Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi spent half a year in seclusion after Ye Guyi's spirit bones fused into golden armor, but his attempt to form a fourth Soul Core failed while he condensed Holy and Light Soul Cores for her. With the Sea God's Light assessment deadline approaching, Long Zhanye gathered the team and led them toward the Evil Spirit Orca territory to secure Soul Rings for Chen Yu and Wang Yanfeng.

• Ye Guyi's six spirit bones fused into a brilliant golden Spirit Bone Armor, while Long Zhanye collected the drained soul beast corpses for his Corpse Explosion Technique.
• Long Zhanye failed more than a hundred attempts to condense a fourth, Life Soul Core, but formed Holy and Light Soul Cores for Ye Guyi during their half-year seclusion.
• Long Zhanye emerged from seclusion and told the eleven companions that they would cross the Sea God's Light together the next morning, before the assessment deadline.
• Long Zhanye brought the group to the Evil Spirit Orca clan's deep-sea territory to find Soul Rings for Chen Yu and Wang Yanfeng, then sent a whistle through the water.

The Evil Orca King and his wife sacrificed themselves as Spirit Souls for Wang Yanfeng and Chen Yu, strengthening both men and completing Long Zhanye’s Sea God Fourth Trial. The group then passed their Sea God trials, while Ji Juechen’s trial rank was upgraded and he advanced to rank ninety-two.

• The Evil Orca King became Wang Yanfeng’s Spirit Soul, giving him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Left Leg Spirit Bone and raising his cultivation to rank eighty-four.
• The female evil orca offered herself to Chen Yu, who accepted her ninety-thousand-year Spirit Soul and absorbed her Head Spirit Bone, reaching rank eighty-three.
• Long Zhanye passed the Sea God’s Fourth Trial, and Xiao Hongchen gained a Soul Power rank.
• Ye Guyi, Long Aotian, and the other seven gathered challengers climbed Sea God’s Light and received their trial rewards.
• Ji Juechen’s trial was upgraded from Purple-level Five Trials to Black-level Two Trials, and he passed Sea God’s Light and Ring Blockade, reaching rank ninety-two.

Long Zhanye helped his companions clear their trials by raising the difficulty and exploiting a loophole, then strengthened Wang Yanfeng and Meng Hongchen with Soul Bones and Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Souls. The team’s power surged, with nine of its thirteen members reaching Title Douluo.

• Jiang Yixi, Gu Tong, and Long Zhantian advanced through their trials and received Soul Rings or increased cultivation.
• Long Zhanye persuaded the group to replace Tidal Body Tempering with Demon Whale Body Tempering, then led eight examinees to pass together by defending one another against the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Ji Juechen and Long Zhantian completed their assessments, while Chen Yu finished his black-level trials and reached level eighty-five.
• The team completed their fourth trials, and Ye Guyi and Long Aotian each killed a hundred-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca.
• Long Zhanye gave Wang Yanfeng and Meng Hongchen Soul Bones and contracted a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Soul for each, helping both break through to Title Douluo.
• Nine of the thirteen team members reached Title Douluo, while Chen Yu, Long Zhantian, Gu Tong, and Jiang Yixi remained below level ninety.

Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen began the fifth trial by challenging the Sacred Pillar Guardians, and Long Zhanye swiftly defeated Sea Cloud Douluo. They reached the Sea Snake Sacred Pillar, where Sea Snake Douluo prepared to fight them next.

• Long Zhanye explained that all eight candidates had to challenge the five Sacred Pillar Guardians, with different time limits, and laid out a plan for taking them on in successive waves.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen confronted Sea Cloud Douluo at the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar, where Sea Cloud Douluo used mist to try to delay them.
• Long Zhanye saw through Sea Cloud Douluo's illusion with his Spiritual Power and dispelled the mist.
• Long Zhanye shattered Sea Cloud Douluo's Martial Soul Avatar with his Thousand-Hand Buddha soul skill and left him badly injured.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen hurried to the Sea Snake Sacred Pillar, where Sea Snake Douluo challenged them to fight.

