Recaps

Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar received black level six trials, while Hu Liena received black level five and Bai Chenxiang received a yellow trial. Sea Horse Douou warned that failed trials meant death, but Qi Ling and the others accepted the challenge; Qi Ling then delayed Tang San’s test, and Oscar hinted that someone present surpassed him in support talent.

• Dai Mubai received a black level six trial, and Sea Horse Douluo explained that it required six yearly assessments and failure meant death.
• Qi Ling and the others remained willing to take the dangerous trials despite Sea Horse Douluo’s warning.
• Ma Hongjun also received a black level six trial, while Bai Chenxiang’s trial stopped at yellow and left her discouraged.
• Qi Ling stopped Tang San from taking his trial yet, and Hu Liena received a black level five trial.
• Oscar received a black level six trial, astonishing Sea Horse Douluo, and said a more talented Support System Soul Master was present.

Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Tianyi each received top-tier seven trials on Sea God Island, stunning Sea Horse Douluo. Qi Ling told Tang San to take his test next, and Sea Horse Douluo began illuminating him with the Sea God's Light.

• Ning Rongrong received a top-tier seven trial, and Sea Horse Douluo explained that it marked her as a potential successor to the Great Enshrined.
• Qi Ling said the assessment would require powerful companions, and Ning Rongrong insisted that he would help her.
• Zhu Zhuqing also received a top-tier seven trial, and Qi Ling agreed to help her as well.
• Xiao Wu and Tianyi each received a top-tier seven trial, leaving Sea Horse Douluo stunned by the four red stars.
• Qi Ling told Tang San to take his test, and Sea Horse Douluo activated the Sea God's Light on him.

Tang San received the Sea God’s Nine Trials, while Qi Ling’s Sacred Pillar briefly turned gold before reverting to colorless and revealed a Trial of No Trial. Bo Saixi and a mysterious dragon-horned woman explained that no one but Qi Ling himself could test him, and the woman called him her long-awaited master.

• Tang San’s golden trident mark appeared as the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar granted him the Sea God’s Nine Trials.
• Qi Ling stood before the Sacred Pillar, which turned gold and then abruptly returned to its original color.
• Bo Saixi arrived and explained that Tang San’s trials concerned inheriting the Sea God’s Godhood.
• A dragon-horned woman appeared beside Qi Ling and said his Trial of No Trial meant only he could test himself.
• The dragon-horned woman told Qi Ling she had waited painfully long for him and called him her master.

Qi Ling and Jian Lan received the Sea God's trials of no trial, and Dragon Maiden identified Qi Ling as the person she had been waiting for and Jian Lan as a candidate for the Sword God Godhood. After Bo Saixi left to prepare for Tang San's succession, Dragon Maiden explained that she would not interfere in worldly affairs and refused to tell Qi Ling why his power had disappeared.

• Dragon Maiden called Qi Ling her master, and Jian Lan received the same trial of no trial as him.
• Dragon Maiden explained that heaven's chosen were candidates for vacant Godhoods and named the Sword God as the likely Godhood suited to Jian Lan.
• Dragon Maiden said Qi Ling was the only person she had been waiting for, though his situation differed from that of other heaven's chosen.
• Bo Saixi left to prepare for Tang San, whom she recognized as the Sea God's successor, and the others recovered from the pressure she had exerted.
• Qi Ling asked Dragon Maiden why he had lost his power, but she leaned in and teasingly refused to tell him.

Qi Ling learned that his strength and memories had been sealed after he fought an overwhelming opponent, while Dragon Maiden revealed that he was the Dragon God and the Dragon Clan’s hope. The chapter ended with Qi Ling learning how much his arrival meant to Dragon Maiden and her people.

• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that his strength and memories had been sealed after he faced an opponent too powerful to defeat, and that he would recover in at least a month.
• Sea Horse Douluo led the group to Seahorse City and explained that most of them had received the first Sea God Trial, Crossing the Sea God's Light.
• Dragon Maiden recognized Qi Ling's dragon-shaped key and sensed that he had absorbed power from the little dragon he had met.
• Dragon Maiden took Qi Ling around Sea God Island, admitted she was lonely while waiting for him, and said she could not leave until he arrived.
• At a starlit cliff, Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that he was the Dragon God and represented the Dragon Clan's hope.

Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that the Dragon Clan’s future depended on him becoming the Dragon God, then kissed him goodnight. The next day, Sea Dragon Douluo barred Qi Ling from the Sea God’s trial and insulted him, so Qi Ling sent Tang San and the others ahead and confronted the guardian alone.

