Chapter Summaries

Tang San reconsidered how he had developed Blue Silver Grass and began planning the team’s second trial against Zhu Zhuqing. With Hai Ming’s hint, he identified Wang Ke’er and Bai Chenxiang as key to choosing a battlefield that would weaken Zhu Zhuqing’s abilities.

• Tang San reflected on his mother’s Blue Silver Emperor and decided to rely more on the skills and knowledge he had brought from his previous life.
• At breakfast, Hai Ming explained that the team would need to weaken Zhu Zhuqing’s fifth and sixth Soul Skills and Voidwalking to pass their trial.
• Dai Mubai suggested weakening Zhu Zhuqing’s abilities rather than sealing them, and Tang San asked whether the team could choose the battlefield.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing walked along the beach and discussed how the trial was disrupting their time together.
• Tang San told the team that Wang Ke’er and Bai Chenxiang were the keys to the trial, then asked Wang Ke’er about her aura-concealing Soul Skill.
• Tang San pulled Oscar aside to explain a plan, leaving the others eager to learn what he had said.

Tang San and the others began their second trial against Zhu Zhuqing, using a plan to split up and evade her across the sky, forest, and sea. The trial was still underway as Wang Ke'er hid underwater and Tang San raced along the beach.

• Tang San assigned Bai Chenxiang to fly toward the coast, Wang Ke'er to enter the Ring Sea, and the others to distract Zhu Zhuqing and help their escape.
• Tang San's group began the trial after resting, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun immediately unleashed their meteor showers as Bai Chenxiang took off and Wang Ke'er slipped into the water.
• Xiao Wu led Ning Rongrong toward the forest while Zhu Zhuqing quickly knocked down Ma Hongjun and struck Dai Mubai with lightning.
• Tang San attacked Zhu Zhuqing with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear, but she let it pass through her using her fifth Soul Skill, then defeated Dai Mubai.
• Tang San escaped Zhu Zhuqing's attack by leaving an empty Blue Silver Grass sphere and racing across the beach, while Wang Ke'er briefly surfaced to signal that she was still safe underwater.

Zhu Zhuqing hunted down Tang San's scattered team during the trial, using her newfound ability to control the ocean to eliminate Wang Ke'er and Divine Slaughter's Domain to capture Bai Chenxiang. The assessment ended with Tang San and his team passing, revealing that his hidden plan had succeeded.

• Tang San spread his teammates across the island to delay Zhu Zhuqing, who quickly eliminated Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu.
• Zhu Zhuqing controlled the Ring Sea with expanding whirlpools and pulled Wang Ke'er from the water unconscious.
• Zhu Zhuqing flew off to find Bai Chenxiang and Oscar, while Hai Ming told Bo Saixi to prepare a victory feast for Tang San's team.
• Zhu Zhuqing's Divine Slaughter's Domain overwhelmed Bai Chenxiang, and she returned to the others after being captured.
• Zhu Zhuqing did not return before the final five minutes passed, and Tang San's team passed the second trial.

Oscar emerged from the Ring Sea after secretly enduring Zhu Zhuqing’s trial, earning the Shrek group’s admiration. After everyone learned their next trials, Hai Ming led them to the Raging Sea Abyss to begin Tidal Body Tempering.

• Zhu Zhuqing searched Sea God Island for Oscar, then returned to find the others celebrating their trial rewards.
• Hai Ming reminded Zhu Zhuqing that Oscar had been crucial against Martial Soul Academy’s team, and she realized Oscar might have used a Mirror Sausage to enter the Ring Sea.
• Oscar surfaced and explained that he had stayed underwater for the hour by using a Mirror Sausage made with Tang San’s blood to withstand the vortex.
• The Shrek group celebrated Oscar’s success, while Zhu Zhuqing learned the contents of her changed Black Grade Sixth Trial.
• After the group discovered that their third trial was Tidal Body Tempering, Bo Saixi told Hai Ming to take them to the Raging Sea Abyss.
• Hai Ming stopped the waves with a gesture and introduced the Raging Sea Abyss as the site of their third trial and Zhu Zhuqing’s seventh trial.

Hai Ming began the Shrek group’s Tidal Body Tempering trial, where they were bound to pillars and battered by relentless waves. Most of them collapsed within an hour, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing lasted more than three hours before returning to shore to recover.

• Hai Ming explained the group’s daily time requirements and sent Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhuqing, and the others onto the Sinking Silver Pillars, where stone rings immobilized them.
• Hai Ming restarted the waves, and the group initially dismissed the trial as easy before the constant impact began wearing them down.
• Bai Chenxiang fainted after twenty minutes, followed by Wang Ke'er, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai later succumbed as well.
• Tang San eventually gave out despite his Soul Saint physique and Soul Bones, leaving only Xiao Wu and Zhuqing on the pillars.
• Xiao Wu and Zhuqing endured for three hours and seventeen minutes and three hours and thirty-five minutes respectively before Hai Ming brought them down.
• Tang San helped Xiao Wu recover, Hai Ming supported Zhuqing with Sea God's Light, and Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong felt left out as the others cared for their companions.

