Chapter Summaries

Xu Ran brought Ah Rou to Xiao Wu's residence and promised to cherish both her and Xiao Wu. He told Xiao Wu that Ah Rou had been resurrected, leaving Xiao Wu eager to reunite with her mother.

• Xu Ran brought Ah Rou into Xiao Wu's residence and learned that Xiao Wu was bathing.
• Xu Ran urged Ah Rou to explain their relationship to Xiao Wu, and Ah Rou agreed to speak with her.
• Xu Ran promised Ah Rou that he would never mistreat her or Xiao Wu.
• Xu Ran found Xiao Wu in the bathroom and combed her hair.
• Xiao Wu asked whether her mother had been resurrected, and Xu Ran said Ah Rou was waiting outside.

Xu Ran reunited Xiao Wu with her resurrected mother, Ah Rou, then visited his other loved ones and learned that Xue Ke’s father approved of their relationship. Xue Ke gave him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xu Ran planned to use it to approach Bo Saixi on Sea God Island.

• Xu Ran reunited Xiao Wu and Ah Rou, who embraced and vowed not to part again.
• Xu Ran left them to visit Rongrong, Liu Erlong, and his other loved ones.
• Xue Ke told Xu Ran that her father knew about their relationship and approved of them being together.
• Xue Ke gave Xu Ran the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which he recognized as the core of the Sea God Trident.
• Xu Ran decided to take the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Sea God Island and pursue Bo Saixi.

Xu Ran revealed that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud contained the Sea God's Divine Sense and confronted the god inside it. He threatened to destroy the Divine Sense and take the Sea God Trident, leaving the Sea God pleading with him to stop.

• Xue Ke asked Xu Ran whether the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was useful, and he said it was while condemning the Sea God inside it.
• Xu Ran explained that the shroud contained the Sea God's Divine Sense and used his Spiritual Power to draw the Sea God's figure out.
• The Sea God demanded that Xu Ran kneel, but Xu Ran resisted his divine might and mocked him as a paltry First-Level God.
• The Sea God recognized Xu Ran and realized that destroying his Divine Sense could cost him control of the Sea God Trident.
• Xu Ran declared that he would destroy the Sea God and seize the Trident, and the Sea God warned that doing so would make him an enemy of the Divine Realm.

Xu Ran rejected the Sea God's offer to trade Bo Saixi and the Sea God Trident for his mercy, then destroyed the Sea God's Divine Sense. Furious and humiliated, the Sea God planned to descend to Sea God Island and prepare to confront Xu Ran there.

• The Sea God offered Xu Ran a request and Bo Saixi in exchange for the intact Sea God Trident and the survival of his Divine Sense.
• The Sea God revealed he had intended to use Bo Saixi as a plaything and absorb the power sealed inside her.
• Xu Ran condemned the Sea God's schemes and destroyed his Divine Sense.
• In the Divine Realm, the Sea God raged and vowed to confront Xu Ran on Sea God Island, where the ocean would strengthen him.
• The Sea God planned to arrange his descent through the God Realm Committee and blamed Bo Saixi for his humiliation.

Xu Ran claimed a connection to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and planned to use his evidence against the Sea God to win over Bo Saixi. After spending the night with Xue Ke, he prepared to leave for Sea God Island, aiming to grow strong enough to defeat the gods within a year.

• Xu Ran realized that controlling the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could let him possess the Sea God Trident, and considered claiming other divine artifacts as well.
• Xu Ran planned to show Bo Saixi System Lady’s records of the Sea God’s wrongdoing and hoped she would join him against the Sea God and Tang San.
• Xu Ran spent the night with Xue Ke, and she became his woman.
• Xu Ran saw that his skill points had risen to 53,000 and resolved to complete the mission to win over Bo Saixi and challenge the gods.
• Xue Ke asked Xu Ran to take care of himself and return, and Xu Ran promised that peace would come within a year.

Xiao Wu and Ah Rou discussed how Xu Ran’s pursuit of other women had upset Xiao Wu, though the two agreed to treat each other as sisters. Xu Ran returned, apologized, and told Xiao Wu he would leave for Sea God Island the next day, and the chapter ended with them becoming intimate.

