Recaps

Zhao Xuan fought the newly hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, using his Demon God True Body and proved able to withstand its attacks. Their battle stirred the earth veins, and Da Ming warned Xiao Wu, Hermione, and Oscar that the dormant volcano was about to erupt.

• Zhao Xuan activated his Demon God True Body and fought Er Ming, resisting its Gravity Domain and stopping its attacks with lightning.
• Er Ming increased its strength and gravity, then hurled Zhao Xuan backward, but emerald-green life energy healed his wounds.
• Zhao Xuan charged back into battle, while Spirit Beasts across the Star Dou Great Forest sensed Er Ming's hundred-thousand-year aura and wondered who could contend with it.
• Xiao Wu, Hermione, and Oscar heard the battle, and Hermione noticed strange ripples in the lake beside them.
• Da Ming emerged from the lake and warned that the fighting had stirred the earth veins and was about to make the dormant volcano erupt.

After Zhao Xuan helped Da Ming and Er Ming calm the volcanic disturbance, he spent weeks sparring with the Sky Azure Bull Python. Oscar then announced that he would leave to seek a Spirit Beast for his desired soul skill and train on his own, and Zhao Xuan agreed to escort him out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python joined the Titan Giant Ape in suppressing the volcanic energy beneath the crater, while Zhao Xuan watched.
• Zhao Xuan sparred with the Sky Azure Bull Python almost daily and rapidly improved his physical strength.
• Oscar told Zhao Xuan that Da Ming and Er Ming had pointed him toward a frigid forest in the north, where he could find a Spirit Beast suited to his desired soul skill.
• Oscar insisted that he wanted to train independently and gain the courage to protect Rongrong, despite the danger.
• Zhao Xuan warned Oscar not to risk his life and agreed to send him out after he said goodbye to Hermione and Xiao Wu.

After Oscar left, Zhao Xuan sought guidance from the Sky Azure Bull Python about mastering a Domain and pushed himself to understand the essence of power. His attempt exhausted his divine sense and injured his Nascent Soul, so Hermione and Xiao Wu made him rest instead of sparring.

• Oscar said goodbye to Hermione and Xiao Wu, and Zhao Xuan personally saw him off.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python explained how it and Er Ming developed their Domains through understanding water and earth, and advised Zhao Xuan to study his lightning and Spiritual Power.
• Zhao Xuan tried to deduce the essence of power, exhausted his divine sense, and suffered a backlash that left him weak and disoriented.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python caught Zhao Xuan with its tail and warned him that the laws of power were beyond his current level.
• Hermione supported Zhao Xuan and helped him sit beneath a tree, while Xiao Wu told Er Ming to stop asking about sparring and let him rest.

Zhao Xuan struggled to understand how to master a domain before Hermione told him about a strange sound from the deepest core of the Star Dou Great Forest. The Sky Azure Bull Python explained that the sound was linked to fallen Beast Deities, leaving Zhao Xuan eager to investigate its true nature.

• Zhao Xuan stopped trying to force his understanding of domain mastery and asked Hermione about her cultivation progress.
• Hermione told Zhao Xuan that she had heard a strange sound said to be the final wail of a dying Beast Deity.
• Zhao Xuan returned to Sky Azure Lake with Hermione and asked the Sky Azure Bull Python about the sound.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python recalled inherited memories of a divine war in which human gods defeated the gods of the Spirit Beasts.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python said several Beast Deities had fallen in the deepest heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Zhao Xuan grew curious about the place.

Zhao Xuan learned from the Sky Azure Bull Python that the fallen Beast Deity’s lingering power had accelerated Spirit Beasts’ growth and distorted time and space, while several powerful beings had vanished investigating the core. He entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and discovered that spatial power was trapping him in a loop.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python told Zhao Xuan that the core held temporal and spatial distortions, and that the Beast Deity’s time power had helped Spirit Beasts grow faster.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python revealed that Sister Xiao Wu’s father had vanished inside the core and asked Zhao Xuan not to tell her what it had shared.
• Zhao Xuan walked into the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region, where eight overlords guarded the area around it.
• Zhao Xuan found his own footprint on a bluestone and realized he had become lost despite extending his divine sense.
• Zhao Xuan recognized that his divine sense had twisted toward an unknown place and concluded that spatial power was causing the distortion.

Zhao Xuan discovered that the fallen Beast Deity’s lingering divine sense and spatial power had trapped and misdirected him, then broke through the restrictions with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning. He pressed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest as a huge figure approached, leaving him facing an unsettling and apparently terrifying presence.

