Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue confirmed clues about her parents’ past, then began absorbing a Soul Pearl that formed a God-given third Soul Ring. As its age continued to rise beyond Qian Daoliu’s expectations, he wondered whether she could reach an eight-thousand-year ring.

• The Rakshasa God noticed Yu Erlong’s growing hatred of Qian Xunji and decided she could be a backup inheritor while It focused on Bibi Dong.
• Qian Xunji dismissed the plotting of Bibi Dong and Yu Erlong and went to the Angel Hall.
• Qian Renxue learned that Yu Xiaogang had studied at Spirit Hall, left eight years earlier, and that Bibi Dong gave birth to her a little over a year afterward.
• Qian Xunji gave Qian Renxue a Soul Pearl to form her third Soul Ring, and Qian Daoliu arrived, mistaking its initial white color for a ten-year ring.
• The Soul Ring grew past three thousand years and then five thousand years while Qian Renxue showed no signs of reaching her limit, leaving Qian Daoliu to speculate that it might reach eight thousand.

Qian Renxue raised a Soul Ring to thirty-one thousand four hundred years, revealing her exceptional potential and telling Qian Xunji about a dream that recalled Bibi Dong’s past. Qian Xunji argued that love did not excuse abandoning obligations, leaving Qian Renxue to reconsider the dream and the choices behind it.

• Qian Renxue endured mounting pressure and raised her Soul Ring to thirty-one thousand four hundred years, then revealed that Qian Xunji’s Soul Pearls had given her two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Daoliu that he had awakened a divine trial, and Qian Daoliu left when Qian Renxue asked to speak privately with her father.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Xunji about a dream in which a Saintess’s teacher imprisoned and harmed her after she planned to elope with a man.
• Qian Xunji asked whether the teacher had been wrong and argued that the Saintess had betrayed the faction that raised her by placing love above her obligations.
• Qian Renxue considered whether the Saintess’s decision to pursue love would truly have led to a good ending.

Qian Xunji explained to Qian Renxue why he had stopped Bibi Dong from leaving Spirit Hall with Yu Xiaogang, then used a card to travel to the future. He arrived in the year 4432, where he saw Shrek’s dominance and the persistent Evil Soul Master problem, and began assessing its causes.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Renxue that women born into noble families had little choice in marriage and said she was meant to inherit the Angel God’s divine position.
• Qian Xunji admitted his part in Bibi Dong’s past and insisted he would not have allowed her to join Yu Xiaogang, while Qian Renxue agreed that her mother could not be lured away.
• Qian Xunji returned to Papal Hall, learned Bibi Dong had not visited Angel Hall, and activated a card to recruit Rose Douluo.
• Qian Xunji entered the River of Time and Space and traveled to year 4432 in the future, arriving at Rose Village on Douluo Continent.
• Qian Xunji saw that Spirit Hall had vanished, Shrek Academy and Tang San’s factions had risen to power, and Evil Soul Masters continued to plague the continent.
• Qian Xunji concluded that Evil Soul Masters arose from abusing evil powers and, more fundamentally, from the corruption of the human heart.

Qian Xunji viewed Hua Qiang’s past and saw how Evil Soul Masters slaughtered her village, leaving her with a Rose Soul Imprint and a burning hatred. Shrek’s enforcement team arrived after the massacre and prayed over the dead.

• Qian Xunji activated the time-browsing function and witnessed the experiences of a woman who fought Evil Soul Masters with careful planning and skill.
• In Rose Village, Hua Qiang and He Hua dreamed of awakening their Martial Souls, but Hua Qiang could not afford the fee.
• Evil Soul Masters raided the village at night, and Hua Qiang’s parents hid her before they were captured and killed.
• Hua Qiang emerged the next morning, found her parents among the dead, and wept as a Rose Soul Imprint appeared on her hand.
• Hua Qiang and the other surviving children buried their families and the village’s adults.
• Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion Enforcement Team arrived, lamented that the Evil Soul Masters had escaped, and prayed for the victims.