• Xiao Wu complained to Ah Rou that Xu Ran had gone after her sister and neglected her.
• Ah Rou and Xiao Wu agreed to call each other sisters and keep their relationship private to protect Xu Ran’s reputation.
• Xu Ran returned, and Xiao Wu recognized the scents of many other women on him and scolded him.
• Xu Ran apologized and told Xiao Wu he would leave for Sea God Island the next day.
• Xiao Wu agreed to spend time intimately with Xu Ran before he left.

Xu Ran agreed to take Xiao Wu with him toward Vast Sea City, where he expected to confront Tang San, but they encountered a village ravaged by Wolf Bandits along the way. After explaining the bandits’ origins and brutality, Xu Ran embraced the shaken Xiao Wu as the surviving bandits turned their attention to her.

• Xiao Wu insisted on accompanying Xu Ran, and he agreed to take her on the journey to Vast Sea City.
• Xu Ran and Xiao Wu departed from outside Heaven Dou City while Xue Ye watched and praised Xu Ran’s importance to the continent’s peace.
• Three days later, Xiao Wu noticed a strong smell of blood near a village, and Xu Ran identified the attackers as Wolf Bandits.
• Xu Ran explained that Wolf Bandits were violent half-human, half-Gale Demon Wolf creatures who preyed on villagers.
• Xu Ran and Xiao Wu found corpses and about five hundred Wolf Bandits, who noticed Xiao Wu and began howling at her.
• Xu Ran pulled the trembling Xiao Wu into his arms and told her to close her eyes.

Xu Ran rescued villagers from the Wolf Bandits, then traveled with Xiao Wu to Vast Sea City and boarded a Purple Pearl pirate ship bound for Pearl Island. Haider agreed to take them there after Xu Ran revealed his overwhelming strength and said he wanted to meet Zi Zhenzhu.

• Xu Ran killed the Wolf Bandit chief and wiped out the rest of the bandits, freeing the surviving villagers.
• Xu Ran restored the village, left the villagers a few hundred Gold Soul Coins, and departed with Xiao Wu.
• Xu Ran and Xiao Wu spent two days in Vast Sea City before boarding the Sea Demon Ship.
• Haider tried to assess Xu Ran and Xiao Wu as potential targets, but Xu Ran said he wanted to travel to Sea God Island and then asked about Pearl Island.
• Xu Ran released his terrifying presence, forcing Haider and the sailors to kneel.
• Xu Ran reassured Haider that he only wanted to meet Zi Zhenzhu, and Haider set the ship’s course for Pearl Island.

Xu Ran worried that Tang San had become a growing threat and suspected he might be heading toward Pearl Island. There, Tang San slaughtered the Purple Pearl Pirates and cornered the wounded Zi Zhenzhu, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Xu Ran told Xiao Wu that Tang San had become harder to kill after gaining the Rakshasa God's power and connection to the Divine Realm.
• Xu Ran sensed Pearl Island nearby and wondered whether Tang San had gone there.
• Fishermen saw blood and a crimson sky over Pearl Island and feared the Purple Pearl Pirates had been destroyed.
• Tang San's attack left fewer than two hundred people alive on Pearl Island, and the wounded Zi Zhenzhu mourned her slain subordinates.
• Tang San told Zi Zhenzhu that she should have submitted to him and threatened to keep killing if she refused.

Tang San terrorized Zi Zhenzhu and the survivors of the Purple Pearl Pirates, revealing his ambition to rule the Divine Realm and his hatred of Xu Ran. He left Zi Zhenzhu facing his demand to submit or watch the remaining people die.

• Tang San blamed Zi Zhenzhu for the deaths of the Purple Pearl Pirates and admitted that controlling and humiliating others exhilarated him.
• Tang San recalled how Xu Ran had taken Bai Chenxiang and Hu Liena from him, and said he cared only about obtaining what he wanted.
• Zi Zhenzhu said someone would eventually bring Tang San to justice, prompting him to seize her by the throat before throwing her down.
• Tang San offered to make Zi Zhenzhu a Titled Douluo if she became his woman, but she called him a pathetic wretch.
• Tang San produced a crying infant and demanded that Zi Zhenzhu strip, kneel, beg, and become his slave in exchange for sparing the survivors.

Tang San threatened to slaughter the Purple Pearl Pirates unless Zi Zhenzhu submitted to him, and she began removing her armor to protect them. Xu Ran and Xiao Wu arrived just as Tang San demanded she continue.

