Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye led a group of thirteen, including the Hongchen Siblings and Ji Juechen, on a journey to the Star Luo Empire's eastern coast. He summoned the Bone Dragon King and used its spatial power to carry them there, arriving safely above the shoreline.

• Long Zhanye reassured the elders that the Hongchen Siblings would keep Jing Hongchen from acting against the Body Sect.
• Ji Juechen asked Long Zhanye to take him along for training, and Long Zhanye agreed, bringing the group to thirteen.
• Long Zhanye told the group they were heading to the Star Luo Empire's eastern coast despite the tense war.
• Long Zhanye summoned the Bone Dragon King and had the twelve others climb onto its back.
• Long Zhanye directed the Bone Dragon King through a spatial rift, and the group emerged above the eastern coast.

Long Zhanye and the others reached Sea God Village and searched its vast central plaza for a hidden mechanism. Long Zhanye uncovered a massive statue of a Sea God, but the plaza revealed no further entrance or explanation.

• Long Zhanye and twelve companions entered Sea God Village, where the residents watched the outsiders warily.
• Long Zhanye led the group to the village’s central plaza and identified its pillars and raised platform as their destination.
• Long Zhanye and his companions searched the plaza for a mechanism, hidden entrance, or exit.
• Long Zhanye found a loose stone and pressed it, causing a huge statue holding a trident to rise from the ground.
• Ye Guyi wondered whether the statue depicted Tang San, but Long Zhanye said it was likely the first-generation Sea God and found no sign of what to do next.

Long Zhanye activated the Seagod statue and met Sea Cloud Douluo, one of Sea God Village’s five guardians. After proving he carried the Seagod’s mark, Long Zhanye began his second god trial, and the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar revealed a blue-gold halo around him.

• Long Zhanye used the Seagod seal to activate the statue, shaking the square and summoning a face in the clouds.
• Long Zhanye pierced the cloud face with a Mental Ray and demanded that its hidden speaker reveal himself.
• Sea Cloud Douluo introduced himself as a guardian of Sea God Village and asked Long Zhanye to prove the Seagod had sent him.
• Long Zhanye revealed the Seagod Trident brand, and Sea Cloud Douluo recognized him as the Seagod’s chosen successor.
• Sea Cloud Douluo activated the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar and began the ritual for Long Zhanye.
• The ritual surrounded Long Zhanye with a blue-gold halo, confirming to Sea Cloud Douluo that he was the long-awaited successor.

Long Zhanye received the Nine Trials of the Sea God, and Hai Kongming appeared to explain that he had nine years to complete them or die along with Sea God Village. The first trial required him to climb to the 333rd step of the Sea God Staircase within one year, and Hai Kongming vanished after warning him to look after himself.

• Blue-gold light enveloped Long Zhanye as the sea and sky erupted in a storm, and Sea Cloud Douluo recognized him as the Sea God's successor and identified the event as the Nine Trials of the Sea God.
• Hai Kongming descended from the sky and confirmed that Long Zhanye had accepted the Nine Trials, insisting that he complete all nine within nine years or be destroyed along with Sea God Village.
• Hai Kongming sent the trial information into Long Zhanye's Sea of Consciousness, where he read that his first trial was to reach the 333rd step of the Sea God's Light within one year.
• Hai Kongming revealed a staircase of water near the shore and warned Long Zhanye that he could not leave Sea God Village during the assessment.
• Long Zhanye remained wary of the rules, and Hai Kongming disappeared after warning him that the assessment was dangerous.

Long Zhanye’s companions began their Sea God trials, and the first three received red-tier trials that astonished Sea Cloud Douluo. The remaining companions prepared to approach the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar.

