Chapter Summaries

After Bo Saixi defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Li Xuan persuaded her to spare him and helped secure his appointment as Sea God Island’s guardian divine beast. With the battle’s aftermath settled, Li Xuan gave Bo Saixi Enlightenment Tree Seeds and looked forward to celebrating with Zhu Zhuqing.

• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing that watching Bo Saixi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King fight had taught him about their energy control, and he predicted the Whale King would soon lose.
• Bo Saixi struck the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King down, and Li Xuan urged her to spare Cang Lei and make him Sea God Island’s guardian Soul Beast.
• A Sea God Oracle forgave the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who accepted the role of Sea God Island’s guardian divine beast and left to move his territory.
• Bo Saixi invited Li Xuan to relax in Sea Dragon City, and Li Xuan gave her Enlightenment Tree Seeds to plant on Sea God Mountain.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing watched the sunset together on the beach.

Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing explored the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan’s treasury through Puppets, collecting its treasures and uncovering a secret chamber containing a Sun God Bow fragment. After returning to Sea God Island with the loot, Li Xuan obtained a Dragon Clan Script Dictionary from Bo Saixi and headed to Han Shucheng to have the clan’s books translated.

• Li Xuan learned that his Puppets had excavated the Sea Dragon Treasury and linked Zhu Zhuqing to a Swimming Fish Puppet so they could explore it together.
• After the Swimming Fish Puppets confirmed the treasury was safe, Li Xuan’s Puppets collected its treasures and dismantled the crystal structure.
• The Mining Puppets uncovered a hidden chamber, where Li Xuan found a second Sun God Bow fragment that fused with the first.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing spent hours disinfecting, drying, and storing the collected treasures in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.
• Unable to read the Sea Dragon Clan’s books, Li Xuan visited Bo Saixi, received a Dragon Clan Script Dictionary, and went to find Han Shucheng to translate them.

Li Xuan had Han Shucheng translate the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan’s books and learned that the Land of Fallen Gods contained many Godheads, though the records did not reveal its location. He planned to develop the Sea Dragon Ruins, extract a Godhead, and search the ruins’ library for clues.

• Li Xuan brought Han Shucheng the books and Bo Saixi’s dictionary, and Han Shucheng revealed that his Translation Spirit Skill could translate them quickly.
• Han Shucheng used his Fourth Spirit Skill to translate the books while Li Xuan read the completed volumes.
• Li Xuan learned from the clan’s myths that humans had slain the Soul Beast gods and that the battlefield became known as the Land of Fallen Gods.
• Li Xuan read how the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan sought to use a Godhood Fragment to create a Soul Beast god, then released Annihilation Poison after a battle left both sides badly injured.
• Li Xuan resolved to develop the Sea Dragon Ruins, extract a Godhead, and search for information about the Land of Fallen Gods.
• After Han Shucheng finished translating, Li Xuan rewarded him with an Ice Heart Elixir and promised a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Spirit Bones if he became a Title Douluo.

Bo Saixi delivered the Sea God's oracle requiring Li Xuan to begin his fourth Top-tier Eight Trials task, Tidal Body-Forging, in the Raging Waves Desperate Realm. Bound to a pillar and battered by waves controlled by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Li Xuan endured the first day of training and prepared to continue as Zhu Zhuqing, Lou Gao, and the others headed to join him.

• Bo Saixi asked Li Xuan to translate the Sea Dragon Ruins texts, then ordered him to begin the fourth trial immediately.
• Bo Saixi brought Li Xuan to the Raging Waves Desperate Realm and bound him to a Deep Sea Sunken Silver pillar beside the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King controlled the waves to batter Li Xuan while Evergreen Flame repeatedly healed his injuries.
• After the waves subsided at sunset, Li Xuan rested, used body-forging medicine, and fell asleep in a spare Small Wooden House.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Lou Gao, and the others learned Li Xuan was training there and began heading to the Raging Waves Desperate Realm.

