Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lan found a reef platform that he planned to turn into a workshop for underwater Soul Tools. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Chen confronted the sect’s troubled past and asked Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua what they thought about the four great clans leaving.

• Jiang Lan woke, dressed in his penguin onesie, and followed Bo Saixi to the western reef area with Doro on his shoulder.
• Jiang Lan decided the reef platform and its caves were ideal for storing and testing underwater Soul Tools, and Bo Saixi agreed after listing repairs it needed.
• Tang Chen reviewed the Clear Sky Sect’s records and blamed himself for failing to hold the sect together after the four great clans departed.
• Tang Chen summoned Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua, then asked them what they thought about the four great clans leaving.
• Tang Yuehua explained that the Strength Clan and the other three clans had left because they saw no hope after the Clear Sky Sect sealed its mountain.

Tang Chen learned that Tang Yuehua loved Tang Hao, then went to the rear mountain and found Tang San fighting Tang Tian over Tang Tian calling him a mongrel. The fight stopped at Tang Chen’s command, but Tang Tian stood by his insult, leaving Tang Chen exasperated with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang Chen confronted Tang Yuehua about her feelings for Tang Hao and told her to choose her own path without regret.
• Tang Chen warned Tang Hao to make Tang San train properly and stop stealing from others.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple told Tang Chen that Tang San and Tang Tian were fighting at the rear mountain training grounds.
• Tang Chen arrived and stopped Tang San and Tang Tian, who had been locked in an even fight using hidden weapons and a Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San said Tang Tian had called him a mongrel, and Tang Tian defended the insult because Tang San was born of a soul beast and a human.

Lan Fozi brought Jiang Lan to meet her mother, the Demon Empress, who questioned how he had made the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King flee. After hearing that her husband had promised to avoid Jiang Lan, the Demon Empress suspected the child was secretly his.

• Lan Fozi told Jiang Lan that her mother wanted to meet him because she had heard about him every day.
• Jiang Lan changed clothes and packed pills and dried grilled fish before traveling with Lan Fozi and Doro into the deep sea.
• Lan Fozi introduced Jiang Lan to the Demon Empress, who was surprised by her daughter's affection for him.
• The Demon Empress asked Jiang Lan how he had sent her husband running, and Jiang Lan explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had vowed never to fight him again.
• The Demon Empress heard that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had promised to give Jiang Lan a wide berth and began suspecting Jiang Lan was his child.

Jiang Lan gave the Demon Empress pills and dried grilled fish, earning her approval and an invitation to visit again. After hearing how long Jiang Lan’s fights with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King lasted, the Demon Empress suspected her husband was meeting a lover and left to confront him.

• The Demon Empress questioned Jiang Lan about his father and wondered whether he was connected to the Sea God and Bo Saixi.
• Jiang Lan offered the Demon Empress pills and dried grilled fish, and the pills strengthened her and cleared old injuries.
• The Demon Empress praised the gifts and told Jiang Lan to visit often after seeing how affectionate Lan Fozi was toward him.
• Jiang Lan said his fights with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King lasted at most ten-odd minutes, prompting the Demon Empress to suspect her husband was having an affair.
• The Demon Empress left to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Jiang Lan told Lan Fozi that some fish was in for trouble.

Jiang Lan accidentally led the Demon Empress to believe that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had been seeing another fish, so she confronted and attacked him. The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King fled, insisting he was innocent.

• The Demon Empress hurried away after mistaking Jiang Lan’s account of his fight with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for evidence of an affair.
• Lan Fozi carried Jiang Lan back toward the surface, while he amused himself imagining the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s reaction.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King returned to his territory, where the Demon Empress arrived and attacked him.
• The Demon Empress questioned the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King about his recent absences, but he concealed that he had gone to challenge Jiang Lan.
• The Demon Empress concluded that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had another fish on the side and beat him as he fled, protesting his innocence.

