Recaps

Qi Ling learned Hundred Transformations of the Wandering Dragon and took the Devil-Trapping Stone after passing the third trial. He tried to reach the fourth island but was driven back by the sky’s pressure, and Dragon Maiden told him an eighth Soul Ring for his Blood Devil Emperor Martial Soul could help him advance.

• Qi Ling learned that Hundred Transformations of the Wandering Dragon could help him evade attacks and use his strength in unpredictable ways.
• Qi Ling took the Devil-Trapping Stone and stored it in Infinite Space, planning to use it as a weapon against enemies below God Level.
• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that he could not begin the fourth trial until he reached the next island using only his own strength.
• Qi Ling used Hundred Transformations of the Wandering Dragon to break through the island’s barrier, but he reached his limit after climbing a hundred meters and had to retreat.
• Dragon Maiden said Qi Ling needed another Soul Ring to reach the fourth island, reminding him that his Blood Devil Emperor Martial Soul still had an empty eighth slot.

Qi Ling struggled to find a powerful Soul Ring for his Blood Devil Emperor when Blood Devil suddenly returned and offered to help. Blood Devil then revealed that Qi Ling’s five-year loan deadline had arrived and demanded the life Qi Ling had pledged as collateral.

• Qi Ling worried that he could not find a suitable Soul Ring to advance and reach the fourth island.
• Blood Devil appeared and effortlessly defeated Qi Ling’s attack, showing that Qi Ling was no match for him.
• Blood Devil said he had returned to help Qi Ling find a Soul Ring, but claimed Qi Ling could not refuse because he was his creditor.
• Qi Ling remembered borrowing from Devil Loan to save Xiao Wu and realized Blood Devil owned the loan shop.
• Blood Devil reminded Qi Ling that the five-year deadline to become a Titled Douluo had passed and demanded the life Qi Ling had promised.

Blood Devil told Qi Ling that he had to compete for the Demon God Godhood in the Demon God Contention Battle. The contest would begin in a year, and Blood Devil wanted Qi Ling to promise to participate.

• Blood Devil revealed that Qi Ling had to compete to inherit the Demon God Godhood, which would also lead to the Eighth Soul Ring he wanted to give him.
• Qi Ling learned that Xue Qinghe was chosen by someone else as a rival successor, while Blood Devil had chosen Qi Ling as his reincarnation.
• Blood Devil explained that Devil Realm Godhoods were contested through brutal competitions and that all eight Demonic Souls had to appear before the Demon God contest could begin.
• Blood Devil said all eight Demonic Souls had been found and 3,003 contenders had been confirmed for the Demon God Contention Battle.
• Blood Devil told Qi Ling that the competition would start in a year and asked him to promise to take part, admitting he could not force him.

Qi Ling agreed to enter the Demon God Contention Battle despite its deadly rules, and Blood Devil promised him a gift. Blood Devil then cursed Qi Ling with the Threefold Blood Curse, leaving him needing help from Dragon Maiden and three women who met its requirements.

• Qi Ling accepted the challenge of fighting in the Demon God Contention Battle, while Blood Devil warned him about its dangers and the seven Demonic Souls.
• Blood Devil said Qi Ling would receive his full rewards only after winning, but promised him a special gift when the competition began.
• Blood Devil turned into blood mist and entered Qi Ling, triggering a curse that made Qi Ling’s heartbeat race and his body grow agitated.
• Qi Ling went to Dragon Maiden for help, and she identified Blood Devil’s gift as the Threefold Blood Curse.
• Dragon Maiden explained that Qi Ling needed intimate relations with three different virgins to break the curse, then went to fetch the others from the Dragon God Continent.

Dragon Maiden gathered volunteers to help Qi Ling withstand the Threefold Blood Curse, and Dugu Yan, Shui Bing’er, and Huo Wu agreed to go with her. She told them the encounter could last a day and night and that their first time with Qi Ling would awaken their potential like a Dragon God reward.

• After Dragon Maiden explained Qi Ling’s situation, Dugu Yan volunteered to help him, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased each other about their past intimacy with him.
• Shui Bing’er volunteered next, and Huo Wu persuaded Yu Tianyi to let her take the remaining place.
• Dragon Maiden took Dugu Yan, Shui Bing’er, and Huo Wu to the third Dragon God Island, telling Xiao Wu and the others they could not enter that night.
• Dragon Maiden warned the three women that Qi Ling’s power might last a full day and night, but the island’s Dragon God power would protect them.
• Dragon Maiden explained that their first encounter with Qi Ling would awaken their potential as a special cultivation method, and Huo Wu recognized it as dual cultivation.

