Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye survived Hai Kongming’s devastating attack by revealing the Azure Radiance Asura God Armor and matching her Sea God Roar with his Bury the World. After the two redirected their clashing powers into the sky, Hai Kongming declared that he had passed the trial, and the Sea God rewarded him with increased affinity.

• Hai Kongming’s Sea God phantom collided with Long Zhanye’s Gray-White Giant, and the shockwave shattered Long Aotian and Vina’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and injured Xiao Hongchen.
• Long Zhanye appeared in the Azure Radiance Asura God Armor and challenged Hai Kongming to continue the fight.
• Hai Kongming unleashed her Sixth Soul Skill, Sea God Roar, while Long Zhanye answered with his Ninth Soul Skill, Bury the World.
• Hai Kongming and Long Zhanye redirected their destructive attacks into the sky to protect Sea God Village, and Hai Kongming shielded the village from the resulting shockwaves.
• Hai Kongming announced that Long Zhanye had passed the trial, and the Sea God increased his affinity by ten percent.

After passing his trial, Long Zhanye reflected on the power of his Azure Radiance Asura God Armor as the others received their sixth-trial rewards. Long Aotian prepared to face his final trial alone, equipped with the Azure Radiance Evil God Armor, while Vina received the Azure Radiance Sea God Armor.

• Long Zhanye assessed how his star-powered Azure Radiance Asura God Armor had helped him withstand Hai Kongming's Sea God Roar.
• Xiao Hongchen, Vina, and Long Aotian received their sixth-trial rewards, raising their Soul Power ranks; Vina completed all six of her trials.
• Long Aotian learned that his final trial required him to kill a 300,000-year-old Nine-Jointed Ichthyosaur King alone in the Sea God Illusory Realm.
• Long Zhanye gave Long Aotian the Azure Radiance Evil God Armor and Vina the Azure Radiance Sea God Armor, explaining that each suit carried a different trace of divine power.
• Long Aotian and Vina shared an emotional farewell embrace before he set out to face the final trial alone.

While Long Aotian faced a Sea God trial, Long Zhanye distributed nine Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to Chen Lü and Chen Yu. After three days of absorption, Chen Lü reached Rank 94 and Chen Yu became a Title Douluo, bringing ten members of Long Zhanye’s team into that realm.

• Long Zhanye waited to begin his seventh trial and welcomed the others after they learned Long Aotian had entered the Sea God Illusory Realm to face a three-hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast.
• Long Zhanye gave Chen Lü five of the nine remaining Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and assigned the other four to Chen Yu.
• Chen Lü and Chen Yu spent three days absorbing their Soul Bones while the rest of the team waited.
• Chen Lü reached Rank 94, and Chen Yu reached Rank 90 and became a Title Douluo.
• Long Zhanye reflected that ten members of his thirteen-person team had become Title Douluo in the year and a half since they set out.

Long Aotian passed his Sea God trial, gained powerful Soul Rings, and reached Level 97. Long Zhanye then entered the Sea God Sacred Hall to face the Seventh Trial and seek recognition from the Sea God Helmet, leaving his hand poised to touch it.

• Long Aotian emerged from the Sea God Illusory Realm with five black and four red Soul Rings after the trial distributed the Nine-Jointed Ichthyosaur King's energy among his existing rings.
• Long Aotian revealed that the trial had raised him to Level 97, prompting cheers from his companions.
• Long Zhanye and Xiao Hongchen followed Hai Kongming across the sea to the Sea God Sacred Hall while their eleven companions waited at the shore.
• Hai Kongming told Long Zhanye to pick up the Sea God Helmet and gain its recognition to pass the trial.
• Long Zhanye approached the helmet and slowly reached toward it as everyone watched in silence.

Long Zhanye overcame the Sea God Helmet’s rejection, passed the Seagod’s Seventh Trial, and received the helmet’s divine power. After witnessing Tang Wutong’s memories of the God Realm, he reached level ninety-seven, while Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Rings grew older; Long Zhanye had completed the first seven trials.