Hai Ming brought Zhu Zhuqing to visit Tang Chen, who offered her an eighty-thousand-year Ghost Leopard left arm Soul Bone. After Zhu Zhuqing absorbed it, Hai Ming returned from fighting Tang Chen, and she thanked them both.

• Hai Ming took Zhu Zhuqing to Tang Chen and teased him about Qian Daoliu and his relationship with Bo Saixi.
• Tang Chen challenged Hai Ming to a fight and revealed he had an eighty-thousand-year Ghost Leopard left arm Soul Bone for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Hai Ming gave Zhu Zhuqing the Soul Bone to absorb before leaving with Tang Chen to fight at the reefs outside Sea God Island.
• After about two hours, Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing the Soul Bone and saw Hai Ming with shorter hair and Tang Chen with a swollen face.
• Tang Chen and Hai Ming argued about their fight, and Zhu Zhuqing thanked them both.

After enduring a year of Tidal Body Tempering, Hai Ming and the others completed the trial and discovered major improvements to their physiques, Soul Power, and abilities. They returned to Hailong City to rest, while Tang San reassured Xiao Wu that their remaining trials would become easier as they grew stronger.

• Bo Saixi congratulated the exhausted group on passing Tidal Body Tempering, and Hai Ming carried Zhu Zhuqing back to shore.
• The group recognized their gains: most had reached level sixty-five, Tang San reached level seventy-five, Zhu Zhuqing reached level seventy-eight, and their physical strength and Soul Power control improved.
• Tang San revealed that his Purple Demon Eyes had advanced to the fourth realm, Vastness, while Dai Mubai felt his muscles and Soul Power had become more responsive.
• Hai Ming sent everyone back to Hailong City to clean up and sleep, and he combed Zhu Zhuqing's hair while waves continued to echo in their ears.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San how long their trials would take, and he reassured her that their progress would accelerate as they became stronger and that the Tang Sect was secure in their absence.

After the Shrek Seven Monsters discovered that their third trials involved rescuing a kidnapped child, they asked Big White about the mysterious Son of the Ocean. Big White revealed that the child was Poseidon’s, leaving the group stunned by the Sea God’s romantic past.

• Ning Rongrong swept through the market stalls, while Oscar explained that her treasure-hunting Martial Soul helped her find valuable goods.
• Ma Hongjun and the others compared their third trials: several had to recover a child, while Tang San and Xiao Wu had to kill the kidnappers.
• Zhu Zhuqing read that she had to defeat the bandit leader and save the Son of the Ocean without borrowing the Sea Emperor’s power.
• Hai Ming led the group to Big White, who explained that the Son of the Ocean was Poseidon’s child.
• Hai Ming learned that the child’s mother was the Siren whose skull bone he had once wanted.

Big White recounted how Poseidon’s divine power caused the Siren to conceive the Son of the Ocean, whose rescue became the group’s third trial. The group learned that the Phantom Starfish Clan likely kidnapped her, led by a king who wanted to mate with her and absorb the Sea God’s faith power.

• Big White told the group how Poseidon spared a Siren, later returned her love with divine power, and unknowingly caused her to conceive the Son of the Ocean.
• Oscar wondered whether rescuing the Sea God’s child would earn the group a major reward, while Tang San reasoned that the trial tested their own strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that the trial had sealed her ability to control the sea, including power she had previously accessed through Hai Ming.
• Big White identified the Phantom Starfish Clan as the likely kidnappers and described their paralytic venom and illusion-producing Illusory Demon Domain.
• Big White revealed that the Phantom Starfish King wanted to mate with the female Son of the Ocean to absorb the Sea God’s faith power.

Tang San and the Shrek group sailed toward the Siren Waters to rescue Poseidon’s captured descendant, while Poseidon revealed that the Siren was his lover and the mother of his child. The group continued toward their mission, and Poseidon insisted Hai Ming let the others face the trial themselves.

• Tang San took out the Dragon Abyss Vessel, and the group sailed toward the Siren Waters with Big White escorting them.
• Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Hai Ming played cards while discussing the Son of the Ocean and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts they had encountered.
• Poseidon told Asura and Beast God Alt that the Siren had borne his descendant and that he had sent Hai Ming and the others to rescue the captive.
• Poseidon admitted he had forgotten about the Siren and only learned of his child after more than ten thousand years, drawing Asura and Alt’s disdain.
• Poseidon said he had told Hai Ming not to interfere so the others could use the rescue as a trial.

