Chapter Summaries

Meng Li crossed the Devil Sea and encountered Destruction Old Demon, who revealed the origins of the Devil Fragments and proposed that Meng Li absorb their Destruction Energy. The chapter left Meng Li listening to the old demon's plan while Tang Wulin remained nearby.

• Meng Li used his battle armor and wings to clear Devil Rays as he swam across the black sea.
• Meng Li escaped a deep-sea behemoth by striking its head with Dragon Sparrow, then continued swimming after it and the Devil Rays vanished.
• Destruction Old Demon lifted Meng Li from the water and ended Nightmare Old Demon's mission, while Tang Wulin rested nearby.
• Destruction Old Demon told Meng Li that Devil Fragments had transformed him and the other old demons into immortal, ghostlike beings.
• Meng Li guessed that Destruction Old Demon wanted him to destroy the fragment, but the old demon clarified that he wanted Meng Li to absorb its Destruction Energy.

Meng Li and Tang Wulin entered the Destruction Fragment’s aura to gain safe passage across Devil’s Island, but Meng Li discovered that the fragments held destructive divine power and began absorbing it. After taking in a portion of the power and channeling it through his battle armor, he returned before the transformation could overwhelm him.

• Destruction Old Demon explained that the Destruction Fragments drew Sea Soul Beasts to the archipelago and that their aura could repel the beasts, but warned that absorbing it was dangerous.
• Tang Wulin and Meng Li chose to approach the Destruction Fragments, and Tang Wulin slowed while Meng Li remained unaffected until he reached within five hundred meters.
• Meng Li stopped one hundred meters from a fragment when an invisible barrier blocked him, and the Angel God appeared to explain that he had found a rare opportunity to absorb the God of Destruction’s divine power.
• Meng Li summoned his Two-Word Battle Armor and absorbed the destructive aura, while Nightmare Old Demon warned the others to stay away and ordered them to call Tang Wulin back.
• After absorbing about twenty percent of the fragment’s aura, Meng Li’s destructive impulses began to subside as his power transformed, and he walked back to recover before absorbing more.

Meng Li tried to infiltrate the North Sea Legion to steal an aircraft, but Shen Xing ordered a barrage of torpedoes and cannons against him. After surviving the attacks and cutting through a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon, he remained outside the Legion as Shen Xing considered recruiting him.

• Shen Xing ordered torpedoes launched at Meng Li, who had entered the North Sea Legion's restricted waters.
• Meng Li survived repeated torpedo explosions with his battle armor and reached the Legion's defensive wall.
• Shen Xing ordered continuous torpedo fire, while Meng Li struggled to evade the attacks and considered how to steal an aircraft.
• Meng Li flew toward the wall and dodged the Fixed Soul Tool Cannons as Shen Xing proposed trying to recruit him.
• Meng Li drew Dragon Sparrow and cut apart a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon to escape through the opening.

Meng Li passed the aircraft retrieval mission after Shen Xing arranged for him to receive a decommissioned aircraft and food, then traded the food with Nightmare Old Demon for ten Trees of Life. He woke from the dream with the food and trees, and Nightmare Old Demon offered him a worm as a local specialty.

• Meng Li survived the Fixed Soul Tool Cannon barrage, and Shen Xing invited him to join the Northern Legion.
• After recognizing Meng Li as Leng Yaozhu's disciple, Shen Xing agreed to provide him with a decommissioned aircraft and packed food, paid for by an unnamed benefactor.
• In the dream, Meng Li returned with the aircraft, and Nightmare Old Demon confirmed that he had passed the mission.
• Nightmare Old Demon offered ten Trees of Life for a share of Meng Li's food, and Meng Li accepted and transplanted the trees into his Feather World after waking.
• Nightmare Old Demon offered Meng Li a worm to eat, and Meng Li recoiled and questioned whether it could be eaten that way.

Meng Li spent three months eating his way through the forest during Devour Old Demon's trial, prompting the old demons to send him to Abhorrence Old Demon for punishment. After a brutal beating, Devour Old Demon restored Meng Li with a roasted worm, and the three demons celebrated.

• Devour Old Demon challenged Meng Li to eat the food he provided, and Meng Li suggested roasting a giant emerald-green worm.
• Devour Old Demon ate the roasted worms himself, while Meng Li and the other Shrek Seven Devils faced insect-eating trials.
• Meng Li spent three months roasting and eating the forest's food, causing the old demons to assign guards and worry about the dwindling supplies.
• Nightmare Old Demon and Devour Old Demon sent Meng Li and Tang Wulin to Abhorrence Old Demon, who bound Meng Li and beat him with a bladed, neurotoxin-coated whip alongside the others.
• Devour Old Demon revived the battered Meng Li with a roasted worm, and the three old demons praised the beating afterward.