• Long Zhanye used the Seagod Trident imprint’s power to break through the Sea God Light and seize the blue-gold helmet.
• Long Zhanye put on the helmet, passed the Seagod’s Seventh Trial, and increased his Sea God affinity by twenty percent.
• Long Zhanye was pulled into a vision of the God Realm and saw memories of Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Wutong, including Tang Wutong’s relationship with Huo Yuhao.
• Medusa told Long Zhanye that the seal in his Sea of Consciousness had been lifted and that Tang San would not erase him.
• Long Zhanye absorbed the helmet and rose from level ninety-six and a half to level ninety-seven, while Xiao Hongchen gained three thousand years of age for all his Soul Rings.

Long Zhanye’s thoughts were exposed by Sea Maiden Douluo, revealing that he had only wanted the Sea God Helmet and never intended to inherit the Sea God’s position. After he impaled her with the Golden Dragon Spear, Hai Kongming demanded that he surrender the helmet or face death, and Long Zhanye and his companions prepared to fight.

• Sea Maiden Douluo revealed that Long Zhanye planned to leave Sea God Village with the Sea God Helmet rather than inherit the Sea God’s position.
• Long Zhanye hurled the Golden Dragon Spear through Sea Maiden Douluo and pinned her to the Sea God Sacred Hall wall.
• Hai Kongming offered Long Zhanye the choice of surrendering the Sea God Helmet and dying or having his companions killed, but he refused both options.
• Long Zhanye told Sea Elephant Douluo that the Sea God inheritance was not his path and challenged Hai Kongming’s attempt to keep him there.
• Hai Kongming summoned her nine Soul Rings and advanced on Long Zhanye as his twelve companions spread through the sky and released their Martial Souls.

Long Zhanye confronted Hai Kongming in the Sea God Sacred Hall, where its power made her effectively invincible. As he and his allies launched their assault, Hai Kongming remained calm, and the battle’s first wave began.

• Long Zhanye refused Hai Kongming’s offer to abandon the Sea God Helmet and leave, declaring that he would fight for his opportunity.
• Hai Kongming attacked with a powerful water palm, and Medusa warned Long Zhanye that the Sacred Hall empowered her and that he should lure her outside.
• Long Zhanye transformed into a golden giant and struck Hai Kongming, but she overwhelmed his attack and revealed she had used only seventy percent of her strength during his trial.
• Long Zhanye called on his allies, and twelve fighters released their martial souls and surrounded Hai Kongming while the five Sacred Pillar Guardians withdrew.
• Hai Kongming stayed composed as the first wave of attacks erupted from the sky.

Long Zhanye and his companions launched a combined attack on Hai Kongming in the Sea God Sacred Hall, but her Divine Power barrier and eighth soul skill overwhelmed them. Long Zhanye faced her again after most of his team fell, trying to rally the few who remained standing.

• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, Long Aotian and Vina, Ye Guyi, and the others unleashed their strongest attacks against Hai Kongming, but her Divine Power barrier blocked them all.
• Hai Kongming used her eighth soul skill, Sea God's Wrath, summoning water dragons that Long Zhanye tried to destroy with his Sovereign Myriad Sword Divine Art.
• The sea dragons reformed after being cut apart and sent Long Zhanye's twelve companions plunging into the sea, leaving only four able to stand again.
• Long Zhanye endured the dragons' assault with the Azure Radiance Asura Armor and Sea God Helmet, then saw his Golden Dragon Spear begin to resonate with the helmet.
• Long Zhanye flew back into the sky and loudly declared that he would defeat Hai Kongming, though he knew the odds were grim and meant his words to bolster his companions' morale.

Long Zhanye drew on the Sea God Sacred Hall and the ocean to match Hai Kongming’s power, then broke her Sea Burial technique with a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon formed from Xiao Hongchen. The blast severely injured Xiao Hongchen, and Long Zhanye and Hai Kongming gathered opposing oceanic forces as the battle continued.

