Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen and the Shrek Academy group hired Haider to take them to Sea God Island aboard his ship, despite discovering that Haider and his crew were pirates. The group settled in, while Tang San followed Jiang Chen back to the deck to speak with him.

• Jiang Chen paid Haider one thousand Gold Soul Coins to take the group to Sea God Island.
• Haider welcomed the group aboard his large ship and assigned them four rooms.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Tang San grew suspicious of Haider's crew and their threatening looks.
• Jiang Chen revealed that Haider and his crew were pirates, but said they could not reach Sea God Island by any other ship.
• Jiang Chen left for the deck, and Tang San followed him to ask about something.

Jiang Chen and Tang San discovered that Haider and his pirates planned to rob them, then swiftly subdued the crew and forced them to take the group to Sea God Island. Tang San poisoned Old Scar to ensure the pirates obeyed, leaving Haider’s crew frightened and under their control.

• Haider and his pirates discussed robbing Jiang Chen’s group after learning one of them might be a Soul Saint.
• Jiang Chen entered the cabin with Tang San and revealed that he had overheard their plans.
• Tang San quickly defeated Haider’s five subordinates while Jiang Chen ordered the captain to steer them safely to Sea God Island.
• Tang San poisoned Old Scar with his Eight Spider Lances and threatened to withhold the antidote unless the pirates obeyed.
• Jiang Chen praised Tang San’s ruthless handling of the crew, who agreed to follow their orders.

Haider tried to escort his passengers to Sea God Island while avoiding the Purple Pearl Pirates, but Zi Zhenzhu learned that he had ignored her patrol and ordered a pursuit. Haider saw her fleet closing in and ordered his ship to flee.

• Haider agreed to take his passengers to Sea God Island, hoping to avoid the Purple Pearl Pirates along the way.
• A Purple Pearl patrol spotted Haider’s ship, and he refused to respond to its signal.
• Zi Zhenzhu suspected Haider had betrayed her and ordered her fleet to pursue him.
• Haider saw more than a dozen Purple Pearl speedboats approaching and ordered his crew to sail at full speed.

Zi Zhenzhu pursued Haider's pleasure boat and demanded that Jiang Chen surrender the women aboard, then attacked when they refused. Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing moved to fight her, leaving the battle underway.

• Zi Zhenzhu ordered her speedboats to chase Haider and boarded the pleasure boat after closing the distance.
• Zi Zhenzhu found Jiang Chen and the others relaxing on deck, then demanded that he hand over the women.
• Zi Zhenzhu revealed her seven Soul Rings and attacked the group with her Ice Prism Piercing Soul Skill.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to shatter the ice spikes, and Jiang Chen assigned him and Zhu Zhuqing to fight Zi Zhenzhu.
• Tang San lunged at Zi Zhenzhu while Zhu Zhuqing circled around to strike beneath her ribs.

Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing worked together to exploit the weak point in Zi Zhenzhu’s ice armor and broke through her defenses. With Zi Zhenzhu wounded and poisoned, they pressed their coordinated attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a weak patch on Zi Zhenzhu’s right shoulder, and Tang San redirected his Eight Spider Lances toward it.
• Zi Zhenzhu repelled their first coordinated assault with Frost Storm, but Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing prepared another attack together.
• Tang San pierced a gap through Zi Zhenzhu’s ice-spike wall while Zhu Zhuqing circled behind and stabbed the weak point in her armor.
• Tang San shattered Zi Zhenzhu’s ice armor and wounded her shoulder with his Eight Spider Lances, whose poison began spreading through the wound.
• Tang San attacked through Zi Zhenzhu’s ice wall as Zhu Zhuqing struck from the side, and Zi Zhenzhu blocked Zhu Zhuqing’s dagger just as Tang San’s lances broke through.

Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Zi Zhenzhu, and Jiang Chen forced her to guide them toward Sea God Island in exchange for an antidote. After five days, the group reached the island, and Jiang Chen prepared to take them ashore in his expanding Dragon Abyss Boat.

• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Zi Zhenzhu with poison and attacks, and she surrendered to Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen offered to cure Zi Zhenzhu if she stopped her ships and took the group to Sea God Island; she agreed and signaled her ships to halt.
• Tang San gave Zi Zhenzhu half an antidote, and she learned Ning Rongrong belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• After five days, Haider spotted Sea God Island, and Zi Zhenzhu stopped beyond its patrol range.
• Jiang Chen had Tang San give Zi Zhenzhu the rest of the antidote, then expanded his Dragon Abyss Boat to carry the group toward the island.

Jiang Chen and his companions reached Sea God Island after he used lightning to evade the Demon Soul Great White Sharks and propel the Dragon Abyss Boat at high speed. The boat shattered on the beach, where a guardian of the Seahorse Sacred Pillar confronted them about their arrival.

• Zhu Zhuqing spotted something beneath the water, and a group of Demon Soul Great White Sharks surrounded the Dragon Abyss Boat.
• Jiang Chen electrified the boat to drive off the sharks, then used Lightning Flash to send the boat racing toward the island.
• Tang San warned that the hull was failing, but Jiang Chen used the last of his Sky Thunder Power to drive the boat onto the beach, where it broke apart and threw everyone onto the sand.
• Qian Renxue spotted a person approaching through the air, and the newcomer landed on the beach and identified himself as the guardian of the Seahorse Sacred Pillar.
• Jiang Chen told the guardian that the group had come to participate in the Sea God Examination, and the man reacted with surprise at their strength.

Jiang Chen and his companions arrived at the Seahorse Sacred Pillar to undergo the Sea God Examination, and Seahorse Douluo explained its ranks and divine power. Ning Rongrong was the first to be tested and received a Red Assessment, astonishing Seahorse Douluo as he invited the others to go next.

• Jiang Chen assured Seahorse Douluo that the group wanted to take the Sea God Examination and led everyone after him.
• Seahorse Douluo brought the group to the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and explained that its tests ranged from White Level to Red Level, with the Sea God's Nine Trials above them.
• Seahorse Douluo activated the Sacred Pillar, releasing the Sea God's power, and asked who would go first.
• Ning Rongrong placed her hand on the pillar, which gave her a Red Assessment and stunned Seahorse Douluo.
• Seahorse Douluo asked about Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul, then asked who would go next.

Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling each received Red-Rank Seven Trials, stunning Seahorse Douluo and prompting Qian Renxue to reconsider their potential. Oscar received Black-Rank Six Trials instead, leaving him feeling outdone by his companions.

• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan each activated the Sacred Pillar and received Red-Rank Seven Trials.
• Dugu Yan asked about the Red Assessments, and Seahorse Douluo explained that they indicated the potential to become Limit Douluos but carried deadly trials.
• Qian Renxue reflected on her grandfather Qian Daoliu's strength and wondered at the gifted women gathered around Jiang Chen, who suspected Karma Fire had raised their potential.
• Ye Lingling received Red-Rank Seven Trials when she touched the Sacred Pillar.
• Jiang Chen encouraged Oscar before his test, and Oscar received Black-Rank Six Trials, feeling outdone by the others.

Tang San triggered Sea God's Nine Trials, but the Life Goddess also marked him as a potential inheritor and challenged the Sea God’s claim. The chapter ended with both gods competing for Tang San’s inheritance.

• Jiang Chen reassured Oscar that his Black-Rank Six Trials marked him as exceptionally talented for a Food-type Soul Master.
• Tang San touched the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and triggered Sea God's Nine Trials, causing Seahorse Douluo to kneel in reverence.
• Emerald-green light descended over Tang San and began suppressing the Sea God’s golden divine power.
• The Sea God celebrated finding a suitable inheritor, but the Life Goddess entered and declared her interest in Tang San.
• The Life Goddess revealed that she had planted the Life Divine Mark on Tang San and could offer him the Life Nine Trials.

The Life Goddess and Destruction God King decided to pursue Tang San as a shared heir, while Tang San’s Sea God power was displaced by the Life Goddess’s power during his trial. He was left with the Life Divine Mark and a red-rank set of seven trials as Jiang Chen realized the Sea God had lost his heir.

