Chapter Summaries

Ling Mo helped Shrek Academy defeat Star Luo National Academy in the semifinal by using Divine Grace Barrier to disable Soul Power, Soul Skills, and Soul Tools. After the Sun Moon Team won the other semifinal, Ling Mo explained the barrier’s limits to Wang Yan as Shrek prepared for the final.

• Ling Mo left Stigmata Space with Fei Yu Maru, put away Ksitigarbha Soul, and fell asleep holding Bella while hoping it could lead him back to the Honkai World or his original world.
• Wang Yan briefed Shrek’s team on the semifinal teams, and the draw matched Shrek Academy against Star Luo National Academy.
• Jiu Jiu trapped Ma Xiaotao with Absolute Defense and used Star Guardian to divide the battlefield while Star Luo’s fighters overwhelmed Dai Yueheng.
• Ling Mo released Divine Grace Barrier, which erased both defensive barriers and prevented everyone onstage from using Soul Power, letting Shrek defeat Star Luo’s team.
• Star Luo conceded the remaining individual battles, and the Sun Moon Team defeated Di Ao Team to advance to the final.
• Ling Mo told Wang Yan that Divine Grace Barrier disabled Soul Skills and Soul Tools but placed a heavy burden on him, and he returned to his room to recover.

Shrek and the Sun Moon Team fought through the finals, where Ma Xiaotao fell into darkness and Ling Mo unleashed Sacred Spear Bloom, killing Ma Rulong and injuring Heavenly Fiend Douluo. Ling Mo then turned his attention to the remaining Sun Moon contestant, Xiao Xiafeng, with Heaven's Fire Sacred Judgment in hand.

• Xu Sanshi killed a Sun Moon Soul King with the Black Tortoise's power, and Ling Mo carried him off the stage after stopping the opposing team from rushing him.
• Beibei defeated an opponent with Tang Sect techniques, then Meng Hongchen poisoned him with a Fire-Ice Dual Attribute poison; Dai Yueheng later fought Meng Hongchen to a mutual defeat, and the Sun Moon Team surrendered the sixth match.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Mo faced Ma Rulong and Xiao Xiafeng in the first 2-2-3 match, but Ma Xiaotao's black flames erupted and Ling Mo used the Divine Grace Barrier to send her to Xuan Zi.
• Ling Mo trapped Ma Rulong and Xiao Xiafeng in ice, then used Sacred Spear Bloom to kill Ma Rulong and pierce Heavenly Fiend Douluo before the referee stopped the spear.
• Ling Mo summoned Heaven's Fire Sacred Judgment and faced Xiao Xiafeng as the remaining fighter.

After Ling Mo’s devastating attack in the tournament, he recovered at Shrek Academy and set out to obtain a Soul Ring so he could help Ma Xiaotao, but he disappeared in the Star Dou Great Forest. Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao returned to class, where a confrontation with the Body Sect ended with Mu En facing a mysterious woman who called herself Chi Yuan.

• Ling Mo unleashed Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment in the tournament finals, collapsed from the strain, and was brought back to the Sea God Pavilion for treatment.
• After awakening, Ling Mo told Xuan Zi he could control Ma Xiaotao’s dark flames with his Herrscher of Flames mode and left for the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Soul Ring.
• Xuan Zi searched for Ling Mo but returned without finding him; Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong later emerged from seclusion and joined Xiao Xiao in helping Class One defeat Class Two.
• Du Busi led Body Sect experts to Shrek Academy and fought Xuan Zi, but Mu En’s arrival forced them to retreat.
• Mu En revealed Jing Hongchen and confronted a powerful woman, who introduced herself as Chi Yuan.

At Sea God Pavilion, Fu Hua explained that Soul Tools might not replace Soul Masters and warned that humanity’s reliance on Soul Beasts could threaten both. She revealed her connection to the Sea God and came seeking Ksitigarbha Soul, but learned that the Shrek student carrying it had vanished.

