Chapter Summaries

After the Heavenly Screen linked Tang San to the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Emperor, both the cult and the Sun Moon Empire mocked Shrek Academy. At Shrek, Mu En questioned Huo Yuhao about Soul Spirits, and Huo Yuhao offered to attempt a contract in exchange for the academy’s support.

• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming discussed how the revelation about Tang San damaged Shrek Academy’s claim to righteousness.
• Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu celebrated the connection between Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ye Xishui said she wanted Huo Yuhao even more.
• The Heavenly Screen faded as Huo Yuhao left the stone chamber, prompting people across the continent to complain about waiting for its next appearance.
• Mu En summoned Huo Yuhao to the Sea God Pavilion and asked what he knew about Soul Spirits.
• On Electrolux’s advice, Huo Yuhao claimed that a white-bearded old man had taught him magic and that he might understand part of the Soul Spirit contract.
• Mu En offered Shrek Academy’s Soul Beasts, materials, and support if Huo Yuhao tried forming a Soul Spirit contract, then sent him with Xian Lin'er.

Huo Yuhao successfully formed a Soul Spirit Contract between Lin Yuan and a seven-hundred-year-old Lightning-Patterned Leopard, prompting Shrek Academy to commit its resources to his training and keep Soul Spirits secret. Two days later in Mingdu, the newly appointed emperor Huo Yuhao prepared to ascend the throne before a vast crowd.

• Huo Yuhao used Lin Yuan’s cheetah Martial Soul to soothe the Lightning-Patterned Leopard and complete their Soul Spirit Contract, though the effort left him exhausted.
• Huo Yuhao told Xian Lin'er that his current spiritual power limited him to contracting with Soul Beasts around seven hundred years old.
• Xian Lin'er reported the successful contract to Mu En, who ordered Shrek Academy to give Huo Yuhao its highest training priority and keep Soul Spirits secret.
• Two days later in Mingdu, a vast crowd gathered as the newly appointed emperor Huo Yuhao stood atop the God Ascension Platform to ascend the throne.

As Huo Yuhao ascended the throne in Mingdu, King Zisheng Xu Qian arrived with an army and challenged his claim to the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao revealed hidden traps in the army’s mechas and weapons, leaving Xu Qian’s forces in chaos as he prepared to demonstrate his own Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao began his enthronement ceremony on the God Ascension Platform as the people hailed him and their faith gathered around him.
• Xu Qian arrived with a vast army, accused Huo Yuhao of usurping the Xu family’s empire, and claimed he had replaced the Core Arrays in his weapons.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had hidden safeguards beyond the Core Arrays and made the City Defense Soul Guidance Array Formation aim at Xu Qian’s forces.
• Huo Yuhao triggered the hidden mechanisms in Xu Qian’s mechas, causing them to tear open and explode.
• Huo Yuhao set off the army’s Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and other equipment, devastating its supplies and throwing the forces into chaos.
• Huo Yuhao pointed the Asura Demon Sword toward Xu Qian’s army and announced that he would show them a real Soul Tool.

Huo Yuhao unleashed his AI-controlled black mechas to crush Xu Qian’s rebellion and proclaimed the Sun Moon Empire with himself as emperor. The rebels surrendered, Xu Qian was executed, and the people’s faith flowed into Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao revealed more than a dozen pilotless black mechas controlled by artificial intelligence and ordered them to attack Xu Qian’s forces.
• The mechas adapted to the soldiers’ tactics and slaughtered the rebels, while imperial family members and nobles begged Huo Yuhao for mercy.
• Huo Yuhao rejected the nobles’ pleas and offered the soldiers a quarter of an hour to surrender or face death.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Qian that the empire no longer needed him, then killed him with the Asura Demon Sword.
• Huo Yuhao proclaimed the Sun Moon Empire and its capital Mingdu, and the people hailed him as emperor as their Power of Faith surged into his body.

Reactions to Huo Yuhao’s autonomous Soul Tools and ruthless battlefield victory spread across the Black World, while Shrek Academy questioned how Divine Punishment affected its revered ancestors. The Heavenly Screen then revealed Sea God Tang San draining a Soul Beast’s life force with Blue Silver Grass, suggesting he had abilities like an Evil Soul Master.

• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming marveled at Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tools, which could think and fight independently.
• Du Busi decided the Body Sect should find Huo Yuhao and side with him, while Zhongli Wu declared him a Holy Spirit Cult member and doubled the bounty on him.
• Di Tian saw Huo Yuhao’s gathering faith as a possible path to godhood and hoped he would help the Soul Beast Clan return to the Divine Realm.
• At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi condemned Huo Yuhao, Mu En praised his methods, and Yan Shaozhe questioned whether Divine Punishment had reduced Tang San and the original Shrek Seven Devils to ordinary people.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Tang San using Blue Silver Grass to drain a bovine Soul Beast’s life force, then revealed his identity as Shrek Academy’s revered Sea God.

As Tang San reached Level 10 by devouring blood Qi and souls, he entered the Soul Hunting Forest to absorb a Ten-Year Soul Ring. When he absorbed a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo’s ring, an external soul bone called Green Hat appeared on his head.

• Mu En feared that the Golden Ancient Tree might be connected to Ah Yin’s ability to devour the souls of Sea God Pavilion Masters.
• Tang San used the Blue Silver Emperor’s devouring ability to raise his Soul Power to Level 10, then planned to absorb its Soul Rings before using the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San found a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo growing beside the corpses of Soul Beasts and broke it with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San began absorbing the bamboo’s Ten-Year Soul Ring, and a green External Soul Bone called Green Hat appeared on his head.

Tang San gained an External Soul Bone that appeared as a green hat, prompting laughter across the Black World while he remained unaware. In Mingdu, Huo Yuhao led the Sun Moon Empire’s army toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range, vowing to crush Shrek Academy.

• Tang San acquired an External Soul Bone shaped like a green hat, and he accepted it as compensation for his divine punishment.
• People across Shrek Academy, Illustrious Virtue Hall, the Holy Spirit Cult, and Body Sect laughed at Tang San’s green hat, while Zhongli Wu threatened anyone who joined in.
• Tang San admired his new External Soul Bone, then vowed to kill Huo Yuhao once he regained his strength.
• Huo Yuhao assembled an enormous army, Soul Guidance Mecha, Soul Engineer corps, and the Death God Tower for a campaign against the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao declared that the battle would clear the remaining obstacles in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and lead to the destruction of Shrek Academy.

Xu Jiawei learned that the White Tiger Duke's Wife had persecuted Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, and that Huo Yuhao was likely hiding at Shrek Academy. Fearing the parallel-world Huo Yuhao's threats could be repeated in their world, Xu Jiawei confined the duke's wife and ordered the empire to approach and monitor Shrek Academy.

• Xu Jiawei ordered an investigation into Huo Yuhao, fearing his hatred of the Star Luo Empire could endanger the country.
• The White Tiger Duke's Wife confessed that she had abused Huo Yun'er for years and that Dai Huabin had beaten her to death.
• The White Tiger Duke's Wife revealed that Huo Yuhao was Huo Yun'er's son and had escaped the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Xu Jiawei condemned the duke's wife, placed her under house arrest, and ordered an urgent message sent to Dai Hao.
• A report located Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy, so Xu Jiawei prepared a gift and letter for the academy and ordered agents to watch it.

The Body Sect, Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Holy Spirit Cult learned that Huo Yuhao was at Shrek Academy and prepared to claim him. At the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the Sun Moon Empire blasted a path through White Tiger Peak and appeared before Dai Hao’s army, bringing battle to the brink.

• A Body Sect elder reported that Huo Yuhao was a first-year student at Shrek Academy, and Du Busi ordered the sect to set out and seize him.
• Kong Deming learned Huo Yuhao’s location and ordered Jing Hongchen to prepare Flying Soul Tools so they could reach Shrek before rival factions.
• Zhongli Wu announced that the Holy Spirit Cult would bring Huo Yuhao back from Shrek and confront the academy about their connection.
• Dai Hao’s five hundred thousand Star Luo Empire troops waited at the Ming Dou Mountain Range while advisers praised their strength under Divine Punishment.
• The Sun Moon Empire blasted White Tiger Peak flat, revealed its army on the newly opened plain, and brought Dai Hao’s forces to the brink of battle.

Mu En rebuked Shrek Academy’s leaders for neglecting Huo Yuhao, then ordered the academy to prepare for a siege as the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire, and the Body Sect converged outside Shrek City. He sent Yan Shaozhe to defend the walls and ordered Xian Lin'er to bring Huo Yuhao to the Sea God Pavilion for his personal protection.

