Chapter Summaries

Yang Podi arranged intensive training and rare resources to prepare Tianyue for the Sea God's trials and planned to take his companions to Sea God Island as well. He also supported Yang Ping'an's cultivation and deferred Dugu Bo's suggestion of a relationship with Dugu Yan while anticipating future wars.

• Yang Podi told Yang Zhentian and Yang Wudi that Tianyue needed two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, Ice and Fire Body Tempering, and at least level 65 before attempting the Sea God's trials.
• Yang Podi requested Soul Explosion Pills for a hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain another hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone for Tianyue.
• Yang Podi arranged accelerated cultivation for his companions and planned to bring them to Sea God Island for their own trials.
• Yang Wudi began refining the pills, the others improved their Soul Power and physiques with Whale Rubber, and Yang Ping'an accepted Yang Podi's seventy-thousand-year White-Eyed Devil Tiger King Right Arm Soul Bone.
• Yang Podi and Dugu Bo placed Dugu Yan in an icy pool to relieve the Whale Rubber's aphrodisiac effects.
• Yang Podi deferred Dugu Bo's proposal that Dugu Yan become his girlfriend and privately reflected on the wars and battle of gods ahead.

Yang Podi brought Yang Tianyue to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she absorbed two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones and underwent Ice and Fire Body Tempering to prepare for the Sea God trials. Afterward, Yang Wushuang found a powerful water-attribute Soul Beast for her next Soul Ring, while Yang Podi considered how to develop his own abilities.

• Yang Podi arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Yang Tianyue, Yang Zhentian, and Niu Jinfeng, and explained that Yang Tianyue needed to grow stronger before attempting the Sea God trials.
• Yang Podi gave Yang Tianyue the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and Titan Giant Python Right Arm Soul Bone, which she absorbed over four days.
• Yang Tianyue swallowed the blazing resin of the infernal delicate apricot and the ice crystals of the octagonal mysterious ice grass, then endured three days of Ice and Fire Body Tempering in the spring.
• Yang Tianyue emerged with a transformed body that could withstand cold, heat, and poison, while Yang Podi continued cultivating and thinking about his future Soul Rings and abilities.
• Yang Wushuang found a roughly forty-thousand-year-old Mysterious Water Dragon Crocodile for Yang Tianyue, and Niu Jinfeng felt reassured after testing her daughter's physical strength.

Yang Podi and his family drove three powerful Qian Jun Ant Emperors from their nest and discovered a piece of gold of life buried beneath it. They resumed searching the Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Beasts, and Yang Podi sensed a powerful presence beneath a barren cliff.

• Yang Tianyue absorbed a forty-thousand-year Mysterious Water Dragon Crocodile Soul Ring, reaching rank fifty-eight, and Niu Jinfeng agreed to guide her cultivation.
• Yang Wushuang, Yang Zhentian, and Yang Podi searched the core region for suitable Soul Beasts and encountered three nearly ninety-thousand-year Qian Jun Ant Emperors.
• The three Titled Douluo attacked the Qian Jun Ant Emperors and drove them away from their nest without pursuing them.
• Yang Podi entered the nest alone, dug beneath its deepest chamber, and unearthed a fist-sized piece of gold of life.
• Yang Podi and the others continued their search and reached a barren cliff, where Yang Podi sensed an extremely powerful presence below.

Yang Podi, Yang Wushuang, and Yang Zhentian poisoned and fought a hundred-thousand-year Space Bone Dragon after it realized it had been targeted. They defeated it, and Yang Podi prepared to absorb its Soul Ring after recovering with the Gold of Life.

• Yang Podi, Yang Wushuang, and Yang Zhentian discovered a hundred-thousand-year Space Bone Dragon and studied its habits before luring it into eating a poisoned black bear.
• The Space Bone Dragon became irritable, destroyed a forest, and appeared ready to flee, so Yang Podi urged the others to attack it.
• The three attacked together, but the Space Bone Dragon redirected their ranged attacks and used spatial displacement to evade them.
• Yang Podi and the others pressed their assault at close quarters, using Divine Slaughter's Domain and mental attacks to weaken the Space Bone Dragon until it collapsed.
• Yang Podi dealt the Space Bone Dragon the fatal blow, and the three recovered with the Gold of Life before Yang Podi prepared to absorb its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Yang Podi absorbed the Space Bone Dragon’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Right Leg Soul Bone, gaining powerful space and bone-dragon skills before searching for another Soul Beast. He and his family prepared a Golden Behemoth for sacrifice, but after it reached the hundred-thousand-year level, Yang Podi chose to wait for poison to weaken it before attacking.