Qi Ling relied on Dugu Yan, Shui Bing’er, and Huo Wu to break Blood Devil’s Threefold Blood Curse. Afterward, the curse’s power became vital essence that promised major benefits for the three women, and Qi Ling prepared to continue for the full day and night Dragon Maiden had described.

• Qi Ling explained that Blood Devil’s Threefold Blood Curse could only be broken by the method Dragon Maiden had specified.
• Dugu Yan, Shui Bing’er, and Huo Wu took turns helping Qi Ling break the curse.
• Qi Ling’s condition improved after the three women each took part, while they collapsed from exhaustion.
• Qi Ling explained that the curse had become abundant vital essence and that the women could gain Soul Power and physical improvements from it.
• Qi Ling asked whether the women were rested enough to begin another round.

Qi Ling learned that his Dragon God Trial had paused until he obtained another Soul Ring, then persuaded the Dragon Maiden to let him check on everyone else's difficult fortuitous opportunities. He set out intending to observe without interfering, though the Dragon Maiden doubted he could restrain himself.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong tried to sneak into Qi Ling's room but found him outside, where he explained that he had spent the night cultivating because he could not sleep.
• Dugu Yan, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu slept until evening and suffered no physical discomfort thanks to Dragon God Island's power.
• The Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling that his Dragon God Trial could not continue until he obtained another Soul Ring.
• Qi Ling asked about everyone's fortuitous opportunities and offered to help, but the Dragon Maiden warned that interfering could cost them their rewards.
• The Dragon Maiden agreed to let Qi Ling visit the others' opportunities after he promised not to interfere.

Qi Ling found Dugu Yan unconscious during her venom trial and revived her with his blood. She revealed that she had endured over six thousand kinds of poison and credited their recent intimacy with strengthening her constitution, prompting them to consider repeating it to help her pass.

• Qi Ling sensed Dugu Yan's presence weakening and rushed to find her surrounded by more than eleven thousand illusory venomous snakes.
• Qi Ling ordered the snakes aside and gave Dugu Yan his blood to suppress the toxins in her body.
• Dugu Yan awoke and told Qi Ling she had endured over six thousand kinds of venom before exceeding her limit.
• Dugu Yan said Dragon Maiden had told her that intimacy with Qi Ling could strengthen their constitutions and improve her poison resistance.
• Dugu Yan suggested that she and Qi Ling try it again immediately to help her pass the trial.

Qi Ling and his companions completed their Dragon God Continent trials and returned to Sea God Island, where Tang San had drawn the Sea God Trident. Qi Ling effortlessly lifted the trident, shocking Tang San just as Tang San was about to explain that only the Sea God's chosen could wield it.

• Qi Ling learned that his power could detoxify Dugu Yan, while her poison trial still required her to endure the toxins herself.
• Qi Ling worried about Yu Tianyi's nine-dragon battles and Zhu Zhuqing's ninety-nine challenges in a dangerous netherworld space.
• After six months, everyone completed their trials, grew stronger, and Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu each obtained a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Qi Ling and the others returned to Sea God Island, where Tang San pulled the Sea God Trident from the stone and believed he had earned the Sea God's recognition.
• Qi Ling caught the exhausted Tang San and easily lifted the Sea God Trident with one hand, leaving Tang San astonished.

Qi Ling effortlessly wielded Tang San’s Sea God Trident and explained that divine artifacts recognized their masters, demonstrating Tuoliya’s Sword of the Oath to the group. The party prepared to leave Sea God Island for the Heaven Dou Empire, while Qi Ling’s Dragon God Trials remained unfinished.

• Qi Ling lifted and skillfully wielded the Sea God Trident, astonishing Tang San and Bo Saixi with his ease and mastery.
• Qi Ling told Tang San that he had passed only the first three Dragon God Trials, and Tang San prepared to return to the Heaven Dou Empire with him.
• Tang San and Qi Ling left the Sea God Hall and rejoined their waiting companions, who admired Tang San’s Sea God Trident.
• Qi Ling explained that divine artifacts had spirits and showed the group how Tuoliya summoned the nearly weightless Sword of the Oath.
• Ma Hongjun tried the sword, and Qi Ling told him to slash Oscar, startling Oscar.

