Chapter Summaries

Ming Jiang rescued Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen and sent them toward Shrek Academy, then visited Jing Hongchen to recruit him for Shrek’s Soul Tool Department. Xu Tianran sent Ju Zi to command troops at the Star Luo border, while Jing Hongchen faced Ming Jiang’s blunt pressure to join Shrek.

• Xu Tianran concluded that a powerful attacker had taken Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then ordered Ju Zi to take Jing Hongchen to the Star Luo border and command the front.
• Ju Zi objected that she should stay to protect Xu Tianran, but he urged her to use her military talent at the border, and she accepted.
• Jing Hongchen returned to his empty home, where Ming Jiang appeared and showed him the Storage Soul Tools belonging to Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Ming Jiang told Jing Hongchen that the siblings were safe and had gone to Shrek Academy willingly, while Jing Hongchen accused him of causing his current troubles.
• Xiao Hongchen worried about leaving their grandfather behind, but Meng Hongchen trusted Jiang Ming to handle Jing Hongchen’s situation.
• Ming Jiang offered Jing Hongchen the honorary dean position in Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department and warned that the siblings might be bullied if he refused.

Ming Jiang persuaded Jing Hongchen to leave Radiant City for Shrek Academy, but Ju Zi arrived before they could depart. Ming Jiang knocked Ju Zi unconscious and took her with them, leaving Xu Tianran a message that he would return the Empress when she was no longer useful.

• Ming Jiang convinced Jing Hongchen that he and his grandchildren would be safer if Jing Hongchen went to Shrek Academy, and Jing Hongchen agreed to leave Radiant City.
• Jing Hongchen received Xu Tianran's order to return to the Bright Virtue Hall laboratory but chose to leave with Ming Jiang instead.
• Ju Zi visited Jing Hongchen alone to explain Xu Tianran's treatment of him and persuade him to return to duty.
• Ming Jiang revealed himself to Ju Zi and knocked her unconscious with a Spiritual Shock.
• Ming Jiang took Ju Zi with him and left a note for Xu Tianran saying he would return the Empress when she was no longer useful.

Ming Jiang took Jing Hongchen, Ju Zi, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to Shrek Academy, leaving a note meant to torment Xu Tianran. In Radiant City, the note and his mounting losses drove Xu Tianran to the brink of collapse, and he ordered the Sun Moon Empire to prepare an all-out attack on Shrek Academy.

• Ming Jiang told Jing Hongchen that his note would enrage Xu Tianran and explained that he had captured Ju Zi to torment the emperor, not to use her as leverage.
• Ming Jiang warned Ju Zi that she would remain safe at Shrek Academy as long as she did not cause trouble.
• Ming Jiang and Jing Hongchen found Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and the group crossed the locked border before reaching Shrek City.
• Xu Tianran read Ming Jiang's note, lost control of his destructive Martial Soul power, and was further overwhelmed by the losses and setbacks around him.
• Xu Tianran ordered the empire's major Soul Master Corps and Rank 9 Soul Masters to gather, demanded resources from academies and sects, and vowed to destroy Shrek Academy and kill Jiang Ming.

After Empress Ju Zi was abducted, Xu Tianran flew into a rage and ordered an attack on Shrek Academy, but Kong Deming calmed him and persuaded him to change course. Xu Tianran shifted the empire toward defense and reform, then agreed to use the abduction and Jing Hongchen's defection to spread suspicion about Shrek Academy.

• Xu Tianran ordered the Imperial Guards to destroy Shrek Academy and kill Jiang Ming after learning that Ju Zi had been abducted.
• Kong Deming suppressed Xu Tianran's mental outburst and told the commander to disregard the orders for the time being.
• Xu Tianran acknowledged that Jiang Ming had maneuvered him into a trap, while Kong Deming concluded that the Sun Moon Empire should abandon its war and contract its forces.
• Xu Tianran ordered the armies to hold the borders defensively, taxes to return to earlier levels, and rare-metal mines to open to academies and sects.
• Xu Tianran called for Rank 9 Soul Masters, offered Rank 8 Soul Masters a path to advancement, and ordered the Royal Soul Master Academy to recruit gifted Soul Masters.
• Kong Deming proposed presenting Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen as participants in friendly exchanges, and Xu Tianran agreed to blame Shrek Academy publicly and sow distrust between it and the two empires.