• Yang Podi absorbed the Space Bone Dragon’s Soul Ring and Right Leg Soul Bone, reaching at least level eighty-one and acquiring four new skills.
• Yang Podi, Yang Zhentian, and Yang Wushuang recovered in the Space Bone Dragon’s lair, then searched the Star Dou Great Forest for another Soul Beast.
• Yang Podi’s group found a ninety-six-thousand-year Golden Behemoth and planned to use two Soul Explosion Pills and Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well poison against it.
• Yang Podi placed the pills and poison in prey for the Golden Behemoth, which eventually broke through to the hundred-thousand-year level.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python warned Er Ming and Xiao Wu to stay nearby, while Yang Podi decided to keep observing the Golden Behemoth until the poison weakened it.

Yang Podi, Yang Wushuang, and Yang Zhentian killed the poisoned Golden Behemoth, and Yang Podi absorbed its Soul Ring and secured a Left Arm Soul Bone. As they left the Star Dou Great Forest, they confronted Xiao Wu and Er Ming, then departed without fighting.

• Yang Wushuang, Yang Zhentian, and Yang Podi attacked the poisoned Golden Behemoth and defeated it with coordinated, life-risking strikes.
• Yang Podi healed the wounded men, recovered his strength, and began absorbing the Golden Behemoth's Soul Ring while Yang Wushuang guarded the area with a poison formation.
• After three days, Yang Podi completed the absorption and learned from Yang Wushuang that they had obtained a Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Yang Podi, Yang Wushuang, and Yang Zhentian encountered Er Ming and Xiao Wu as they prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Podi argued with Xiao Wu about humans hunting Soul Beasts, warned her that others might capture her, and left the forest with Yang Wushuang and Yang Zhentian.

After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Podi studied Dugu Bo’s Poison Pill and successfully condensed his first Soul Core, then helped his family condense theirs. With their Soul Cores established and Yang Tianyue preparing for Sea God Island, Yang Podi set out alone to travel and gain experience.

• Yang Podi returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Yang Tianyue’s Soul Bone, but decided to wait until she reached rank 60 before giving it to her.
• Yang Podi reviewed the Golden Behemoth’s powerful Soul Ring and Soul Bone gains, then spent a month studying Dugu Bo’s Poison Pill before attempting to condense a Soul Core.
• Yang Podi formed a golden Soul Core from the origin essence of his Soul Breaking Spear and survived the dangerous process of merging it with his body.
• Yang Podi explained the Soul Core method and its requirements to Yang Zhentian, Yang Tianyue, Yang Wushuang, and Niu Jinfeng.
• Yang Zhentian condensed a Soul Core and broke through to rank 96, while Yang Wushuang and Niu Jinfeng also condensed Soul Cores with help from Yang Podi and the others.
• Yang Podi decided to travel alone, while Yang Zhentian supported his decision and Yang Tianyue prepared to cultivate before going to Sea God Island.

Yang Podi traveled across the continent to explore its major sects and cities, visiting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s territory and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he sparred with Chen Xin, whose deeper Soul Power made him stronger in a prolonged fight, though Yang Podi’s strongest attack forced Chen Xin to evade.

• Yang Podi visited Thunder Canyon but was turned away by a patrolling disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yang Podi traveled to Seven Treasure City, where Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin welcomed him and invited him to tour the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yang Podi met Bone Douluo and Ning Rongrong and told Ning Fengzhi that he planned to visit Star Luo City and Spirit City before possibly going to sea.
• Chen Xin challenged Yang Podi to a spar, and Yang Podi revealed his eight Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings.
• Yang Podi and Chen Xin exchanged attacks for over ten minutes, with Chen Xin forcing Yang Podi back with his eighth Soul Skill.
• Yang Podi’s eighth Soul Skill overcame Chen Xin’s ninth Soul Skill, but Chen Xin evaded the slash; they ended the spar with Yang Podi more exhausted and Chen Xin acknowledging his powerful attack.

