Chapter Summaries

Liu Xiaoxiao returned to the past during the God of Time’s thirteenth trial, as the Beast Tide approached Shrek City. He warned Shrek’s leaders about the horde and its cause, then confronted Di Tian above the southern wall as the battle began.

• Liu Xiaoxiao completed a transformation that greatly strengthened his spiritual realm and gained a peculiar gold Soul Ring before appearing above Shrek Academy.
• Liu Xiaoxiao learned that the Beast Tide assessment had begun and warned the Wind Dragon Douluo that the Body Sect had triggered it by hunting seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Liu Xiaoxiao urged Shrek Academy to summon reinforcements and prepare for a year-long war, then joined its defenders on the southern wall as the Soul Beast army advanced.
• The Wind Dragon Douluo and Sea God Pavilion elders assembled with Shrek’s forces, while Liu Xiaoxiao identified Di Tian as the greatest threat.
• Liu Xiaoxiao unleashed his domains and challenged Di Tian, who appeared in the clouds and questioned how Liu Xiaoxiao knew about the old Divine Contract.

Liu Xiaoxiao fought Di Tian to buy time for Shrek Academy, then the Body Sect emerged and joined the battle. As the Beast Tide continued to threaten Shrek City, Liu Xiaoxiao deployed Eyes of Terror to devastate the Soul Beast horde and draw the attention of powerful Soul Beasts.

• Liu Xiaoxiao clashed with Di Tian, whose Myriad Dragon Flame overwhelmed his domains until Liu Xiaoxiao used control to help Wind Dragon Douluo wound Di Tian.
• Liu Xiaoxiao called out the Body Sect, and the sect's members emerged from underground to reinforce Shrek Academy and confront Di Tian.
• The Body Douluo, Heavenly Blood Douluo, and Sacred Heart Douluo joined the fight against Di Tian, while Liu Xiaoxiao and Wind Dragon Douluo withdrew to recover.
• Liu Xiaoxiao concluded that Shrek needed to inflict enough losses to make the Soul Beasts retreat and turned to Soul Tools as his battlefield advantage.
• Liu Xiaoxiao used Rank 7 and Rank 8 Eyes of Terror to annihilate more than a thousand Soul Beasts, drawing the attention of powerful Soul Beasts.

Liu Xiaoxiao defeated and nearly captured Scarlet King before Di Tian and Bi Ji intervened, then confronted the Body Sect over its hunting of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. The Body Sect refused to stop, so Liu Xiaoxiao began meditating to pursue a breakthrough that could let him force their agreement.

• Liu Xiaoxiao accepted an emergency mission to defeat Scarlet King, left his clone on the wall, and fought Scarlet King while allied Soul Douluo and Title Douluo engaged the other beasts.
• Liu Xiaoxiao overwhelmed and severely injured Scarlet King, but Di Tian appeared before he could capture him, and Bi Ji healed Scarlet King as the Beast Tide withdrew.
• Liu Xiaoxiao demanded that the Body Douluo pledge the Body Sect would stop hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, warning that the spirit beasts could destroy humanity.
• The Body Douluo refused to give up Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and left with the Body Sect, while the Sea God Pavilion elders watched.
• Liu Xiaoxiao sat down to meditate, determined to become a Super Douluo and eventually force the Body Sect to comply.

As the Beast Tide surrounded Shrek City, Liu Xiaoxiao and the reinforcements helped the defenders endure until the Four Great Ferocious Beasts launched a final assault. The battle began on all four fronts, and Liu Xiaoxiao received an emergency mission to defeat Xiong Jun.

• Liu Xiaoxiao slaughtered soul beasts, collected their corpses and spirit bones, and helped bring more than twenty Title Douluo to Shrek City.
• More than three hundred reinforcements arrived, while several powerful human Douluo took turns holding Di Tian back.
• The soul beast army surrounded Shrek City and paused, then Di Tian, Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, and Myriad Demon King appeared outside its four walls.
• The Four Great Ferocious Beasts ordered a simultaneous charge against Shrek City as the defenders assembled along the walls.
• Liu Xiaoxiao received an emergency mission to defeat Xiong Jun.

Liu Xiaoxiao used the Eyes of Terror to devastate the spirit beast vanguard, then fought Xiong Jun and turned the beast’s Sky-Tearing Claw back against him. After Xiong Jun was defeated and Di Tian ordered a retreat, Liu Xiaoxiao returned to Shrek City to reflect on the battle.