Meng Li endured the demons’ painful trial and reunited with his companions, then awoke to find Gu Yue beside him. Gu Yue said she could not stay with him because she wanted to protect his safety and future.

• Meng Li absorbed the energy in his body and resolved to become stronger so he could find Gu Yue and Na'er.
• Meng Li reunited with the other Shrek Seven Devils, but iron grates separated them as Nightmare Old Demon released pink mist.
• Meng Li used an antidote to protect himself and knocked out Yuanen Yehui when she approached him under the drug’s influence.
• After the trial ended, Meng Li learned that he had done nothing to Yuanen Yehui, then everyone fainted again amid strange laughter.
• Meng Li woke in the cave with Gu Yue and begged her not to leave him, but she said she could not stay by his side for his safety and future.

Meng Li endured Desire Old Demon's trial, refusing to harm the false Gu Yue even after she stabbed him, and learned that his love had made him fail. The chapter then showed Yuanen Yehui breaking through first and Dai Yun'er confronting Tang Wulin with her feelings.

• Meng Li realized the Gu Yue embracing him felt wrong, knocked her unconscious, and tried repeatedly to escape Devil's Island with her.
• The false Gu Yue stabbed Meng Li, then dissolved into purple smoke when he let her go.
• Desire Old Demon revealed that she had created the illusion to test Meng Li's love, declared that he had failed, and offered to show him Yuanen Yehui's complaints, but he refused.
• Yuanen Yehui recognized the fabricated Meng Li, understood that the real Meng Li could not choose her before letting go of Gu Yue, and became the first to break through the trial.
• Dai Yun'er told Tang Wulin she had searched for him since Dragon Valley, would give up her status as Princess for him, and asked whether he liked her; Tang Wulin asked her to give him more time.

Tang Wulin faced Dai Yun'er in an uncertain encounter on Nightmare Island, while Meng Li learned how Desire Old Demon’s trial had affected Yue Zhengyu. Nameless Old Demon told Meng Li he had passed the trials early and began explaining Devil’s Island’s origins, though Meng Li still wanted to know where his companions were.

• Tang Wulin told Dai Yun'er he liked her, kissed her in the illusion, then questioned whether she was real before Desire Old Demon appeared.
• Desire Old Demon showed Meng Li how Yue Zhengyu had mistaken the demon for Xu Xiaoyan, then warned Meng Li about controlling his desires.
• Meng Li maintained that he trusted Gu Yue and watched the scene before Desire Old Demon vanished.
• Nameless Old Demon appeared and told Meng Li he had completed the trials early under the Academy’s rules.
• Nameless Old Demon explained that the Academy had arranged the training and offered to tell Meng Li how Devil’s Island came to be, while Meng Li asked why his companions were still missing.

The Nameless Old Demon and Desire Old Demon explained the origins of Devil’s Island, its opposing life and Destruction energies, and their suspicion that the God Realm had gone silent. Meng Li learned that the old demons were the current Shrek Seven Devils and asked what had happened to the others.

• The Nameless Old Demon summoned Desire to begin teaching Meng Li after explaining his trial was the first to end.
• The Nameless Old Demon described how fragments from the sky formed the Devil Archipelago, where life energy balanced Destruction Energy.
• Desire said the energies likely came from the God Realm and explained that the God Realm had not been sensed since the Spirit Ice Douluo ascended.
• Desire explained that the energies had transformed sea soul beasts, prompting the North Sea Legion to station troops and investigate.
• Meng Li identified the old demons as Shrek Academy’s Shrek Seven Devils, and the Nameless Old Demon confirmed it.
• Meng Li asked why only seven old demons were present and what had happened to the others.

Meng Li learned from the old demons on Devil’s Island, used Soul Tool Communicators to earn their goodwill, and tried to bring the island’s trees into the soul beasts’ new homeland. The old demons gathered to discuss how to stop his tree stealing.

• The Nameless Elder explained that the old demons had been trapped on Devil’s Island after investigating the Destruction Fragment, and Meng Li gave them Soul Tool Communicators.
• The Desire Old Demon and the other old demons learned to use the communicators, while Meng Li gained their goodwill and studied their skills.
• Meng Li received messages from Leng Yaozhu, Ya Li, and Wu Changkong, then rested in a treehouse for five days after being left to himself.
• Meng Li worked to transplant Devil’s Island trees into his world, where soul beasts and vegetation had continued to thrive, and he absorbed power from the Destruction Fragment.
• The Nameless Old Demon gathered the Desire Old Demon, Destruction Old Demon, Devour Old Demon, Nightmare Old Demon, and Abhorrence Old Demon to plan how to stop Meng Li from stealing more trees.