After battling Sword Douluo at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Yang Podi continued his journey through Star Luo City to Spirit City. He visited Chrysanthemum Douluo and was welcomed inside after offering him a thousand-year Purple Gold Orchid, where he also found Ghost Douluo.

• Yang Podi and Sword Douluo recovered after their battle, and Yang Podi left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo discussed Yang Podi’s strength, abilities, and reasons for accepting the challenge, while Sword Douluo said he planned to study his swordsmanship insights.
• Yang Podi traveled for over a month to Star Luo City, then continued on toward Spirit City after seeing the imposing Star Luo Emperor and empress.
• Yang Podi went to Chrysanthemum Douluo’s home, and Chrysanthemum Douluo let him in after taking the thousand-year Purple Gold Orchid he offered.
• Yang Podi greeted Ghost Douluo inside, while Chrysanthemum Douluo admired the orchid and wondered whether Yang Podi had an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid.

After spending time with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo in Spirit City, Yang Podi traveled for eight months to Vast Sea City, where seeing the sea brought his Soul Power to level 85. He reunited with the Heavenly Pursuit Academy group and gave Niu Meng a Left Leg Soul Bone to help him reach level 60 before their journey to Sea God Island.

• Yang Podi stayed at Chrysanthemum Douluo’s home for half a month, where Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo discussed their loyalty to Spirit Hall and their pasts.
• Hu Liena and Flame Eagle Douluo visited on Pope Bibi Dong’s orders, and Ghost Douluo advised Yang Podi that his move to Mount Aermo was a good one.
• Yang Podi left Spirit City, traveled across the continent, killed every Wolf Bandit he encountered, and acquired a Left Leg Soul Bone.
• After reaching Vast Sea City, Yang Podi’s Soul Power broke through to level 85 as he gazed at the sea, and he bought supplies and a Dragon Abyss Boat while awaiting his companions.
• Yang Zhentian brought Yang Tianyue, Ye Lingling, Yang Ping'an, Dugu Yan, and Niu Meng to Vast Sea City, where the group reunited and Yang Podi reviewed their training progress.
• Yang Podi gave Niu Meng the Left Leg Soul Bone and urged him to reach level 60 and obtain his sixth Soul Ring before they went to Sea God Island.

Yang Podi’s preparations and the spread of secret manuals reshaped the continent, while Tang San discovered the Blue Silver King was gone and the Tang Sect had lost its Hidden Weapon business. After failing to find answers at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Tang San chose to focus on cultivation and obtained a Soul Ring from a Soul Devouring Demon Spider.

• Yang Podi had his group practice swimming, while Niu Meng reached rank sixty and Yang Zhentian took him to obtain a Soul Ring.
• The major factions and empires studied the leaked manuals and Hidden Weapon blueprints, recruited blacksmiths, and began preparing their own weapons; the Clear Sky Sect faced rumors that it had leaked them.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San to the barren Blue Silver Forest, explained his mother’s sacrifice and the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and failed to find the Blue Silver King who could help awaken it.
• Tang San visited Yu Xiaogang, chose venomous snake and spider Soul Beasts as targets for his Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings, and learned that the Tang Sect had lost business after the manuals and blueprints spread.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Tang San the leaked manuals and blueprints, leaving Tang San unable to reveal that the manuals were incomplete; Tang San left without discussing future trade.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to focus on strength, and Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang’s recommendation by absorbing a Soul Devouring Demon Spider a little over ten thousand years old.

Yang Podi and his companions reached Sea God Island and began the trials required for land Soul Masters to join. Five of the six crossed the Sea Within the Sea, leaving Sea Horse Douluo stunned by their abilities and Yang Tianyue’s age and rank.

• Yang Podi led the group across the final stretch of sea and landed on Sea God Island, where seven yellow-clad Soul Masters challenged them for trespassing.
• Yang Podi and the others insisted they wanted to take Sea God’s trials despite warnings that failure meant death, and the group was escorted to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
• Sea Horse Douluo required them to cross the Sea Within the Sea before they could qualify for the trials, and Yang Ping'an crossed first with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Dugu Yan poisoned the Sea Soul Beasts before subduing them, while Niu Meng charged through the waves and attacks with his formidable defense.
• Ye Lingling crossed using her Soul Power Version Rasengan and Body-Protecting Divine Light, then Yang Tianyue crossed with a powerful Soul Breaking Spear skill.
• Yang Tianyue revealed that she was fifteen and had rank sixty-six Soul Power, leaving Sea Horse Douluo stunned.

