Chapter Summaries

Ye Han’s team defeated the Shrek Seven Devils after countering their tactics and wearing them down in the arena. Tang San lost his right arm in the final clash, but Kurumi restored him before Ye Han left with her.

• Todo switched places with Dai Mubai, and Ye Han’s team used coordinated attacks to relieve Todo and absorb Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger with Honjou Kaede’s Devour.
• Kurumi’s Soul Devouring City and Dark Mist Capital drained and damaged the Shrek team, allowing Yoruichi to send Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing out of the arena.
• Tang San escaped into the air with Xiao Wu while Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun withdrew, leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu to face Ye Han’s team.
• Lia and Esdeath hindered Tang San, Yoruichi knocked Xiao Wu out, and Ye Han detonated his Noble Phantasms, leaving Tang San badly wounded and without his right arm.
• Ye Han announced that he would save Tang San, and Kurumi used Zafkiel: Dalet to heal him and reconstruct his arm before leaving with Ye Han.

Ye Han and his companions completed the Gold Spirit Arena quest, learned a group teleport skill, and prepared to leave. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng warned their families about Ye Han’s prediction that two of the Three Upper Sects would be destroyed, but neither family believed the warning.

• Ye Han returned with the Gold Spirit Badges, and Honjou Kaede explained that Guild Residence Teleport could bring the group back to their residence; Ye Han spent both skill points to learn it.
• Ye Han said he had left Uncle Zhao a letter, while Tang San and the others finished their special training and Ning Rongrong set out for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and the elders Ye Han’s prediction that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be destroyed, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to honor her promise to join Second Dimension Academy if it happened.
• Ning Rongrong demonstrated Tang San’s Hidden Weapons, impressing Ning Fengzhi enough that he decided to order a batch.
• Yu Tianheng warned Yu Yuanzhen that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might be destroyed, but Yu Yuanzhen dismissed Ye Han’s prediction and speculated that the Clear Sky Sect could be behind the threat.

Ye Han discovered that a Beast Tide had struck the entrances to the Star Dou Great Forest, and a system mission warned that an unprecedented attack was coming. He organized Second Dimension Academy’s defenses, gathered companions to investigate the cause, and left the academy preparing for battle.

• After returning to the academy, Ye Han continued training while Zhao Lei told him that a Titled Douluo had invited the Shrek Seven Devils to join Spirit Hall, and they had refused before continuing their journey.
• Ye Han took Kurumi and Lia to the town near the Star Dou Great Forest to buy herbs, where Boss Zhang told them that Soul Beasts had attacked the forest entrances and Heaven Dou troops had arrived.
• Ye Han saw the devastation and received a system mission to defend Second Dimension Academy and investigate the Beast Tide’s cause.
• Ye Han returned to the academy, alerted everyone, and assigned Dugu Bo and Zhao Lei to protect it while warning that the Beast Tide might be unusually powerful.
• Ye Han’s companions volunteered to accompany him into the forest, and he told Zhao Lei to send anonymous warnings to Spirit Hall and both empires before the group prepared for the expedition.

Ye Han and his companions entered the Star Dou Great Forest to investigate the coming Beast Tide, then discovered it was far larger and more unusual than expected. The nighttime tide devastated nearby towns and forced the empires and Spirit Hall to mobilize, while Ye Han’s group withdrew safely and waited for a chance to investigate.

• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan, Ghost Charm, and Pufferfish Douluo to respond to the warning, while Ye Han and his companions found the forest eerily empty of Soul Beasts.
• After searching the outer and middle regions, Ye Han led the group into the inner region, where a huge nighttime Beast Tide emerged and targeted their trees.
• Esdeath helped the group escape collapsing trees, and Ye Han used the Vimana to retreat them to the middle region.
• The Beast Tide swept into the outer region, catching the Heaven Dou and Star Luo forces unprepared and devastating nearby towns; Ghost Charm, Yue Guan, and Pufferfish Douluo fought to stop it near Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ye mobilized troops and Soul Masters to defend Heaven Dou, while Bibi Dong ordered more support and an investigation of the forest.
• Zhao Lei and Dugu Bo discussed the disaster at Second Dimension Academy and worried about Ye Han and his companions.