Lou Gao, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others completed their first Sea God's Trials and joined Li Xuan in the Raging Waves Desperate Realm to begin Tidal Body-Forging. After arranging supplies and preparing for Bai Chuan's future ninth Soul Ring, Li Xuan led the group into training, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King intensified the punishment with lightning.

• Lou Gao, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others completed their first Sea God's Trials, received their rewards, and found that most had Tidal Body-Forging as their second trial.
• Sea Horse Douluo brought the group to the Raging Waves Desperate Realm, where they found Li Xuan bound to a pillar and enduring towering waves.
• Zhu Zhuqing joined the body-forging training, while Li Xuan arranged camp, medicinal treatments, Puppets, and supplies for the group.
• Li Xuan planted a Vajra Dragon Blood Tree seed in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle so it could become a future ninth Soul Ring for Bai Chuan.
• The next morning, Li Xuan led the group to the pillars and began training as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked them with waves.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King added lightning to the waves battering Li Xuan, leaving him cursing but feeling his physical strength improve faster.

After nine months of training, Bai Chuan completed his second Black-Level Six Trial and reached level 90, becoming a Title Douluo. Li Xuan arranged for the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree to sacrifice its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to Bai Chuan, then offered him more Spirit Bones to strengthen him further.

• Bai Chuan completed his second trial in the Raging Waves Desperate Realm and rose from level 89 to level 90.
• Li Xuan took Bai Chuan into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and prepared the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree to sacrifice its Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan controlled the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree's sacrifice while Bai Chuan absorbed its power and received a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Bai Chuan comprehended four Spirit Skills and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level 93.
• Li Xuan urged Bai Chuan to cultivate beneath the Enlightenment Tree and offered him several hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones.
• Bai Chuan agreed to absorb the Spirit Bones after adapting to his new Soul Ring, and Li Xuan said he would also prepare some for Elder Lou.

Li Xuan discovered a god’s corpse surrounded by ancient dragons in the poisoned core of the Sea Dragon Ruins and decided to clear the remaining Annihilation Poison himself so he could claim its Godhead. He reached the ruins aboard the Ba Hai Hao and descended in the Swordfish-class, finding that his Puppets had stripped the city down to its seabed foundation.

• Li Xuan saw a dead young man in blue armor surrounded by enormous dragons in the Sea Dragon Ruins’ core and suspected the figure might still revive if the Annihilation Poison was removed.
• Li Xuan decided to visit the ruins himself, asked Lord Cang Lei for two days off, and brought Zhu Zhuqing, Bangchui, and Si Kai along.
• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui that a god’s corpse lay in the ruins and that he intended to extract its Godhead, then warned them to keep it secret.
• Si Kai sailed the Ba Hai Hao with five hundred Sailors into the cleared sea region, where Li Xuan confirmed that trace amounts of poison remained and asked him to anchor.
• Li Xuan entered the Swordfish-class, descended to the seabed, and found that the Puppets had removed nearly all the Sea Dragon Ruins’ buildings and stonework.

Li Xuan extracted a Godhead from the dead god in the Sea Dragon Ruins and purified the ruins of Annihilation Poison. After searching and demolishing the ruins, he discovered the missing Godhood Fragment inside the strongest Deep Sea Blue Dragon's corpse, then stored the fragments separately and prepared to leave.

• Li Xuan confirmed the god was dead, used the Godhead Extraction Array to remove its Godhead, and sealed it in a jade box.
• Li Xuan purified the Annihilation Poison throughout the Sea Dragon Ruins with Filthy Flame and Ice Soul Spirit Fire.
• Li Xuan ordered his Tier 4 Puppets to search and then demolish the ruins, but they found no Godhood Fragment.
• Li Xuan realized the missing fragment might have been absorbed by the strongest Deep Sea Blue Dragon and used the extraction formation to retrieve it from the dragon's corpse.
• Li Xuan stored the Godhood Fragment separately, sealed the god's corpse, collected the other Sea Dragon corpses, and took the Swordfish-class back to the surface.

Li Xuan refined the Water God’s Godhead using the Taixuan Harmony Scripture, enduring the ancient Wish Power until he formed a Divine Spark Seed. After confirming the Sea Dragon Ruins held nothing else of value, he sent the Puppets to gather seabed resources and began the return to Sea God Island.