Yang Podi and the others crossed the Sea Within the Sea and received their Sea God assessments. Ye Lingling was given the rare Red Level Seven Trials, leaving Sea Horse Douluo to declare her the Great Enshrined’s successor if she succeeds.

• Yang Podi crossed the Sea Within the Sea inside a barrier of spear intent and introduced himself and the others as members of Heavenly Pursuit Academy.
• Yang Podi said he had come to grow stronger, while Yang Tianyue said she intended to join Sea God Island; Sea Horse Douluo warned the group that their assessments could not be abandoned.
• Yang Ping'an received Black Level Six Trials and vowed to continue even if it cost him his life.
• Niu Meng received Black Level Four Trials, and Dugu Yan received Black Level Five Trials.
• Ye Lingling received Red Level Seven Trials, prompting Sea Horse Douluo to bow and identify her as the Great Enshrined’s future successor if she passed.

Yang Tianyue received the unprecedented Sea God Nine Trials, while Yang Podi was assigned to help her pass them and complete a vague Red-Level Single Trial. After the group tested the punishing Sea God’s Light, Yang Podi laid out a year of intensive cultivation and training, leaving them to begin preparing for their trials.

• Yang Tianyue received nine golden trials, and Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi appeared to personally serve as her examiner.
• Yang Podi received a Red-Level Single Trial requiring him to help Yang Tianyue pass all her trials, while the Sea God and Asura God discussed his potential.
• At Seahorse City, the group shared their trial requirements: Yang Tianyue had to climb 368 steps, while the others each had to ascend fewer steps through the Sea God’s Light.
• The group tested their limits on the sacred stairway, reaching between 44 and 79 steps before the pressure forced them to retreat.
• Yang Podi ordered the group to cultivate on suitable steps, climb beyond their limits each day, and fight him weekly, then asked Sea Horse Island’s attendants to arrange supplies and lodging.

Yang Podi pushed himself to the limit in the Sea God’s Light, then led the group through six months of cultivation until Yang Tianyue absorbed a God-Given Soul Ring. When Tianyue remained far from meeting her trial’s requirement, Yang Podi suspected her domain had yet to awaken and began planning domain training to help her break through.

• Yang Podi climbed to the six-hundred-and-ninety-ninth step before retreating, then urged the others to surpass their limits.
• Yang Podi and the others cultivated on the steps for six months, and Yang Tianyue reached level seventy and received a God-Given Soul Ring from Bo Saixi.
• Yang Tianyue spent two months absorbing the Soul Ring, emerged with a red Soul Ring at level seventy-four, and still could not climb far enough to satisfy her trial.
• Yang Podi gave Yang Tianyue the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, which helped her form a Soul Core and reach level seventy-five, but she remained short of the required steps.
• Yang Podi realized that Tianyue might need to awaken a domain, and he ordered everyone to train against his Divine Slaughter's Domain.

After a year of training, Yang Podi and his companions completed the first Sea God trial and began the Ring Sea crossing trial under the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Xiao Bai. Yang Podi confronted Xiao Bai over her hostility toward humans, and she agreed to examine them fairly after recognizing Yang Tianyue as the Sea God's successor.

• Yang Tianyue awakened the Soul Breaking Domain and evolved her Soul Breaking Spear into the Black Jade Divine Spear, while the group made major cultivation gains during a year of training.
• Yang Ping'an, Niu Meng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yang Tianyue, and Yang Podi each surpassed their limits in the first Sea God trial and received different rewards.
• The group learned that their second trial required them to cross the Ring Sea under restrictions on Soul Ring skills, and Yang Ping'an was knocked unconscious by a sea creature on his first attempt.
• Yang Podi called out the creature and fought the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Xiao Bai, who accused him of hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• After Yang Tianyue revealed the Sea God Trident on her forehead, Xiao Bai apologized, explained the crossing trial, and told them her human form came from the Sea God's power.

Yang Podi led the others through a year of training against Xiao Bai before they passed the Sea God's second trial and received new rewards. Their third trial required them to fight Evil Spirit Orcas, and Xiao Bai explained the formidable strength of the orca pod as they prepared for the coming battle.