• Zhao Xuan realized that an illusion-like force was altering his perception in addition to the spatial distortions.
• Zhao Xuan used Purple Heaven Divine Lightning to expose and destroy the divine sense left behind by the fallen Beast Deity, freeing himself from the restrictions.
• A pair of golden dragon eyes opened in the valley at the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, and an enormous figure burst into the sky.
• Zhao Xuan hesitated but entered the innermost region again, destroying the lingering divine sense as he advanced.
• Zhao Xuan detected a huge figure flying toward him, climbed a tree, and watched it approach with growing unease.

Zhao Xuan encountered the hostile Black Dragon in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest and tried to fight it before fleeing. The Black Dragon pursued him with eerie Black Flame, which stopped short when Zhao Xuan's Netherworld Purifying Light appeared.

• The Black Dragon appeared before Zhao Xuan, warned that he should not have come, and attacked him with its claws.
• Zhao Xuan evaded the Black Dragon, counterattacked with his Thunder Long Spear, and watched it shatter against a Black Curtain.
• The Black Dragon gathered dark energy to attack, but Zhao Xuan used Unicom to make it dissipate before he fled into the forest.
• The Black Dragon pursued Zhao Xuan through the forest and launched eerie Black Flame after him.
• Zhao Xuan's Purple Heaven Divine Lightning failed to stop the Black Flame, but his Netherworld Purifying Light made it halt.

Zhao Xuan fled the Black Dragon through the Star Dou Great Forest, while the dragon’s pursuit alarmed the forest’s overlords. When the Black Dragon unleashed dark energy and revealed signs of pain, Zhao Xuan stopped running and prepared to fight as it formed its Dragon King Claw.

• Zhao Xuan used the World Cleansing White Lotus to block the Black Dragon’s flame, then fled in a direction that would keep the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape out of the chase.
• The Black Dragon caught up and destroyed Zhao Xuan’s Lightning Long Arrows with its claws, eroding the lingering Purple Heaven Divine Lightning with black mist.
• The eight overlords heard the dragon’s roar, and the Sky Azure Bull Python worried that Zhao Xuan was connected to the dragon’s arrival.
• After chasing Zhao Xuan for dozens of kilometers, the Black Dragon grew increasingly anxious as they moved farther from the deepest region.
• The Black Dragon released a vast darkness and appeared to suffer pain, prompting Zhao Xuan to stop fleeing and summon a giant formed from blood energy and Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• The Black Dragon gathered the darkness into its right claw and named its attack the Dragon King Claw.

Zhao Xuan survived the Black Dragon’s deadly attack when his Sixth Soul Skill, Life Lock, prevented a fatal injury. Badly wounded, he headed toward the forest’s outer regions, intending to ask the Sky Azure Bull Python about the Black Dragon.

• The Black Dragon trapped Zhao Xuan in darkness and collapsing space, gradually crushing his Demon God True Body and suppressing his Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Believing Zhao Xuan dead, the Black Dragon withdrew its claw and left after finding no body.
• After the Black Dragon disappeared, Zhao Xuan emerged from the canopy alive, though severely injured.
• Zhao Xuan realized his Sixth Soul Skill, Life Lock, had saved him and had seven days left on its cooldown.
• Zhao Xuan decided to ask the Sky Azure Bull Python about the Black Dragon and cautiously set off toward the forest’s outer regions.

After escaping the forbidden zone, Zhao Xuan recovered enough to travel toward the Sky Azure Bull Python's territory, but a giant Thousand Jun Ant pursued him. He injured it and fled when more of the ants approached.

• Zhao Xuan used his Life Domain to heal his surface injuries and headed toward the Sky Azure Bull Python's territory while keeping watch for the region's overlord.
• A giant Thousand Jun Ant tracked Zhao Xuan through the forest and sent out a signal to its companions.
• Zhao Xuan attacked the Thousand Jun Ant with his Thunder Long Spears and soul skills, piercing its mandibles and badly injuring it.
• When Zhao Xuan sensed another Thousand Jun Ant approaching, he abandoned the pursuit and fled toward the Sky Azure Bull Python's territory.
• Two more Thousand Jun Ants arrived, but the three hesitated to follow Zhao Xuan and turned back.

Zhao Xuan returned battered from the forbidden zone and recounted his dangerous encounter with Di Tian and a Thousand Jun Ant to Hermione, Xiao Wu, and the two great beasts. The Sky Azure Bull Python identified Di Tian and warned Zhao Xuan how fortunate he was to face only one of the three Thousand Jun Ant brothers.