• Dragon Maiden explained Qi Ling’s importance to the Dragon Clan, kissed his cheek, and vanished, while a tall figure watched jealously from the forest.
• The group traveled with a purple-robed Soul Master to the Sea God’s Light, where they saw the Sea God Hall and its thousand-and-one-step trial.
• Sea Dragon Douluo arrived, dismissed the purple-robed Soul Master, and ordered everyone to cross the sea except Qi Ling.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun protested Sea Dragon Douluo’s decision, and the group prepared to defend Qi Ling.
• Qi Ling told Tang San and the others to begin their trials without him, then warned Sea Dragon Douluo that he was in big trouble.

Qi Ling confronted Sea Dragon Douluo over being barred from the Sea God's Light test, but Bo Saixi confirmed that he was allowed to participate and escorted him across the sea. He joined his companions as Tang San and Dai Mubai tested the Sea God's Light, reaching the seventy-fifth and fiftieth steps before being forced back.

• Qi Ling challenged Sea Dragon Douluo's authority to forbid him from taking the Sea God Trial, and Sea Dragon Douluo threatened to expel him.
• Bo Saixi arrived and ordered Sea Dragon Douluo to treat Qi Ling like Tang San and the others and fulfill his requests.
• Bo Saixi warned Qi Ling about the Sea God's Light and carried him across the sea guarded by Sea Soul Beasts.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai climbed the Sea God's Light steps, resisting an increasingly powerful force that pushed them backward.
• Dai Mubai was thrown back from the fiftieth step, while Tang San reached the seventy-fifth before both ran low on Soul Power.

While waiting for his strength to recover, Qi Ling spent his time with Dragon Maiden, provoking Sea Dragon Douluo’s jealousy. Sea Dragon Douluo gave Qi Ling three days to leave Sea God Island, and Qi Ling planned to face him once his power returned.

• Qi Ling learned from Dragon Maiden that his strength would recover in three days.
• Sea Dragon Douluo confronted Qi Ling after growing furious over his closeness with Dragon Maiden.
• Sea Dragon Douluo ordered Qi Ling to leave Sea God Island or die, claiming the ultimatum was his own decision.
• Qi Ling agreed to answer in three days, and Sea Dragon Douluo threatened to kill him if he remained.
• Dragon Maiden dismissed Sea Dragon Douluo as weak and promised Qi Ling that his strength would soon return.

After a month of training under the Sea God's Light, Tang San and the others had made rapid progress while Qi Ling prepared to recover his strength. Dragon Maiden restored Qi Ling’s power with a kiss, leaving Sea Dragon Douluo stunned.

• Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yu Tianyi had surpassed one hundred steps under the Sea God's Light, with Zhu Zhuqing reaching the 121st step.
• Qi Ling checked Yu Tianyi for injuries and learned that Zhu Zhuqing and the others had helped keep her from overtraining.
• Sea Dragon Douluo confronted Qi Ling after the three-day deadline, and Qi Ling led him to Dragon Maiden.
• Dragon Maiden denied summoning Sea Dragon Douluo, and Qi Ling told him to leave or die before asking Dragon Maiden to restore his strength.
• Dragon Maiden kissed Qi Ling, releasing the power that had once belonged to him and leaving Sea Dragon Douluo dumbfounded.

Qi Ling recovered his strength, reached Soul Power rank 77, and awakened his Divine Dragon Avatar after Dragon Maiden empowered him. He overwhelmed Sea Dragon Douluo with the might of his Divine Dragon Emperor Martial Soul and asked whether Sea Dragon would admit defeat.

• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that her power had helped him recover and that he had risen from rank 75 to rank 77, then whispered that one condition remained before he could begin the Dragon God Test.
• Sea Dragon Douluo attacked Qi Ling with a transformed dragon-claw hand, but Qi Ling caught the blow and Sea Dragon’s transformation reverted.
• Qi Ling explained that his Divine Dragon Emperor’s growing might had frightened Sea Dragon’s Martial Soul, while Sea Dragon refused to believe him and activated his Sea Dragon Avatar.
• Qi Ling used his Divine Dragon Avatar, and his dragon’s cry shook Sea God Island, startling Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians while delighting Tang San and his companions.
• Sea Dragon Douluo lost the will to attack in the presence of Qi Ling’s overwhelming dragon aura, and Qi Ling asked him whether he would admit defeat.

