Chapter Summaries

Shen Lian rescued the women from Black Reef Bay, destroyed the pirate stronghold, and brought them to safety on Sea God Island. After staying there for three days, he refused Bo Saixi’s repeated requests for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and sailed away with his companions.

• Shen Lian took a map marking Pirate Continent from the pirates’ chamber and arranged for the rescued women to follow the fleet to Sea God Island.
• The women gathered supplies and boarded the merchant ship, then Bo Saixi guided both ships away from Black Reef Bay.
• Shen Lian used the Breath of Destruction to demolish Black Reef Bay’s reefs and caves so pirates could not use it again.
• During the weeklong voyage, Liu Yuxi treated the women’s injuries, and Bo Saixi welcomed them to Sea God Island, where they found new shelter.
• During the group’s three-day stay, Bo Saixi repeatedly asked Shen Lian for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but he refused.
• Shen Lian and his companions left Sea God Island, while Bo Saixi watched their ship disappear over the horizon.

Shen Lian and his companions reached Pirate Continent after following a map across the sea, only to be confronted by pirates who wanted their warship and the women. Shen Lian judged the pirates weak and told his companions to use them for practice, as Xu Chengye prepared to fight.

• Shen Lian showed Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, Ning Rongrong, Xu Chengye, and the Snow Empress a map marking Pirate Continent and set their course.
• After sailing for half a month, Ning Rongrong spotted land, and Xu Chengye steered the warship to a beach where everyone disembarked.
• A group of pirates approached and demanded the warship and the women, threatening to sell the men as laborers.
• Shen Lian assessed the pirates' strength and told his companions to treat the encounter as practice.
• Xu Chengye eagerly summoned his flame-imbued Soul Guidance Spear as the pirates faced the group.

Shen Lian's group defeated several pirate bands and learned how Pirate Continent was governed. They discovered that the central city was ruled by Sea Tiger, a level ninety-eight Title Douluo commanding nine Title Douluo and four coastal city lords.

• Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Liu Yuxi worked together to kill the pirates attacking them.
• Shen Lian immobilized and killed two more pirate groups that tried to ambush the party after the battle.
• Shen Lian led Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, Ning Rongrong, Xu Chengye, and Snow Empress flying inland toward Pirate Continent's center.
• Shen Lian's group questioned pirates and villagers and learned that Pirate Continent had four coastal trading cities and a central city.
• Shen Lian learned that Sea Tiger ruled the central city as Pirate Continent's leader, supported by nine Title Douluo and four coastal city lords.

Shen Lian and his companions arrived in Central City and offered to help Sea Tiger defeat his brother Sea Dragon, whose strength had prevented Sea Tiger from declaring himself emperor. Sea Tiger reacted with shock and eagerness, asking whether Shen Lian was serious.

• Shen Lian learned that Sea Tiger had gathered nine Title Douluo but feared challenging his level-ninety-nine brother, Sea Dragon.
• Shen Lian planned to secure Sea Tiger's submission to the Sun-Moon Empire in exchange for ruling Pirate Continent as a vassal king.
• Shen Lian's group reached Central City, where Sea Tiger and four Title Douluo confronted them in the air.
• Sea Tiger sensed that Shen Lian and Snow Empress were more powerful than Sea Dragon and greeted them cautiously.
• Shen Lian revealed that he knew of Sea Tiger's ambition and offered to eliminate Sea Dragon, leaving Sea Tiger stunned and hopeful.

Shen Lian gave Sea Tiger three days to decide whether to accept a vassal kingdom under the Sun-Moon Empire, and Sea Tiger planned to negotiate for additional benefits. Shen Lian and his companions surveyed the Pirate Continent, where Zhu Zhuqing spotted a mountain range forming a natural barrier around a valley.

• Shen Lian offered Sea Tiger the title of Sea Frontier King and control of the Pirate Continent in exchange for acknowledging the Sun-Moon Empire as suzerain, but Sea Tiger asked for three days to consider.
• Sea Tiger admitted to his four Title Douluo that Shen Lian and the Snow Empress were too powerful to oppose and planned to use the delay to negotiate for support and control of coastal trade cities.
• Sea Tiger ordered his men to prepare and calm the people while he considered which conditions to request.
• Shen Lian, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Liu Yuxi, and the Snow Empress surveyed the Pirate Continent from the air.
• Zhu Zhuqing pointed out a curved mountain range in the northwest that enclosed a flat valley and seemed to form a natural barrier.