Long Zhanye defeated Sea Snake Douluo and headed with Xiao Hongchen toward the third sacred pillar, where Sea Maiden Douluo ambushed them with a disorienting melody. He resisted her stealth with the Asura Domain, but she continued circling them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Long Zhanye blinded Sea Snake Douluo with Chaos Demon Light and struck him with Sun Corona Divine Radiance, breaking through his Nether Snake Domain and badly burning him.
• Sea Snake Douluo acknowledged Long Zhanye's strength, and Long Zhanye left with Xiao Hongchen for the third sacred pillar.
• As they approached the pillar, Sea Maiden Douluo's flute-like Mental Interference melody disoriented Xiao Hongchen, but Long Zhanye drove it back with his Mental Power.
• Long Zhanye sensed Sea Maiden Douluo nearby and shouted for her to reveal herself, but she appeared silently behind him.
• Long Zhanye unleashed the Asura Domain to create a small safe space around himself and Xiao Hongchen, while Sea Maiden Douluo repeatedly vanished and reappeared as she circled them.

Long Zhanye fought Sea Maiden Douluo, whose Sea Soul Melody and Mind Reading disrupted his thoughts and exposed his plans. He used the Clarity Necklace and Xiao Hongchen’s transformation into the Sun Moon Divine Needle to expose and wound her, leaving Sea Maiden Douluo baffled by how he overcame her abilities.

• Sea Maiden Douluo used her Sea Soul Melody to cloud Long Zhanye’s mind and revealed that she could read thoughts, alarming Xiao Hongchen.
• The Clarity Necklace shielded Long Zhanye’s Sea of Consciousness, and he had Xiao Hongchen transform into the Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Long Zhanye fired the needle at the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar, prompting Sea Maiden Douluo to split into dozens of identical clones.
• Long Zhanye redirected the needle and used the clones’ emotional reactions to identify Sea Maiden Douluo’s true body.
• The Golden Dragon Spear pierced through the clones and wounded Sea Maiden Douluo’s arms, forcing her against the sacred pillar.
• Sea Maiden Douluo questioned how Long Zhanye had resisted her melody and why her reading of his thoughts had misled her.

Long Zhanye defeated Sea Maiden Douluo through deception, a defensive soul tool, and a coordinated attack with the Bone Dragon King, then reached the Sea Phoenix Sacred Pillar and unleashed a sweeping sword attack to force Sea Phoenix Douluo out of hiding. Sea Phoenix Douluo revealed himself as the swords closed in.

• Long Zhanye used the Clarity Necklace to trick Sea Maiden Douluo into revealing her true body, then blocked her Sound String Brake with the Unbreakable Divine Shield.
• Sea Maiden Douluo tried to retreat into the sea, but the Bone Dragon King seized her, allowing Long Zhanye to pierce her shoulder with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen left Sea Maiden Douluo behind and arrived at the Sea Phoenix Sacred Pillar, where they found no sign of Sea Phoenix Douluo.
• Long Zhanye unleashed his eighth soul skill, Sovereign Myriad Sword Divine Art, raining giant swords across the area around the pillar.
• Sea Phoenix Douluo emerged from hiding as the swords were about to strike.

Long Zhanye overwhelmed Sea Phoenix Douluo with a rain of greatswords, forcing him to draw on the Sea Phoenix Sacred Pillar’s power and exhaust himself defending it. Sea Phoenix Douluo finally admitted defeat, leaving Long Zhanye victorious.

• Sea Phoenix Douluo summoned an Ice Phoenix to shield the Sea Phoenix Sacred Pillar from Long Zhanye’s falling greatswords, but the phoenix shattered and he was badly injured.
• Sea Phoenix Douluo borrowed power from the Sacred Pillar, raised his strength to the level of a rank ninety-six Super Douluo, and unleashed his eighth Soul Skill, Thousand Phoenix Dance.
• Long Zhanye’s greatswords cut through the miniature Ice Phoenixes, and Sea Phoenix Douluo recognized the seven blood-red Soul Rings and one pure white-gold Soul Ring beneath Long Zhanye’s feet.
• Sea Phoenix Douluo poured his remaining strength into an extreme ice barrier around the Sacred Pillar, but Long Zhanye’s enormous eighth-skill sword broke through it and left him drained and kneeling.
• Sea Phoenix Douluo acknowledged Long Zhanye’s victory and said he had no grievance about losing to a monster like him.

