Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai and Oscar completed their transformations after consuming Immortal Herbs, while Ma Hongjun accepted the God of the Underworld’s offer to become a Netherflame Phoenix and endured dangerous tempering. Ning Rongrong also awakened and used her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile to support Ming Sui as she helped Ma Hongjun, leaving the group focused on his condition and the changes to Rongrong’s pagoda.

• Dai Mubai awakened with a more powerful White Tiger Martial Soul and predicted he would reach level fifty-two after obtaining his fifth soul ring.
• The God of the Underworld offered Ma Hongjun a Netherflame Core, and Ma Hongjun agreed to endure the painful process so his Martial Soul could evolve.
• Ma Hongjun’s purplish-red flames weakened his aura, so Ming Sui used the Staff of Life to send him Life Force while the God of the Underworld began tempering his body.
• Oscar finished absorbing his Immortal Herb and worried about Ma Hongjun when he saw Ming Sui helping him.
• Ning Rongrong awakened in excellent condition, activated her Seven Treasures Manifest Glazed Tile to ease Ming Sui’s strain, and Ning Fengzhi noticed that her pagoda seemed taller.

Ning Rongrong awakened the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda as the gods strengthened Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu. While Bibi Dong entered the God Tomb to pursue the Rakshasa inheritance, Ming Sui and Tang San’s relationship became known, and Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua decided to visit a place they both felt drawn to.

• Ning Fengzhi and Ming Zhen realized that Ning Rongrong’s Spirit had become the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Rongrong rushed to tell her father.
• The God of the Underworld planted a Netherflame Core in Ma Hongjun’s Spirit and offered Zhu Zhuqing the divine duty of Nether God Envoy; Xiao Wu also completed her process and grew stronger.
• Ming Sui and Tang San learned that the Goddess of Life and the Asura God had concealed the family’s conflict with the Angel Clan, and Tang San shared the Asura God’s advice about the Heavenly Punishment Branch.
• Bibi Dong reached the cave marked by the Rakshasa divine oracle, activated its formation, and heard the inheritance call to her.
• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua discovered Ming Sui and Tang San holding hands, then agreed to visit the same place they both felt drawn to.

Tang San, Ming Sui, Xiao Wu, and Zhao Wuji discovered that the God Tomb was the Dragon God's resting place, while Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing awakened Netherworld Power. After the elders sent the Shrek Seven Devils to explore the tomb, the Rakshasa God discovered that his Divine Artifact was missing and confronted the Asura God.

• Master broke free of the illusion and began absorbing the gift Xiao San and Sui Sui had chosen for him.
• Tang San, Ming Sui, Xiao Wu, and Zhao Wuji found an ancient tablet identifying the site as the Dragon God's resting place, then returned to camp.
• The elders decided the Shrek Seven Devils would explore the God Tomb without them, and Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing awakened Netherworld Power as their Immortal Herbs took effect.
• Flender sent the Shrek Seven Devils to the newly discovered area and told them to meet the elders at an inn in Lihua Town after leaving the God Tomb.
• The Rakshasa God gave Bibi Dong his inheritance but could not summon the Rakshasa Scythe, then realized he had severed his connection to the Divine Artifact and could not bestow it on her directly.

The Shrek Seven Devils awakened the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Souls and warned their patriarch Ying that someone had stolen the Dragon God’s offering and might target the dragons’ bodies. The Asura God appeared at the Dragon God’s shrine, tossed Tang San a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and told him to stand aside.

• The Rakshasa God deflected the Asura God’s questions about the missing Rakshasa Scythe, while Bibi Dong began to doubt her choice of inheritance.
• Tang San, Ming Sui, and Xiao Wu led the Shrek Seven Devils into the Dragon Clan Territory, where they found the altar’s offering missing and decided to warn the sleeping Dragon Souls.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ma Hongjun used Netherworld Power to awaken the Dragon Souls, and their patriarch Ying thanked the group and escorted them to the Dragon God’s shrine.
• The Shrek Seven Devils explained that Evil Soul Masters might target the Dragon Clan’s bodies, and Ying prayed to the Dragon God for protection.
• The Asura God appeared, acknowledged Tang San’s companions, gave Tang San a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and ordered him to stand aside.

