Recaps

Xuan Ming and Hu Liena escaped Slaughter City after Xuan Ming’s Blood Spear consumed nearly half of its core blood pool, and they gained Divine Slaughter’s Domain. Outside, Xuan Ming wondered why the Asura God had not responded to his achievement, leaving the reason for the god’s silence unresolved.

• Xuan Ming threw the Blood Spear into Slaughter City’s blood pool, where it drained nearly half the energy and underwent a fundamental transformation.
• The King of Slaughter sensed the blood pool being drained and cried out in fury, but could not reach Hell Road.
• Xuan Ming recalled the Blood Spear and left Hell Road with Hu Liena, then both passed through the exit and received Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Hu Liena awoke in a woodland and sensed that her domain instinctively submitted to Xuan Ming’s far stronger killing aura.
• Xuan Ming questioned why the Asura God had not noticed his achievement, considering his connection to the Dragon Clan and the possibility of awakening Tang Chen.

After returning from Slaughter City, Xuan Ming and Hu Liena reunited with Bibi Dong and discovered that both Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa trial and the Asura God’s response showed unexplained irregularities. Back in Spirit City, Xuan Ming worried that Qian Renxue might complete her Angel God trial first, but revealed he had a backup plan involving the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Bibi Dong welcomed Xuan Ming and Hu Liena back, then told them that her Rakshasa Eighth Trial had still not appeared despite completing the Seventh Trial a year earlier.
• Xuan Ming suspected that unknown changes or an influence within the Divine Realm were affecting both the Rakshasa and Asura inheritances.
• Bibi Dong brought Xuan Ming and Hu Liena to Spirit City, where they saw its defenses and facilities transformed for the approaching war.
• Bibi Dong asked Xuan Ming to investigate Qian Renxue’s progress, fearing that she might become a god and threaten him before Bibi Dong could act.
• The Ice Dragon King urged Xuan Ming to kill Qian Renxue or Qian Daoliu, but Xuan Ming refused and revealed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as his backup plan.

Xuan Ming gained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s recognition and eligibility to enter the Sea God Trial, then confronted the five Offerings at Douluo Hall. After Qian Daoliu let him inside, Qian Renxue emerged from the Angel Temple during her divine trial.

• Xuan Ming endured the Sea God’s probing and secured the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s recognition, gaining eligibility to register for the Sea God Trial.
• Xuan Ming went to Douluo Hall, where Light Feather Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, Qian Jun Douluo, and Demon Subduing Douluo surrounded him.
• Qian Daoliu stopped the five Offerings from attacking Xuan Ming and allowed him to enter the hall to see Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu refused to reveal Qian Renxue’s Angel God Trial progress and warned Xuan Ming not to disturb her.
• The Angel Temple’s golden doors opened, and Qian Renxue emerged in her platinum gown.

Qian Renxue completed her Fifth Trial and confronted Qian Daoliu over how his interference had damaged her relationship with Xuan Ming. After Xuan Ming returned from Slaughter City to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, his changed, detached demeanor unsettled everyone, though Little Ah Yin welcomed him warmly.

• Qian Renxue revealed that she had completed her Fifth Trial and reached rank eighty-four, and Xuan Ming congratulated her without much reaction.
• Xuan Ming showed Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu his Divine Slaughter's Domain and said he had killed one-third of Slaughter City's population.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu that she could not hate Xuan Ming and blamed their family’s interference for driving him toward becoming a killing machine.
• Qian Daoliu questioned for the first time whether his decisions had been wrong as Qian Renxue grieved over Xuan Ming’s condition.
• Xuan Ming returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Gu Yuena, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Little Ah Yin noticed how much his demeanor had changed.
• Little Ah Yin ran to Xuan Ming, and he reassured her that he had promised to return.