• Long Zhanye refused Sea Cloud Douluo’s offer to rest and confirmed that his twelve companions would take trials.
• Long Aotian received a Top-tier Seven Trial, which Sea Cloud Douluo explained could qualify its successor to become a candidate for the next Sea God High Priest.
• Ye Guyi received a Top-tier Five Trial, prompting further surprise from Sea Cloud Douluo.
• Xiao Hongchen received a Top-tier One Trial, and Sea Cloud Douluo repeated the test to confirm the result.
• Sea Cloud Douluo yielded the position at the pillar as the remaining companions prepared to take their trials.

The group received their Sea God assessments, which ranged from purple-level to a Nine Trials of the Sea God and several top-level and black-level trials. Sea Cloud Douluo explained the trials’ difficulty and deadly rules, leaving the group to face the stakes of their assessments.

• Vina received Black-tier Six Trials, while Meng Hongchen, Chen Lü, and Wang Yanfeng received Black-tier Five Trials, Gu Tong received Black-tier Four Trials, and Chen Yu received Black-tier Three Trials.
• Long Zhantian received Black-tier Two Trials, Ji Juechen received Purple-tier Five Trials, and Jiang Yixi received Purple-Level Three Trials.
• Long Zhanye asked Sea Cloud Douluo why everyone received a different assessment, and Sea Cloud Douluo explained that trials reflected each person’s talent and offered greater rewards at higher levels.
• Sea Cloud Douluo described the number of tests in purple- and black-level trials and said that black-level trials had a record of five passes and sixteen failures in the past two hundred years.
• Sea Cloud Douluo warned that black-level trials required one test each year and that anyone who missed the deadline or tried to escape would die.

After settling into Sea God Village, Long Zhanye and his companions learned the details of their trials and tested the Sea God's Light. Long Zhanye reached the 329th step but turned back, proposing that the group train there for a year before attempting their goals and promising Xiao Hongchen a special training method.

• Sea Cloud Douluo led the group to their guest quarters, where Long Zhanye asked everyone to describe their first trials.
• Most of the group had to climb a set number of steps through the Sea God's Light, while Ji Juechen had to kill a thousand-year Sea Soul Beast, Jiang Yixi had to gather seaweed, and Xiao Hongchen had to accompany Long Zhanye through his trial.
• Long Zhanye tested the Sea God's Light alone, endured its increasing pressure, and climbed to the 329th step while using his three domains and Flawless Golden Body.
• Long Zhanye noticed his Asura Divine Power beginning to merge with Divine Slaughter's Domain, but turned back before the final step so Xiao Hongchen would not be forced to attempt it.
• Long Zhanye explained the pressure of the steps and proposed that everyone train in the Sea God's Light for a year before completing their trials; he offered to teach Xiao Hongchen a special training method.

Long Zhanye guided Xiao Hongchen in creating a Gold Soul Core suited to his metal Martial Soul, proving that soul cores could be cultivated beyond Body Martial Souls. With their First Trial deadline looming, Long Zhanye turned his attention back to helping the others progress.

• Long Zhanye proposed that Xiao Hongchen cultivate a Gold Soul Core and ordered the others to spend more time tempering themselves in Sea God's Light.
• Long Zhanye gathered Gold Wolf King carcasses and rare metals, and Xiao Hongchen began cultivating with the metal energy while Long Zhanye watched over him.
• After more than three months, Xiao Hongchen struggled to form a solid core because residual impurities and fear disrupted his progress.
• Long Zhanye entered Xiao Hongchen's Sea of Consciousness with his divine sense and urged him through the final stage.
• Xiao Hongchen formed the Gold Soul Core, raising his Soul Power Level from eighty-five to eighty-six and gaining strength comparable to a lower-ranked Titled Douluo.
• Long Zhanye confirmed that the method could work for Spirit Masters of any Martial Soul attribute, then turned toward the Sea God's Light steps to plan for the remaining trials.

Long Zhanye helped Xiao Hongchen climb the Sea God's steps, where Xiao pushed past his limit by transforming into a Class 8 defensive Soul Tool to keep advancing. After the shield shattered at the 312th step, Long Zhanye caught the badly injured Xiao Hongchen with only nineteen steps left, and faced a choice about how to continue.

