Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng’s group crossed the lake to Sea God Mountain, where they encountered Tang San, who had received the Sea God’s Nine Trials after leaving the Clear Sky Sect on Yu Xiaogang’s advice. Zhu Zhuqing began her trial climb but struggled to reach even the sixtieth step.

• Qian Renxue and Chen Xin killed the monster fish that attacked the members of the group without Sea God Marks as they crossed the lake.
• Lin Feng’s group found Tang San on the Sea God Mountain steps and learned he had received the Sea God’s Nine Trials.
• Tang San recalled leaving the Clear Sky Sect and traveling to Sea God Island for training at Yu Xiaogang’s suggestion, hoping to gain strength for revenge.
• Zhu Zhuqing began climbing the jade steps, but the growing pressure and rapidly draining Soul Power left her struggling at the sixtieth step.

Zhu Zhuqing and the others discovered that the Sea God's Light tempered both body and will during the trial, while Lin Feng climbed far beyond Tang San. Lin Feng reached the two-hundredth step and began feeling the pressure refine him from within.

• Zhu Zhuqing climbed to the sixty-first step before the Sea God's Light flung her down, and Lin Feng caught her.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue explained that the trial's pressure tempered the body as well as testing willpower, and Zhu Zhuqing realized how efficiently it had strengthened her.
• Oscar reached the eightieth step before being flung down, and Lin Feng let him fall, joking that repeated falls might help him temper his body into godhood.
• Lin Feng began climbing the jade steps as Tang San joined him in a competitive attempt to keep pace.
• Lin Feng passed two hundred steps with ease while Tang San struggled at eighty, and the Sea God's Light began penetrating Lin Feng's body to refine him from within.

Lin Feng and Qian Renxue climbed the Sea God’s Light, then used the Holy Grail and Tyrant’s Armor to turn its pressure into an intensive body-tempering method. They rested together on the stairs, holding hands as the onlookers watched from below.

• Tang San reached the hundredth step but was thrown back when he tried to climb one step farther, while Lin Feng continued upward without using his martial soul.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue reached the three hundred and thirty-third step, where Lin Feng said the Sea God’s Light could temper his body in a way the Yellow Springs could not.
• Lin Feng climbed to the seven hundred and seventy-seventh step and stopped when the pressure became too great to endure without Soul Power; Qian Renxue said her limit was probably above nine hundred steps.
• Lin Feng equipped the Holy Grail and Tyrant’s Armor and used their recovery effects to repeatedly repair the damage caused by the Sea God’s Light, increasing the speed of his body tempering.
• Qian Renxue equipped the same Godly Gear and sat beside Lin Feng, who took her hand despite her protests about the people watching below.

Lin Feng showed the others how to use Tyrant's Armor and the Holy Grail to grow stronger on Sea God's stairs, while Tang San struggled to keep pace and accused them of cheating. After Bo Saixi refused to intervene, Tang San chose to continue climbing alone as Lin Feng rested beside Qian Renxue.

• Tang Chen and Bo Saixi watched Lin Feng and Tang San from the foot of Sea God Mountain, and Tang Chen admitted he could not protect Tang San from Lin Feng's strength.
• Lin Feng explained how Tyrant's Armor and the Holy Grail could repeatedly restore their wearers during Sea God's Light, prompting the others to cultivate on the jade stairs.
• Tang San struggled to improve his climbing record while Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and the others advanced to higher steps.
• Tang San accused the others of breaking the rules, but Bo Saixi said the trials did not forbid their methods and admitted she could not defeat those without Divine Seals.
• Tang San rejected the idea of accepting help, charged up the stairs again, and resolved to continue by his own effort.
• Lin Feng watched Tang San briefly, then rested his head on Qian Renxue's lap as the others continued growing stronger.

The Sea God tried to help Tang San climb Sea God Mountain, but the Asura God stopped him from interfering. After a month of training, Lin Feng reached a Demigod Physique and Qian Renxue broke through to level ninety-seven; Lin Feng tried to bargain with Bo Saixi for a look inside the Sea God Temple, but Qian Renxue dragged him away to hunt a soul beast.

• The Sea God prepared to aid Tang San, but the Asura God appeared and forbade him from interfering in the lower realm.
• The Sea God secretly sent a pale-blue orb of light toward the lower realm.
• After thirty days on the thousandth jade step, Lin Feng completed his Demigod Physique and judged his mortal body to have reached its limit.
• Qian Renxue broke through to level ninety-seven, while Tang San watched her from the one-hundred-and-fiftieth step.
• Lin Feng asked Bo Saixi to let him enter the Sea God Temple and offered her twenty-four hours of Tang Chen's company, making her hesitate.
• Qian Renxue dragged Lin Feng away to hunt a soul beast, leaving Bo Saixi to regret missing her chance to agree.