• Jing Hongchen argued that Soul Engineers might eventually replace Soul Masters, while Mu En and Xuan Zi debated the future of Soul Tools.
• Fu Hua said Soul Tools could not replace the need for Soul Masters to create them and warned that humanity’s cultivation could falter if Soul Beasts disappeared.
• Fu Hua revealed that she had visited Sea God Island, refused Tang San’s invitation to inherit his divine position, and heard that she might create a deity of her own.
• Fu Hua explained that one of the thirteen god-slaying Divine Keys, Ksitigarbha Soul, had been bought by a Shrek student and warned that using it without a Stigmata could be dangerous.
• Fu Hua asked for Ksitigarbha Soul, but Xuan Zi told her that its owner had disappeared more than two months earlier and the academy had found no trace of him.
• Fu Hua recalled that she and her companions had entered this new world while searching for Ling Mo, and she worried about the souls inside Ksitigarbha Soul.

Fu Hua examined Ma Xiaotao and revealed three ways to resolve her dangerous martial soul mutation, but her anger erupted when Xuan Zi asked her to give up a Heavenly Treasure. She dispersed Mu En's phantom and confronted Mu En's true body in the Sea God Pavilion.

• Fu Hua agreed to examine Ma Xiaotao in exchange for hearing Mu En's request, and Mu En asked Xuan Zi to bring Jing Hongchen along.
• Mu En brought Fu Hua and the others to Ma Xiaotao, where Huo Yuhao tried to rush to his sister before Xuan Zi stopped him.
• Fu Hua diagnosed Ma Xiaotao's corrupted, unstable energies and described three possible ways to save her.
• Fu Hua revealed that she possessed the needed fire- and ice-attribute Heavenly Treasures but refused to part with them because they were relics of her beloved.
• Xuan Zi asked Fu Hua to give up one of the treasures, provoking her to unleash her aura, injure the young students, disperse Mu En's phantom, and confront Mu En's true body.

After the End saved Ling Mo from Di Tian, she was injured by the Will of Honkai and retreated into Ling Mo’s Imaginary Space to recover. She decided to integrate into the Douluo World by creating her own divine position and set out to seek a path to godhood.

• After Fu Hua and Mu En’s battle ended, Xuan Zi and the academy’s experts found Sea God Pavilion badly damaged and learned that Fu Hua had left.
• Mu En entered seclusion to recover, told Xuan Zi to take Huo Yuhao and the others to obtain soul rings, and ordered him to find Ling Mo.
• The End awoke in Ling Mo’s body inside the Imaginary Space and began recovering while Benares absorbed the Life Gold.
• The End recalled that she had saved Ling Mo when he nearly died after attacking the Imperial Beast, drawing Di Tian into the fight.
• The End explained that the Will of Honkai had injured her after her attacks threatened the Imperial Beast, while the Douluo World’s will prevented it from taking her away.
• The End decided to create a divine position and left the Imaginary Space to search for a route to godhood.

After transmigrating into the world of Seal of the Throne, Ling Mo built a new life while retaining his powers and Snow Empress. He encountered Finality inside his Stigmata Space, where she demanded his help and questioned how he had defeated her.

• Ling Mo woke in an unfamiliar place and learned from Long Haochen and Li Xin that they had found him unconscious and brought him to the city.
• Ling Mo realized he had transmigrated again, this time into the world of Seal of the Throne.
• Over nearly two years, Ling Mo joined the Warrior Temple, became a Fourth-rank Warrior, and found that his Soul Power Level could not rise beyond level fifty.
• Ling Mo visited the Stigmata Space and discovered that Finality had appeared beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree, angering Snow Empress.
• Finality told Ling Mo that the Will of Honkai was watching them and demanded his help integrating her into the world, threatening the world he had saved.
• Finality asked Ling Mo how he had defeated her alone when he and the Thirteen Flame-Chasers had failed to defeat her weakened form.

Ling Mo learned that Finality needed his martial soul and another source of the world’s rules to integrate with the plane, then returned to Ksitigarbha Soul to help Yae Sakura awaken. The next day, he introduced Yae Sakura as his girlfriend to Long Haochen, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu.

