Chapter Summaries

Han Tao and Ye Lingling entered Slaughter City to use its inhabitants as subjects for bodily transformation experiments, since their methods could overcome the city's soul-power blockade. After two days of testing muscle modifications, an old man suggested using Soul Beast Possession to alter traits that could not otherwise be changed.

• Han Tao explained that Slaughter City's Evil Soul Masters could serve as experimental subjects and that their abilities could counter the city's soul-power blockade.
• Han Tao and Ye Lingling arrived in Slaughter City, where Han Tao killed a Blood Slave who demanded blood and offered Ye Lingling as payment.
• Han Tao seized several powerful soul masters, killed a resisting old man, and forced the others to cooperate with Ye Lingling's experiments.
• Ye Lingling spent two days modifying a captive's White Muscle Group, achieving partial success while leaving his organ muscles unchanged.
• Han Tao asked Ye Lingling to improve the distribution of sensory nerves and increase receptor density, but she had no clear way to increase the receptors.
• An old man proposed using Soul Beast Possession to reverse unchangeable bodily traits, citing Tang Chen's use of a Nine Headed Bat.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling explored whether bloodline power could increase muscle receptors, discovering that Golden Saint Dragon Blood could transform White Muscle Group. They began an experiment using Blue Silver Grass and life force to grant the bloodline to a test subject, whose receptors rapidly multiplied.

• Han Tao released the old man after refusing his advice about Soul Beast Possession, and Ye Lingling questioned why he let him go.
• Ye Lingling explained that Golden Saint Dragon Blood could affect White Muscle Group, unlike other bloodlines, and proposed using Blue Silver Grass to approximate it.
• Han Tao and Ye Lingling used healing and life force to prepare Blue Silver Grass to bear the Golden Saint Dragon characteristic.
• Ye Lingling began transforming the middle-aged burly man with the bloodline, causing his muscle receptors to multiply rapidly.
• Han Tao wondered whether the man had gained too many receptors, and Ye Lingling said they would reduce the number later to find the optimal quantity.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling reviewed the results of their muscle modifications, which had brought them to the 99-point physique limit. Han Tao then proposed adapting Tang San’s Tears of the Goddess of Mercy into a whole-body bloodline transformation, and Ye Lingling supported exploring the idea.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Han Tao and Ye Lingling about Slaughter City, and they described the successful muscle modifications and the deaths of about a hundred Soul Masters.
• Ye Lingling explained that the Golden Saint Dragon’s strength-control adaptations, rather than the speed-focused Hell Spirit Cat or Needletail Swift, had provided useful gains in agility and explosive power.
• Han Tao described how he and Ye Lingling had reached 99 physique points through different White Muscle Group and Pink Muscle Group ratios, while Ye Lingling reasoned that separate bodily components appeared capped at 99 points.
• Ning Rongrong pointed out that Blue Silver techniques and the Three Changes System could enhance the skin domain by up to 150 percent.
• Han Tao proposed treating Tears of the Goddess of Mercy as a bloodline transformation rather than a Hidden Weapon, and Ye Lingling urged him to investigate the possibility.

Han Tao helped Ning Fengzhi neutralize the Seven Absolute Jade Phosphor and extract the Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma toxins, with Ye Lingling healing the damage. Yu Tianheng then asked for the poisoned Dark Blue Silver Grass, and Han Tao wondered whether the Nine Leaves Purple Ganoderma was part of the Golden Saint Dragon’s foundation.

• Han Tao explained that his Blue Silver Furnace could help Ning Fengzhi overcome the Immortal Herb conflict, but Ning Fengzhi initially refused treatment so he could break through to Titled Douluo himself.
• Chen Xin urged Ning Fengzhi to accept Han Tao’s help, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to let Han Tao and Ning Rongrong proceed.
• Han Tao used Lovesick Heartbreak Red to fuse his Nine Leaves Blue Silver Emperor with Ning Fengzhi’s Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, synchronizing antibodies that neutralized the Seven Absolute Jade Phosphor.
• Han Tao used ten-thousand-year Dark Blue Silver Grass to devour the Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma toxins, and Ye Lingling healed the resulting bodily damage.
• Yu Tianheng asked Han Tao for the toxin-corroded Dark Blue Silver Grass, saying his Golden Saint Dragon martial soul needed it, and Han Tao speculated that Nine Leaves Purple Ganoderma might be part of the Golden Saint Dragon’s foundation.