• Mu En revealed that Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall in Shrek City had exposed his presence and demanded to know why the leaders had ignored his orders to provide for him.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er admitted they had been occupied studying Soul Spirits and Soul Tools, and Mu En ordered them and the other deans to write self-criticisms or leave Shrek Academy.
• Mu En ordered Shrek’s defenses and inspection corps placed on wartime alert, but a terrifying fluctuation from outside the city arrived before preparations were complete.
• Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling led the Holy Spirit Cult, Kong Deming brought Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, and Du Busi arrived with Body Sect experts, all converging on Shrek City over Huo Yuhao.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to lead Shrek’s Titled Douluo to defend the walls without leaving the city, then sent Xian Lin'er to bring Huo Yuhao to the Sea God Pavilion so he could protect him personally.

Huo Yuhao led the Sun Moon Empire’s forces against White Tiger Duke Dai Hao’s army and tore through its ranks with overwhelming power. Standing amid a river of blood, he looked toward the Death God Tower and mourned Mu Qing.

• The Star Luo Empire’s generals were stunned to see the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guidance Mechas, Soul Tools, and Soul Engineers with Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Dai Hao questioned Huo Yuhao about the attack, but Huo Yuhao dismissed his attempt to buy time and leaped from the Death God Tower toward the Star Luo army.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Destruction killed Dai Hao’s deputy generals and strategists before he landed among the troops and charged into their ranks.
• The White Tiger Guards surrounded Huo Yuhao, but his Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain froze the leading soldiers while he cut down the rest.
• The Star Luo soldiers’ morale collapsed as Huo Yuhao cleared the area around himself and stood amid a river of blood, asking Mu Qing if she had seen it.

Huo Yuhao carved through the Star Luo Empire’s army while the Sun Moon Empire’s mecha overwhelmed its powerless defenses, and he advanced toward Dai Hao. Outside Shrek City, Zhongli Wu, Du Busi, and Kong Deming each claimed Huo Yuhao as their Holy Son or disciple, leaving their factions on the verge of conflict.

• The Sun Moon Empire’s mecha attacked after the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Guidance Batteries ran out, breaking through its defenses and slaughtering its soldiers.
• Huo Yuhao cut through the Star Luo army with the Asura Demon Sword, while the Death God Tower gathered the battlefield’s vengeful souls and blood Qi.
• Huo Yuhao approached Dai Hao beneath the central army’s standard as Dai Hao’s guards urged him to retreat.
• Zhongli Wu praised Huo Yuhao’s slaughter as art, and Du Busi angrily insisted Huo Yuhao was the Body Sect’s Holy Son.
• Kong Deming told Du Busi that he regarded Huo Yuhao as his disciple and heir to the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s legacy.

The leaders of three factions demanded that Shrek Academy hand over Huo Yuhao, while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress visited the Star Dou Great Forest to discuss him. After the Silver Dragon King declared Huo Yuhao might change the Soul Beast Clan’s fate, she ordered the army to bring him to the forest.

• Kong Deming offered to make Huo Yuhao his disciple and future Hall Master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall, while Du Busi warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s crown prince wanted Huo Yuhao dead.
• Yan Shaozhe defended Shrek Academy’s claim to Huo Yuhao, but Zhongli Wu, Du Busi, and Kong Deming mocked the school and demanded that it surrender him.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress entered the Star Dou Great Forest and met Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts at the Lake of Life.
• The Silver Dragon King appeared and explained that Huo Yuhao was a Child of the Plane whose fortune might change the Soul Beast Clan’s fate.
• The Silver Dragon King ordered the Soul Beast army to go to Shrek Academy and bring Huo Yuhao back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

In the Heavenly Screen, Huo Yuhao slaughtered the Star Luo Empire’s army and revealed that he was Dai Hao’s abandoned son, Huo Yun’er’s child. In the Northwest Army Group’s camp, Dai Hao learned the truth from an imperial envoy as his advisers feared what might happen if the scene came to pass.

• Huo Yuhao cut through Dai Hao’s guards and army with the Asura Demon Sword, then struck Dai Hao down beside the fallen command banner.
• Huo Yuhao accused Dai Hao of abandoning him and declared that he would kill the White Tiger Duke and destroy his mansion.
• Huo Yuhao identified himself to Dai Hao as Huo Yun’er’s son, the child Dai Hao had abandoned.
• In the Northwest Army Group’s camp, Dai Hao watched Huo Yuhao reveal his identity in the Heavenly Screen and struggled to believe the emperor was his son.
• An imperial envoy confirmed to Dai Hao that Huo Yuhao was his biological son, and an adviser warned that the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion could face consequences.

Dai Hao ordered his army to hold a defensive stance while he returned to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. Outside Shrek City, Kong Deming fired a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, and after Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe stopped it at great cost, Zhongli Wu prepared another attack.