Qi Ling defeated Sea Dragon Douluo and returned to the group at the Sea God's Light, where he demonstrated his recovered strength by climbing to the top. He then increased the pressure on the steps and challenged the others to try the enhanced test.

• Sea Dragon Douluo refused to surrender, but Qi Ling defeated him twice and ordered him to leave and never return.
• Bo Saixi arrived after Sea Dragon Douluo had gone, but she could not tell what had happened.
• Qi Ling returned to the group, greeted Xiao Wu and the others, and climbed the Sea God's Light steps to the top without difficulty.
• Qi Ling invited the group to climb so he could see their progress, and Ma Hongjun volunteered to go first.
• Qi Ling increased the Sea God's Light pressure, and Ma Hongjun reached his limit at the twenty-seventh step despite Oscar's and Ning Rongrong's boosts.
• Qi Ling invited the rest of the group to try the enhanced Sea God's Light.

Tang San and the others tested Qi Ling's strengthened Sea God's Light, but only Tang San reached the forty-fifth step. Yu Tianyi revealed a second form of her Martial Soul Avatar and then activated her Thunder Domain, leaving her poised to continue overcoming the stairs.

• Tang San climbed to the forty-fifth step before retreating, while Dai Mubai and the others made it much less far.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianyi climbed together, and Yu Tianyi activated her Seventh Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Avatar, when the pressure became too great.
• Yu Tianyi transformed into a human-like dragon form, which she explained was a second form of her Martial Soul Avatar suited to endurance and breaking through Sea God's Light.
• Yu Tianyi continued climbing ahead of Zhu Zhuqing, reaching the thirty-eighth step before hitting her limit.
• Yu Tianyi activated her Thunder Domain, darkening the sky and making Qi Ling feel a numbing electrical current across his body.

Yu Tianyi stopped at the forty-fourth step after Qi Ling prevented her from injuring herself, while Zhu Zhuqing broke through the Beast God's Heart’s thirty-percent refinement barrier and climbed to Qi Ling on the fiftieth step. The chapter ended with Qi Ling embracing Zhu Zhuqing as Yu Tianyi vowed to do better next time.

• Yu Tianyi used her Thunder Domain to climb to the forty-fourth step, but Qi Ling stopped her before she overexerted herself on the next step.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated her Spirit Cat Avatar and Netherworld Domain, pushing herself to the forty-second step.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Beast God's Heart broke through the thirty-percent refinement barrier, unleashing new power.
• Zhu Zhuqing continued climbing and reached the forty-ninth step, then stepped onto the fiftieth and embraced Qi Ling.
• Yu Tianyi watched them and silently resolved to do better next time.

Qi Ling learned that Jian Lan’s Sword Intent made the Sea God’s Light part around her automatically, leaving her with a different path of cultivation. After three months of training, Hu Liena broke through to Soul Power level 70.

• Qi Ling asked Jian Lan why she did not train under the Sea God’s Light, and she explained that her Sword Intent automatically dispersed its pressure.
• Jian Lan demonstrated her Sword Intent by walking to the highest step without resistance, astonishing Qi Ling and discouraging the others.
• Bo Saixi and Dragon Maiden watched the group, and Dragon Maiden told Bo Saixi that Qi Ling was the Dragon God rather than someone chosen by him.
• After three months of diligent cultivation, Hu Liena reached Soul Power level 70 and entered the Soul Saint realm.

After Hu Liena broke through, Bo Saixi offered her the Sea God’s Blessing, which could grant a God-Given Soul Ring at a bottleneck. Tang San delayed Hu Liena’s blessing so she could strengthen her body, and Qi Ling gave him a prescription to help her withstand a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

• Bo Saixi explained that those who had accepted Black Level or higher trials could receive one God-Given Soul Ring when they reached a breakthrough.
• Tang San stopped Hu Liena from accepting the blessing and asked Bo Saixi to wait until after the first trial.
• Bo Saixi agreed to postpone Hu Liena’s blessing, and Qi Ling explained that further cultivation could increase the age of the Soul Ring she could bear.
• Qi Ling estimated that Hu Liena would still fall short of withstanding a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring without help.
• Qi Ling gave Tang San a medicinal prescription intended to improve Hu Liena’s constitution over more than half a year.

Qi Ling tricked Tang San into agreeing to an intimate weekly ritual with Hu Liena as a supposed cure for her poison, then prepared to leave Sea God Island with Dragon Maiden. Before they departed, Bo Saixi offered Qi Ling a special Sea God Test: fight her to the death.

