Recaps

Chen Ming suspected that gathering multiple Hearts of the Azure Sea underwater could create a powerful wave to carry him skyward, so he searched the deep sea while the others evacuated the area. He collected a second Heart of the Azure Sea and rubbed the two together, leaving the result unknown.

• Chen Ming decided to gather multiple Hearts of the Azure Sea before claiming them so their combined force might propel him upward.
• Chen Ming asked Sun Yang to move the ships and warn everyone to leave the area, then plunged into a death vortex using a Tide Pearl.
• Sun Yang led the evacuation as ships across the Eastern Sea Region left the waters, while a Nether Sea Race Class-Changer reported their movements to the race’s SSS-Rank members.
• Chen Ming searched the deep sea for more Hearts of the Azure Sea, relying on his unaffected Eternal Mental Power to detect another undercurrent.
• Chen Ming grabbed a second Heart of the Azure Sea and rubbed it together with the first in his hands.

Chen Ming gathered the Hearts of the Azure Sea, while three Nether Sea Race SSS-Rank Class-Changers copied his discovery and raced to trigger the hidden stage. When the undercurrents erupted, Chen Ming was blasted upward atop a colossal wave.

• Chen Ming confirmed that converging two undercurrents enlarged the Death Vortex and searched the deep sea for more Hearts of the Azure Sea.
• After noticing the expanding vortex, an SSS-Rank Class-Changer of the Nether Sea Race deduced the trigger condition, and three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers dove down to compete with Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming found fifteen linked Hearts of the Azure Sea and continued searching, while three enormous vortices formed in the northern sea as the Nether Sea Race followed his lead.
• Class Changers across the four seas stopped their challenges to watch as Chen Ming collected the twentieth Heart of the Azure Sea and the undercurrents erupted.
• The eastern vortex collapsed and sent a vast waterspout and tidal wave skyward, with Chen Ming standing at the wave’s crest.

Chen Ming and three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers ascended through Dragon Draws Clouds into the hidden stage, the Sky Illusion Sea. The Nether Sea Race members confronted Chen Ming, but an Azure Sea Spirit Beast appeared before they could fight.

• Chen Ming rose through Dragon Draws Clouds as three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers ascended over the northern waters and claimed they would deal with him in the hidden stage.
• Chen Ming entered the clouds and discovered a vast sea floating above the sky, while people below identified it as the Sky Illusion Sea.
• Chen Ming encountered the three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers, who demanded that he surrender or be beaten down.
• An Azure Sea Spirit Beast emerged from the waves, and Chen Ming saw that it could yield a single Eternal Attribute when killed.

Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast fought off three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers in the Phantom Sea, killing two and driving the last one to flee. The Nether Sea Race recovered the wounded fighters below as the crowd waited for the real battle to begin.

• Chen Ming and the three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers inspected the Eternal Beast's rewards, and the Nether Sea Race members grew resentful when they realized Chen Ming had already claimed two rewards.
• The three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers attacked Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast, but Chen Ming and the beast turned on them together.
• Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast struck down two attackers, killing them instantly.
• The last Nether Sea Race Class-Changer fled by leaping from the Phantom Sea, while onlookers mocked the trio.
• The Nether Sea Race retrieved the two injured fighters, and spectators turned their attention back to the Phantom Sea.

Chen Ming fought the level 30 Azure Sea Spirit Beast in the Phantom Sea and defeated it with Shadow Explosion. The battle revealed the hidden stage’s formidable difficulty to the watching Class Changers, while Chen Ming gained 2% Eternal Agility.

• Chen Ming split the Azure Sea Spirit Beast’s waterspout with one slash, then found that its rippling defenses reduced his damage to 3,000.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless attacked the Azure Sea Spirit Beast as it fought with swift, precise strikes and unusual evasion.
• Class Changers from the four seas watched the battle and used the Nether Sea Race’s earlier defeat to understand the hidden stage’s difficulty.
• Alliance Class Changers turned their attention back to gathering the Heart of the Azure Sea for their equipment quest.
• Chen Ming unleashed Shadow Explosion, killing the Azure Sea Spirit Beast and gaining 2% Eternal Agility.

Chen Ming killed the Azure Sea Spirit Beast, gained eternal agility, and discovered it let him briefly phase and greatly boost his speed. He upgraded his armor to epic grade and returned from the challenge, while others looked forward to activating equipment resonance with him.

