Chapter Summaries

Di Tian rejected Shrek’s claim that Evil Soul Masters killed the Star Dou Forest’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and demanded blood payment, then launched an assault on Shrek City. Elder Xuan fought him and was badly outmatched, but announced that he would use a stronger technique he had learned over the past two months.

• Di Tian challenged Elder Xuan to provide evidence that Evil Soul Masters had killed the five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Elder Xuan admitted Shrek had only speculation.
• Elder Xuan suggested Di Tian had failed to catch the killers, and Di Tian insisted that Shrek would pay for the deaths in their place.
• Di Tian ordered the Soul Beasts outside Shrek City to attack, while he and Elder Xuan began fighting in the sky.
• Di Tian overwhelmed Elder Xuan with a single clash and darkened the sky, leaving Shrek at a severe disadvantage.
• Elder Xuan said he had learned a stronger move over the past two months and unleashed his Soul Power without activating his Martial Soul Avatar.

Elder Xuan used the Energy Armor he had cultivated for two months to fight Di Tian, and their first full-strength clash injured them both. The armor helped Xuan Zi withstand Di Tian’s attack, but its damage and Xuan Zi’s incomplete cultivation showed how far he remained from truly challenging the dragon.

• Elder Xuan condensed his Soul Power into the Taotie Energy Armor, a technique created by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and passed to him by Chen Ping.
• Di Tian recognized the armor’s power, questioned how Shrek had obtained the technique, and attacked Xuan Zi with a space-rending dragon claw.
• Xuan Zi met Di Tian’s claw with an armored punch, cracking the armor while shattering dragon scales and drawing blood from Di Tian’s arm.
• Di Tian’s strike wounded Xuan Zi, but the Energy Armor blocked the Ultimate Darkness energy that would have hindered his recovery.
• Xuan Zi realized that he needed to break through the Level 99 bottleneck and complete the armor before he could truly challenge Di Tian.

Di Tian questioned whether soul beasts had kept pace with human technology and resumed attacking Elder Xuan, while Chen Ping worried that Xuan could not hold out until reinforcements arrived. Shi Xing rallied Shrek City’s defenders as they prepared for the Beast Tide’s direct assault.

• Di Tian reflected that Star Dou Forest had made no technological advances and charged Elder Xuan again after seeing his Energy Armor repair itself.
• Chen Ping watched Elder Xuan fight Di Tian and worried that he could not endure until Huo Yuhao returned with reinforcements.
• Chen Ping considered how Heavenly-Forged Battle Armor might strengthen Elder Xuan but knew he could not forge it.
• Shi Xing ordered the Shrek City Defense Army and Soul Masters to take their positions and prepare the city’s defenses.
• Shrek’s defenders readied their cannons and the southern city wall as Chen Ping recognized that the soul beasts would attack head-on.

As the Beast Tide approached Shrek City, Shi Xing waited until it was close before activating Shrek’s prepared Soul Guidance ground traps, which inflicted heavy casualties. He then ordered the Rank Three traps activated, and toxic gas began enveloping the advancing beasts.

• Shi Xing held his fire as the Beast Tide advanced to within five hundred meters of Shrek City.
• Shi Xing ordered the slowdown, ground spike, laser, and Floating Mine traps activated, killing thousands of Soul Beasts and wounding many more.
• Shi Xing was stunned by the traps’ effectiveness and low cost, then ordered the Rank Three traps to activate.
• Toxic gas from the Urgent Poison traps spread through the Beast Tide below the city walls.

Chen Ping’s poison and Soul Guidance traps devastated the Star Dou Forest’s Beast Tide before it could reach Shrek City. Bi Ji ordered a withdrawal, leaving the Fierce Beasts to face a costly retreat through the trapped battlefield.

• Chen Ping’s Urgent Poison Traps filled the Beast Tide’s path with Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers poison mist, killing many weaker Soul Beasts.
• Bi Ji condemned the humans’ tactics as the poison mist overwhelmed the advancing beasts.
• Soul Guidance Electromagnetic Traps, Frost Traps, and Flame Burst Traps activated across the ten-kilometer battlefield, inflicting heavy casualties.
• Bi Ji ordered the Beast Tide to withdraw because the traps made reaching Shrek City nearly impossible.
• Bear Lord and Ten Thousand Demons King watched the devastation and realized why Shrek City’s heavy cannons had remained silent.

After Shrek’s hidden traps killed tens of thousands of Soul Beasts, Chen Ping’s defenses turned the Beast Tide’s mine-clearing effort into a target for Shrek’s long-range artillery. Shi Xing ordered a second bombardment as the Soul Beasts struggled to understand the humans’ weapons.