• Qi Ling told Tang San that Hu Liena needed his blood and that an intimate weekly ritual was the only way to cure the poison it would cause.
• Tang San proposed the method to Hu Liena, and she shyly agreed; Qi Ling privately knew his Eight Spider Lances could remove the poison more easily.
• Qi Ling gathered everyone to say farewell and prepared to return to the Heaven Dou Empire with Dragon Maiden.
• Dragon Maiden comforted Bo Saixi by promising to take her out after Tang San received the Sea God Inheritance.
• Bo Saixi asked Qi Ling to return when the others reached their one-year deadline, then offered him a special trial: fight her, with victory or death.

Qi Ling accepted Bo Saixi’s challenge to face her in nine months, then returned to Dragon's Glory City to learn what had happened while he was away. He reunited with Bibi Dong, whose strength and appearance had been restored, and listened as she began reporting the important news.

• Qi Ling accepted Bo Saixi’s trial and agreed to fight her after nine months, though she could offer him no Sea God rewards.
• Qi Ling and Dragon Maiden left Sea God Island by boat and heard that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had been badly wounded by a Divine Dragon and fled to recover.
• Qi Ling and Dragon Maiden made the two-month journey to Dragon's Glory City in seven days, and Qi Ling stopped Lan Xiang from arranging a public welcome.
• Qi Ling went to see Bibi Dong, who had absorbed all nine Moonlight Soul Rings and regained her strength and original appearance.
• Bibi Dong began telling Qi Ling about the city’s recent affairs, but he became distracted by her beauty and she teased him to listen before promising he could look at her later.

Qi Ling returned to Heaven Dou City and joined Xue Ke and Bibi Dong at negotiations with the five great duchies, whose kings demanded separation from the Heaven Dou Empire. After Xue Ke failed to change their minds, Otto called for the talks to be suspended, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Qi Ling and Bibi Dong arrived at the palace, where the staff rejoiced at the Nation-Protecting Prince’s return.
• Xue Ke explained that the five great duchies demanded greater autonomy and recognition as independent states, and Qi Ling promised to handle the negotiations with her.
• Qi Ling, Xue Ke, and Bibi Dong reached the neutral meeting venue on time, but the five kings arrived half an hour late.
• The five kings repeated their demand to separate from the Heaven Dou Empire, and Xue Ke argued against breaking up their motherland.
• Otto refused to yield and proposed suspending the negotiations so the duchies could prepare further.

Qi Ling learned that Qian Renxue was advancing through the Angel Nine Trials and watched her return after completing the Fourth Trial. She revealed the rewards she had gained and asked Qi Ling to help with her Fifth Trial.

• Bibi Dong explained that the Angel God had chosen Qian Renxue as its heir and that Qian Daoliu might appear as one of her trials.
• Bibi Dong said Qian Renxue had passed three trials and was undergoing the Fourth Trial in another space, where she could not leave until she completed it.
• The next day, Qian Renxue emerged from a heavenly gate in Dragon's Glory City, having passed the Fourth Trial after sensing Qi Ling had returned.
• Qian Renxue asked Qi Ling to help with her Fifth Trial, then stayed in the city for several days to spend time with Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue showed Qi Ling her rewards: Soul Power at rank 80, a God-Given Soul Ring, four Angel God Armor Soul Bones, an evolved Heaven Domain, and four golden Soul Rings.

Qi Ling accompanied Qian Renxue into the Gate of Angels to help with her Fifth Trial, the Trial of True Love. Qian Renxue found the real Qi Ling among thousands of perfect doubles, but their next test began before they could celebrate.

• Qian Renxue told Qi Ling that her Fifth Trial required the cooperation of a special man, and he agreed to help.
• Qian Renxue summoned the Gate of Angels and led Qi Ling through it by holding his hand.
• The trial guide declared Qi Ling Qian Renxue’s Person of Destiny and began the Trial of True Love.
• Countless identical copies of Qi Ling appeared, and Qian Renxue recognized the real one by following her heart.
• The guide presented a mire of eternal filth and challenged them to retrieve a white lotus together, warning that suspicion or selfishness would bring disaster.

Qi Ling and Qian Renxue entered the mire together to retrieve a lotus, only to face a life-or-death test that demanded one sacrifice the other. Their refusal to abandon each other moved the Angel God, and they passed the Fifth Trial, gaining Soul Power and a golden Soul Ring.