• Long Zhanye used the Sea God Helmet and Seagod Trident’s imprint to draw power from the Sea God Sacred Hall and the ocean.
• Hai Kongming launched her eighth soul skill, Sea Burial, creating a spatial vortex that devoured everything around it.
• Long Zhanye had Xiao Hongchen transform into a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon, then fired a projectile into the vortex and destroyed it from within.
• Xiao Hongchen emerged from the explosion severely injured, while Long Zhanye felt alarmed and regretful about the damage he had suffered.
• Hai Kongming gathered the sea’s power, and Long Zhanye absorbed the remaining divine power in the hall; their opposing auras clashed across the space.

Vina’s Withering of All Things aged Hai Kongming, who answered with the Seagod’s divine power. Long Zhanye countered with his own divine skills but was struck down, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Long Zhanye and Hai Kongming clashed with their weapons and continued fighting, with Long Zhanye struggling against her greater Soul Power reserves.
• Vina and her Blue Silver King struck Hai Kongming with Withering of All Things, draining her life force and rapidly aging her.
• Hai Kongming summoned Poseidon’s Divine Sense with her Ninth Soul Skill, Descent of the Seagod, and unleashed a devastating attack at Long Zhanye and his companions.
• Long Zhanye transformed the Golden Dragon Spear into a Seagod Trident and countered with Sea God’s Twilight, while the shockwaves incapacitated Vina and Xiao Hongchen and injured Long Aotian and Ye Guyi.
• Long Zhanye used Medusa’s Despair to resist the remaining divine power, but it overwhelmed him and hurled him into the reefs, where he lay motionless.

Long Zhanye and his wounded companions faced Hai Kongming’s devastating Sea God's Breath, leaving Long Zhanye to surrender control to Medusa for a final counterattack. Medusa killed Hai Kongming by burning away her Divine Sense, and Long Zhanye passed the Ten Trials of Sin but lost Medusa’s presence.

• Long Zhanye, Long Aotian, and Ye Guyi struggled to stand after Hai Kongming’s attack, while Medusa warned Long Zhanye he could not survive her next strike.
• Hai Kongming unleashed her Ninth Soul Skill, Sea God's Breath, and Long Zhanye sent a Scapegoat to delay it, but the attack continued toward him.
• Long Zhanye chose life and let Medusa take control of his body, then agreed to accept any price for her help.
• Medusa used the Soul-Absorbing Tablet and her remaining Sin Divine Power to overwhelm Sea God's Breath, while Long Zhanye passed the Ten Trials of Sin.
• Medusa’s attack pierced Hai Kongming’s chest and killed her, but Medusa’s Divine Sense vanished after she told Long Zhanye he had earned the God of Sin’s seat.

Long Zhanye killed Hai Kongming and, after Sea Maiden Douluo condemned him, struck her and Sea Elephant Douluo with the Golden Dragon Spear. He threatened the remaining Sacred Pillar Guardians with death or service, and they chose to join him.

• The five Sacred Pillar Guardians mourned Hai Kongming, while Long Zhanye realized Medusa had vanished from his Sea of Consciousness.
• Long Zhanye collected Hai Kongming's six Spirit Bones and accused the wounded Sea Maiden Douluo of causing the High Priest's death and destroying his path to godhood.
• When Sea Maiden Douluo challenged his worthiness, Long Zhanye hurled the Golden Dragon Spear, piercing Sea Elephant Douluo and Sea Maiden Douluo at once.
• Ye Guyi tried to calm Long Zhanye, but he gave the four surviving guardians a choice between death and joining his ranks.
• Sea Elephant Douluo agreed to lead the 4,312 Sea Spirit Masters of Sea God Village into Long Zhanye's ranks, and Sea Phoenix Douluo, Sea Snake Douluo, and Sea Cloud Douluo followed.

