Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianlong and his companions arrived at Sea God Island and were escorted to Seahorse City, where Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya explained the island’s rules, population, and trade. The group settled into the city lord’s residence, drawing attention from the city’s residents because of their conspicuous forehead marks.

• Sea Horse Douluo Ou Ya welcomed the group to Sea God Island and explained that they had to complete at least one trial each year and keep their forehead marks uncovered.
• Ou Ya led Yu Tianlong and the others to Seahorse City and described its population, the Sea God Warriors, and the city’s self-sufficient way of life.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked how Sea God Island obtained supplies, and Ou Ya explained that merchant fleets formed by outside or trial-failed Sea Soul Masters traded with the island.
• Ning Rongrong questioned whether the supply arrangement was reliable, and Ou Ya replied that Sea Soul Masters would not betray the Sea God.
• Yu Tianlong and his companions attracted attention as they entered Seahorse City, and Ou Ya arranged for them to stay in the city lord’s residence.

Yu Tianlong and his companions compared their first Sea God trials and learned they all had to cross the Sea God's Light at the island's forbidden grounds, with Yu Tianlong facing a much longer climb. After lunch and a short rest, they set out to inspect the trial, while Ning Rongrong wondered why their guide had taken them there so readily.

• Yu Tianlong and the women discovered that their first trials all involved climbing steps through the Sea God's Light, though Yu Tianlong had to ascend 333 steps and the others faced shorter climbs.
• Yu Tianlong suggested the Sea God's Light might draw out their potential, and Shui Yue'er proposed that they go test it as soon as they were rested.
• A purple-robed Sea Soul Master served the group a lavish lunch, and Gu Yuena urged them to visit the forbidden grounds that afternoon.
• After resting for two hours, Yu Tianlong and the women asked a purple-robed Sea Soul Master to guide them to the forbidden grounds.
• As they left Seahorse City with their guide, Ning Rongrong asked Yu Tianlong why they had been allowed to go so easily.

Yu Tianlong and his companions traveled to Sea God Island’s forbidden grounds to begin their first trial, the Sea God’s Light. They arrived at Sea God Mountain as evening fell and prepared to climb its steps.

• Yu Tianlong told the others that the purple-robed Sea Soul Master’s easy agreement to escort them likely reflected their high-level trials and the defenses of the forbidden grounds.
• The purple-robed Sea Soul Master released his Martial Soul and led the group at full speed toward the forbidden grounds, but Yu Tianlong and the others kept up with ease.
• After two hours of travel, Yu Tianlong and his companions reached the Ring Sea and saw Sea God Mountain, its golden radiance, and the Sea God Hall.
• The purple-robed Sea Soul Master explained that the mountain’s 1,001 steps were where they would face the Sea God’s Light and warned them to retreat if they could not continue.

Yu Tianlong and his companions crossed the Ring Sea, where a Sea Beast attacked the unprotected Zhu Zhuyun and Zi Zhenzhu before Yu Tianlong’s golden light shielded them. At the foot of Sea God Mountain, Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun tested the steps and discovered that attacks were reflected back at their source.

• Yu Tianlong led the group across the Ring Sea, where their test lights appeared and a spear-mouthed Sea Beast launched itself at them.
• Yu Tianlong dodged the Sea Beast and used his domains and Power of The Void to freeze the water, then deduced that the test light protected those taking the Sea God's Light test.
• Yu Tianlong carried the group safely to shore, with his golden light also concealing Zhu Zhuyun and Zi Zhenzhu from the Sea Beasts.
• Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing tried to approach the steps of Sea God Mountain but were bounced backward by an unseen barrier.
• Zhu Zhuqing fired Netherworld Slash at the barrier, and it reflected the attack back toward her before Yu Tianlong shattered it.

Zhu Zhuyun worked out that Sea God's Light reflected attacks and forced climbers to endure increasing pressure without offensive skills. Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, and Zhu Zhuyun were thrown from the stairs, while Yu Tianlong continued climbing past the sixty-fifth step.

• Zhu Zhuyun deduced that the stairs reflected attacks and that climbers had to advance step by step against mounting pressure.
• Yu Tianlong, Zhu Zhuyun, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu climbed together, using protective and enhancement skills as the pressure and Soul Power drain increased.
• Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu were hurled into the Ring Sea at the thirty-eighth step, and Gu Yuena lifted them out.
• Zhu Zhuyun was thrown from the stairs, and Gu Yuena gently lowered her to the ground.
• Yu Tianlong summoned his External Soul Bone, passed the sixtieth step, and pressed on despite his heavy legs and creaking bones.