Xuan Ming prepared to take Gu Yuena and the others to Sea God Island, where the Sea God hinted that the answer to Bibi Dong’s stalled Rakshasa trial could be found. As the group set out from Vast Sea City, Ning Fengzhi asked Xuan Ming whether he had expected events to reach this point.

• Xuan Ming showed Gu Yuena the blood spear, and she warned that its chaotic will could turn against him unless a hundred-thousand-year soul beast sacrificed itself to give it a loyal artifact soul.
• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong he planned to take Hu Liena to Sea God Island, and the Sea God’s divine sense said clues to her stalled Rakshasa trial might lie beneath the sea.
• Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena led Hu Liena, Ah Rou, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu aboard a Spirit Hall Empire ship at Vast Sea City.
• Ning Fengzhi joined Xuan Ming at the dock and asked whether he had expected the conflict and rapid changes to come.

Xuan Ming put the seasick passengers to sleep with precise strikes while the ship crossed the open sea. When the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King rose beneath them, he leapt overboard and froze the surrounding ocean to stop it.

• Xuan Ming knocked out Huo Wu and then the other seasick girls so they could sleep through the voyage.
• At night, Xuan Ming questioned Ah Yin about their course as the unnaturally quiet sea stirred his unease.
• Gu Yuena sensed a powerful presence approaching and identified it as the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Xuan Ming leapt beyond the ship's railing and used Ice Seal to freeze a vast area of sea around the rising beast.

Xuan Ming battled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but the Blood Spear nearly turned on him before the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud drove the beast away. After explaining that he could have used a million-year Heavenly Tribulation against the whale, Xuan Ming continued the voyage, which ended with a pirate ship blocking their way.

• Xuan Ming combined his three domains and the Ice and Fire Dragon Origin Head Crown to challenge the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then struck at its eye with the Blood Spear.
• The Blood Spear went berserk and began devouring Xuan Ming until the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud calmed it and its divine presence drove the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King away.
• The Sea God's Divine Sense warned Xuan Ming that the Blood Spear could devour him unless he purified or reshaped its chaotic will.
• Xuan Ming returned to the ship, reassured Gu Yuena, and revealed that he could have summoned a million-year Heavenly Tribulation to threaten the whale.
• Several days later, a pirate ship approached and blocked the damaged vessel's course.

Xuan Ming seized Zi Zhenzhu’s pirate ship and had her crew take him and his companions toward Sea God Island. When they reached the island’s guarded waters, he created an ice ship and sailed into the Demon Soul Great White Sharks’ territory, where a powerful presence rose from the depths.

• Xuan Ming subdued Zi Zhenzhu and her pirates with his domains, then claimed their ship and ordered them to sail to Sea God Island.
• Zi Zhenzhu agreed to serve as navigator, and Xuan Ming explained to Hu Liena that he spared the pirates because their ship and sailing skills were useful.
• After a day and night, the ship reached Sea God Island’s outer waters, where Zi Zhenzhu warned that Demon Soul Great White Sharks guarded the approach.
• Xuan Ming formed a large ice ship, and he and his companions continued toward the island while Zi Zhenzhu and her crew stayed behind.
• More than a hundred Demon Soul Great White Sharks surrounded the ice ship, and an even greater presence rose from the sea.

Xuan Ming and his companions reached Sea God Island, where the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud secured Xiao Bai’s welcome and the group proved themselves before Sea Maiden Douluo. After Xuan Ming crossed the Sea Within the Sea through her strongest attack, Sea Maiden Douluo warned them that the Sea God Trial could not be reversed once begun.

• Xiao Bai recognized the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as the Sea God’s Heart and allowed Xuan Ming’s boat to proceed to Sea God Island.
• Xiao Bai transformed into human form, welcomed the group, and led them to the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar after Xuan Ming said they had come for the Sea God Trial.
• Sea Maiden Douluo challenged the group to cross the Sea Within the Sea, and Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others reached the Sacred Pillar platform using their abilities.
• Sea Maiden Douluo attacked Xuan Ming with her Sea Demon Flute, but he used the Divine Slaughter’s Domain and Colorless Domain to walk across the water unharmed.
• Sea Maiden Douluo warned Xuan Ming and the others that the Sea God Trial’s difficulty reflected their potential and that they could not withdraw once they began.