Qi Ling demonstrated the Sword of the Oath’s power after Ma Hongjun failed to wield it against Oscar, revealing that Tuoliya had unlocked only its first of thirteen seals. Before the group prepared to depart Sea God Island, Dragon Maiden decided to stay behind with Bo Saixi and asked Qi Ling to return once he had obtained his next Soul Ring and qualified to begin the trial.

• Ma Hongjun struck Oscar with the Sword of the Oath several times but could not hurt him because the sword had not accepted Ma Hongjun as qualified.
• Tuoliya took the sword and unleashed a golden slash that split the sea and exposed the seabed.
• Tuoliya explained that the Sword of the Oath had thirteen seals and that she had undone only the first.
• Qi Ling told everyone to finish their business on the island before the group set off the next morning.
• Dragon Maiden told Qi Ling she would stay on Sea God Island with Bo Saixi and asked him to return after obtaining his next Soul Ring and meeting the trial’s conditions.

Sea Witch tested Qi Ling with her Sea-Subduing Divine Melody, then asked him to help with an important matter. She offered to arrange for him to meet Bo Saixi, leaving Qi Ling to consider the tempting offer.

• Qi Ling waited on a mountaintop for Sea Witch after she had asked him to meet her.
• Sea Witch played her Ninth Soul Skill, the Sea-Subduing Divine Melody, but Qi Ling was unaffected and praised the music.
• Qi Ling said his spiritual power was slightly stronger than Bo Saixi's, encouraging Sea Witch to believe he could help her.
• Qi Ling initially refused Sea Witch's request, saying they were neither family nor friends.
• Sea Witch offered him a person as an incentive and revealed that she meant Bo Saixi.

Qi Ling learned that the Sea Witch wanted to take over as Sea God Island’s Great Enshrined so Bo Saixi could be free of her duties, and that she needed his help to obtain a Mermaid Clan divine artifact. Doubting the Sea Witch’s motives, Qi Ling demanded that she drink his blood before he agreed to help.

• Qi Ling threatened the Sea Witch when he suspected she was plotting against Bo Saixi, and she begged him to hear her out.
• The Sea Witch explained that Bo Saixi had been chosen by the Sea God and had bound herself to the Great Enshrined’s responsibilities.
• The Sea Witch said she could succeed Bo Saixi if she obtained a divine artifact from the Mermaid Clan’s forbidden grounds, but she needed Qi Ling’s help.
• Qi Ling refused to trust the Sea Witch’s intentions and asked her to drink a drop of his blood as proof of her loyalty.

Qi Ling agreed to help Sea Witch retrieve the Mermaid Clan’s divine artifact and left Sea God Island with her. As they headed toward the Mermaid Clan’s territory, Qi Ling worried about the Divine Realm’s threat and resolved to grow stronger.

• Sea Witch drank a drop of Qi Ling’s blood, and Qi Ling agreed to believe her and help retrieve the Mermaid Clan’s divine artifact.
• Qi Ling told Tang San and the others to return without him, then met Sea Witch on the far shore of Sea God Island.
• Sea Witch explained that her Mermaid Clan ancestry gave her the privilege to leave Sea God Island freely.
• Qi Ling reflected on the Divine Realm’s persecution of the Dragon God’s believers and worried that the gods might target him.
• Qi Ling and Sea Witch swam toward the Mermaid Clan’s territory, and Sea Witch was frustrated that he easily kept pace with her.

Qi Ling and the Sea Witch reached the mermaid territory and discovered signs of an attack by the Sea Demon Tribe. As they hurried toward the sanctuary, the chapter revealed that the Sea Demon chief had Haige'er pinned down inside the temple.

• The Sea Witch climbed onto Qi Ling's back, and they reached the mermaid territory in a day and a night.
• The Sea Witch noticed the patrols were missing, and Qi Ling smelled blood in the seawater.
• The Sea Witch explained that the cruel Sea Demon Tribe preyed on humans and hated the Mermaid Tribe, which was protected by a barrier from a formation in its sanctuary.
• The Sea Witch and Qi Ling hurried toward the territory after finding that the protective barrier had not activated.
• Inside the temple, the Sea Demon chief pinned Haige'er, the Sea Witch's father and chief of the Mermaid Tribe, beneath his foot.