Yu Tianlong climbed to the eighty-fifth step under Sea God's Light, then retreated and cultivated to recover, finding the pressure beneficial. After Gu Yuena refused to test herself against a power she could easily overcome, Yu Tianlong discussed the others’ results and recognized how far their strength still lagged behind his.

• Yu Tianlong used Divine Slaughter's Domain and The Void Domain to climb to the eighty-fifth step before retreating as his Soul Power ran low.
• After leaving the stairs, Yu Tianlong meditated and recovered, convinced that Sea God's Light pressure would help his cultivation.
• Yu Tianlong found Gu Yuena untouched by the trial, and she said she could destroy the black mark and urged him to trust in his own path toward godhood.
• Yu Tianlong asked the women how far they had climbed, and Zhu Zhuyun, Zi Zhenzhu, Shui Yue'er, and Ning Rongrong reported reaching thirty, thirty-five, thirty-seven, and forty steps respectively.

Yu Tianlong explained how the group could use their support abilities to help one person cross the Sea God's Light, but warned them not to rush the trial. He argued they should use its pressure to strengthen themselves for the later trials, and Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi appeared to applaud his reasoning.

• Yu Tianlong said support skills and domains could help the group cross the Sea God's Light, and proposed that Hu Liena attempt it first.
• Hu Liena agreed to try, but Yu Tianlong said he and Hu Liena had to be among the last to complete the trial.
• Yu Tianlong reasoned that the Sea God's Light was meant to help them grow stronger, and that completing the trial early would cost them that benefit.
• The girls accepted Yu Tianlong's plan to make the most of the Sea God's Light before finishing the trial.
• Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi appeared on the steps to the Sea God Hall and applauded Yu Tianlong.

Bo Saixi confirmed Yu Tianlong’s guess about the Sea God’s trials and agreed to provide supplies so the group could cultivate on Sea God Island. After Yu Tianlong teased her and was dunked in the Ring Sea, Bo Saixi gave him a God-Given Soul Ring, leaving him to endure its baptism.

• Bo Saixi praised Yu Tianlong for discovering the secret of the Sea God’s Light and warned that each trial would become harder.
• Yu Tianlong asked Bo Saixi to provide food, fresh water, and clothes so the group could make the most of their year on Sea God Island.
• Yu Tianlong joked that Bo Saixi was beautiful and that his heart belonged to someone else, prompting her to throw him into the Ring Sea and pull him back out.
• Bo Saixi presented Yu Tianlong with a golden pearl and explained that it would grant a God-Given Soul Ring at his first bottleneck.
• Bo Saixi told Yu Tianlong to endure the soul ring’s baptism with his greatest willpower to gain its greatest benefit.

Yu Tianlong endured the pain of absorbing a God-Given Soul Ring, while Gu Yuena led the women to test their limits under the Sea God’s Light. The chapter left Yu Tianlong still absorbing the ring and the others beginning their climb.

• Bo Saixi gave Yu Tianlong a God-Given Soul Ring, which he absorbed while pushing through intense pain to see how powerful a ring his physique could handle.
• Gu Yuena suggested that the women climb the Sea God’s Light individually with their support abilities active, then descend slowly when they reached their limits.
• Zi Zhenzhu stayed behind to absorb her Soul Bones while Hu Liena and the others started up the stairs.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated Hell Possession for its resistance boost, and Ning Rongrong cast four amplification abilities on herself before climbing with her.

The women tested their limits in the Sea God’s Light with Gu Yuena’s enhancements, while Yu Tianlong reached a breakthrough and obtained his Seventh Soul Ring. Bo Saixi departed, and the exhausted women noticed that Yu Tianlong seemed to have grown bigger again.

• Ning Rongrong climbed to the forty-sixth step, while Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, and Shui Yue'er reached varying limits before retreating.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached the sixtieth step using Hell Possession, and Hu Liena and another woman climbed to the sixty-ninth step before turning back.
• Gu Yuena used her power to steady and restore the retreating women as they descended to the foot of the mountain.
• A surge of energy transformed around Yu Tianlong as the full moon condensed into a pattern on his back and the Power of The Void erupted.
• Yu Tianlong gained his Seventh Soul Ring, thanked Bo Saixi, and watched her depart toward the Sea God Hall.
• The women looked at Yu Tianlong and remarked that he seemed to have gotten bigger again.

Yu Tianlong and his wives tested cultivating under the Sea God's Light after Gu Yuena suggested it, finding that the pressure sped up their Soul Power recovery. The chapter then shifted to Spirit Hall's Douluo Hall and described its ancient sanctuary, golden plaques, and hall master.

