Chapter Summaries

Ren Tao’s group was scattered by a Spider Crab’s mind illusion, and he discovered that the crab was targeting Sea Witch Xin Luo. He reached her in time to destroy a Spider Crab, but Xin Luo remained trapped in an illusion before a giant sea anemone.

• Ren Tao tried to approach Sea Witch with Devouring Golden Threads, but a strange Spider Crab appeared and multiplied into a swarm that attacked the Evil Spirit Orca Group.
• An old man emerged from the crab illusion and challenged Ren Tao with questions about the Drift Bottle and the Evil Soul Master, leaving Ren Tao distracted as the beast tide swept him away from his companions.
• Ren Tao unleashed his golden threads to drain nearby soul beasts, then learned from Hu Dong that Jenny and Yeonnie were with Princess Xin Luo.
• Ren Tao guessed the Spider Crab was trying to lure him away from Sea Witch, sent Hu Dong to regroup with the others, and searched for Xin Luo.
• Ren Tao found Xin Luo trapped in an inner-mind illusion as a giant sea anemone approached her, then struck a nearby reef and split a Spider Crab in two.

Ren Tao uncovered the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s control over the Spider Crabs and disrupted its attack, but the creature trapped the Sea Witch, Jenny, and Yeonnie in a blood mist. Elsewhere, Tang San sensed two auras from Slaughter City as the Shrek Seven Devils waited in hiding.

• Ren Tao recognized the Spider Crabs’ coordinated spiritual attack as the work of the Human-Faced Sea Anemone and ignited the substances it used to manipulate emotions.
• Ren Tao’s lightning briefly paralyzed the Human-Faced Sea Anemone, allowing Sea Maiden Douluo to regain control and strike it with her fourth soul skill.
• The Human-Faced Sea Anemone created reflections of itself, the Sea Witch, Jenny, and Yeonnie, then released a purple-black mist that separated the real Sea Witch from the reflected space.
• The Sea Witch unleashed her Martial Soul Avatar and Sea-Calming Divine Melody after sensing the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s mortal threat.
• At Hundred-Ring Mountain, Tang San sensed two familiar Slaughter City auras while the Shrek Seven Devils waited for the Human-Faced Sea Anemone.

Ren Tao used the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s illusions to trace its spiritual connection and discovered that mermaid genes could advance his evolution and prevent mutations. He broke through the anemone’s defenses into the Sea Witch’s consciousness, where she joined his song and challenged his idea of devouring.

• Ren Tao’s Dragon Blood Killing Array shattered the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s illusions, and he killed one anemone flower with a golden thread.
• Ren Tao and Hu Dong found and devoured three more illusionary anemone flowers, allowing Ren Tao to establish a spiritual connection with the Human-Faced Sea Anemone.
• Ren Tao glimpsed the Sea Witch’s desolate inner world and learned that mermaid genes could unlock the second stage of his autonomous evolution and help prevent mutations.
• Ren Tao plunged into the trench and fought through the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s tentacles and spiritual barrier to reach the Sea Witch’s consciousness.
• Ren Tao appeared in the Sea Witch’s inner world and sang to her; she played along with her Black Flute, then questioned whether his method counted as devouring.

Ren Tao gained and fused skills from the Human-Faced Sea Anemone, triggering a spectacular transformation that drew a furious reaction from the Sea God. Tang San blamed Ren Tao for the upheaval and rushed toward the Inner Sea, determined to kill him.

• Ren Tao reviewed the Human-Faced Sea Anemone’s skills, including Soul Seizure, Mental Illusion, Spatial Shift Technique, and Mirror Illusion, and decided to fuse useful abilities.
• The Sea Witch reunited with Jenny, Yeonnie, and Hu Dong, while Jenny and Yeonnie thanked her for protecting them.
• Ren Tao’s skill fusion produced a radiant transformation that spread across the sea and summoned a vast storm and lightning from the heavens.
• The Sea God’s voice demanded to know what Tang San was doing, and Tang San heard the rebuke inside the Hundred-Ring Mountain Trench.
• Tang San blamed Ren Tao for angering the Sea God and headed for the Inner Sea with Xiao Bai and the Shrek Seven Devils, vowing to erase Ren Tao.