• Long Zhanye used his domains and Colorless Walls to protect Xiao Hongchen as they climbed to the 272nd step.
• When Xiao Hongchen wanted to give up, Long Zhanye challenged him by invoking Huo Yuhao, spurring Xiao to unleash his fighting spirit.
• Xiao Hongchen used Metal Control, Gold Boiling, and Gold Fusion to transform his body into a Class 8 defensive Soul Tool powered by his Gold Soul Core.
• Long Zhanye carried Xiao Hongchen in shield form as they climbed together, sharing the Sea God's Light pressure.
• At the 312th step, Xiao Hongchen's shield form shattered and he collapsed, but Long Zhanye caught him before he fell.
• Long Zhanye realized Xiao Hongchen could not safely climb farther, despite only nineteen steps remaining to the summit.

Long Zhanye used the Soul-Absorbing Tablet to save Xiao Hongchen during the Sea God's First Trial, then continued climbing to test his limits and temper his Divine Slaughter's Domain. After reaching the six-hundred-and-twenty-third step, he completed its transformation into the Asura Domain.

• Long Zhanye turned Xiao Hongchen to stone with the Soul-Absorbing Tablet, carried him past the three-hundred-and-thirtieth step, then restored him with the tablet's reverse beam.
• Xiao Hongchen received a two-level Soul Power increase as a companion-pass reward, but the step's pressure forced him to turn into liquid metal and flow back down to safety.
• After confirming Xiao Hongchen was safe, Long Zhanye continued climbing and activated his Hercules Avatar, Gold-Level Awakening, and Spirit Souls to withstand the pressure.
• Long Zhanye reached the six-hundred-and-twenty-third step and sensed Asura Divine Power had transformed Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Long Zhanye descended and named his newly transformed domain the Asura Domain.

Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen passed the Sea God's Second Trial by using Long Zhanye's Fallen Domain to turn the sea beasts against one another. Unwilling to spend a year on the Third Trial, Long Zhanye requested a harder assessment and faced an hour-long siege by Demon Soul Great White Sharks, with no increase to the reward.

• Ji Juechen and Jiang Yixi passed their first trials, gained a Soul Power level, and began their second trials.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen crossed the ring-shaped sea after Long Zhanye's Fallen Domain sent its sea beasts into a frenzy; Long Zhanye passed the Second Trial, and Xiao Hongchen's Soul Rings each gained five hundred years.
• Long Zhanye learned that the Third Trial required a year of tidal body tempering and asked Medusa how he could finish it sooner.
• After Medusa suggested requesting a higher difficulty, Long Zhanye asked Sea Cloud Douluo to raise the trial's difficulty, and Hai Kongming replaced it with an hour under a Demon Soul Great White Shark pod's attacks.
• Xiao Hongchen protested the danger and asked whether the greater difficulty would bring a greater reward; Hai Kongming said it would not, but Long Zhanye chose to proceed because he could not spare a year.

Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen faced the Demon Soul Great White Shark pod in the Sea God’s Mad Shark Body Tempering trial, surviving its attacks by using Chaos Qi and the Eternal Star Domain to hold out until time ran out. They passed the trial, earned their rewards, and Long Zhanye recognized how valuable Xiao Hongchen’s living soul-tool abilities could be in future trials.

• Sea Cloud Douluo led Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen to a secluded sea, summoned a pod of more than three thousand Demon Soul Great White Sharks, and explained that they had to stay on a seawater platform for one hour to pass.
• Long Zhanye spread Chaos Qi across the sea to disrupt the sharks’ coordination, but Xiao Hongchen was also blinded and disoriented by the mist.
• Two hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Sharks used Demon Shark Domain and Demon Shark Teeth to disperse the mist, locate the platform, and attack the pair.
• Long Zhanye told Xiao Hongchen to defend them, and Xiao Hongchen transformed into the Eternal Star Domain while Long Zhanye controlled the shield and replenished it with Soul Power from eleven Rank 8 sealed Milk Bottles.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen withstood the sharks’ repeated assaults until the trial ended; Long Zhanye gained five percent Sea God affinity, and Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Rings each gained five hundred years of age.
• After the sharks dispersed, Long Zhanye concluded that Xiao Hongchen’s ability to become a living soul tool would make their future Sea God trials easier.