• Qi Ling and Qian Renxue held hands as they crossed the mire, and Qian Renxue picked the white lotus at its center.
• The protective power vanished, and the mire began dragging them under as the cloak revealed the trial’s second part: only one of them could survive by sacrificing the other.
• Qian Renxue offered to die so Qi Ling could live, but Qi Ling insisted they would either survive together or die together.
• Moved by Qi Ling and Qian Renxue’s devotion, the cloak pulled them from the mire and declared that Qian Renxue had passed the Fifth Trial.
• Qian Renxue’s fifth Soul Ring turned golden and her Soul Power reached level eighty-three, while Qi Ling’s Soul Power rose to level seventy-eight.

Qian Renxue began the Angel Godhood’s Trial of Courage, where she had to face ten thousand Angel Puppets alone, while Qi Ling was sent back to Dragon's Glory City. After six months of cultivation, Qi Ling reached rank seventy-nine, but an unexpected development interrupted his efforts.

• Qi Ling discovered his Soul Power had increased and learned that Qian Renxue’s sixth trial was the Trial of Courage.
• The white cloak revealed that Qian Renxue had to face ten thousand Angel Puppets, each as strong as a Titled Douluo, and that she would die if she gave up.
• Qian Renxue accepted the trial, and Qi Ling left her facing the Angel Puppets without fear.
• Qi Ling returned to Dragon's Glory City and began cultivating to reach rank eighty for the Dragon God Trial.
• After half a year, Qi Ling had reached rank seventy-nine when an unexpected event occurred.

After recovering his strength, Qian Xunji joined Qian Daoliu and Xue Qinghe in plotting to kill Qi Ling. Xue Qinghe revealed a Dragon-Trapping Grand Array and a plan to use Bibi Dong to locate Qi Ling, leaving the three ready to ambush them both.

• Qian Xunji emerged from seclusion and told Qian Daoliu he wanted to kill Qi Ling before he grew stronger.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to help, and Xue Qinghe appeared to join their revenge plot.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that he had sacrificed one of his dragon horns to refine a Dragon-Trapping Grand Array that could prevent Qi Ling from escaping.
• Xue Qinghe said Bibi Dong had returned and was the one person who could reliably find Qi Ling.
• Qian Xunji decided they would follow Bibi Dong, trap her with Qi Ling, and kill them both.

Xue Qinghe learned that Qi Ling was in the Star Dou Great Forest, where the presence of Da Ming and Er Ming made an attack too risky. Qi Ling finished an exhausting strength contest with Er Ming and invited Da Ming to spar, but Da Ming tried to dodge the challenge.

• Qian Xunji told Xue Qinghe that Qi Ling was in the Star Dou Great Forest, so they could not safely attack him there.
• Xue Qinghe concluded that they would wait for Qi Ling to leave the forest before striking.
• Qi Ling and Er Ming fought for a day and night, exchanging ten thousand punches as Qi Ling held a slight advantage in strength.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python watched and sensed an unfamiliar power flowing from the earth into Qi Ling, marveling at his strength despite his low Soul Power Level.
• Er Ming ended the fight, and Qi Ling asked Da Ming to spar with him.
• Da Ming made excuses to avoid fighting Qi Ling, while Er Ming pointed out that Da Ming had no legs.

Qi Ling reassured Da Ming and Er Ming that he could revive Xiao Wu’s mother, then found Bibi Dong mourning at her empty grave and promised they would meet again. As Qi Ling and Bibi Dong traveled back toward Dragon's Glory City, Qian Xunji and Xue Qinghe ambushed them, and Qian Daoliu suddenly attacked Qi Ling from behind.

• Qi Ling showed Da Ming and Er Ming Xiao Wu’s mother’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone and explained how he planned to revive her.
• Da Ming and Er Ming said they no longer blamed Bibi Dong, and Da Ming told Qi Ling that she had gone to Xiao Wu’s mother’s grave.
• Qi Ling found Bibi Dong at the empty grave, promised they would meet Xiao Wu’s mother again, and reminisced with her before they left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qi Ling sensed danger in a forest on the way to Dragon's Glory City, where Qian Xunji and Xue Qinghe appeared and confronted him and Bibi Dong.
• Qian Xunji attacked Qi Ling with angel wings and spider legs, but Qi Ling’s Golden Sacred Dragon Armor blocked them.
• Qian Daoliu burst out of the ground and swung the Angel Sword at Qi Ling’s back.