• Liu Xiaoxiao deployed the Eyes of Terror, killing thirty spirit beasts and injuring many more as the army attacked Shrek City.
• Xiong Jun led a group of powerful flying spirit beasts toward the battlements to target Liu Xiaoxiao.
• Liu Xiaoxiao fought Xiong Jun at close range, wounding and briefly immobilizing him with his saber and abilities.
• Xiong Jun unleashed his Sky-Tearing Claw toward Shrek City, but Liu Xiaoxiao sealed the attack and redirected it into Xiong Jun.
• Bi Ji’s green light helped Xiong Jun recover from his wounds, while Liu Xiaoxiao received confirmation that his emergency mission to defeat Xiong Jun was complete.
• Di Tian ordered the spirit beast army to retreat, and Liu Xiaoxiao returned to the battlements to reflect on the fight.

Liu Xiaoxiao realized the Beast Tide was a feint and led an expedition to stop Myriad Demon King’s attack on villages in the empires. He trapped Myriad Demon King and began draining his Soul Power and Life Force, leaving the fierce beast facing death.

• Liu Xiaoxiao reached Rank 94 and recognized that the Star Dou Great Forest’s Beast Tide was meant to distract Shrek City while Myriad Demon King and Xiong Jun attacked villages.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and the Body Douluo each led a force of Super Douluos and Title Douluos through spatial gates to intercept the two Beast Tides.
• Liu Xiaoxiao faced Myriad Demon King and countered his time-based Domain with Time Reversal before imprisoning him with Time Lock.
• Myriad Demon King caught Liu Xiaoxiao in vines and attacked him, but Liu Xiaoxiao used Demon Devour through Space-Time Vortices to absorb his Soul Power and Life Force.
• Liu Xiaoxiao completed the emergency mission and continued draining Myriad Demon King, whose panic grew as Liu Xiaoxiao’s Soul Power neared Rank 95.

Liu Xiaoxiao ended the Beast Tide through a treaty with Di Tian, then returned from the Time Trial as Huo Yuhao underwent a transformation powered by Destiny and the Seven-Colored Auspicious Light. Seven days later, a new Beast Tide approached Shrek City, and a voice challenged Di Tian to fight.

• Liu Xiaoxiao persuaded Di Tian to withdraw the Beast Tide after agreeing that the Body Sect Master would not hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Liu Xiaoxiao completed the thirteenth Time Trial and earned five percent affinity, bringing his total affinity to fifty percent.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the golden skull through the Eye of Destiny and underwent a powerful transformation as bloody lightning and seven-colored beams struck him.
• Liu Xiaoxiao returned to Shrek City, where he and the others discussed the threats posed by the Undead Demon Lord, Lin Bo, and the Sun and Moon Empire.
• After seven days, Liu Xiaoxiao and the Ten Sages gathered above Shrek City as the Beast Tide arrived, and a voice called out to challenge Di Tian.

Da Bao and Di Tian prepared to fight as both unleashed their powers and transformed their auras. The Seven-colored Light Cloud changed Di Tian’s strength, bringing their forces into balance just as the battle was about to begin.

• Da Bao appeared through a Space Rift with rank 93 Soul Power and challenged Di Tian as Liu Xiaoxiao began the Fourteenth Trial.
• Da Bao manifested the White Tiger’s primordial power and revealed that he had condensed a second Soul Core from ultimate evil power.
• Di Tian turned the Golden Eye Black Dragon King’s phantom into the Black Dragon Sword, and Ji Juechen was injured sensing its Sword Intent before entering meditation.
• Da Bao combined his White Tiger transformations, Rakshasa power, and enhancements to reach a godlike peak state and gain an advantage over Di Tian.
• Di Tian saluted toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where seven-colored light appeared and transformed his aura, restoring balance between the two combatants.

Da Bao fought Di Tian with support from Zheng Bei, Qi Xiaomin, and Li Hong, then detonated a Soul Ring to gain god-level power and defeat him. With Di Tian sealed and captured, the Beast Tide could no longer proceed.

• Zheng Bei, Qi Xiaomin, and Li Hong boosted Da Bao, allowing him to clash with Di Tian’s attacks and stand against the Beast God.
• Di Tian prepared to use the Dragon God Claw, so Da Bao detonated his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring with the Great Sumeru Hammer technique.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Little Fatty helped Da Bao bypass the shattered space, and Da Bao struck Di Tian with the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, flooding his Sea of Consciousness with resentment.
• Da Bao declared that Di Tian had lost and demanded that he withdraw the Beast Tide and return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Li Hong sealed Di Tian for at least three days, and Da Bao removed the resentment from his Sea of Consciousness.

