Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming revealed two hidden dragon corpses beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained that their remains had formed the spring and could grant godhood to those who absorbed their Spirit Bones. The group learned that the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s power could potentially let someone reach First-Level God status.

• Jiang Ming arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu, where Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan greeted them and teased Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue about marrying.
• Jiang Ming told Dugu Bo that two complete sets of Spirit Bones lay hidden beneath the spring, then used his power to reveal the fissures below it.
• Two enormous dragon corpses, one red and one blue, rose from the fissures, startling Dugu Bo, Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Dugu Yan.
• Jiang Ming identified the corpses as the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King and explained that their remains had created the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Ming said that absorbing the dragons’ Spirit Bones could lead to godhood and that mastering their authorities could allow someone to become a First-Level God.

Qian Renxue and Dugu Yan absorbed the Fire and Water Dragon Kings’ Spirit Bones, and Qian Renxue later reached level 83 after absorbing an eighth Soul Ring. In Vast Sea City, they discovered that soldiers were defying Qian Renxue’s decree by charging entry fees in the name of the Sea God.

• Jiang Ming assigned the Fire Dragon King’s Spirit Bone to Qian Renxue and the Water Dragon King’s Spirit Bone to Dugu Yan.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Fire Dragon King’s Spirit Bone and broke through to level 80, while Dugu Yan endured a painful but steady absorption.
• Three months later, Qian Renxue had reached level 83 after absorbing a hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year soul beast’s Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue and Jiang Ming arrived at Vast Sea City and saw soldiers charging commoners and merchants fees to enter and leave.
• Qian Renxue confronted a soldier for violating her decree, but he claimed the city worshipped the Sea God.
• Jiang Ming pointed out that the calm commoners showed the soldiers’ defiance had become normal, and Qian Renxue looked around at the untroubled crowd.

Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue entered Vast Sea City with Ma Hongjun, who explained that Sea God Island’s envoy had turned the city against Spirit Hall and imposed Sea God worship. They went to meet Flender at the City Lord’s Mansion, where they found him with his young son.

• A red-haired young man paid the gate guards’ fee for Jiang Ming, Qian Renxue, and their companion, then revealed himself as Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun told Jiang Ming that Flender and Liu Erlong had argued over their child’s surname, and the boy was now named Liu.
• Qian Renxue told Ma Hongjun about recent upheaval on the mainland, including the destruction of two great clans and the fall of much of the Star Luo Empire.
• Ma Hongjun explained that Sea God Island’s envoy had taken control of Vast Sea City’s Spirit Hall branch and forced the city to adopt Sea God worship.
• Jiang Ming, Qian Renxue, and Ma Hongjun went to the City Lord’s Mansion and found Flender sitting beneath a banyan tree with his young son.

Jiang Ming questioned Flender about Vast Sea City’s Sea God Bride ritual and learned that girls had been sent to Sea God Island for five years without returning. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming discovering that Hai Wuliang’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Hai Rou, was to be chosen at tonight’s festival.

• Jiang Ming told Flender that Yu Xiaogang’s death settled their past grievance, then asked what Flender knew about Vast Sea City.
• Flender explained that five years earlier a woman in white had appeared in the dreams of the whole city and announced the selection of a Sea God Bride.
• Flender said the family of the first chosen girl vanished, convincing the city to accept the annual selection.
• Flender described how festival gifts and supposed enlightenment had won the city’s support for the Sea God Hall, led by former Spirit Hall branch master Hai Wuliang.
• Flender revealed that Hai Wuliang had likely reached the Titled realm and that his daughter Hai Rou was the chosen girl for tonight’s festival.

Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue went to Sea God Square to investigate the Sea God Hall’s forced matchmaking ritual and discovered that the White-Clothed Woman wielded formidable spiritual power. The ceremony began with a bizarre match that Jiang Ming suspected involved an illusion or manipulation, leaving him wary of the woman and the consequences of confronting her.

