Chapter Summaries

Ye Ningguang recovered after risking her life in the battle and was summoned by Xiao Qiang, who rewarded her with a Hundred Thousand Year Aromatic Silk Beauty Soul Spirit. When he revealed what the Soul Spirit could do, Ning Fengyun coughed up blood at the possibility that Ye Ningguang’s Seven-Colored Gem could become a Nine-Colored Gem.

• Nana helped Ye Ningguang recover, dressed her, and brought her to meet Xiao Qiang.
• Xiao Qiang praised Ye Ningguang for her decisive actions during the battle and said Senior Nan would also receive a reward.
• Ning Fengyun regretted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School had missed its chance to advance, while Ning Tian tried to arrange healing for him.
• Ye Ningguang objected that a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit would be wasted on her, since her Seven-Colored Gem could not support powerful Soul Masters safely.
• Xiao Qiang told Ye Ningguang that her reward was a Hundred Thousand Year Aromatic Silk Beauty, the Soul Spirit linked to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s evolution.
• Ning Fengyun coughed up blood, and those around him called for a healing Soul Master.

Ning Fengyun mourned the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s decline and died after learning that Ghost Nana had become Ye Ningguang’s bodyguard and maid. Meanwhile, Xiao Qiang ordered a search for Huo Yuhao after the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy explosion, and his subordinates reported that they had captured Princess Jiujiu.

• Ning Fengyun learned that the Seven-Colored Gem Martial Soul had successfully evolved and lamented that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had missed its chance to regain power.
• Ning Bo told Ning Fengyun and Ning Tian that Ghost Nana had become Ye Ningguang’s direct subordinate, serving as her bodyguard and maid.
• Ning Fengyun regretted his decisions, called himself a sinner of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and died.
• Xiao Qiang learned that the Life Lake Water had been distributed and that the explosion and the Evil Soul Masters’ attack had caused more than one million deaths.
• Xiao Qiang ordered his subordinates to find Huo Yuhao and claim he had blown up the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• A subordinate told Xiao Qiang that Huo Yuhao was still missing but Princess Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire had been captured.

Xiao Qiang learned that Princess Jiujiu had surrendered to the Hall of Souls after the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was bombed and the former Three Douluo Kingdoms became targets of furious survivors. He ordered her brought to him under his rules, but Meng Hongchen arrived first, crying as she threw herself at him.

• A subordinate told Xiao Qiang that Princess Jiujiu had surrendered near the Hall of Souls after Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult blocked the former Three Douluo Kingdoms’ forces from helping her.
• Xiao Qiang learned that the Sun Moon Empire’s conservatives wanted to conquer the former Three Douluo Kingdoms by seizing cities and forcing their people to fight.
• The subordinate explained that Filial Father Douluo, Xu Kun, supported the plan after his father and son died in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy explosion, which had caused over a million confirmed casualties.
• The Hall of Souls venerable elder said Princess Jiujiu claimed a prior connection to Xiao Qiang to avoid being harmed by survivors who blamed the former Three Douluo Kingdoms.
• Xiao Qiang ordered his people to bring Princess Jiujiu to him and said she would have to follow his rules if she wanted to live.
• Before Princess Jiujiu arrived, Meng Hongchen ran to Xiao Qiang in tears and threw herself at him.

After Xu Tianran seized power, he blamed the academy explosion on the former Three Douluo Kingdoms and stripped Jing Hongchen of his titles and positions. Xiao Qiang promised to protect the Hongchen Family, then proposed preventing Xu Tianran’s coronation and replacing him with another prince.

• Xiao Hongchen told Xiao Qiang that the Emperor had died and Xu Tianran was about to ascend the throne.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that Xu Tianran blamed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy explosion on the former Three Douluo Kingdoms and removed Jing Hongchen from his posts and title.
• Xiao Qiang condemned Xu Tianran’s harsh and ungrateful treatment of his supporters, including Jing Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Xiao Qiang to use his influence to persuade Xu Tianran to restore Jing Hongchen’s positions, and Xiao Qiang agreed to help.
• Xiao Qiang learned that Xu Tianran’s coronation had not yet taken place and proposed replacing him with another prince.

