Chapter Summaries

Tang San and his companions arrived at Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi explained that the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar would assign each newcomer a trial. The group received their assessments, and Tang San was left to take his test.

• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud opened Sea God Island's barrier, and Tang San's group landed on the island.
• Sea Horse Douluo recognized Tang San from the Heavenly Screen and summoned the other six Sacred Pillar Guardians.
• The guardians escorted the group to Bo Saixi, who explained the island's trial system at the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
• Ning Rongrong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials, Zhu Zhuqing the Black Level Five Trials, Xiao Wu the Black Level Six Trials, Dugu Yan the Black Level Six Trials, and Ye Lingling the Top-Tier Seven Trials.
• Li Xun received the Top-Tier Eight Trials, and Tang San remained as the last person to be assessed.

Tang San received the Sea God Nine Trials, the complete succession trials for the Sea God's throne, and accepted the first challenge. Li Xun learned his next Asura God trial required him to reach Soul Sage within six months and planned to cultivate on Sea God Island.

• Tang San activated the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, which revealed the Sea God Nine Trials and summoned a phantom of the Sea God Trident.
• Bo Saixi explained that passing all nine trials would make Tang San the next Sea God and described the first trial: climbing the Sea God Pillar through the Sea God's Light.
• Tang San accepted the first trial, which would begin early the next morning, and Sea Horse Douluo led the group to their lodgings.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo asked Li Xun about his Fourth Asura God Trial, and he told them to reach Soul Sage within six months.
• Li Xun decided to use Sea God Island's cultivation environment while Tang San and the others undertook their trials, as Golden Crocodile Douluo considered exploring the surrounding waters.

Li Xun and Tang San tested the Sea God’s Light on Sea God Mountain, where increasing pressure made climbing the stairs a test of endurance and Soul Power. Tang San stopped at the thirty-eighth stair, while Li Xun reached the sixtieth and learned that it met the standard for his trial; the others then began their own attempts.

• Li Xun and Tang San were repelled by an invisible barrier at the stairs, and Sea Horse Douluo explained how the Sea God’s Light worked.
• Li Xun and Tang San climbed under the rising pressure, using Soul Skills to continue upward.
• Tang San exhausted his Soul Power at the thirty-eighth stair and was thrown into the Ring Sea, where Xiao Wu pulled him out.
• Li Xun paused at the thirty-ninth stair to adapt to the pressure, then climbed to the sixtieth and descended on his own.
• Sea Horse Douluo explained the different stair requirements for each trial rank, and Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and the others began their attempts.

After everyone passed the First Trial, the group used the Sea God's Light on Sea God Mountain to cultivate. Li Xun forced his way through a bottleneck on the eightieth step, reached level seventy, and completed the Asura God's Fourth Trial.

• Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God's Light would remain for a year and could strengthen their cultivation, so Li Xun and Tang San began climbing to train.
• Over the following days, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling joined them, improving through repeated climbs.
• Three months later, Li Xun had risen from level sixty-five to sixty-eight, Tang San had reached level fifty-five, and the others had strengthened their abilities.
• At the six-month mark, Li Xun reached the peak of level sixty-nine and charged up Sea God Mountain to break through his bottleneck.
• Li Xun endured the pressure on the eightieth step, awakened his dormant Asura God Power, and broke through to level seventy.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo supported Li Xun as he descended, and Light Feather Douluo confirmed that he had completed the Asura God's Fourth Trial.

Li Xun and his companions sailed into the outer seas to find a two-hundred-thousand-year-old Silverback Devil Shark, then fought and killed it. The shark’s red Soul Ring appeared, and Li Xun began absorbing it.

• Li Xun, Bo Saixi, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo left Sea God Island aboard a soul-tool speedboat to search for the Silverback Devil Shark.
• On the third day, Bo Saixi detected the shark’s territory near a deep-sea trench and had Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo provoke it with attacks into the sea.
• The Silverback Devil Shark surfaced, and Golden Crocodile Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, and Bo Saixi attacked it together.
• Bo Saixi restrained the shark with Sea God Chains and her domain while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Light Feather Douluo dealt decisive blows, killing it.
• A red Soul Ring rose from the shark, and Li Xun sat down to absorb it.

Li Xun absorbed the Silverback Devil Shark’s two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Right Arm Soul Bone, then returned to Sea God Island and learned that his Sixth Trial required him to become a Titled Douluo. Bo Saixi offered to guide him and Tang San as they prepare for the challenge.