Hai Ming and his companions rescued the wounded Siren and learned that her child, Xiao Yue, had been captured by the Magic Starfish Clan. They reached the Fantastical Starfish Domain and discovered that the Phantom Starfish King planned to marry Xiao Yue the following night.

• Hai Ming healed the Siren with the Sea God's Light, and she asked whether he could help rescue Xiao Yue.
• Zhu Zhuqing told the Siren that the Sea God knew her child had been taken and had sent them to help.
• Big White explained that the Magic Starfish Clan would not mate until the full moon, giving them four days to rescue Xiao Yue.
• Tang San's group decided to travel directly to the Fantastical Starfish Domain without bringing the Siren along.
• After two more days, the group captured a ten-thousand-year Cuttlefish Beast and learned that the Phantom Starfish King planned to wed Xiao Yue late the following night.

Hai Ming and the Shrek group reached the Magic Starfish Clan’s territory and interrupted the Phantom Starfish King’s attempt to marry Poseyue. After rescuing her, they began battling the king and its allies, with Dai Mubai assigning the group their roles as the fight continued.

• Hai Ming killed the Cuttlefish Beast and told Zhu Zhuqing he would conceal his aura and watch the coming fight from above.
• Tang San and the Shrek group launched their attack at the wedding, and Zhu Zhuqing freed Poseyue from the Phantom Starfish King’s tentacles.
• Dai Mubai caught Poseyue and called for Oscar to detoxify her after Zhu Zhuqing sensed poison in her body.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun killed three Sea Soul Beasts, while Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang used a Soul Skill Fusion Technique to write “Ugly” across the sea in flames.
• Xiao Wu attacked the Phantom Starfish King with an improved Godly Zhuge Crossbow loaded with Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well spring water.
• Dai Mubai assigned the group their battle roles, then charged into the Sea Soul Beast horde with a Blue Silver Emperor supporting him over the water.

Tang San's group attacked the Magic Starfish Clan, and Dai Mubai was poisoned while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing fought the Phantom Starfish King. As the King trapped Zhu Zhuqing in its Fantasy Nightmare, a human youth crushed an eighty-thousand-year Walrein and said he would play with the water.

• Dai Mubai killed the Phantom Starfish King's assistant, but the King poisoned him with its tentacles, and Tang San sent him to Oscar for treatment.
• Xiao Wu used her Savage Eight-Stage Throw to injure the Phantom Starfish King before it caught her in its tentacles.
• Zhu Zhuqing rescued Xiao Wu and drew the Phantom Starfish King away from Tang San's group, then fought it with attacks infused with Asura Divine Power.
• The Phantom Starfish King used Fantasy Nightmare to trap Zhu Zhuqing and prevent her from activating Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• A human youth seized an eighty-thousand-year Walrein and crushed it, then said he would play with the water.

Zhu Zhuqing fought the Phantom Starfish King while Hai Ming distracted him without directly attacking, and Poseyue used her song Charm to help secure the victory. Zhu Zhuqing killed the Phantom Starfish King and demanded his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.

• Zhu Zhuqing broke free of the Phantom Starfish King's Fantasy Nightmare and attacked him with the Shura God Sword while Hai Ming pressured him from afar.
• Tang San and the others killed tens of thousands of Phantom Starfish and drove off the remaining Sea Soul Beasts.
• Hai Ming denied interfering with the trial, then repeatedly distracted the Phantom Starfish King by killing escaping Soul Beasts and revealing his godlike Soul Rings.
• The Phantom Starfish King revealed his true form and sealed off the area, but Hai Ming's attack shattered the clouds above him and Poseyue appeared with the blue light of her song Charm.
• Zhu Zhuqing pierced the Phantom Starfish King's central core, killed him, and told him to offer up his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.

After the Phantom Starfish King died, Zhu Zhuqing completed her Black-Level Eight Trial and chose to absorb his Soul Ring and Soul Bone despite the risks. As she began her breakthrough, Poseyue learned why her mother could not simply go to Sea God Island.

• The Shrek Seven Monsters and Zhu Zhuqing wiped out the Magic Starfish Clan after the Phantom Starfish King fell.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed her trial, earning a major increase in Soul Power and Soul Ring age, while the others also received rewards.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose the Phantom Starfish King's Soul Ring and Soul Bone over a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and Asura evolved her Divine Slaughter's Domain into the Asura Domain.
• While Zhu Zhuqing absorbed her rewards, Poseyue asked Dai Mubai why her mother could not go to Sea God Island.
• Ning Rongrong explained that the Sea God had never given Poseyue's mother formal status, so the island's residents would likely separate mother and daughter.