• Yu Tianlong discovered he was naked, hurried behind a tree to dress, and explained that his Seventh Soul Skill let him teleport anywhere within his Soul Power's reach unless all his Power of The Void was destroyed at once.
• Gu Yuena suggested that Shui Bing'er, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Yu Tianlong cultivate on the first step beneath the Sea God's Light.
• Yu Tianlong gave the women immortal herbs, and they recovered before sitting down to cultivate under the Sea God's Light.
• The group found that the pressure accelerated their Soul Power circulation and recovery, and they entered meditation.
• The narration described Douluo Hall, its golden Titled Douluo plaques, and its winged statue, then explained that its hall master tended the plaques and presided over new Titled Douluo ceremonies.

Qian Renxue received the Angel Nine Trials, while Bibi Dong wondered whether Xue'er had taken the same path and thought of Yu Tianlong. A month later, Yu Tianlong and the women had made major progress cultivating in the Sea God's Light, and Yu Tianlong continued training out of concern for Gu Yuena.

• Qian Daoliu revealed that nine golden screens marked Qian Renxue as the recipient of the Angel Nine Trials and promised to stay by her throughout them.
• Bibi Dong emerged from cultivation with a sinister transformation that faded away, wondered whether Xue'er had taken this path too, and thought of Yu Tianlong.
• After a month of cultivation in the Sea God's Light, Yu Tianlong controlled his body under its pressure and landed with ease.
• Yu Tianlong and the women had gained a Soul Power rank each and advanced their climbing ability, with Tundra Rifle approaching the hundredth step.
• Yu Tianlong trained relentlessly because he feared the gods might discover Gu Yuena and felt responsible for the promises he had made.

Yu Tianlong and the women spent three months cultivating under the Sea God’s Light, steadily improving their Soul Power and resistance to pressure. After Yu Tianlong broke through another level, he tested his strength and climbed to the one hundred and twentieth step, realizing that his trial required him to reach three hundred and thirty-three.

• Yu Tianlong and the women continued cultivating under the Sea God’s Light, and after two more months Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun broke through level sixty-five.
• At the end of the third month, Yu Tianlong broke through another Soul Power level, producing a radiant display that startled the women.
• Yu Tianlong moved his cultivation spot to the seventieth step and found that his improved resistance made the lower steps feel almost pressure-free.
• Yu Tianlong climbed past the one hundred and eight steps required for a Black Level trial and reached the one hundred and twentieth step, where the pressure sharply increased.
• Yu Tianlong realized his own trial required him to climb three hundred and thirty-three steps.

After a year of cultivation under the Sea God's Light, Yu Tianlong and the others gathered for the final day of their First Sea God Test, confident in their growth. Zhu Zhuyun and Zi Zhenzhu pushed toward their personal limits on the steps, ending at the ninety-fourth as they fought to take one more step.

• Yu Tianlong retreated from the hundred-and-twentieth step and settled on the hundredth to cultivate while his newly strengthened body adapted.
• Over the year, Shui Bing'er and the other women broke through Level 70 with God-Given Soul Rings, while everyone gained at least seven Soul Power levels; Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun also became pregnant.
• On the final day of the first Sea God Test, Yu Tianlong and the others watched Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun climb without assistance to test their progress.
• Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun reached the ninety-fourth step after a grueling climb, then struggled to raise their legs for the next step without giving up.

Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun reached the ninety-fifth step of Sea God Mountain before collapsing, earning the Sea God's recognition and having their trials upgraded to black level. Yu Tianlong began his own climb with the other women, who struggled at the hundredth step until Gu Yuena helped them with her powers.

• Zi Zhenzhu and Zhu Zhuyun forced themselves onto the ninety-fifth step, then were flung into the air by the Sea God's Light.
• Yu Tianlong caught the two women as they fell, and they told him they did not want to fall behind or be mere ornaments before fainting.
• Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi announced that the Sea God had upgraded their trials from purple to black level, and Yu Tianlong fed them Senzu Beans.
• Yu Tianlong urged the other women to begin climbing, and they advanced together past the ninety-second step.
• The women reached the hundredth step, where the pressure stopped them and brought blood to their skin.
• Gu Yuena linked the women's fingers and sent green threads of vitality and Soul Power through them, easing the pressure.

Gu Yuena helped the women reach the 108th step of the Sea God's Light, where they passed their first Black Level Six Trial and gained a level of Soul Power. Yu Tianlong then began climbing with Gu Yuena, Ning Rongrong, and Hu Liena following him, and he pushed past the 200th step with Ning Rongrong's support.