The Sea Demon Tribe chief revealed that a traitor named Hai Feisi had replaced the Mermaid Tribe’s protective formation core with a fake, allowing the invasion. With Haige'er captured, Hai Feisi declared his loyalty to a mysterious lord and rejected the Sea God, then urged the Sea Demon Tribe to proceed with its plan.

• The Sea Demon Tribe chief taunted the captured Haige'er and explained that the protective formation had failed because its real core was missing.
• The chief revealed the real formation core and said a mermaid had helped replace it with a fake.
• Hai Feisi entered the temple and admitted he had betrayed the Mermaid Tribe to serve the Sea Demon Tribe and its mysterious lord.
• Haige'er pleaded with Hai Feisi to repent, but Hai Feisi rejected the Sea God and claimed he would become a god himself.
• Hai Feisi said he would surpass Hai Wei'er and urged the Sea Demon Tribe chief to carry out their plan quickly.

Hai Feisi was forced by the Sea Demon chief to prove his loyalty by killing Haige'er, but Qi Ling and the Sea Witch arrived just in time to stop him. The Sea Demon chief seized Haige'er and threatened to kill him as the Sea Witch faced Hai Feisi.

• Hai Feisi sought the Heart of the Ocean, but the Sea Demon chief demanded that he kill one of the captured mermaids to prove his loyalty.
• Haige'er offered himself, and the Sea Demon chief urged Hai Feisi to kill him so Hai Feisi could become the next Mermaid Tribe chief.
• The Sea Demon chief used his tribe's bewitchment method on Hai Feisi, who drew his saber and prepared to stab Haige'er.
• Qi Ling hurled a seashell that snapped Hai Feisi's saber, then entered the temple with the Sea Witch.
• The Sea Witch reunited with Haige'er, while the Sea Demon chief grabbed him and ordered her to fight Hai Feisi.

Hai Wei'er fought Hai Feisi after condemning him for betraying the Mermaid Tribe, while Qi Ling stopped the Sea Demon Tribe chief from killing her. When the sea demons' Song of the Sea Demons failed to charm Qi Ling, he prepared to answer with his Nine Heavens Dragon Roar.

• Hai Wei'er rejected Hai Feisi's offer to join him and attacked him, eventually breaking his martial soul and defeating him.
• The Sea Demon Tribe chief tried to ambush the exhausted Hai Wei'er, but Qi Ling broke the chief's trident martial soul with a seashell and injured him.
• Hai Wei'er thanked Qi Ling and went to rescue her father as Qi Ling confronted the Sea Demon Tribe chief.
• The chief and his tribe sang the Song of the Sea Demons to charm Qi Ling, but their music had no effect on him.
• Qi Ling activated his first soul skill, Nine Heavens Dragon Roar, to counter the sea demons' song.

Qi Ling effortlessly subdued the Sea Demon Tribe and rescued the merfolk, then took the traitor Hai Feisi into his custody. Hai Wei'er revealed that she had returned to seek the Heart of the Ocean, and Haige'er warned her that trying to earn the divine artifact's recognition could cost her life.

• Qi Ling's roar broke the sea demons' song and overwhelmed them, and their chief led the tribe to the side under Qi Ling's threat.
• Haige'er thanked Qi Ling for saving the Mermaid Tribe, and the merfolk took the defeated sea demons away.
• Qi Ling stopped the merfolk from taking Hai Feisi and persuaded Haige'er to hand the traitor over to him.
• Hai Wei'er told Haige'er that she had returned to seek the Heart of the Ocean.
• Haige'er explained that the divine artifact could recognize Hai Wei'er as its master but warned that the trial could kill her.

Hai Wei'er agreed to challenge the Heart of the Ocean with Qi Ling as her helper, and Haige'er prepared to open the sacred land. During their night at the Mermaid Tribe, Hai Wei'er shared Qi Ling's room and admitted she would still have come to him even without the divine artifact.

• Hai Wei'er agreed to undergo the divine artifact's trial and chose Qi Ling to help her obtain the Heart of the Ocean.
• Haige'er warned Qi Ling that the trial could be dangerous and said he needed a day of worship to open the sacred land.
• The Mermaid Tribe welcomed Qi Ling, and Hai Wei'er explained that the young mermaid women admired him as their hero.
• Hai Wei'er followed Qi Ling to the room Haige'er had arranged, and the two teased and flirted while sharing the bed.
• After Qi Ling asked whether she would have come without the divine artifact, Hai Wei'er blushingly answered that she would.

Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er entered the Mermaid Tribe's sacred ground to search for the Heart of the Ocean, only to find they could not summon their Martial Souls. As they descended into the darkness, a huge unseen creature attacked them, and Qi Ling warned that it could kill them.

• Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er spent the night together before going to see Haige'er the next day.
• Haige'er told Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er that the sacred ground had opened and warned them to turn back if they could not escape.
• Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er entered the sacred ground, where the gate closed behind them and neither could summon a Martial Soul.
• Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er descended through a dark passage, holding hands as they searched for the Heart of the Ocean.
• Qi Ling sensed an unseen presence and pulled Hai Wei'er aside as an enormous creature charged past them.
• Qi Ling told Hai Wei'er that the creature wanted to kill them and had the power to do so.

Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er trapped the Ghost Shark using Qi Ling's True Dragon Qi after Hai Wei'er's singing revealed and provoked it. Qi Ling spared it for the moment and offered to let it live if it led them to the Heart of the Ocean.

• Qi Ling explained that the Ghost Shark was an energy being immune to physical attacks, but that his True Dragon Qi could counter it.
• Qi Ling asked Hai Wei'er to sing so the energy in her voice would reveal the Ghost Shark's location and provoke it.
• Hai Wei'er sang, and the enraged Ghost Shark circled them before charging toward her.
• Qi Ling used a True Dragon Chain to bind the Ghost Shark and began strangling it.
• Qi Ling stopped before killing the Ghost Shark and offered to spare it if it took them to the Heart of the Ocean.

Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er forced the Ghost Shark to guide them through the dangers on the way to the Heart of the Ocean. After the Ghost Shark betrayed them and was devoured by a swarm of Ghost Piranhas, Qi Ling reassured Hai Wei'er as the creatures turned toward them.

• Qi Ling threatened the Ghost Shark until it agreed to guide him and Hai Wei'er.
• The Ghost Shark led them past several traps, then lured them toward over ten thousand Ghost Piranhas.
• Qi Ling illuminated the darkness and revealed the Ghost Piranhas waiting ahead.
• The Ghost Shark admitted its plan and explained that the Ghost Piranhas ate anything, including Ghost Sharks.
• Qi Ling threw the Ghost Shark to the Ghost Piranhas, which devoured it and then fixed their gaze on Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er.
• Hai Wei'er nearly collapsed in fear, and Qi Ling steadied her and promised she would be safe with him.

Qi Ling protected Hai Wei'er from the Ghost Piranhas with the Xuanyuan Sword, and the two found the Heart of the Ocean on the seabed. A stone giant guarding it attacked them, and Qi Ling held it off while Hai Wei'er swam toward the artifact.

• Qi Ling drew the Xuanyuan Sword and used One Hundred and Eight Thousand Swords to defeat the attacking Ghost Piranhas.
• Hai Wei'er asked if Qi Ling was a god, and he joked that he was stronger than one.
• Qi Ling and Hai Wei'er reached the seabed and spotted a jeweled pedestal holding a box that should contain the Heart of the Ocean.
• A stone giant rose from the seabed and struck at Hai Wei'er, but Qi Ling blocked its blow and moved her to safety.
• Qi Ling fought the stone giant, but it regenerated from rubble even after his sword techniques wounded it.
• Qi Ling told Hai Wei'er to retrieve the Heart of the Ocean while he kept the stone giant at bay, then blocked its attempt to stop her.

Hai Wei'er claimed the Heart of the Ocean but was overwhelmed by its power, which threatened to erase her emotions and merge her with the sea. Qi Ling reached her inside the domain and revived her feelings with a kiss, leaving her responding to him.

• Hai Wei'er touched the Heart of the Ocean and felt the sea's immense power, but gathered her courage and put the necklace on.
• The Heart of the Ocean expanded a sea-blue domain around Hai Wei'er, and the stone giant stopped moving.
• Qi Ling entered the domain and found Hai Wei'er floating with an emotionless gaze as the sea's power consumed her.
• Qi Ling warned Hai Wei'er to hold on to her true heart, but realized that only her own emotions could resist the Heart of the Ocean.
• Qi Ling kissed Hai Wei'er, and she regained her emotions, embraced him, and returned his affection.