Jiang Ming and Shrek Academy countered Xu Tianran’s official account of Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen’s visit with rumors designed to unsettle the Sun Moon Empire, while Jing Hongchen chose to remain at Shrek. Xu Tianran stayed composed, invited Jiang Ming to visit the Sun Moon Empire, and revealed that he had become a level ninety-five Super Douluo.

• Jiang Ming and Jing Hongchen concluded that Xu Tianran’s announcement framed Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen as official visitors to pressure Shrek, and they suspected Kong Deming had advised him.
• Jing Hongchen said he would remain at Shrek with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and Jiang Ming reaffirmed that he intended to kill Xu Tianran before the year ended.
• Shrek Academy welcomed Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen, publicized their meetings and visits, and circulated rumors that Ju Zi and Jiang Ming were intimate.
• Xu Jiawei dismissed the rumors about his sister Jiu Jiu and warned the White Tiger Duke that Xu Tianran might act impulsively and intensify pressure on the border.
• Xu Tianran refused to lose his composure over the rumors and invited Jiang Ming to visit the Sun Moon Empire, revealing that his cultivation had reached level ninety-five.

Jiang Ming suspected Xu Tianran had found a way to summon the God of Death, but refused his invitation to Radiant City and stayed with Ju Zi at Shrek Academy. After more than three hundred thousand people vanished from the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Desheng investigated and discovered Xu Tianran standing before a vast mountain of corpses.

• Jiang Ming considered how Xu Tianran might threaten him and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult could help him summon the God of Death.
• Jiang Ming ignored Xu Tianran's invitation to Radiant City and continued dining with Ju Zi at Shrek Academy.
• Rumors spread that the Sun Moon Empire's Empress had been taken, and Xu Tianran had the rumor-mongers arrested.
• People disappeared across the Sun Moon Empire for months, and the number eventually exceeded three hundred thousand.
• Xu Tianran assigned Xu Desheng to investigate while concealing that he had caused the disappearances.
• Xu Desheng secretly investigated, was taken by men in black, and found Xu Tianran beside a vast mountain of corpses.

Xu Tianran sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people to summon the Evil God and restore his crippled body, while Jiang Ming and the others deduced the Evil Soul Masters were involved. Jiang Ming set out for Radiant City, where Xu Tianran broke through to the brink of becoming a Limit Douluo and sensed his arrival.

• Xu Tianran ordered the execution of an investigating clan elder and demanded that the mass sacrifice continue until the being he sought to summon could descend.
• Jiang Ming, Ju Zi, Xu Jiu Jiu, and Vina compared their suspicions about the disappearance of more than three hundred thousand people and all concluded that Evil Soul Masters were involved.
• Jiang Ming decided to kill Xu Tianran before he could sacrifice more people, placed Ju Zi in his Small World, and flew toward Radiant City alone.
• Xu Tianran absorbed energy from a mass of crimson blood light, reached the peak of level ninety-eight, and began forming a blood-red second Soul Core.
• Xu Tianran emerged from his chamber able to walk again, then sensed Jiang Ming approaching and prepared to face him.

Jiang Ming confronted Xu Tianran after discovering that the emperor had reached Limit Douluo strength by refining three hundred thousand civilians. Kong Deming intervened to protect Xu Tianran, but Jiang Ming destroyed his Rank 10 Soul Tool and knocked him away with one blow.

• Jiang Ming prepared for Xu Tianran to summon an Evil God and asked the Snow Empress which deity he might call.
• Xu Tianran summoned Kong Deming to test his strength and loyalty, then revealed that his legs had been restored.
• Jiang Ming arrived at the imperial palace and sensed that Xu Tianran had gained Limit Douluo strength through the energy of the missing civilians.
• Jiang Ming attacked Xu Tianran with Ruler of the World: Inch Punch, but Kong Deming blocked the blow with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Jiang Ming shattered the shield, destroyed its fragments, and sent Kong Deming flying with a severe backlash.