The Asura God intercepted the Rakshasa God in the Dragon Clan Territory and brought the Shrek Seven Devils to meet the Dragon God's remnant soul. The Dragon God explained how gods and the world's laws came into being, then began discussing Spiritual Sense.

• The Asura God confronted the Rakshasa God, who had brought Bibi Dong to the Dragon Clan Territory, and drove him away empty-handed.
• Dai Mubai recognized Bibi Dong as the Spirit Hall Pope, and Tang San explained her place in Spirit Hall.
• The Asura God escorted the Shrek Seven Devils to the Dragon God's remnant soul, who thanked them for saving his clan members.
• The Dragon God described how the world's laws created the cycle of life and death, and how the god race and demon race's attempt to steal the world's origin led to the races being abandoned and the world divided.
• The Dragon God explained the origins of Nature Gods and faith-born gods, then introduced Spiritual Sense as the next subject.

The Dragon God explained divine cultivation to the Shrek Seven Devils and sent them to train in a space formed from his origin power. Meanwhile, Tang Yunhua and Ming Zhen explored a cave in the God Tomb, found two blank divine cores, and unknowingly drew the Asura God’s attention to their new fate.

• The Dragon God told the Shrek Seven Devils to comprehend the divine power and Spiritual Sense left in their martial souls, then sent them to cultivate in his origin space.
• Tang Yunhua and Ming Zhen followed a map to a newly appeared cave, where Ming Zhen’s light exposed black resentment and a monster that Tang Yunhua battered and stored away.
• Tang Yunhua and Ming Zhen cleared the resentment, copied divine formation patterns in a stone hall, and opened two boxes whose blank divine cores entered their Sea of Consciousness.
• The Asura God recognized the cores as those left behind by two Demigods devoured by the Rakshasa God and asked the Goddess of Destiny to investigate their owners.
• The Goddess of Destiny confirmed that the divine cores already had owners and told the Asura God about her successor, a girl with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul.

Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua left the cave after receiving godhoods and watched Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Blue Tyrant Academy clash over an Immortal Herb. Dugu Bo joined them, and the chapter left the group discussing the academies and Shrek Academy.

• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua accepted their godhoods and decided to leave the troublesome God Tomb cave.
• The couple found Meng Yiran and Tailong facing Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan over an Immortal Herb, and the students agreed to fight two against two.
• Tailong withstood Yu Tianheng's lightning attacks, while Meng Yiran absorbed Dugu Yan's snake venom through her Serpent Cane.
• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua discussed the fight with Dugu Bo, who had come to check on his granddaughter and seek help for his poison.
• Dugu Bo asked about Shrek Academy after Tang Yunhua criticized the students' training.

Dugu Bo agreed to seek help after Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua discovered that his cultivation was worsening his poison. Meanwhile, the Goddess of Life brought Ming Sui to the Wood Spirit Continent with the Shrek Seven Devils and several gods, where they began investigating a war that threatened to tear the continent apart.

• Ming Zhen examined Dugu Bo and learned that a prescription had increased his cultivation and aggravated his poison, so Tang Yunhua persuaded Dugu Bo to accept help for his granddaughter's sake.
• Dugu Yan returned Meng Yiran's item and was comforted by Yu Tianheng while Dugu Bo agreed to go with Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua after they left the Secret Realm.
• Ming Sui defeated a demon spider in the Dragon God's Origin Space, and the Goddess of Life took her away to help investigate a crisis on the Wood Spirit Continent.
• The Asura God and other gods brought their heirs together, and the Shrek Seven Devils received instructions and forms before traveling to the Wood Spirit Continent.
• The gods assigned themselves tasks to investigate the bloodied, resentment-filled continent, and Ming Sui followed the Goddess of Life to help dispel the resentment.

Ming Sui, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun helped the God of the Underworld process the continent’s countless innocent dead while Ning Rongrong traced the war’s causes through the World Core. The Asura God, Tang San, and the God of Light uncovered the church’s secret alliance with the Evil God, who ordered the Pope to kill Albert VI in exchange for a longevity technique.