After the battle devastated Sea God Village, Long Zhanye saved his unconscious companions and used the Sea Maiden Douluo’s Spirit Bone and Spirit Soul to raise his brother Long Zhantian to Title Douluo. Long Zhantian emerged with a complete set of Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bones and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• Long Zhanye rescued his eight unconscious companions from the water and, with Ye Guyi and Long Aotian, stabilized their injuries.
• Long Zhanye rejected giving the Sea Maiden Douluo’s Spirit Soul to Vina and decided to strengthen Long Zhantian instead.
• Long Zhantian absorbed the Sea Maiden Douluo’s Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Spirit Bone, raising his Soul Power from Rank 86 to Rank 87.
• Long Zhantian absorbed four more Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bones from Hai Kongming, reaching Rank 90.
• Long Zhanye used a Holy Spirit Cult secret technique to contract the Sea Maiden Douluo as Long Zhantian’s Spirit Soul.
• Long Zhantian became a Rank 91 spiritual-type Title Douluo with three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and six Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bones.

After Long Aotian absorbed two Spirit Bones and grew stronger, Long Zhanye was chosen by Zhou Weiqing, the God of Destruction, to inherit his divine position. Long Zhanye accepted the inheritance and learned that his first trial was to kill a soul beast over five hundred thousand years old.

• Long Zhanye gave the eighty-thousand-year Head Spirit Bone and the Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Spirit Bone to Long Aotian, who absorbed them and advanced half a step beyond rank ninety-seven.
• As Long Zhanye meditated, a massive black beam enveloped him and threw Long Aotian away when he tried to touch it.
• Zhou Weiqing appeared in Long Zhanye's Sea of Consciousness, identified himself as the God of Destruction, and offered him his inheritance after Medusa's divine consciousness burned out.
• Long Zhanye accepted the inheritance, received a black hammer-shaped mark, and learned that his first trial was to kill a soul beast over five hundred thousand years old.
• Long Zhanye awoke and told his companions that he had gained the qualification for the God of Destruction's trials, prompting them to celebrate the possibility of the Body Sect producing a god.

After the Sacred Pillar Guardians accepted Long Zhanye's leadership, Sea Phoenix Douluo revealed that the Ice Sea held a Sea Princess with cultivation exceeding 600,000 years. Long Zhanye traveled there with his companions and asked a Sea Soul Beast to take him to her clan chief.

• Sea Elephant Douluo decided that he and the other guardians would follow Long Zhanye rather than continue guarding the broken Sacred Pillar.
• Long Zhanye asked about nearby Soul Beasts over 500,000 years old, and Sea Phoenix Douluo told him of the Sea Princess in the Ice Sea.
• Despite Sea Cloud Douluo's warning that the Sea Princess could rival the High Priest, Long Zhanye summoned the Bone Dragon King and led the group to the Ice Sea.
• The group found a wary Sea Soul Beast holding a silver-white trident, and Long Zhanye asked her to take him to her clan chief.

Long Zhanye learned that the six-hundred-thousand-year-old Sea Princess lived in the Ice Sea and led his companions there to find her. After arriving, he confronted a wary Sea Soul Beast and demanded to be taken to her clan leader.

• Sea Elephant Douluo persuaded the other three Sacred Pillar Guardians to follow Long Zhanye.
• Long Zhanye asked about nearby soul beasts over five hundred thousand years old, and Sea Phoenix Douluo told him about the Sea Princess in the Ice Sea.
• Despite the guardians’ warnings about the Sea Princess’s strength, Long Zhanye opened a spatial rift and led everyone to the Ice Sea on the Bone Dragon King.
• The group found a Sea Soul Beast with roughly ten-thousand-year cultivation near floating ice, and Long Zhanye asked her to take him to her clan leader.

Long Zhanye sought the Sea Princess chief’s help with his godhood trial and revealed himself as the Sea God’s successor. When he asked her to become Vina’s Spirit Soul instead of dying, the chief refused, choosing to defend her clan and the Ice Sea.

