Chapter Summaries

After Shrek Academy won the tournament, Bibi Dong exposed Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and ordered Spirit Hall to seize her. Tang San and Xiao Wu were trapped by Spirit Hall’s forces, and Ning Fengzhi searched the crowd for someone willing and able to help them.

• Shrek Academy awarded Zhu Zhuqing a soul bone, Ma Hongjun the Explosive Burning Flame Right Arm Bone, and Tang San the Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull; Tang San gave Ning Rongrong Shi Nian’s head soul bone.
• Bibi Dong accused Shrek Academy of bringing a hundred-thousand-year soul beast into Spirit City, and Xiao Wu’s reaction revealed her identity to the crowd.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall experts to capture Xiao Wu alive, but Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong blocked them with the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Gui Mei and Mad Lion pursued Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Mad Lion struck down the Golden Sacred Dragon as the pair became trapped.
• Ning Fengzhi stopped Gu Rong from intervening and looked through the audience for someone who might help Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Qian Renxue blocked Tang Hao’s escape from Spirit Hall and fought him to avenge her father, Qian Xunji. Though Tang Hao’s blows badly injured her, she held her ground at the gates, forcing him to keep fighting while protecting Tang San and Xiao Wu.

• After Tang Hao tried to leave the arena with Tang San and Xiao Wu, Qian Renxue appeared at the gates and blocked their escape.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-winged Angel Martial Soul and unusual Soul Ring configuration, while Bibi Dong watched and welcomed the clash between her and Tang Hao.
• Qian Renxue declared herself Qian Xunji’s daughter and attacked Tang Hao with her Angel True Body and other enhancements.
• Tang Hao fought back with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, avoiding the Great Sumeru Hammer because its backlash had already weakened him.
• Qian Renxue threatened Tang San to stop Tang Hao from slipping past her, then endured their exchanges despite severe injuries and refused to leave the gates.

Tang Li foiled Bai Shengtin's attempt to search her home and grew suspicious that someone close to her had helped him copy her key. At work, she tested Xiao Shi's reaction and got a contact from the editor-in-chief to appraise an item, leaving her with a lead to investigate.

• Bai Shengtin broke into Tang Li's home and picked the lock on a drawer, but found it empty before leaving without the item he wanted.
• Tang Li blocked her door with a chair and suspected Bai Shengtin had copied her key through either Yao Yue or Xiao Shi.
• Tang Li told Bai Shengtin she would go home at noon, and he offered to deliver Yao Yue's things before she refused and went to work.
• Bai Shengtin called a woman, who scolded him for failing to retrieve the item and warned him not to let Tang Li escape before he found it.
• Tang Li spoke with Yao Yue and questioned Xiao Shi about Bai Shengtin, but Xiao Shi acted pleased that Tang Li had reconciled with him.
• Tang Li asked the editor-in-chief for help appraising an item, and he gave her a business card for Jiu Jiu Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Nanchuan.

Dai Weisi defeated Bibi Dong, Mad Lion, and Gui Mei with one strike and secured Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu’s escape from Spirit Hall. He then exposed Yu Xiaogang’s motives through Zhu Zhuyun’s secret arts, leaving Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong devastated as Yu Xiaogang continued confessing.

• Dai Weisi summoned his White Tiger Martial Soul and challenged Bibi Dong, Mad Lion, and Gui Mei to withstand one attack.
• Dai Weisi’s White Tiger Piercing Kill Spear heavily wounded Bibi Dong, Mad Lion, and Gui Mei, and he asked Qian Renxue to let Tang Hao’s group leave.
• Qian Renxue agreed, and Tang Hao took Tang San and Xiao Wu away after thanking Dai Weisi and releasing his three promises.
• Dai Weisi turned his attention to Yu Xiaogang, and Zhu Zhuyun used secret arts to make Yu Xiaogang reveal that he had pursued Bibi Dong to obtain Spirit Hall’s research materials.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he had used Tang San as a tool to gain fame, prompting Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong to react with shock and anguish.

Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had treated Tang San as a test subject and made a deal with Bibi Dong out of jealousy toward Dai Mubai. Dai Weisi let him live, leaving Yu Xiaogang to face public disgrace and abandonment.