• Yang Podi had the five others train in the Ring Sea against Xiao Bai while they cultivated, and he joined their daily battles during the year.
• Niu Meng and Dugu Yan gained Soul Rings at the level-seventy bottleneck, while the group's Soul Power increased through their year of training.
• Yang Podi and the others crossed the Ring Sea together, passed the second trial, and received increased Soul Ring ages and other rewards.
• Yang Tianyue's third trial required her to slay the Evil Orca King, while the others received separate tasks involving the Evil Spirit Orcas or protecting Xiao Bai's clan.
• Yang Podi discussed the third trial with Xiao Bai, who described the Evil Spirit Orca pod's size, strength, and threat to the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.

Tang San’s attempt to earn the Divine Slaughter’s Domain failed because Slaughter City lacked enough fighters, so he left with Tang Hao and later gained a powerful poison-based Soul Ring instead. Meanwhile, Yang Podi prepared to use poison against the Evil Spirit Orcas, arguing that their bloodlust could make them destroy one another.

• Tang Hao brought Tang San to Slaughter City, but its depleted population made arena victories and the Hell Road impossible to arrange.
• The King of Slaughter revealed that Yang Podi of the Breaking Clan had obtained the Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Tang Hao left with Tang San to resume training elsewhere.
• Tang San reached level sixty, reunited with Xiao Wu, and obtained a twenty-five-thousand-year Jade Spirit Serpent Soul Ring and an unabsorbed Right Arm Soul Bone.
• Heavenly Pursuit Academy’s leaders advanced in strength, with Niu Jinfeng reaching level ninety-four, Yang Wushuang and Dugu Bo reaching level ninety-three, and Yang Zhentian nearing level ninety-seven.
• Yang Podi explained to Xiao Bai why Soul Master clans had advantages over Soul Beast populations and said he planned to exploit the Evil Spirit Orcas’ bloodlust with poison.
• Yang Podi revealed Bloody Mary and Seven-Colored Splendor as weapons against the Evil Spirit Orcas.

Yang Tianyue led a plan to poison and attack the Evil Spirit Orcas, using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to infiltrate their territory before Dugu Yan spread her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison. The Demon Soul Great White Sharks and the others launched an assault, but as the Orcas began to fall, their oldest members fought back desperately.

• Yang Podi assigned Yang Tianyue to lead the operation and told the others to fight for themselves while he stayed ready to assist.
• Yang Tianyue, Xiao Bai, Dugu Yan, and Yang Podi infiltrated the Evil Spirit Orcas' territory under the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and poisoned the seawater with Blood Swan Kiss and Seven-Colored Splendor.
• After five days, Dugu Yan amplified and spread her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, turning the seawater green and signaling the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to attack.
• The Demon Soul Great White Sharks and the other Soul Masters surrounded the weakened Orcas as Xiao Bai and Yang Tianyue fought the Evil Orca King.
• Ye Lingling healed the Demon Soul Great White Sharks while Yang Ping'an, Dugu Yan, and Niu Meng fought the Orcas, and dozens of Orcas fell within minutes.
• As the Orcas faced defeat, those over fifty thousand years old began fighting desperately.

Yang Podi and the others helped the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan destroy the Evil Spirit Orca pod, allowing Yang Tianyue to complete the Sea God's Third Trial and absorb the Evil Orca King's Soul Ring and Soul Bone. They then began the Fourth Trial, Tidal Body Tempering, and arrived at Raging Wave Despair, where Bo Saixi prepared six massive pillars for their training.

• Yang Podi stopped the Evil Orcas from self-destructing as Yang Tianyue and Xiao Bai fought the Evil Orca King, whose desperate attack ended when the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's Cosmic Demon-Breaking struck his head and soul.
• Yang Podi and the others killed the remaining Evil Spirit Orcas, avenging the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan, and Yang Tianyue spent three days absorbing the Evil Orca King's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• The group received their trial rewards and learned the requirements for Tidal Body Tempering, then returned to Sea God Island to recover before starting the Fourth Trial.
• Bo Saixi led the six to Raging Wave Despair and showed them the towering waves and six enormous deep sea sunken silver pillars she had summoned for their trial.