• Chen Ming's Shadow Explosion reduced the Azure Sea Spirit Beast to 8% health, triggering his execution mechanic and killing it; he gained eternal agility and leveled up to 28.
• Chen Ming tested eternal agility and found he could spend its points for brief invulnerability and extreme boosts to attack speed, movement speed, and perception, with Eternity Recovery restoring the points after battle.
• Chen Ming considered whether eternal attributes belonged to a higher domain than ordinary attributes and skills, then used Eternity Recovery to repair damage from the fight.
• Chen Ming spent ten Hearts of the Azure Sea to fully unlock his Golden Scale Armor, upgraded it to epic grade, and equipped it.
• Chen Ming descended from the Phantom Sea in his Golden Scale Armor, and the people below anticipated using equipment resonance with him once they obtained epic-grade gear.

The third day's challenge ended with Chen Ming in first place and most of the Alliance and Elf Race teams upgrading their equipment to epic grade. On the fourth morning, the Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge began, and Chen Ming searched for its hidden stage as he prepared to upgrade his armor to legendary grade.

• The Nether Sea Race's three SSS-Rank leaders returned in disgrace, and one discovered that Chen Ming had inflicted severe permanent damage on his constitution.
• The third day's challenge ended with 160 of the Alliance and Elf Race's 200 participants upgrading their equipment to epic grade, while Chen Ming placed first in 2.5 hours and earned 50 Hearts of the Azure Sea.
• Gu Feng asked the seven team members who had failed the challenge whether they would leave, and they chose to stay on the island until the next day.
• Gu Feng and Qingmu Ya continued managing the Alliance and Elf Race teams as the remaining SSS-Rank Class Changers set their sights on legendary-grade equipment.
• The fourth day's Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge began, and Chen Ming used eternal mental power to search for its hidden stage and viewed the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor's 0% unlock progress.

Chen Ming examined the Legendary-grade Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor as the fourth-day challenge began: Class Changers had to use Hearts of the Azure Sea to lure golden carp through Dragon Gates and hunt the transformed Dragon Carp. He watched Lu Shan successfully lure a carp through a gate, where it transformed into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp, while wondering how the challenge would yield the day's Eternal reward.

• Chen Ming examined the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor and concluded that today's Eternal reward would have to come from the regular challenge rather than a hidden stage.
• Golden koi filled the sky, and four Dragon Gates appeared where the sea regions met, opening connections between them.
• Chen Ming joined the Class Changers at a Dragon Gate between the Eastern and Northern Sea Regions to watch the challenge.
• Lu Shan placed a Heart of the Azure Sea beneath the Dragon Gate and lured a golden carp toward it.
• The golden carp leaped through the Dragon Gate and transformed into a level 30 Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp.

Lu Shan and Su Lingyue each watched a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp escape after evolving, leaving the challengers unsure how to catch one. Chen Ming considered Qing Muyu’s suggestion to mark a Dragon Carp with mental power, and the crowd saw him approach the Dragon Gate.

• Lu Shan caught a golden carp that evolved into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp, but it reverted to an ordinary golden carp and vanished into the school of fish.
• Chen Ming realized the Dragon Carp carried a faint trace of Eternal Grade energy, while Qing Muyu suggested using a mental imprint to track it.
• Gu Feng and Su Lingyue tried the challenge; Gu Feng’s carp failed to leap through the Dragon Gate, while Su Lingyue’s evolved into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp.
• Su Lingyue trapped the Dragon Carp with Thousand Boats, Myriad Shadows, but it slipped through the jade boats, changed back into a golden carp, and disappeared.
• The crowd saw Chen Ming approach beneath the Dragon Gate and hoped he would succeed.

Chen Ming discovered that a mental imprint let him track a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp after it crossed the Dragon Gate, and he used an Eternal Mental Imprint to preserve the mark. He then fed the carp again, prompting it to cross the gate a second time and transform further.

• Chen Ming fed a Golden Carp the Heart of the Azure Sea and let the newly transformed Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp swim away, while secretly tracking it with a mental mark.
• Qing Muya identified the mental mark as the reason Chen Ming had let the dragon carp go, and Chen Ming agreed that its return would confirm their theory.
• After the dragon carp returned, Chen Ming replaced his temporary mark with an Eternal Mental Imprint that cost 10 points of Eternal Mental Power.
• Chen Ming fed the marked dragon carp another Heart of the Azure Sea, and it crossed the Dragon Gate for a second time.
• The Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp transformed again, gaining a second golden scale on its back.

