Chapter Summaries

Reports of Su Mo Academy’s Secrecy Contract spread across the continent, forcing sects to reconsider whether to send students there. On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi reviewed Su Mo’s achievements and wondered what kind of person he was.

• News spread that students had to sign a Secrecy Contract to learn Su Mo Academy’s Self-Created Soul Skills and could not teach them to others.
• Bibi Dong reconsidered sending gifted students to the academy but still saw value in their studying there.
• Huyan Zhen decided the Elephant Armor Sect would send disciples because their personal strength and victories would benefit the sect.
• Tang Xiao argued that Clear Sky Sect disciples could use the skills themselves after returning, and that preventing the skills from spreading benefited the sect.
• Bo Saixi read intelligence reports about Su Mo’s achievements over the past two years and wondered what kind of person he was.

Bo Saixi traveled from Sea God Island to the continent to ask Su Mo to create Self-Created Soul Skills for Sea Soul Masters. After failing to locate Tang Chen, she reached Su Mo Academy and made her request.

• Bo Saixi considered how Sea God Island needed powerful Soul Skills that could be used by its Sea Soul Masters.
• Bo Saixi searched the continent for Tang Chen but could not find him, though she sensed that he was still alive.
• Bo Saixi traveled to Seven Treasure City and arrived at Su Mo Academy, where Su Mo recognized her as the High Priestess of Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi asked Su Mo to tailor a set of Self-Created Soul Skills suitable for Sea Soul Masters to cultivate.

Su Mo agreed to visit Sea God Island after Bo Saixi invited him, then traveled with Xiao Wu to the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital to obtain the Sea God's Heart. He traded promises of Soul Skill sets for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and prepared to set out for the island.

• Su Mo agreed to go to Sea God Island after finishing some matters at the academy, and Bo Saixi thanked him.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu they would first obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then teleported with her to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Su Mo offered Xue Ye Self-Created Soul Skills for the imperial family and the empire's soldiers in exchange for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xue Ye accepted the offer, gave Su Mo the Sea God's Heart, and arranged for the crown prince to study under him.
• Su Mo promised to instruct the crown prince and teleported away with Xiao Wu, astonishing Xue Ye.

Su Mo failed to awaken the Sea God’s Heart for Xiao Wu and planned to pursue the Asura God’s inheritance for her instead. On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi told the Seven Sacred Pillar guardians that Su Mo had agreed to create Soul Skills for Sea Soul Masters, though Sea Dragon Douluo questioned whether he could adapt to their island’s conditions.

• Su Mo had Xiao Wu channel Soul Power into the Sea God’s Heart, but the ancient power neither accepted nor rejected her.
• Su Mo decided that Xiao Wu might obtain the Asura God’s inheritance by defeating Tang Chen and acquiring the Asura Blood Sword, with Bo Saixi’s help.
• Bo Saixi returned to Sea God Island and told the Seven Sacred Pillar guardians that she had invited Su Mo to create Soul Skills suited to Sea Soul Masters.
• The guardians expressed excitement about Su Mo’s visit, but Sea Dragon Douluo questioned whether Su Mo could design skills for Sea God Island without knowing its cultivation environment.

Su Mo arrived at Sea God Island with Xiao Wu and was welcomed by Bo Saixi and the seven Sacred Pillar Guardians. He sparred with Sea Horse Douluo to gather combat data, then stunned him by passing through a water prison in an intangible state.

• Su Mo and Xiao Wu arrived at Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi and the seven Sacred Pillar Guardians welcomed them.
• Sea Horse Douluo asked Su Mo to spar so he could experience Su Mo's self-created soul skills, and Su Mo accepted.
• Su Mo and Sea Horse Douluo flew out over the sea and began their duel.
• Su Mo used Teleportation to evade Sea Horse Douluo's powerful attacks, including a barrage of water columns.
• Sea Horse Douluo trapped Su Mo in a contracting water prison, but Su Mo passed through its walls and appeared outside, shocking Sea Horse Douluo with his intangibility.

Su Mo defeated Sea Horse Douluo with self-created sword skills, stunning the Sea God Island guardians. Sea Dragon Douluo then challenged Su Mo, and their battle began.

