Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tao defeated the Five Great Savage Beasts, completing the seventh Destruction God Trial and earning powerful rewards. His eighth trial tasked him with resolving the ancient conflict between humans and spirit beasts, and a suggestion to solve it through marriage left him wondering if he was meant to marry Wang Qiu'er.

• Bear Lord challenged Zhou Tao for the Beast God position, but Zhou Tao battered him until he called for help.
• Di Tian joined Bi Ji, the Ten Thousand Demon King, and Scarlet King against Zhou Tao, who summoned his Blue Silver Avatar and fought all five without falling behind.
• The Five Great Savage Beasts suffered serious injuries and fled, ending Zhou Tao's seventh trial.
• The God of Destruction increased the ages of Zhou Tao's Spirit Rings, granted him a two-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, and raised his affinity to 50%.
• Zhou Tao learned that his eighth trial required him to solve the conflict between humans and spirit beasts, and a voice suggested marriage as the solution.

Zhou Tao proposed a system for humans and soul beasts to coexist peacefully, and Gu Yuena agreed after securing a marriage alliance and future leadership for their child. Zhou Tao returned to Spirit Hall, where the plan was approved, and he married Gu Yuena.

• Zhou Tao threatened Di Tian until the Silver Dragon King summoned him to the Lake of Life.
• Zhou Tao explained his proposals for Spirit Soul contracts, a jointly managed Spirit Pagoda, and research into Virtual Spirit Rings and Bionic Spirit Bone technology.
• Gu Yuena agreed to the plan if she could become Spirit Pagoda Master, and Zhou Tao negotiated rotating human and soul beast leadership.
• Gu Yuena agreed to the leadership arrangement on the condition that she marry Zhou Tao and their child become a future Pagoda Master.
• Zhou Tao returned to Spirit Hall, shared the peace plan, received everyone's approval, and married Gu Yuena.

Years after fleeing to undergo the Asura God Trial, Tang San returned to Shrek Academy as a scarred Evil Spirit Master, hiding his corruption from his old companions. He revealed his rank-eighty-eight strength and proposed joining forces against Spirit Hall, then produced blueprints as a way to secure an alliance.

• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy, where Flender failed to recognize him until Tang San removed his mask and introduced himself.
• Tang San reunited with Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, but concealed that he had become an Evil Spirit Master.
• Tang San claimed he had reached rank eighty-eight and intended to avenge himself on Zhou Tao and investigate the Clear Sky Sect's destruction.
• Liu Erlong urged the group to attack Spirit Hall, but Flender warned that they could not defeat it alone.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang proposed enlisting the Star Luo Empire and Clear Sky Sect against Spirit Hall.
• When Flender questioned why those powers would cooperate with Shrek Academy, Tang San laid out several blueprints and said he had a plan.

Tang San decided to seek a rapid increase in strength on Sea God Island and planned to reassure the Star Dou Empire and Clear Sky Sect before departing. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue began the Angel’s Nine Trials in Spirit City.

• Flender and Liu Erlong warned Tang San that Zhou Tao’s power and control of the Spirit Hall Empire made him difficult to defeat, so Tang San vowed to grow stronger and kill him.
• Grandmaster told Tang San about Sea God Island, its formidable spirit masters and dangerous trial, and Tang San agreed to go there.
• Flender suggested Tang San bring Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, while Tailong volunteered to join him; Tang San also planned to meet the Star Dou imperial family and Clear Sky Sect first.
• Qian Daoliu led Qian Renxue through a sacred ritual before the Six-Winged Angel Statue, and nine screens of light appeared to reveal the Angel’s Nine Trials.

Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue reached Sea God Island, where Zhou Tao defeated its guardian Xiao Bai and gained entry. After Bo Saixi ordered them admitted, Zhou Tao headed for the Sea God Mountain staircase and challenged her trial, leaving Bo Saixi eager to test his strength.

• Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue arrived near Sea God Island, where Xiao Bai blocked their way and warned them to leave.
• Zhou Tao froze the sea and Xiao Bai, then Qian Renxue held a sword to her neck until Bo Saixi ordered Xiao Bai to let them pass.
• Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue landed on Sea God Island, where Ou Ya escorted them to the foot of Sea God Mountain.
• Zhou Tao complained about the 999-step staircase but agreed to take the trial, warning Bo Saixi that she had to honor its result.
• Bo Saixi heard Zhou Tao call her trial a petty trick and resolved to see what he could do.

Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue climbed Sea God Mountain with ease, stunning the island’s guardians and Bo Saixi. The Sea God considered choosing Zhou Tao for an inheritance, but learned he had already accepted the Destruction God Trial.

• The seven Title Douluo guarding Sea God Mountain doubted that Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue would climb far, but watched in shock as they quickly passed the hundredth step.
• Zhou Tao explained that the steps’ energy increased gravity, then challenged Qian Renxue to race up the mountain.
• Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue reached the nine hundredth step, where Qian Renxue summoned her Twelve-Winged Angel martial soul and flew upward.
• The seven Douluo recognized Qian Renxue’s Angel Family heritage and marveled that Zhou Tao kept pace without activating his martial soul.
• Bo Saixi watched the pair climb and suspected the Sea God had taken an interest in Zhou Tao rather than Qian Renxue.
• In the God Realm, Sea God Bo Saixi chose Zhou Tao as a potential inheritor, then discovered that he had already accepted the Destruction God Trial.