Shen Lian and his companions discovered Luo Qing leading a rebellion against the pirates on Pirate Continent. After learning Luo Qing came from the Sun-Moon Continent and had become a Title Douluo, Shen Lian considered replacing Sea Tiger with him as ruler.

• Shen Lian spotted Luo Qing and his allies meeting secretly beneath a tree outside Tiger King City, so his group watched from the treetops.
• Luo Qing told the Resisters that nearly a thousand people in West City were ready to rise up and that he had recently become a Title Douluo.
• Luo Qing explained that he planned to ambush West City's pirate lord and help the Resisters capture cities from the pirates.
• Shen Lian learned that Luo Qing had been abducted from the Sun-Moon Continent more than ten years earlier after pirates killed his companions and sold him.
• Shen Lian proposed letting Luo Qing govern Pirate Continent instead of Sea Tiger, and Xu Chengye, Liu Yuxi, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong agreed.

Shen Lian accepted Sea Tiger’s offer to make the Pirate Continent a vassal kingdom of the Sun-Moon Empire, while Luo Qing discovered the visitors might come from his homeland. The chapter ended with Luo Qing determined to learn who they were and whether they could help him resist the pirates.

• Shen Lian decided to hear Sea Tiger’s response before considering Luo Qing as a replacement ruler, and he and his companions spent three days observing the Pirate Continent.
• Shen Lian and his companions returned to Tiger King City, where Sea Tiger welcomed them and led them into his hall.
• Shen Lian encountered Luo Qing and his companions working in the hall as tribute recorders, but told Sea Tiger to let them continue their work.
• Sea Tiger agreed to make the Pirate Continent a vassal kingdom of the Sun-Moon Empire, and Shen Lian warned him not to defy the empire or secretly ally with other forces.
• Luo Qing recognized the Sun-Moon Empire’s name and resolved to find out who Shen Lian and his companions were, hoping they could help oppose the pirates.

Shen Lian accepted Sea Tiger's submission to the Sun-Moon Empire and approved a shipment of Soul Tools, but refused to relocate civilians to Pirate Continent. He left Sea Tiger with a strict ban on raiding or abducting people from Douluo Continent and Sun-Moon Continent.

• Sea Tiger asked Shen Lian for Soul Tool support, and Shen Lian agreed to send a batch of defensive and offensive equipment.
• Sea Tiger asked the Sun-Moon Empire to move civilians to Pirate Continent so they could farm and open shops.
• Shen Lian refused to move civilians, recognizing that the pirates would likely exploit or enslave them.
• Sea Tiger pleaded for Shen Lian to reconsider, but Shen Lian rejected the request outright.
• Shen Lian ordered Sea Tiger and the other pirates to stop abducting people or plundering supplies from Douluo Continent and Sun-Moon Continent.

Sea Tiger agreed to Shen Lian’s restrictions but secretly planned to betray him during the attack on Sea Dragon. Luo Qing overheard the plot and learned that Shen Lian and the blue-haired girl were stronger than Sea Dragon.

• Sea Tiger agreed that his pirates would stop raiding the two continents, while Luo Qing quietly renewed his hope for the Sun-Moon Empire.
• After Shen Lian and his companions left, Sea Tiger complained that Shen Lian had denied them both spoils and a source of income.
• Sea Tiger persuaded the four Title Douluos with him to gather four more lords and ambush Shen Lian’s group while they dealt with Sea Dragon.
• Sea Tiger ordered the four Title Douluos to summon the city lords and their trusted men back to Tiger King City overnight.
• Luo Qing, secretly a newly advanced Title Douluo, overheard the betrayal plan and realized that two of Shen Lian’s companions surpassed Sea Dragon.

Luo Qing discovered Sea Tiger’s plan to ambush Shen Lian and warned him, prompting Shen Lian to turn the plot against the pirates. He sent Luo Qing to rally the Resisters and seize the five cities while Sea Tiger’s forces were away.

• Luo Qing overheard Sea Tiger plan to gather nine Title Douluo and attack Shen Lian’s group while they fought Sea Dragon, taking Zhu Zhuqing and the others hostage.
• Luo Qing searched for Shen Lian, found his Soul Guidance Warship off the southern coast, and warned him of the ambush.
• Shen Lian rejected his original plan to support Sea Tiger and ordered the group to wipe out Sea Tiger and his forces.
• Shen Lian told Luo Qing to alert the Resisters and take Tiger King City and the other four cities when Sea Tiger’s elites departed.
• Luo Qing flew back to rally the Resisters, while Shen Lian declared that Sea Tiger would walk into a trap.