• Finality told Ling Mo that destroying humanity would bring her nothing and asked him to find something containing part of the world’s rules, saying his martial soul could serve as a catalyst.
• Ling Mo left Stigmata Space and met Long Haochen and Li Xin, who took him along with Lin Jialu to an auction.
• Ling Mo left the auction early after sensing that Ksitigarbha Soul had reacted to two years of nourishment from his Honkai Energy.
• Fei Yu Maru told Ling Mo that Yae Sakura was waking, and Ling Mo connected to Imaginary Space and used his stigmata to send Honkai Energy into Ksitigarbha Soul.
• The next day, Ling Mo introduced Yae Sakura to Long Haochen, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu as his girlfriend.

Ling Mo struggled to reconcile joining the Demon Hunter Squad Selection Trial with staying beside Yae Sakura, but she persuaded him to compete. After advancing as the Warrior Temple’s top preliminary contestant, he joined Long Haochen’s group for the finals and crushed his first assassin opponent.

• Ling Mo worried that joining a Demon Hunter Squad would separate him from Yae Sakura, but she urged him to keep competing when he considered withdrawing.
• Ling Mo registered for the trial and learned that contestants had to survive temple preliminaries to reach the finals, where top finishers could choose a teammate and receive a spiritual stove.
• After more than a month of matches, Ling Mo reached the finals as the Warrior Temple’s top contestant and eliminated Wang Yuanyuan along the way.
• At the finals grouping ceremony, Ling Mo was assigned to Group Three with Long Haochen and hoped to forfeit if they faced each other.
• Ling Mo drew an assassin as his first opponent and smashed the four pillars meant to provide cover, leaving the assassin defeated beside one of them.

Ling Mo faced Chen Ying'er and her summoned Eighth-tier Evil Eye Tyrant, then defeated it with Fei Yu Maru and Black Abyss White Flower. He withdrew from later matches to recover and finished with two wins and eight losses, missing the top sixteen.

• After his ninth match, Ling Mo watched Long Haochen win before returning to Yae Sakura, whom he gave an upgraded Pulse Tachi Type 19.
• Chen Ying'er summoned an Eighth-tier Evil Eye Tyrant against Ling Mo in the next round-robin match and urged him to surrender.
• Ling Mo summoned Fei Yu Maru, who battled the Evil Eye Tyrant while both magical beasts resisted most of each other's attacks.
• Ling Mo struck the Evil Eye Tyrant with Black Abyss White Flower's Holy Lance Reversal, and Fei Yu Maru finished it with Skyfire Barrier.
• Ling Mo skipped the remaining matches to recuperate and ended the tournament with two wins and eight losses, failing to reach the top sixteen.

Ling Mo intervened in the Demon Hunter Squad selection so Long Haochen could trade his Spiritual Stove reward for an extra teammate, then watched as Long Haochen chose Sheng Cai'er and Lin Xin. The roulette completed Number One Demon Hunter Squad by selecting Chen Ying'er, Sima Xian, and Ling Mo.

• Ling Mo asked whether a top-three contestant could exchange a Spiritual Stove for an extra teammate selection, and Long Haochen immediately offered to forfeit his reward.
• An aged voice approved the exchange, and Long Haochen chose Sheng Cai'er and Lin Xin to join his squad.
• Yang Wenzhao chose Huang Yi after Chen Ying'er rejected his invitation, while Mu Ning persuaded Duan Yi to join his squad.
• Long Haochen spun the roulette, which selected Chen Ying'er from the Soul Temple, Sima Xian from the Priest Temple, and Ling Mo from the Warrior Temple.
• Han Qian announced that Number One Demon Hunter Squad consisted of captain Long Haochen and members Sheng Cai'er, Ling Mo, Lin Xin, Sima Xian, and Chen Ying'er.

Lin Xin’s newly formed squad shared a meal before the Demon Hunter Squad team competition, where Ling Mo revealed that his Innate Spiritual Power was only one point and explained that he had advanced by repeatedly fighting demons. A few days later, the squads gathered at the Holy Temple Training Ground, where Number One learned that Long Haochen had a Fifth-tier Retainer Knight named Han Yu.