• Li Xun endured the violent Soul Power and vicious thoughts of the Silverback Devil Shark’s Soul Ring until he completed his seventh Soul Ring.
• Li Xun absorbed the shark’s two-hundred-thousand-year Right Arm Soul Bone, while Bo Saixi, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo guarded him.
• Li Xun and his companions returned to Sea God Island, where Tang San and the others learned that Li Xun had reached level seventy-four and gained both the Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Li Xun told the group that his Sixth Trial was to become a Titled Douluo, and he explained that no time limit had been given.
• Bo Saixi told Li Xun and Tang San to meet her the next day so she could guide them.

Five years after arriving on Sea God Island, Li Xun reached the Quasi-Titled Douluo level and learned that his Seventh Trial required him to fill ten Soul Ring slots with Soul Beasts at least a hundred thousand years old. He and his companions set out to hunt a Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, and the chapter leaves them at the entrance to its deep-sea lair.

• After five years of cultivation, Li Xun reached the Quasi-Titled Douluo level, while Tang San and the others advanced through their trials.
• Li Xun learned that his Seventh Trial required ten Soul Beasts at least a hundred thousand years old to complete the rings on both his Martial Souls.
• Bo Saixi named several possible targets, and Li Xun chose the nearby Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon for its baleful Qi.
• Li Xun, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, and Bo Saixi left Sea God Island to hunt the Flood Dragon.
• After two days at sea, Li Xun, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo dived into the trench and found the entrance to the Flood Dragon's lair.

Li Xun hunted a hundred-and-twenty-thousand-year Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, absorbed its Soul Ring, and became a Titled Douluo before filling all nine Soul Ring slots of his second Martial Soul. After rising to Level 98, he read the Asura God's Eighth Trial and was astonished by its contents.

• Li Xun, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Light Feather Douluo killed the Dark Demon Abyss Flood Dragon, and Li Xun absorbed its Soul Ring to reach Level 90.
• Li Xun and his companions hunted nine more Sea Soul Beasts over three months, filling every Soul Ring slot of his Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation Diagram while Tang San passed the Sea God's Sixth Trial.
• Li Xun returned to Sea God Island and discovered that the ten hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and his full set of Soul Bones had raised him to Level 98.
• Li Xun examined the Asura God's Eighth Trial and muttered that the Asura God wanted to retire.

Li Xun learned that his Eighth Trial required him to marry Qian Renxue in a grand wedding, then planned to return to Spirit Hall while Tang San continued his training on Sea God Island. In the Divine Realm, Poseidon challenged the First-Generation Asura God over the easy trial, but the Asura God defended his authority and revealed that Li Xun’s final trial would be to reach the Limit Douluo level.

• Li Xun told Tang San that he would pass the Eighth Trial by marrying Qian Renxue and holding a grand wedding.
• Tang San said his Sixth Trial required him to keep challenging a Sacred Pillar Guardian until he won.
• Li Xun planned to visit Spirit Hall to inform the Grand Worshipper and Qian Renxue, then begin wedding preparations.
• Poseidon confronted the First-Generation Asura God about making the Eighth Trial a wedding, but the Asura God insisted he could set his own trials.
• The First-Generation Asura God said Li Xun’s Ninth Trial would require him to break through to the Limit Douluo level.

Li Xun returned to Spirit Hall and learned that the Asura God’s Eighth Trial required him to marry Qian Renxue, prompting a grand wedding planned for three months later. During those months, he accepted Xu Changle as his disciple, defeated Bibi Dong after she challenged him, and saw Qian Renxue become Pope; on the eve of the wedding, he looked forward to the ceremony.

• Li Xun left Sea God Island and reported the Eighth Trial’s marriage requirement to Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, who agreed to arrange a grand wedding.
• The Sun Moon Empire delegation arrived, and Xu Changle insisted that Li Xun accept her as his disciple; he eventually agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang repeatedly visited Li Xun, who broke his limbs and threw him out of Spirit Hall after growing annoyed with him.
• Bibi Dong confronted Li Xun over Yu Xiaogang, but he overpowered her without using his Martial Soul, and Qian Daoliu removed her as Pope.
• Qian Renxue succeeded Bibi Dong as Pope, and, three months after the wedding preparations began, Li Xun spent the night before his wedding looking over Spirit City.