Lin Feng and Qian Renxue reached the Demon Whale Sea, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed their godhood inheritances and planned to devour them. After Lin Feng bought powerful gear and buffs, he plunged into the sea and sent the whale crashing into the trench with one punch.

• Qian Renxue and Lin Feng flew across the ocean until they reached the dark, lifeless Demon Whale Sea.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed their godhood inheritances and decided to devour them to advance toward godhood.
• Lin Feng bought Smite, jungle blades, gear, and buffs, causing his strength and aura to surge.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King halted his ascent in fear of the Dragon King pressures emanating from Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue plunged into the sea, and Lin Feng challenged the whale with his bare fists.
• Lin Feng's punch overwhelmed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's tail and sent the whale crashing into the trench.

Lin Feng overwhelmed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with his physical strength, then switched to magic and struck it with Divine Skill, Flame Fist. The whale king crashed into the seafloor, leaving the fight's outcome unresolved.

• Lin Feng shrugged off the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's sonic attack and repeatedly battered it with his fists.
• Bo Saixi arrived above the sea and was stunned to sense Lin Feng crushing the whale king.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King fled, but Lin Feng replaced his physical Godly Gear items with magic items and set the abyss ablaze.
• Lin Feng slowed the fleeing whale king with magical effects and pursued it with Divine Skill, Flame Fist.
• The whale king's water shield evaporated, and Lin Feng's fire fist slammed it into the seafloor, cracking the seabed for miles.

Lin Feng defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with amplified fire and ice before killing it with Smite as it tried to self-destruct. He collected its soul ring, soul bone, Whale Pearl, and whale brain, then explained the brain’s benefits to Qian Renxue.

• Lin Feng burned and froze the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, leaving it trapped and helpless while Bo Saixi and Qian Renxue watched.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King burned its life essence and tried to self-destruct, but Lin Feng used Smite twice to stun it and kill it before it could explode.
• Lin Feng drew the beast’s soul into the Soulstealer Book and its flesh and blood into the Sword of the Occult as its soul ring and treasures emerged.
• Lin Feng collected the Nine Hundred Ninety Thousand Year torso bone, Whale Pearl, and golden substance, which he identified to Qian Renxue as whale brain that nourished the soul and tempered the body.

Lin Feng passed Asura's Sixth Trial and absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring while Qian Renxue watched over him. Bo Saixi asked to see Tang Chen, but declined Qian Renxue's condition that Sea God Island come under the Angel's wings.

• The Asura God raised Lin Feng's soul ring ages by ten thousand years and increased his Asura Affinity, despite Lin Feng asking him to wait until after the absorption.
• Lin Feng froze the sea to create a platform, equipped restorative Godly Gear, and began absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's crimson-gold soul ring.
• The whale king's remnant soul attacked Lin Feng in his sea of consciousness, but Lin Feng trapped it in a sea of blood and killing intent.
• Bo Saixi arrived and asked Qian Renxue to summon Tang Chen; Qian Renxue offered to do so if Sea God Island came under the Angel's wings.
• Bo Saixi refused to surrender Sea God Island, citing her loyalty to the Sea God, and Qian Renxue remained unangered.

Qian Renxue secured Bo Saixi’s agreement to let Spirit Hall Empire’s young soul masters train near the Sea God’s Light and appointed her Ocean Elder, then summoned Tang Chen so the pair could reunite. Three days later, Lin Feng absorbed his ninth soul ring, reached Level 96, and discovered Auxiliary Godly Gear that granted slow passive Soul Power growth but substantial gold income.

• Qian Renxue asked Bo Saixi to open the area near the Sea God’s Light to the Empire’s young soul masters, and Bo Saixi agreed without consulting the Sea God.
• Qian Renxue appointed Bo Saixi the Empire’s Ocean Elder, and Bo Saixi accepted the position.
• Qian Renxue used Nether Descent to summon Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi embraced him.
• Three days later, Lin Feng absorbed his crimson-gold soul ring, reached Level 96, and gained Auxiliary Godly Gear as his ninth soul skill.
• Lin Feng examined Guardian Spring and found that it offered only slow Soul Power growth but generated 7,200 Gold Soul Coins per hour.

Lin Feng explained that his Auxiliary Godly Gear could steadily strengthen every soul master loyal to the Spirit Hall Empire, and Qian Renxue devised a plan to use its income for widespread Bloodline Ascension. Lin Feng warned that the resulting surge in soul masters could exhaust soul beasts, leaving the empire to seek ways to create soul rings.

