Chapter Summaries

Gu Rong selected a giant-claw demon shrimp as Ning Rongrong’s first soul beast, and Tang Mo helped her kill it and begin absorbing its soul ring. As she started, Tang Mo switched back to his first martial soul and used a Water Mirror to watch for the shrimp’s lingering resentment.

• Tang Mo told Gu Rong that Ning Rongrong had reached rank ten, prompting Gu Rong to find a suitable first soul beast for her.
• Gu Rong chose a giant-claw demon shrimp with just over three hundred years of cultivation, removed its claws, and sent it through a spatial rift to Tang Mo.
• Tang Mo guided Ning Rongrong in strengthening her dagger with soul power so she could kill the shrimp.
• Ning Rongrong drew the shrimp’s yellow soul ring onto her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and began refining it.
• Tang Mo withdrew his Fish Intestine Sword martial soul, released his first martial soul, and used a Water Mirror to observe the shrimp’s resentment as Ning Rongrong absorbed the ring.

Tang Mo tested Water Mirror on the Giant-Claw Demon Shrimp’s resentment while Ning Rongrong absorbed its soul ring and demonstrated her new first soul skill. After warning her that maintaining the enhancement rapidly consumed her soul power, he cooked shrimp for her and Qian Renxue, leaving them eager to taste it.

• Tang Mo explained how soul power and resentment within soul rings could endanger soul masters, then revealed he had used Ning Rongrong to test whether Water Mirror could restrain resentment.
• Tang Mo crushed the Water Mirror, and Ning Rongrong completed absorbing the Giant-Claw Demon Shrimp’s soul ring.
• Ning Rongrong used her first soul skill to enhance Tang Mo’s attack, but Tang Mo told her to stop when the sustained effect rapidly drained her soul power.
• Tang Mo explained how Ning Rongrong’s enhancement worked and how its timing could catch an enemy off guard.
• Tang Mo cooked the Giant-Claw Demon Shrimp meat using the qi of heart fire and shared it with Ning Rongrong and Qian Renxue.

Tang Mo shared roasted prawns with Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong while Gu Rong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei attacked the Evil Spirit Orca Clan to stop its tsunami. Their assault forced the Evil Orca King to abandon the tsunami preparations, but Gui Mei was exposed and the clan formed a spherical mirror barrier around itself.

• Tang Mo skewered the hot prawn meat for Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong, who realized he had let them burn their hands.
• Gu Rong and Yue Guan launched their sixth Soul Skills at the Evil Spirit Orca Clan as it gathered power for a tsunami.
• The Evil Orca King rallied his clan to form the Orca Demon Axe, which broke through the first attacks and clashed with Yue Guan and Gu Rong's ninth Soul Skills.
• Gu Rong's Bone-Transforming Divine Dragon shattered the weakened battle-axe and drove most of the Evil Spirit Orcas beneath the sea.
• Gui Mei approached the Evil Orca King underwater, but Evil Spirit Orca's Intimidation froze him and revealed his position.
• The Evil Orca King ordered his clan to form Evil Spirit Orca Mirror, creating a spherical barrier around the Evil Spirit Orcas.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei broke through the mirror barrier protecting the Evil Spirit Orca Clan, but Xiao Bai intervened to help the orcas escape. After Tang Mo sent her word of his ability to obtain Soul Rings without killing soul beasts, Xiao Bai considered whether he might become a new path to the Divine Realm.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei combined their attacks to shatter most of Gu Rong's mirror barrier around the Evil Spirit Orca Clan.
• Xiao Bai used Demon Shark's Fang to slow the Titled Douluo's attacks, allowing the Evil Orca King and his clan to fight back and flee, though several orcas were killed or injured.
• The Evil Orca King swore that his clan would destroy every human ship it encountered.
• Tang Mo asked the Azure Sea Killer Whale to send Xiao Bai a message about his ability to obtain Soul Rings without killing soul beasts.
• Xiao Bai halted her retreat and considered whether Tang Mo could help her reach the Divine Realm, deciding to observe him before choosing.

