Chapter Summaries

Lin Rong reached the trench after the Three-Eyed Demon Whale King's self-destruction and claimed the surviving spirit ring and soul bone from a sea turtle and Sea Snake. He demanded that the two ancient Sea Spirit Beasts choose whether to submit and sacrifice themselves for future heirs or be imprisoned until they could be hunted.

• The Three-Eyed Demon Whale King's self-destruction sank the island and blasted the sea turtle and Sea Snake into a deep trench.
• The sea turtle moved to take the Three-Eyed Demon Whale King's soul bone, but the surviving Nine Bend Vine Dragon knocked it away.
• Lin Rong arrived with Old Butler and the Heart of the Sea God, and the sea turtle mistook him for the Sea God's inheritor.
• Lin Rong questioned why the sea turtle and Sea Snake had sided with Poseidon against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and the sea turtle's reaction supported his guess that they had been forced into submission.
• Lin Rong offered the sea turtle and Sea Snake the choice to submit and later sacrifice themselves for divine heirs or be imprisoned until he could have them killed.

Lin Rong forced Sea Turtle and Sea Snake to choose between escaping and sacrificing themselves, then ensured they would remain under his control. After they fell into a deep sleep, he stored them in the Coral Stone Pendant and left the trench with Old Butler.

• Sea Turtle and Sea Snake decided they could not escape Lin Rong, who held the Heart of the Sea God, and agreed to sacrifice themselves.
• Lin Rong detected their weak loyalty and gave them Rosemary, explaining that it would put them into a deep sleep until the day of their sacrifice.
• Sea Turtle and Sea Snake swallowed the Rosemary and fell asleep under Lin Rong's watch.
• Lin Rong placed the sleeping Sea Turtle and Sea Snake inside the Coral Stone Pendant with the Titan Giant Ape.
• Lin Rong warned Old Butler that other sea spirit beasts might investigate the Three-Eyed Demon Whale King's self-destruction, and they left the trench together.

Lin Rong reached Sea God City and learned that Bo Saixi had been absent in seclusion for months, likely searching for the Heart of the Sea God and a successor. He entered the city with Old Butler to investigate Ji Xiang’s clinic, while the sea spirit beasts blamed Three-Eyed’s death on a private feud.

• The sea spirit beasts examined Three-Eyed’s former spirit ring site and debated whether a human or another beast had taken the soul bone.
• A clam spirit blamed the Sea God for neglecting Xiao Bai, prompting tension between the gathered beasts before they dispersed.
• Lin Rong flew over empty islands, abandoned his search for Purple Pearl Island, and returned to land near Vast Sea City, now renamed Sea God City.
• Lin Rong released Seahorse Douluo and asked about Bo Saixi, who had reportedly been in seclusion for months.
• Lin Rong suspected Bo Saixi had secretly left to seek a Sea God successor and the Heart of the Sea God, then decided to investigate Ji Xiang’s clinic.
• Old Butler knocked Seahorse Douluo unconscious and stored him in the Soul Tool so he could not reveal their identities.

Lin Rong and Old Butler searched Ji Xiang’s abandoned clinic in Sea God City and found evidence that Ji Xiang had inherited the God of Light Legacy. Lin Rong concluded that Ji Xiang might have joined a group of Divine Legacy inheritors and decided to use a high-quality Soul Bone to draw them out.

• Lin Rong and Old Butler entered Sea God City invisibly and found Ji Xiang’s dusty, abandoned clinic in the civilian district.
• Lin Rong tasted a houttuynia root in the courtyard and sensed a faint power of light and death, confirming that Ji Xiang had obtained the God of Light Inheritance with Electrolux’s help.
• Lin Rong considered where Ji Xiang could have gone and, with Old Butler’s suggestion, concluded that he might have joined a small group of Divine Legacy inheritors.
• Lin Rong recalled the many inheritors who had gathered in the Star Dou Great Forest and decided to lure them out of hiding with a high-quality Soul Bone.