Hua Qiang joined Shrek Academy after showing Innate Full Soul Power and became a Titled Douluo who fought Evil Soul Masters. After defeating Evil Spirit Hall, she discovered its leader Snow Lotus was He Hua, the childhood friend the Shrek Enforcement Team had rejected.

• The Shrek Enforcement Team found Hua Qiang and He Hua among the children who survived their village’s massacre, and Hua Qiang asked to join them to hunt Evil Soul Masters.
• The chief tested Hua Qiang and found she had Innate Full Soul Power, then agreed to take her to Shrek Academy, but refused He Hua after she tested at Innate Soul Power 2.
• Hua Qiang trained until she became a Titled Douluo and a Shrek Seven Devils member, then destroyed the organization that had slaughtered her village.
• Hua Qiang led the Shrek Enforcement Team against Evil Soul Masters and helped Shrek Academy and its allies destroy Evil Spirit Hall.
• At Evil Spirit Hall’s headquarters, Hua Qiang defeated Snow Lotus, who removed her mask and revealed herself as He Hua.

He Hua explained to Hua Qiang how injustice and Shrek Academy’s treatment of the powerless had driven people to become Evil Soul Masters, and why the powers only united against her after she threatened their rule. Hua Qiang spared her childhood companion, but returned to find He Hua’s corpse displayed by the allied forces, leaving her to wonder whether she too would be condemned for challenging them.

• Hua Qiang demanded to know why He Hua had become an Evil Soul Master, and He Hua said her lack of talent and resources had left her no other path to power and revenge.
• He Hua described the disadvantaged people and expelled Shrek Academy graduates who became Evil Soul Masters, arguing that society’s injustice created them.
• He Hua told Hua Qiang that the allied powers targeted her Evil Spirit Hall because she sought to overthrow their rule, unlike scattered Evil Soul Masters who did not threaten it.
• Hua Qiang released He Hua and said she would continue opposing Evil Soul Masters by different methods.
• Hua Qiang returned to Shrek Academy and found He Hua’s corpse hanging among the allied forces’ banners, prompting her to question whether the powers would spare anyone who challenged them.

Hua Qiang investigated why Evil Soul Masters arose and found that social oppression and noble rule fueled their growth. In an underground Spirit Hall ruin, she uncovered records that contradicted the official history of the Dark Age and traced Spirit Hall’s destruction to the order established after the Three Gods War.

• Hua Qiang witnessed Shrek’s harsh treatment of students, nobles’ exploitation of commoners, and slave-hunting groups’ abuses, and reconsidered her belief that Evil Soul Masters alone deserved blame.
• Hua Qiang concluded that resentment bred by an unjust society continually created Evil Soul Masters, whom the ruling powers tolerated or eliminated according to their own interests.
• Hua Qiang discovered an underground Spirit Hall ruin containing records of the Dark Age that challenged the account promoted by Shrek, the sects, and the Two Great Empires.
• The records described Spirit Hall’s origins in the Angel God Ancestor’s campaign against evil and its free Martial Soul awakenings and stipends for Soul Masters.
• Hua Qiang learned that Spirit Hall had given commoners a path to rise and had suppressed genuine evil, while its influence threatened the nobles’ control.
• The records said the Three Gods War ended Spirit Hall and the Dark Age, ushering in the Sea God Era under the Tang Sect, Clear Sky Sect, Shrek Academy, and the Two Great Empires.

After uncovering Spirit Hall’s erased role in history, Hua Qiang proposed reforms to Shrek Academy, but the Sea God Pavilion rejected her. She left to build free awakening programs and schools while publishing her account of the past, drawing fierce condemnation from powerful factions.

• Hua Qiang learned that Spirit Hall had discovered Ma Hongjun and Oscar and supported ordinary people through martial-soul awakenings and stipends, causing her faith in Shrek Academy to collapse.
• Hua Qiang submitted a report on Evil Soul Masters and proposed free awakenings, stipends, schools, and reforms to reduce class conflict, but Li Xuan and the Sea God Pavilion rejected her proposals.
• Hua Qiang left Shrek Academy with like-minded people and began recruiting Soul Masters, running free martial-soul awakenings, and establishing stipends and schools.
• Hua Qiang published an unaltered account of the Dark Age, prompting Shrek, the Two Great Empires, the Upper Three Sects, and other factions to denounce her as a distorter of history.
• The president of Shrek Academy stripped Hua Qiang of her status as one of the Seven Devils and revoked all her honors.

