruins and Sea Trench, then began cultivating his Soul Power and Mental Power. When a disturbance beneath the Sea Trench weakened after he returned the collected corpses, he went to seek Bo Saixi and completed his first Sea God trial on the way.

• Li Xuan stopped developing Poison-Repelling Crystals and continued clearing toxins and gathering resources from the Sea Dragon Ruins and Sea Trench.
• Li Xuan refined Sea Soul Beast bones into Bone Essence to prepare for future alchemy and improve his flame control, then gave the group a day off.
• A week later, Li Xuan sensed a message from the Sea Trench and detected an immense pressure beneath its seafloor through a Puppet.
• Li Xuan returned the collected Soul Beast corpses to the Sea Trench, weakening the pressure, and sent the Puppets away to hide nearby.
• Li Xuan climbed Sea God Mountain to call Bo Saixi, completed the first trial of his Top-tier Eight Trials, and received a ten-thousand-year increase to his first and second Soul Rings.
• Li Xuan reached the summit and called for an audience with Bo Saixi, who emerged from the Sea God Temple.

Li Xuan learned that the Sea Trench near the Deep Sea Dragon Octopus contained a 600,000-year Sinful Dragon sealed by the previous Sea God, and that he had nearly weakened its seal by taking Soul Beast corpses. The Sea God changed Li Xuan’s trial to require him to slay the dragon, with Sea God Island’s Title Douluo available to help, and Li Xuan began studying ancient records before deciding whether to proceed.

• Li Xuan asked Bo Saixi about the Sea Trench and learned that a Sinful Dragon had been sealed there for tens of thousands of years beneath the Soul Beast corpses.
• Bo Saixi realized Li Xuan had removed some of the corpses, and Li Xuan admitted he had returned only some of them.
• Bo Saixi proposed changing Li Xuan’s trial to require him to destroy the Sinful Dragon, and Li Xuan described how his flames could burn away its resentment and hostile energy.
• The Sea God changed the trial to require Li Xuan to slay a 600,000-year Sinful Dragon and allowed him to invite Sea God Island personnel to participate.
• Bo Saixi gave Li Xuan ancient records about the Sinful Dragon and said she could follow his command during the mission.
• Li Xuan told his companions to remain at the foot of Sea God Mountain, then returned to camp and began reading the records.

Li Xuan studied the Sinful Dragon’s seal and developed a way to draw Sun True Fire from the Fusang Divine Tree, preparing to destroy the creature without breaking its seal. After testing his array disk, he arranged to make more Energy Cores and continued preparing safeguards against the Sinful Dragon’s escape.

• Li Xuan decided to accept the mission after realizing the Sinful Dragon Pearl could be valuable, and Bo Saixi gave him a book about the sealing array.
• Li Xuan studied the seal and spent a month designing an array disk to activate the Fusang Divine Tree’s Sun True Fire.
• Li Xuan tested the disk and found that its Sun True Fire consumed Soul Power rapidly, so he planned to use Energy Cores to power it.
• Lou Gao told Li Xuan that they had enough ore to make hundreds of Energy Cores, and they began forging them through the night.
• Lou Gao stopped to rest while Li Xuan returned to Sea God Mountain to cultivate and continued modifying the array disk and preparing ways to keep the Sinful Dragon from escaping.

Li Xuan completed preparations to destroy the Sinful Dragon and coordinated the expedition with Bo Saixi and Sea God Island’s Title Douluo. The group agreed to set sail aboard the Ba Hai Hao in three days, with Li Xuan and Bo Saixi entering the seal while the others guarded against the dragon’s escape.

• Li Xuan assigned Si Kai to prepare the Ba Hai Hao with three months of supplies and asked Lou Gao to manage the camp while he was away.
• Li Xuan showed Bo Saixi the Filthy Flame and Fusang Divine Tree, explaining that he would use the tree to burn the Sinful Dragon and needed her help restraining it inside the seal.
• Bo Saixi agreed to enter the seal with Li Xuan and summoned the seven Title Douluo to hear the Sea God’s oracle.
• Li Xuan asked Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo to remain behind and guard Sea God Island while the other five Title Douluo joined the expedition.
• Li Xuan gave the five departing Title Douluo Soul-Nurturing Wood Boxes and told them they would leave aboard the Ba Hai Hao in three days.