Long Zhanye faced Sea Elephant Douluo, the strongest of the five Sacred Pillar Guardians, and revealed his extraordinary Twin Martial Souls and soul rings. He proposed a wager that barred both fighters from using the sacred pillar’s power, soul rings, or Spirit Bones, and Sea Elephant Douluo accepted.

• Sea Elephant Douluo emerged at the Sea Elephant Sacred Pillar and declared that Long Zhanye would gain nothing from challenging him.
• Long Zhanye sent Xiao Hongchen to safety and prepared to fight Sea Elephant Douluo alone.
• Sea Elephant Douluo revealed his nine soul rings, including one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while Long Zhanye displayed eight rings, seven of them Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and one platinum.
• Sea Elephant Douluo realized Long Zhanye had Twin Martial Souls, and Long Zhanye revealed the second set of nine rings: seven red and two orange-gold.
• Long Zhanye proposed that neither fighter use sacred pillar power, soul ring skills, or Spirit Bone skills, and Sea Elephant Douluo agreed to the wager.

Long Zhanye and Sea Elephant Douluo fought under a wager that barred the use of Soul Ring and Spirit Bone skills. Long Zhanye broke Sea Elephant Douluo’s defenses with his Asura Domain and Golden Dragon Spear, but Sea Elephant Douluo survived and the two remained locked in a tense standoff.

• Sea Elephant Douluo released his Sea Demon Elephant Martial Soul and attacked Long Zhanye with an ice tornado.
• Sea Elephant Douluo used his Fourth Soul Skill, Extreme Ice Heaven-Twisting Kill, to trap Long Zhanye in four converging ice tornadoes.
• Long Zhanye opened his Asura Domain and used Asura Heaven-Sealing Divine Curse to shatter the tornadoes and tear at Sea Elephant Douluo.
• Sea Elephant Douluo defended with Wrathful Demon Elephant Defense, then activated his Martial Soul Avatar to break free of the domain’s suction.
• Long Zhanye hurled the Golden Dragon Spear through Sea Elephant Douluo’s four shields, but Sea Elephant Douluo caught it near his chest and was driven back seven steps.
• Sea Elephant Douluo flung away the spear after its power began draining him, and it returned to Long Zhanye as the two faced off.

Long Zhanye used his Fallen Domain, Gate of Fallen, to swallow Sea Elephant Douluo’s freezing attack and drag him toward the gate. Sea Elephant Douluo revealed a white-light domain that repelled Long Zhanye’s attacks, leaving him invulnerable but completely unable to move or attack.

• Sea Elephant Douluo unleashed a vast frigid current at Long Zhanye.
• Long Zhanye opened the Gate of Fallen, which swallowed the frigid current and sent tentacles to bind and drag Sea Elephant Douluo.
• Sea Elephant Douluo activated his white-light domain, stopping the tentacles from moving him.
• Long Zhanye’s mental power rebounded from the white light, and his Golden Dragon Spear was knocked away when it struck the barrier.
• Long Zhanye realized Sea Elephant Douluo’s domain granted absolute defense at the cost of all movement and ability to attack.

Long Zhanye overwhelmed Sea Elephant Douluo with gravity, sealed him with divine skills, and struck him down with the True Body Sacrifice Skill. After earning the Sea God trial reward, Long Zhanye healed Sea Elephant Douluo enough to keep him alive.

• Long Zhanye used Asura Step to increase gravity until Sea Elephant Douluo's domain broke and he fell to one knee.
• Sea Elephant Douluo activated an aerial ban and sent water pillars surging toward Long Zhanye, but Long Zhanye turned them to stone with Medusa's Despair.
• Long Zhanye used Blood Sin Abyss to seal Sea Elephant Douluo, then struck him with Qilin Piercing the Sun and smashed him into the Sea Elephant Sacred Pillar.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen received their fifth Sea God trial rewards, increasing Long Zhanye's affinity and Xiao Hongchen's Soul Power by one rank.
• Long Zhanye used the Blade of Life's Watch to heal Sea Elephant Douluo, who survived but was too badly injured to stand.