Lin Rong planned to use the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament to draw out Divine Legacy inheritors, while Bo Saixi discovered a village of Sea God descendants in the Star Luo Empire. The chapter left Bo Saixi confronting the Chen Family elder, unsettled that the family had long known of Sea God Island while she had never known of them.

• Lin Rong reasoned that the tournament three years later could lure out Divine Legacy inheritors and that Bibi Dong would likely offer an exceptionally valuable Soul Bone as the champion's reward.
• Lin Rong decided that Guang Yue and Ghostly should help provoke interest in the tournament and expected Bibi Dong to send them to Heaven Dou City over Salas's raid.
• Bo Saixi tracked a fisherman with a remarkably pure ocean Martial Soul to Chen Family Village and secretly found Lord Sea God's memorial tablet in its ancestral hall.
• A youth named Great Sea challenged the intruder, and Bo Saixi revealed herself as Sea God Island's High Priest with her Sea God Martial Soul and powerful Soul Rings.
• The Chen Family elder welcomed Bo Saixi and explained that his family had severed contact with the Poseidon Main Lineage after the Sea God ascended, leaving Bo Saixi resentful toward the Sea God.

Bo Saixi confronted Chen Family Village for refusing to support the Sea God Empire, then offered the possibility of Chen Haitian becoming the Sea God’s inheritor to persuade them. The village agreed to take him to Sea God Island for a test, but the missing Heart of the Sea God threatened to block the inheritance.

• Bo Saixi accused the villagers of failing to serve the Sea God Empire, and the black-robed old man argued that the Sea God’s descendants had no obligation to obey or serve for free.
• Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God’s inheritor would become emperor of the Sea God Empire, and the old man presented Chen Haitian as a promising candidate.
• Bo Saixi said Chen Haitian’s eligibility would be decided at one of the Seven Sacred Pillars on Sea God Island and asked whether the village had the Heart of the Sea God.
• The old man said the Heart of the Sea God was not with the Chen Family Lineage and might have been taken by another descendant branch.
• Bo Saixi revealed that the inheritor could not complete the Divine Legacy without the Heart of the Sea God, and Chen Haitian urged them to prioritize testing him first.

Tang San resented Spirit Hall for avoiding war with the Heaven Dou Empire and continued devouring plants while secretly watched by Tailong, who blamed him for his father’s disappearance. At Moonlight Pavilion, Spirit Hall’s delegation met the Heaven Dou representatives, and Hu Liena introduced herself to Xue Qinghe as an eighteen-year-old rank fifty-three Soul King.

• Tailong told Tang San that Spirit Hall’s delegation had arrived in Heaven Dou City and would meet the Heaven Dou Royal Family at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang San angrily sent Tailong away, then moved to another part of the Mimic Cultivation Ground to devour plants.
• Tailong privately blamed Tang San for Taino’s disappearance and continued secretly poisoning his medicinal meals.
• Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Xue Xing waited at Moonlight Pavilion as Spirit Hall’s delegation arrived with Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena took the seat of honor and introduced herself to Xue Qinghe as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden, an eighteen-year-old rank fifty-three control-system Soul King.

Hu Liena negotiated with Crown Prince Xue Qinghe on Spirit Hall’s behalf, offering compensation for Salas’s crimes and promising that Spirit Hall would stop interfering in Heaven Dou’s internal affairs. Xue Xing questioned whether the promise was genuine, and Hu Liena swore that it was.

• Xue Qinghe and Hu Liena exchanged polite remarks about her age, cultivation, and the late third prince, while Xue Qinghe hinted that Spirit Hall’s leadership might not always protect her.
• Hu Liena presented Spirit Hall’s compensation proposal and requested the release of Bishop Laurence and his party.
• Xue Qinghe examined the six concessions, including a promise that Spirit Hall would no longer meddle in Heaven Dou’s internal affairs.
• Xue Xing asked Hu Liena whether Spirit Hall’s promise was genuine, and she swore in the name of Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden that it was.