• Lin Xin introduced himself as a Fifth-tier mage and magic pharmacist, then gave Spirit Gathering Pills to Ling Mo, Sima Xian, and Chen Ying'er.
• Ling Mo refused his pills and told the squad he could not advance to the Fifth-tier.
• Long Haochen asked about Ling Mo’s Innate Spiritual Power, and Ling Mo revealed it was one point.
• Long Haochen explained how his teacher Ye Hua had advanced despite low Innate Spiritual Power, and Ling Mo said he had grown stronger by fighting demons between life and death.
• The newly promoted Demon Hunter Squad members prepared for the team competition, and the top sixteen could choose secret techniques while the top three besides Long Haochen could receive a Spiritual Stove.
• Demon Hunter Squads One through Ten gathered at the Holy Temple Training Ground, where Number One learned that Long Haochen had a Fifth-tier Retainer Knight named Han Yu.

Han Qian briefed the newly promoted Demon Hunter Squads on their upcoming battlefield competition, and Gao Yingjie challenged Number One Demon Hunter Squad to a test of strength. The team’s coordinated opening briefly restrained him and let Ling Mo land a rapid series of blows, but Gao Yingjie remained standing as Ling Mo’s Thousand Stars state ended.

• Han Qian explained the squad rules, the three-month deployment to the borderlands, and the merit-point rewards for the top teams.
• Gao Yingjie was assigned to Number One Demon Hunter Squad and challenged them as a Seventh-tier Paladin, promising to join them and give them his merit points if they won.
• Long Haochen accepted Gao Yingjie’s challenge, and the squad entered the training ground to fight him without Ling Mo summoning Fei Yu Maru.
• Long Haochen led the squad’s attack, while Ling Mo used Mimic Judas’s chains to bind Gao Yingjie as the team’s support disrupted him.
• Ling Mo activated Thousand Stars and struck Gao Yingjie repeatedly, but the technique ended before his injuries could seriously affect the Seventh-tier knight.

Ling Mo defeated Gao Yingjie in their spar by using Blade Reversal to bypass his Mithril armor, then healed him with Black Abyss White Flower. Gao Yingjie accepted the loss and promised to accompany Long Haochen and the others in battle at the Barracks, leaving the team delighted at the prospect of having a Seventh-tier knight under their command.

• Ling Mo attacked Gao Yingjie with rapid sword strikes, but Gao Yingjie activated Body of Radiance and then donned his silver Mithril armor to withstand Ling Mo's attacks.
• Ling Mo told Gao Yingjie the match was over, then used Blade Reversal to injure him from within and force him to kneel.
• Ling Mo healed Gao Yingjie with Black Abyss White Flower, and Gao Yingjie praised his versatility while advising him to specialize.
• Gao Yingjie reviewed the team's mistakes, admitted his own overconfidence, and accepted that he had lost the battle.
• Gao Yingjie promised to serve as the team's accompanying knight at the Barracks and let them claim all battle merit, delighting Long Haochen and the others.

Ling Mo and the others arrived at Demon Extermination City, received their barracks assignment, and settled into First Barracks. After Ling Mo created a private hammock for himself and Yae Sakura, someone knocked late at night asking for Cai'er.

• Ling Mo and his companions reached Demon Extermination City and attended a meeting where the ten Demon Hunter Squads received their assignments.
• Zhang Hairong led Number One Demon Hunter Squad to First Barracks, where Long Haochen promised they would follow his command.
• Lin Xin handed out Spirit Recovery Pills and Great Strength Pills while Chen Ying'er and Yae Sakura altered uniforms.
• At Yae Sakura's request, Ling Mo used Black Abyss White Flower to grow a curtained hammock, and Chen Ying'er later had the others build her a private bed frame.
• After the group prepared to sleep, someone knocked and asked for Cai'er.

Ling Mo tried to rest at Demon Extermination City but was drawn into a battle and later summoned to Stigmata Space, where Finality told him that three likely Demon God Pillars had arrived nearby. He resisted investigating them, while Long Haochen met his future father-in-law.

• Sima Xian let a high-level mage from the City Lord's side into the tent while Ling Mo and Yae Sakura held each other and ignored the commotion outside.
• Ling Mo and Yae Sakura joined the battle against the demon army, where Feiyumaru easily destroyed most of the nearby enemies.
• The team divided their merit equally, despite Ling Mo having earned more than everyone else combined.
• After Long Haochen was called away, Ling Mo fell asleep in Yae Sakura's arms until Finality pulled him into Stigmata Space.
• Finality told Ling Mo that three objects nearby were likely Demon God Pillars and asked him to investigate and bring one back, but Ling Mo refused.
• Long Haochen met his future father-in-law while Ling Mo remained uneasy.