• Su Mo used Void to evade Sea Horse Douluo, then struck him with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and Seven Kills Thunder Arises, One Sword Shatters the Vast Sky.
• Su Mo unleashed Great Sumeru Slash, blasting Sea Horse Douluo away with a giant sword.
• Sea Horse Douluo admitted defeat and praised Su Mo's swordsmanship.
• Sea Witch Douluo and the other guardians reacted with amazement at Su Mo's self-created soul skills and strength.
• Sea Dragon Douluo challenged Su Mo to a match, and Su Mo accepted without waiting to recover.
• Sea Dragon Douluo activated Sea Dragon True Body and charged at Su Mo.

Su Mo fought Sea Dragon Douluo, first evading his attacks and then matching his strength with Ring Detonation and Great Sumeru Slash. After a fierce clash, Sea Dragon Douluo admitted defeat.

• Sea Dragon Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Su Mo, but Su Mo evaded him with Teleportation and Intangibility.
• Sea Dragon Douluo unleashed a massive waterspout, and Su Mo chose to fight head-on instead of continuing to evade.
• Su Mo detonated six soul rings and used Great Sumeru Slash to clash with Sea Dragon Douluo, shocking the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians and Bo Saixi.
• Su Mo and Sea Dragon Douluo exchanged powerful attacks until Su Mo's final strike cracked Sea Dragon Douluo's scales and sliced off part of his dragon fin.
• Sea Dragon Douluo cupped his hands and admitted defeat to Su Mo.

Su Mo had the guardians of the Seven Sacred Pillars and Bo Saixi demonstrate their Soul Skills so his system could record them and develop Self-Created Soul Skills for Sea Soul Masters. He spent a carefree month with Xiao Wu on Sea God Island while the system’s deduction function worked in the background, though others were growing impatient.

• Su Mo asked the guardians of the Seven Sacred Pillars to demonstrate their Soul Skills, which his system recorded for later analysis.
• Su Mo persuaded Bo Saixi to display all her Soul Skills and Self-Created Soul Skills, and she ordered Sea Witch to give him the highest standard of hospitality.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu settled on Sea God Island, where he took her sightseeing and spent their time together sparring over Soul Skills.
• Su Mo fed the recorded Soul Skill data into the system’s deduction function and left it to develop suitable skills automatically.
• After Su Mo had spent a month relaxing on the island, the others began to lose patience.

Su Mo completed the Sea God Formula and thirteen supporting Soul Skill sets for Sea Soul Masters, then presented them to Bo Saixi. She was stunned by the work he had produced in a month and bowed to him, offering Sea God Island’s help in the future.

• Sea Horse Douluo questioned Su Mo’s leisurely sightseeing, but Sea Dragon Douluo defended him, and Bo Saixi refused to rush him.
• Su Mo finished deriving the Sea God Formula and transcribed it in the Sea God Temple study.
• Su Mo created thirteen supporting Soul Skill sets for Sea Soul Masters, including the Raging Tide Sword Formula, Tidal Footwork, and Water Moon Mirage.
• Su Mo gave the manuscripts to Bo Saixi, who was shaken by their detail and scope.
• Bo Saixi bowed to Su Mo and promised Sea God Island would answer his future requests.

Su Mo left Bo Saixi with the Sea God Formula and thirteen Self-Created Soul Skill drafts, and she discovered they greatly improved cultivation and could be learned by Sea Soul Masters at every level. After the Seven Sacred Pillar guardians tested them, Bo Saixi decided to invite Su Mo to take Sea God Island’s trial.

• Su Mo told Bo Saixi he would later ask her to use Sea God's Light, then teleported away.
• Bo Saixi practiced the Sea God Formula and found that it greatly increased her Soul Power absorption, even at level ninety-nine.
• Bo Saixi used Ten Thousand Waters Prison without a Soul Ring and recognized Su Mo's drafts as a new system of Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Bo Saixi summoned the Seven Sacred Pillar guardians, who tested the Sea God Formula and Soul Skills and confirmed their effectiveness.
• After seeing the guardians' results, Bo Saixi decided to invite Su Mo to participate in Sea God Island's trial.