After defeating Di Tian and ending the Beast Tide, the Ten Sages argued over whether to establish the Spirit Pagoda, with neither side convincing the other. Liu Xiaoxiao withdrew to cultivate and, after breaking through to Super Douluo, received the Fifteenth Trial: kill the Blood Infant Douluo.

• Da Bao's god-level strike wounded Di Tian, allowing the Ten Sages to capture him and end the Beast Tide.
• Liu Xiaoxiao asked Di Tian about their encounter two thousand years earlier, but Di Tian said he did not remember meeting him.
• He Qiang, Chen Long, and Little Fatty supported establishing the Spirit Pagoda, while Da Bao, Wang Haochen, and Qi Xiaomin opposed it over its future concentration of power.
• Huo Yuhao returned and explained spirit souls to Di Tian, after which Zheng Bei and Chen Fang escorted them toward the Land of Great Beasts with Di Tian still sealed.
• Liu Xiaoxiao spent a month cultivating in seclusion and broke through to Super Douluo.
• Liu Xiaoxiao received the Fifteenth Trial, which required him to kill the Blood Infant Douluo.

Liu Xiaoxiao killed Blood Infant Douluo after the Sacred God Domain emerged to save him, but the trial declared his Fifteenth Trial failed and sent him to Shrek City in the past. He recognized the approaching Evil Soul Masters as the force that had come to abduct Ye Xishui and prepared to intervene alongside the Sea God Pavilion elders.

• Liu Xiaoxiao attacked Blood Infant Douluo, but discovered that the foe was a Level 98 and that its blood-based powers could break through his time and space abilities.
• The ancient clock imprint awakened a golden sacred domain, and Xiezhi’s power helped Liu Xiaoxiao restrain and destroy the blood infant.
• The trial voice declared Liu Xiaoxiao’s Fifteenth Trial failed because he had underestimated his enemy, then granted him another attempt at increased difficulty.
• Liu Xiaoxiao arrived in an earlier Shrek City, named the golden domain the Sacred God Domain, and sensed that Xiezhi had changed Asura Hell.
• Liu Xiaoxiao recognized the past Sea God Pavilion Master Mu En and realized Old Ghost Zhongli’s force had come to abduct Ye Xishui.
• Liu Xiaoxiao concealed himself, assessed the enemy’s powerful lineup, and prepared his strongest abilities as the Evil Soul Masters approached Shrek Academy.

Liu Xiaoxiao ambushed the Evil Soul Masters who had demanded Xi Shui, killing the Curse Douluo but facing several powerful opponents. The Death God Scythe, Wailing Stick, Black Rose, and a combined soul skill trapped him as the attack continued.

• Liu Xiaoxiao attacked the approaching Evil Soul Masters with Space-Time Vortices, Dark Demon Evil God Lightning, and Time Decay, killing one and aging two to death.
• The Death Douluo destroyed Liu Xiaoxiao’s vortices, while the Curse Douluo restrained him by transferring injuries through his Curse Doll.
• Rose Douluo’s Black Rose failed to pierce Liu Xiaoxiao’s armor, and Liu Xiaoxiao broke the Curse Douluo’s control with a spiritual attack before killing him with golden lightning.
• The Wailing Douluo struck Liu Xiaoxiao with paired Wailing Sticks, briefly scattering his soul and doubling his attacks with Martial Soul Clone.
• The Tombstone Douluo and Hell-Suppressing Douluo locked down the space around Liu Xiaoxiao and activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Soul Devouring Hell-Suppressing Realm.

Liu Xiaoxiao survived the Holy Spirit Cult’s assault by manipulating time, then defeated and devoured its remaining Super Douluo before completing his Fifteenth Trial. He began the Sixteenth Trial, advancing his Soul Tool research and creating several powerful Rank 9 and Level 10 devices, but still needed to develop a Natal Soul Tool to become a Rank 10 Soul Engineer.