• Yu Xiaogang’s confession made the remaining Shrek Seven Devils question how he had viewed them as students.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that Dai Mubai’s brilliance made him fear Tang San would be overshadowed, so he sought out Bibi Dong and made a deal with her.
• Spectators began leaving, but at least a thousand people heard Yu Xiaogang’s revelations and were expected to spread them across the continent.
• Yu Xiaogang’s words threatened to drive Tang San to break with him and leave him abandoned.
• Qian Renxue prepared to kill Yu Xiaogang for slandering Bibi Dong, but Dai Weisi stopped her, and she understood that letting him live was a greater punishment.

Dai Weisi forced Bibi Dong to accept a ten-year challenge to become a god and defeat him, while quietly trying to rekindle her feelings for Qian Renxue. He then turned his attention to Gui Mei and gave Dugu Yan the chance to take revenge for his attack on her.

• Dai Weisi offered Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue ten years to become gods and defeat him, warning Spirit Hall not to provoke him in the meantime.
• Dai Weisi split Spirit Hall with a precisely controlled stomp, convincing Bibi Dong that godhood was her only hope.
• Bibi Dong accepted the challenge and promised that Spirit Hall would not provoke Dai Weisi's side before she came to Star Luo City to avenge her humiliation.
• Dai Weisi noticed Bibi Dong's reaction to his pointed glance at Qian Renxue and believed that her buried maternal affection could still be awakened.
• Dai Weisi named Gui Mei as the target for his retaliation and told Dugu Yan that Gui Mei was hers to deal with.
• Zhu Zhuyun and Dugu Yan came to Dai Weisi, followed by Ye Lingling.

Dugu Yan challenged Gui Mei in Spirit Hall and killed him with the Sea God Trident after restraining him with Unsettled Waves. Bibi Dong ordered Dai Weisi and his companions to leave, and Dai Weisi departed with Qian Renxue to spar.

• Dugu Yan summoned her Abyssal Sea Sky Python Martial Soul and Sea God Trident, then challenged Gui Mei to defeat her if he wanted to live.
• Gui Mei used his Martial Soul Avatar and ninth Soul Skill, Hell Specters, to attack Dugu Yan, but she stopped his black hands with Unsettled Waves.
• Dugu Yan approached the restrained Gui Mei and killed him with her eighth Soul Skill, Blood Poison God-Slaying Spear.
• Bibi Dong ordered the Star Luo Empire guests to leave Spirit Hall and said the hall would hold a funeral for Gui Mei.
• Dai Weisi invited Qian Renxue to spar, and she left the hall with him.

Dai Weisi revealed to Qian Renxue that her father, Qian Xunji, had not been killed by Tang Hao as Spirit Hall claimed, but had been gravely wounded after abusing his disciple Bibi Dong and then betrayed by her. Qian Renxue understood that her mother’s hatred of her came from the circumstances of her birth.

• Qian Renxue blushed at Dai Weisi’s praise, then challenged him to a sword duel and showed how much her swordsmanship had improved.
• After defeating Qian Renxue, Dai Weisi said he had no equal in the mortal world and might be able to fight one of the weakest gods.
• Qian Renxue asked Dai Weisi to explain the truth behind Qian Xunji’s death and questioned whether Tang Hao’s hammer could really have killed him.
• Dai Weisi pointed out that Qian Xunji’s injuries and his relationship with Bibi Dong did not fit the official account, then told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had betrayed her master after he tried to stop her from eloping with a man.
• Qian Renxue pieced together that Bibi Dong had framed Tang Hao after Qian Xunji was gravely wounded, and realized her mother had always seen her as a reminder of the shame and hatred surrounding her birth.

Dai Weisi reassured Qian Renxue that his strength would let him challenge her and Bibi Dong after they became gods, then explained his plan to break Bibi Dong’s emotional defenses. Their playful sword duel fused their domains, helping Qian Renxue become a Titled Douluo, while the Angel Sacred Sword knocked her for joking about falling into the abyss with Dai Weisi.

• Dai Weisi showed Qian Renxue his exceptionally pure Soul Power and said his cultivation would keep growing until he could face her and Bibi Dong together.
• Dai Weisi described how he would make Bibi Dong choose between her own life and Qian Renxue’s, then use Qian Renxue’s willingness to die for her to move Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue teased Dai Weisi about manipulating her into loving him, and the two playfully fought with their divine swords.
• Dai Weisi and Qian Renxue’s domains fused, greatly improving her Soul Power and domain and raising her cultivation from level 89 to Titled Douluo.
• The Angel Sacred Sword knocked Qian Renxue after she joked about falling into the abyss with Dai Weisi, and Dai Weisi sensed a distant gaze that might have come from the Angel God.