• Tang San killed dozens more pirates when they refused to betray Zi Zhenzhu, but she finally pleaded with him to spare the survivors.
• Tang San demanded that Zi Zhenzhu become his and remove her armor, promising to spare the pirates if she satisfied him.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Tang San to confirm that he would let the innocent people go, then closed her eyes and unfastened her outer armor.
• Xu Ran and Xiao Wu arrived as Tang San ordered Zi Zhenzhu to keep going.

Xu Ran and Xiao Wu arrived at Pearl Island and rescued Zi Zhenzhu from Tang San, who had slaughtered the island’s people and tried to humiliate her. Tang San confronted Xu Ran, raging that he had ruined his plans again, while Xu Ran challenged him over the massacre.

• Xu Ran and Xiao Wu reached Pearl Island and found its shore stained with blood and covered in corpses and ash.
• Xu Ran stopped Zi Zhenzhu from undressing, and Xiao Wu comforted her and told her that Xu Ran could defeat Tang San.
• Zi Zhenzhu recognized Xu Ran as the person Tang San feared and felt reassured by his arrival.
• Tang San erupted in fury at Xu Ran, blaming him for repeatedly disrupting his plans to win women.
• Xu Ran condemned Tang San for killing Pearl Island’s people, and Tang San countered that Xu Ran had slaughtered the Clear Sky Sect, including children.

Tang San denied responsibility for the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and blamed Xu Ran and Xiao Wu for his downfall, then revealed his divine power on Pearl Island. As the islanders feared for their lives, Xiao Wu reassured Zi Zhenzhu while worrying that Tang San’s new Rakshasa God strength would challenge Xu Ran.

• Xiao Wu accused Tang San of destroying the Clear Sky Sect, killing Tang Chen, and threatening Zi Zhenzhu and the people of Pearl Island.
• Tang San insisted Xu Ran had killed the Clear Sky Sect members and blamed Xiao Wu and Xu Ran for turning him into someone the world despised.
• Tang San released his Martial Soul, displaying nine blood-red Soul Rings, a Golden Soul Ring, and terrifying divine pressure that forced the people of Pearl Island to kneel.
• Zi Zhenzhu realized Tang San might be a god and feared that Xu Ran and the islanders would die if he could not defeat him.
• Xiao Wu comforted Zi Zhenzhu but worried that Tang San had swiftly inherited the Rakshasa God’s power and might pose a serious challenge to Xu Ran.

Xu Ran confronted Tang San, whose new power as the Rakshasa God still did not erase his fear of Xu Ran. Tang San withdrew to Sea God Island, secretly planning to absorb the essence of other gods and use Xu Ran to destabilize the Divine Realm.

• Tang San credited his suffering at Xu Ran's hands with helping him become a powerful Rakshasa God, while Xu Ran answered his challenge with eight Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and the God-Slaying Sword.
• Zi Zhenzhu lost hope when she saw Tang San's divine presence, but Xiao Wu assured her that Xu Ran had killed a god even as a Soul Saint.
• Tang San revealed that he believed the gap between himself and Xu Ran was shrinking and privately planned to harvest divine essence using a perfected Secret Technique.
• Xu Ran and Tang San clashed with the God-Slaying Sword and Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang San retreated toward Sea God Island, declaring that their conflict had only begun.

Xu Ran and the System Lady speculated that Tang San had uncovered a Divine Realm secret that could rapidly increase his power, possibly connected to the Divine Realm Core. Xu Ran’s worry faded as he vowed to keep Tang San beneath him, while the System Lady blushed and withdrew after he teased her about their future together.

• Xu Ran wondered why Tang San had retreated instead of fighting and worried that killing him could provoke the Divine Realm.
• The System Lady warned Xu Ran that Tang San had likely discovered a secret that would let him grow stronger quickly and challenge Xu Ran later.
• The System Lady explained that the old Rakshasa God may have opposed the Asura God because he had found clues to the source of the Divine Realm’s rules.
• Xu Ran promised to marry the System Lady after she underwent human transformation, then teased her until she blushed and hid in the system space.
• Xu Ran suspected Tang San had pieced together secrets of the Divine Realm Core using the old Rakshasa God’s information, and vowed to suppress him regardless.

