Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiawei that the Abyssal Sage King threatened Douluo Continent, prompting plans to prepare the empire for an invasion. Meanwhile, Ju Zi ordered an attack on Yuming City, and Ye Xishui cooperated with the approaching abyss while secretly plotting against it.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that Zhongli Wu had escaped Shrek's ambush with the Abyssal Sage King's help, and Elder Song accompanied the group to Star Luo City.
• Ju Zi learned that Xu Tianyuan's legions had reached Star Cloud City and ordered a full-scale attack on Yuming City at dawn.
• Ye Xishui healed Zhongli Wu, told him the Holy Spirit Cult's missing elders and Offerings were no longer theirs, and instructed him to train toward becoming a Limit Douluo.
• Ye Xishui spoke with the Abyssal Sage King, agreed to find Spatial Nodes, and secretly resolved to turn the coming calamity against him.
• Huo Yuhao urged Xu Jiawei to warn the world, relocate vulnerable communities, and build grain reserves, and Xu Jiawei summoned officials to discuss preparations.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to recover in Star Luo City, while Elder Song reminded him to investigate something privately.

Huo Yuhao recovered, entered the Undead Demigod Plane, and found the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders trapped there. He forced Feng Ling and the others to accept Slave Seals and serve him.

• Medicine Immortal Douluo told Huo Yuhao that Ye Guyi was undergoing a holy light baptism in the Angel Secret Realm, while Xu Jiujiu took Wang Qiu'er around Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Undead Demigod Plane and discovered Feng Ling, Zhang Peng, and other Holy Spirit Cult leaders hiding from Bone Dragons.
• Huo Yuhao appeared beside the golden pillar and used his control of the plane to force Second Enshrined Elder to kneel and kowtow.
• Huo Yuhao killed Twelfth Enshrined Elder after he resisted, then gave the survivors a choice between accepting Slave Seals and dying.
• Second Enshrined Elder, Feng Ling, and the other Holy Spirit Cult leaders accepted the Slave Seals and knelt to address Huo Yuhao as their lord.

Huo Yuhao put captured Holy Spirit Cult members under Black Water’s supervision, while Rong Nianbing became entangled in a dispute over the Abyss’s invasion of Douluo Star and the Divine Realm’s hidden power struggles. After hearing the God of Destruction’s plan, Rong Nianbing agreed to help mediate, and another guest arrived at the Fire God Palace.

• Huo Yuhao revealed that Black Water was his subordinate and ordered him to make Feng Ling and the other captured Holy Spirit Cult members cultivate beneath the Sun God Pillar’s light.
• Huo Yuhao admitted that he had destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters through Black Water and robbed the Sun Moon Empire’s Military Supplies Depot, then left through a Gate of Undead.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong told Rong Nianbing that an Abyss Plane had invaded Douluo Star and that the God of Destruction and God of Life might have concealed the invasion from Tang San.
• The God of Destruction told Rong Nianbing that the Divine Realm Core prevented new God Kings from rising and asked him to mediate a staged dispute over Tang San’s alleged dereliction of duty.
• Rong Nianbing agreed to help after the God of Destruction explained his motives and claimed the Sea God had brought the Abyss to Douluo Star.
• As Rong Nianbing and the God of Destruction discussed their plans, a guest arrived at the Fire God Palace.

Tang San visited the Fire God Palace and persuaded the Seven Element Gods not to let the Fire God relinquish his position, while rallying their support for a judgment into the Abyss invasion of Douluo Star. The God of Destruction summoned the gods to the Hall of Gods, and the Fire God privately revealed he wanted to tell the chosen successor about the Phoenix God’s past.

• Tang San overheard the Seven Element Gods discussing the Fire God's plan to pass on his position to a young Douluo Star genius with the surname Ma and a Fire Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Tang San advised the Fire God to retain his position and suggested honoring the successor with rewards and possibly a secondary fire-type God Position.
• Tang San told the Seven Element Gods that the God of Destruction might have concealed the Abyss invasion of Douluo Continent and asked them to support a Gods' Judgment Assembly.
• The God of Destruction summoned Tang San and the other gods to the Hall of Gods to address the invasion, leaving the Seven Element Gods uncertain about what had happened.
• The Fire God told the God of Water he wanted to inform the successor about the Phoenix God, and she warned him to keep their past secret.

The Element Gods and the Seven Deadly Sins Gods nearly fought at the Hall of Gods before Rong Nianbing stopped them and restored the cranes damaged in the clash. He invited the assembled Main Gods to a cooking competition, then the God Kings arrived as the real meeting was about to begin.

• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods confronted the five Element Gods, and God of Wrath attacked before God of Space diverted his fists.
• Rong Nianbing stopped the fight, and the God of Time reversed time around the shattered immortal cranes to restore them.
• Fire God and God of Water arrived and arranged to trade five bottles of Twilight Haze for Rong Nianbing's Twenty-Four Course Feast.
• Rong Nianbing invited the Gods to a cooking competition and tasting event with the God of Food, and all the gathered Main Gods except the God of Time agreed to attend.
• Asura, Destruction, and Life arrived at the dais, and Rong Nianbing realized the meeting's real business was about to begin.

The God of Destruction accused Tang San of neglecting the Abyss invasion of Douluo Star and proposed investigating the Divine Realm Core. Rong Nianbing suggested the Core had missed the invasion while focused on distributing Divine Positions, and Tang San proposed using the Abyss as a trial for Douluo Star’s future gods.

• The God of Destruction showed the Main Gods the Abyss’s attack on Douluo Star and accused Tang San of failing to detect it.
• Tang San denied knowing about the invasion and challenged the God of Destruction for failing to discover it earlier.
• The God of Destruction proposed recombining and inspecting the Divine Realm Core’s controls, with control authority at stake depending on what the investigation found.
• Rong Nianbing explained that the Divine Realm Core could overlook other areas while focused on a specific task, and Tang San accepted that the invasion might have been an accident.
• Tang San proposed restricting Abyss God Level Experts until Douluo Star had native divine experts, then using the Abyss as a trial for them.

Rong Nianbing and Tang San secured the gods’ agreement to make the Abyss a trial enemy, while the God of Destruction proposed sending Divine Officials to fight Abyssal creatures on Douluo Star. Elsewhere, Fire God told Ma Hongjun about a possible descendant, Xu Tianran sent Ju Zi a secret letter, and Ju Zi prepared to launch a decisive offensive against the Star Luo Empire.

• Rong Nianbing proposed that the Goddess of Life revive Douluo Star’s non-gods who died fighting the Abyss, and the three God Kings approved the Abyss as a trial enemy.
• The God of Destruction ordered that Divine Officials and Divine Realm Hunters could descend to fight Abyssal Divine Officials for Divine Position rewards, and Tang San supported the plan.
• Fire God told Ma Hongjun that a talented twenty-four-year-old woman named Ma, whose Martial Soul was an Ultimate Attribute Fire Phoenix, might be his descendant, and invited him to the Cooking Competition.
• Xu Tianran learned that rumors about his impotence had spread through Mingdu and ordered Shadow Douluo to deliver a secret letter to Ju Zi.
• Ju Zi learned that Xu Tianyuan’s forces had gathered near Star Luo City and ordered a full-scale offensive at dawn to destroy the enemy and prevent its reinforcements from returning.
• Ju Zi read Xu Tianran’s letter alone, then set it down and sat expressionless in silence.

Sun Moon Empire forces launched a coordinated decapitation attack on Star Luo City's imperial palace during Morning Court, but Huo Yuhao prevented three cannon shells from exploding inside the palace. Xu Jiawei led the surviving defenders against the invading Soul Tool Masters, while Huo Yuhao remained behind to neutralize the shells.

• Wang Yiheng, Xu Tianyuan, and Liao Mengkai planned a surprise attack on the Star Luo Imperial Palace during Morning Court, while Xia Chenxuan prepared a ninth-grade cannon shell in case the operation failed.
• Xu Jiawei convened Morning Court with Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er present and began explaining preparations for the Abyss.
• Xia Chenxuan ordered the attack to begin, and the three Soul Tool Master Legions fired cannon shells at the palace before charging in to kill its defenders.
• Huo Yuhao activated Time Control when he sensed danger, restrained three Level 8 shells, and used Spiritual Detection to alert the officials as explosions devastated the palace.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Xu Jiujiu and Wang Qiu'er to protect the rear palace, then led the Offerings and surviving officials into battle while Huo Yuhao froze the shells' Core Magic Arrays and sent them high into the sky to detonate.
• Xu Jiawei confronted Xu Tianyuan and the raiding force as Huo Yuhao's allies rushed toward the attackers.

Xu Jiawei and the Star Luo defenders fought off a Sun Moon Empire assault while Zhang Lexuan's Shrek students aided the Imperial Guard. Huo Yuhao disabled the attackers' high-altitude detectors, then arrived at Phoenix Roost Palace and unleashed a powerful ally to break the siege.