Xuan Ming, Gu Yuena, and their companions underwent Sea God Island’s trials, with several women receiving top-tier trials and Xuan Ming receiving the Sea God Nine Trials. Bo Saixi arrived and identified Gu Yuena’s mysterious golden ring as an unprecedented sign whose meaning remained unclear.

• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu received Black Level trials, while Ning Rongrong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials.
• Hu Liena and Xiao Wu each received the Top-Tier Eight Trials, drawing the Sacred Pillar Guardians to the Sea Within the Sea.
• Xuan Ming urged Ah Rou to take the trial, and she received the Top-Tier Seven Trials.
• Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena stepped forward together; Xuan Ming received the Sea God Nine Trials, while Gu Yuena gained a mysterious golden ring.
• Bo Saixi appeared and announced that Xuan Ming had received the Sea God Nine Trials, then turned to explain Gu Yuena’s golden ring.

Xuan Ming learned that Gu Yuena’s contract trial bound their lives together, then revealed the Blood Spear he had empowered with Slaughter City’s accumulated blood. The gods chose his first Sea God trial as a test of whether he could control it, leaving him facing a three-month deadline to reshape its will.

• Bo Saixi explained that Gu Yuena’s contract required her to assist Xuan Ming through the Sea God Nine Trials and bound their fates together.
• Xuan Ming showed Bo Saixi his Blood Spear and revealed that it had killed tens of thousands in Slaughter City and consumed its thousand-year blood pool.
• Bo Saixi disclosed Xuan Ming’s first trial: purify and reshape the Blood Spear’s chaotic will within three months or risk being destroyed by it.
• The Five Great God Kings debated how to handle Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena, then agreed to observe and test them rather than immediately intervene.
• The Asura God revealed that he had designed Xuan Ming’s first trial as a warning and test of whether he could master the Blood Spear.

Xuan Ming climbed the Sea God's Light far beyond the other trial-takers, while the God Kings discovered that Poseidon had secretly added a top-level Crossing the Sea God's Light assessment to his trials. He reached the 333rd step and paused, faintly sensing that the number was familiar.

• Hu Liena and the others climbed under the Sea God's Light and recognized similarities between its pressure and Xuan Ming's Colorless Domain.
• The God of Evil questioned why Xuan Ming felt the Sea God's Light despite his assigned trial, and Poseidon admitted he had secretly added a top-level Crossing the Sea God's Light assessment.
• Xuan Ming passed the other women and climbed to the 188th step, astonishing the Sacred Pillar Guardians.
• Xuan Ming charged upward against the pressure, passed the 300th step, and stopped at the 333rd step with a faint sense that the number was familiar.

Xuan Ming used the Sea God's Light to temper the Blood Spear's chaotic will, then unleashed the sealed power of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' bones to climb higher on the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps. At the eight-hundredth step, his body began to fail, but he continued forcing his domains against the Blood Spear as the Sea God's Light and Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone fought over whether his body would be destroyed or restored.

• Xuan Ming climbed to the six-hundred-and-sixty-sixth step and summoned the Blood Spear, using the Sea God's Light to suppress and purify its chaotic will.
• Bo Saixi explained that the Sea God's Light could temper Martial Souls and warned Xuan Ming that the pressure could kill him.
• Xuan Ming awakened the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' sealed bone power, raising his Soul Power to level ninety before charging higher.
• Xuan Ming passed the seven-hundredth step as his body ruptured, and his Black Dragon Martial Soul began transforming him.
• At the eight-hundredth step, Xuan Ming's bones fractured, while the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone restored his body and the Blood Spear's violent will lashed back at him.
• Xuan Ming fused the Divine Slaughter's Domain, Colorless Domain, and Dragon Might Domain to suppress the rampaging Blood Spear.