Ye Han and his companions investigated the Beast Tide and learned that the Soul Beasts in the forest’s middle and outer regions had vanished, while the inner-region beasts denied anything was wrong. After discovering that Soul Beasts could not sense one another in the middle region, Ye Han asked Xiao Feng to test the space with his Demon Piercing Red Rose.

• Ye Han led his companions into the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Azure Winged King insisted that nothing was wrong outside.
• Ye Han met the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, who directed him to the Red Scale Snake King for a clue about the Beast Tide.
• Red Scale admitted launching the Beast Tide after humans allegedly killed his clan, but Ye Han questioned how the slaughter could have gone unnoticed deep in the forest.
• Ye Han brought Red Scale and the Titan Giant Ape to the middle region, where they found they could not sense the auras of nearby Soul Beasts.
• Lia identified the missing beasts and the inner region’s apparent awareness of them as two problems to investigate, and Yoruichi urged Xiao Feng to test the space with his Demon Piercing Red Rose.

Ye Han and the others discovered that the vanished soul beasts were replicas connected to a hidden space, where a black hole was producing hostile creatures. Ye Han reached the black hole and seized the Grievance Magic Stone, leaving the group to retreat from its attacks.

• Ye Han used the Demon Piercing Red Rose to destroy a hidden barrier, then identified and killed a Seven-Colored Deer replica that produced no Soul Ring.
• Ye Han found a special mirror space at Red Scale's clan territory and led the group inside, where they encountered a lake and a black hole.
• Soul Beast replicas attacked, and Red Scale fought them off while Ye Han's group advanced across the frozen lake toward the black hole.
• Honjou Kaede absorbed the black hole's lasers as Todo launched toward it, and Ye Han swapped places with Todo using Unrighteous Game.
• Ye Han appraised the black stone at the black hole's center, identified it as the Grievance Magic Stone, and grabbed it.

Ye Han destroyed the resentment controlling the magic stone, ending the Beast Tide and saving the Star Dou Great Forest from further destruction. He admitted humanity had caused the massacre of the Red Scale Snake King's clan, while the devastated region faced a costly recovery.

• Ye Han used Magic Eye Cross to weaken the magic stone's resentment, and the system stopped its final mental attack.
• The black mist erupted across the Star Dou Great Forest, but four hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts suppressed it and were seriously injured in the blast.
• Ye Han explained to Red Scale that a human seeking an evil god's inheritance had slaughtered his clan to gather resentment, and Ye Han admitted humanity was at fault.
• Sword Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen, and Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo entered the forest to investigate, while Ye Han's message let Second Dimension Academy stand down.
• The Beast Tide ended after devastating nearby towns, and Ye Han received a Soul Bone Release Device and an optional mission reward of a Secret Realm Tree of Life.

Ye Han confronted five Titled Douluo who tried to seize the injured hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, but his warning about a Black Dragon King failed to stop them. After Honjou Kaede took a devastating attack meant for him, Ye Han killed Pufferfish Douluo with the Piercing Death Thorn Spear and, healed by Kurumi, faced the remaining four.

• Ye Han offered potions to the injured Soul Beasts, but five Titled Douluo arrived and questioned him about what had happened.
• Ye Han claimed a Black Dragon King had ordered him to help end the riot, but the Titled Douluo remained tempted by the wounded Soul Beasts.
• Pufferfish Douluo attacked Ye Han, and Honjou Kaede used Devoted Benevolence to take the blow and was severely injured.
• Ye Han invoked the Piercing Death Thorn Spear and killed Pufferfish Douluo, leaving the other Titled Douluo afraid to challenge him.
• Kurumi used Zafkiel: Dalet to heal Ye Han, then collapsed into Esdeath's arms as Ye Han confronted the remaining four Titled Douluo.