• The first wave of the Beast Tide retreated after Shrek’s ground traps killed nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts, while Shrek’s only casualty was a guardsman with a twisted ankle.
• Shi Xing, Chen Ping, and the other Shrek powerhouses recognized that the traps’ success depended on strategy and that the Soul Beasts would eventually clear their path.
• As Soul Beasts began clearing traps ten kilometers from Shrek City, Chen Ping’s plan enabled the Soul Guidance Cannon-howitzers to strike them from beyond the traps’ range.
• Shrek’s heavy artillery blasted the mine-clearing Soul Beasts, and Shi Xing rallied the Shrek City Defense Army before ordering a second volley.
• Bi Ji, commanding the Soul Beasts, was stunned by the humans’ cunning and the artillery’s range and power.

Shrek City's cannon bombardment inflicted heavy losses on the Soul Beast army and forced it to retreat, while Bi Ji healed the wounded and declared that humanity's growing power threatened Soul Beast survival. Old Song challenged Bi Ji to withdraw, but Bi Ji upheld Di Tian's decision to wage war.

• Chen Ping's trap Soul Tools and Level 6 high-explosive shells killed thousands of Soul Beasts and drove the army back to twenty kilometers from Shrek City.
• Shi Xing ordered the City Guard to cool the overheated Soul Guidance Cannon-howitzers with hoses.
• Bi Ji rose above the Soul Beast army, healed its wounded with emerald light, and said humanity's weapons posed a threat to Soul Beasts.
• Old Song confronted Bi Ji and urged her to withdraw, citing her past efforts to prevent war and the devastating losses the Beast Tide could suffer.
• Bi Ji rejected Old Song's appeal and said Di Tian was right to attack because humanity's growing strength could eventually drive Soul Beasts to extinction.

Bi Ji and Old Song ended their confrontation as the Beast Tide paused, but Di Tian continued attacking Xuan Zi and shattered his Taotie Armor. Xuan Zi drew on the power of Shrek's past Pavilion Masters, rose to the peak of Level 99, and challenged Di Tian.

• Old Song asked Bi Ji to consider the fate of the Star Dou Forest's living things before returning to Shrek City's walls, and Bi Ji flew back without being attacked.
• Di Tian declared that he would kill Xuan Zi and Shrek's defenders even though the Beast Tide had stopped, then blasted apart Xuan Zi's Taotie Armor.
• Di Tian transformed and dove after the falling Xuan Zi, while Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion Elders reacted in alarm.
• Xuan Zi activated the Sea God's Brand, summoning a golden spear that struck Di Tian and knocked him backward.
• Xuan Zi took up the spear as the power of past Pavilion Masters healed and strengthened him, restoring his armor and raising his cultivation to the peak of Level 99.
• Xuan Zi pointed the spear, which had become a golden chicken drumstick, at Di Tian and challenged him to face his death.

Elder Xuan used the Golden Tree’s stored power to defeat Di Tian and seal him inside the Taotie Domain, temporarily removing him from the battle for Shrek City. As night fell, the Soul Beasts regrouped and prepared to attack the city from all sides under cover of darkness.

• Di Tian realized Elder Xuan had only borrowed the Sea God Pavilion Masters’ accumulated power, then charged at him with his full strength.
• Elder Xuan formed his true Taotie Energy Armor and countered Di Tian’s Myriad Dragon Flame by swallowing it with a giant golden Taotie phantom.
• The Taotie phantom bit Di Tian’s tail and swallowed him into its domain, while the Golden Tree’s power faded and Shrek City lost its golden protection.
• The Soul Beasts calmed down after Di Tian was sealed and rested for more than four hours before preparing a second attack at night.
• The Fierce Beasts decided to attack all four sides of Shrek City, and the city guards relied on Soul Guidance Mining Lamps after the strange heavenly phenomenon blocked the moonlight.

Zi Ji transformed into the Hell Demon Dragon King and used corrosive Yin Water to destroy Shrek City's southern minefield, allowing the Beast Tide to surround the city. Shrek's artillery then struck the Soul Beasts with uncanny accuracy, revealing that the defenders were tracking them with High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices.

• Shi Xing spotted a purple-black-scaled woman charging toward Shrek City's south wall, and Yan Shaozhe's attacks failed to stop her.
• The woman transformed into Zi Ji, the Hell Demon Dragon King, and flooded the southern approach with corrosive Yin Water, destroying Shrek's buried Soul Guidance traps.
• Zi Ji drove Yan Shaozhe back as Soul Beast armies advanced through the water and surrounded Shrek City.
• Shrek's high-explosive howitzers hit the densely packed Soul Beasts across all four sides, making the Ferocious Beasts realize the humans were accurately tracking them.
• The defenders' targeting came from High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices using infrared detection.