Xue Qinghe selected a skull Soul Bone and other treasures from Spirit Hall’s offerings in exchange for releasing Bishop Laurence and his party. Hu Liena suspected Xue Qinghe had ties to the Qian Family, while Ghostly received a secret summons from Heaven Dou’s Lin Family clan.

• Xue Xing accepted the agreement, and Xue Qinghe invited Hu Liena to choose from Spirit Hall’s offerings.
• Chen Xin opened five Lead Boxes, revealing four limb Soul Bones and a skull Soul Bone whose magnetic fields pressured those present.
• Xue Qinghe chose the skull Soul Bone, ten ancient books, the cultivation notes, and the rare soul beast booklet.
• Hu Liena noticed a sacred aura in Xue Qinghe’s identity token and suspected his allegiance lay with Spirit Hall’s Qian Family line.
• Ghostly received a note bearing the Lin Family clan’s mark, summoning him and Ju Hua Guan to meet east of Heaven Dou City at midnight.
• Ghostly delivered Xue Qinghe’s token to the imperial guard captain so Spirit Hall could release Bishop Laurence and his party.

Hu Liena persuaded Xue Qinghe to tour Heaven Dou Royal Academy while trying to meet Tang San, whom she suspected was harming the academy’s plant cultivation ground. She led Xue Qinghe deeper into the forest, following signs of damaged plants, while Tang San remained unaware of their arrival.

• Hu Liena asked Xue Qinghe to introduce her to Tang San, but he said Tang San was cultivating and could not be disturbed.
• Hu Liena asked Xue Qinghe to show her around Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and he agreed to preserve his gentlemanly image.
• Hu Liena and Xue Qinghe walked through the academy grounds, and Hu Liena identified the forest as a Mimic Cultivation Ground for plant-system soul masters.
• Hu Liena noticed some plants were listless and suspected someone had damaged them.
• Hu Liena led Xue Qinghe deeper into the forest, using the plants’ condition to search for Tang San, while Tang San continued seeking plants to devour.

Tang San mistook Xue Qinghe and Hu Liena for a couple meeting secretly in the forest, then learned Hu Liena was Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden. After Hu Liena provoked him, Tang San attacked, but she countered with a spiritual strike that knocked him unconscious.

• Tang San sensed two people approaching through the Blue Silver Grass and tried to leave, but Xue Qinghe called him back with Hu Liena.
• Tang San mistakenly accused Xue Qinghe and Hu Liena of behaving indecently, and Xue Qinghe introduced Hu Liena as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden.
• Hu Liena examined Tang San with Eye of Desire, recognized his Twin Martial Souls and high Soul Power, then insulted his family to provoke him.
• Tang San fired Dragon Whisker Needles and two Zhuge Crossbows at Hu Liena, but she dodged the needles and destroyed the bolts with Divine Light of Breaking Forbidden.
• Hu Liena’s spiritual attack struck Tang San, who fell unconscious after crashing to the ground.

Hu Liena defeated Tang San in a fight at the Royal Academy, but Xue Qinghe found him still alive and ordered her to carry him to the infirmary. Hu Liena considered killing both men, then abandoned the idea to avoid starting a war between Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Hu Liena tested the Zhuge Crossbow, then claimed she had acted in self-defense after Tang San attacked her with hidden weapons.
• Xue Qinghe blamed both Hu Liena and Tang San for the fight and warned her that Tang Hao might seek revenge if Tang San died.
• Xue Qinghe discovered that Tang San was still breathing, while Hu Liena wondered how he had survived her Divine Light of Breaking Forbidden.
• Hu Liena realized Tang San had endured her spiritual attack through his Purple Demon Eye cultivation, then considered killing him and Xue Qinghe before rejecting the plan to prevent a war.
• Xue Qinghe told Hu Liena to carry Tang San to the academy infirmary, insisting that doing so would not harm her public standing.