Jiang Ming drove Xu Tianran into a final battle after overpowering Kong Deming, while Ju Zi and Kong Deming prepared Radiant City’s defenses. In the sky, Jiang Ming exposed Xu Tianran’s blood-colored Soul Core, which had been forged from the souls of three hundred thousand people, and prepared to kill him.

• Jiang Ming shattered Kong Deming’s Rank 10 Soul Tool with one move and attacked Xu Tianran, who revealed his Rank 99 power and nine nearly Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.
• Jiang Ming summoned a hundred-meter Golden Giant, and he and Xu Tianran flew into the sky to keep their battle from destroying Radiant City.
• Kong Deming ordered the palace evacuated and Radiant City’s defensive Soul Tool array activated, while Ju Zi mobilized the Imperial Guards and prepared to protect the city.
• Kong Deming warned Ju Zi not to betray the Sun Moon Empire, and she struggled with whether Xu Tianran’s victory would be worth the deaths of three hundred thousand people.
• Jiang Ming used his Heavenly Eye and Fiery Golden Eyes to find Xu Tianran’s blood-colored Soul Core and saw the vengeful souls of three hundred thousand people trapped within it.

Jiang Ming killed Xu Tianran, but a divine consciousness emerged from Xu Tianran’s body and restored it. The Sun God and War God identified the presence as the lingering consciousness of the Ancient Rakshasa God.

• Jiang Ming attacked Xu Tianran with his Nine-Colored Arrow, shattered his three Defensive Soul Tools, and stopped the Purple Blazing Sky Dragon’s destruction beam with Golden Guard.
• Jiang Ming overpowered Xu Tianran’s Dragon Emperor’s World Annihilation with Wind Thunder Domain, then snapped Xu Tianran’s neck and killed him.
• A pair of hands grabbed Jiang Ming, and a corrosive power began eating into his arm until his Bloodline Power and Life Force suppressed it.
• Xu Tianran’s body revived, filled with blood-red divine aura, and its nine Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings transformed into Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• The consciousness inside Xu Tianran’s body declared its interest in Jiang Ming, and the Sun God and War God identified it as the lingering consciousness of the Ancient Rakshasa God.

Jiang Ming fought the Ancient Rakshasa God's Remnant Soul, who possessed Xu Tianran, after the Sun God and War God lent him divine power. The battle threatened Radiant City, and the chapter left Jiang Ming countering the Rakshasa God's domains by awakening the Sun God Domain.

• War God Dai Mubai and the Sun God identified Jiang Ming's opponent as an Ancient Rakshasa God's Remnant Soul and assured Jiang Ming they could call for reinforcements if needed.
• The Sun God lent Jiang Ming divine power so he could test himself against the remnant soul, who recognized the Sun God's weakened power and decided to seize Jiang Ming's body.
• The Ancient Rakshasa God's Remnant Soul attacked Jiang Ming with Rakshasa's Claw, and Jiang Ming met it with a divine-power-enhanced punch as the shockwaves struck Radiant City.
• Kong Deming activated Radiant City's Soul Tool Defense Array to protect the city, while Ju Zi asked him whether His Majesty had taken the missing three hundred thousand people.
• Jiang Ming charged back into battle, used Ruler of the World: Golden True Body and Sun God Fist, and pushed the remnant soul to unleash Rakshasa Domain, Rakshasa Prison, and Rakshasa Dharma Idol.
• The Sun God taught Jiang Ming to use a divine domain, and Jiang Ming summoned the Sun God Domain: I am the sun!

Jiang Ming combined the Sun God and War God’s powers to defeat the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul’s assault on Radiant City, but the remnant soul escaped by hiding in Xu Tianran’s body. Xu Tianran survived and vowed to return, while the Sun God and War God decided to investigate Douluo Continent for other hidden deities.