Tang Mo harvested Evil Spirit Orca parts for artifact refining and took Whale Brain while preparing to add a twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring to his second Martial Soul. After destroying the Orca’s remnant soul, he began absorbing the ring as its ominous aura surged toward his sea of consciousness.

• The three Titled Douluo returned with several dead Evil Spirit Orcas and one stunned survivor for Tang Mo to use as materials.
• Tang Mo extracted Whale Brain and other useful parts from the corpses, then removed the Whale Brain from the twenty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca.
• Tang Mo announced that he would add the Orca’s Soul Ring to his second Martial Soul, and Yue Guan checked his physique before allowing him to proceed.
• Tang Mo sealed the Orca’s remnant soul in a Water Mirror and destroyed it before drawing the black Soul Ring onto the Fish Intestine Sword.
• As Tang Mo began absorbing the Soul Ring, the Orca’s evil and murderous origin surged toward his sea of consciousness.

Tang Mo absorbed the twenty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca Soul Ring with the Fish Intestine Sword, gained the Evil Spirit Orca Slash, and broke through to level 30 before finding a complete left leg Soul Bone. Gu Rong negotiated over Tang Mo’s lessons of Object Control and Object Transformation for Ning Rongrong, while Ning Rongrong pressed him for a reward; the chapter ended with Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena joining Tang Mo, who avoided Hu Liena’s resentful gaze.

• Tang Mo used the Fish Intestine Sword to suppress the Evil Spirit Orca’s origin power and absorbed its twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining the Evil Spirit Orca Slash and reaching level 30.
• Tang Mo pried a complete left leg Soul Bone from the Evil Spirit Orca’s body.
• Gu Rong realized Object Control and Object Transformation were valuable enough to rival a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and dropped his claim to Tang Mo’s Soul Bone.
• Ning Rongrong urged Gu Rong to reward Tang Mo for teaching her the two abilities, but Gu Rong suggested giving him gemstones and rare metals instead.
• Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena appeared beside Tang Mo, who discreetly looked away from Hu Liena’s resentful gaze.

Tang Mo stayed in Vast Sea City to refine whale brain into Crimson Yang Pills while Ning Rongrong and Qian Renxue gathered resources for him. After Xue Ye sent him the mysterious Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, Qian Renxue brought it to Tang Mo as he reached the crucial cooling stage of the pill-making process.

• Ning Rongrong offered gems and rare metals to repay Tang Mo for teaching her his Self-Created Soul Skill, and Tang Mo asked her to help find materials he needed.
• Tang Mo spent a month in Vast Sea City preparing to make Crimson Yang Pills from whale brain using an ancient, time-sensitive formula.
• Ning Rongrong and Qian Renxue used their connections to search for metals, gems, and medicinal ingredients for Tang Mo.
• Qian Renxue persuaded Xue Ye to cultivate friendly relations with Tang Mo, and Xue Ye sent him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, whose true identity was the Sea God's Heart.
• Qian Renxue brought the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Tang Mo's residence and watched him tend the decoction alongside Hu Liena.
• When the moon reached its zenith, Tang Mo extinguished the heat and stopped stirring the decoction.

Tang Mo finished preparing the Crimson Yang Pills, which could strengthen the body and potentially improve cultivation talent and martial souls, and gave bottles to Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong. Qian Renxue accepted Tang Mo’s offer to sit in his room, knowing the pills might cause her disguise to fail and reveal her true form.

• Tang Mo explained the medicinal broth’s effects and asked Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong what Soul Tool functions they wanted; Qian Renxue wanted self-defense, Hu Liena wanted stronger spiritual power, and Ning Rongrong had no particular request.
• Tang Mo offered to improve Ning Rongrong’s dagger and continued refining the broth into six hundred tiny Crimson Yang Pills.
• Tang Mo divided the pills into jade bottles, keeping three hundred for himself and giving one hundred each to Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong, then explained how they should take them.
• Hu Liena took Ning Rongrong to her room, while Tang Mo invited Qian Renxue to sit in his room and she unexpectedly agreed.
• Qian Renxue realized the pills might make her secret technique fail and expose her true form, but decided that where she took them would make no difference.