Jiang Lan prepared to leave Sea God Island for Heaven Dou City after arranging the Workshop, but the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King arrived battered and blamed him for a quarrel with his wife. Lan Fozi backed Jiang Lan, leaving the whale king to accept his new place in the household.

• Jiang Lan checked the Workshop's progress, assigned Guga One to collect materials and train Sea Maiden trainees, and reviewed plans for an Underwater Propeller.
• Jiang Lan decided to visit Heaven Dou City and see Sister Rongrong, Sister Zhuqing, Sister Yanyan, and Sister Lingling, while leaving Guga One in charge of production.
• Several days later, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King called for Jiang Lan and appeared badly beaten in the shallows.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King accused Jiang Lan of making his wife misunderstand him, and Jiang Lan told him to cook a few dishes.
• Lan Fozi swam up, affectionately rubbed against Jiang Lan, and signaled to her father to do as Jiang Lan said.

Jiang Lan taunted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King after the Sea God chained him in place, then used a giant tree as a baseball bat and struck him on the head. The whale king was left furious and trapped as Jiang Lan declared the bat worked well.

• Lan Fozi urged Jiang Lan on, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King erupted in anger at his daughter's betrayal.
• The Sea God bound the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with a chain, leaving him unable to reach Jiang Lan.
• Jiang Lan teased the whale king with candy and stayed just beyond the reach of his jaws.
• Jiang Lan uprooted a towering tree and shaped it into a giant baseball bat.
• Jiang Lan swung the bat into the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's forehead, and the whale king shouted that he would kill him.

Jiang Lan beat the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King into submission, then left with Doro while Lan Fozi stayed behind. Back in his territory, the battered whale king met the equally injured Evil Orca King, and the two recognized each other’s misfortune.

• Jiang Lan struck the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with the Baseball Bat until the whale king submitted.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King vowed revenge on Jiang Lan and the Sea God, then asked Lan Fozi to check his three lumps.
• The Sea God's chains dissolved, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked Lan Fozi to return with him.
• Lan Fozi stayed with Jiang Lan, who waved to her from shore as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King swam away alone.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King returned to his territory and found the Evil Orca King cursing Jiang Lan over his injuries.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Evil Orca King exchanged a few words and recognized that both had been beaten up.

The Evil Orca King and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King agreed to join forces against Jiang Lan after he humiliated them, planning to meet again in half a year. Back on Sea God Island, Jiang Lan told Bo Saixi what happened and asked to visit Heaven Dou City to see Zhu Zhuqing and inspect his Honey Snow Ice City branches.

• The Evil Orca King proposed an alliance with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and they agreed to gather their clans and meet in half a year.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King recalled his rise to power and vowed to settle scores with Jiang Lan after he healed.
• Jiang Lan returned to Sea God Island with Lan Fozi and learned that Bo Saixi wanted to see him.
• Jiang Lan told Bo Saixi how he had beaten and humiliated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Jiang Lan asked Bo Saixi to let him return to Heaven Dou City to visit Zhu Zhuqing and check on his business branches.

Jiang Lan returned to Heaven Dou City with Zhu Zhuyun and Doro, expecting to check on his milk tea shop and reunite with his friends. Ning Rongrong welcomed him enthusiastically, then wondered why he had not grown at all during the years he was away.

• Jiang Lan decided to travel to Heaven Dou City to see Zhuqing and the others, and he and Zhu Zhuyun set off by carriage with Doro.
• After more than a month, Jiang Lan arrived in the city and found Honey Snow Ice City still busy, with Guga Robots running the shop.
• Ning Rongrong saw Jiang Lan in the courtyard, rushed over, and repeatedly lifted and kissed him.
• Ning Rongrong examined Jiang Lan and asked why he looked exactly as he had years earlier; Jiang Lan said he might grow slowly because he was a special race.
• Ning Rongrong sighed and pulled Jiang Lan into her arms.