After Xu Ran drove Tang San away, Zi Zhenzhu and the survivors of Pearl Island thanked him for saving their lives. Xu Ran stayed to rest while Zi Zhenzhu dealt with the island’s losses, and Xiao Wu teased him about having come to pursue Zi Zhenzhu.

• The survivors on Pearl Island thanked Xu Ran for driving Tang San away and saving their lives.
• Zi Zhenzhu knelt before Xu Ran in gratitude, but Xiao Wu tried to help her up and Xu Ran pulled her to her feet.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Xu Ran and Xiao Wu to stay while she handled the aftermath, and Xu Ran agreed after checking with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu worried that Tang San had become dangerous, but Xu Ran assured her he would always remain stronger.
• Xiao Wu teased Xu Ran about coming to Pearl Island for Zi Zhenzhu, and Xu Ran denied it before carrying Xiao Wu toward a room.

Zi Zhenzhu struggled with grief over Pearl Island’s losses and her feelings for Xu Ran before resolving to seek his guidance. The chapter ended with her kneeling before him, determined to become his disciple so she could grow strong enough to protect her people.

• Zi Zhenzhu walked alone along the beach, worrying that she was too weak to protect Pearl Island and wondering whether she could ever be with Xu Ran.
• Xu Ran played a flute on the beach, lifting Zi Zhenzhu’s spirits, then came over and asked why she was still awake.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Xu Ran if he thought she was useless, and he reassured her that she could not have defeated Tang San and that the deaths were not her fault.
• Zi Zhenzhu suddenly knelt before Xu Ran, resolved to become his disciple and grow strong enough to protect Pearl Island.

Zi Zhenzhu asked Xu Ran to take her as his disciple so she could grow stronger and protect others, and he accepted her. Their conversation about flute-playing turned into an embarrassing misunderstanding, leaving Zi Zhenzhu fleeing from him.

• Zi Zhenzhu asked Xu Ran to accept her as his disciple and teach her to become stronger.
• Xu Ran warned Zi Zhenzhu that she had passed the best age for cultivation, but she said she still wanted to improve and protect those who depended on her.
• Xu Ran accepted Zi Zhenzhu as his first disciple, and she bowed to him with delight.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Xu Ran to teach her to play the flute, and he explained that he had misunderstood what she meant.
• Zi Zhenzhu realized Xu Ran had been speaking suggestively, blushed with embarrassment, and ran away.

Xu Ran left Pearl Island for Sea God Island to pursue Bo Saixi and gather powerful ocean Soul Beasts to strengthen his Ten Thousand Beasts Armor. Xiao Wu and Zi Zhenzhu stayed behind, and Xiao Wu hinted that Zi Zhenzhu would eventually become one of Xu Ran’s women.

• Zi Zhenzhu attended to Xu Ran in the morning and teased him, while Xu Ran said he had accepted her as his disciple.
• Xiao Wu suspected Xu Ran had seduced Zi Zhenzhu, and Xu Ran denied it; he told Xiao Wu and Zi Zhenzhu to remain on Pearl Island while he traveled into the dangerous deep sea.
• Xu Ran explained that he wanted to use powerful ocean Soul Beasts to advance his Ten Thousand Beasts Armor to divine grade or higher.
• Xu Ran left Pearl Island that afternoon, and Zi Zhenzhu worried about his safety as Xiao Wu reassured her that he was unmatched.
• Xiao Wu told Zi Zhenzhu to call her Xiao Wu and described Xu Ran’s romantic past, leaving Zi Zhenzhu wondering whether she should have confessed her feelings instead of becoming his disciple.

Xiao Bai and Bai Xiuxiu discussed the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan’s worsening conflict with the Evil Spirit Orcas after two overwhelming presences threw the deep sea into turmoil. Xiao Bai agreed to let Bai Xiuxiu seek the aid of the mysterious supreme Soul Beast.

• Xiao Bai sensed a presence that seemed to surpass a god’s and feared it belonged to a king among Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Bai worried that the Evil Spirit Orcas would destroy her weakened clan, while Bai Xiuxiu urged her to seek outside help.
• Xiao Bai told Bai Xiuxiu that one of the powerful beings might be able to save their clan.
• Bai Xiuxiu volunteered to find the being, and Xiao Bai finally agreed to let her go.