Li Xuan and Bo Saixi entered the Sea Trench to confront the Sinful Dragon after Li Xuan deployed Puppets to prevent its escape. They opened the weakened seal and began burning away the dragon’s resentment, but the Sun True Fire and black mist reached a stalemate.

• Li Xuan sailed from Sea God Island aboard the Ba Hai Hao with Bo Saixi and the other Title Douluos, then refused Sea Horse Douluo’s request for the ship’s blueprints.
• During the month-long voyage, Li Xuan deployed thousands of Puppets throughout the Sea Trench while the Title Douluos took up positions around it.
• Li Xuan and Bo Saixi entered the Sea Trench and found that the seal was weakening; Li Xuan’s Puppets cleared the debris and exposed the bound Sinful Dragon.
• Li Xuan used his Array-Breaking Device to open the seal, then entered it with Bo Saixi and protected them from the dragon’s resentment with Filthy Flame.
• Li Xuan activated the Fusang Divine Tree and used Sun True Fire to burn the resentment while searching for the Sinful Dragon Pearl, as Bo Saixi cultivated nearby.
• The Sinful Dragon gathered black mist against Li Xuan, who poured Soul Power into the Array Disk to strengthen the flames until they and the resentment reached a stalemate.

Li Xuan and Bo Saixi fought the Sinful Dragon within the Sea God's seal, using Sun True Fire and the Sea God Trident to consume its resentment. After more than thirty hours, the black mist had thinned dramatically, but Li Xuan was exhausted and continued burning it.

• Li Xuan told Bo Saixi to occupy the Sinful Dragon while he burned its Resentment Black Mist with Sun True Fire, and she rested while preparing for battle.
• The Sinful Dragon manifested and attacked Bo Saixi, who wore Li Xuan's protective cloak and fought it with the Sea God Trident.
• Li Xuan advised Bo Saixi to trade blows and gradually strip away the Sinful Dragon's resentment, then severed its true body at the waist with pillars of Sun True Fire.
• The Sinful Dragon retreated to recover, while Li Xuan burned away its attempts to reconnect its body and Bo Saixi restored her strength.
• Li Xuan placed more than ten Spirit Bones outside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle so they could absorb the abundant Soul Power and replenish their energy.
• After more than thirty hours, the resentment mist had thinned enough for Li Xuan to see the Sinful Dragon's body, and he kept burning the mist despite his exhaustion.

Li Xuan reinforced the seal and used Sun True Fire to burn away the Sinful Dragon’s resentment, but the dragon trapped him and Bo Saixi in a layered illusion. Li Xuan escaped by burning his illusory soul away, and his soul fragment in the Fusang Divine Tree regained control as the Sinful Dragon neared death.

• Li Xuan ordered his Puppets to place Array Flags and strengthen the seal, forcing the Sinful Dragon back to the ground.
• Li Xuan used the Sun True Fire to consume the Sinful Dragon’s resentment while the dragon struggled to restore its severed body.
• The Sinful Dragon trapped Li Xuan and Bo Saixi in an illusion, while Li Xuan’s soul fragment continued burning the dragon from the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Li Xuan escaped the first illusion by biting his tongue, then realized he remained trapped in a deeper illusion when the System Mall failed to appear.
• Li Xuan burned his illusory body into soul power, breaking the illusion and restoring the light in his soul fragment’s eyes as the Sinful Dragon neared death.

Li Xuan destroyed the Sinful Dragon, escaped the collapsing Sea Trench, and learned that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was approaching Sea God Island. He rushed back to organize the island’s defenses while Bo Saixi remained trapped in the Sinful Dragon’s illusion.