Hua Qiang’s restoration of Spirit Hall’s history disturbed the faith sustaining Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, exposing their plans to rewrite history and use Evil Soul Masters to preserve their influence. The gods resolved to suppress Spirit Hall’s legacy and those who revived it.

• Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils sensed their faith wavering and gathered to investigate.
• Tang San realized that a change on Douluo Continent threatened the faith-based godhood he had strengthened by keeping Evil Soul Masters active as a threat.
• The Shrek Seven Devils used the Mystic Light Mirror and discovered that Hua Qiang’s efforts to restore Spirit Hall’s history and systems were affecting their faith.
• Tang San’s group recognized that Spirit Hall’s old benefits for commoners undermined their plan to smear the past and secure gratitude by fighting Evil Soul Masters.
• Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar condemned Spirit Hall’s renewed influence, and Xiao Wu urged Tang San to purge it more thoroughly.

Tang San and Tang Hao treated Hua Qiang’s efforts to revive Spirit Hall as a threat to the Sea God’s authority and ordered Shrek and its allies to crush her movement. Hua Qiang fled to Bakua Mountain, where overwhelming forces surrounded her.

• Tang San urged Dai Mubai to guide the people of Douluo Continent and declared that those who resisted would bring about their own destruction.
• Tang Hao left his secluded home in the Star Dou Great Forest and confronted Li Xuan at Sea God Pavilion, demanding that Shrek deal with Hua Qiang.
• Tang Hao ordered Shrek, the Upper Three Sects, and the Two Great Empires to act against Hua Qiang and her followers.
• Shrek and the empires branded Hua Qiang and her allies Evil Soul Masters, then attacked their headquarters and killed many newly awakened Soul Masters.
• Hua Qiang fled after her friends were killed, but Tang Hao learned where she was and ordered allied forces to surround her on Bakua Mountain.

Qian Xunji learned he could only take his mission target from this time and space, while Hua Qiang faced execution for revealing the history of Spirit Hall. Tang Hao and the others dismissed her accusations and vowed that the truth would be erased after her death.

• After Tang Hao left, Qian Xunji watched Ah Yin and asked the System if he could take her away after completing his mission, but the System said he could only take the target.
• The System warned Qian Xunji that his target had been driven to despair and told him to prepare to travel to that time and space.
• Surrounded by Shrek and Clear Sky Sect fighters, Hua Qiang rejected Li Xuan and Tang Ling's accusations and challenged them over their rewriting of history.
• Tang Hao arrived and allowed Hua Qiang to speak her last words before she was taken to the Sea God Hall.
• Hua Qiang accused the Shrek Gods of hiding Spirit Hall's history, tolerating Evil Soul Masters, and exploiting ordinary people's faith.
• Tang Hao admitted that the truth would be buried after Hua Qiang's death and said future generations would remember only Tang San's supposed mercy.

Tang Hao cornered Hua Qiang for exposing the truth about the gods, but Qian Xunji appeared and stopped her from self-destructing. After Tang Hao recognized Qian Xunji, the two clashed, leaving Qian Xunji blocking Tang Hao’s hammer with his Fallen Angel Shield.

• Tang Hao ordered Hua Qiang to kneel before Tang San and accept a fate as a kneeling statue, but Hua Qiang refused and tried to self-destruct.
• A Gate of Space-Time opened behind Hua Qiang, and Qian Xunji emerged and suppressed her Soul Power eruption.
• Qian Xunji taunted Tang Hao with memories from four thousand years earlier, and Tang Hao recognized him as Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji insulted Tang Hao, Ah Yin, and Tang San, enraging Tang Hao and Tang San as Xiao Wu urged Tang San to calm down.
• Tang Hao attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Qian Xunji summoned his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel and blocked the blow with a Fallen Angel Shield.