• Liu Xiaoxiao escaped the Soul Devouring Hell-Suppressing Realm by traveling into the future, then reappeared as the realm ended and the Holy Spirit Cult’s Soul Power was exhausted.
• Dark Demon Evil God Lightning exploded beside Liu Xiaoxiao’s former position, heavily injuring the Holy Spirit Cult’s Super Douluo and killing or maiming several of them.
• Liu Xiaoxiao trapped the surviving Super Douluo in his domains, killed Death Douluo and the others, and drained their Soul Power before killing Rose Douluo.
• Liu Xiaoxiao completed the Fifteenth Trial, received five percent Time Affinity, and began the Sixteenth Trial to become a Rank 10 Soul Engineer within ten years.
• Liu Xiaoxiao reached Level 98 and completed sudden missions by creating the Eternal Star Domain, twelve Ten Virtues Battle Armor suits, and a Level 10 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.
• Liu Xiaoxiao concluded that becoming a Rank 10 Soul Engineer required a Natal Soul Tool, which he had not yet created.

Liu Xiaoxiao unified his six domains and spent years reforging the Dragon Tiger Soul-Breaking Saber into the Dragon Tiger Yin-Yang Saber, then upgraded his Ten Virtues Battle Armor. He believed he could now contend with a demigod, but he still could not enter the Demiplane without reaching Limit Douluo or receiving its owner's invitation.

• Liu Xiaoxiao combined his six domains into a new Two Forms Tai Chi Domain, using the Slaughter Domain to bridge the Sacred God Domain with the Evil God and Darkness Annihilation Domains.
• Liu Xiaoxiao reforged the Dragon Tiger Soul-Breaking Saber with fused tiger and sub-dragon Spirit Bones, God Realm materials, Killing Intent, and the Power of Time and Space.
• Liu Xiaoxiao spent three years developing the saber's Core Formations and another year inscribing them, then renamed the black-and-white weapon the Dragon Tiger Yin-Yang Saber.
• Liu Xiaoxiao upgraded every set of his Ten Virtues Battle Armor to Level 10 and judged that he could contend with a demigod, though he still could not enter the Demiplane.
• Liu Xiaoxiao passed the Sixteenth Trial and received a five-percent increase in Time Affinity, bringing his total to fifty-five percent.

Liu Xiaoxiao returned from seclusion to find the Spirit Pagoda established and the Ten Sages advancing through their trials, then was tasked with making a Level 10 alchemy furnace. Meanwhile, Lin Bo secretly contracted with a black-robed figure to target Huo Yuhao and pursue his own plan to gain a godhood position.

• Liu Xiaoxiao arrived at the Tang Sect training grounds and learned that the Spirit Pagoda had been established with twelve additional lifetime council seats for the Tang Sect’s allies.
• Wang Haochen and Zheng Bei told Liu Xiaoxiao that the others were progressing through their divine trials, and Liu Xiaoxiao revealed that he had reached Level 98.
• He Qiang warned that Lin Bo might make major moves, assigned Zheng Bei to guard Huo Yuhao, and ordered Liu Xiaoxiao to build a Level 10 alchemy furnace within two months.
• He Qiang and Wang Haochen discussed Lin Bo’s threat and the need to cultivate quickly, while He Qiang left to attend to the Heavenly Machine Eye warning.
• Lin Bo offered the black-robed figure a deal to attack Huo Yuhao in exchange for the necromancer inheritance, and the two signed a contract.
• Lin Bo resolved to gather enough faith power to condense a godhood position and continue his plan.

The Sun and Moon Empire’s war pushed the Heaven Dou Empire toward collapse while the Star Luo Empire struggled to hold the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Liu Xiaoxiao received He Qiang’s plan to reach Limit Douluo, and after a year and a half of preparations, the Ten Sages and Tang Sect advanced their cultivation as the war continued.

• The Sun and Moon Empire invaded both empires, driving the Heaven Dou Empire back and forcing the Star Luo Empire to defend the Ming Dou Mountain Range, while Huo Yuhao was wounded in an ambush and later recovered.
• Zheng Bei, Li Hong, and Da Bao helped secure the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and the Tang Sect expanded its Soul Tool production and recruitment.
• After the Level 10 Alchemy Furnace was completed, He Qiang refined thirty-three Qiankun Creation Pills and gave Liu Xiaoxiao a plan to open a second Sea of Consciousness and form four Soul Cores.
• Liu Xiaoxiao cultivated at the Lake of Life, achieved a Flawless Golden Body, and opened his second Sea of Consciousness; the other Ten Sages completed Ice Fire Golden Body Refinement.
• The Ten Sages reached Level 98, Tang Sect members strengthened their Soul Power and bodies with Qiankun Creation Pills, and Huo Yuhao recovered Tang Wutong’s memories and received Rong Nianbing’s inheritance.