• Li Xuan returned to the Swordfish-class, reassured Zhu Zhuqing and the others, and said he would rest before they returned to Sea God Island.
• Li Xuan examined the Godhead, set up an array to conceal its aura, and used the Taixuan Harmony Scripture to melt it down and absorb its Soul Force and Soul Power.
• Li Xuan learned from the Godhead’s memories that it had belonged to the Water God, then extracted its Faith Power to begin forming a Divine Spark Seed.
• Li Xuan endured the Faith Power’s heat and accumulated Wish Power for a day and night until a rice-grain-sized Divine Spark Seed appeared in his dantian.
• Li Xuan confirmed the Sea Dragon Ruins had no more valuable discoveries, ordered the Puppets to collect seabed resources, and told Si Kai to return to Sea God Island.
• Li Xuan fell asleep after Si Kai acknowledged the order.

Li Xuan completed the Sea God's fourth trial after enduring the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's final, devastating tidal wave, and his first three Soul Rings gained ten thousand years each. He received a new trial to withstand a Sea God Guardian for half an hour, then celebrated with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before reuniting with Zhu Zhuqing.

• Li Xuan endured increasingly powerful waves from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, including a five-hundred-meter wave infused with purple lightning that broke many of his bones.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King healed Li Xuan, and a blue-gold pillar of light confirmed that he had completed the fourth trial and increased the ages of his first three Soul Rings by ten thousand years each.
• Li Xuan learned that his fifth trial required him to withstand a Holy Pillar Guardian's full-power attacks for half an hour, then invited the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to drink with him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King said he planned to seek the Sea God's help in breaking through to the million-year realm, and Li Xuan promised him a great gift in a few years.
• After drinking until dawn, Li Xuan woke up the next morning and spoke with Zhu Zhuqing about her trial near Sea Horse Douluo's Ring Sea.

While recovering from his injuries, Li Xuan inspected the Heaven-Grasping Bottle space and then visited the Sea God Treasury to claim a reward for clearing the Annihilation Poison. He found a rare Heaven-Reaching Building Wood seed and began examining the treasury’s other seeds.

• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle space, used the hot spring and Evergreen Flame to heal, and inspected its stores of Soul Beast materials, Spirit Bones, herbs, and Void Eyes.
• Li Xuan returned to camp to rest, where Bo Saixi arrived and offered him one treasure from the Sea God Treasury as a reward for clearing the Annihilation Poison.
• Bo Saixi brought Li Xuan through a secret passage into the treasury, a Folded Space beneath Sea God Mountain.
• Li Xuan found a Heaven Pillar Tree seed, recognized it as a Heaven-Reaching Building Wood seed, and chose it as his reward.
• Bo Saixi pointed Li Xuan toward shelves of other seeds, and he began examining them with Appraisal of Herbs.

Li Xuan refused to hand the Water God Remains over to the Sea God, but Bo Saixi agreed he could keep studying them and gave him the treasury’s seeds. After recovering, Li Xuan went to challenge Sea Dragon Douluo for his fifth Top-tier Eight Trial, and they headed out to sea to fight.

• Li Xuan refused the Sea God’s demand for the Water God Remains, and Bo Saixi later said he could keep them until he no longer needed to study them.
• Bo Saixi revealed that she had inherited the Sea God’s Godhood and accepted a hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Blue Dragon Trunk Spirit Bone from Li Xuan as a gift.
• Bo Saixi gave Li Xuan the treasury’s Heavenly Treasures seeds, and Li Xuan planted the Heaven-Reaching Building Wood seed in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space to help restore Bangchui’s origin.
• Li Xuan spent ten days healing his injuries and hidden injuries, then decided to challenge Sea Dragon Douluo for his fifth Top-tier Eight Trial.
• Sea Dragon Douluo agreed to fight Li Xuan and led him out to sea so they would not damage the Sea Dragon Holy Pillar.