After Hu Liena brought the defeated Tang San to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s infirmary, he recovered and vowed revenge on her and Xue Qinghe. Meanwhile, Lin Rong summoned Ghostly and Guang Yue at night, gave them soul bones, and revealed that their next mission concerned soul bones.

• Xue Qinghe asked Director Xu to save Tang San after Hu Liena dragged him to the infirmary.
• After waking, Tang San drank Director Xu’s herbal medicine, then secretly absorbed energy from forest plants until he had recovered most of his injuries.
• Tang San discovered that he had opened another of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and vowed to kill Hu Liena quickly in the future.
• Lin Rong met Ghostly and Guang Yue outside Heaven Dou City and gave them matching arm-bone soul bones to help them advance.
• Lin Rong told Ghostly and Guang Yue that their mission was related to soul bones.

Lin Rong tasked Guang Yue and Ghostly with persuading Bibi Dong to unite the continent’s powers and offer their finest spirit bones as the tournament champion’s reward, using the prize to draw out Divine Legacy inheritors. He explained that the powers might seek to eliminate those inheritors rather than claim legacies they were unlikely to qualify for themselves.

• Ghostly asked whether the mission involved hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Lin Rong said he meant spirit bones held by the continent’s great powers.
• Lin Rong clarified that he wanted Guang Yue and Ghostly to persuade Bibi Dong to gather the powers’ finest spirit bones for the tournament three years later.
• Guang Yue and Ghostly reasoned that the spirit bones would lure Divine Legacy inheritors out of hiding and expose them to the continent’s powers.
• Lin Rong explained that some powers might try to kill Divine Legacy inheritors to preserve the existing order, since most rulers lacked the talent to gain a Divine Legacy’s recognition.
• Lin Rong told Guang Yue that a Divine Legacy offered only a chance to become a god, and noted that Guang Yue’s talent and martial soul gave him grounds to covet one.

Lin Rong ordered Guang Yue and Ghostly to persuade Bibi Dong about his mission and search Spirit Hall’s branches for Ji Xiang, warning them not to approach the boy themselves. After learning Yu Xiaogang had gained extraordinary influence over Spirit Hall while Qian Daoliu tolerated Bibi Dong’s rule, Lin Rong ended the meeting and disappeared into the night.

• Guang Yue explained that he had forced his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum martial soul onto the assault path and reached level 95, and Lin Rong mocked him for wasting its potential.
• Lin Rong told Guang Yue and Ghostly to persuade Bibi Dong to carry out the mission they already knew about.
• Lin Rong ordered them to use Spirit Hall’s branch halls to find Ji Xiang, a nine-to-ten-year-old boy, and warned them that his power could threaten even both Titled Douluo together.
• Guang Yue and Ghostly reported that Yu Xiaogang used Bibi Dong’s favor to command Spirit Hall’s higher-ups, while Qian Daoliu allowed Bibi Dong to control the organization’s leadership.
• Lin Rong mocked Qian Daoliu, ended the meeting, and vanished into the night as Guang Yue and Ghostly prepared to return.

Lin Rong arranged for Salas to ambush Spirit Hall’s returning convoy with the Thunder God’s Hammer, disguising the attack as one from the Clear Sky Sect. Hu Liena sensed the strike and escaped into the carriage with Guang Yue and Ghostly, but the sudden ambush left the rest of the convoy exposed.

• Xue Qinghe watched Spirit Hall’s convoy leave Heaven Dou City and reflected on his renewed cultivation and the threat posed by Hu Liena and Tang San.
• Salas hid beside the road with the Thunder God’s Hammer, following Lin Rong’s orders to ambush the convoy and imitate a Clear Sky Hammer attack.
• Hu Liena traveled in a separate carriage while staying alert for Tang Hao, unaware that Lin Rong had arranged the attack to manipulate Spirit Hall and draw attention toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• As the convoy reached ten li from Heaven Dou City, Hu Liena sensed an explosive burst of Soul Power and smashed through her carriage into the one carrying Guang Yue and Ghostly.
• Salas poured Soul Power into the hammer and sent an enormous illusory hammer crashing down, while Guang Yue and Ghostly emerged to protect Hu Liena but had no time to save anyone else.