Long Zhanye learned that his Sea God trial required him to kill the hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King and traveled with Chen Lü and Xiao Hongchen to the orca territory. After persuading the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to fight beside him, he watched the clans clash until the Evil Orca King emerged with powerful guards and vowed to kill them all.

• Long Zhanye chose Chen Lü, who had reached level eighty, as the intended recipient of the Evil Orca King's hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul.
• Little Gray revealed that the Evil Orca clan had at least three hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, including the 150,000-year Evil Orca King, so Long Zhanye planned to draw them out with the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• When the sharks began retreating from the orcas, Long Zhanye threatened their clan, but Little Gray threw him, Xiao Hongchen, and Chen Lü into the sea and rebuked him.
• Long Zhanye argued that killing the Evil Orca King would protect the sharks for generations, and Little White agreed to attack in exchange for his help.
• Little White and Little Gray led 3,000 sharks into the orca territory, and a fierce battle began as Long Zhanye, Chen Lü, and Xiao Hongchen watched from above.
• The Evil Orca King surfaced with three hundred-thousand-year guards and a female companion, then roared at Little White and threatened to kill everyone.

Long Zhanye heard the Demon Soul Great White Sharks and Evil Orcas accuse each other over their ancient war, then refused to kill the Evil Orca King and proposed that the clans settle matters in battle. Little White and Little Gray condemned him for betraying his promise, leaving the Sea God's successor estranged from the clan he had promised to help.

• Little White accused the Evil Orcas of enslaving and killing Demon Soul Great White Sharks for generations, and the Evil Orca King recognized Long Zhanye as the Sea God's successor.
• The Evil Orca King and its guards claimed that the Demon Soul Great White Sharks had started the conflict, while Little White and Little Gray insisted the Evil Orcas were the aggressors.
• Long Zhanye reflected on the clans' tangled grievances and pretended to hesitate over his assessment to gain the initiative.
• Long Zhanye declared that he would not take either side and proposed a fair battle, promising to support whichever clan won.
• Little White and Little Gray accused Long Zhanye of breaking his promise, and Little White warned that his actions would cost the Sea God the faith of sea creatures.

Long Zhanye manipulated the Evil Orca clan into slaughtering the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, intending to undermine the Sea God's faith and claim the many soul rings left behind. The massacre ended with the sharks exterminated, and Long Zhanye and his companions faced an enormous haul of soul rings.

• Long Zhanye refused to side with either clan, prompting Little White and Little Gray to attack him before he called on the Evil Orca clan to strike.
• The Evil Orca King led his warriors against the Demon Soul Great White Sharks while Long Zhanye watched and told Chen Lü and Xiao Hongchen he planned to use the clans' powerful soul beasts for soul rings.
• The Evil Orca forces overwhelmed Little White and Little Gray, and the two sharks sent a final message across the sea renouncing the Sea God before they were killed.
• The Evil Orca clan annihilated the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan after a battle lasting nearly four hours, though more than two thousand three hundred orcas were dead or wounded.
• Soul rings, including two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, filled the sea above the corpses, and Chen Lü and Xiao Hongchen marveled at the haul.

Long Zhanye helped Chen Lü form a Spirit Soul from Little White, giving him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone. He then used the battlefield’s spoils to raise Xiao Hongchen to rank ninety and bind him to Little Gray, before devising another use for the remaining corpses.