• Dai Hao ordered his army to watch the Sun Moon Empire's forces and returned to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Xuan Zi confronted Du Busi, Kong Deming, and Zhongli Wu outside Shrek City and warned that allied Titled Douluo were coming.
• Kong Deming fired the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell Hellfire at Shrek City's eastern gate, destroying the city shield and killing hundreds of soldiers.
• Xuan Zi used his Martial Soul Avatar to hold back Hellfire, and Yan Shaozhe extinguished it with Phoenix Nirvana, leaving him exhausted.
• Zhongli Wu flew above Shrek City on the Bone Dragon King, which gathered cyan light in its jaws and unleashed Extreme of Wind.

Zhongli Wu’s Extreme of Wind nearly overwhelmed Xuan Zi, but Shrek’s elders and Du Busi joined the defense against the Holy Spirit Cult. As Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao appeared, a sacred light rose from Sea God Island, suggesting that Mu En was still alive.

• Zhongli Wu unleashed Extreme of Wind at Shrek City, and Xuan Zi’s Mending Heaven shield held after the attack badly wounded him.
• Elder Song shattered Zhongli Wu’s follow-up blade, and Shrek Academy’s elders and Titled Douluo gathered on the city wall.
• Du Busi attacked the Holy Spirit Cult, explained that he would not help Evil Soul Masters destroy Shrek, and challenged Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao appeared atop the Death God Tower as the Holy Spirit Cult welcomed its Supreme Cult Leader.
• Golden light from the Golden Ancient Tree spread over Shrek City, and Ye Xishui and Du Busi recognized it as Sea God’s Light and wondered whether Mu En was alive.

Huo Yuhao's forces defeated the Star Luo Empire's Northwest Army Group in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and Jing Hongchen killed the fleeing White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao, at Huo Yuhao's request. Huo Yuhao held up Dai Hao's head and called on his army to conquer the Douluo Continent.

• The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Mecha routed the Northwest Army Group after Dai Hao's command banner fell, and its soldiers took the survivors prisoner.
• Huo Yuhao hesitated when Dai Hao claimed him as a son, allowing deputy generals to drag the White Tiger Duke away.
• Huo Yuhao sent Jing Hongchen and Illustrious Virtue Hall Soul Engineers to pursue and kill Dai Hao so Huo Yuhao would not bear the name of a father-killer.
• Jing Hongchen returned with Dai Hao's head and the heads of the deputy generals who had fled with him.
• Huo Yuhao denounced Dai Hao, raised his head before the armies, and declared that they would flatten the Douluo Continent.

Mu En confronted Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult above Shrek City, while Du Busi agreed to fight alongside Shrek before the Body Sect pursued Huo Yuhao. The Illustrious Virtue Hall withdrew, then Kong Deming disabled the Death God Tower, leaving Ye Xishui furious and weakened.

• Mu En emerged from the Sea God's Light and refused Ye Xishui's demand to hand over Huo Yuhao, insisting Shrek would not abandon its students.
• Mu En spoke with Du Busi, who agreed that the Body Sect would help Shrek fight the Holy Spirit Cult before competing for Huo Yuhao afterward.
• Kong Deming ordered the Illustrious Virtue Hall to withdraw from the battlefield, explaining that it had no interest in supporting the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Xishui began to activate the Death God Tower, but Kong Deming disrupted its formation and caused the tower to crash to the ground.
• Kong Deming revealed that he had learned to tamper with the tower's formation from Huo Yuhao, and Ye Xishui roared at him in fury.

Kong Deming revealed that he had built the Death God Tower and helped Mu En exploit its weakness, allowing the Sea God's Light to rout the Holy Spirit Cult. As Shrek City celebrated, Beast God Di Tian and six Ferocious Beasts arrived and demanded that Shrek hand over Huo Yuhao.

• Kong Deming explained that Ye Xishui had only added the Holy Spirit Cult's evil formations to the Death God Tower, and said he had helped bring down the cult's Limit Douluo.
• Mu En unleashed the Sea God's Light, gravely wounding Ye Xishui, destroying the Bone Dragon King, and burning the Holy Spirit Cult's forces.
• Long Xiaoyao rescued Ye Xishui and fled with her, while Zhongli Wu and the remaining Holy Spirit Cult members retreated.
• Xuan Zi celebrated Shrek's victory and declared that no one would take Huo Yuhao from the academy.
• Di Tian appeared above Shrek City with the Snow Empress, Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, the Myriad Demon King, the Ice Empress, the Scarlet King, and Zi Ji, then demanded that Shrek hand over Huo Yuhao.