Chapter Summaries

After Du Busi and the Star Luo Empire's Worship Hall master failed to assassinate Xu Tianran, he declared the three great empires had provoked the Sun Moon Empire and prepared for war. Meanwhile, the Silver Dragon King returned to Dragon Valley, and Tang San severed the God Realm's connection to Douluo Continent as the God of Destruction confronted him.

• Xu Tianran activated the High-Energy Compression Array Soul Tool to protect himself, and Du Busi and the Star Luo Empire's Worship Hall master fled amid the chaos.
• Xu Tianran addressed the crowd, blamed the three great empires for the attack, and declared the Sun Moon Empire would go to war.
• The Sun Moon Empire detained Elite Competition participants and mobilized its armies, while Ju Zi volunteered to go to the front lines.
• A guard reported that the west had suddenly gone quiet, disrupting Xu Tianran's prepared plan, and he ordered the National Preceptor summoned.
• The Silver Dragon King could no longer sense the God Realm and led the Fierce Beasts back to Dragon Valley.
• Tang San closed the passage to Douluo Continent, and the God of Destruction accused him of abandoning it before leaving in anger.

After the God Realm’s influence vanished, signs of change appeared across the Douluo Continent while Shrek’s group traveled through the Sun Moon Continent. When approaching Evil Soul Masters exposed their position, Wang Nan stayed behind to fight, and Ma Xiaotao joined him.

• Two middle-aged men at Ascension Pavilion worried that someone had encountered danger, while Tang San and a woman in a valley sensed a change in the Douluo Continent.
• Wang Nan returned from scouting and reported that the forest south of the Jingyang Mountain Range was safe, while Wang Dong'er remained unconscious.
• Wang Nan realized his Soul Power might fuse with Wang Dong'er's and suspected her condition was connected to the figure he had seen holding a Trident.
• Wang Nan sensed approaching Evil Soul Masters, and He Caitou identified a distant bolt of dark-purple lightning as a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool that had revealed their location.
• Wang Nan stayed behind to confront the threat, and Ma Xiaotao followed him into the sky.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao confronted Thunderous Nether Douluo while the rest of Shrek Academy’s group fled. Wang Nan shattered the pursuer’s Soul Tool Shield, leaving Thunderous Nether Douluo badly injured.

• Thunderous Nether Douluo attacked Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao with lightning, and Wang Nan countered with a Space Rift Soul Skill.
• Wang Nan closed in and struck Thunderous Nether Douluo’s purple Soul Tool Shield, but it absorbed the blow as the Douluo summoned seven resentment-filled heads and concealed explosive spheres.
• Ma Xiaotao’s flames melted the spheres, and Thunderous Nether Douluo recognized her as a Shrek Academy contestant before checking for their teachers.
• Wang Nan combined his second and sixth Soul Rings with Barrier Break and brought down his Coiling Dragon Staff alongside its golden phantom.
• Thunderous Nether Douluo’s Soul Tool Shield shattered, and the backlash made him flush and choke on blood.

Wang Nan overwhelmed Thunderous Nether Douluo, who tried to escape with Nether Douluo, and used his eighth soul skill to swallow them both. Thunderous Nether Douluo disappeared, while Nether Douluo crashed to the ground and woke to see Wang Nan hovering above him.

• Thunderous Nether Douluo used his ninth soul skill to evade Wang Nan’s first strike, but Wang Nan’s next attack broke through his lightning net and smashed it into the ground.
• Ma Xiaotao’s flames were split by Nether Douluo, who arrived and found Thunderous Nether Douluo defeated.
• Thunderous Nether Douluo told Nether Douluo to run, and Nether Douluo grabbed him and escaped using the Nether Sword.
• Wang Nan locked onto the fleeing pair and unleashed his eighth soul skill, Dragon’s Head Raised, swallowing both in the Black Dragon’s jaws.
• Thunderous Nether Douluo vanished, while Nether Douluo fell from the sky and woke to see Wang Nan suspended above him.

Wang Nan defeated the Nether Douluo and escaped with Ma Xiaotao, who reflected on when she had fallen for him. Wang Nan also recognized that Ma Xiaotao’s presence had become important to him, though neither of them put their feelings into words.

• Wang Nan used the Indomitable Staff Technique to crush the Nether Douluo, who died from his injuries.
• Ma Xiaotao erased the traces of the fight, and she and Wang Nan fled before more people could arrive.
• Wang Nan praised Ma Xiaotao’s ability to cover their tracks, and they joked about him killing people while she set fires.
• As they traveled together, Ma Xiaotao recalled how Wang Nan had gradually become the person she loved.
• Wang Nan reflected that his arrival in the Sun Moon Empire after learning Ma Xiaotao was there showed how much he cared for her.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao followed the signs of a battle in the Mingdou Mountain Range and discovered that the Sun Moon Empire was attacking the Star Luo forces with powerful Fixed Soul Tools. The fighting continued across the battlefield as Wang Nan decided not to approach.

• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao wondered where Zhang Lexuan's group had gone and saw a Grade 8 Fixed Soul Tool explode in the distance.
• Dai Hao met Xu Jiujiu and Star Luo Douluo, who had used a Fixed Soul Tool taken from Mingde Hall to escape their pursuers.
• Dai Hao ordered the White Tiger Guard to protect Xu Jiujiu, and his forces intercepted the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool Cannons.
• The Sun Moon Empire detonated another Fixed Soul Tool near Dai Hao's group, and Dai Hao and Star Luo Douluo shielded them from the blast.
• Wang Nan refused to approach the battlefield, wary that he and Ma Xiaotao would become targets.

Wang Nan used Dragon God's Tear to unleash a domain of countless Dragon Souls against Ye Yulin and the Sun Moon Empire's pursuers. Ye Yulin broke through the domain with his Rank 9 Sun Moon Divine Needle, opening a path toward the Sun Moon Empire.

• Wang Nan followed the Soul Tool attacks toward the northwest as Ye Yulin led more than ten Sun Moon Empire pursuers toward the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Wang Nan's domain obscured the sky, suppressed the pursuers' Spiritual Power, and surrounded them with dragon auras and attacks.
• Ye Yulin's group came under assault from Dragon Souls, and several weaker Soul Douluo died while Ye Yulin's defensive Soul Tools shattered.
• Ye Yulin briefly cleared his mind with a chest-mounted Soul Tool and saw Wang Nan standing amid a sea of dragons.
• Wang Nan channeled his Spiritual Power through Dragon God's Tear to summon countless Dragon Souls and overwhelm the pursuers.
• Ye Yulin fired the Sun Moon Divine Needle toward his escape route and tore a gap in Wang Nan's domain.

Wang Nan used the dragons, his domain, and the Coiling Dragon Staff to defeat the Sun Moon Empire’s Titled Douluo and devastate the battlefield. He left with Ma Xiaotao, while a group arriving later identified Wang Nan and his companions as the ones who had fought there.

• Ye Yulin used his Soul Tool to help himself and his companions escape Wang Nan’s domain, while Wang Nan gathered its power and the laws of heaven and earth into the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Wang Nan’s power rose to rank eighty-eight, and the dragons bowed to him as a golden phantom appeared behind him; Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao’s forces witnessed the spectacle and retreated.
• Wang Nan unleashed the Indomitable Staff Technique, Fourth Form, erasing the hills ahead and turning the battlefield into a vast plain.
• Wang Nan reunited with Ma Xiaotao, and they left eastward to return to the Star Luo Empire and search for their senior sister and the others.
• A group arrived at the ruined battlefield, and one person sensed lingering Spiritual Power before telling Senior Sister that Brother Wang and the others had been there.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao reached the Star Luo Empire’s military camp, where Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu thanked them for stopping the pursuing Soul Engineers. The Shrek group reunited at the camp, while Wang Dong’er remained unconscious and Huo Yuhao reacted to seeing Dai Hao.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan followed the trail of Wang Nan’s Spiritual Power toward the Star Luo Empire’s border.
• Dai Hao recognized Wang Nan and welcomed him and Ma Xiaotao to the military camp, thanking them for saving his group.
• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao met Xu Jiujiu, who thanked them and explained that the Star Luo Hall Master had been injured while escaping Mingdu.
• Xu Jiujiu asked about the Shrek students’ escape, and Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao said the Holy Spirit Cult attack had separated them from the others.
• Zhang Lexuan and the rest of the Shrek group arrived, and she explained that Wang Dong’er was unconscious and being treated by an army healer.
• Dai Hao entered the tent and briefly lingered his gaze on Huo Yuhao, whose expression shifted at seeing his father.

Xu Jiujiu learned that Wang Nan had helped repel the Sun Moon Empire pursuers and heard Star Luo Douluo praise the power and insight behind his attack. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao confided his feelings about Duke White Tiger to Wang Nan and resolved to make him and the Duke's household apologize to his mother.

• Xu Jiujiu accepted Dai Hao's invitation to rest in the military camp with Wang Nan and the others.
• Xu Jiujiu told Star Luo Douluo that Wang Nan had stopped the pursuers, and Star Luo Douluo marveled at Wang Nan's strength and staff strike.
• Star Luo Douluo warned Xu Jiujiu that strength alone did not determine political relationships, and she said she understood.
• Wang Nan sat outside his tent, replayed his staff strike, and reflected on how the attack had improved his Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao showed Wang Nan a short blade left for his mother and described his resentment toward Duke White Tiger and the Duke's household.
• Huo Yuhao said he would make Duke White Tiger and the people in the Duke's Mansion apologize to his mother, while Wang Nan listened without trying to dissuade him.