Bo Saixi invited Su Mo and Xiao Wu to take part in Sea God Island's trials, but Su Mo declined while Xiao Wu agreed to try. Xiao Wu received the Top-Level Eight Trials and chose to pursue the early rewards without becoming Bo Saixi's successor.

• Bo Saixi invited Su Mo and Xiao Wu to attempt Sea God Island's trials, explaining that they could earn the Sea God's recognition and possibly inherit his divine position.
• Su Mo refused the Sea God's inheritance, while Xiao Wu agreed to participate after Bo Saixi assured her she would not be forced to stay unless she completed every trial.
• Bo Saixi brought Xiao Wu to the Sacred Pillar, where Xiao Wu's assessment produced eight red halos and a red forehead mark.
• Bo Saixi explained that Xiao Wu's Top-Level Eight Trials made her a candidate to become the next High Priest, but Xiao Wu said she wanted to return to the continent with Su Mo.
• Su Mo encouraged Xiao Wu to complete the first seven trials, and she learned that her first trial required climbing 108 steps through the Sea God's Light within one year.

Su Mo told Bo Saixi that Tang Chen had been parasitized by the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King and asked her to help free him. Bo Saixi learned that Tang Chen might still be saved, but that doing nothing would leave him to die in Slaughter City within a few years.

• Xiao Wu completed the Sea God's Light trial in five days and gained five hundred years on each of her soul rings.
• Su Mo told Bo Saixi that he wanted to find Xiao Wu another divine inheritance, the Asura God’s.
• Su Mo explained that Tang Chen had failed his final Asura trial and was now controlled by the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King in Slaughter City.
• Bo Saixi realized the parasitized man was Tang Chen, the man she had waited for, and told Su Mo about their relationship and agreement.
• Su Mo said Tang Chen could either die with the parasite in a few years or be freed from it after they defeated the King of Slaughter, though he would still have little time left.

Bo Saixi saw Tang Chen transformed into the King of Slaughter, and Tang Chen briefly regained control to beg her to kill him. She chose to have Su Mo defeat him and reclaim his body, then fought the King of Slaughter until he drew the Asura Blood Sword.

• Su Mo took Bo Saixi through a spatial rift to the ruined Slaughter City, where she saw Tang Chen as the King of Slaughter.
• Tang Chen briefly recognized Bo Saixi, fought the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King's control, and pleaded with her to kill him.
• After Tang Chen lost control again and charged at her, Bo Saixi asked Su Mo to defeat him and reclaim his body.
• Bo Saixi attacked the King of Slaughter with her soul skills, but he broke free of her Sea Burial vortex and drew the Asura Blood Sword.

Su Mo and Bo Saixi defeated the King of Slaughter and freed Tang Chen from the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King. Tang Chen, mortally weakened, reunited with Bo Saixi and thanked Su Mo for bringing them together before his death.

• The King of Slaughter attacked Bo Saixi and Su Mo with the Asura Blood Sword, but their combined assault created an opening for Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi struck the King of Slaughter with Sea God's Light, and Su Mo told her the light would harm the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King without hurting Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi poured out her Sea God's Light, destroying the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King and freeing Tang Chen from its control.
• Bo Saixi caught Tang Chen as he fell, and Su Mo saw that Tang Chen's body was failing and quietly gave them time alone.
• Tang Chen recognized Su Mo and thanked him for bringing Bo Saixi to him, while Bo Saixi also expressed her gratitude to Su Mo.

Tang Chen reunited with Bo Saixi on Sea God Island and learned how Su Mo had transformed the soul master world after the soul beast extinction. He was astonished by Su Mo’s achievements and cultivation, then asked Bo Saixi how she had known he was in Slaughter City.

• Su Mo brought Tang Chen and Bo Saixi back to the Seaside Cottage, then left them alone together.
• Tang Chen asked Bo Saixi what had happened during his absence, and she described the soul beast extinction and the eleven-year crisis that followed.
• Bo Saixi told Tang Chen that Su Mo had created and shared the Ring Condensation Technique, restoring soul masters’ path to cultivation.
• Bo Saixi recounted Su Mo’s other achievements, including the Soul Power Cultivation Method, Su Mo Academy, and the Sea God Formula with thirteen complementary Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang Chen was stunned by Su Mo’s accomplishments and Eight-Ring Soul Douluo cultivation, then asked Bo Saixi how she had known he was in Slaughter City.