• Xu Jiawei and the Star Luo Offerings engaged Xu Tianyuan and the invading Soul Tool Masters as the attack on the Imperial Palace began.
• Zhang Lexuan led Shrek's Inspection Group students toward the Imperial Palace, where Wang Dong'er and her teammates rescued Imperial Guards and killed seven Soul Tool Masters.
• Huo Yuhao found and disabled two ultra-high-altitude Soul Tool Detectors, then flew toward the inner palace after sensing the attackers gathering there.
• Xu Shengzu and the defenders held Phoenix Roost Palace against more than three hundred Soul Tool Masters while Shrek Inner Court students arrived to assist.
• Huo Yuhao opened a Gate of Undead and summoned the Holy Spirit Cult's Fourth Enshrined, whose hammer strike killed more than thirty attackers and injured over a hundred.

Huo Yuhao and the Star Luo defenders repelled the Sun Moon Empire’s attackers, but a Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Shell threatened to destroy Star Luo City. As four Offerings prepared to sacrifice themselves to stop it, a colossal Black Dragon intervened and shielded the city.

• Huo Yuhao arrived with the Fourth Enshrined, and the Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool Masters retreated after receiving the signal flare.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the wounded treated and survivors searched for while the Royal Soul Masters and Inner Court Students helped.
• Xu Tianyuan and the other attackers withdrew from the battle at Star Luo Plaza, and Xu Jiawei ordered his forces not to pursue them.
• A Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Shell approached Star Luo City, and the four Offerings flew toward it to destroy it with their combined sacrifice.
• A voice praised the Offerings’ courage, forcibly sent them away, and a thousand-meter Black Dragon enveloped the shell in darkness.

Di Tian saved Star Luo City from the Sun Moon Empire’s failed attack, and Xu Jiawei began strengthening the capital and expanding the Sun God Cult. Huo Yuhao proposed protecting the Star Dou Great Forest in gratitude, and Xu Jiawei agreed to issue a decree as Zhang Lexuan’s group prepared to return to Shrek Academy.

• Di Tian restored the four Offerings from their self-destruction and raised each of their cultivations by one rank before vanishing.
• Xu Tianyuan ordered the attacking Soul Tool Masters to withdraw, while Wang Yiheng agreed to report the failed mission to the Empress.
• Xu Jiawei assessed the palace’s casualties, ordered compensation and a curfew, and announced plans to spread the Sun God Cult throughout the empire.
• Huo Yuhao proposed banning powerful Soul Masters from hunting high-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest in gratitude to Di Tian, and he promised Artificial Soul Rings could be made available to them.
• Xu Jiawei agreed to issue a decree within half a month, gave Zhang Lexuan a letter for Mu En, and Zhang Lexuan led the Shrek students back toward the academy.

Wang Yiheng reported that the Sun Moon Empire’s decapitation mission had failed, while Ju Zi left for her hometown with a hidden plan against Xu Tianran. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao arranged a partnership with the Star Luo Empire to spread the Sun God Cult, then learned Ju Zi had come to see him.

• Wang Yiheng returned to the Sun Moon camp and told Ju Zi and the Starry Sky Douluo that Di Tian had saved Star Luo City and the decapitation mission had failed.
• Ju Zi left Wang Yiheng to command the Mingdou Mountain Range defenses and flew alone toward her hometown, vowing to retaliate against Xu Tianran if he tried to make her bear another man’s child.
• Huo Yuhao proposed that Shrek Academy, the Sun God Cult, and the Star Luo Royal Family cooperate to distribute the Sun God Canon and Artificial Soul Rings.
• Mu En agreed to Huo Yuhao’s plan and warned him and Zhang Lexuan to use the period of calm to strengthen themselves; Huo Yuhao also told Mu En that the Abyssal Sage King had rescued Zhongli Wu.
• Huo Yuhao joined Zhang Lexuan, Wang Dong'er, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian for grilled fish, then learned from Cai Meier that Ju Zi had arrived at Sea God Pavilion to see him.

Ju Zi asked Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy to help assassinate Xu Tianran, and Huo Yuhao agreed to the plan while placing a mark in her Spiritual Sea to ensure her loyalty. After telling Ju Zi that he had killed the White Tiger Duchess and the White Tiger Duke’s second son, Huo Yuhao returned to Zhang Lexuan and promised to avenge her aunt by killing the Shadow Douluo as well.