• Sea Elephant Douluo introduced Long Zhanye as the Sea God’s successor, and the mermaid guard agreed to summon the Sea Princess chief.
• The chief surfaced with her clan, questioned Long Zhanye’s claim, and accepted him after he revealed the Sea God’s power and Seagod Trident.
• Long Zhanye asked the chief to give her life for his trial, then offered her the alternative of becoming Vina’s Spirit Soul.
• The chief recalled Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit Contract and Liya’s new life, but decided she could not abandon her people and challenged Long Zhanye to fight.
• Long Zhanye considered using the remaining divine power within him to kill the chief, but knew the cost would be too high.

Long Zhanye promised to protect the Sea Princess Clan, and its leader agreed to become Vina’s Soul Spirit, passing leadership to her daughter Lijing. After the contract greatly strengthened Vina, Long Zhanye passed the God of Destruction’s first trial and gained the Overlord Bow; the clan leader’s remaining energy then raised the cultivation of all seventeen companions.

• Long Zhanye used the Sea God Helmet to spread Sea God's Light across the Ice Sea and promised to protect the Sea Princess Clan for ten thousand years, convincing its leader to guide the group to the undersea palace.
• The Sea Princess clan leader named her eldest daughter Lijing as her successor and handed her the coral scepter.
• Long Zhanye performed the Soul Spirit Contract ritual, and Vina gained four six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, a six-hundred-thousand-year Torso Spirit Bone, and peak Level 96 cultivation.
• Long Zhanye passed the God of Destruction's first trial and received the Overlord Bow as a divine artifact.
• Long Zhanye divided the clan leader's remaining energy among the seventeen companions, raising their cultivation; Jiang Yixi and Gu Tong reached Level 90 but still needed ninth Soul Rings.

Long Zhanye returned to the Heaven Dou Empire and learned that the Sun Moon Empire had crushed the remaining forces of the Dou Ling and Heaven Dou Empires and was preparing to besiege Shrek City. As war approached, he positioned his forces and infiltrated Shrek Academy, intent on carrying out his own revenge.

• Long Zhanye ordered the four Sacred Pillar Guardians to gather more than 4,300 Sea Soul Masters at Sea God Village and sent a Scapegoat to investigate the war while remaining at the Body Sect.
• The Body Sect elders reported that the Sun Moon Empire had defeated the allied remnants and was surrounding Shrek City with three Soul Engineer Regiments; they were astonished that all thirteen of Long Zhanye's companions had become Title Douluos.
• Ju Zi ordered Long Zhanye's Evil Monarch Soul Master Regiment to work with the Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Regiment and steadily pressure Shrek City as 300,000 troops prepared for the siege.
• Long Zhanye resolved to kill Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao and make Shrek Academy pay, seeing the coming battle as part of his revenge trial.
• A second Scapegoat disguised himself and slipped into Shrek City, secretly entering Shrek Academy while its defenders watched the enemy army approach.

Du Busi formally made Long Zhanye the Body Sect’s sect master as its forces gathered thirty-two Title Douluo and prepared to join the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult against Shrek. Long Zhanye reunited with his seven-year-old children and discovered that both had extraordinary talent, while his daughter possessed two mysterious Martial Souls and a strange innate Soul Ring.

• Du Busi passed the sect master position to Long Zhanye, who planned to crush Shrek by uniting the Body Sect, Sun Moon Empire, and Holy Spirit Cult.
• Du Busi brought Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi to meet their seven-year-old son and daughter, who had innate Full Soul Power.
• Du Busi explained that Long Zhanye’s son had an eight-winged angel Martial Soul with a Heavenly Eye, which Long Zhanye named the Divine-Eyed Angel.
• Long Zhanye’s daughter revealed Chaos as her first Martial Soul and Medusa as her second, leaving him shocked by their origins.
• Elder Gu and Du Busi said the girl had awakened at rank ten and gained a gray Soul Ring on her own, but neither could determine its age or level.