Shen Lian and his companions confronted Sea Dragon at his island, where Snow Empress fought Sea Dragon and his two brothers. As the three Sea Dragon brothers used a life-draining forbidden technique to battle her, Shen Lian sensed Sea Tiger and nearly ten thousand pirates approaching from behind.

• Shen Lian and his companions sailed to Sea Dragon's island and declared that they had come to kill him.
• Sea Dragon ordered his level-ninety-seven and level-ninety-six brothers to attack, but Snow Empress froze their ocean-based attacks and overwhelmed them with ice.
• Sea Dragon and his brothers used Ocean Sacrifice, trading away their vitality to break free and raise their power.
• Sea Dragon and his brothers attacked Snow Empress together, while Shen Lian sensed Sea Tiger, eight Title Douluo, and nearly ten thousand pirates approaching on more than a dozen ships.

Shen Lian confronted Sea Tiger and his pirate fleet after Sea Tiger refused to back down. Shen Lian destroyed the fleet with meteors, leaving Sea Tiger and eight Title Douluo alive but fleeing at sea.

• Shen Lian flew to meet Sea Tiger and warned that his choice would get the pirates killed.
• Sea Tiger rallied nearly ten thousand pirates and eight Title Douluo to attack Shen Lian with weapons, Soul skills, and arrows.
• Shen Lian used the Destruction God Staff to erase their attacks, then unleashed a barrage of enormous meteors.
• Sea Tiger and the eight Title Douluo fled into the sea as the meteors smashed the pirate ships and boiled the seawater.
• Sea Tiger and the eight Title Douluo watched from a hundred zhang away as nearly ten thousand pirates were killed or wounded.

Shen Lian overwhelmed Sea Tiger and the pirates with Destruction Divine Light, forcing them to devise a hostage plan. As Elder Seven approached the Soul Guidance Warship underwater, Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Liu Yuxi prepared to intercept him.

• Sea Tiger and eight Title Douluo transformed into ocean-based Martial Souls and charged Shen Lian, who struck them with Destruction Divine Light.
• Sea Tiger used the Sea Turtle Title Douluo as a shield, and the divine light killed him while Sea Tiger escaped.
• Sea Tiger ordered Elder Seven to capture hostages while he and six others distracted Shen Lian.
• Shen Lian fired another beam at the pirates as they dodged and tried to stall him.
• Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Liu Yuxi watched for Elder Seven beneath the Soul Guidance Warship.
• Elder Seven swam toward the warship and planned to seize Liu Yuxi and Ning Rongrong first.

Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, and Ning Rongrong repeatedly repelled the Sea Snake Douluo while Shen Lian overwhelmed Sea Tiger’s group. The Sea Snake Douluo fled, leaving Sea Tiger’s forces to face defeat.

• Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, and Ning Rongrong struck the Sea Snake Douluo as he attacked the warship, driving him back into the sea.
• Sea Tiger and his companions watched the assault and considered retreating as Shen Lian continued attacking them.
• The Sea Snake Douluo made repeated attempts to reach the warship, but the four defenders wounded him and forced him underwater each time.
• The Sea Snake Douluo decided to save himself and fled into the depths, abandoning Sea Tiger and the others.
• Sea Tiger tried to pursue the Sea Snake Douluo, but Shen Lian’s Destruction Divine Light forced him to dodge.
• Shen Lian killed the Crab Claw Douluo and the Squid Douluo as Sea Tiger watched his comrades fall.

Shen Lian defeated Sea Tiger and the remaining pirate leaders, then helped bring the pirate stronghold to an end. After Luo Qing and the freed slaves took Tiger King City, Shen Lian asked him to undertake an important task for the Sun-Moon Empire, and Luo Qing agreed.

• Sea Tiger launched a final attack on Shen Lian, but Shen Lian crushed his water dragon and killed him.
• Shen Lian and Snow Empress finished off the remaining pirate leaders, and Shen Lian sank the pirates' island lair.
• Shen Lian and his companions traveled to the Pirate Continent, where Luo Qing and the freed slaves stormed Tiger King City and took control.
• Luo Qing thanked Shen Lian and his companions for helping free the slaves, and the crowd cheered and bowed to them.
• Shen Lian asked Luo Qing to take on an important matter related to the Sun-Moon Empire, and Luo Qing agreed.