Li Xuan fought Sea Dragon Douluo to test his strength and believed he had completed his Sea God Trial by lasting half an hour, but discovered the trial had been changed to require two hours. After recovering from the battle, he flew toward Sea God Mountain to confront Bo Saixi about the change.

• Sea Dragon Douluo fought Li Xuan without suppressing his Soul Power, and Li Xuan countered with fire attacks, a Burning Heart Seal cage, and his Flame Avatar.
• Li Xuan fought Sea Dragon Douluo for more than half an hour before exhausting his Soul Power and being caught.
• Li Xuan expected the trial reward, but his light screen revealed that the Fifth Trial required him to withstand one of the Sea God Seven Holy Pillars for two hours.
• Sea Dragon Douluo carried Li Xuan back to the beach and encouraged him to rest and return for another fight.
• After healing his minor injuries, Li Xuan mounted the Cloud-Winged Horse and flew toward Sea God Mountain to question Bo Saixi about changing his trial.

Li Xuan confronted Bo Saixi about Sea God's changes to his trial and received a Sun God Bow fragment as compensation. After learning that the Sea Trench had been emptied, he inspected the harvested materials and began refining Soul Beast bones into Bone Essence.

• Li Xuan questioned Bo Saixi about the altered trial, and she explained that Sea God had changed it to improve his combat experience.
• Bo Saixi gave Li Xuan a Sun God Bow fragment and told him that war had devastated Douluo Continent.
• Li Xuan learned that the Puppets had removed every usable Soul Beast corpse from the Sea Trench and arranged for most of them to be dismantled and stored.
• Li Xuan inspected the harvest, including more than 260,000 Spirit Bones, and estimated he could refine the remaining beast bones within three months.
• Li Xuan returned to camp and began refining Soul Beast bones in a Soul Power furnace.

After months of exhausting work, Li Xuan took Zhu Zhuqing on an underwater outing to help them both relax. He returned rested and ready to resume his challenge against Sea Dragon Douluo.

• Li Xuan finished refining the Soul Beast bones into Bone Essence and planned to use it to make Blood Bone Dragon Pattern Elixirs and raise his Alchemist rank.
• Zhu Zhuqing comforted Li Xuan and offered to handle conflicts between the people of Ladi Canyon and the Sea Spirit Masters, but Li Xuan chose to manage them himself.
• Li Xuan promised to take Zhu Zhuqing exploring, and the Yellow Turban Warrior modified the Swordfish-class into a two-person submarine.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing explored the Great Sea in the Swordfish-class, then Zhu Zhuqing reminded him to balance strength with rest.
• Li Xuan slept for two days and one night, woke refreshed, and went to challenge Sea Dragon Douluo.

Li Xuan challenged Sea Dragon Douluo again and used precise flame control to hold off the stronger opponent. Though Sea Dragon Douluo eventually broke his fire cage after Li Xuan exhausted his Soul Power, Li Xuan completed the trial and received an upgrade to his first three Soul Rings.

• Li Xuan fought Sea Dragon Douluo above the sea, using Ice Soul Spirit Fire and flame transformations to evade attacks and turn a water dragon into ice.
• Li Xuan trapped Sea Dragon Douluo in a Burning Heart Array cage and used controlled flame chains to counter his attacks without relying on Mental Power.
• Li Xuan used chains to detonate Sea Dragon Douluo's High Pressure Sea Dragon Cannon from within, then reinforced the cage against Sea Dragon Douluo's eighth Spirit Skill.
• Sea Dragon Douluo bombarded the cage with Spirit Skills for an hour, and Li Xuan kept repairing its weak points until his Soul Power was depleted and the cage broke.
• A blue pillar of light confirmed Li Xuan had completed the trial, raising his first three Soul Rings to sixty thousand years; Sea Dragon Douluo congratulated him and invited him to a meal.

Li Xuan learned that his next Sea God trial required him to find the Sea Soul Fire deep in the Ten Thousand Zhang Sea Abyss, and Bo Saixi explained the abyss’s extreme pressure and medicinal herbs. He reached the fissure and sent investigation Puppets inside, where they began collecting mature herbs.