Tang San searched for Ren Tao after the Sea God’s outburst, then returned to find the Shrek Seven Devils accusing him of selfishness. Ren Tao revealed that he had used the Dragon Blood Soul-Control Art to draw out their buried thoughts and declared that his counterattack had begun.

• Tang San and Ma Hongjun searched for Ren Tao but found only the Evil Spirit Orca Group and the Sea Witch heading toward Sea God Island.
• The Shrek Seven Devils watched the Human-Faced Sea Anemone devour its own tentacles and a Sea Anemone Flower.
• Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing accused Tang San of exploiting his companions and Xiao Wu, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai struggled to respond.
• Tang San blasted apart the Human-Faced Sea Anemone with Purple Pole Divine Light and accused Ren Tao of hiding within its aura.
• Ren Tao emerged from the sand and revealed that the Dragon Blood Soul-Control Art had guided the Shrek Seven Devils to voice their buried thoughts rather than controlling them.
• Ren Tao told Tang San he had begun his counterattack and laughed as he recalled the 280 dead Evil Spirit Orcas.

Ren Tao used his spatial-jump and control abilities to isolate Tang San’s allies and gain the upper hand. He then overwhelmed the Hell White Tiger and accused Tang San of selfishness as their battle continued.

• Ren Tao teleported Oscar and Ning Rongrong away, paralyzed them with Divine Thunder, and left them stranded far from the fight.
• Ren Tao intercepted Ma Hongjun and resisted Tang San’s Purple Pole Divine Light with the Blood Sea Pagoda’s domain before carrying Ma Hongjun away.
• Ren Tao released Ma Hongjun into the sea, while Tang San chose not to chase him and waited for the others to regroup.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing arrived as the Hell White Tiger, and Xiao Bai told Tang San that Ren Tao had warned her.
• Ren Tao called for a final battle, blasted the Hell White Tiger into the depths, and condemned Tang San as selfish before stomping down.

Ren Tao outmaneuvered Tang San’s poison-based sacrifice by using a Golden Body Pagoda substitute, forcing the Sea God to intervene. The chapter ended with Ren Tao confronting the Sea God’s blue barrier, followed by an author’s note about revisions and reader feedback.

• Tang San escaped Ren Tao’s attacks with Teleportation while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing withdrew from the battle.
• Ren Tao forced Tang San into the air and countered his Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orb with rising columns of water.
• Tang San used himself as bait to transfer a mixture of deadly poisons into Ren Tao, but Ren Tao revealed that he had been devouring a Golden Body Pagoda substitute.
• The poison cocoon burst, leaving Tang San bloodied inside a blue triangular barrier as Ren Tao welcomed the Sea God’s arrival.
• The author thanked readers, explained the comment restrictions and ongoing plot revisions, and promised to keep improving.

Ren Tao provoked the Sea God into destroying his body, then resurrected through his second evolution and taunted the god until his phantom vanished. He left to refine the trace of divine power left inside him.

• Ren Tao confronted the Sea God and challenged him to attack, threatening to sever Tang San's path to the Sea God's inheritance.
• The Sea God unleashed crushing waves and a punch that shattered Ren Tao's body, but Ren Tao rapidly reconstructed himself through nirvana rebirth.
• Ren Tao explained that his rebirth came from his second evolution and the Mermaid Princess's life genes, then dared the Sea God to use his final attack.
• The Sea God vanished into a streak of blue flame that carried Tang San away, and Ren Tao called him a coward before leaving.
• Ren Tao caught up with the Evil Spirit Orca Group, found a secluded bay, and prepared to absorb the divine power left in his body.