Shen Lian placed the newly named Distant Sea Continent under Luo Qing’s rule, while Xu Chengye appointed Luo Qing its marquis and general. After equipping him to govern and defend the territory, Shen Lian went to Sea Tiger’s bedchamber seeking clues about another small continent.

• Luo Qing warned Shen Lian that former slaves from the Douluo Continent might resist his rule and that its factions could invade.
• Shen Lian assured Luo Qing that the Sun-Moon Empire had conquered the Douluo Continent and said the Distant Sea Continent would eventually be brought closer to the Sun-Moon Continent.
• Luo Qing accepted responsibility for governing the Distant Sea Continent, and Shen Lian gave him soul tools for defense and administration.
• Xu Chengye named Luo Qing the Marquis of the Distant Sea and General of Sea Might, and Luo Qing pledged to guard the continent for the empire.
• Luo Qing led Shen Lian to Sea Tiger’s castle, where Shen Lian entered the pirate’s bedchamber to search for clues about another small continent.

Shen Lian found Sea Tiger’s maps, collected the pirate’s hidden treasures, and followed a mysterious route to an enormous continent teeming with powerful Soul Beasts. As the group approached, a five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast attacked their warship.

• Shen Lian discovered four maps hidden beneath a bedboard, including one marked with a monster’s head.
• Shen Lian and his companions collected Sea Tiger’s treasures from the three marked locations before following the mysterious map’s route.
• After a month at sea, the group spotted a vast, uninhabited continent filled with Soul Beasts, including powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year beasts.
• A five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast launched an attack of wind blades and illusions at Shen Lian’s warship.

Shen Lian and his companions explored the continent, defeated the Magic Illusion Seagull’s attack, and followed its warning about a powerful being in the west. They found the Deep Sea Black Tortoise King, who transformed into a white-haired old man and greeted them.

• Shen Lian blocked the Magic Illusion Seagull’s surprise attack and declared that he had come to make the continent submit.
• Snow Empress froze the Seagull’s wind blades and wounded its wing, forcing it to flee into the Mist Forest.
• Shen Lian chose not to pursue the Seagull and led the group west to investigate the powerful being it had mentioned.
• Shen Lian and his companions reached an inland sea and called for the being beneath its waters to meet them.
• The Deep Sea Black Tortoise King rose from the sea and transformed into a white-haired old man.

Shen Lian learned that Soul Beast Continent was divided between the peaceful Deep Sea Black Tortoise King’s western faction and the aggressive Magic Illusion Seagull’s eastern faction. When Shen Lian offered to kill the seagull in exchange for nominal submission, the king mistook him for a Quasi-God and eagerly agreed, hoping to sacrifice himself and ascend to the God Realm.

• The Deep Sea Black Tortoise King explained the division between his Peace Faction in the west and the Magic Illusion Seagull’s Radical Faction in the east.
• The king said he could only defend his territory because the seagull was too strong to challenge without risking devastation to the continent.
• Shen Lian offered to kill the Magic Illusion Seagull in exchange for Soul Beast Continent’s nominal submission while leaving the king in control.
• The Deep Sea Black Tortoise King recalled his clan’s account of the Sea God gathering faith and guessed that Shen Lian was about to become a god.
• The king agreed to submit if Shen Lian killed the seagull and asked to sacrifice himself for a chance to become a Divine Beast.
• Shen Lian put off answering the king’s request, and the king offered to lead him to the Magic Illusion Seagull at Eagle Beak Cliff.

Shen Lian and his companions confronted the injured Magic Illusion Seagull at Eagle Beak Cliff and killed it when it attacked them. Its surviving followers fled or fought back, and Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing began dealing with those who charged.

• The Deep Sea Black Tortoise King led Shen Lian and the others to the Magic Illusion Seagull’s dwelling at Eagle Beak Cliff.
• The Magic Illusion Seagull recognized the Deep Sea Black Tortoise King, tried to bribe Shen Lian, and then lunged at Ning Rongrong and Liu Yuxi when they refused.
• Shen Lian cut off the Magic Illusion Seagull’s claw and killed it with a slash from the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Some of the Magic Illusion Seagull’s followers fled, while others charged at Shen Lian’s group to avenge their leader.
• Xu Chengye trapped three Sea Eagles with his Sun True Fire, and Zhu Zhuqing tore the wings from several Flying Moths.