Huo Yuhao questioned Wang Nan about Martial Soul Fusion and continued to wrestle with the mystery of his connection to Wang Dong'er. Meanwhile, the Shrek group left the front lines as Sunset Forest fell into chaos, and Cai Meier sensed familiar auras arriving at Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Nan what Martial Soul Fusion felt like, and Wang Nan advised him to trust his own heart and grow stronger.
• Xu Sanshi, Beibei, and He Caitou discussed Huo Yuhao's troubles and the resemblance between his close-combat Soul Tool and Duke White Tiger's.
• Xu Jiujiu saw the Shrek group off, and Zhang Lexuan said her priority was bringing everyone safely back to the academy.
• Miasma spread through Sunset Forest, driving Soul Beasts into a panicked flight that devastated nearby towns and caused many casualties.
• Cai Meier learned that disciples sent to the Heaven Dou Empire had gone missing and that Sunset Forest was in turmoil.
• Cai Meier sensed several familiar auras on Sea God Island.

Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy and learned that a Soul Beast riot had struck near Sunset Forest, while Wang Nan visited the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and discovered that the Divine Realm’s connection to Douluo Continent had been severed. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed that Wang Dong’er’s divided soul explained her coma, then watched good fortune descend upon Wang Nan as he left.

• Zhang Lexuan told Cai Meier about the Elite Competition and explained that Wang Nan had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Cai Meier reported a Soul Beast riot near Sunset Forest, and Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan agreed to investigate it.
• Wang Nan reached Lake of Life and asked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion what had happened in the Valley of Asking Love for Heaven and Earth.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that the Divine Realm had been cut off from Douluo Continent and that Wang Dong’er had fallen into a coma because part of her soul remained in the Divine Realm.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Wang Nan that the Dragon God’s agreement remained valid, then saw white light of good fortune descend upon him as he departed.

Wang Nan joined Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao on their way to investigate a Soul Beast riot near the Sunset Forest. At the forest, he discovered that spreading miasma from the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers had driven the Soul Beasts into a stampede.

• Wang Nan caught up with Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao and joined them on their way to the Sunset Forest, asking about Wang Dong'er’s condition.
• The three subdued stray Soul Beasts and found a town destroyed by the creatures, with no survivors.
• A Heaven Dou Empire soldier warned them that miasma in the Sunset Forest had driven out its Soul Beasts and that even Titled Douluo could not enter deeply.
• The soldier led Wang Nan, Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao to a camp where Soul Masters were fighting the vast tide of fleeing Soul Beasts.
• Wang Nan used his golden vision to see miasma spreading from the forest’s center and identified the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers and Azure Scale Seven Absolutes Flowers as its source.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao headed into Sunset Forest to investigate the Poison Barrier driving Soul Beasts from their home. Wang Nan revealed he suspected Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire might let them pass through the poison, and they reached the forest’s edge without being challenged by its Soul Beasts.

• Xian Lin'er told Wang Nan and Zhang Lexuan that the Soul Beast riot was contained, but investigators from the Body Sect could not penetrate the Poison Barrier to find its source.
• Wang Nan asked Xian Lin'er for two high-level Soul Tool Shields and a map so he and Ma Xiaotao could investigate the forest themselves.
• After Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao left, Xian Lin'er praised Wang Nan’s foresight and asked Zhang Lexuan why the academy’s elders had not returned from the Elite Competition.
• Wang Nan told Ma Xiaotao he suspected Ultimate Fire might let her pass through the Poison Barrier, though they would have to test it.
• Wang Nan released his aura and a dragon’s roar, frightening the Soul Beasts gathered at the forest’s edge into submission.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao ventured through Sunset Forest’s Poison Barrier, using Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire to push back the deadly miasma. They found the vast fields of Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers producing the poison, but Ma Xiaotao warned that burning so many ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts could provoke them.

• Wang Nan confirmed that Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire could suppress the Poison Barrier and told her to conserve her Soul Power until they reached its source.
• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao traveled deeper into the forest, passing dead plant-type Soul Beasts and entering a seven-colored expanse of poisonous plants.
• Wang Nan saw two powerful auras deeper in the forest and led Ma Xiaotao forward as her Ultimate Fire drove back the miasma.
• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao reached vast fields of Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers, which Wang Nan identified as the source of the Poison Barrier.
• Ma Xiaotao pointed out that the flowers were ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts and warned that burning them could make them attack.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao crossed the poisonous mist and reached a hidden valley with a lake of fire and ice, where they met the talkative hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Aromatic Silk Beauty. Wang Nan began questioning Youyou about the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers and learned they had been placed there to protect the valley.

• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao made their way through the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers and descended into the valley beneath the Poison Barrier.
• Wang Nan knocked away attacking vines with his Coiling Dragon Staff while Ma Xiaotao conserved her Soul Power to resist the poisonous mist.
• Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao discovered the valley's abundant plants and a lake divided between fiery red and icy blue waters.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty introduced itself as Youyou and asked Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao about the outside world and their reason for coming.
• Wang Nan asked Youyou about the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers, and Youyou explained that someone had set them there to protect the valley.

Wang Nan learned that Youxiang Qiluo could restrain the Poison Barrier in Sunset Forest, but it demanded that he pass a test left by the person who created the hidden sanctuary. Wang Nan challenged the test’s narrow definition of goodness, and Youxiang Qiluo began to treat his response as a rejection.

• Wang Nan discovered that Youxiang Qiluo could restrain the poisonous mist and might help resolve the Poison Barrier outside.
• Youxiang Qiluo offered to help if Wang Nan passed its test, which required taking a poisonous herb, and promised access to up to six Immortal Grade herbs.
• Youxiang Qiluo explained that the test judged whether someone would sacrifice themselves for others, as the person who established it had instructed.
• Wang Nan argued that family, lovers, teachers, and friends mattered alongside self-sacrifice, and Ma Xiaotao took his hand in support.
• Youxiang Qiluo asked whether Wang Nan was rejecting the test, and the ground began to churn as Wang Nan summoned his Soul Rings and rose into the air.

Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao fought the plant soul beasts guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Wang Nan rejected Youxiang Qiluo’s test as unfair. Wang Nan broke their resistance without harming Youxiang Qiluo, and the red and white waters rose to protect it, reacting brightly to the Dragon God's Tear on his wrist.

• Ma Xiaotao flew after Wang Nan as spike-like plants erupted beneath them, and Youxiang Qiluo accused Wang Nan of failing its test.
• Wang Nan explained that his family and friends mattered to him and challenged the idea that an arbitrary test could determine whether he was a good person.
• The lake’s fiery side sent a torrent at Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao, while Ma Xiaotao met it with her Ultimate Fire Phoenix and Wang Nan blocked the incoming water with his Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Wang Nan unleashed Dragon's Might and gathered Soul Power and elemental energy, causing the plant soul beasts to falter and the valley’s poison mist to grow chaotic.
• Youxiang Qiluo and the other plants attacked Wang Nan, but he summoned a mighty Golden Staff strike that shattered their resistance without injuring Youxiang Qiluo.
• Red and white streams surged from the Lake to shield Youxiang Qiluo, and the Dragon God's Tear on Wang Nan's wrist shone brightly as the waters took the shape of intertwined dragons.

Wang Nan persuaded Youxiang Qiluo to stop the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers and calm the Poison Barrier, but its effort to do so triggered its first Heavenly Tribulation. As the storm gathered over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Youxiang Qiluo feared it would not survive.

• Wang Nan held back his attack, and Youxiang Qiluo agreed to stop the Azure Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers from spreading.
• Youxiang Qiluo drew on the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to release a purple halo that neutralized the flowers' poison and thinned the Poison Barrier.
• Youxiang Qiluo offered Wang Nan six immortal herbs and explained that it had gained a hundred thousand years of cultivation despite being only a little over ten thousand years old.
• Dark clouds gathered overhead, and Youxiang Qiluo realized that absorbing the well's power had triggered its first Heavenly Tribulation.
• The storm swept through the valley, and Wang Nan used the Heavenly Forging Floating Life Dragon to shield himself and Ma Xiaotao.

Wang Nan helped Youxiang Qiluo face its early hundred-thousand-year Lightning Tribulation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After several strikes left it limp beneath the clouds, Wang Nan prepared to intervene.

• Xian Lin'er and Zhang Lexuan watched a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast's Lightning Tribulation begin over Sunset Forest as the Soul Beasts fled.
• Wang Nan urged the terrified Youxiang Qiluo to face the tribulation and shielded Ma Xiaotao as the first bolts struck.
• Youxiang Qiluo survived successive lightning strikes by forming barriers and drawing power from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After a thick bolt engulfed Youxiang Qiluo and left it limp, Wang Nan said he had to help because it was facing the tribulation early because of him.
• Wang Nan summoned the Coiling Dragon Staff, activated his fourth Soul Ring, and formed golden armor as the Lightning Tribulation continued.