Class-Changers began attempting the Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge after learning to use mental power marks, while Chen Ming continued building up his Dragon Carp’s golden scales. Gu Feng tested his strength and judged Chen Ming’s limits to be tied to the dungeon’s, as Chen Ming’s carp emerged with five golden scales and increasingly dragon-like features.

• Class-Changers learned that mental power marks could guide repeated Dragon Gate leaps and began trying the challenge.
• Chen Ming kept stacking the prize pool instead of fighting his Dragon Carp, whose mark cost rose to 20 points.
• Gu Feng fought a returning Dragon Carp with one golden scale, severed part of its tail, then withdrew to assess its strength.
• Gu Feng told Su Lingyue that he could likely handle three golden scales and might attempt four, while marking scales consumed considerable mental energy.
• Gu Feng said Chen Ming’s limit rose and fell with the dungeon’s limit.
• A five-golden-scale Dragon Carp emerged from the Dragon Gate, displaying a long golden body, brow protrusions, and a dragon pattern.

Chen Ming took his five-golden-scaled Dragon Carp to the Northwest Dragon Gate after realizing the other gates might allow greater enhancement. The Nether Sea Race feared he had come for revenge, but he claimed their gate to attempt the next transformation, leaving them stunned as the carp gained a sixth golden scale.

• Chen Ming learned that the East Sea Region's Dragon Gate had reached its five-scale limit and suspected the other gates could offer further enhancements.
• Chen Ming traveled through the North Sea Region toward the Northwest Dragon Gate, alarming the Nether Sea Race, who thought he had come to attack them.
• Chen Ming ordered the Nether Sea Race Class Changers to clear the Northwest Dragon Gate area, and they reluctantly made way for him.
• Chen Ming began the Dragon Carp's sixth leap through the Northwest Dragon Gate, and the Nether Sea Race watched in disbelief as six golden scales appeared.

Chen Ming raised his Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp through the Dragon Gates in the North, Southwest, and Southeast Sea Regions until it transformed into a Golden Scale Flood Dragon. The four Dragon Gates then formed a battle platform, where the flood dragon attacked Chen Ming, who remained unharmed.

• Chen Ming left the Northwest Dragon Gate after filling its Golden Scale Blessing, then found the Holy See Alliance’s Southwest Sea Region strangely deserted and its Class Changers puppet-like.
• Chen Ming used fifty Hearts of the Azure Sea to bring his Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp to nineteen golden scales before its twentieth leap at the Southeast Dragon Gate.
• The carp successfully crossed the Dragon Gate and transformed into a level 30 Golden Scale Flood Dragon with four percent Eternal Attributes.
• The four Dragon Gates moved together to form a battle platform, and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon attacked Chen Ming with its tail and golden dragon breath.
• Chen Ming stood unscathed after the attack, taking only one point of damage.

Chen Ming and Shadowless tested their Eternal Agility against the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, unleashing a devastating burst of attacks before the combatants vanished from sight. The battle continued amid unseen clashes, leaving the watching Class Changers baffled.

• Chen Ming endured the Golden Scale Flood Dragon’s attacks while his Shield of Reversal reflected damage back at it.
• Chen Ming summoned Shadowless, who shared his abilities and Eternal Attributes.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless used Eternal Agility to strike the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, inflicting massive damage.
• The Golden Scale Flood Dragon activated its own Eternal Agility, and Chen Ming matched it.
• Chen Ming, Shadowless, and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon disappeared from the platform as their clash continued unseen.

Chen Ming and Shadowless overwhelmed the Golden Scale Flood Dragon in a rapid exchange, leaving the beast badly wounded while Chen Ming remained nearly unharmed. As the flood dragon launched a powerful water attack, Chen Ming stood firm and Shadowless moved in to finish the battle.

• Qing Muya explained that Chen Ming and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon were moving too fast for the crowd to see, and observers using spiritual power saw countless afterimages across the platform.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless reappeared, with the Golden Scale Flood Dragon bloodied and Chen Ming still standing unscathed, though he had lost 900 Constitution.
• The Golden Scale Flood Dragon eyed Shadowless warily and summoned a massive water dragon that charged toward Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming put away his sword and stood his ground as the water dragon broke apart against him, causing only one point of damage and adding 18,400 shield.
• Shadowless used the opening to reach the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, ready to end the battle.