• Lin Feng held Qian Renxue close as he explained how his Auxiliary Godly Gear would passively increase Soul Power across the empire.
• Qian Renxue proposed using Mall Gold Coins and Bloodline Ascension to let commoners gain martial souls and compete for better bloodlines through service and achievement.
• Lin Feng pointed out that a rapid increase in soul masters would create a severe shortage of soul beasts and soul rings.
• Lin Feng suggested upgrading the Soulstealer Book and Soulstealer Sword to enable Soul Ring Reforging, with God-Bestowed Soul Rings as a possible alternative.

Lin Feng unlocked and equipped all eight Auxiliary Godly Gear pieces, then learned the requirements of the Asura Seven Trials. He tested the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King Bloodline, discovered it could not fuse with his Blessing Gold Pouch, and instead used its Martial Soul Possession to transform into a giant whale and explore the sea.

• Lin Feng unlocked all eight Auxiliary Godly Gear pieces and told Qian Renxue he would provide methods while leaving the rest to her.
• Lin Feng sent Tang Chen back to his little black room after arguing over Tang Chen’s payment for delivering a letter, and Qian Renxue explained Bo Saixi’s bargain to meet him.
• Lin Feng learned that the Asura Seven Trials required him to reach level ninety-nine and gather six soul bones, then set the trial aside.
• Lin Feng failed to fuse the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King Bloodline with his Blessing Gold Pouch and activated Martial Soul Possession instead.
• Lin Feng gained whale-like strength and a golden pupil, broke through the ice, and transformed into a giant whale that moved through the sea with ease.

Lin Feng and Qian Renxue raced through the sea in Deep Sea Demonic Whale King form, killing countless sea Spirit Beasts and collecting their souls and Bloodlines. They returned to Sea God Island, where Ning Fengzhi confronted Qian Renxue about the mounting government work awaiting her in Heaven Dou City.

• Qian Renxue took on the Bloodline of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, gained control over the sea, and rode on Lin Feng as he equipped two Boots of Swiftness.
• Lin Feng accidentally killed an Evil Spirit Orca, then sped through the ocean, knocking countless sea Spirit Beasts into the air and gathering their souls and Bloodlines.
• Lin Feng collected one hundred thousand souls and flesh for his Godly Gear, leaving nine hundred thousand still to gather, and noticed his strength weaken sharply outside the sea.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue reached Sea God Mountain, where they saw Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing had progressed in their climbing.
• Ning Fengzhi greeted Qian Renxue and Lin Feng, then urged Qian Renxue to return to Heaven Dou City because cabinet affairs and memorials had piled up.
• Qian Renxue acknowledged the work, while Lin Feng discreetly stepped behind her to avoid being involved.

Lin Feng used Bloodline Ascension to transform Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into an Eight-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, breaking his decade-long cultivation bottleneck and making him a Soul Douluo. Ning Fengzhi pledged himself to Qian Renxue and the empire, and Qian Renxue tasked him with discussing Lin Feng’s talent-improvement plan with the cabinet.

• Ning Fengzhi paid five hundred million Gold Soul Coins as the first installment for the Aromatic Silk Beauty and summoned his Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda at Lin Feng’s request.
• Lin Feng rejected the costly pairing with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and chose the more affordable Evil-Eyed White Tiger for Ning Fengzhi’s Bloodline Ascension.
• The ascension transformed Ning Fengzhi’s martial soul into an Eight-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, allowing his accumulated cultivation to break through to level eighty and the Soul Douluo realm.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Qian Renxue and Lin Feng, pledging his loyalty to the empress and the empire.
• Qian Renxue explained the empire’s plan to use Lin Feng’s Bloodline Ascension to improve citizens’ martial soul talents and told Ning Fengzhi to consult the cabinet about a solution.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to help plan an empire-wide effort to raise everyone’s martial soul talent and research Artificial Soul Rings. Lin Feng raised Zhu Zhuqing’s talent to God Rank, then encountered Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, and Liu Erlong on Sea God Island.

• Qian Renxue and Lin Feng told Ning Fengzhi that the empire should raise the talent of every citizen and research Artificial Soul Rings alongside the plan.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to devise a careful plan and ensure the empire avoided future problems.
• Lin Feng used the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s bloodline to perform a Bloodline Ascension on Zhu Zhuqing, raising her martial soul talent to God Rank and giving her control over water.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Lin Feng with a kiss on the cheek, while Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong joked about wanting Lin Feng’s attention.
• Lin Feng spotted Yu Xiaogang arriving on Sea God Island with Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong, and Qian Renxue reacted with a frown.