Shrek City’s defenders repelled the soul beast army with artillery, precise support, and the protection of their strongest fighters. The battle continued as Old Song wounded Bi Ji and Chen Ping’s conch brought attacking hundred-thousand-year soul beasts crashing down.

• Yan Shaozhe and the Hell Demon Dragon King clashed as the top fighters of Shrek and the Star Dou Forest entered battle.
• Shi Xing ordered three volleys from the Soul Guidance Cannon-howitzer, devastating the soul beast army despite Bi Ji’s healing.
• Old Song used her speed to harass Bi Ji and her guards, then wounded Bi Ji while she healed the beasts.
• Ning Tian stayed behind Shrek’s walls and precisely enhanced the Titled Douluo, prompting Zi Ji to send soul beasts after her.
• Chen Ping used his pale-golden conch to make the attacking hundred-thousand-year soul beasts lose their balance and fall into the Beast Tide.
• Old Song struck Bi Ji again while Bi Ji was distracted by Chen Ping’s conch.

Bi Ji watched as the Star Dou Forest’s aerial assault force approached Shrek City, carrying smaller Soul Beasts that bombarded the walls from above. The defenders remained calm, while Chen Ping held the conch that could send flying Soul Beasts crashing down.

• Bi Ji worried about the pale-golden conch in Chen Ping’s hand, which could knock even Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts from the sky with its sound waves.
• The Fierce Beasts sent roughly a thousand elite Flying Soul Beasts over the advancing army, each carrying two smaller Soul Beasts to attack Shrek City from the air.
• Ten Thousand Demons King had devised the aerial bombing tactic to counter Shrek’s Flying Soul Guidance Devices and its ability to contest control of the skies.
• Chen Ping and the City Defense Army watched the approaching aerial force, and the defenders showed no fear as it descended toward the walls.

Shrek City Guard used Sky Banning Conches to knock the Flying Soul Beasts from the sky, then bombarded their landing points and forced the Beast Tide to retreat. The city survived another attack, but its soldiers, cannons, and ammunition were running low as dawn broke.

• The Shrek City Guard revealed that its cannon crews had Sky Banning Conches and blew the Flying Soul Beasts out of the sky.
• The Guard fired on the beasts’ landing points, killing many and causing the Beast Tide’s aerial assault to fail.
• The Star Dou Forest’s Beast Tide lost at least forty thousand Soul Beasts and retreated after fighting through the night.
• Shrek’s defenders suffered more than two hundred casualties, while dozens of Soul Guidance Cannon-howitzers were destroyed or damaged.
• The exhausted soldiers rested as Shrek faced shortages of cannon-howitzers and Fixed Ammunition, and the Titled Douluo conserved their strength for the next attack.

Shrek City endured attacks on all sides as exhausted defenders relied on dwindling supplies and hoped for reinforcements. Facing heavy losses and Shrek’s unexpected weapons, the Fierce Beasts began debating new tactics but had no clear plan.

• Shrek’s civilians, merchants, and caravan guards supplied the walls and joined the defense as Shi Xing assessed the city’s strained resources.
• Shi Xing estimated that the Soul Beasts might require three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand casualties before withdrawing, while their Jade Swan healer restored wounded forces.
• Shrek’s weapons and ground traps unsettled the Fierce Beasts, who feared they could not breach the city without Di Tian.
• Ten Thousand Demons King called for new tactics, while Bear Lord complained that the Soul Beasts could not devise schemes as easily as humans.

As Shrek City recovered soul rings from the previous battle, the soul beasts launched another assault, using Bi Ji’s Emerald Swan healers to survive Shrek’s layered bombardment and reach the walls. Their attacks struck the city’s hidden half-meter-thick metal plates, thwarting their plan to breach the walls.

• Xuan Ziwen led students in Soul Guidance All-terrain Vehicles to collect ownerless soul rings, while Shrek’s city guards gained valuable rings and soul bones.
• The soul beasts launched another assault, and Shrek’s defenders bombarded them with Soul Guidance weapons and Shockwave Bombs.
• Bi Ji deployed her Emerald Swan clansmen to heal wounded soul beasts as they advanced through Shrek’s firepower.
• Groups of Thousand-Year and Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts reached Shrek City and unleashed ranged attacks against its walls and defenders.
• The soul beasts discovered that thick metal plates reinforced Shrek City’s walls, frustrating their attempt to bombard weak points and break through.