• Ju Zi asked Shrek Academy to help her kill Xu Tianran, explaining that she would support the effort to prevent the Abyss and wanted Xu Tianming to inherit the throne.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to Ju Zi’s assassination plan, and they set the operation for three days later, on her birthday.
• Ju Zi asked to use Xuan Ziwen’s location to secure Jing Hongchen’s release, and Huo Yuhao agreed after placing a mark in her Spiritual Sea as insurance.
• As he saw Ju Zi out of the city, Huo Yuhao told her he had killed the White Tiger Duchess and the White Tiger Duke’s legitimate second son, then said Shrek would come to Mingdu in two days.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that he would kill Xu Tianran and the Shadow Douluo to avenge her aunt, then joined Zhang Lexuan and the other girls for a barbecue.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek and Body Sect teams prepared an assassination of Xu Tianran at the Mingdu Great Soul Arena, using Ju Zi to draw him away from the heavily guarded imperial palace. In a flashback, Ju Zi returned to Mingdu after the failed attack on Star Luo City and proposed a birthday party as cover, while Xu Tianran vowed revenge on Di Tian.

• News of Di Tian saving Star Luo City spread across the continent, and Shrek Academy organized a new operation against Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao briefed the eight-person assassination team on a plan to attack Xu Tianran during Ju Zi's birthday party and transfer him and Shadow Douluo to a private stage at the Mingdu Great Soul Arena.
• Huo Yuhao said he would impersonate Xu Tianran after the assassination and announce Xu Tianming's return to support his succession.
• Nana took the disguised team to inspect their rented Sub-Soul Arena, where Huo Yuhao and the others installed soundproofing and Soul Power-isolating defenses.
• Ju Zi reported to Xu Tianran that Di Tian had stopped the attack on Star Luo City, then proposed announcing a false pregnancy at her birthday party to quell gossip.
• Xu Tianran accepted Ju Zi's birthday-party plan and later vowed to destroy the Star Dou Great Forest.

Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi carried out a plan to lure Xu Tianran and Shadow Douluo away from the Imperial Palace during the Empress’s birthday celebration. The two were transported to the Mingdu Great Soul Arena, where Shrek’s Elders and others awaited them.

• At the birthday gathering, nobles speculated about the Empress’s sudden return from the front lines and the rumors surrounding Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao appeared to Ju Zi as she prepared for the celebration, and they agreed to move Xu Tianran and Shadow Douluo according to their plan.
• Ju Zi coaxed Xu Tianran into summoning Shadow Douluo, then Huo Yuhao used Stars Shifting to transport both men from the Imperial Study to the Mingdu Great Soul Arena.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself as Xu Tianran and left the palace with Ju Zi in the Emperor’s wheelchair, escorted by Rank 9 Soul Tool Masters.
• Xu Tianran and Shadow Douluo regained consciousness in the arena and found Shrek’s Elders and several familiar figures waiting for them.

Huo Yuhao, disguised as Xu Tianran, announced Ju Zi’s pregnancy and Xu Tianming’s return at her birthday banquet while the real Xu Tianran was trapped by Shrek and Body Sect allies. Zhang Lexuan avenged her mother and the Moon Duke’s Mansion, and the conspirators planned to use Xu Tianran’s corpse to stage his death and bring Xu Tianming to the throne.

• Huo Yuhao, disguised as Xu Tianran, told the nobles that Ju Zi was pregnant and that Xu Tianming had been found and was returning.
• Du Busi and the others trapped the real Xu Tianran and Shadow Douluo inside a sealed barrier at the Mingdu Great Soul Arena.
• Xu Tianran used a Space Teleportation Token to escape, but Elder Jing’s Space Barrier stopped him and sealed his soul power and Soul Tools.
• Elder Song invited Zhang Lexuan to take revenge, and she carved Shadow Douluo apart with Moon Blades before trapping his soul in the Death Spirit Fire.
• Du Busi’s poison killed Xu Tianran, and Elder Song ordered the others to preserve his corpse for Huo Yuhao’s plan to make Xu Tianming emperor.
• Zhang Lexuan told Elder Song that she had avenged her family, and he comforted her by saying the Academy and her future with Yuhao could be her home.

Huo Yuhao and his allies killed Xu Tianran and arranged for the Sun Moon Empire to blame the Holy Spirit Cult, then learned that the Abyss had launched a far more powerful invasion in the Extreme North. The Snow Empress revealed that the Sea Princess had broken with the Sea God and asked Huo Yuhao to return with her to the Extreme North at dawn, where she had arranged Soul Rings for him.