• Zhu Zhuqing summoned wandering souls, Ma Hongjun cleansed them with Netherflame, and Ming Sui granted them Life Force so they could reach the Underworld and reincarnate.
• The God of the Underworld learned that the Empire and the church had gone to war, while Ning Rongrong and the Goddess of Destiny traced the conflict’s tangled Causal Lines.
• The Asura God explained to Tang San why he had brought the Beast God, then took Tang San to investigate the church on the Wood Spirit Continent.
• The God of Light discovered that the church had used his emblem while worshipping the Evil God, and he joined the Asura God and Tang San in seeking proof.
• The Asura God, Tang San, and the God of Light followed the Pope through a secret passage and found him meeting the Evil God.
• The Evil God told the Pope to kill Albert VI and promised to teach him the longevity technique afterward.

The gods arrived to observe the Evil God and the Pope, but the God of War exposed their concealment and confronted the Evil God. As the Pope spiraled into bizarre accusations, the Sea God considered recruiting Tang San before learning how deeply the Asura God had already prepared him for inheritance.

• The Goddess of Life, the God of the Underworld, and the other gods gathered with Tang San to watch the Asura God negotiate with the Evil God and the Pope.
• The gods chatted and shared Oscar's sausages while Ming Sui wondered whether the Evil God could detect them; the God of War warned that he might sense his mortal enemy.
• The God of War shattered the concealment barrier, revealing the gathered gods to the Evil God, and the Pope accused them of plotting to deny him immortality.
• The Evil God attacked the God of War, who used his Soul Reaping Spear to overwhelm the Evil God's spiked club while Tang San and Ming Sui watched.
• The Sea God asked the Goddess of Life to spare Tang San if his inheritance failed and offer him a different divine position.
• The Goddess of Life explained how the Asura God had marked and transformed Tang San's martial souls and prepared his Asura Sword Embryo, convincing the Sea God to abandon his attempt to recruit him.

The gods interrogated the captured pope and learned that the Holy See’s conflict with the empire had begun nearly a thousand years earlier, raising questions about who had first engineered it and how the Evil God was connected. After finishing their work in the God Tomb, Ming Sui and the Shrek Seven Devils celebrated with the gods before preparing to return to the academy.

• The Asura God restrained the Evil God and ordered the group to interrogate the captured pope before the God Tomb closed.
• The pope revealed that someone had directed the Holy See to raise girls and marry them into the royal family, then later persuaded him to wage war on the empire.
• Tang San’s report showed that the plot against the empire began in Year One, long before the Evil God had arrived in the God Realm, leaving the Asura God wondering who was behind it.
• Ming Sui finished blessing the departed souls, and the God of the Underworld promised to send her and the others to the same place when the God Tomb expelled them.
• The Shrek Seven Devils invited the gods and the Judge to a farewell meal, then discussed returning to the academy and meeting its new teachers and students.

After escaping the God Tomb, the Shrek Seven Devils reunited at an inn in Lihua Town, where they rested, shared news, and waited for instructions from their elders. Ming Sui and Tang San grew closer as they spent the evening together, ending with Tang San carrying the exhausted Ming Sui to bed.

• The Shrek Seven Devils reached Brother Dong’s inn in Lihua Town, checked in, and sent messages to their teachers and elders.
• Ming Sui told Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing that she and Tang San had made their feelings clear after falling into the abyss.
• Ming Sui and Tang San listened to rumors about Nightfall finding a Divine Artifact while eating, then worked on their unfinished homework together.
• The Shrek Seven Devils agreed to gather information at the inn and pay special attention to rumors about Nightfall’s supposed Divine Artifact.
• Ming Sui fell asleep against Tang San’s shoulder, and Tang San carried her to bed and gently kissed her forehead.

The Shrek Seven Devils returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City as Nightfall prepared a suspicious auction, while Ming Zhen, Tang Yunhua, Dugu Bo, and Ning Fengzhi suspected Spirit Hall planned to exploit the chaos and seize power. After learning Emperor Xue Ye intended to force a marriage involving the young women they cared about, they considered Xue Ling as a successor if Xue Ye and Xue Beng were removed, leaving Qian Renxue as the remaining threat.

• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua arrived in Lihua Town with Dugu Bo, introduced him to the Shrek Seven Devils, and took command as the group prepared to return to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Ming Zhen showed the Shrek Seven Devils a booklet of Nightfall's auction items and promised each person reimbursement for one purchase.
• Ming Zhen, Tang Yunhua, Dugu Bo, and Ning Fengzhi discussed how Spirit Hall might use a fraudulent auction to create chaos and restore Xue Qinghe to the throne.
• Ming Zhen revealed that Emperor Xue Ye planned to arrange a marriage between Xue Beng and one of Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, or Ming Sui, prompting the others to destroy the study in anger.
• Tang Yunhua proposed Xue Xing as a successor if Xue Ye and Xue Beng died, and Ming Zhen suggested Xue Xing's son Xue Ling, whose health had recovered.
• Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo accepted Xue Ling as a suitable candidate, while the group recognized that Qian Renxue remained a danger.

At the Tass Auction House, Spirit Hall assassins attacked during the auction, and Ming Sui and the others realized the raid might be part of Nightfall’s plan to kill someone. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo led Xue Ling into the night, and an unknown visitor confronted Xue Ye as he considered a political marriage for Xue Beng.

• Ming Zhen brought Tang Yunhua and the Shrek Seven Devils to the auction, where the guests watched the bidding and the girls went to admire the dancers.
• Dugu Bo arrived at Prince Xue Xing’s residence and took Xue Ling into the night as black-clad forces gathered outside the palace and auction house.
• The lights went out at the auction, and assassins killed guests until Ming Sui recognized their techniques as those of Spirit Hall.
• Tang San proposed that Nightfall had staged the attack to kill someone, while Tang Yunhua and Ming Zhen waited for events to unfold.
• Xue Ye reviewed potential brides for Xue Beng, then heard a familiar yet unfamiliar voice greet him.

Qian Renxue revealed her identity while leading Spirit Hall’s attempt to seize the Heaven Dou throne, but Xue Beng’s unexpected death and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s intervention disrupted her plan. As reinforcements gathered outside the palace, the Chen Guard remained blocked by Spirit Hall’s elders, leaving Xue Ye’s hopes of rescue uncertain.

• Qian Renxue told Xue Ye that she was the former Xue Qinghe and declared that Spirit Hall intended to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• A guard reported that Xue Beng had been killed at Tass Auction House, sending Xue Ye into a rage and prompting him to attack Qian Renxue with his Spirit Douluo pressure.
• Qian Renxue explained Spirit Hall’s plan to keep her posing as Xue Qinghe and bring the Heaven Dou Empire under Spirit Hall’s rule.
• Ming Zhen alerted reinforcements, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect arrived at Tass Auction House, defeated the assassins, and helped the guests head for the palace.
• Ning Fengzhi and other allies gathered outside the imperial palace while Qian Renxue received reports that the operation had gone wrong and the Chen Guard was fighting Spirit Hall’s elders.
• Xue Ye’s hopes faded as the Chen Guard failed to break through the blockade, while Qian Renxue kept him under guard.

Qian Renxue prepared to seize the Heaven Dou throne, but an unknown force trapped her before she could complete the takeover. Spirit Hall’s attack on the imperial family left Xue Ye dead, and Jade Douluo declared Xue Xing and Xue Ling the only eligible heirs.

• Qian Renxue ordered two Titled Douluo to force Xue Ye to write an abdication edict, then vanished inside a transparent sphere as she left the room.
• Ning Fengzhi and Ming Zhen coordinated with Dugu Bo to breach the palace gates while Spirit Hall searched for Qian Renxue.
• Skybreaker Douluo and Jade Douluo confronted Spirit Dragon Douluo and Demonic Flame Douluo, whose forces self-destructed to cover their escape with Qian Renxue.
• Jade Douluo found Xue Ye dead and learned that Xue Beng and several other imperial relatives had also died.
• Xue Ling brought the drunken Xue Xing to the palace, and Jade Douluo named them the only qualified successors to the throne.