The Angel God offered Meng Li a chance to absorb the power of the God of Destruction and the Life Goddess, promising that they could become God Kings. As Meng Li began the absorption, a strange Life Tide erupted on Devil's Island, where the old demons discovered that golden energy was intercepting it.

• The old demons decided to expel Meng Li the next day, planning to invent an excuse and hide their role in it.
• The Angel God appeared to Meng Li and offered to share the divine power of life and destruction with him in exchange for half of it.
• Meng Li agreed, and the Angel God merged with him as his wings, soul rings, and aura transformed.
• A Life Tide erupted on Devil's Island, far earlier than expected, while golden energy enveloped and blocked its green pillar of light.
• The seventh old demon appeared and ordered the others to release the young ones for the Life Tide's baptism, while Destruction Old Demon noted that the golden energy was stopping it from descending.

Meng Li endured the clash of life and destruction on Devil's Island as the Golden Dragon King helped him absorb their power. He witnessed the fall of the God of Life and the God of Destruction, then discovered two tiny lights circling within him.

• The old demons observed an unprecedented golden pillar blocking the Life Tide and debated whether it was safe to investigate.
• Meng Li absorbed life divine power through the golden feather as the Golden Dragon King awakened and urged him to endure.
• The Destruction Fragment unleashed a Death Tide, but Meng Li's golden pillar resisted it while life, destruction, holiness, and other powers converged on him.
• Meng Li witnessed a nine-colored sphere survive a vast gray current after green and purple energies shielded it, then saw the God of Life and the God of Destruction shatter and scatter.
• Meng Li sensed two tiny lights, one green and one purple, orbiting each other within him and wondered whether they were the transformed God Kings.

Meng Li emerged from the Life Tide and Destruction Tide with a new seventh soul ring and a breakthrough from level 69 to level 73, but the conflicting powers in his mind troubled him. Back in the treehouse, he learned that Gu Yue owned the silver dragon-scale pendant and resolved to seek another way to learn about the Golden Dragon King.

• Meng Li fell from the vanished tides with seven soul rings and discovered his Soul Power had risen to level 73.
• Meng Li hid what he knew from the seven old demons by claiming he could not remember the tides.
• The old demons escorted Meng Li back to the treehouse, where the Golden Dragon King identified the silver dragon-scale pendant as Gu Yue's and asked him to obtain Golden Dragon King Essence from Tang Wulin.
• Meng Li reasoned that Gu Yue and Na'er might be connected to the Silver Dragon King, but conflicting thoughts about Tang Wulin made him reject killing his friend for the essence.
• Meng Li decided to ask Bi Ji for help instead, then rested, glad he had crossed the Rank 70 threshold.

Meng Li broke through to level 73, passed Devil’s Island’s final trial, and left to return to his people. Shen Xing recognized him as he approached the North Sea Legion and ordered the guards to let him pass.

• Meng Li awakened his Martial Soul Avatar, discovered its power, and withdrew it before the Old Demons approached.
• Greed Old Demon declared Meng Li’s Devil’s Island training complete, explaining that his final test was whether he would become lazy after being told the assessments were over.
• Meng Li asked about his companions, learned they still faced their assessments, and was told he would have to confront the North Sea Legion in reality.
• Shen Xing struggled to sleep and kept thinking about Meng Li before receiving an alert that he was approaching the North Sea Legion.
• Shen Xing ordered the Federation guards not to attack Meng Li, and he flew safely through the legion toward home.

Meng Li returned early from Devil's Island, reunited with Leng Yaozhu, and discussed forging his Three-word Battle Armor while still longing for Gu Yue. Meanwhile, the New Soul Tool Technology Company planned to shelter weapons for a coming attack on Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, leaving Zhou Hansheng alarmed by the threat to Shrek City.

• Meng Li visited Leng Yaozhu at the Spirit Pagoda and told her about his military training, withholding details about the gods he had encountered.
• Leng Yaozhu insisted on paying to forge Meng Li's Three-word Battle Armor, and they agreed to begin the day after tomorrow.
• Leng Yaozhu cooked with Meng Li at home, where he asked whether Gu Yue had returned; Leng Yaozhu said she had not and kept the reason to herself.
• At the New Soul Tool Technology Company headquarters, the fox-masked woman announced a plan to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult and the Spirit Pagoda in an attack on the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy in three months.
• Zhou Hansheng protested the use of two Level 12 God-Slayer Fixed Soul Tool Cannons, and the fox-masked woman said the company would only store the cannons temporarily.