Ye Han stalled four Titled Douluo while protecting the injured Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts until Di Tian arrived and drove off the human attackers. Di Tian then asked Ye Han to look after the Soul Beast race if he failed his coming tribulation, offering ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts as sacrifices in return, and barred humans from entering the Star Dou Great Forest for three days.

• Ye Han invoked his ties to Yu Tianheng and Ning Rongrong and argued that the injured Soul Beasts had helped resolve the Beast Tide, buying time against Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Yu Yuanzhen, Yue Guan, and Ghost Charm.
• Two attackers ambushed Ye Han, but he switched places with Todo, while Esdeath and Lia forced back the Soul Saint who led the assault.
• Di Tian emerged from the lake, ordered the four Titled Douluo to leave, and erased the remaining Soul Saints when they stayed behind.
• Bi Ji healed the injured humans and Soul Beasts, then brought Ye Han and his companions to Di Tian, who explained that he wanted Ye Han to care for the Soul Beast race if he failed his lightning tribulation.
• Di Tian offered to have his ten-thousand-year Soul Beast subordinates sacrifice themselves to Ye Han and announced that humans were forbidden from entering the Star Dou Great Forest for three days, while allowing Ye Han's elders to return.

Spirit Hall and the major sects learned about Ye Han’s strength and the powerful academy behind him, forcing them to reconsider how to deal with him. Bibi Dong delayed her plan to recruit or kill the group, while Yu Yuanzhen decided he would apologize to Ye Han.

• Bibi Dong read intelligence revealing Ye Han’s background, the academy’s two Titled Douluo, and the unusual Martial Souls of its students.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to invite Ye Han and the others to join or kill them, but Qian Daoliu warned her not to act until she understood Ye Han’s connection to Di Tian.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed the danger posed by Ye Han and the Star Dou Great Forest, while Bone Douluo struggled to believe Ye Han had instantly killed a Titled Douluo.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned Yu Tianheng about Ye Han, and Yu Tianheng described Ye Han as loyal to friends and ruthless toward enemies.
• Yu Yuanzhen decided to apologize to Ye Han in person and worried that Ye Han might be able to foresee the future.

Ye Han and his companions received their level-40 Soul Rings and Soul Bones through sacrifices in the Star Dou Great Forest. After the Soul Beasts refused to sacrifice themselves to Ye Han because they sensed the aura of a King, Di Tian arranged a suitable sacrifice, and Ye Han gained King's Order and a Soul Bone that stored Soul Power.

• Honjou Kaede gained a defensive Fourth Soul Skill and a Right Leg Bone that let her rush to an ally and block one attack.
• Todo gained Black Flash and a skull Soul Bone that helped him achieve the precise timing it required, while Lia befriended the Gluttony Beast and received healing and red dragon wings.
• Esdeath gained Ice Storm General and a freezing skull Soul Bone, Yoruichi absorbed Demon Arts into her Zanpakuto, and Kurumi gained a time-stopping skill and intangibility.
• Ye Han learned the Soul Beasts feared his Gate of Babylon and the aura of a King, so Di Tian arranged for a Soul Beast at its age limit to sacrifice itself to him.
• Ye Han gained a Soul Bone that stored Soul Power and the conceptual Fourth Soul Skill King's Order, which summoned the power of the people of Uruk from the Age of Gods.

Ye Han placed the Life Tree seed near Second Dimension Academy, drawing Di Tian’s attention with its power to restore vitality. Di Tian agreed to join the academy in exchange for undergoing his lightning tribulation there, but Ye Han persuaded him to wait until the Life Tree had grown.