Han Tao gave Yu Tianheng the Dark Blue Silver Grass, which Yu Tianheng used to purify toxins and absorb its remaining Immortal Herb power. As Tang Chen returned seeking revenge, Han Tao prepared to send Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong to Sea God Island while Sword Douluo hid Ning Fengzhi, but Ning Rongrong insisted on going along.

• Han Tao used an Illusion to confirm that the Snow Crown had told Yu Tianheng the Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma held the Golden Saint Dragon's foundation of light, life, and creation, then gave him the Dark Blue Silver Grass.
• The Light Dragon King confirmed to the Asura God that he had revived the Golden Saint Dragon and said he had no intention of interfering with the Asura God's successor.
• Han Tao sensed Tang Chen returning after reforging his divine blade and warned Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that Spirit Hall would not aid them, leaving them isolated against his revenge.
• Han Tao said he and Ye Lingling would go to Sea God Island while Chen Xin took Ning Fengzhi into hiding, with the Blue Silver Grass guiding them underground.
• Ning Rongrong refused to stay behind and insisted on joining Han Tao and Ye Lingling on Sea God Island.

Han Tao led the Sect away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to protect its plants from Tang Chen, then sailed with Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to Sea God Island. At the Seahorse Holy Pillar, Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling both received Red Level Seven Trials.

• Han Tao evacuated the Sect and its rare Blue Silver Grass plants to Star Dou Great Forest, promising Ning Rongrong he would return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Han Tao, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling sailed toward Sea God Island and encountered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while Tang Chen stood in the distance.
• A Demon Soul Great White Shark warned the group that Sea God Island's trial ended in success or death, and Han Tao chose to proceed.
• Seahorse Douluo allowed them to take the Seagod Trial after Ning Rongrong showed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• The Holy Pillar gave Ning Rongrong a Red Level Seven Trial, and Ye Lingling received the same rank.

Han Tao, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling discussed the Sea God's inheritance and the purpose of their trials on Sea God Island. Bo Saixi explained that Han Tao and Ye Lingling could pass Tidal Body Refinement early by changing their physiques, but the shortcut would make their next trials harder.

• Han Tao told Ye Lingling to study the Seagod High Priest trial as a guide to cultivating divinity, while he planned to seek a Godhood suited to her Nine Heart Begonia and Life Force.
• Han Tao received Black Level Five Trials and questioned whether the Sea God Sacred Pillar could accurately judge talent after it assigned him a demanding Tidal Body Refinement trial.
• Han Tao explained ways to endure the required refinement, but Ye Lingling said she would rather copy the benefits from someone else's refinement than spend her time on it.
• Bo Saixi arrived and explained that a physical change could complete the trial early, but taking that shortcut would increase the difficulty of the next trial.
• Bo Saixi said the full twelve-hour refinement was meant to teach them the connection between the sun, moon, tides, and the rules governing them.

Han Tao investigated the Seagod Priest Scepter’s Divine Core and discovered that Ning Rongrong’s Transparent Gem could fit his own scepter. Bo Saixi argued that his priesthood knowledge was incomplete, and Han Tao proposed that a priest’s authority might extend beyond faith and sacrifice to transformation.

• Bo Saixi explained how the Sea God mastered Tidal Power and ascended through faith, while Han Tao considered how a Divine Core related to the Blue Silver Emperor and Priest Scepter.
• Ning Rongrong produced a Transparent Gem, and Han Tao fitted it into his Blue Silver bamboo Priest Scepter, but the Martial Soul did not reach God level.
• Bo Saixi told Han Tao that Faith Power was the foundation of a priest’s evolution and that the priestly position held authorities beyond sacrifice.
• Han Tao suggested that a priest’s higher authority might involve transforming or reshaping a Soul Beast’s body.
• Bo Saixi reconsidered his theory and asked Han Tao what he believed the authority of the priest position should be.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling explored the Sea God's Light, where Bo Saixi explained how the Seagod Stairway could help a soul master ascend to godhood. Han Tao then studied tidal power and learned that Sea God Island's soul masters had exceptionally refined physical talents, leaving him to consider why Bo Saixi looked down on outsiders.