• The Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul attacked Radiant City, and Jiang Ming used the Sun Domain to hold back its Rakshasa Domain.
• War God Dai Mubai lent his power to Jiang Ming, whose combined domains overwhelmed the remnant soul and forced it to flee toward the city.
• The remnant soul tore through Radiant City’s defensive Soul Tool Great Array and escaped into the city using Xu Tianran’s body as cover.
• Jiang Ming pursued the remnant soul and suppressed Xu Tianran’s body, but he found no divine power and then discovered that Xu Tianran had disappeared.
• The Sun God and War God concluded that ancient deities might be hidden across Douluo Continent and left to discuss a thorough search.
• Xu Tianran changed clothes at the edge of Radiant City, looked toward Jiang Ming, and vowed to return.

Jiang Ming spared the Sun Moon Empire’s Rank 9 Soul Masters to prevent a wider war, then headed for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to reunite with Zhang Lexuan and the others. In the God Realm, Tang San told the Sun God and War God to have their inheritors handle the Ancient Rakshasa God remnant soul, and they decided to begin Jiang Ming’s Eighth Trial.

• The Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul left Radiant City in Xu Tianran’s body and headed toward the former Douluo Continent, following its senses toward the area near Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming searched Radiant City, then faced Kong Deming and the gathered Rank 9 Soul Masters but told them he had no intention of killing them.
• Jiang Ming explained to Snow Empress that sparing the Sun Moon Empire’s experts would help avert a broader war, and he decided to visit Zhang Lexuan and the others at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Sun God and War God reported the Ancient Rakshasa God remnant soul to Tang San, who advised the God Realm to have its inheritors resolve the threat in the lower realm.
• The Sun God and War God agreed to begin Jiang Ming’s Eighth Trial of the Dual God Trial.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Jiang Ming returned and learned that Zhang Lexuan had reached Level Ninety-Nine and was undergoing a Deity Trial. Wang Qiuer broke through to Level Ninety, and after Jiang Ming revealed that he knew she was the Emperor Rui Beast, she embraced him.

• The Immortal Herbs discussed the women cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and played mahjong while waiting for Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming arrived, teased Youyou about calling him a scumbag, and learned that Zhang Lexuan had reached Level Ninety-Nine and was undergoing a Deity Trial.
• Wang Qiuer's breakthrough aura erupted, and Jiang Ming moved her into his Small World to release her power safely.
• Wang Qiuer opened her eyes and Jiang Ming congratulated her on reaching Level Ninety, then offered to help her obtain her ninth Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Ming told Wang Qiuer that he knew she was the Emperor Rui Beast and reassured her that he accepted her; Wang Qiuer pounced on him.

Jiang Ming and Wang Qiuer reunited, became lovers, and prepared for Wang Qiuer to condense her Ninth Spirit Ring while he guarded the other cultivators at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan completed Yue Shen’s final trial and became the new Moonlight Goddess.

• Wang Qiuer pounced on Jiang Ming, and after he kissed her, the two finally gave in to their feelings and became lovers.
• Jiang Ming and Wang Qiuer returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he assessed the rising cultivation of Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Liya.
• Jiang Ming asked Wang Qiuer to condense her Ninth Spirit Ring and guarded her alongside Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen as their cultivation advanced.
• Zhang Lexuan underwent Yue Shen’s Ninth Trial, transforming her Soul Power into the Moonlight Goddess’s divine power.
• After a day, Zhang Lexuan completed the trial and became the new Moonlight Goddess.

Zhang Lexuan completed the Moon God's Ninth Trial and became the new Moon God, then reunited with Jiang Ming at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They discussed restoring their deity ranks so Liya and Wang Qiu'er could enter the God Realm with them, while Jiang Ming prepared to guard Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen as they approached breakthroughs.

• Zhang Lexuan inherited the Moon God's divine attire and Rank 2 deity status, and the former Moon God told her that restoring the Moon God's rank would be difficult.
• Zhang Lexuan realized that raising the Moon God and Jiang Ming's deities to Rank 1 might let them bring Liya and Wang Qiu'er into the God Realm.
• Jiang Ming sensed an unseen observer at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and suspected a deity or the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told Jiang Ming she had completed the Moon God's Ninth Trial.
• Jiang Ming explained the recent political events, and Zhang Lexuan revealed her divine power and Moon God attire before reassuring him that she had not changed.
• Zhang Lexuan reminded Jiang Ming that Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen were close to breaking through, and Jiang Ming promised to find a way to bring everyone into the God Realm.

Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan helped Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen break through to Limit Douluo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Zhang Lexuan also guarded Wang Qiuer as she condensed her ninth Spirit Ring. The two newly advanced Limit Douluo then began arguing over Jiang Ming, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Zhang Lexuan confined the clashing Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire auras with her moonlight while Jiang Ming fused with his nine Spirits and supplied energy to Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.
• Jiang Ming protected Jiaojiao and Eight-Angle from the violent energy, while Zhang Lexuan guarded Wang Qiuer as her Fate Power spread through the area.
• Wang Qiuer's Fate Power eased Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen's Soul Core condensing, and both women successfully became Limit Douluo.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen flew to Jiang Ming but argued when each tried to embrace him, and he pulled them both into his arms.
• Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao continued taunting each other over their figures until Jiang Ming slapped both of them.

Jiang Ming and the others left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen reached Limit Douluo, and Wang Qiuer completed her ninth Spirit Ring and became a Titled Douluo. They rewarded the Immortal Herbs with their powers before returning to Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Ming asked Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen about their breakthroughs, and they described the leap in power after reaching Limit Douluo and their progress toward becoming gods.
• Zhang Lexuan joined them, while Wang Qiuer completed a golden-speckled Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring made from Fate Power and reached level ninety-one.
• Jiang Ming explained Wang Qiuer's Soul Beast identity, and everyone congratulated her and settled on Golden Dragon Douluo as her title.
• Jiang Ming told Youyou that the group was leaving, then he, Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, the Snow Empress, Liya, and Wang Qiuer gave the Immortal Herbs gifts of life force, moonlight, elemental power, blessings, song, and Fate Power.
• The group returned to Shrek Academy, and Youyou watched the place where Jiang Ming had stood and said farewell.

Jiang Ming reviewed the continent’s shifting political situation with Zhang Lexuan and waited for the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul to reveal itself near Shrek Academy. His Dual God Eighth Trial then began, challenging him to defeat demigod-level Sun God and War God.

• Zhang Lexuan read intelligence about the captured Sun Moon Empire unit, the Heaven Dou Empire’s campaign against Dou Ling resistance, and Empress Ju Zi’s growing authority.
• Jiang Ming explained that Ju Zi had promised not to start a war of aggression and said he expected the Ancient Rakshasa God Remnant Soul to seek the inheritance site near Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan watched the freshmen’s military training, where Jiang Ming noticed a student with an ultimate attribute and several Body Martial Souls.
• The War God Dai Mubai announced that Jiang Ming’s long-awaited Eighth Trial was beginning, and Jiang Ming asked Zhang Lexuan to manage matters while he undertook it.
• The Sun God and War God revealed the Eighth Trial’s task: Jiang Ming had to defeat demigod-level Sun God and War God.

Jiang Ming fought Dai Mubai and the Sun God in his Eighth Trial, facing the two deities at Demigod strength. After demonstrating his power against them, he fused all eighteen Spirit Rings from his two Martial Souls into the Book of Spirits, overwhelming them with his aura.

• Dai Mubai and the Sun God arrived as Jiang Ming's opponents for the Eighth Trial, and Jiang Ming began fighting them at full strength.
• Jiang Ming entered the Demigod realm with Nine Spirits Fusion and countered the deities' attacks with his skills and combat techniques.
• Jiang Ming tore open the reinforced battle space with his Evil Emperor Seal and blasted the Sun God out of his sun form.
• Dai Mubai brought out the God of War Tower and the Sun God wielded the Sun Wheel, but Jiang Ming said the fight could end.
• Jiang Ming summoned the spirits and Soul Beast phantoms linked to his two Martial Souls, then fused all eighteen Spirit Rings into the Book of Spirits.
• Jiang Ming's aura surged until it overwhelmed Dai Mubai and the Sun God, seeming to make him a god.