After the Heaven Dou royal family's crisis, Tang Yunhua revealed how she had used Nightfall's Space Barrier to trap Qian Renxue and redirect Spirit Hall's suspicions. Ming Zhen and Tang San examined Dugu Bo's worsening poison, and Ming Sui proposed storing the toxins in a poison-resistant spirit bone, leading Dugu Bo to invite them to his safe place in Sunset Forest to try it.

• Jade Douluo sent the clan relatives into the ancestral temple to choose between Xue Xing and Xue Ling according to the royal family's rules.
• Qian Renxue suspected an internal leak after Spirit Dragon Douluo and Demonic Flame Douluo identified the sphere that had trapped her as Nightfall's Space Barrier.
• Tang Yunhua told Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo that she had used the Space Barrier on Qian Renxue, and Ning Fengzhi expected Spirit Hall to investigate its own ranks.
• Ming Zhen examined Dugu Bo and found that his condition had worsened, so he called Ming Sui and Tang San to help treat him.
• Tang San suggested detoxifying Dugu Bo but warned that doing so could erase his poison arts; Ming Sui proposed transferring the toxins into a spirit bone, and Tang San said it would need to resist poison.
• Dugu Bo invited Tang San and Ming Sui to his safe place in Sunset Forest to attempt the treatment, while Ming Zhen reluctantly agreed to let them go.

Tang San and Ming Sui settled at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tang San planned to use its rare herbs to treat Dugu Bo. Meanwhile, Ming Zhen secured Xue Ling’s coronation in Heaven Dou City, and Xue Ling began his reign as emperor.

• Dugu Bo led Tang San and Ming Sui through his poison array to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then let them stay in the nearby house.
• Tang San explained that he would use the garden’s herbs to detoxify Dugu Bo before guiding the remaining poison into his spirit bones, while Ming Sui prepared her medical notes.
• Tang San and Ming Sui shared a warm moment as they settled in and prepared a meal together.
• Ming Zhen took charge of security for Xue Ling’s coronation, offering rewards for reports and helping the guards catch suspected troublemakers.
• Xue Ling completed the funeral rites, ancestral temple rites, and coronation ceremony without incident under Ming Zhen’s security arrangements.
• Xue Ling shared a cup of wine with the envoys and officials, beginning his era as emperor.

Ming Sui and Tang San treated Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest while absorbing their Spirit Rings and building a steady routine together. After reading letters from their friends about the busy school, they hoped to finish the treatment and return in time, then watched the sunset at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Ming Zhen visited Ming Sui and Tang San, stood guard while they absorbed their Spirit Rings, and left for Calais City after Tang San finished absorbing the Heavenly Punishment Branch.
• Ming Sui and Tang San developed a treatment plan for Dugu Bo, and after several rounds of Life Force treatment, Dugu Bo approved them to use medicine on his next visit.
• Dugu Bo allowed Ming Sui and Tang San to choose three medicinal herbs each from his Medicine Garden, and he began arriving early to enjoy their cooking.
• Ming Sui and Tang San received six medicinal herbs and letters from their friends, who described Nian Nian's care and the school's upcoming recruitment.
• Ming Sui and Tang San watched the sunset together at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and talked about what to eat if it rained.

After Dugu Bo recovered from his poison, Ming Sui and Tang San returned to Shrek Academy, where they helped plan its expansion into Inner and Outer Courts. The academy began organizing its departments and recruitment, then discovered that applications had poured in from across the continent.

• Dugu Bo completed his treatment and prepared to leave Sunset Forest with Ming Sui and Tang San for Calais City.
• Shrek Academy’s students welcomed Ming Sui and Tang San back and told them that the academy would divide into an Inner Court and an Outer Court.
• Flender assigned vice deans to oversee the Outer Court’s four Spirit cultivation systems and established plans for administrative, theoretical, and Spirit teaching departments.
• Ming Sui proposed holding team battles for new students, and the teachers agreed to consider competitions at the start of term and for final exams.
• Ming Sui and Tang San began verifying applications, then learned that Ming Sui’s father’s merchant caravans had carried Shrek Academy’s notices across the continent.