• Flender told Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue that Hai Wuliang had accepted his daughter Hai Rou’s wedding and that the White-Clothed Woman seemed inhuman; Jiang Ming decided to attend the ceremony.
• Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue followed Vast Sea City’s residents to Sea God Square, where they saw the White-Clothed Woman, Hai Wuliang, and Hai Rou on the platform.
• Jiang Ming sensed that the White-Clothed Woman’s spiritual power exceeded Qian Renxue’s, while Qian Renxue noticed that Hai Wuliang appeared unable to move freely.
• The White-Clothed Woman invited a demanding woman to state her wishes, and three men volunteered to marry her; one man offered a bride price of 588,000 and left the platform with her.
• When the man boasted that marriage made him accomplished, Jiang Ming stopped Qian Renxue from responding and said that some people could not or would not distinguish reality from illusion.

Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue watched the White-Clothed Woman control Vast Sea City's residents through a grotesque matchmaking ritual and blood sacrifice. Qian Renxue wounded the woman, but the residents turned against her, leaving Jiang Ming facing the White-Clothed Woman as she used the crowd as her shield.

• The White-Clothed Woman used spiritual power to make residents volunteer for increasingly outrageous matches, while Hai Wuliang resisted her control and Hai Rou wept silently.
• After two hours, the White-Clothed Woman summoned a monstrous statue and ordered eighteen teenagers to cut themselves and spill blood into a bronze basin.
• Qian Renxue attacked the White-Clothed Woman with the Angel Holy Sword, slashing her arm and revealing blue liquid instead of blood.
• The residents rose up and hurled debris at Qian Renxue, calling her a foreign witch for attacking the Sea God's emissary.
• Jiang Ming stepped onto the platform as the White-Clothed Woman claimed the residents would protect her and that he could not defeat her.

Jiang Ming slaughtered the White-Clothed Woman’s controlled followers in Vast Sea City, breaking her hold over them and forcing her to reveal her Blue Demon Octopus form. Qian Renxue fought to protect the fleeing crowd while Jiang Ming severed all eight of the octopus’s tentacles, leaving her screaming in agony.

• Jiang Ming used Spatial Severing to kill groups of the White-Clothed Woman’s followers, refusing to reason with them.
• The White-Clothed Woman’s mental control weakened as her followers panicked, and Hai Wuliang regained clarity and exposed her as a Soul Beast.
• Jiang Ming continued cutting down the crowd as people began fleeing, while Qian Renxue raised a golden barrier to protect them.
• The White-Clothed Woman transformed into an enormous Blue-Ringed Octopus and attacked Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue with blue light.
• Qian Renxue deflected the blue attack, and Jiang Ming severed all eight of the Blue Demon Octopus’s tentacles with Spatial Severing.

Jiang Ming defeated the Blue Demon Octopus, broke his life-and-death link with innocent civilians, and forced him to reveal Sea God Island’s secret coastal faith-harvesting network before killing him. With the city’s residents freed from control, Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue turned their attention toward Sea God Island.

• The Blue Demon Octopus threatened Jiang Ming with Poseidon’s backing, but Jiang Ming pulverized part of his body and ignored his threats.
• The Blue Demon Octopus bound dozens of civilians to his life with a divine skill, but Jiang Ming severed the links without harming them.
• Jiang Ming cut off the Blue Demon Octopus’s remaining tentacles and tortured him with space power until he revealed Sea God Island’s coastal altars and faith-harvesting scheme.
• Jiang Ming killed the Blue Demon Octopus, ending the mental control over hundreds of thousands of civilians.
• Hai Wuliang confessed his remorse, and Qian Renxue joined Jiang Ming as he looked toward Sea God Island.

After clearing Sea God Island’s forces from the coastal cities, Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue sailed into pirate territory and rescued a child who was actually a pirate scout. They played along with his cover to find the pirates’ lair, while Qian Renxue flirted with Jiang Ming aboard the ship.

• Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue sailed across the sea after restoring peace to the coastal cities and discussed the pirates rumored to be nearby.
• Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue spotted a distressed boy in a small boat and brought him aboard, suspecting a trap.
• Jiang Ming discovered that the supposed child was a dwarf soul master over forty years old who lured ships to pirates for plunder.
• Qian Renxue refused the scout’s attempt to get close to her and ordered him to steer the ship toward his home on Purple Pearl Island.
• The scout secretly anticipated that the pirates would kill Jiang Ming and Qian Renxue, while Qian Renxue later flirted with Jiang Ming in their cabin.