Ren Tao endured the divine power’s agonizing integration and confronted its consciousness in a memory of his ordinary life, persuading it that he knew his place while it did not. The divine power was assimilated by the sea of inheritance, which began upgrading as Ren Tao left the remaining changes to it.

• Ren Tao recalled his first year in the Imperial Capital, his ordinary life before crossing over, and how the Evil Spirit Orca Group had taught him to keep fighting.
• The divine power replayed Ren Tao’s bodily destruction and reconstruction, forcing him to relive every moment of pain as their consciousnesses merged.
• Ren Tao and the divine power met in a memory of a rainy night near Workers’ Stadium, where the divine power described the Divine Realm’s worlds as dreams and Tang San’s destiny as a shattered dream.
• Ren Tao explained his daily routines and argued that he understood his place in society, while the divine power had no such identity; the divine power began to doubt itself and dissolve into him.
• The sea of inheritance absorbed the divine power and began an iterative upgrade, and Ren Tao left the rest to it.

After the Sea of Inheritance completed its second-stage renovation, Ren Tao learned he could evolve using genes from dead organisms and prepared a vanguard training plan for his followers. He reached the open-sea trench, where a mysterious voice asked to speak with him.

• Ren Tao woke to find the Sea of Inheritance renovated and discovered that he could obtain genes from dead organisms to advance his evolution.
• Tae Hee and Hu Dong told Ren Tao that the sea soul beast tide had ended, and he told the Evil Spirit Orcas to use Tang San as a training target.
• Ren Tao announced a vanguard training plan and set off for the open sea to investigate the source of the disturbances.
• Ren Tao found Jin Hai, Yin Zhang, and other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts trying to seal an evil power inside an ocean trench.
• A mysterious female voice addressed Ren Tao, and he asked the gathered soul beasts to trust him and let him speak with her first.

Ren Tao encountered a mysterious white-haired woman in the Ocean Trench, who warned him that Tang San might turn to the Asura God after losing the Sea God's favor. The chapter ended with Ren Tao realizing his plans had left Tang San another path to power as the wind rose in the shattered world.

• Ren Tao entered the Ocean Trench and used his domain to absorb some of the energy ripples surrounding it.
• Ren Tao asked whether the woman waiting there was the Rakshasa God, but she denied it and appeared in a ruined, shattered world.
• The woman challenged Ren Tao's assumptions about the Asura God and warned that Tang San might still inherit the Asura God's power.
• Ren Tao realized Tang San could seek the Asura inheritance if the Sea God trials proved too difficult, and he exchanged a wary stare with the woman as wind began to howl.

Ren Tao deduced that the White-Haired Woman belonged to a faction opposed to the Sea God and Asura God, then prepared the sea beasts to contain an impending energy eruption. As the Ocean Trench began to rupture, he launched his Devouring Golden Threads to absorb the first wave, while realizing the timeline for his plans had grown dangerously short.

• Ren Tao inferred that the White-Haired Woman had sent the Human-Faced Sea Anemone and was concealing her identity as an agent of another Divine Realm faction.
• The White-Haired Woman examined Ren Tao's thoughts, then ordered him out and warned that she would attack after five minutes.
• Ren Tao gathered Jin Hai, Yin Zhang, Ran Laowu, E Laosi, and Shui Ling'er, assigning them positions and tasks to contain the energy eruption.
• Shui Ling'er coordinated the five soul beasts' auras, while Ren Tao worried that Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong could become gods before he was ready.
• The center of the Ocean Trench bulged beneath a distorting five-colored membrane, and Ren Tao formed a ring of Devouring Golden Threads to absorb the eruption's first wave.

Ren Tao and the Soul Beasts battled the White-Haired Woman’s escaping energy, and Ren Tao ultimately destroyed her consciousness with the Abhorrence Trident. Afterward, the Soul Beasts celebrated their alliance with him.