Lin Feng exposed Yu Xiaogang’s possession of restricted Godly Gear Coins, but Bibi Dong claimed she had authorized them for research. Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang’s theories, and Lin Feng challenged him to consider whether his own powerful bloodline—not those theories—had let him survive his Soul Rings.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to leave after seeing Lin Feng, but Lin Feng stopped him and summoned more than a hundred Godly Gear Coins from Yu Xiaogang’s Storage Soul Tool.
• Yan and Xie Yue suspected a traitor in the Judgment Hall, while Ning Fengzhi warned that unauthorized possession of the coins could be treason.
• Bibi Dong claimed she had given Yu Xiaogang the coins for research, and Yu Xiaogang regained his confidence.
• Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang by citing his Soul Rings and their survival limits as proof of the master’s theories.
• Lin Feng argued that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass bloodline, rather than Yu Xiaogang’s theories, explained his resilience, and Tang San dismissed the point.

Lin Feng challenged Tang San’s beliefs about his Blue Silver Grass and revealed his overwhelming Soul Ring configuration, leaving Tang San questioning his path and his ability to catch up. Lin Feng left Sea God Mountain with Qian Renxue, while Tang San and Bibi Dong resolved to focus on his Sea God trial and avoid confronting him.

• Lin Feng argued that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass should follow the Way of Life and that his teacher’s advice to absorb beast Soul Rings had sent him down the wrong path.
• Tang San began doubting his cultivation choices, but Yu Xiaogang urged him to trust his theories; Lin Feng then displayed five black, three red, and one crimson-gold Soul Ring.
• Lin Feng warned Bibi Dong not to let anyone touch his Godly Gear Coin and threatened to use the Soulstealer Book against her and the others.
• Qian Renxue took Lin Feng back to the imperial capital and told Zhu Zhuqing to continue her God Trial, while Tang San wondered whether Lin Feng could restore his mother.
• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to rely on his Twin Martial Souls, but Bibi Dong advised him to lie low and complete the Sea God God Trial before confronting Lin Feng.

Ning Fengzhi told Tang San that Lin Feng and Qian Renxue planned to raise everyone’s martial soul talent, but Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong dismissed the plan as a lie. Hu Liena reunited with Bibi Dong, who ordered her to study under Yu Xiaogang, and Hu Liena resisted.

• Ning Fengzhi showed Tang San his Eight-Treasure Glazed White Tiger Pagoda and said the empire planned to use Bloodline Ascension to let everyone become a soul master.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang San not to oppose the empire, then left with Lin Feng and Qian Renxue for the imperial capital.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong claimed the plan to raise everyone’s talent was an empty promise, and Tang San concluded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would not help them.
• Hu Liena greeted Bibi Dong and reluctantly called Yu Xiaogang Grandmaster, while privately feeling disgusted by him.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to follow Yu Xiaogang’s guidance on Sea God Island, but Hu Liena politely refused and Yu Xiaogang rebuked her.

Lin Feng absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul bone, reached level ninety-seven, and prepared a plan with Qian Renxue to distribute Soulstealer Books and Swords of the Occult. He successfully sealed a Stone Sea Turtle bloodline into a coin, but its attempted use on Qian Renxue failed because her bloodline was already too high.

• Bibi Dong pressured Hu Liena to obey her, and Hu Liena returned to cultivation feeling dejected.
• Lin Feng absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul bone, advanced to level ninety-seven, and gained three soul skills along with powerful physical enhancements.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue planned to sell ten-stack Soulstealer Books and Swords of the Occult cheaply to help soul masters hunt soul beasts with fewer casualties.
• Lin Feng produced hundreds of Soulstealer Book coins and began making more after recovering his Soul Power.
• Lin Feng sealed a Stone Sea Turtle bloodline into a Sword of the Occult coin, but the coin could not ascend Qian Renxue because her bloodline was too high.

Lin Feng tested Bloodline Ascension’s costs and authorization, then planned an Ascension Hall to regulate its use. Dugu Bo arrived at the imperial palace, shocked by Lin Feng’s strength and asking whether he had reached Title Douluo.

• Lin Feng had Qian Renxue use a Stone Sea Turtle bloodline coin, but she received the message that the bloodline was too high to ascend.
• Lin Feng used a ten-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca bloodline coin on a Palace Knight and discovered the ascension cost five slaughter stacks and one thousand Mall Gold Coins.
• Qian Renxue used an Evil-Eyed White Tiger bloodline coin on another Palace Knight, transforming his martial soul into a Platinum Rhino and deducting two thousand Mall Gold Coins and ten slaughter stacks from Lin Feng’s account.
• Lin Feng and Qian Renxue decided to establish an Ascension Hall to store bloodline coins and supervise candidates, with hundred-year soul beasts considered for initial martial soul enhancements.
• A Palace Knight announced Dugu Bo’s arrival, and Dugu Bo entered, failed to discern Lin Feng’s cultivation, and asked whether he had become a Title Douluo.