• Huo Yuhao revealed Xu Tianran's corpse to Ju Zi and the returning Du Busi and Zhang Lexuan, then altered the body to make it look as if Evil Soul Masters had killed him.
• Huo Yuhao impersonated Xu Tianran as he escorted Ju Zi from the Imperial Study, while Ju Zi prepared to support Xu Tianming's ascension and claim her promised authority.
• Huo Yuhao instructed Nana and the Sun God Cult members to expand their influence, then returned to Shrek Academy with Elder Song to report an urgent matter to Mu En.
• The Snow Empress revealed that she was the Heavenly Snow Woman and described how she and the Sea Princess had fought off an Abyssal invasion of the Extreme North Ice Sea, including two Abyss experts comparable to Limit Douluo.
• The Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao that the Sea Princess had broken with the Sea God after he failed to answer her prayers, and invited Huo Yuhao to the Extreme North at dawn to obtain Soul Rings.
• The Snow Empress coughed blood after claiming she was uninjured, and Huo Yuhao found that an unseen force was restraining the Life Energy he used to treat her.

Huo Yuhao and the Elders prepared for a possible Abyss invasion, then Huo Yuhao accompanied Snow Empress to the Extreme North to fuse with the dying Titan Snow Demon King, A Tai. The fusion ritual began as A Tai entrusted his abilities to Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao proposed using the Demon Empress to learn about the Holy Spirit Cult's cooperation with the Abyss, while Mu En ordered preparations to spread the Sun God Cult and install specialized Gates of Undead in major cities.
• Mu En invited Snow Empress to join the alliance against the Abyss, and she agreed before asking Huo Yuhao to accompany her to the Extreme North.
• Huo Yuhao spent the evening exploring Shrek City's night market with Zhang Lexuan, then left with Snow Empress the next morning.
• Snow Empress brought Huo Yuhao to Ice God Mountain, where thousands of soul beasts welcomed her and she revealed that Huo Yuhao would continue A Tai's life.
• Huo Yuhao learned that A Tai had killed two Abyssal lords while defending the Extreme North, promised to use his abilities against the Abyss, and began preparing the fusion ritual.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Titan Snow Demon King’s power and gained a new soul bone, while the Snow Empress revealed the injury and trial that had led her to seek Soul Fusion with him. Their fusion completed her Ice God trial and awakened unexpected feelings, and they left for the Extreme North Ice Sea to help the dying Mermaid Little Princess and secure Huo Yuhao’s eighth Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao drew the Titan Snow Demon King’s soul into his Spiritual Sea, where he met the Ice Empress and then fell asleep.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Titan Snow Demon King’s energy, raised his cultivation from level seventy-eight to level eighty-two, and gained the Snow Demon Tremor Blast External Soul Bone.
• The Snow Empress explained that she had fought the Abyss with Sea Princess, incurred a penalty for her Ice God trial, and needed to undergo Soul Fusion with Huo Yuhao to lift its seal.
• Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress fused souls, completing her seventh Ice God trial; the Ice Empress then told him that a Heavenly Snow Woman could undergo Soul Fusion only once and that it signified true love.
• The Snow Empress arranged for Huo Yuhao to fuse with the gravely injured Mermaid Little Princess, and they set out for the Extreme North Ice Sea after arranging to preserve the Titan Snow Demon King’s body.

The Sea Princess confronted Sea God Island’s worshippers over their failure to aid the Extreme North Ice Sea and their insult to the Mermaid Hero Hall, while the Sea God Trident’s phantom threatened her and her people. Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress arrived, and Huo Yuhao broke free of the divine weapon’s sealing beam as the confrontation escalated.

• The Sea Princess declared the Mermaid Hero Hall sacred and learned that five Sea God Island worshippers had come to demand an explanation for the Sea God Statue’s removal.
• Sea Princess Li Yin confronted Sea Shark Douluo and the other worshippers, explaining that the Abyss had killed half the Mermaid Clan and that Snow Empress had helped repel four Abyss experts.
• Sea Shark Douluo revealed that Sea God Island had also suffered an Abyss invasion, but Li Yin challenged him over the Sea God’s aid to their island and not the Extreme North Ice Sea.
• After Sea Shark Douluo used a Sea God Pearl to summon the Sea God Trident’s phantom, Li Yin and her clanspeople resisted its suppression, and the worshippers prepared to attack her.
• Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress intervened, and three black-robed men appeared to block the worshippers as Huo Yuhao broke the Trident’s sealing beam with the Sun God’s power.