Tang Hao unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain against Qian Xunji, who exposed the Sea God's destruction of Slaughter City and resisted Tang Hao's attacks. Tang Hao's assault faltered under Qian Xunji's Fallen Angel powers, and Qian Xunji revealed that his strength came from his Lucifer martial soul rather than borrowed divine power.

• Tang Hao challenged Qian Xunji and unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain, but Lucifer's Darkness Domain met it and began eroding its killing intent.
• Qian Xunji explained that the Sea God had destroyed Slaughter City after obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain, prompting Shrek and Tang Sect members to denounce him while Tang Hao grew angry.
• Qian Xunji and Tang Hao clashed with sword and hammer, and Qian Xunji blocked Tang Hao's attack without giving ground.
• Tang Hao used Soaring Sky Strike, Chaotic Cloak, and Great Sumeru Hammer, but Qian Xunji weakened him with Fallen Angel Punishment and wounded him with Darkness of the End.
• Qian Xunji told Tang Hao that his strength relied on borrowed power from Tang San, while Qian Xunji's martial soul was Lucifer, the Fallen Angel God King.

Qian Xunji used his Darkness Domain to protect Hua Qiang and humiliate Tang Hao, then escaped with her before Tang San’s reinforcements arrived. As they traveled through time and space, Qian Xunji asked the system where his Emotion Points were.

• Tang Ling led the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Sect, and Shrek fighters into Qian Xunji’s Darkness Domain, where Hua Qiang killed several Titled Douluo.
• Qian Xunji summoned his Fallen Angel Servant to block Tang Ling’s attack while he taunted Tang Hao about Ah Yin.
• Tang San told Tang Hao that the Fallen Angel Shield would endure until Qian Xunji’s Soul Power was exhausted and said three Limit Douluo with divine power were coming.
• Qian Xunji took Hua Qiang and vanished before Tang Hao could hold him for the arriving reinforcements, leaving Tang Hao and Tang San shocked and furious.
• While traveling through time and space, Qian Xunji asked the system where the Emotion Points were.

Qian Xunji brought Hua Qiang from her parallel space-time to witness Tang San instructing Flender to suppress Evil Soul Masters without eradicating them. Convinced Tang San’s plan had caused countless deaths, Hua Qiang entered Qian Xunji’s era and pledged to serve him.

• Qian Xunji explained that the parallel space-times might merge after his trial and brought Hua Qiang upstream toward the era of Spirit Hall.
• Hua Qiang watched Tang San warn Flender that Evil Soul Masters would return after the Shrek Seven Gods ascended.
• Tang San told Flender that Evil Soul Masters must be suppressed but not eradicated, and Flender agreed to follow his instructions.
• Tang San, the Shrek gods, Ah Yin, and Tang Hao ascended to the God Realm as Hua Qiang resolved to kill Tang San.
• Qian Xunji opened the Gate of Space-Time and welcomed Hua Qiang to the era of Spirit Hall, where she pledged to serve him.

Qian Xunji brought Hua Qiang, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Gui Mei into a Thousand-Year Soul Beast secret realm to hunt for Soul Bones. While Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei left to recover, Qian Xunji and Hua Qiang continued hunting without running out of Soul Power.

• Qian Xunji claimed rewards that included two Hundred Thousand Year All-Purpose Soul Bones and an Immortal Grade Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit suited to Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul.
• Hua Qiang asked to visit Slaughter City and obtain the Divine Slaughter's Domain, and Qian Xunji gave her permission.
• Qian Xunji introduced Hua Qiang as Spirit Hall's new Hall Guardian Douluo, a Level 96 Super Douluo who had become a Titled Douluo at thirty-nine.
• Qian Xunji led Hua Qiang, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Gui Mei into a secret realm where Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could revive and yield Soul Bones.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei each collected several Soul Bones before their Soul Power ran low and Qian Xunji sent them out to recover.
• Qian Xunji and Hua Qiang kept hunting because their Martial Soul abilities replenished their Soul Power, while Qian Xunji complained that he had obtained only two or three Soul Bones after killing over a thousand beasts.

