Recaps

Shrek Academy swept through the tournament rounds as Zhu Ziyang revealed his strength, gained the Holy Law Demigod Plane, and helped secure a place in the final. The arc ended with the Body Sect failing to recruit Huo Yuhao and deciding to wait for Shrek Academy to fall.

• Jiang Nannan defeated Ma Yingjun, Shang Yue, and Situ Yu, securing Yunluo Academy's concession and earning cheers as the Valkyrie.
• Shrek Academy defeated Thousand Spirit Academy, while Zhu Ziyang's Silver Dragon Wolf evolved into the Heavenly Frost Holy Silver Dragon and became his third Soul Spirit, Di'er Shuang.
• Ma Xiaotao swept Zhengtian Academy's seven contestants, and Zhu Ziyang later killed six Soul Emperors in an underground duel before receiving the Death God Inheritance's trial to raise every soul ring to ten thousand years.
• Wang Yan and Zhu Ziyang secured major auction items, including the Mystic Blue Silver Engraving Knife, then Zhu Ziyang revealed his six soul rings and defeated Soul Spirit Academy alone.
• Zhu Ziyang purified the Soul Devouring Carving Knife with Ultimate Light and used its Gold of Life to transform the Undead Demigod Plane into the Holy Law Demigod Plane, raising his cultivation to rank sixty-five.
• Shrek Academy reached the semifinals and defeated Star Luo Royal Academy, with Zhu Ziyang breaking Xu Jiujiu's Absolute Defense Soul Tool and knocking her out of the arena.
• Langya and Yutao tried to recruit Huo Yuhao for the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused to leave Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, so the brothers departed and planned to wait for Shrek to disappear.

Zhu Ziyang led Shrek Academy to victory, introduced Soul Spirits to the academy, and formed a contract between Ma Xiaotao and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower. As Mu En’s health failed, Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan committed to a secret plan to change the Sun Moon Empire’s leadership, then Zhu Ziyang set out on his Death God trials and met Qian Lingyi again.

• Zhu Ziyang defeated Sun Moon Team alone in the tournament final, and Shrek Academy claimed the championship and its soul bone rewards.
• Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with his family, and survived Long Xiaoyao’s challenge with a divine strike that forced Long to admit defeat.
• Mu En entrusted Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to Zhu Ziyang’s guidance, revealed the threat posed by the Holy Spirit Cult, and shared that he expected to live only three to five more years.
• Zhu Ziyang introduced the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Di’er Shuang as Soul Spirits, and the Sea God Pavilion Elders agreed to establish and promote the system.
• Ma Xiaotao contracted with Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass chose to pursue Soul Spirit contracts too.
• After Mu En resisted Tang San’s attempt to turn him against Zhu Ziyang, Zhu Ziyang completed the Death God’s Third Trial and learned he had to kill five sinful Death Attribute Soul Emperors.
• Zhu Ziyang and Mu En proposed overthrowing the Sun Vein Imperial Family and placing Zhang Lexuan on the Sun Moon Empire’s throne, and Zhang Lexuan accepted the secret Empress’s Advent plan.
• Zhu Ziyang left to pursue the Death God trials, purified the Duke of Hell at Yibo Mountain, and agreed to take Qian Lingyi, who introduced herself as Ye Guyi, to Shrek Academy.

Zhu Ziyang oversaw Mu En’s final transfer of authority, helped Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan enter the Lunar God’s trials, and continued his own God of Death trials. After Qian Lingyi joined him on the road, he completed the Four Trials and began the Fifth Trial, which sent them toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy, reached level 70 with the Dragon Core, and formed a Light-Death Soul Core before Mu En entrusted the academy to him and merged with the Golden Ancient Tree.
• After Qian Lingyi enrolled at Shrek Academy, Zhu Ziyang joined Zhang Lexuan’s soul-hunting expedition, where Huo Yuhao, Beibei, Jiang Nannan, Xu Jiujiu, and Xu Sanshi obtained soul rings or a soul bone.
• Zhu Ziyang, Zhang Lexuan, and Elder Song approached the Yin Clan, where Xu Jianwei recognized Zhang Lexuan as a Moon Vein descendant and supported her claim to restore the lineage.
• Zhang Lexuan received eight Red Level Trials and Jiang Nannan received the Lunar God’s Nine Trials, while Zhu Ziyang explained their assessments and helped them begin the tidal trials at Moon Arc Cliff.
• Zhu Ziyang left the Moon South Archipelago, completed the third and fourth targets of the Four Trials of the God of Death, and later helped Qian Lingyi obtain a sixth soul ring from a Six-Winged Light Tiger.
• Zhu Ziyang negotiated with Hong Zhen to affiliate Anyang Junior Academy with Shrek as the first Heavenly Origin Academy, then watched Qian Lingyi defeat Meng Hongchen in a spar.
• Zhu Ziyang completed the final target of the Four Trials of the God of Death and learned that his Fifth Trial required him to complete his soul bones within five years.
• Zhu Ziyang invited Qian Lingyi to travel with him in search of soul bones, and they entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass recognized him.

Zhu Ziyang completed the God of Death’s Sixth Trial, gained the Ice Dragon King’s power, and gathered companions for the voyage required by his Seventh Trial. After reaching the Eastern Continent, the group headed toward the Mountain Range of the Dead, where Zhu Ziyang suspected the Devil Emperor awaited them.

• Zhu Ziyang gained the Ice Dragon King’s Torso Bone, evolved his Martial Soul, and completed the Sixth Trial by killing the Ice Demon Snow Soul King.
• Zhu Ziyang condensed his third Soul Core, absorbed the Ice Dragon King’s Dragon Core as his eighth Soul Ring, and learned that his Seventh Trial required him to find and subdue the Scythe of the Dead on the Eastern Continent.
• Zhu Ziyang reunited with Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan, helped them form Soul Spirit Contracts with Moon Laurel Immortal Tea and Jade Emperor Purple Lily, and revealed the divine trials to Xuan Zi.
• Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Qian Lingyi set out aboard the Moon God Shuttle, which Zhang Lexuan obtained from Xu Jianwei.
• The group explored Four Symbols Island, met the Heavenly Thunder Luo Tiger, and escaped a school of dragon whales after Zhu Ziyang and Di'er Shuang persuaded Ninth Ling to let them pass.
• Zhu Ziyang’s group reached the Eastern Continent, learned about its nations and the Mountain Range of the Dead, and traveled toward the range after Zhu Ziyang’s Other Shore Flower Mark pointed the way.
• Zhu Ziyang suspected the Devil Emperor was connected to his trial, while Snow Empress offered to face it and Zhu Ziyang kept the Heavenly Stem God-Locking Array as a trump card.
• Zhu Ziyang and his companions camped near the Mountain Range of the Dead, where Zhu Ziyang chose Jing Tian Douluo as his title before they entered the mountains.