Xiao Qiang moved against Xu Tianran as he prepared to secure his rule, while Xu Tianran plotted to strip Jing Hongchen and Xiao Qiang of their power. Xiao Qiang announced Xu Tianran’s death before the gathered officials, and the chapter ended with Ju Zi shielding Xu Tianran as Xiao Qiang warned her about his fate.

• Xiao Hongchen considered Xiao Qiang’s plan to purge the emperor’s side, and the Snow Empress entered with Princess Jiujiu.
• Ju Zi and the Shadow Douluo urged Xu Tianran not to move against Jing Hongchen, but Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to take him to receive the officials’ oaths.
• Xiao Qiang arrived in the main hall and declared that Xu Tianran had died before ascending the throne.
• Xiao Sheng’s Bone Dragon Soul Spirit dragged the Shadow Douluo into an unknown space, and Kong Deming stepped aside after Xiao Qiang challenged him.
• Ju Zi stood between Xiao Qiang and Xu Tianran, and Xiao Qiang warned her that she would not want Xu Tianran to die too painfully.

Xiao Qiang and his allies killed Crown Prince Xu Tianran and prevented the Sun Moon Empire from being drawn into a wider conflict, while Jing Hongchen emerged from seclusion to find the Holy Spirit Cult already destroyed. Xiao Qiang then revealed that he planned to target the 790,000-year-old Evil Emperor for his ninth Soul Ring because it was too powerful and needed to be sealed.

• Ju Zi pleaded for Xu Tianran's life, but Xiao Qiang pushed her aside and Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen attacked the crown prince.
• Meng Hongchen exposed Xu Tianran's collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Snow Empress sealed his Soul Power before he could resist.
• Xiao Qiang told the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Masters that his grievance was personal, and Kong Deming covered Xu Tianran's death by claiming he had fallen ill.
• Jing Hongchen emerged from two years of seclusion as a Tenth Level Soul Engineer and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had been destroyed and Du Busi had died.
• Xiao Qiang explained that Huo Yuhao had destroyed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shells, though the Hongchen Family had survived intact.
• Xiao Qiang told Jing Hongchen that he had chosen the 790,000-year-old Evil Emperor as his next target because it was too powerful and had to be sealed.

Xiao Qiang discussed his feelings for Meng Hongchen with Jing Hongchen, explaining that he liked her but was unwilling to promise her an exclusive relationship. After Xiao Qiang left, Mu Qingxue asked whether he had just said that he liked her.

• Jing Hongchen asked Xiao Qiang whether he planned to take his relationship with Meng Hongchen further, and Xiao Qiang admitted he liked her but might not be a good match for her.
• Jing Hongchen praised Xiao Qiang's maturity, strength, and generosity, then mistakenly concluded that Xiao Qiang wanted to become emperor.
• Xiao Qiang said he wanted strength, luxury, beautiful women, and a long life, but did not want to force women or change his outlook for Meng Hongchen.
• Xiao Qiang explained that he liked Meng Hongchen and Mu Qingxue because they were beautiful, and warned Jing Hongchen that marriage would mean living with his interest in other women.
• Xiao Qiang left Jing Hongchen alone to consider his words, and Mu Qingxue asked whether he had just said he liked her.

Xiao Qiang and Mu Qingxue discussed his willingness to take concubines, and Mu Qingxue offered to become one. They spent the night together, and the next morning she found him making fried eggs all over the kitchen.

• Xiao Qiang told Mu Qingxue he would not limit himself to one partner, and she dragged him into her room to question him.
• Mu Qingxue said she was willing to become Xiao Qiang's concubine, and they quickly reached an agreement.
• Xiao Qiang and Mu Qingxue spent the night together.
• Mu Qingxue woke the next morning and found fried eggs covering the kitchen while Xiao Qiang kept cooking.

Xiao Qiang and Mu Qingxue discussed the fate of captured Holy Spirit Cult members and Xiao Qiang’s plan to obtain the Evil Emperor as his ninth soul ring. He prepared Ling Luochen for his coming breakthrough by outlining her cultivation arrangements and a way to strengthen her future ninth soul ring.