Poseyue learned that Poseidon had protected her mother from afar, then decided to pursue Dai Mubai so she could reach Sea God Island. After a month, Zhu Zhuqing emerged from absorbing the Phantom Starfish King's remnant soul with a hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Phantom Demon Whip.

• Dai Mubai explained that Poseidon had protected Poseyue and her mother by designating the Siren Waters as their refuge, though her mother's faith was not pure enough for Sea God Island.
• Poseyue proposed to Dai Mubai, who refused; Ning Rongrong recognized that Poseyue wanted to reach Sea God Island through him.
• Poseyue stayed close to Dai Mubai during the month the others waited aboard the Dragon Abyss Vessel.
• Zhu Zhuqing broke through Hai Ming's barrier and reunited with him after absorbing the Phantom Starfish King's remnant soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her new hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Phantom Demon Whip.

After Poseyue joined the voyage to Sea God Island, Dai Mubai struggled with her affection and his own past, seeking Hai Ming’s advice. Poseyue’s devotion ultimately pushed Dai Mubai to resolve to become strong enough to deserve her.

• Poseidon reluctantly agreed to let Poseyue travel to Sea God Island with Hai Ming and the others, and Siren went with them.
• Ma Hongjun teased Dai Mubai about becoming Poseyue’s husband, prompting Dai Mubai to threaten him with training.
• Dai Mubai asked Hai Ming how to handle Poseyue and whether the High Priestess would accept her; Hai Ming reassured him and urged him to consider his feelings.
• Dai Mubai told Hai Ming about fleeing his family’s conflict and feeling guilty toward Zhu Zhuqing, while Hai Ming challenged him to stop dwelling on his past.
• Poseyue draped a coat over Dai Mubai’s shoulders, and Dai Mubai vowed to become a Titled Douluo within ten years and a god within a hundred so he could be worthy of her.

Hai Ming returned to Sea God Island with Siren and Poseyue, while Zhu Zhuqing cultivated to complete her breakthrough to level ninety. After absorbing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring from the Asura God, she became Nether Douluo, the continent’s youngest female Titled Douluo.

• Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians welcomed Siren and Poseyue to Sea God Island and brought them to Sea God's Mountain.
• The Shrek group went to attempt their fourth trials, while Hai Ming returned to Hailong City with Zhu Zhuqing, whose eighth-trial rewards had raised her Soul Power to around level eighty-nine and a half.
• Zhu Zhuqing entered seclusion and trained with her Phantom Demon Clone, which returned part of its cultivation gains to her.
• After a month and a half, Zhu Zhuqing reached level ninety, and the Asura God granted her a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for her final Soul Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Soul Ring after ten more days and became the continent’s youngest female Titled Douluo, Nether Douluo.

Zhu Zhuqing received the third Asura God trial, requiring her to defeat ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and ten Titled Douluo, and began completing it with Hai Ming’s help. After they returned to the continent to continue their trials, they discussed Heaven Dou City’s reforms before Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo approached them.

• Zhu Zhuqing’s breakthrough to Titled Douluo completed the second Asura trial, and the third trial required her to defeat ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and ten Titled Douluo.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing planned targets for the trial, and Zhu Zhuqing chose to challenge the Seven Sacred Pillars and Big White first.
• Over the following month, Zhu Zhuqing defeated Big White, the Seven Sacred Pillars, Siren, and Little White, spurring Tang San and the others to train harder.
• Tang Chen invited Zhu Zhuqing to challenge him, but she refused because she knew she could not yet defeat him.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing left Sea God Island for the continent and discussed the limits of Heaven Dou City’s support for commoner Soul Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo approached Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing and asked whether Zhu Zhuqing had returned to challenge Titled Douluo.

Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect met Xue Ke, the puppet empress of the Heaven Dou Empire, and learned that Ning Fengzhi had taken her as a disciple to protect her. Zhu Zhuqing left to confront the two Titled Douluo controlling Xue Ke, while Ning Fengzhi prepared the sect to support Xue Ke's rule.

• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Shura God Sword to Sword Douluo, whose Martial Soul feared its aura and who praised the weapon.
• Xue Ke arrived alone and greeted Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Fengzhi explained that he had taken her as his disciple to shield her from the two Titled Douluo left by Xue Qinghe.
• Hai Ming reassured Zhu Zhuqing that Spirit Hall's control would not last, while Zhu Zhuqing sympathized with Xue Ke's helpless position.
• After the meal, Zhu Zhuqing left to deal with the Titled Douluo in the imperial palace, and Hai Ming promised to support her.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Zhu Zhuqing's trial could count the two Titled Douluo as opponents and sent Sword Douluo to prepare the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to back Xue Ke.