• Ren Tao pierced the energy membrane with his Devouring Golden Threads and drained energy while the White-Haired Woman searched his memories for the answer to his ambitions.
• Big Sister Shui and the Soul Beasts formed a barrier to suppress the first energy surge, but Shui Ling’er’s lightning briefly went out of control and shocked Ran Laowu and Yin Zhang.
• When the second surge broke through the barrier, Ren Tao supported E Laosi and helped the Soul Beasts take turns containing the destructive energy for more than two hours.
• The White-Haired Woman’s final attack pierced the barrier, but Ren Tao summoned the Abhorrence Trident and struck her between the brows, dispersing her consciousness.
• Ren Tao told the Soul Beasts about the trident and offered to refine similar weapons for them, and the five Soul Beasts embraced him as their friend.

The Asura God and Sea God discussed Ren Tao’s growing threat and Tang San’s succession, then agreed that Ren Tao had to be eliminated before succession could proceed. The Sea God extended Tang San’s trial deadline to five years, while the Asura God suspected the Rakshasa God was interfering; the chapter ended with an author’s note about a residential lockdown and a possible side story.

• The Asura God reviewed Ren Tao’s recent victories and investigated the secret behind the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while the Sea God reported that Ren Tao had defeated his divine sense and devoured the whale king.
• The Sea God confronted the Asura God about Tang San, and the Asura God warned that Ren Tao’s strength made succession a secondary concern.
• When Ren Tao absorbed energy in the Ring Sea trench, the Divine Realm shook and the White-Haired Woman’s ruined world disintegrated.
• The Asura God declared that Ren Tao had to die before Tang San’s succession could continue, and the Sea God agreed to share responsibility for the plan.
• The Sea God sent a message extending Tang San’s Sea God’s Fourth Trial deadline to five years and requiring him to reach Titled Douluo strength before facing the Evil Orca King.
• The Asura God wondered whether the Rakshasa God was working against him, and the author noted a residential lockdown and a possible future side story.

After absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Ren Tao proposed forming a Sea Soul Beast Alliance and leading its founders to study the Human World. He prepared to travel with E Laosi, though first they would visit Sea God Island.

• Ren Tao explained his plan for a Sea Soul Beast Alliance to Shui Ling'er and the other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, who criticized the Sea God and Sea God Island for failing to protect them.
• Ren Tao urged the soul beasts to study humans and proposed traveling with the alliance’s founding members through Sea God Island and Vast Sea City to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ren Tao considered his plans to obtain the Asura Sword, prevent Bibi Dong from claiming two soul beast soul rings, and stop the empires from going to war.
• Jin Hai pointed out that sea soul beasts could not stay on land for long, so Ren Tao chose the amphibious E Laosi to accompany him.
• Shui Ling'er approved E Laosi joining Ren Tao, who said they would visit Sea God Island before setting out.

Bo Saixi struggled with the Shrek Seven Devils’ collapse and her own doubts about Tang Chen and the Sea God. When Ren Tao arrived with five other hundred-thousand-year sea soul beasts to declare independence, they demanded that Bo Saixi mark them with the Sea God’s Abhorrence, leaving her startled and angry.

• Bo Saixi reflected on Tang San’s seclusion, Ma Hongjun’s despair, and the Sea Witch’s silence while wondering whether to seek Tang Chen and reconsider her own future.
• Dai Mubai found Ma Hongjun overeating and learned that Ren Tao had forced him to relive the massacre at the Spirit Hall Branch in Gengxin City as one of the victims.
• Ma Hongjun told Dai Mubai that Ren Tao had threatened to send all the Shrek Seven Devils to hell and blamed Tang San for their suffering.
• Sea Horse Douluo told Bo Saixi that Ren Tao and five other hundred-thousand-year sea soul beasts had come to declare self-rule and reject the Sea God’s authority.
• Ren Tao called for Bo Saixi to mark the sea soul beasts with the Sea God’s Abhorrence, and Bo Saixi rose in alarm, asking whether they meant to challenge the Sea God’s majesty.