Tang Hao ambushed Hu Liena’s Spirit Hall delegation, leaving only her and the two Title Douluo alive, while Lin Rong learned that the attack had spared Hu Liena and pressed Seahorse Douluo to decide whether to accept the Heart of Goodness. Seahorse Douluo asked for more time, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Tang Hao’s hammer attack devastated the Spirit Hall delegation, but Hu Liena survived beneath the protection of Guang Yue and Ghostly.
• Hu Liena accepted responsibility for the deaths, raised a cenotaph for the delegation, and vowed to behead Tang Hao.
• Salas returned Thunder God’s Hammer to Lin Rong and confirmed that he had deliberately let Hu Liena sense his aura so she could survive.
• Lin Rong questioned Seahorse Douluo about accepting the Heart of Goodness, but Seahorse Douluo asked to wait longer.

The Sea God Seven Sacred Pillars' Pillar Guardian Douluo worried that Seahorse Douluo had been killed by poachers and arranged for someone to impersonate him at Chen Haitian’s upcoming coronation. Meanwhile, Ji Xiang considered attending the ceremony, but a blue-haired young man warned that doing so could force him to submit to the Sea God’s inheritor.

• The Pillar Guardian Douluo discussed Seahorse Douluo’s disappearance and feared he had encountered a Titled Douluo from the Benti Sect.
• Sea Witch proposed finding someone to impersonate Seahorse Douluo at the coronation, and Sea Dragon Douluo went to report the matter to Bo Saixi.
• Sea Witch volunteered to select the person who would pose as Seahorse Douluo and left the council hall.
• A blue-haired young man appeared beside Ji Xiang and questioned whether he should attend Chen Haitian’s coronation.
• The blue-haired young man warned Ji Xiang that attending could require him to serve the Sea God’s inheritor despite having inherited the God of Light’s divine position.

Luo Minghua persuaded Ji Xiang to stay with him and Xu Keming rather than serve the Sea God’s inheritor, then asked him to help find a suitable Void Jellyfish for his fourth Soul Ring. Ji Xiang agreed to return to the Sea God Empire for the hunt but refused to revisit Sea God City, while Electrolux approved of his resolve.

• Luo Minghua appealed to Ji Xiang’s friendship with him and Keming, and Ji Xiang agreed to stay with them instead of focusing on the Sea God’s side.
• Luo Minghua revealed that he had absorbed a ten-thousand-year Void Jellyfish Soul Bone and asked Ji Xiang to find a thousand-year Void Jellyfish with strong space talent for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Ji Xiang agreed to ask his teacher for help, and Luo Minghua departed through a spatial rift using the Space Blade.
• Electrolux reminded Ji Xiang that the hunt would require returning to the Sea God Empire, but Ji Xiang said he would not revisit Sea God City or renew his faith in the Sea God.
• Electrolux approved of Ji Xiang’s changed outlook and had deliberately allowed Luo Minghua’s appeal to influence him.

Lin Rong learned that the Sea God Empire’s coronation was imminent and planned to raid Sea God Island while its strongest defenders attended the ceremony. In Sea God City, Chen Haitian’s court prepared for the coronation, but Sea Horse’s absence remained unresolved.

• Lin Rong read a secret letter announcing the coronation and decided to travel to Sea God Island with Old Butler, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong.
• Lin Rong reasoned that Bo Saixi, the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo, and Xiao Bai would attend the ceremony, leaving Sea God Island vulnerable.
• As the coronation approached, Sea God City grew tense and quiet.
• Sea Dragon Douluo assured Bo Saixi that the ceremony had been rehearsed and the city’s defenses were fully prepared.
• Bo Saixi told Sea Witch that Sea Horse had still not returned and asked whether his stand-in was ready.