Xuan Ming endured a brutal month of Sea God's Light to purify the Blood Spear, while Gu Yuena remained away from Sea God Island. After deciding the process was too slow, he prepared to draw the Sea God's Light into himself and attack the spear's core from within.

• Xuan Ming used the Sea God's Light to temper the Blood Spear while resisting its backlash, and the God Kings watched as his choice disrupted the Asura God's plan to test Gu Yuena.
• After three days, the Sea God's Light expelled Xuan Ming from the 888th step, and Bo Saixi caught him before bringing him to his anxious companions.
• Bo Saixi told the group that Gu Yuena had left Sea God Island the night she received her God's Trial, leaving them angry and confused.
• After recovering from his injuries, Xuan Ming sensed that the Blood Spear had been only slightly purified and resolved to climb higher for stronger pressure.
• For more than a month, Xuan Ming repeatedly climbed and tempered the spear, while his companions continued their trials and watched in silence.
• With fewer than fifty days remaining, Xuan Ming decided to draw the Sea God's Light into his body and strike the Blood Spear's core from within.

Xuan Ming refused Xiao Wu and Ah Rou’s offers to sacrifice themselves, then fused the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud with his Ice and Fire Dragon Origin Head Crown to create the Ice and Fire Divine Crown. The transformation succeeded, but his depleted dragon power left him gravely injured, and Bo Saixi caught him as he fell.

• Xiao Wu offered to sacrifice herself to help Xuan Ming awaken the Blood Spear, but Ah Rou tried to take her place.
• Xuan Ming rejected both women’s offers, insisting they should live and that he would face the First Trial himself.
• Xuan Ming used the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s power to suppress the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s resistance over three days on the eight-hundredth step.
• Xuan Ming fused the Sea God’s Heart with his crown, creating the Ice and Fire Divine Crown and gaining the ability to guide small amounts of the Sea God’s Light.
• The dragon souls and dragon bones ran out of power, and Xuan Ming was hurled down the staircase before Bo Saixi caught him and protected his life.

Xuan Ming recovered from his injuries and used the Ice and Fire Divine Crown’s connection to the Sea God’s Light to purify the Blood Spear more efficiently, but calculated that the task would still take years despite having only a month left. The God Kings refused to ease his trial, and as the final day arrived, Bo Saixi had begun intervening while Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others watched anxiously.

• Bo Saixi helped Xuan Ming recover, and he woke after five days before beginning another round of healing and recuperation.
• Xuan Ming returned to the heavenly stairway and discovered that the Ice and Fire Divine Crown let him guide the Sea God’s Light more precisely against the Blood Spear’s chaotic will.
• After a day of purification, Xuan Ming estimated that he needed nearly three years to gain absolute control over the Blood Spear, though only one month remained.
• The God of Evil, the Goddess of Life, the Goddess of Kindness, and the God of Destruction urged the Asura God to reconsider the trial, but the Asura God refused to change its rules.
• As the final day arrived, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others gathered anxiously at the beach, while Bo Saixi chose to intervene in Xuan Ming’s trial.

On the last day of his trial, Xuan Ming revealed that he had been tempering the Blood Spear to suppress its chaotic will, then risked splitting his soul to make the weapon obey him. He detonated the Thunder Core to strengthen his effort, summoning a destructive Heavenly Tribulation over Sea God Island.

• Xiao Wu and Ah Rou offered to sacrifice themselves for Xuan Ming, but he knocked them unconscious and asked Bo Saixi to keep watch over them.
• Xuan Ming climbed the white jade staircase and used the Sea God's Light to suppress the Blood Spear's chaotic will, preparing a blank space at its core.
• Xuan Ming severed part of his soul and drove it into the Blood Spear, setting his will against the weapon's chaotic will as the Sea God's Light scoured them both.
• The Blood Spear erupted with dark red light, and its power shook Sea God Island and alarmed Bo Saixi and the gods in the Divine Realm.
• Xuan Ming detonated the Thunder Core he had absorbed in Thunder Valley, calling down a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation over Sea God Island.