• Han Tao, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong reached the Sea God's Light, and Bo Saixi explained that the Seagod Stairway was an Ascension Stairway leading to Poseidon's Trident.
• Bo Saixi said a soul master could form an Ascension Stairway by combining compatible Faith Power with perfected divinity, and she explained that Tang Chen's incomplete inheritance left flaws in his body and soul.
• Han Tao placed Image Stones by the coast to record the tides after failing to create Tidal Power by combining Earth Lotus Root and Moonlight Grass.
• Ye Lingling showed Han Tao her research on Sea Soul Masters and used Nine Heart Begonia to optimize his skin for movement through water.
• Ye Lingling explained that Sea God Island's soul masters had unusually advanced physical traits, which the group attributed to generations of selection shaped by the Seagod Trial.
• Han Tao concluded that Bo Saixi's superior talent let her notice flaws in his body and explained her apparent disdain for them.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling examined Sea God Island’s Soul Master talents and identified meridian elasticity and naturally ordered meridian pathways as rare advantages. Ye Lingling concluded that although they could not reproduce the countless capillary pathways, they could reshape the major meridians and heart vessels, and began doing so using Sea Star Douluo’s chart as a model.

• Han Tao explained that meridian elasticity let some Sea Soul Masters endure stronger Soul Power surges, and Ye Lingling said only about twenty-one percent of island Soul Masters had it, usually those with snake-, dragon-, or spear-related martial souls.
• Ye Lingling showed Han Tao a chart whose meridian and blood vessel routes followed a more natural pattern, and she identified Sea Star Douluo and Seagod Ghost Douluo as the only known Sea God Island Soul Masters with this rare trait.
• Han Tao asked whether they could copy the advantageous traits, but Ning Rongrong explained that changing hundreds of trillions of capillaries was impractical.
• Ye Lingling said they could alter the Twelve Principal Meridians, Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and core heart vessels, then used healing Soul Power to reshape those pathways based on Sea Star Douluo’s chart.

Ye Lingling transformed Seahorse Douluo’s meridians in exchange for a giant crayfish, prompting her, Han Tao, and Ning Rongrong to consider using transformation powers to improve healing and talent. Han Tao began testing the idea on pirates, but his first attempt to reconstruct capillary meridians failed in a test subject’s arm.

• Seahorse Douluo asked Ye Lingling to transform his meridians and offered a six-thousand-year-old crayfish as payment; she completed the transformation in under half an hour.
• At the crayfish farm, Ye Lingling suggested studying the creature’s apparent immortality, and Ning Rongrong proposed using transformation powers to reshape capillary meridians and advance Ye Lingling’s healing.
• Han Tao used the Priest Scepter’s transformation authority, Ye Lingling’s help, and the Eye of Domination to test meridian reconstruction on pirates outside Sea God Island.
• A pirate threatened Han Tao with the Sea King’s hidden weapon, revealing a connection Han Tao recognized, but Han Tao continued the experiment.
• The reconstruction failed in the pirate’s arm, so Han Tao amputated it and began recording what had gone wrong.

Han Tao identified how genes and Nine Heart Begonia healing disrupted meridian modification, then used sacrifice, transformation, and pure Life Force to successfully rebuild his meridians and blood vessels. His new power shook the sea, drawing Poseidon's attention and leaving Tang San furious that Han Tao appeared to have learned Ring Detonation.

• Han Tao and Ye Lingling concluded that genes and healing Soul Power made Pirate's regrown capillary meridians revert toward their former structure.
• Han Tao used Faith Power to sacrifice away Pirate's capillary meridians completely, while Ye Lingling preserved the vitality in his left leg without healing it.
• Han Tao used the Blue Silver Priest Scepter's sacrifice and transformation powers to reshape his own meridians, and Ye Lingling completed the process with her Life soul skill.
• Han Tao unleashed powerful Soul Power through his newly modified meridians, sending shockwaves across the sea.
• Poseidon sensed the distant fluctuations, while Tang San saw Han Tao and angrily suspected he had learned Grandfather's Ring Detonation technique.

Han Tao defeated Poseidon on Sea God Island and learned how barnacle parasitism had inspired Tang Chen’s path to divinity. As Tang San tried to escape, Ye Lingling crippled his Dantian in revenge while investigating whether it could be healed.