• Li Xuan revived through a split soul, continued burning the weakened Sinful Dragon, and waited several days for it to disappear completely.
• As the seal collapsed, Li Xuan retrieved the Sinful Dragon Pearl and its Reverse Scale, then escaped the falling sludge and crushing water pressure with help from Tier 4 Puppets.
• Li Xuan reached the surface, treated his injuries, and learned from Sea Horse Douluo that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King would reach Sea God Island in three days.
• Li Xuan ordered Sea Horse Douluo and Si Kai to take him back to Sea God Island and directed Bangchui to deploy Heaven-Shaking Cannons for the island’s defense.

Li Xuan returned to Sea God Island, where he and its defenders prepared for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's arrival while Bo Saixi remained trapped in an illusion. The whale king arrived in human form and offered Li Xuan a place as his priest, but Li Xuan's trial required him to stop the invader.

• Sea Spear Douluo brought Li Xuan back to Sea God Island, and Li Xuan released Sea Horse Douluo from the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Li Xuan reunited with Lou Gao, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui, learned that the cannons were deployed, and refused to rest despite his exhaustion.
• Li Xuan joined Sea Dragon Douluo at the northern beach and confirmed that his third Top-tier Eight Trial was to stop the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King until Bo Saixi awakened.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King arrived, overwhelmed most of the island's defenders with his pressure, and transformed into a one-eyed man in a black robe.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King offered Li Xuan a place as his priest, while Sea Dragon Douluo and the other six Holy Pillar Title Douluo arrived to face him.
• Li Xuan told Sea Dragon Douluo that he could not leave the fight to them because stopping the whale king was his trial.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King overwhelmed the Sea God Seven Holy Pillars as he attacked Sea God Island, but Li Xuan used the Zui Hong Yan flower to put him into a protective sleep. With Bo Saixi still trapped in an illusion, the story ended with Li Xuan collapsing from exhaustion, leaving their awakenings to determine what happened next.

• The Sea God Seven Holy Pillars attacked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but he kept them at bay until their Soul Power dwindled.
• Li Xuan ordered the Heaven-Shaking Cannons to fire, breaking the whale king’s barrier and giving the guardians time to recover, though the whale king soon defeated them.
• Li Xuan gave Sea Dragon Douluo and the other guardians healing Elixirs, then confronted the whale king in the air.
• Li Xuan used his Mental Power and Teleportation to force Zui Hong Yan into the whale king’s mouth, then escaped his counterattack inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• The Zui Hong Yan rejuvenated the whale king but made him fall asleep inside a protective Soul Power cocoon, and Li Xuan collapsed from exhaustion.

After waking from a week-long unconsciousness, Li Xuan recovered and resumed managing the work in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle while Bo Saixi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King remained asleep. He used his final sixth-tier exchange choice to seek a godhood path suited to him, which would appear in the System Mall the next day.

• Li Xuan woke with a headache, learned from Zhu Zhuqing that he had slept for seven days, and heard that neither Bo Saixi nor the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had awakened.
• Li Xuan reassured Lou Gao, Bang Chui, and Bai Chuan that they should continue their work and cultivation rather than rush their preparations.
• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, checked on Bo Saixi, harvested mature Heavenly Treasures, and processed more than twenty Deep Sea Blue Dragon corpses.
• Li Xuan inspected the Salt-Removing Pool, bathed, and returned to his room after finishing the work in the bottle.
• Li Xuan chose a method of becoming a god suited to him as his final sixth-tier exchange, and the system said it would appear in the next day's System Mall refresh.

Li Xuan obtained the Taixuan Harmony Scripture from the refreshed System Mall and learned that it could cultivate a Godhead, prompting him to focus on the god’s remains in the Sea Dragon Ruins. After exploring the ruins and studying the Xuanyuan Elixir formula, he decided he needed to master another elixir first and went to find Zhu Zhuqing.

• Li Xuan visited the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s crystal cocoon with Sea Horse Douluo and learned it would take a while to awaken.
• At midnight, Li Xuan bought four refreshed System Mall items, including the Taixuan Harmony Scripture, then absorbed the scripture’s knowledge about Godheads.
• Li Xuan realized the Sea Dragon Ruins contained an ownerless Godhead and checked the ruins, where his Puppets were finding valuable items in the clearer poisonous seawater.
• Li Xuan absorbed the Xuanyuan Elixir formula and concluded he needed to master the Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixir before attempting to refine it.
• Li Xuan got out of bed and went to find Zhu Zhuqing.