Chen Ming killed the Golden Scale Flood Dragon with Shadowless’s Eternal Agility and used its twenty golden scales to fully upgrade his Golden Scale Armor into Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor. As the Dragon Gate Battle Platform collapsed, he stored the flood dragon’s corpse and began a Bone Demon Transformation Ritual.

• Chen Ming used Shadowless in its Eternity-Level State to trigger execution and instantly kill the Golden Scale Flood Dragon.
• The kill rewarded Chen Ming with Eternal Attributes and twenty golden scales, while spectators wondered how the flood dragon had died.
• The golden scales empowered Chen Ming’s Golden Scale Armor to 100%, transforming it into Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor with the Phantom Sea Rising Tide skill.
• Chen Ming examined the skill’s domain and True Shield effects and noted that their limits would be activated during later challenges.
• The Dragon Gate Battle Platform split back into four Dragon Gates, and Chen Ming stored the flood dragon’s corpse in the Bone Tower Space to begin a Bone Demon Transformation Ritual.

Chen Ming discovered that the Golden Scale Flood Dragon retained its name and abilities after becoming a Bone Demon, apparently because of its Eternal Attribute. After the day's Dragon Gate challenges, he revealed that the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor's abilities had no upper limit with his twenty golden scales.

• Chen Ming transformed the Golden Scale Flood Dragon into a Bone Demon and found that it had kept its former skills.
• Chen Ming concluded that the Eternal Attribute let the flood dragon retain its abilities after death and decided not to let future Eternal exotic beasts escape.
• Chen Ming upgraded the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor's Constitution Rune Stone, raising his Constitution to 38,901 out of 39,800.
• After night fell, the Class-Changers discussed the limits of their Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor abilities, and Gu Feng compared the ranges granted by different numbers of golden scales.
• Chen Ming told the gathered Class-Changers that his armor's ability values, with twenty golden scales, had no upper limit.

Chen Ming earned twenty golden scales on the fourth day, while most participants exited the Illusion Sea Temple and reported the results to the Alliance. The remaining teams began the fifth-day challenge, Guiding Sky Sea, as the clouds parted to reveal the Phantom Sea above them.

• Chen Ming learned that his ability had no upper limit and had become a growth-type skill, then ranked first on Day Four while Gu Feng ranked second.
• Participants without Legendary-grade equipment exited the dungeon, leaving Chen Ming and the other remaining teams behind.
• Xia Chuan, Pei Jiuge, and the inspectors learned that no one had died, thirteen people had obtained Legendary-grade equipment, and Chen Ming had earned twenty golden scales.
• Xia Chuan and Pei Jiuge warned that the dungeon's seventh day was exceptionally dangerous and hoped Chen Ming would clear it.
• The remaining teams began Day Five, Guiding Sky Sea, and saw the clouds part to reveal the vast Phantom Sea hanging above the Endless Sea.

Chen Ming and twelve other Class-Changers began the fifth-day challenge, absorbing streams of the Illusion Sea to expand their domains. Chen Ming's equipment showed an unlimited upper limit, and after all thirteen absorbed their first meter, the steps began rising for another round.

• The Alliance and Elf Race teams reached the Dragon Gate platform while the Nether Sea and Black Dwarf factions held back, wary of Chen Ming.
• Thirteen Class-Changers with legendary equipment stepped onto the platform's stairs, where their Illusion Sea limits appeared; Chen Ming's read [Unlimited].
• The stairs rose one meter, and each Class-Changer absorbed a stream of water from the Illusion Sea, gaining a domain with a one-meter range.
• The stairs rose another meter, and Chen Ming suspected the challenge's rules might resemble the Bone Burial Ground.

Chen Ming and the other Class-Changers climbed the Dragon Gate platform to absorb the Illusion Sea and awaken their domains. As the stages grew more difficult, most fell away, while Chen Ming’s Absolute Defense let him keep absorbing the currents with little effort.

• The first-stage Class-Changers climbed to 10 meters, but only one of the five with a single golden scale reached the limit; the others fell into the sea.
• The second stage began with eight remaining Class-Changers, and the SS-Rank contender fell at 19 meters while Qin Zhixue lasted to 25 meters.
• At 30 meters, only Chen Ming and five SSS-Rank Class-Changers remained as the others tested their newly awakened Illusion Sea Domains.
• The steps rose six meters, and Su Lingyue used her flying boats to ease the pressure while Gu Feng divided his water column with Sword Qi.
• Chen Ming stood still as the currents flowed into his Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor, taking only one point of damage.