• Tang San introduced Ning Rongrong to Poseidon, but she angrily rejected Tang San’s praise of Shrek Academy and Yu Xiaogang.
• Poseidon attacked Han Tao through the sea, but Han Tao’s illusion and strength overwhelmed him, and Tang San sent a message summoning Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen received Tang San’s plea but chose to wait, intending to use Tang San as bait and confront Han Tao afterward.
• Han Tao restrained Poseidon and learned that he had gained power by allowing special barnacles to parasitize his sea-turtle Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling attacked Tang San with her healing soul power, destroyed his Dantian, and said she was testing whether it could be healed as revenge for her mother.

Ye Lingling and Han Tao defeated Tang San, whose attempt to threaten them failed when he realized he had lost the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline. Tang Chen then threatened to ruin the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s ecology unless Han Tao released Tang San, leaving Han Tao weighing the threat as Tang San taunted him.

• Ye Lingling used her Soul Power to inflict agony on Tang San, while Han Tao revealed that Feng Yin Grass could perceive Fortune Power.
• Han Tao used Soul Power Annihilation to immobilize Tang San, who briefly grasped the direction of Blue Silver Grass but realized he had sacrificed the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.
• Han Tao refused Tang San’s proposed bet, restrained him, and said he could not kill him but would not let him go.
• Tang Chen appeared and threatened Han Tao, but found that Han Tao had moved the Blue Silver Grass and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Chen threatened to contaminate the well with Yellow Springs Dew and destroy the Blue Silver Grass’s chance to evolve unless Han Tao released Tang San.
• Tang San mocked Han Tao and urged Tang Chen to destroy the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, claiming Han Tao’s strength depended on it.

Han Tao refused Tang Chen’s offer to free Tang San in exchange for restoring the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Tang Chen destroyed the well with Yellow Springs Dew. After completing his first Sea God trial, Han Tao rejected its reward and began reconsidering how to use the ocean’s tides to improve his cultivation.

• Han Tao refused to release Tang San, and Tang Chen dropped Divinity Soul Refined Gold containing Yellow Springs Dew into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, destroying its ecology.
• Tang San taunted Han Tao over Xiao Wu’s death, and Han Tao showed him the bloodied blade he had used to kill her.
• Han Tao planted Feng Yin Grass near Tang San, while Tang San secretly considered taking over Blue Silver Grass as a new Martial Soul.
• Han Tao completed the first Black Level Five Trial but rejected its soul power reward, explaining that Seagod rewards could bind a Soul Master to the Seagod’s path.
• After the second trial was announced, Han Tao decided not to continue and began developing an old idea for accelerating soul power through acupoint vortices, inspired by the ocean’s tides.

Han Tao broke through to Titled Douluo and explained how Faith Power and bodily remodeling had transformed talent. Bo Saixi recognized the potential of his theories, and Han Tao asked Sea God Island for information about divinity and Seagod Affinity.

• Han Tao surged from Soul Power Level 85 to Level 90, becoming a Titled Douluo and astonishing Bo Saixi and the other Soul Masters.
• Han Tao explained that treatment could repair and transform large-scale meridians, while microscopic reconstruction required sacrifice, Faith Power, and transformation.
• Han Tao said his team had modeled their talent on the meridian traits of Sea Dragon Douluo, Sea Spear Douluo, and Sea Delusion Douluo, while Ye Lingling noted that their research strengthened the importance of healing Martial Souls.
• Seahorse Douluo revealed that Ye Lingling had remodeled his meridians, prompting Sea Maiden Douluo to protest that he had broken their alliance.
• Bo Saixi realized Han Tao had used Faith Power to reconstruct microscopic meridians and admitted she had failed to learn how to use the power she commanded.
• Han Tao asked Bo Saixi for information about divinity and Seagod Affinity.

Bo Saixi explained that breaking through beyond rank 95 required divinity and exceptionally rare sincere faith, while Han Tao chose to sacrifice his Innate Qi Cyclone to condense a Blue Silver Soul Core. He used Tang San’s Innate Soul Ring as a model and began forming the core, though Di Tian noted that the method demanded more power and precision than most Soul Masters or Soul Beasts could manage.