After years of war left the empires weakened, Liu Xiaoxiao and He Qiang sensed a major disturbance in Mingdu while undead attacks spread across dozens of settlements. Liu Xiaoxiao was pulled into the Beast Tide of a century earlier, defeated Di Tian, and completed his seventeenth trial before returning to the Ten Virtues Secret Realm.

• Liu Xiaoxiao and Zhang Shiwen sensed that something was about to happen, and He Qiang traced the ominous perception to Mingdu.
• He Qiang reported simultaneous undead attacks on settlements across the Dou Ling Empire and Star Luo Empire, with the number of locations continuing to rise.
• A trial transported Liu Xiaoxiao to the Beast Tide of a hundred years earlier and tasked him with defeating Di Tian.
• Liu Xiaoxiao challenged Di Tian above the Star Dou Great Forest and overwhelmed him with his domains and attacks.
• Liu Xiaoxiao demanded that Di Tian stop the Beast Tide or perish, then completed the seventeenth trial and returned to the Ten Virtues Secret Realm.

Lin Bo failed to claim the God of Divine Retribution’s divine position from Haoyue, but extracted some of Haoyue’s blood before Long Haochen and his companions arrived and rescued it. Lin Bo fled to Mingdu, where he faced Long Haochen’s group and opened the battle with a failed attack on Li Xin.

• Lin Bo found Haoyue in a cave, tried to seize its divine position, and instead extracted some of its blood before fleeing from the approaching group.
• Long Haochen and eleven companions healed Haoyue, placed it in Cai’er’s tower, and pursued Lin Bo through the spatial coordinates he had left behind.
• Lin Bo returned to Mingdu and summoned Zui Hongchen, Xu Haoran, Kong Deming, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao as Long Haochen’s group arrived.
• Long Haochen confronted Lin Bo over Haoyue’s blood, and both sides moved into the sky to fight.
• Lin Bo fired a destructive attack at Li Xin, but Long Haochen shielded her and a Space-Time Vortex swallowed the attack.

Radiant Dawn and their allies confronted Lin Bo’s group as a massive force of Abyss creatures arrived, and the fighters divided the battlefield into isolated arenas. While Liu Xiaoxiao watched Long Haochen and the others battle the Abyss horde, Lin Bo remained still, weighing his chances; the shattered space around him signaled their fight was about to begin.

• Liu Xiaoxiao and He Qiang’s group arrived beside Long Haochen, and Lin Bo accused Liu Xiaoxiao of repeatedly ruining his plans.
• Abyss Demon Lords and a large force of Abyss creatures appeared through a Space Rift, prompting the allies to divide their opponents.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Little Fatty separated the combatants into nine battlefields while Radiant Dawn charged the Abyss horde.
• Long Haochen held off five Limit Douluo-level Abyss creatures as Liu Xiaoxiao observed the knights and their powerful artifacts and abilities.
• Lin Bo judged that Long Haochen might rival him and refrained from attacking Liu Xiaoxiao, but shattered the space around himself as their battle neared.

The Ten Sages battled the Demon Lords and Sun Moon Empire powerhouses across nine sections of the sky, with Zheng Bei and Li Hong supporting them. The fights remained fierce, and He Qiang appeared to be discussing something with Xu Haoran while keeping an eye on Long Haochen below.

• Da Bao used the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and his enhancements to keep the Vengeful Spirit Demon Lord on the defensive, while Zheng Bei and Li Hong supported the Ten Sages across the battlefield.
• Little Fatty summoned an enormous army of powerful soul beasts and a Mirror Clone to fight Ji Luo’s undead forces, while Wang Haochen dodged the Dragon Demon Lord and countered with his Golden Leaves.
• Chen Fang used his Earth Shield and Binding Domain against Kong Deming, while Fan Yihuang broke free of Ye Xishui’s blood sea and unleashed Space Sever: Abyss Slash.
• Zui Hongchen fired his Time-Space Cannons and used Time-Space Restraint against Chen Long, but Chen Long’s movement technique and attacks let him evade and press forward.
• He Qiang and Xu Haoran faced each other without attacking, and He Qiang repeatedly looked toward Long Haochen below.