Tang Mo used a Crimson Yang Pill to strengthen his physique, while Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel power transformed and advanced her to rank fifty. He set aside his plan to capture Ah Yin’s original body until he grew stronger, then reassured Qian Renxue that he would stand before her if she lost to Bibi Dong.

• Tang Mo took a Crimson Yang Pill with Hundred Flowers Dew and strengthened his physique, raising his possible Soul Ring limit to around fifty thousand years.
• Tang Mo decided to postpone his plan involving Ah Yin and the Blue Silver King until he could further strengthen his body.
• Qian Renxue’s holy light transformed, revealing six angel wings as her Soul Power advanced from rank forty-nine to rank fifty.
• Qian Renxue asked Tang Mo whose side he would take if she went to war with Bibi Dong, and he said he would stand before her if she lost.
• Qian Renxue took Tang Mo’s promise as a victory in recruiting his support away from Bibi Dong.

After Qian Renxue hid beneath Tang Mo’s quilt to avoid revealing her identity, he suggested that she obtain her level-fifty soul ring at sea and showed her information about a Deep Sea Lanternfish. Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena awakened from the Crimson Yang Pill’s effects, gained levels, and quarreled before being caught eavesdropping outside Tang Mo’s room.

• Qian Renxue felt pleased with her supposed victories over Bibi Dong, while Tang Mo privately considered his plan successful.
• Ning Rongrong awakened at level thirteen and Hu Liena at level thirty, then Hu Liena teased Ning Rongrong until she chased her to Tang Mo’s room.
• Tang Mo stopped Ning Rongrong from reaching Hu Liena, then threw both girls out of his room when they continued their quarrel.
• Hu Liena and Ning Rongrong suspected someone else was hiding in Tang Mo’s room and tried to eavesdrop, but Tang Mo exposed them with a cough.
• After the two girls left, Tang Mo called Qian Renxue out from beneath the quilt and learned that she had hidden because her disguise could not be renewed in time.
• Tang Mo offered to help Qian Renxue obtain a soul ring at sea and showed her a Sea Soul Beast Compendium entry on the Deep Sea Lanternfish.

Qian Renxue discovered Tang Mo had prepared suitable sea soul beasts for both her and Hu Liena, while Tang Mo accepted the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from her. The transfer stirred Tang San’s hatred from afar, and Xiao Wu reconsidered whether Tang San could serve as her guide and protector.

• Qian Renxue read about the Deep Sea Lanternfish and Emperor Squid in the Sea Soul Beast Compendium and realized Tang Mo had considered both her and Hu Liena.
• Tang Mo told Qian Renxue he could see through her disguise, though he concealed how little he actually knew about her true soul power.
• Qian Renxue gave Tang Mo the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Tang San felt its loss while cultivating at Nuoding Academy.
• Tang San brooded over his ruined left-hand hidden weapon skills and grew more obsessed with Tang Mo.
• Xiao Wu watched Tang San and doubted her choice of him as a guide or guardian, despite the hidden soul beast bloodline that had first drawn her attention.

Xiao Wu left Nuoding Academy after growing wary of Tang San, who spiraled into resentment and asked Yu Xiaogang to help him leave after a year. Meanwhile, Tang Mo absorbed the ocean’s recognition and transformed traces of Sea God Divine Nature into the beginnings of his own godhood.

• Xiao Wu left Tang San a note saying she had gone home and they might never meet again.
• Tang San found the note, blamed his missing finger and Xiao Wu’s departure, and grew increasingly resentful.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to let him graduate, and Yu Xiaogang promised to take him somewhere better suited to cultivation after a year.
• Tang Mo sensed Tang San’s lost fortune settling on him as he studied the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The ocean recognized Tang Mo through the Shroud and Ocean Pact, marking his body with the concepts of ocean, justice, precious metal, and pact.
• Tang Mo absorbed the Shroud’s trace of Sea God Divine Nature, forming two Divine Nature Seeds and resolving to strengthen his own godhood with existing divine power.