Long Canhua and Zhou Hansheng opposed the elders’ plan to attack Shrek City, while Meng Li spent a peaceful evening with Leng Yaozhu, who warned him about the Qiangu Family. The chapter ended with Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu taking a bamboo raft across a lake.

• Long Canhua questioned whether the elders’ actions made them accomplices, but the fox-masked woman ordered the group to protect Meng Li and keep him from going to Shrek City.
• Zhou Hansheng asked Long Canhua to help stop the elders’ plan, and Long Canhua agreed to try persuading the woman again.
• Meng Li relaxed at home with Leng Yaozhu, then went for a walk with her and heard her warning to be careful of the Qiangu Family.
• Meng Li paid the raft owner two thousand Federal Coins to make another trip so Leng Yaozhu could ride across the lake.

Meng Li returned to Shrek Academy after visiting Leng Yaozhu, but encountered Na'er on the road and reunited with her after two years apart. After cleaning their old dormitory, Na'er promised she would stay and declared that she wanted to experience love with him, while Meng Li insisted he loved Gu Yue.

• Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu walked around a plaza before returning to her home, and he later told Wu Changkong he would visit Shrek Academy.
• Meng Li spotted Na'er on the road, embraced her, and drove her away after Federation traffic officers warned them not to block traffic.
• Meng Li agreed to Na'er's request to go to Shrek Academy, and they cleaned their dusty old dormitory together.
• Na'er refused to explain where she had been or discuss being the Silver Dragon King, but promised Meng Li she would not leave again.
• Na'er told Meng Li she wanted to experience being in love with him, while Meng Li said he loved Gu Yue and did not want to betray her.
• Na'er argued that she and Meng Li could compete fairly because he and Gu Yue were not together, then declared the matter settled.

Meng Li reunited with Na'er, shared a moonlit evening with her, and then completed his Three-word Battle Armor at the Spirit Pagoda. After naming it with the character Leng in honor of Leng Yaozhu, he returned to Sky Dragon's Roar, where Shui Yu greeted him.

• Meng Li told Wu Changkong about his experiences, and Wu Changkong returned his Spatial Soul Tool and encouraged him to spend time with Na'er.
• Meng Li and Na'er watched the moon, shared the story of Chang'e and Hou Yi, and promised to stay together.
• Meng Li recorded the evening in his diary and went to the Spirit Pagoda to upgrade his battle armor with the Raging Waves soul skill.
• After ten days of work, Meng Li completed his Three-word Battle Armor and chose Leng as part of its name to honor Leng Yaozhu.
• Meng Li arrived at Sky Dragon's Roar and greeted Shui Yu, who was surprised to see him back so soon.

Meng Li registered as a Three-Word Battle Armor Master, returned to Shrek Academy, and reunited with Na'er. A month later, he hosted a feast for the returning Shrek Seven Devils, and Xie Xie asked why Meng Li had arrived at Devil's Island later than they had.

• Meng Li registered his Cold Moon Carp battle armor as a Three-Word Battle Armor Master.
• Meng Li returned to his spotless home and reunited with Na'er, telling her that he had gained the strength of a Titled Douluo.
• A month later, Meng Li met the returning Shrek Seven Devils and learned that he still had not found Gu Yue.
• Meng Li drove the group to his home, where everyone celebrated their return from Devil's Island with a feast.
• After eating, Xie Xie asked Meng Li why he had arrived at Devil's Island late, and Meng Li asked what had happened to their train.

After a month of rest and cultivation, Meng Li accepted a mission to hunt the Evil Soul Masters responsible for a devastating attack in Heaven Dou City. He traveled to the ruined city, donated to its recovery, and began searching a suspected hideout.

• The Shrek Seven Devils left Shrek Academy for a month-long vacation, while Meng Li stayed with Na'er and cultivated until he reached Rank 74.
• After ten days of boredom, Meng Li accepted a mission to find and eliminate the Evil Soul Masters behind an attack that killed more than a thousand people in Heaven Dou City.
• Meng Li packed his supplies, said goodbye to Na'er, and took a train to Heaven Dou City, where security had been heightened.
• Meng Li saw the destroyed city center and the displaced survivors, then anonymously donated one billion Federal Coins toward reconstruction.
• Meng Li used the mission map to choose an unpatrolled location and carefully searched an abandoned residential complex.