• Chen Lü chose a Spirit Soul, and Long Zhanye erased Little White’s resentment before guiding its soul to fuse with Chen Lü.
• Chen Lü gained Little White’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Left Arm Spirit Bone, reaching rank eighty-three and a half.
• Long Zhanye, Xiao Hongchen, and Chen Lü collected more than two thousand seven hundred high-quality Soul Rings and found twenty-one Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Xiao Hongchen absorbed Little Gray’s Hundred Thousand Year Right Leg Bone and five other Soul Bones, reaching rank ninety.
• Long Zhanye formed a Spirit Soul contract between Xiao Hongchen and Little Gray, granting Xiao Hongchen a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye turned his attention to the remaining soul beast corpses and formed a plan to use every part of them.

Long Zhanye used the corpses of more than five thousand sea beasts to refine Secret Spirit Bones for himself and Ye Guyi. After hours of dangerous work, most of the energy spheres had exploded, leaving four still suspended as the refinement continued.

• Long Zhanye sent Xiao Hongchen to bring Ye Guyi from the Sea God Staircase.
• Long Zhanye divided the sea-beast corpses into fifty-three groups and began refining their Soul Power into Secret Spirit Bones.
• Xiao Hongchen returned with Ye Guyi, and Chen Lü joined them as they watched Long Zhanye work.
• Twelve energy spheres exploded during the first half hour, leaving forty-one to continue condensing.
• After more than an hour, only seven spheres remained, but three then burst apart in a powerful blast.

Long Zhanye used the Fate Skull to complete the Secret Spirit Bone refinement, creating an External Soul Bone and two other powerful Spirit Bones. He gave Ye Guyi the two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and after she embraced and kissed him, he considered what to do next with his newly made Left Scapula.

• Long Zhanye activated the Fate Skull after another energy sphere exploded, and the remaining three spheres formed into Spirit Bones.
• Long Zhanye recognized one of the bones as an External Soul Bone, a Left Scapula he had deliberately shaped to mirror the one on his right.
• Long Zhanye gave Ye Guyi the Hundred Thousand Year Torso Soul Bone and Right Arm Bone, completing her set of six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Ye Guyi embraced and kissed Long Zhanye, while Xiao Hongchen and Chen Lü congratulated them.
• Long Zhanye watched Ye Guyi put the two bones away, then examined the Left Scapula and considered his next steps.

Long Zhanye spared the Evil Orca King by arranging for it to become his companion’s Spirit Soul, then helped Ye Guyi absorb two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. After both Ye Guyi and Long Zhanye advanced in rank, he began using the battlefield’s soul beast corpses to increase the ages of his seventeen Soul Rings.

• Long Zhanye told the Evil Orca King that his Sea God Trial required its death, then offered it a chance to survive as a Spirit Soul; the king agreed in exchange for protection of its clan.
• The Evil Orca King led its surviving clan back into the deep sea while Long Zhanye prepared a safe platform for Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi absorbed the Torso Bone and Right Arm Bone and advanced from rank ninety-three to rank ninety-four.
• Long Zhanye fused the Left Scapula External Soul Bone into himself and advanced from rank ninety-five to rank ninety-six.
• Long Zhanye used a secret technique for seven days and nights to extract energy from more than five thousand soul beast corpses and feed it into his seventeen Soul Rings.

After refining thousands of soul beast corpses, Long Zhanye’s soul rings reached unprecedented ages and his power surged. He then guided Ye Guyi through the secret art, leaving her with nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings and an evolved Ten-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

• After seven days and nights refining corpses, Long Zhanye raised his first five soul rings to three hundred thousand years and his seventh and eighth to nine hundred thousand years.
• Long Zhanye’s seventeen soul rings were all at least two hundred thousand years old, and his Soul Power advanced halfway through rank ninety-six.
• Long Zhanye began guiding Ye Guyi through the secret art to raise the age of her soul rings using the remaining soul beast corpses.
• After five days and nights, Ye Guyi revealed nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings, stunning Xiao Hongchen and Chen Lü.
• Ye Guyi’s Eight-Winged Angel Martial Soul evolved into a Ten-Winged Angel, and Long Zhanye sensed its holy aura suppressing his Fallen Domain and Asura Domain.