• Ye Han brought Di Tian to Second Dimension Academy, where Zhao Lei and Dugu Bo greeted them.
• Ye Han placed the Life Tree seed outside the academy, and its life energy accelerated the growth of the Immortal Herbs while healing Ye Han.
• Di Tian discovered the Life Tree’s restorative power and decided it could improve his chances of surviving his lightning tribulation.
• Ye Han offered to let Di Tian undergo his tribulation near the Life Tree if he joined Second Dimension Academy, and Di Tian accepted.
• Ye Han’s system assimilated Di Tian into the academy, and Di Tian agreed to wait for the Life Tree to grow before undergoing his tribulation.

Di Tian settled at Second Dimension Academy with Bi Ji, while four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were left to manage the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest. Ye Han received representatives from Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, rejected their offers to join or cooperate, and agreed to speak privately with Yu Yuanzhen.

• Di Tian returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to pack, and Bi Ji decided to join Second Dimension Academy with him.
• Bi Ji assigned Red Scale and three other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to manage the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest while she and Di Tian settled at the academy.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji began caring for the Life Tree, and its first signs of sprouting delighted Di Tian.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Ghost Charm, Yue Guan, and Yu Yuanzhen visited Ye Han, apologized for past conflicts, and made offers of support or cooperation.
• Ye Han declined Spirit Hall's and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's proposals, and Yu Yuanzhen asked to discuss a matter privately.
• Ye Han stopped Yue Guan and Yu Yuanzhen's argument and led Yu Yuanzhen away for a private conversation.

Ye Han let Ghost Charm and Yue Guan tour Second Dimension Academy, where they discovered its comforts, Dugu Bo’s improved rank, and Di Tian guarding the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. Yue Guan asked Ye Han to sell him the herb, but Ye Han refused, still holding a grudge against Spirit Hall.

• Ye Han told Yu Yuanzhen that his offer to help the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan remained unchanged if the predicted disaster came.
• Ghost Charm and Yue Guan toured the academy, encountered Dugu Bo, and learned he had reached Rank 93 while enjoying life there.
• Yue Guan found the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum near the Life Tree, but Di Tian threatened to break his legs if he approached it.
• Ghost Charm dragged Yue Guan away, and the two realized Di Tian was directly connected to the academy.
• Yue Guan asked Ye Han to sell him the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, but Ye Han refused to sell any immortal herbs.

Yue Guan failed to buy the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Spirit Hall abandoned its plans against Second Dimension Academy. With Di Tian’s lightning tribulation only a week away, Ye Han gathered experimental potions that could improve Di Tian’s chances, but Di Tian still estimated his odds at only fifty percent.

• Yue Guan offered Ye Han everything in his Soul Tool for the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, but Ye Han refused to sell it.
• Ghost Charm took Yue Guan back to Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong abandoned her plans against Second Dimension Academy.
• Di Tian warned Ye Han that he could suppress his lightning tribulation for only one more week, so Ye Han reclaimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Han learned from Honjou Kaede that Esdeath had taken her potions and went with Di Tian and Bi Ji to investigate.
• Esdeath explained that her Essence of the Devil could refine soul beast blood and potions, improving their effects, and Di Tian offered his blood for the process.
• Ye Han reviewed the limited supply of potions for Di Tian, who said they and the Life Tree gave him a fifty percent chance of surviving his tribulation.

Ye Han searched the Gate of Babylon for a defense against Di Tian’s lightning tribulation, then used a Noble Phantasm to shield him from its final bolt. The tribulation ended, but Ye Han collapsed after golden lightning entered his body.

• Ye Han prepared for Di Tian’s tribulation as the academy’s allies gathered around the Life Tree.
• Di Tian endured successive lightning strikes while the Life Tree healed him, and Spirit Hall’s Qian Daoliu arrived intending to kill him.
• Ye Han threatened Qian Daoliu with the Piercing Death Thorn Spear and a display of Noble Phantasms, forcing him to withdraw.
• After Honjou Kaede, Lia, and Kurumi were injured, Di Tian urged Ye Han to flee before the final bolt.
• Ye Han released Already Distant City of Ideals to shield Di Tian; the barrier shattered, most of the lightning dissipated, and the remaining golden streak struck Ye Han, who collapsed as the tribulation ended.