• Gu Yuena infused the women with life-attribute Soul Power, helping them ascend the final steps to the 108th step.
• The women passed the first Black Level Six Trial and gained a level of Soul Power, while Gu Yuena and the remaining women began cultivating under her protection.
• Yu Tianlong prepared to climb, activating his Martial Soul, domains, Soul Bones, and wings before eating a handful of immortal herbs.
• Yu Tianlong sped up the staircase, and Gu Yuena, Ning Rongrong, and Hu Liena followed as he used his path to ease the pressure on them.
• At the 200th step, Yu Tianlong slowed to receive Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda enhancement and continued resisting the Sea God's Light.

Yu Tianlong began facing the full force of the Sea God's Light on the 222nd step while Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena completed their trials and received Top-Tier rewards. After using a Senzu Bean to recover, he pressed onward through mounting pressure and reached the 280th step.

• At the 222nd step, Yu Tianlong encountered a dramatic increase in pressure and began spending Soul Power far more rapidly.
• Bo Saixi recalled how the final six steps of her own trial had become a hellish ordeal and believed Yu Tianlong could succeed.
• Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena passed their Top-Tier Seven Trials, gained a Soul Power rank, and strengthened their Soul Ring skills by five hundred years.
• Yu Tianlong continued climbing after the women descended, and Gu Yuena left him a ray of light before following them.
• Yu Tianlong paused at the 260th and 270th steps, swallowed a Senzu Bean, and then climbed without stopping to the 280th step.

Yu Tianlong pushed through Sea God's Light toward the top of Sea God Mountain, sustained by Ning Rongrong's support, Gu Yuena's origin power, and the Immortal Herbs. On the final step, he unleashed Asura Hell and its Asura Circular Slaughter Formation to cut through the pressure, with the trial's outcome left unresolved.

• Ning Rongrong used her Martial Soul and Soul Skills to strengthen Yu Tianlong as he climbed past the two hundred and eighty-first step.
• Yu Tianlong reached the three hundredth step, where the intensified pressure made him spit blood and nearly collapse, but he pressed on toward the summit.
• Ning Rongrong sacrificed her heart's blood to increase her enhancements, while Yu Tianlong climbed to the three hundred and twenty-third step and became unable to lift his leg.
• Gu Yuena sent her origin power to Yu Tianlong, allowing him to recover as the Immortal Herbs repaired his body and he climbed the final steps.
• Yu Tianlong unleashed his evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain, Asura Hell, and used the Asura Circular Slaughter Formation to sever the Sea God's Light pressing against him.

Yu Tianlong overcame the intensified Sea God's Light with the Power of The Void and passed his First Trial, recovering as his Sea God Affinity rose to five percent. The group then faced the beginning of their Second Trial, as a golden barrier appeared across the Ring Sea.

• Yu Tianlong unleashed the Power of The Void, froze Sea God Island, and devoured the Sea God's Light blocking the final stair.
• Seven golden rays enveloped Yu Tianlong, healed his wounds, restored his strength, and announced that he had passed the First Trial with five percent Sea God Affinity.
• Bo Saixi congratulated Yu Tianlong and warned that the Second Trial would begin soon, while he asked to enter Sea God Hall.
• Bo Saixi offered to fight Yu Tianlong, saying that defeating her would complete everyone else's assessments but only count the first six of Yu Tianlong's Sea God's Nine Trials as complete.
• Six hours later, the brands on Yu Tianlong and the women lit up, and a golden barrier appeared over the Ring Sea.

Yu Tianlong and the women began their Second Trial, which required them to cross the Ring Sea despite its waves and Soul Beasts. Their usual tools were restricted, so they prepared to proceed cautiously and rely on their own strength.

• Yu Tianlong and the women received the Second Trial to break through the Ring Sea blockade, and Yu Tianlong learned he could not use any Soul Ring skills.
• Ning Rongrong proposed using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to cross invisibly, but Yu Tianlong said a special power prevented him from summoning it.
• Zhu Zhuyun warned the group not to act rashly, while Huo Wu noted they might have to manage without food; Yu Tianlong brought supplies through a spatial rift.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seventh Soul Skill was sealed, and Yu Tianlong said all his Soul Rings had been sealed as well.
• The women noticed Ning Rongrong's Second Soul Ring had become purple after the First Trial increased her Soul Rings' cultivation by five hundred years.
• Yu Tianlong said his First Trial had awarded him five percent Sea God Affinity instead of Soul Power, then kept its nature unexplained.