Li Xuan helped Zhu Zhuqing absorb a hundred-thousand-year Qingming Youyun Grass Soul Ring, then learned that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was beginning to awaken. He prepared to face it while Sea God Island’s residents were moved to safety, and the chapter ended with a crack spreading across the crystal enclosing the whale king.

• Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and helped her absorb the Qingming Youyun Grass’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Bangchui warned Li Xuan that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was showing signs of awakening, so Li Xuan ordered the Heaven-Shaking Cannon gunners to prepare.
• Zhu Zhuqing awakened with a new Spirit Skill, and Li Xuan told her to remain inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to receive Sea God Island’s residents if necessary.
• Li Xuan reached the beach and asked Sea Dragon Douluo to arrange an evacuation into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.
• Li Xuan told Lou Gao that the Heaven-Shaking Cannons would no longer harm the whale king and ordered everyone to take shelter as a crack spread across its crystal enclosure.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King awakened after reaching 990,000 years of cultivation, but Li Xuan used Annihilation Poison strengthened by the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to bluff him into waiting for Bo Saixi. Ten days later, the Enlightenment Tree blossomed and bore fruit inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.

• Li Xuan warned the Sea God Seven Holy Pillars that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was awakening as lightning shattered the purple crystal around him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King emerged with 990,000 years of cultivation, and Bangchui transferred Sea God Island's residents into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.
• Li Xuan threatened the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with Annihilation Poison enhanced by the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, and the whale king agreed to wait for Bo Saixi.
• Ten days later, Zhu Zhuqing sensed a potent fragrance from the Enlightenment Tree and discovered a white flower and brown fruit growing on it.

Bo Saixi awakened from the Sinful Dragon’s illusion and used the Sea God’s faith to transform her power, reaching the Demigod realm. The Enlightenment Tree’s fruit helped the gathered Spirit Masters advance, while Li Xuan kept the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King waiting outside for Bo Saixi’s return.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Bangchui that the Enlightenment Tree had blossomed and Bo Saixi was about to awaken, and Bangchui brought the news to Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan sent the Sea God Seven Holy Pillars and Bangchui into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, then stalled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King while they waited for Bo Saixi.
• The Enlightenment Tree’s petals fell and its fruit ripened, raising the gathered Spirit Masters’ cultivation levels, including Bai Chuan’s breakthrough to level eighty-eight.
• Bo Saixi awakened beneath the Enlightenment Tree, but the falling fruit triggered another illusion in which the Sinful Dragon tried to convince her she had not escaped.
• Bo Saixi lifted the Sea God Trident in her spiritual world by drawing on the faith of Sea God Island’s Spirit Masters, merging that power with her Soul Power.
• Bo Saixi broke free of the illusion with transformed Mental Power and Pseudo-Divine Power, reaching the Demigod realm.

Bo Saixi emerged from the Heaven-Grasping Bottle after breaking through her illusion, absorbed the Sea God’s power, and prepared to fight the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. As Li Xuan and the others watched from the beach, the two began their battle, which ended with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King forming a crystallized water barrier against Bo Saixi’s attack.

• Zhu Zhuqing sent Bo Saixi out of the Heaven-Grasping Bottle after Sea Dragon Douluo explained what had happened and asked for her help against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Bo Saixi absorbed the Sea God’s power, completed her breakthrough, and thanked Li Xuan before confronting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Li Xuan put away the Annihilation Poison, received a Sea God trial reward that raised three Soul Rings to thirty thousand years, and released his companions to watch the battle.
• Bangchui gave Li Xuan an Enlightenment Tree Fruit, and Li Xuan saved its seeds and planted one before returning his attention to the fighters.
• Bo Saixi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King began fighting, and she answered his Thunder Domain with Sea and Sky as One.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King countered Bo Saixi’s water attack by compressing seawater into a crystallized barrier.