Tang Chen learned how Su Mo had arranged for Bo Saixi to find him and chose to leave the Asura God's inheritance to Su Mo in gratitude. Su Mo revealed that Xiao Wu would inherit it while he pursued his own path to create a god position, and Tang Chen transferred the inheritance into the Asura Blood Sword.

• Bo Saixi told Tang Chen that Su Mo had sought her help to find him and wanted the Asura God's inheritance.
• Tang Chen decided to give the inheritance to Su Mo because Su Mo had helped him regain his sanity and reunite with Bo Saixi.
• Su Mo told Tang Chen that Xiao Wu would inherit the Asura God's trials while he aimed to create his own god position.
• Tang Chen accepted Su Mo's decision and transferred the Asura God's inheritance into the Asura Blood Sword for Xiao Wu.

Tang San opened the Tang Sect in Barak City and taught its new disciples several Self-Created Soul Skills, drawing Clear Sky Sect's attention. Seventh Elder arrived and ordered Tang San to dissolve the sect, leaving Tang San to privately reveal that his father belonged to Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang San accepted thirty-seven members into the Tang Sect and taught them Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang Xiao learned that the Tang Sect taught a system of soul skills and sent Seventh Elder with four stewards to confront Tang San.
• Seventh Elder arrived at the Tang Sect and ordered Tang San to dissolve it within three days.
• Tang San asked why the sect had to close, then privately told Seventh Elder that his father was a member of Clear Sky Sect.

Tang San learned that the Clear Sky Sect regarded his father, Tang Hao, as a traitor and threatened to disband the Tang Sect in three days. Tang San refused to yield, while Yu Xiaogang and Flender began planning how to defend the sect.

• The Seventh Elder called Tang Hao a traitor and ordered Tang San to disband the Tang Sect and stop publicly teaching soul skills within three days.
• Tang San rejected the order, and Yu Xiaogang supported him as Flender and the other former Shrek Academy members vowed not to disband the Tang Sect.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether his father had truly been a traitor, but Yu Xiaogang could not answer.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Flender that the level ninety-two Seventh Elder could overpower them when he returned in three days.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender decided they needed to hold the line for Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to seek Er Long.

Yu Xiaogang and Flender persuaded Liu Erlong to reunite the Golden Iron Triangle and help defend the Tang Sect from Tang Lie. When the Clear Sky Sect attacked, the Golden Iron Triangle blocked Tang Lie while Zhao Wuji and the Shrek teachers defeated his stewards, and the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to seek Liu Erlong’s help, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to leave for her at dawn.
• Flender explained the Clear Sky Sect’s threat to Liu Erlong, who agreed to help and leave with them the next morning.
• Tang San refused Tang Lie’s demand to disband the Tang Sect and return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Sacred Dragon and stopped Tang Lie’s attack on Tang San.
• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek teachers defeated the six Clear Sky Sect stewards as Tang Lie’s blows began to weaken the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Someone shouted for Tang Lie to stop, warning that his disciples would die if he continued.

Tang San forced Tang Lie and the Clear Sky Sect disciples to retreat, prompting Tang Xiao to investigate Tang Hao’s son and send word to Tang Yuehua. Tang Yuehua came to Tang Sect and revealed she was Tang San’s aunt, then learned he had no news of his missing father.

• Tang San made Tang Lie withdraw after the Clear Sky Sect elder’s disciples were restrained, and Tang Sect celebrated its victory.
• Tang Lie returned to the Clear Sky Sect and reported that Tang San claimed to be Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang Xiao accepted that Tang San was likely Tang Hao’s son and told the elders to leave the matter alone for now.
• Tang Xiao sent a trusted subordinate to inform Tang Yuehua and ask whether she knew where Tang Hao had gone.
• Tang Yuehua traveled to Tang Sect, introduced herself to Tang San as his aunt, and learned that he was also searching for his missing father.