Xuan Ming passed the Sea God Nine Trials’ first trial by merging his will with the Blood Spear under Heavenly Tribulation lightning, then received rewards that transformed his spear, domain, and Soul Rings. After absorbing a five-hundred-thousand-year Slaughter Soul Ring and reaching level eighty, he demonstrated its power, whose killing presence nearly overwhelmed Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the others.

• Xuan Ming endured the Heavenly Tribulation until his will fused with the Blood Spear, completing the first trial and making the spear absolutely loyal to him.
• The trial’s rewards raised the ages of his six Soul Rings by ten thousand years each, evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain into Slaughter Domain, and granted him a God-Given Soul Ring.
• Xuan Ming realized the Asura God had likely influenced the trial’s slaughter-based rewards and chose the God-Given Soul Ring for his Blood Spear’s Seventh Soul Ring.
• After three days of struggling to absorb it, Xuan Ming gained a five-hundred-thousand-year Slaughter Soul Ring that could continue to grow, and his Soul Power rose to level eighty.
• Xuan Ming revealed the Seventh Soul Ring’s power, and Bo Saixi shielded Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the others from its overwhelming killing presence.

Xuan Ming demonstrated the two forms of his Seventh Soul Skill, the Slaughter Battle Soul, before Gu Yuena returned with the Dragon God's Heart after fusing with her original body. The God Kings recognized that she had tied the Dragon Clan’s future to Xuan Ming, while Xuan Ming helped her recover and caught her as exhaustion overcame her.

• Xuan Ming used his Seventh Soul Skill to form a hundred-meter Slaughter Battle Soul and cleave a vast chasm through the sea.
• Xuan Ming revealed the skill’s second form, a three-meter soul clone that could fight and travel far away while remaining connected to him.
• Gu Yuena returned to Sea God Island, and Hu Liena and Ning Rongrong confronted her for being absent during Xuan Ming’s trial.
• Gu Yuena revealed that she had fused with her original body and brought out the Dragon God's Heart, which the God Kings recognized as the Dragon Clan’s supreme inheritance.
• Xuan Ming asked Gu Yuena whether her choice was worth it, then transferred energy to help her recover and caught her when she weakened.

Xuan Ming began the Second Sea God Trial, which forbade him from using the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ power, and pushed himself up the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps. He was thrown from the 880th step and caught by Bo Saixi, then recovered while the others resumed their trials.

• The young women continued climbing the Sea God’s Light, with Ah Rou past the hundredth step and Hu Liena near the ninetieth.
• The God Kings assigned Xuan Ming a six-month trial to reach the summit of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps without using the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnants or sealed dragon-bone energy.
• Xuan Ming climbed to the 880th step using his own abilities, including his domains and Slaughter Battle Soul, before the pressure hurled him down the mountain.
• Bo Saixi caught the falling Xuan Ming, treated his injuries, and warned him not to push himself recklessly.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena noticed Bo Saixi’s concern and teased Xuan Ming for failing to recognize the feelings around him.
• Xuan Ming recovered on the beach as Dugu Yan and the other women returned to their climb.

Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena left Sea God Island to strengthen him with powerful Soul Rings, while the God Kings revealed that the Second Trial was intended to force the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King to commit their powers permanently to him. Xuan Ming planned to raise the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to a million years before absorbing him, and Gu Yuena led a group to the Far North to obtain the necessary resources.