• Xiao Wu scolded the Sky Azure Bull Python for telling Zhao Xuan about the forbidden zone while Hermione anxiously waited for Zhao Xuan to return.
• Zhao Xuan arrived safely, embraced Hermione, and explained that he had narrowly escaped serious danger.
• Zhao Xuan recounted his journey, and the Sky Azure Bull Python identified the golden-eyed Black Dragon as Di Tian, patriarch of the Black Dragon King clan.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Zhao Xuan had found her father in the forbidden zone, and Zhao Xuan said he had found no trace of him.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python explained that Di Tian was exceptionally powerful and that the Thousand Jun Ant Zhao Xuan injured was one of three brothers who could have overwhelmed him together.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhao Xuan discovered that his physical strength had increased and tested it in a fight with Er Ming. He then studied domains in the Star Dou Great Forest and manifested a region filled with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.

• Zhao Xuan healed his injuries with the Life Domain and found that his body had grown considerably stronger.
• Zhao Xuan demonstrated his new power with a casual punch, and Er Ming came over to investigate.
• Zhao Xuan challenged Er Ming to a fight, but Xiao Wu’s shout eventually stopped their noisy battle.
• Zhao Xuan studied domain mysteries under the guidance of the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape.
• Zhao Xuan transformed lightning into Thunder Runes and summoned countless bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning across his domain.

Zhao Xuan awakened his Purple Gold lightning domain, drawing the attention of the Star Dou Great Forest’s Spirit Beast overlords. After the Time-Space Elk warned Di Tian to protect the Spirit Beast race’s hope, Zhao Xuan tested his new domain against Da Ming.

• The Thousand Jun Ant brothers sensed Zhao Xuan’s powerful fluctuation, while Di Tian prepared to confront him before the Time-Space Elk appeared and told him not to create complications or endanger himself.
• The Time-Space Elk explained that its Divine Sense was fading and that the Spirit Beast race’s hope would depend on Di Tian; after it vanished, Di Tian lay down and closed his eyes.
• Da Ming emerged from Azure Lake, saw Zhao Xuan’s Purple Gold domain, and accepted his invitation to test it.
• Zhao Xuan’s domain shattered Da Ming’s Slowness Domain, and lightning scorched Da Ming’s claw when it entered the domain.
• Da Ming praised Zhao Xuan’s domain, then gathered cyan light in his mouth to launch an attack.

Zhao Xuan battled the Sky Azure Bull Python, whose water control and Slowness Domain countered his lightning attacks. After hundreds of exchanges, they stopped and praised the fight, with Zhao Xuan realizing he was only one step behind the Spirit Beast overlord.

• Zhao Xuan dodged the Sky Azure Bull Python's energy attack and charged at it with hundreds of Thunder Long Spears.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python released water pillars from the volcanic crater and used its Slowness Domain to slow Zhao Xuan's spears, while water dragons intercepted them.
• Zhao Xuan summoned the Demon God True Body and fought the Sky Azure Bull Python, their battle filling the sky with thunderclouds and lightning.
• After several hundred exchanges, Zhao Xuan and the Sky Azure Bull Python separated, and the python said Zhao Xuan's strength matched Er Ming's.
• Zhao Xuan reflected that his strength had grown rapidly and that he was now only one step behind the Sky Azure Bull Python.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione prepared to leave Lake Azure and travel to the Star Luo Empire, while Xiao Wu stayed behind to focus on cultivation. Before they departed, Er Ming gifted Hermione a fifty-thousand-year soul bone, which she fused and tested before setting out with Zhao Xuan.

• Xiao Wu declined Hermione's invitation to travel with them because she wanted to focus on cultivation and avoid becoming Tang San's burden.
• Er Ming presented Hermione with a fifty-thousand-year soul bone, and Da Ming explained that it held the Extreme Cold Storm skill and was suited to her.
• Hermione accepted the soul bone after Da Ming asked her to protect Xiao Wu when she ventured out again.
• Zhao Xuan stayed several days while Hermione safely fused with the soul bone under the protection of Zhao Xuan, Er Ming, and Da Ming.
• Hermione tested Extreme Cold Storm, unleashing a powerful blizzard that froze and shattered everything in its path.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione said farewell to Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming, then headed south through the Star Dou Great Forest toward the Star Luo Empire.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione traveled from the Star Dou Great Forest to Hansha City in the Star Luo Empire, where they learned about the upcoming Hundred Cities Alliance. They discovered that the gathering would concern the selection of the empire’s Crown Prince.