After Xiao Hongchen reached rank ninety-four, Long Zhanye sent Ye Guyi to challenge Sea Cloud Douluo and weaken him for the others. Ye Guyi defeated the guardian with her overwhelming soul power and Six-Winged Soul-Chasing Dart, then headed toward the next sacred pillar.

• Xiao Hongchen reached rank ninety-four, becoming the third strongest among the thirteen in cultivation.
• Long Zhanye told the group that Sea Snake Douluo, Sea Maiden Douluo, and Sea Elephant Douluo had been badly injured, then chose Ye Guyi to challenge Sea Cloud Douluo next.
• Sea Cloud Douluo trapped Ye Guyi in his Thousand Cloud Mirage Sea, but she broke free with Holy Spirit Slash and wounded his arm.
• As Sea Cloud Douluo drew power from the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar, Ye Guyi used her Six-Winged Demon Tiger Left Arm Spirit Bone skill to strike him with six darts.
• Sea Cloud Douluo fell with six serious wounds and admitted defeat, while Ye Guyi thanked him and walked toward the next sacred pillar.

Ye Guyi defeated Sea Snake Douluo and Sea Maiden Douluo before confronting Sea Phoenix Douluo, who used the sacred pillar’s power and ice attacks against her. She countered his strikes with Infernal Delicate Apricot and her Angel Blazing Divine Fire, leaving him severely burned and preparing one final move.

• Ye Guyi swept past the Sea Snake and Sea Maiden Sacred Pillars, defeating their already wounded guardians.
• Sea Phoenix Douluo secretly absorbed the Sea Phoenix Sacred Pillar’s energy and challenged Ye Guyi, mocking her before attacking with his ice powers.
• Ye Guyi’s Spirit Soul, Infernal Delicate Apricot, blocked Sea Phoenix Douluo’s Ice Phoenix Sky-Shattering Slash with Ultimate Fire.
• Ye Guyi unleashed her eighth soul skill, Angel Blazing Divine Fire, and shattered Sea Phoenix Douluo’s Mystic Ice Shield.
• Ye Guyi’s flames struck Sea Phoenix Douluo and burned him badly, and she raised another fireball as she announced one last move.

Ye Guyi defeated Sea Phoenix Douluo with her Infernal Delicate Apricot Right Leg Spirit Bone Skill, then cleared the Sea Elephant Sacred Pillar to complete her Top-tier Five Trials. She received a Divinity Seed, three God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and a Soul Power increase that raised her from Rank 95 to beyond Rank 96.

• Ye Guyi trapped Sea Phoenix Douluo in a blazing domain, weakening his ice abilities and forcing him to unleash his Ninth Soul Skill to freeze the battlefield.
• Ye Guyi’s flames broke through Sea Phoenix Douluo’s ice, dragged down his Ice Phoenix, and burned him unconscious.
• Ye Guyi passed the Sea Elephant Sacred Pillar with little effort because Sea Elephant Douluo was already critically wounded by Long Zhanye.
• Ye Guyi received a Divinity Seed, three God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and a one-rank Soul Power increase after clearing all five trials.
• Ye Guyi stored the Soul Rings for her companions and felt her cultivation advance from Rank 95 to beyond Rank 96.

After Ye Guyi and Long Aotian passed their trials, the remaining team members cleared the five Sacred Pillars while their guardians were badly injured. Four members then faced a sixth trial to endure Hai Kongming, the Sea God's Limit Douluo High Offering Elder, for the time it took an incense stick to burn; Long Zhanye spent a month preparing and finally set out to face her.

• Ye Guyi reported that she had severely injured Sea Cloud Douluo and Sea Phoenix Douluo, and Long Aotian went on to clear all five Sacred Pillars.
• Vina, Wang Yanfeng, Meng Hongchen, and Chen Lü passed their trials against the weakened guardians, leaving Long Zhanye, Long Aotian, Vina, and Xiao Hongchen yet to pass.
• The four learned that their sixth trial was to hold out against Hai Kongming, a Limit Douluo, for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Long Zhanye asked for a month to prepare, then worked with Xiao Hongchen to research and craft Soul Tools.
• Long Zhanye completed three Soul Tools, put down his Engraving Knife, and told the others it was time to meet Hai Kongming.