Dai Weisi reflected on Qian Renxue’s disastrous fate in the original timeline and resolved that, in this life, she would avoid those hardships. He left her future in his own hands.

• Dai Weisi recalled that the original Qian Renxue fell in love, lost to Tang San, and had her godhood shattered.
• Dai Weisi blamed Qian Renxue for wasting the advantages she had been given.
• Dai Weisi resolved that the Qian Renxue in this life would not suffer the same fate.

Dai Weisi fought Angel God and persuaded him not to add further hardships to Qian Renxue’s remaining divine trials. Angel God healed Dai Weisi and sent him out of the divine palace.

• Dai Weisi’s sword strike drew Angel God into the clash, and Angel God stopped only after Dai Weisi was badly injured.
• Angel God admitted he had underestimated Dai Weisi and apologized for using his strength to hurt him.
• Angel God explained that Qian Renxue had overcome her flaws with Dai Weisi’s help and promised not to make her next two divine trials more difficult.
• Angel God healed Dai Weisi and sent him out of the divine palace.

Qian Renxue defeated and destroyed Fallen Qian Renxue after rejecting her attempt to take over her body. She received the Heart of the Angel, which strengthened her armor and granted her Angel Resurrection, and completed the Angel's Eighth Trial.

• Fallen Qian Renxue begged Qian Renxue to let her enter her soul and become a real human, then tried to tear out Qian Renxue's soul heart.
• Qian Renxue used Radiant Illumination to burn away Fallen Qian Renxue's demonic flames and erase her.
• The divine throne healed Qian Renxue's wounds after Fallen Qian Renxue vanished.
• The Heart of the Angel flew into Qian Renxue's Angel God Armor, raising its power and granting her the Angel Resurrection skill, which could revive her once a month.

Ah Yin passed the Blue Silver Emperor inheritance to Tang San, restoring his potential as Dai Mubai’s rival. Dai Weisi then returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to confront Di Tian and reclaim his dignity.

• Ah Yin transferred the Blue Silver Emperor’s power and status to Tang San, awakening his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul and Blue Silver Domain.
• Ah Yin guided Tang San as he began learning to use his new powers, while Dai Weisi considered him a worthy rival for Dai Mubai.
• Tang Hao thanked Dai Weisi, then left Sunset Forest with Ah Yin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.
• Dai Weisi flew to the deepest part of the Star Dou Great Forest and challenged Di Tian to meet him.

Dai Weisi defeated Di Tian’s Dragon King’s Claw with his Mysterious Gold Sea Splitting Axe, proving that even Di Tian’s strongest attack could not match him. After severing three of Di Tian’s claws, Dai Weisi left him defeated and under the terms of their wager.

• Dai Weisi broke Di Tian’s attack and revealed that he had not yet become a god, while Di Tian struggled to accept that a mortal could rival one.
• Di Tian demanded one final exchange and promised to surrender his life and possessions if Dai Weisi emerged uninjured; Dai Weisi accepted, considering Di Tian as a potential mount.
• Di Tian transformed into his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King form and unleashed Dragon King’s Claw, a divine skill taught to him by the Dragon God.
• Dai Weisi activated four enhancement Soul Skills and his ninth Soul Skill, Mysterious Gold Sea Splitting Axe, then clashed with Di Tian’s attack as gods in the God Realm watched.
• Dai Weisi’s axe light broke Dragon King’s Claw and severed three of Di Tian’s dragon claws, which Dai Weisi collected.

Dai Weisi defeated Di Tian and used the Asura Blood Soul Wine to bind him, but the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, intervened to save him. Dai Weisi overcame her interference with his soul skill, and the chapter ended as her spear struck his Boundless Sea Suppressing Bell.

• Dai Weisi defeated Di Tian, who admitted defeat and yielded his life and possessions.
• Dai Weisi gave Di Tian the blood-infused Asura Blood Soul Wine, binding their souls and causing Di Tian agony.
• Gu Yuena sent silver Soul Power into Di Tian to resist the wine and drive its divine power from his soul.
• Dai Weisi struck Di Tian with his Dark Gold Soul Suppressing Bracelet, breaking through Gu Yuena's resistance and allowing the Asura divine power to enslave Di Tian.
• Gu Yuena formed a silver spear and launched it at Dai Weisi, who summoned his Boundless Sea Suppressing Bell to meet the attack.