• Zhao Xuan and Hermione left the Star Dou Great Forest and flew south through unfamiliar territory before reaching a road.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione arrived in Hansha City and noted the Star Luo Empire’s disciplined, military atmosphere.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione learned that Star Luo City was over a thousand kilometers away and reserved a luxurious carriage for the next day.
• The carriage company owner told Zhao Xuan and Hermione that the City Lord’s Manor had taken their carriage for the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• The carriage company owner explained that the Hundred Cities Alliance gathered the empire’s cities every three years and that its upcoming theme was Crown Prince selection, prompting Zhao Xuan and Hermione’s interest.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione traveled toward Star Luo City with City Lord Luo, who offered them a ride after meeting them in Hansha City. At a tavern during the journey, Luo revealed to his guards that Zhao Xuan made him feel endangered and discussed the escalating rivalry between Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi, while Zhao Xuan secretly overheard him.

• City Lord Luo met Zhao Xuan and Hermione at a carriage shop, then invited them to travel with him to Star Luo City.
• Zhao Xuan accepted Luo's offer, and the three rode together while discussing their travels and Zhao Xuan's friend who had studied in Heaven Dou.
• After traveling for a day, Zhao Xuan and Hermione rested at a tavern, where Zhao Xuan reflected on Luo's shrewd and approachable manner.
• At another tavern, Luo told his guards that he could not see through Zhao Xuan and sensed danger from him.
• Luo discussed Dai Mubai's strength, Dai Weisi's position, and the coming Hundred Cities Alliance, while Zhao Xuan secretly listened with his spiritual sense.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione arrived in Star Luo City and revealed their strength at the city gates, impressing City Lord Luo and the guards. After settling into a hotel, they considered how to meet Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing and decided the Hundred Cities Alliance might give them a way in.

• At Star Luo City's gates, City Lord Luo displayed his six soul rings, Hermione showed four, and Zhao Xuan revealed six, astonishing the commander and City Lord Luo.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione parted from City Lord Luo after entering the city, and he reflected proudly on having judged Zhao Xuan well.
• Hermione used Soul Power to cool herself in the heat, and Zhao Xuan questioned her use of her abilities before accepting her explanation.
• After finding a hotel, Zhao Xuan and Hermione discussed how to meet Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, whose noble positions made them difficult to approach.
• Hermione suggested using the Hundred Cities Alliance to meet them, and Zhao Xuan considered seeking places to observe the succession contest.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione registered to watch the Hundred Cities Alliance, where Zhao Xuan revealed that he was a Soul Emperor and named Shrek Academy as his faction. As they explored Star Luo City, Zhao Xuan sensed an acquaintance he hoped to avoid, but the Crown Prince recognized them.

• Zhao Xuan and Hermione arrived at the guest hall to register as spectators for the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Zhao Xuan revealed his Soul Emperor cultivation, and the staff issued him a pass to attend the ceremony with up to two companions.
• Zhao Xuan named Shrek Academy as his faction, prompting Cheng Hua and the other staff to realize it was the academy the Second Prince had graduated from.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione explored Star Luo City, and Zhao Xuan sensed an acquaintance nearby whom he did not want to meet.
• The Crown Prince recognized Zhao Xuan and Hermione before they could leave.

Zhao Xuan encountered Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and recognized that his visit to Star Luo City was meant to assess the empire and its succession struggle. After Hermione questioned Zhao Xuan’s dislike of Xue Qinghe, Zhao Xuan revealed the hidden reasons behind it, leaving her overwhelmed by the political implications.

• Xue Qinghe arrived with two guards and Wind Douluo, who recognized Zhao Xuan and marveled at his strength.
• Xue Qinghe discussed Dai Mubai’s identity and claimed he had come to Star Luo safely as an envoy, while Zhao Xuan suspected he was assessing the Star Luo Empire.
• After parting from Zhao Xuan and Hermione, Xue Qinghe told Wind Douluo that Zhao Xuan’s power was strange and said the Imperial Family should try to recruit him.
• Hermione noticed Zhao Xuan’s unusual hostility toward Xue Qinghe and pressed him to explain.
• Zhao Xuan took Hermione to a teahouse, raised a divine-sense barrier, and explained the hidden circumstances surrounding Xue Qinghe.
• Hermione struggled to digest what Zhao Xuan told her, and he explained that knowing more could bring her more trouble.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione arrived at the Star Luo Imperial Palace for the Hundred Cities Alliance and reunited with Zhu Zhuqing in the crowded plaza. Their conversation touched on Dai Mubai’s struggle for the throne, which Zhu Zhuqing said would not be decided until the very end.