After Di Tian survived his tribulation, Ye Han found the final golden lightning restrained inside the Chains of Heaven and later accepted an invitation to Heaven Dou Imperial City. There, Xue Ye tried to recruit Second Dimension Academy for the Advanced Soul Master Competition and questioned Dugu Bo about the supposed Soul God, while Ye Han hinted that the imperial family would soon face upheaval.

• Qian Daoliu and the other factions withdrew after Di Tian survived his tribulation, and Di Tian thanked Ye Han and the others for helping him.
• Ye Han discovered the golden tribulation lightning bound by the Chains of Heaven inside the Gate of Babylon, but could not identify its purpose.
• Kurumi delivered Xue Qinghe's invitation, and Ye Han decided that Second Dimension Academy would travel to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Xue Qinghe welcomed Ye Han, Dugu Bo, and Jade Flute Mianxia at the city gates and arranged accommodations for them.
• Xue Ye offered Second Dimension Academy spots in Heaven Dou Royal Academy for the Advanced Soul Master Competition, but Ye Han said his academy already qualified.
• Dugu Bo told Xue Ye that the Soul God's inheritance was fake, and Ye Han reassured Dugu Bo that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family would soon have no time to pursue the matter.

Ye Han helped Zhao Lei end the competition-planning meetings and explained the Advanced Soul Master Competition rules to his Guild Chat companions. He then visited Shrek Academy, where he reunited with Tang San and learned the Shrek Seven Devils’ current levels.

• Ye Han suggested a way for Zhao Lei to stop the drawn-out meetings, and Zhao Lei forced the organizers to declare the next meeting final and set the competition for one week later.
• Ye Han gathered the Guild Chat members and explained the competition’s rules, formats, and stages, while Esdeath eagerly volunteered to fight first.
• Ye Han went looking for Shrek Academy and found that Blue Tyrant Academy had been renamed Shrek Academy.
• Tang San welcomed Ye Han into the academy, where Ye Han met the Grandmaster, the academy staff, and the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Ye Han used Appraisal to check the Shrek Seven Devils’ levels and saw that Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong had reached level 41.

Ye Han reunited with the Shrek Seven Devils and spoke with Grandmaster about his Gate of Babylon Martial Soul before leaving Shrek Academy. While exploring Heaven Dou Imperial City ahead of the Advanced Soul Master Competition, he accidentally crossed paths with Huo Wushuang, who mistook him for a woman and became smitten.

• Ye Han met the Shrek Seven Devils at Shrek Academy, where they learned his academy would enter the Advanced Soul Master Competition.
• Grandmaster asked about Ye Han's weapons and Martial Soul, and Ye Han explained that the golden key opened the Gate of Babylon and declined to reveal his Soul Ring information.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Ye Han about why her father had warned her to surrender if she met him in a match, while Ye Han teased Xiao Wu before leaving with Tang San's offer to show him around declined.
• Ye Han walked through Heaven Dou Imperial City, noticed teams gathering for the competition, and bought candied hawthorns.
• Ye Han bumped into Huo Wushuang, who mistook him for a woman, introduced himself, and became distraught after Ye Han walked away.

Ye Han and the other academies attended the competition’s opening ceremony, where the teams were announced and the qualifiers began. Shrek crushed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, while Xue Ye learned that Prince Xue Xing had handed the academy’s former glory to outsiders.

• Ye Han and his academy arrived in the plaza, and Huo Wushuang became jealous after mistaking Ye Han’s conversation with Tang San for a close relationship with Huo Wu.
• Xue Ye officially opened the competition, and Ning Fengzhi praised the young Soul Masters while hinting that he favored two teams.
• Salas conducted the draw, pairing Second Dimension Academy with Auckland Academy and Shrek Academy with Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tang San followed his plan and led Shrek to a crushing victory over Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, showcasing his ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring.
• Salas mocked Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Meng Shenji told Xue Ye that Prince Xue Xing had handed the academy’s glory to others.