Ren Tao and the Sea Soul Beast Alliance demanded the Sea God's Abhorrence from Sea God Island, while Bo Saixi privately struck a deal with Ren Tao to bring Tang Chen back alive. The Sea God eventually answered the alliance's public denunciation, and the story left the Sea God Island conflict at a temporary pause.

• Ran Laowu and the other sea soul beasts confronted the Sacred Pillar Guardian Douluos and demanded the Sea God's Abhorrence.
• Jin Hai proposed building a Sea Soul Island, and Yin Zhang challenged Sea Illusion Douluo before Ren Tao stopped them from fighting.
• Bo Saixi privately told Ren Tao that Tang San's Fourth Trial was postponed for five years and asked him to find Tang Chen and bring him back alive.
• Ren Tao accepted Bo Saixi's terms and threatened to destroy Sea God Island if she harmed the Evil Spirit Orca Group.
• The Sea Soul Beast Alliance publicly denounced the Sea God, and golden light descended from the Sea God Hall onto Shui Ling'er and the others.

Ren Tao learned that Sea Witch’s merfolk people had vanished and agreed to search for them. He gave her the Dreamscape Skull to fund a purchase of materials for his evolution, then left as the Sea God’s Will threatened him.

• Sea Witch told Ren Tao that her people had disappeared and asked him to find out where they had gone; he agreed and accepted her Storage Pouch of pearls as payment.
• Ren Tao brought Sea Witch into his Sea of Inheritance and shared the list of sea products he needed for his second evolution stage.
• Ren Tao gave Sea Witch the Dreamscape Skull from the Human-Faced Sea Anemone to pay for the supplies.
• Sea Witch admired the Dreamscape Skull as a possible hair ornament, while Ren Tao returned to the sea soul beasts and E Laosi teased him about her.
• Rain began falling, golden light rose above the Sea God Hall, and the Sea God's Will warned Ren Tao that his smugness would not last.

Ren Tao led the hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast Alliance and the Evil Spirit Orca Group toward the mainland, refining the Sea God’s Abhorrence for several allies along the way. After reaching a coastal city, he said goodbye to the sea soul beasts and entered human territory, promising to return within three months.

• Ren Tao’s sea procession drew growing crowds of sea soul beasts, and he gave speeches urging them to become independent and protect the ocean.
• Shui Ling’er accidentally electrocuted Ren Tao during an attempt to enter his Sea of Inheritance, so he postponed helping her and began with Jin Hai instead.
• Ren Tao refined Jin Hai’s and Yin Zhang’s Abhorrence Brands into Soul Breaking Spears, and the two expressed their support for his ambitions.
• Ren Tao devised a grounding method that let Shui Ling’er control her electricity by linking Jin Hai, Yin Zhang, E Laosi, and Ran Laowu into a chain.
• After three days at sea, Ren Tao reached a city and promised the Evil Spirit Orca Group he would return in two or three months before they departed with Shui Ling’er and the others.

Ren Tao planned an Appraisal Conference in Vast Sea City and used beads containing million-year soul-beast soul bones to draw in Dai Delong and Wei Xili. After tracking their messages, he discovered that both were secretly cooperating with the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall, and worried that Qian Daoliu might learn of his plans.

• Ren Tao mapped out the major powers and invited Dai Delong and Wei Xili to help with an Appraisal Conference planned for half a month later.
• Ren Tao showed the visitors black beads containing million-year soul-beast soul bones, convincing them of their value and urgency.
• Ren Tao gave Dai Delong an extra bead for Dai Mubai's sake, then tracked the beads after the guests departed.
• Dai Delong and Wei Xili each sent messages to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and Spirit City.
• Ren Tao learned that the two men were cooperating as triple agents and worried that a message to Spirit Hall would reach Qian Daoliu.