• The Life Goddess told the Sea God she would let Tang San choose between their Godhoods after his first trial, and the Sea God decided to seek another heir.
• The Life Goddess and Destruction God King watched Tang San and agreed to consider him for both their Godhoods because he had Twin Martial Souls.
• The Life Goddess explained that Tang San’s Extreme Life Path made him poorly suited to the Sea God Godhood, while the Destruction God King warned he would test Tang San’s ability to withstand Destruction Divine Power.
• At the Seahorse Sacred Pillar, Tang San’s Sea God’s Light faded as the Life Divine Light overwhelmed it, and a red-rank set of seven trials appeared.
• Tang San found the Sea God’s Power gone and the Life Goddess’s power in its place, while Jiang Chen recognized that the Sea God had lost his heir and asked Tang San how he felt.

Ning Rongrong received the Sea God's golden inheritance mark after Tang San lost the Sea God's Nine Trials, while the others completed their assessments. Bo Saixi arrived and questioned Ning Rongrong about her name.

• Ning Rongrong's red mark turned into a golden wave as the Sea God chose her as a new inheritor, leaving Seahorse Douluo stunned.
• Seahorse Douluo continued the assessments, and Jiang Chen and Qian Renxue each received Red-Rank Seven Trials.
• Six Titled Douluo arrived after hearing about the assessments and were shocked to learn that seven people had received Red-Rank Seven Trials.
• Bo Saixi arrived, examined Ning Rongrong's golden mark, and asked her name.

Bo Saixi revealed that Ning Rongrong had been chosen as the Sea God's new inheritor and explained the unusual assessments facing Tang San and the others. That night, Qian Renxue spoke with Bo Saixi about Qian Daoliu and asked what had happened between them in the past.

• Bo Saixi recognized Ning Rongrong as Ning Fengzhi's daughter and revealed that the Sea God had chosen her as his new inheritor.
• Bo Saixi explained that Tang San's Life Divine Mark had changed his Sea God assessment to Red-Rank Seven Trials, while the coexistence of two divine powers made his future uncertain.
• Bo Saixi said the assessments would begin the next day, warned the group about their danger, and left the seven Sacred Pillar guardians to arrange the newcomers' lodgings.
• Jiang Chen joked with Oscar about the group's Red Assessments and Oscar's Black-Rank Six Trials as they followed Seahorse Douluo.
• Qian Renxue met Bo Saixi on a hill at night and said she hoped Qian Daoliu would let go of his long-held faith and pursue what he wanted.
• Qian Renxue asked Bo Saixi what had happened between her and Qian Daoliu in the past.

Bo Saixi kept Qian Renxue’s secret while warning her about the next examination, and Jiang Chen received the Creation God King’s inheritance and its first trial. The next morning, Ning Rongrong told Jiang Chen that the Sea God had appeared in her dream and warned her about the danger of the Nine Trials.

• Bo Saixi told Qian Renxue that Jiang Chen held an unfamiliar, ancient power and promised to keep her grandfather’s identity secret.
• Jiang Chen received the Creation God King’s Inheritance Mark and the Creation Four Trials after Tang San gained the Life God King’s Inheritance Mark.
• Jiang Chen learned that his first trial required him to devour Sea God Island’s residual divine power within half a year, or lose the Creation God trial.
• Jiang Chen planned to reach the Sea God Temple through the examinations and considered asking Ning Rongrong to share some of the Sea God’s divine power with him.
• Ning Rongrong hurried to Jiang Chen the next morning and revealed that the Sea God had warned her in a dream that, as a Support-type Soul Master, she had almost no chance of surviving the Nine Trials head-on.

Ning Rongrong chose Jiang Chen to accompany her through the Sea God trials, allowing him to share in some of the divine rewards. At the Sea God Altar, both received an infusion of Sea God Divine Power, and Jiang Chen’s Creation Power progress rose to 15%.

• Ning Rongrong told Jiang Chen that the Sea God had let her choose a companion for the trials, and Jiang Chen agreed to join her.
• Ning Rongrong and Jiang Chen visited Bo Saixi, who accepted the Sea God’s decision and led them to the Sea God Altar.
• Bo Saixi activated the altar, and Ning Rongrong and Jiang Chen received Sea God Divine Power.
• Jiang Chen’s system converted the divine power into a trace amount and raised his Creation Power progress to 15%.

Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong received their Sea God blessings, and Jiang Chen warned his companions that the trials could be fatal. The first trial was revealed as a seven-level Undersea Maze that Ning Rongrong would have to cross while Jiang Chen could only protect her.

• Ning Rongrong learned that her Sea God's Blessing had raised her Soul Power by three ranks and that completing her nine trials could make her a Titled Douluo.
• Bo Saixi noticed something unusual about Jiang Chen's aura but dismissed it, then announced that the Sea God's First Trial would begin at dawn.
• Jiang Chen warned Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Qian Renxue that the trials could be deadly, and they all chose to continue.
• Bo Saixi showed Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong the Sea God Trial Formation and explained that Ning Rongrong had to cross the seven-level Undersea Maze to reach the Sea God's Gate.
• Bo Saixi told Jiang Chen he could follow Ning Rongrong and rescue her but could not overcome obstacles for her, and estimated that the maze would take about three days to cross.

Flender, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji discussed Bibi Dong's continent-wide search for the black-robed figures and decided to close Blue Tyrant Academy while Jiang Chen and the students remained missing. At the Sacred Mark Cult's base, the wounded survivors concluded that Bibi Dong wielded a terrifying power connected to the Rakshasa God.

• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji discussed Bibi Dong's search and worried that Jiang Chen and the students might be at Sea God Island.
• Flender ordered Blue Tyrant Academy closed and told its core members to hide or claim they had gone traveling.
• Dai Mubai treated Ma Hongjun's wounds while the black-robed man admitted he had underestimated Bibi Dong's strength.
• Yu Xiaogang said Bibi Dong's evil power surpassed the Cult Master's and was not pure Soul Power.
• The black-robed man said Bibi Dong possessed something more terrifying than her known Martial Souls, and Yu Xiaogang identified it as the Rakshasa God.

Yu Xiaogang and the survivors planned to flee to Slaughter City to escape Bibi Dong and stabilize their newly awakened bloodlines. Six months later, Oscar was still on Sea God Island, frustrated that his companions had surpassed him in cultivation.

• Yu Xiaogang deduced that Bibi Dong had inherited the Rakshasa God’s power, while the man in black reported the Sacred Mark Cult’s devastating losses.
• The man in black proposed that the group hide and cultivate in Slaughter City, where Bibi Dong would not dare to act against the Asura God’s territory.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed that Slaughter City was their safest option, and the man in black ordered them to leave at dawn.
• After half a year on Sea God Island, Oscar complained that he had only reached level forty-nine while Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan had all reached level fifty.

Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong received the Fourth Trial: defeating the hundred-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark in the sea. Their examiner, Sea Witch Douluo, joined the challenge, and the island began sinking as the shark circled them; Jiang Chen took Ning Rongrong into the air just as the ground collapsed.

• At the beach, Ye Lingling told the others that Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong had reached the Fourth Trial and would learn its task at the Sea God Altar.
• Bo Saixi revealed that the trial required Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong to defeat the Demon Soul Great White Shark, a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Bo Saixi teleported them to a small island, where Sea Witch Douluo introduced herself as their examiner and said they would have to face her as well.
• The island began sinking, and the Demon Soul Great White Shark circled nearby while Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong watched the water rise.
• As the island cracked and sank faster, Jiang Chen spread his Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Wings, lifted Ning Rongrong, and flew into the air.

Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong fought off the Demon Soul Great White Shark and Sea Witch Douluo after the island sank beneath them. Ning Rongrong gained a powerful boost from their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Jiang Chen flew to confront Sea Witch Douluo with his third Soul Skill.

• Jiang Chen created an ice platform with Water Control after the Demon Soul Great White Shark destroyed their footing and the island sank.
• The Seven Sacred Pillars watched Jiang Chen control water and remarked that he seemed more suited to the Sea God's trials than its inheritor.
• Sea Witch Douluo and the Demon Soul Great White Shark attacked Jiang Chen and Ning Rongrong from above and below, but Jiang Chen protected their platform with the Green Lotus Domain.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Jiang Chen with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill greatly amplified her power.
• Ning Rongrong successfully formed a protective Green Lotus phantom, while Jiang Chen flew toward Sea Witch Douluo and activated Demon Empress Descends.