• The Ice Dragon King told Xuan Ming that he needed to strengthen both his body and his mind to complete the Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps.
• Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena left Sea God Island to seek the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm first and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King afterward.
• The God of Evil explained that permanently surrendering their dragon bones and dragon souls would let the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King bypass the trial's restrictions at great risk to their survival.
• Di Tian brought the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm out of the Lake of Life, but Xuan Ming insisted on helping him reach a million years before absorbing him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that he had gained his cultivation by eating ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and sleeping, prompting Gu Yuena to lead Xuan Ming and her companions to the Far North for resources.
• Gu Yuena's presence summoned the Snow Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the Titan Snow Demon King to the group's location.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm survived the million-year Heavenly Tribulation after Xuan Ming forced his breakthrough, but his origin was exhausted. Gu Yuena offered him a chance at resurrection through sacrificing himself to Xuan Ming, and he agreed before asking to say goodbye to Ice Empress.

• Xuan Ming triggered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year Heavenly Tribulation, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm broke through while enduring its attacks.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm survived the tribulation but began dying from exhaustion of his origin.
• Gu Yuena told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to sacrifice his Million-Year Soul Ring, Soul Bone, and Spiritual Origin to Xuan Ming, promising resurrection if Xuan Ming became a god.
• Xuan Ming asked Gu Yuena to absorb Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s life origin to heal her injuries, and she regained some strength.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to sacrifice himself and asked to say goodbye to Ice Empress, who coldly told him to get lost.

After receiving the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year soul ring, Xuan Ming reached half-step divine consciousness and demonstrated control over the Far North’s ice elements. When he fell into a three-day slumber, Gu Yuena proposed that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress follow him and stake their futures on his becoming a god; he awoke with his spiritual realm stabilized.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confessed his feelings to the Ice Empress, then sacrificed himself to Xuan Ming and gave him a million-year soul ring with four spiritual and ice-based skills.
• Xuan Ming used his newly strengthened spiritual power to command the Far North’s ice elements, shocking the Snow Empress and Ice Empress with his overwhelming control.
• Xuan Ming considered the two Empresses as possible soul rings but decided not to weaken the Soul Beast Clan’s forces.
• The Sea God’s Heart fragment reacted to Xuan Ming’s spiritual power, causing him to collapse into a protective slumber, and Gu Yuena explained that he needed time to adapt.
• Gu Yuena asked the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to follow Xuan Ming and help him become a god, offering divine power as a possible escape from their heavenly tribulations.
• After three days, Xuan Ming awoke with his half-step divine consciousness stabilized, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm eagerly praised his soul ring.

Xuan Ming’s attempt to obtain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring peacefully failed when the whale attacked Di Tian. Xuan Ming ordered Zi JI to search the whale’s lair and seize his family, leaving the Snow Empress and Ice Empress disgusted with him.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to travel with Xuan Ming and Gu Yuena so they could judge Xuan Ming’s worth for themselves.
• Di Tian led the group to the Demon Whale Sea Area and tried to persuade the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to offer himself as a Sacrifice.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King insulted Di Tian and Xuan Ming, then fought Di Tian above the sea.
• Xuan Ming ordered Zi JI to search the whale’s lair and seize any family members, especially young whales, while Di Tian kept him occupied.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress condemned Xuan Ming’s plan, but Zi JI obeyed Gu Yuena’s nod and dove into the sea.

Xuan Ming forced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to agree to sacrifice himself by threatening the destruction of his family if he refused. The whale secured Di Tian’s vow to protect his young, and began his sacrifice as Xuan Ming prepared to gain his Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Zi JI released the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s young after he agreed to sacrifice himself, and Xuan Ming warned that breaking his word would still leave his child doomed.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King accepted that Xuan Ming had left him no way out and called him ruthless.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked Di Tian to swear that he would protect his young after the sacrifice.
• Di Tian swore to protect the young whale for as long as he remained in the world, until it could defend itself.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soothed his young, turned toward Xuan Ming, and began to summon sacrificial flames before Xuan Ming suddenly spoke.