Long Zhanye and his companions began their sixth Sea God trial against Hai Kongming, who warned that failure meant death and immediately attacked without holding back. Long Zhanye unleashed his domains and a swarm of indistinguishable clones, leaving Hai Kongming unable to identify his true body.

• Hai Kongming met Long Zhanye, Long Aotian, Vina, and Xiao Hongchen over the nearshore waters and reminded them that failing the trial meant death.
• Long Zhanye confirmed he was ready, and Hai Kongming started the trial by lighting an incense stick and warning that she would not go easy on them.
• Long Zhanye ordered the group to scatter, then charged Hai Kongming while the others moved in separate directions.
• Hai Kongming struck Long Zhanye with a finger, and his Flawless Golden Body withstood the blow, though the impact forced him back and caused pain.
• Long Zhanye activated his three domains and spread Chaos Qi across the battlefield, but Hai Kongming used her Sea God Domain to clear the mist.
• Hai Kongming found at least three thousand identical Long Zhanye figures in the cleared battlefield and could not distinguish his true body.

Long Zhanye used a trap to attack Hai Kongming, but she effortlessly neutralized his strongest moves with Sea God's Light. He then revealed that he had been waiting for a bronze giant to strike her, leaving Hai Kongming knocked into the sea and the battlefield stunned.

• Hai Kongming raised towering seawater walls and crushed Long Zhanye's three thousand puppets.
• Long Zhanye attacked from atop the Bone Dragon King with God Explosion and Heavenly Bone Divine Dragon Wave.
• Hai Kongming summoned the Sea God and dissolved both attacks with her third soul skill, Sea God's Light.
• Long Zhanye revealed he had been waiting, and a bronze giant struck Hai Kongming from behind, knocking her into the sea.
• The Sacred Pillar Guardians and Ye Guyi's group reacted in disbelief as the bronze giant declared that the plan had worked.

Long Zhanye, Xiao Hongchen, Long Aotian, and Vina coordinated their attacks against Hai Kongming during the assessment, using a metal sea seal and the Great Luo Heaven Giant to challenge her. Hai Kongming resisted their strongest strikes and declared that she would give them no more chances.

• Long Zhanye recognized Hai Kongming’s attempt to summon the sea’s power and ordered Xiao Hongchen to act.
• Xiao Hongchen used Gold Explosion and Gold Solidification to spread a metal mesh across the assessment sea and suppress the vortex.
• Long Zhanye attacked Hai Kongming with Earth Vein Lock while Long Aotian and Vina struck with the Great Luo Heaven Giant, forcing her to defend herself.
• Hai Kongming realized the four had coordinated their attacks carefully and gathered dark clouds over the sea.
• Long Aotian and Vina unleashed Heaven-Destroying Palm as Long Zhanye used Fate Verdict and his Sin Divine Power, but Hai Kongming blocked their attacks.
• Hai Kongming held her ground against the Great Luo Heaven Giant and warned the four that she would give them no more chances.

Long Zhanye fought Hai Kongming as she summoned the sea’s power, but he disrupted her control by raising mountains from the seabed. After she shattered his Bone Dragon King and broke through his Flawless Golden Body, both warriors activated their Martial Soul Avatars and Long Zhanye launched a counterattack.

• Long Zhanye noticed a blue flash on Hai Kongming’s arm as she activated a Spirit Bone skill and gathered seawater around herself.
• Long Zhanye used his eighth Soul Skill to raise mountains from the seabed, forcing back the sea and interrupting Hai Kongming’s attempt to command it.
• Hai Kongming struck Long Zhanye with a powerful azure beam, destroying the Bone Dragon King and shattering his Flawless Golden Body.
• Hai Kongming activated her Sea God Avatar, while Long Zhanye activated his Martial Soul Avatar alongside his Gold-Level Awakening, Unity of Heaven and Man, and the power of his thirteen-eyed phantom.
• Long Zhanye’s giant phantom swung its armored, emerald-patterned hands toward Hai Kongming.