Qian Xunji ended the first hunt in the Thousand-Year Soul Beast Secret Realm, distributed access to Hua Qiang, and spent Emotion Points on lottery draws. He obtained knowledge that could help him claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a Blue Silver Domain card, and a mysterious Substitute Puppet.

• Qian Xunji called Hua Qiang back from hunting, and they returned to Spirit Hall with Ju Gui after collecting sixty-four Soul Bones.
• Qian Xunji gave Hua Qiang a necklace that let her reopen the secret realm while she traveled the continent.
• Qian Xunji tallied twenty-five million Emotion Points and began spending them on Silver Lotteries.
• Qian Xunji won a Hundred Thousand Year All-Purpose Soul Bone, an Illustrated Handbook of Herbs of Douluo Continent, an Adaptive Soul Pearl, a Blue Silver Domain card, and a large storage ring.
• Qian Xunji started a Gold Lottery, drew a Substitute Puppet, and asked the system what it did.

Qian Xunji learned the Substitute Puppet’s limits, drew and fused a Million Year All-Purpose Soul Bone, then gave Cao Cao three All-Purpose Soul Bones and a Soul Pearl to help him advance. Cao Cao reached Rank 90 and began absorbing the pearl for his ninth Soul Ring.

• Qian Xunji learned that the Substitute Puppet could imitate a target’s behavior but could not copy their strength or Martial Soul, and confirmed it would obey his commands.
• Qian Xunji drew a Million Year All-Purpose Soul Bone, fused it into his torso, and gained the Corrosive Black Domain Soul Skill.
• Qian Xunji used the new spatial Soul Skill to reach Cao Cao, who reported that he had neared Rank 90.
• Qian Xunji gave Cao Cao three All-Purpose Soul Bones, and Cao Cao fused them before advancing to Rank 90.
• Qian Xunji gave Cao Cao a Soul Pearl to provide his ninth Soul Ring, and Cao Cao began absorbing it.

After Cao Cao reached Titled Douluo, Qian Xunji sent him to the Heaven Dou Empire and then provoked Bibi Dong and Yu Erlong while driving for Emotion Value. Yu Erlong revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao could regain its Golden Sacred Dragon form, and Qian Xunji offered the Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit as a suitable aid, leaving Yu Erlong wanting it for Xiao Gang.

• Cao Cao’s Ninth Soul Ring raised him to level 93, and he told Qian Xunji his Leadership Strategy skill made armies gradually submit to his command.
• Qian Xunji sent Cao Cao to the Heaven Dou Empire to await an opportunity, then drove the Fire Dragon and Poisonous Spider sports cars and earned nearly two million Emotion Value from Bibi Dong and Yu Erlong’s hatred.
• Qian Xunji mocked Yu Xiaogang, prompting Yu Erlong to reveal that Luo Sanpao had regressed from the Golden Sacred Dragon because Yu Xiaogang’s Innate Soul Power was insufficient.
• Qian Xunji produced the Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit and explained that it could help a sub-dragon martial soul become a dragon, while Yu Erlong longed to give it to Xiao Gang.

Qian Xunji used the Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit to taunt Bibi Dong and Yu Erlong, then brought them to the Second Worship’s granddaughter’s one-month celebration. Bibi Dong realized he might give the fruit to the Second Worship’s family, while Yu Erlong feared for Xiao Gang; the chapter ended when Qian Renxue called Bibi Dong “Mommy.”

• Bibi Dong offered to do anything for the Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit, but Qian Xunji refused and reminded her that Yu Xiaogang’s life was under his control.
• Yu Erlong asked Qian Xunji to share the fruit, but he accused her of wanting it for Yu Xiaogang and dismissed her as a concubine.
• Qian Xunji brought Bibi Dong and Yu Erlong to the Worship Hall, where Bibi Dong explained Spirit Hall’s immense power and the Second Worship’s rank.
• Bibi Dong realized Qian Xunji might give the Gold Dragon Accumulation Fruit to the Second Worship’s Gold Crocodile family, leaving Xiao Gang without a chance to obtain it.
• Qian Renxue called Bibi Dong “Mommy,” and Bibi Dong took her to her bedchamber while Yu Erlong feared she might also bear Qian Xunji’s child.