Chen Ming and Gu Feng climbed the Phantom Sea steps, while Gu Feng broke through his limits to reach one hundred meters and Chen Ming soared past him. With everyone else back on the sea’s surface, Chen Ming faced the Illusion Sea alone as the crowd placed bets on how high he would climb.

• Qing Yao, Su Lingyue, Qing Muya, and Qing Muyu reached sixty meters before their steps descended.
• Gu Feng fought through the Phantom Sea waterfalls and used the Eighth Sword to reach one hundred meters.
• Chen Ming absorbed a massive wave and climbed to two hundred meters, leaving Gu Feng stunned at the gap between them.
• Gu Feng returned to the sea’s surface, leaving Chen Ming alone on the steps as the crowd bet on his maximum height.
• A giant wave struck Chen Ming, and the Illusion Sea’s pressure weighed heavily on him.

Chen Ming’s Golden Scale Armor absorbed the Phantom Sea as he rose through increasingly powerful tides, leaving everyone below stunned by his progress. After reaching ten thousand meters, he broke into the true Phantom Sea, where the golden staircase shattered and no further stage appeared.

• Chen Ming climbed past one thousand meters without stopping, while the onlookers wondered whether he could reach ten thousand.
• The Phantom Sea’s thousand-meter tide swallowed Chen Ming, but he emerged and absorbed it into his Golden Scale Armor, reaching two thousand meters.
• Chen Ming continued rising through successive tides, passing three thousand meters and noticing that the Phantom Sea sky seemed closer and clearer.
• The golden steps carried Chen Ming past nine thousand meters as he approached the Phantom Sea from just one thousand meters away.
• Chen Ming broke through ten thousand meters and plunged into the true Phantom Sea, shattering the golden staircase beneath him.

Chen Ming pushed beyond the Phantom Sea dungeon’s limits and began absorbing the entire Sky Illusion Sea into his Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor, enduring constant damage with his health, shields, and recovery. The sea finally vanished into the golden light, leaving the real, fog-shrouded sky exposed.

• Chen Ming drew in the Phantom Sea beyond the dungeon’s rules and endured its continuous damage while his armor’s domain rapidly expanded.
• Alliance members, elves, Nether Sea Race members, and others watched the sky collapse inward around Chen Ming.
• The Sky Illusion Sea’s boundary appeared at the horizon and rapidly contracted toward him.
• The illusion sea briefly stalled near its final patch, alarming the onlookers.
• Chen Ming absorbed the last of the illusion sea, and the sky fell silent.

Chen Ming absorbed the entire Illusion Sea into his Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor, leaving the Nether Sea Race and others unable to activate their legendary equipment skills. He then released the sea as a domain, discovered it restored his spatial abilities, and returned safely to the sea’s surface as the domain flowed back into his armor.

• Chen Ming absorbed the entire Phantom Sea, losing 1,800 health as the pressure and distorted vacuum disappeared.
• The Alliance and Elf Race members celebrated the spectacle, while the Nether Sea Race and others realized they had no Illusion Sea left to activate their legendary equipment skills.
• Chen Ming released the Illusion Sea from his Golden Scale Armor and discovered that its domain let him use his Spatial Domain abilities again.
• Chen Ming descended within the Illusion Sea Domain, which spread across the sky and connected with the Endless Sea.
• Chen Ming reached the sea’s surface as the Illusion Sea Domain shrank and poured back into his Golden Scale Armor.

Chen Ming absorbed the Illusion Sea into his domain, leaving the Nether Sea Race and Black Dwarf Race with nothing and prompting others to compare his Legendary equipment skill to Mythical Grade power. He could not find any trace of Eternal Attributes, and the chapter ended as the Temple announced Day Six’s Phantom Sea Beast Tide.

• Chen Ming told the gathered Class Changers that his Illusion Sea Domain covered a few million in range and could expand further, while Qing Muya wondered whether his equipment skill rivaled Mythical Grade.
• Chen Ming and his companions returned to East Region Sea Island as the Nether Sea Race and Black Dwarf Race rushed to the Dragon Gate platform and found the Illusion Sea gone.
• Chen Ming searched for Eternal Attributes with his Eternal Mental Power but found no clues, despite probing with his expanded domain.
• The Day Five rankings placed Chen Ming first with an unknown domain range, while seven other challengers tied for fourteenth with zero range.
• The next morning, the Temple announced Day Six’s Phantom Sea Beast Tide as an Endless Day.