Tang Mo wondered whether he could seize divine inheritances on the Douluo Continent after the Asura God blocked Poseidon from investigating the lost divinity. As Tang Mo sailed with his companions, his suppressed killing intent surfaced, and pirate ships approached despite the powerful emblems on their vessels.

• Poseidon tried to investigate the disappearance of his divinity, but the Asura God intercepted him and considered Tang Mo a promising candidate for his divine seat.
• Tang Mo suspected that gods could not directly affect the mortal world and asked Qian Renxue whether her family could contact the Angel God; she said they could not.
• Tang Mo and his companions set sail aboard ships from the Vast Sea City Lord's Manor and Spirit Hall, while Ning Rongrong cheered and Gu Rong served as their bodyguard.
• Tang Mo asked Hu Liena about seeing blood, and his old killing intent briefly emerged, alarming Hu Liena and drawing the attention of Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gu Rong.
• Tang Mo spotted pirate ships charging toward them and asked Kasait whether the local pirates were always so brave.

Kasait realized that Tang Mo could expose his protection of pirates and the tribute he had collected to bribe Salas, leaving him terrified of Spirit Hall’s punishment. Tang Mo then led an attack on the pirate fleet, forcing Hu Liena to confront the brutality of killing as the story left her shaken by the slaughter.

• Kasait realized the pirates had mistaken Tang Mo’s ships for tribute collectors, and feared Spirit Hall would discover his dealings and punish him.
• Yue Guan asked Tang Mo whether they should kill the pirates to silence them, but Tang Mo told the elders to stand guard and summoned the Azure Sea Killer Whale’s body.
• Tang Mo used the Azure Sea Killer Whale to drive the pirate ships close, then boarded one and ordered the group to attack.
• Hu Liena controlled nearby pirates with her charm ability and made them fight their companions, but the violence left her nauseated.
• Tang Mo rapidly killed everyone aboard another pirate ship and appeared before Hu Liena without a trace of blood, then told her that feeling sick was still not enough.

Tang Mo taught Qian Renxue how to pierce the pirates’ defenses by infusing a feather with force and Soul Power, while Hu Liena struggled to overcome her revulsion at killing. Qian Renxue broke through the pirates’ formation, and Snake Eyes found himself unable to escape the Azure Sea Killer Whale.

• Tang Mo crippled a pirate and made Hu Liena kill him, but she vomited after seeing the blood.
• Tang Mo gathered valuables from three ships as Snake Eyes organized the remaining pirates into a defensive formation.
• Qian Renxue’s feather attack failed to penetrate the pirates’ shellfish-based shields, and Tang Mo stopped her from diving in recklessly.
• Tang Mo used a feather to break through the shields and explained that speed, weight, and finesse were the secrets to wielding hidden weapons.
• Qian Renxue concentrated her control on ten feathers and pierced the defensive ring, killing the pirates who formed it.
• The seaweed Martial Soul users attacked Tang Mo and Qian Renxue, while Snake Eyes realized the Azure Sea Killer Whale blocked his escape by water.

Tang Mo and Qian Renxue awakened their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Angel of Death: Gabriel, and used a single devastating strike to destroy the pirates. After recovering aboard their ship, they examined Snake Eyes’s records and uncovered evidence of influential figures using pirates for political ends, including corruption within Spirit Hall.

• Snake Eyes tried to use the seaweed whip to reach Tang Mo and Qian Renxue and take them hostage, but the pair vanished into a sphere of light as their Martial Souls resonated.
• Tang Mo and Qian Renxue unleashed one sword strike from their new Angel of Death: Gabriel fusion skill, killing Snake Eyes and wiping out the remaining pirates.
• Tang Mo carried the exhausted Qian Renxue to the largest pirate ship, where Hu Liena joined them as they headed inside.
• Tang Mo found Snake Eyes’s ledgers and letters, which recorded bribes and powerful figures who had used pirates to attack their political rivals.
• Qian Renxue recognized the names of Prince Xue Xing, Xue Beng, the lord of Vast Sea City, and Cardinal Kasait among the influential figures tied to the pirates.