Ling Mo and the Demon Hunter Squads completed their trial mission, survived the Demon God Emperor’s search, and earned first place. After Finality introduced the Snow Empress as Ling Mo’s new companion, Ling Mo’s squad met her and he wondered whether he was useless without his powerful weapons and allies.

• Ling Mo burned the Seventh Tier Bloodthirsty Beta to ashes, and the Demon Hunter Squads completed their mission and returned to Demon Extermination City.
• The Demon God Emperor searched Demon Extermination City for three-headed magical beasts but left without finding any.
• Number One Demon Hunter Squad won the trial, advanced to General-tier, and accepted a mission that was upgraded to King-tier after they set out.
• While Ling Mo rested in Star Seeking City, Finality summoned him to Stigmata Space and told him the Snow Empress would join him as a powerful companion.
• Ling Mo introduced the Snow Empress to his squad, and Sima Xian pointed out how extraordinary Ling Mo’s strength and backing were.
• Ling Mo considered his reliance on Ksitigarbha Soul and Finality and wondered whether he was useless without them.

After recovering in Heart City, Ling Mo learned that Finality had taken his form to confront Feng Xiu and demand his Demon God Pillar. With the Demon Hunter Squad preparing to leave for Holy City, Yae Sakura questioned Snow Empress about Finality’s intentions and accepted that she could do nothing to stop her.

• Ling Mo woke after nearly a week unconscious, and his Herrscher Martial Soul connection and Ksitigarbha Soul had recovered.
• Fei Yu Maru emerged from the Ksitigarbha Soul, told Ling Mo how frightened she had been when their connection was cut, and received his reassurance.
• Moon Night sent word that the group was ready to depart for Holy City.
• Yae Sakura asked Snow Empress what Finality intended to do, and Snow Empress admitted she did not know beyond Finality’s promise not to harm Ling Mo.
• Yae Sakura accepted that she lacked the strength to resist Finality and returned to Ling Mo’s side.

Ling Mo absorbed a soul ring made from the First Demon God Pillar while Long Haochen and the others fought a brutal war and entered Dream Paradise. When Ling Mo reached the Dream God Temple, he found Ninth Tier demons waiting outside, and he suspected the human-demon bargain over Dream Paradise would not go smoothly.

• Ling Mo found the First Demon God Pillar in Stigmata Space and learned that Finality had used it to create a soul ring for him.
• Finality explained that she had taken control of Ling Mo during the previous battle and that occupying his body could harm his soul.
• Ling Mo began absorbing the soul ring and remained in seclusion for three months as Long Haochen and the others went on an emergency war mission.
• Long Haochen was severely injured during the battle, recovered with the Deputy Head of the Priest Temple's treatment, and later entered Dream Paradise with his companions.
• Ling Mo finished absorbing the soul ring and arrived at the Dream God Temple, where he learned that humans had traded Dream Paradise slots to end the war and saw Ninth Tier demons waiting outside.

Ling Mo watched Long Haochen obtain ten Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon Magic Crystals from Huang Li before Feng Xiu appeared and confronted the Snow Empress. Feng Xiu left without killing her, while the humans learned of the Snow Empress’s power and Ling Mo remained frustrated by the attention she attracted.

• Ling Mo waited with Yae Sakura and the Snow Empress until Long Haochen and the others emerged safely from Dream Paradise.
• Long Haochen and Zhang Fangfang pressured Huang Li into giving them ten Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon Magic Crystals in exchange for a chance for the Demon God Emperor’s heir to emerge.
• Feng Xiu appeared, recognized the Snow Empress, and learned from her that his Demon God Pillar had been destroyed.
• Feng Xiu challenged the Snow Empress, but left without killing her when Finality did not appear.
• Ling Xiao praised the Snow Empress as a human powerhouse, while Ling Mo felt irritated by the attention she drew as his attendant.