• Li Xuan consulted Bo Saixi about the Ten Thousand Zhang Sea Abyss and learned it was a deep-sea canyon known for its rare medicinal herbs and abnormal water pressure.
• Bo Saixi told Li Xuan that she had seen blue flames at the abyss’s bottom, identified as Sea Soul Fire, and gave him the location after he accepted the trial.
• Li Xuan marked the abyss on a map, instructed Zhou Chen to seek Bang Chui’s help in his absence, and set out alone in the Swordfish-class.
• After two days, Li Xuan reached the abyss, felt the unusual pressure at a depth of five hundred meters, and secured his vessel near the entrance.
• Li Xuan sent Tier 4 investigation Puppets into the fissure and used them to harvest mature medicinal herbs from its walls.

Li Xuan descended into the Sea Abyss to retrieve the Sea Heart Fire, but discovered it sealed a Sea Eye and could not be removed without a replacement. He used the Water God Remains to suppress the Sea Eye, befriended the Sea Heart Sprite, and sealed the Abyss to keep the remains out of the Sea God's reach.

• Li Xuan sent Tier 4 Puppets into the Sea Abyss and used an Exploration Puppet to find the Sea Heart Fire at its deepest point.
• The Sea Heart Fire destroyed one Puppet, but Li Xuan protected another with Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame and collected the fire in a Burning Heart Seal.
• A Sea Heart Sprite shattered the seal and conveyed that the Sea Heart Fire was suppressing a Sea Eye that had been opened in a battle.
• Li Xuan modified the Water God Remains to replace the Sea Heart Fire and reinforced them to withstand the Sea Eye's pressure.
• The Sea Heart Sprite agreed to leave with Li Xuan, who collected it and the Sea Heart Fire before sealing the Sea Abyss with stone and metal.

Li Xuan returned to Sea God Island with the Sea Heart Fire and presented it during a sacrifice to the Sea God. Bo Saixi used the fire to begin condensing the Sea God Divine Armor, but after half an hour only its leg armor had formed, and she looked close to fainting.

• Li Xuan sealed the Sea Abyss with more formations, recalled his Puppets, and returned to Sea God Island with the harvested herbs.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Li Xuan that Bo Saixi had urgently requested the Sea Heart Fire for a sacrifice, and he reassured her that he had retrieved it.
• Li Xuan joined Zhu Zhuqing, Lou Gao, Bai Chuan, Xu Li, and Bangchui at the Sea God sacrifice and presented the Sea Heart Fire to Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi sent the Sea Heart Fire to the summit of Sea God Mountain, turning its torches blue and releasing energy that Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing directed into Bangchui.
• Bo Saixi gathered the Sea Heart Fire around herself to forge the Sea God Divine Armor, and Li Xuan gave her an Ice Heart Protection Elixir to reduce the pain.
• After half an hour, only the armor around Bo Saixi's legs had formed, and she appeared dangerously close to fainting.

Bo Saixi completed the Sea God Divine Armor and bestowed blessings on Sea God Island, while Li Xuan and his companions prepared to finish their trials and return to war-torn Douluo Continent. After checking that he could still reach the Void Eye there, Li Xuan sent a Five-Thunder Puppet to investigate.

• Bo Saixi endured the painful formation of her Divine Crown, completed the Sea God Divine Armor, and transformed her sacrificial scepter into the Sea God Trident.
• Bo Saixi gathered the sea creatures’ Faith Power, bestowed divine blessings that increased Soul Power, and dismissed the worshippers after the sacrifice.
• Li Xuan told Bai Chuan that they would return to Douluo Continent once their remaining Sea God’s Trials were complete, and he worried about the Xu Family and Ladi Canyon amid the continent’s turmoil.
• At camp, Li Xuan reviewed Zhou Chen’s report that the Black-Level Six Trial participants had reached their fifth trial, then burned the report and joined the others for a late-night feast.
• After sobering himself, Li Xuan connected through the Small Cave-Heaven to the Void Eye in Douluo Continent and sent a fourth-rank Five-Thunder Puppet to investigate.