Dai Weisi received the Asura Sword and completed his enslavement of Di Tian, while the Asura God sealed Gu Yuena beneath the Lake of Life. After Dai Weisi entered seclusion, Qian Renxue took control of Spirit Hall and began recruiting Knights of Light across the continent.

• Gu Yuena attacked Dai Weisi, but the Asura God intervened, sealed her beneath the Lake of Life, and gave Dai Weisi the Asura Sword.
• Di Tian submitted to Dai Weisi after the Asura Blood Soul Wine changed his will, and Dai Weisi returned to the surface with him.
• Dai Weisi calmed the confrontation between the soul beast kings and his companions before leaving the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhu Zhuyun and Dugu Yan.
• Bi Ji discovered that Di Tian had lost three fingers, healed his other injuries, and grieved that she could not restore his claws.
• Dai Weisi returned to the medicinal garden in Sunset Forest as Zhu Zhuyun and Dugu Yan prepared to enter seclusion.
• Qian Renxue took control of Spirit Hall, suspended Bibi Dong's foreign infiltration efforts, and recruited more than ten thousand Soul Masters as Knights of Light.

The Spirit Hall’s unification campaign served Qian Renxue and Dai Weisi’s separate plans. Dai Weisi waited for the campaign to give him grounds to punish provincial governors and kings who sought independence.

• The Star Luo Empire could not openly oppose the Spirit Hall because it lacked the strength to stop its many experts.
• Dai Weisi remained in seclusion, and his absence fit the plans he had made with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue intended to use the Spirit Hall’s unification to pressure Bibi Dong into pursuing godhood, confident she would ascend first.
• Dai Weisi planned to use the conflict to reclaim authority over border provinces and kingdoms that defied his orders.
• The Spirit Hall’s ties to separatist rulers would give Dai Weisi grounds to accuse them of betrayal and act against them.

Four Elements Academy sought to relocate to the Star Luo Empire, and Black Tiger Douluo Li Fu agreed to help because of his old ties to Godwind Academy. Heaven Dou’s leaders abandoned their plans to obstruct the move after learning Li Fu was involved.

• Godwind Academy’s dean asked Li Fu to help Four Elements Academy relocate, and Li Fu agreed.
• Li Fu saw Four Elements Academy’s educational strengths as valuable to the Star Luo Empire.
• Heaven Dou’s leaders dropped their plans to make things difficult for Four Elements Academy after learning it had contacted Li Fu.
• Dai Weisi continued to respect Li Fu, his former guardian.

Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei encountered the Ice Empress after fleeing into the Ice Jade Scorpion clan’s core territory. Once the Ice Empress clarified that the Extreme North Ice Plains belonged to her clan, Luo Zhiwei prepared to face her.

• Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei saw the Ice Empress arrive after an ice sword struck nearby.
• The Ice Empress demanded to know why the women had entered her territory and injured her clan members.
• Liu Yunying argued that the Ice Jade Scorpions had overreacted by sending hundreds of scorpions after them.
• The Ice Empress revealed that the women stood in her clan’s core territory and claimed the Extreme North Ice Plains belonged to her family.
• Liu Yunying realized they had fled into the scorpion nest and looked to Luo Zhiwei for help.
• Luo Zhiwei activated her Ice True Qi, identified herself as a member of the Demon King Team, and challenged the Ice Empress.

Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei used their strongest combined attack to try to break Ice Empress’s defenses, then found themselves surrounded by Ice Jade Scorpions after exhausting their strength. The chapter ended with Liu Yunying supporting Luo Zhiwei and wondering whether Ice Empress had survived the blast.

• Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei repeatedly attacked Ice Empress’s Ice Emperor’s Bodyguard barrier but failed to break it.
• Luo Zhiwei used her Golden Radiance Death Bee soul bone skill while she and Liu Yunying prepared their eighth soul skills.
• Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei unleashed the martial soul fusion skill Ice Fire Dragon Python Sky-Shattering Arrow, which exploded against Ice Empress’s barrier.
• The blast shattered the surrounding ice and drew hundreds or thousands of Ice Jade Scorpions back around Liu Yunying and Luo Zhiwei.
• Liu Yunying supported the exhausted Luo Zhiwei and prepared Dai Weisi’s sword qi trump card as she wondered whether Ice Empress had died.