Tang Mo confronted Qian Renxue about Spirit Hall’s corruption and challenged her belief that status alone could control a country or organization. Qian Renxue began to question what her grandfather and Emperor Xue Ye had taught her, while her Nation-Stealing Plan remained under scrutiny.

• Hu Liena pretended to leave Tang Mo and Qian Renxue, but Tang Mo suspected she was eavesdropping.
• Tang Mo stopped Qian Renxue from speaking too openly and warned her that her anger had exposed flaws in her Xue Qinghe disguise.
• Qian Renxue said she planned to give the ledgers to Emperor Xue Ye and Qian Daoliu, but Tang Mo asked what she expected to gain from it.
• Tang Mo explained that Qian Daoliu and other powerful figures in Spirit Hall likely benefited from the corruption, which Qian Renxue had blamed on Bibi Dong.
• Tang Mo challenged Qian Renxue’s belief that status and her Xue Qinghe identity would be enough to control the Heaven Dou Empire, leaving her worldview shaken.

Tang Mo advised Qian Renxue to build control over the Heaven Dou Empire by taking its military, finances, and elite into her hands before replacing Xue Ye. After she left, Tang Mo enlisted Yue Guan in his own effort to shift Spirit Hall’s power away from Bibi Dong.

• Tang Mo explained that Qian Renxue needed strength and control of resources, not merely her crown-prince identity, to secure lasting authority.
• Tang Mo told Qian Renxue to use the ledgers and letters to approach influential figures and gradually gain control of the Heaven Dou Empire’s military and finances.
• Tang Mo taught Qian Renxue a discreet method of weakening Xue Ye through food incompatibility, and she left Snake Eyes’s room confident in her plan.
• Yue Guan revealed that he had overheard their conversation and said he was caught between Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• Tang Mo asked Yue Guan whom he served, and Yue Guan declared his loyalty to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Mo handed Yue Guan the records of Spirit Hall members involved in the pirates’ affair, intending to help Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu take power from Bibi Dong.

Tang Mo rescued a group of abducted young Soul Masters from a hidden chamber aboard the pirate ship and recruited Zi Zhenzhu with a Crimson Yang Pill. He began preparing a Restriction Technique to ensure her loyalty.

• Tang Mo found a hidden chamber beneath the ship’s treasure hold containing unconscious young people and awakened Zi Zhenzhu.
• After Zi Zhenzhu attacked him, Tang Mo stopped her and learned the pirates had abducted captives to recruit them or sell them to nobles and auction houses.
• Tang Mo offered Zi Zhenzhu work in exchange for a Crimson Yang Pill, and she agreed to serve him.
• Tang Mo told Zi Zhenzhu he would use measures to secure her loyalty, and she consented.
• Tang Mo mixed clay with Evil Spirit Orca bone powder, shaped it into a bowl, and used heart fire and Soul Power to create a rune-covered ceramic vessel for the Restriction Technique.

Tang Mo bound Zi Zhenzhu to him with a restriction and gave her ships, money, and Crimson Yang Pills to build a pirate crew. After he proposed the title Pirate King, Zi Zhenzhu immediately broke through to rank thirty and began her rise.

• Tang Mo used a restriction technique to bind Zi Zhenzhu to loyalty, and she drank the talisman water and shattered the bowl.
• Tang Mo gave Zi Zhenzhu a hundred Crimson Yang Pills, half the ships’ Gold Soul Coins, and control of the pirate ships, ordering her to build a crew and unite the pirates.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Tang Mo for a future military title, and he suggested Pirate King, a title she eagerly accepted.
• Tang Mo, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue left the cabin as the ships continued toward the boundary between the shallow and deep seas.
• Zi Zhenzhu swallowed a Crimson Yang Pill and, half an hour later, broke through to rank thirty.