The Four Great Ferocious Beasts launched an all-out attack on Shrek City with powerful Soul Beasts at their side. Shrek’s defenders used incendiary bombs to counter Ten Thousand Demons King’s vines, but Shi Xing remained worried because Zi Ji had not appeared.

• The Four Great Ferocious Beasts led their strongest Soul Beasts toward Shrek City after the Standard Soul Guidance Shells forced them to commit their decisive fighters.
• Bear Lord charged toward Xian Liner and Qian Duoduo, while Ten Thousand Demons King transformed into a giant Demon Eye Magic Tree and sent vines toward the western and northern walls.
• Shi Xing ordered the defenders to throw High-Temperature Incendiary Bombs onto the vines and the Soul Beasts beneath them.
• The bombs set the vines and surrounding area ablaze, disrupting the Soul Beasts’ advance, but Shi Xing worried that Hell Demon Dragon King Zi Ji had yet to appear.

Zi Ji’s Yin Water rain extinguished Shrek’s incendiary bombs and turned the beast tide’s assault into a crisis, but an unknown force suddenly attacked the Soul Beasts from behind. Ten Thousand Demons King saw an advancing sea of armed undead.

• Zi Ji summoned a freezing rainstorm that extinguished Shrek’s incendiary bombs and weakened the auxiliary soldiers.
• Soul Beasts used Ten Thousand Demons King’s vines to attack the northwest walls, while Bear Lord overwhelmed Xian Liner and Qian Duoduo and Bi Ji’s healing kept many beasts at the southern wall in the fight.
• The beast tide gained ground as Soul Beasts climbed Shrek City’s walls and its defenders resorted to Melee Soul Tools.
• A surprise attack struck the rear of the beast tide, with scarlet lasers wounding Soul Beasts attempting to regroup.
• Ten Thousand Demons King looked behind the beast tide and saw a sea of undead carrying milk bottles and weapons advancing toward them.

Chen Ping unleashed an undead legion equipped with Soul Guidance Devices against the Beast Tide, turning slain soul beasts into new undead and overwhelming the beasts. Bi Ji recognized the catastrophic losses and realized that even victory would leave the Star Dou Forest unable to continue its war against humanity.

• Ten Thousand Demons King was horrified when Chen Ping’s undead army attacked the Beast Tide with Soul Guidance Devices powered by Milk Bottles.
• The undead pushed into the beasts’ poorly coordinated rear ranks, while scattered Skeleton Soldiers reassembled themselves and kept firing.
• Chen Ping reflected that immature technology and the sudden Beast Tide had prevented him from building the stronger undead legion he had envisioned.
• Bi Ji saw the undead assault and, after learning its details, feared for the soul beasts as their losses mounted.
• The undead converted slain soul beasts into new soldiers, spreading fear through the Beast Tide and worsening its losses.
• Bi Ji directed her clansmen to heal their wounded and realized that the soul beasts could not afford to continue fighting after this battle.

The Soul Beast army withdrew from Shrek City to confront the Undead, but Di Tian broke free of Xuan Zi's seal and prepared to resume the attack. The Body Sect arrived by Super Teleportation, and Du Busi stepped forward to block Di Tian's pressure.

• The Soul Beasts and Undead fought to a standstill as the Liches raised more Undead, weakening the Soul Beast forces.
• The Jade Swan ordered the Beast Tide to withdraw and encircle Shrek City, while the Undead retreated through their Space Portals with captured equipment and bones.
• Di Tian broke Xuan Zi's seal and descended toward Shrek City, enraged by the Beast Tide's losses.
• The Body Douluo, Du Busi, arrived and used his strength to block Di Tian's pressure.
• Chen Ping's plan had sent Huo Yuhao to Heaven Dou City, allowing Super Teleportation to bring the Body Sect's gathered forces to Shrek City.

Du Busi used his newly cultivated Body Dharma Aspect to block Di Tian’s Black Dragon Annihilation and protect Shrek City. Watching the clash, Chen Ping resolved to learn the technique and wondered how he could obtain Ring Detonation.

• Di Tian unleashed Black Dragon Annihilation over Shrek City, forcing the Soul Beast army to retreat.
• Du Busi transformed into a giant and used One Hand—Holds Up the Sky to shield Shrek City from Di Tian’s purple attack.
• Du Busi’s green hand began to corrode, but layers of armor formed over it and held back the attack completely.
• Du Busi announced that he had finally cultivated the Body Dharma Aspect, while Chen Ping watched with longing.
• Chen Ping reflected on the Demonic Whale King’s power and considered the Great Sumeru Hammer, then focused on finding a way to use Ring Detonation.