• Bo Saixi explained that divinity was needed to advance beyond rank 95 and that higher divinity required rare, sincere Faith Power.
• Ye Lingling said gratitude from those she had saved had never become faith, while Bo Saixi noted Spirit Hall’s Pope’s Scepter had shattered.
• Han Tao decided his Dantian could not support both a Blue Silver Soul Core and the Innate Qi Cyclone, so he converted the cyclone into an Innate Soul Ring.
• Han Tao questioned Tang San about the Innate Soul Ring on his Clear Sky Hammer, then ignored Tang San’s accusations and threw him beside a trash can.
• Han Tao began condensing a Soul Core using the Crystal Bear method, and Bear Lord sensed the process from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian explained that the method was designed for Soul Beasts and required such enormous soul power, Mental Power, and control that most powerful beings could not meet its conditions.

Han Tao successfully condensed a Blue Silver Soul Core on Sea God Island, while Di Tian recognized the achievement and Han Tao assessed its benefits and limits. The chapter ended with Tang Chen confronting Han Tao over Tang Yuehua’s death, and Han Tao admitting he had considered killing her but denying that he succeeded.

• Han Tao and Ye Lingling recorded repeated Soul Core experiments, and Han Tao succeeded on the sixth attempt with a crystal derived from the Blue Silver Microscopic Structure.
• Ning Rongrong helped amplify Han Tao’s soul power, and Han Tao declared that the Blue Silver Soul Core was a success.
• Di Tian sensed Han Tao’s achievement, while Scarlet King and Bear Lord questioned how a human had succeeded when Bear Lord had not.
• Han Tao recorded that the Soul Core increased his Blue Silver Soul Power, mobilization, compatibility, cultivation speed, and recovery, but cautioned that Di Tian remained ahead in developing the Complementary Soul Core.
• Ning Rongrong proposed synchronizing Han Tao’s Soul Core for everyone, and Ye Lingling began crystallizing her soul power.
• Tang Chen accused Han Tao of killing Tang Yuehua, and Han Tao said he had considered killing her during his visit to Sun Moon Pavilion but had not succeeded.

After Tang Yuehua's death, Tang Chen and Han Tao separately suspected Bibi Dong of orchestrating the attack, while Han Tao's rapid Soul Power breakthrough was interrupted by Ning Rongrong's warning about Mental Power. Han Tao realized his Mental Power might be far weaker than that of prodigies from the distant future.

• Tang Chen questioned Han Tao about his accusation, and Han Tao used Illusion Mirror Image to show that Tang San had not planned Tang Yuehua's death.
• Tang Chen mourned Tang Yuehua at the ruins of Sun Moon Pavilion, then investigated Slaughter City and found no sign that Han Tao or Ye Lingling had obtained the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core.
• Tang Chen and Han Tao independently suspected Bibi Dong of arranging the attack to remove Han Tao, turn Tang Chen against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and help Qian Renxue claim the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Han Tao began breaking through past level 90, but Ning Rongrong stopped him and warned that the breakthrough also required attention to Mental Power.
• Han Tao compared his Mental Power with that of future prodigies and feared it was only a hundredth as strong.

Han Tao decided to abandon his stalled mental power techniques and explore a new path, while Ye Lingling proposed using soul fusion and a god’s Consciousness Projection to aid their research. The group considered the difficult task of purifying powers embedded in their souls before fusion, but Han Tao could only suggest a possible way to remove the influence of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

• Han Tao explained that the Distraction Control Method’s Sixth Layer and the Purple Demon Eyes’ Mustard Seed were limited to the Spirit Connection Realm, then resolved to explore mental power anew with Ning Rongrong’s support.
• Ye Lingling rejected soul splitting and revealed her Nine Heart Begonia’s Soul Condensation skill, which could classify and integrate a split soul but could not change Soul Rings or a Martial Soul’s nature.
• Ye Lingling proposed obtaining the Sea God’s method for making Consciousness Projections, and she agreed to give the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud back in exchange.
• The Sea God projection demonstrated the method inside an illusion, but Han Tao saw through its crude attempt to erode his will with the Illusion Mirror Soul Bone.
• Ye Lingling said the powers mixed into a soul had to be purified before fusion, and Han Tao suggested that Aromatic Silk Beauty might help remove Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew’s influence.