Poseidon abandoned his plan to support Tang San and decided to ally with Zhou Tao, while Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue reached Sea God Island and secured an agreement with Bo Saixi. After Zhou Tao gained the upper hand in a spar, Bo Saixi was astonished by his age and strength and offered him a wife from Sea God Island.

• Poseidon chose to switch sides and planned to cooperate with Zhou Tao, even considering sending Bo Saixi to him through marriage.
• Zhou Tao beat Qian Renxue to the summit of Sea God Hall, and she agreed to have a child with him as his reward.
• Bo Saixi spoke with Zhou Tao, and they agreed that Sea God Hall would remain independent and stay out of the Spirit Hall Empire's unification campaign.
• Bo Saixi sparred with Zhou Tao, but his Extreme Ice Power froze her water attacks and left her at a disadvantage.
• Zhou Tao said he was eighteen, astonishing Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillars, and Bo Saixi asked whether he would take a wife from Sea God Island.

Zhou Tao refused the Sea God inheritance at first, but Poseidon granted him a third God King-level trial anyway. After receiving the Sea God Nine Trials, Zhou Tao began the second trial by freezing the Ring Sea and setting off across the ice with Qian Renxue.

• Zhou Tao accepted Bo Saixi's alliance offer but declined her proposal that he take another wife, letting Qian Renxue choose a concubine if she wished.
• Bo Saixi asked Zhou Tao to inherit the Sea God, but he refused because he already had the Destruction God and Thunder God trials.
• Poseidon appeared and named Zhou Tao his inheritor, granting him the Sea God trial despite his objections.
• Zhou Tao touched the Sacred Pillar and received the Sea God Nine Trials, then learned that his second trial required crossing the Ring Sea without harming its sea soul beasts.
• Zhou Tao used the Thunder God Hammer's Extreme Ice Power to freeze the Ring Sea and stepped onto the ice with Qian Renxue.

Zhou Tao passed the Sea God's second trial by using an illusion to slip past the Demon Soul Great White Shark without harming any soul beasts. He began the third trial with the Great White Shark, confronting the Evil Orca King in the Death Sea.

• Zhou Tao revealed that the ice and his apparent journey across the sea were illusions, and the Demon Soul Great White Shark declared that he had passed the second trial.
• Bo Saixi introduced the third trial: Zhou Tao had to kill the Evil Orca King with the Great White Shark's assistance.
• Zhou Tao set out with the Great White Shark, who explained the Evil Orca King's traits on the way to the Death Sea.
• The Great White Shark and Zhou Tao reached the Evil Orca King's lair, where the Beast King mocked them and wondered if Zhou Tao was the new Sea God.

Zhou Tao killed the Evil Orca King, absorbed its Spirit Ring and Spirit Bones, and returned to Sea God Island. He told Bo Saixi that he had completed the Third Trial, and she said it was time for the Fourth and Fifth Trials: killing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and his wife.

• The Evil Orca King confronted Zhou Tao, but Zhou Tao ordered the Great White Shark to retreat and revealed his nine powerful Spirit Rings.
• Zhou Tao used his ninth Spirit Skill to trap the Evil Orca King in a thunder cage and destroy him with a massive lightning attack.
• Zhou Tao absorbed the Evil Orca King's Spirit Ring, gained his Thunder God Hammer's eighth Spirit Skill, and obtained two Spirit Bones.
• The Great White Shark watched Zhou Tao's victory in shock as he completed the absorption.
• Zhou Tao returned to Sea God Island, where the guardians sensed his increased power and suspected the Evil Orca King was dead.
• Bo Saixi welcomed Zhou Tao back, and Zhou Tao confirmed that he had completed the Third Trial; Bo Saixi named the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and his wife as the next targets.

Zhou Tao confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and identified himself as the Sea God's successor before attacking to claim the whale's Spirit Ring. Elsewhere, Tang Biesan, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun finished slaughtering a fishing village and absorbed the villagers' life force, having become Evil Spirit Masters.

• Zhou Tao arrived in the Demonic Whale Sea Area, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King surfaced and threatened to swallow him.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed Zhou Tao's powerful Spirit Rings and considered fleeing, but Zhou Tao used his Thunder God skills to stop him.
• Zhou Tao revealed that he was the Sea God's successor and said he had come to borrow the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Spirit Ring.
• The enraged Deep Sea Demonic Whale King fired a pillar of purple destruction at Zhou Tao, who countered with Thunder God Verdict.
• Tang Biesan, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun absorbed the life force of the villagers they had slaughtered and continued their descent into evil.

Zhou Tao passed the Sea God’s final trial and inherited multiple divine powers before defeating Tang San and conquering his remaining enemies. He unified Douluo Continent and became its First Emperor.

• Bo Saixi announced that Zhou Tao could undertake the Sea God’s ninth trial, and he agreed.
• Zhou Tao overwhelmed Bo Saixi’s Sea God Domain with his three domains and passed the Sea God, Thunder God, and God of Destruction trials.
• Zhou Tao obtained the Sea God Trident and Destruction Scepter as the Asura God empowered Tang San to become the Asura God.
• Zhou Tao fought Tang San at sea, killed him, and shattered the Asura God’s divine core.
• Zhou Tao led the Spirit Hall Empire’s army to defeat the Star Luo Empire and the remaining Clear Sky Sect members, unifying Douluo Continent and becoming its First Emperor.