• Zhao Xuan showed his pass and six soul rings to the palace guards, who let him and Hermione enter.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione reached the plaza and drew attention from the gathered soul masters with their presence and Zhao Xuan’s Spiritual Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Zhao Xuan and Hermione, and she and Hermione embraced happily.
• Zhu Zhuqing said Dai Mubai would be surprised to see them, while Zhao Xuan remarked that Dai Mubai had become Crown Prince.
• Zhu Zhuqing answered that no one could predict the throne struggle’s outcome until the final moment.

Dai Haotian announced that the winner of the contest between Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi would become the Star Luo Empire’s Crown Prince. As the princes’ supporters faced off, Zhu Zhuqing struggled with the prospect of fighting her elder sister, and Zhao Xuan hinted that the empire’s inheritance rules could be changed.

• Dai Haotian emerged from the palace with Xue Qinghe and the master of the Star Luo Holy Hall, and Zhao Xuan sensed that the latter was a powerful Soul Master.
• Dai Haotian declared that the contest’s winner would become the next emperor of the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai’s and Dai Weisi’s supporters formed opposing camps in the square while Zhao Xuan, Hermione, and Zhu Zhuqing remained neutral.
• Zhu Zhuqing and her elder sister, Zhu Zhuyun, exchanged cold looks across the rival camps.
• Zhuqing admitted to Zhao Xuan and Hermione that she could not bear to fight her sister, and Zhao Xuan said that sufficient strength could change the rules.

Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi faced each other in the Star Luo Empire’s succession assessment, while Zhao Xuan condemned the ruthless system and unsettled the gathered Soul Masters. The assessment began with both brothers revealing that they had reached the Soul King realm and possessed identical soul-ring configurations.

• Zhao Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Haotian was a coward for preserving the Star Luo succession tradition instead of changing it.
• Dai Haotian ordered the assessment to begin, and Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi entered the square to face each other.
• Dai Weisi vowed to erase the humiliation of his defeat a year earlier, while Dai Mubai resolved to win for Zhuqing and those who had supported him.
• Dai Mubai recognized Zhao Xuan and Hermione among the spectators, and Zhao Xuan’s spiritual sense briefly stunned Soul Masters throughout the square.
• The presiding general announced the start, and both brothers used White Tiger Possession, revealing five soul rings and their breakthrough to the Soul King realm.
• Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi clashed their claws, each determined to win.

Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi traded powerful White Tiger attacks, with Mubai using his Fourth Soul Skill to wear down his brother before Weisi unleashed his Ten-Thousand-Year Fifth Soul Skill. The chapter ended as Mubai activated his own Fifth Soul Skill, White Tiger Demon God Transformation, and faced the army of Weisi’s doubles.

• Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi exchanged their matching White Tiger skills, and Zhao Xuan judged Mubai’s training and efficiency superior.
• Dai Mubai unleashed White Tiger Meteor Shower, forcing Dai Weisi to destroy the falling attacks with White Tiger Annihilation Hundred Consecutive Slashes.
• Dai Weisi activated his Fifth Soul Skill, Hundred Tigers Roar, and filled the arena with more than a hundred copies of himself.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Demon God Transformation and stood ready to face Dai Weisi’s charging doubles.

Dai Mubai saw through the flaws in Dai Weisi’s clone technique and gradually wore down his copies. The fight ended with Dai Mubai striking the real Dai Weisi with a powerful White Tiger Blazing Light Wave, leaving him badly injured.

• Dai Mubai used a White Tiger Blazing Light Wave and moved to avoid being surrounded by Dai Weisi’s clones.
• Zhao Xuan explained to Hermione and Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Weisi could not control most of his clones and had likely chosen a poorly matched Spirit Beast in haste.
• Dai Mubai continued destroying the pursuing clones while Dai Weisi secretly controlled individual copies to launch surprise attacks.
• Dai Weisi sent two clones to attack from opposite sides, and Dai Mubai struck one before blasting the other with a powerful White Tiger Blazing Light Wave.
• Dai Weisi was hit by the blast, thrown backward, and left coughing up scorching blood.