• Mu Qingxue kept Princess Jiujiu as her maid and subdued Tang Ya while discussing the captured Holy Spirit Cult vice leader and Saintesses with Xiao Qiang.
• Xiao Qiang said the captured Saintesses might be used to help Yu Mengdi or Ye Guyi break through, but Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya would have to be dealt with because they had willingly become Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu Qingxue asked when Xiao Qiang would act against the Evil Emperor, and he said he first had arrangements to make before fusing with the Evil Emperor’s Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Qiang assessed Ling Luochen’s cultivation and told her to seek help from Xiao Lan while he pursued his ninth soul ring and a level-ninety-nine breakthrough.
• Xiao Qiang proposed combining the Ice Scorpion’s remaining power with its potential ninth soul ring to raise it to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, startling Ling Luochen.

Xiao Qiang persuaded Evil Emperor to join the God Summoning Plan and become his External Soul Bone, with the promise of a future Million Year Spirit Ring. After two and a half years of seclusion, Xiao Qiang reached Rank 98 and awakened a green Life Reincarnation Eye, while an unfamiliar figure appeared in his sea of consciousness.

• Ling Luochen realized that a 99,999-year Ice Scorpion ninth ring could greatly strengthen her and help her reach the highest ranks.
• Xiao Lan took charge of the Hall of Souls' internal affairs as Xiao Qiang, Xiao Sheng, Snow Empress, Jing Hongchen, and Mu Qingxue went to meet Evil Emperor.
• Evil Emperor agreed to support the God Summoning Plan and offered to become Xiao Qiang's Head Spirit Bone.
• Xiao Qiang persuaded Evil Emperor to become an External Soul Bone instead, explaining that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was better suited to provide his Head Spirit Bone.
• Xiao Qiang fused with Evil Emperor's External Soul Bone and a Million Year Spirit Ring, then spent two and a half years in seclusion and rose from Rank 90 to Rank 98.
• Xiao Qiang's spiritual power entered the divine realm as a green Life Reincarnation Eye appeared on his forehead, and an unfamiliar figure emerged in his sea of consciousness.

Xiao Qiang met a fading consciousness who identified herself as Life, the former Goddess of Life, and saw how Tang San passed the God of Life and God of Destruction inheritances to Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin. He learned that Life had escaped her seed’s absorption after the God of Destruction sacrificed himself, and suspected she had brought him to this place.

• A mysterious woman entered Xiao Qiang’s sea of spirit and cut off his connections to Tian Meng, Ice Empress, and Evil Emperor.
• The woman introduced herself as Life, formerly the Goddess of Life and one of the five God Kings.
• Life showed Xiao Qiang Tang San granting the God of Life inheritance to Gu Yuena and the God of Destruction inheritance to Tang Wulin.
• Xiao Qiang saw the God of Destruction rage at Tang San’s plan to use their remnants to help Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena become God Kings.
• The God of Destruction burned his final soul to send Life’s consciousness out of the Life Seed, and Life burned her last fragment after calling out to him.
• Xiao Qiang asked Life if she had brought him there.

After more than two and a half years in seclusion, Xiao Qiang learned that the Goddess of Life had brought him to the Douluo World and asked him to help Little Purple, the current God of Destruction. He returned to find the Hall of Souls flourishing under Xiao Lan, who had become its Female Pope.

• The Goddess of Life explained that she had brought Xiao Qiang to the Douluo World as a variable and asked him to help Little Purple if he became a god, then vanished.
• Xiao Qiang considered his lack of conflict with Tang San and accepted that he owed the Goddess of Life a debt he could not easily refuse.
• After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Qiang learned from Xiao Sheng that more than two and a half years had passed and that Xiao Lan, Nana, Ling Luochen, Yu Mengdi, Ye Guyi, Uncle Bai, and Nan Shui Shui had reached the Titled Douluo realm or higher.
• Xiao Sheng told Xiao Qiang that the Hall of Souls had grown to more than twenty Titled Douluo and become the continent's number one force.
• Xiao Sheng revealed that the Hall of Souls had replaced the title of Hall Master with Pope and that Xiao Lan was now its Female Pope.

Xiao Qiang learned how the Hall of Souls had helped Xu Tianqing become Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire and decided to end the ongoing conflict with the Star Luo Empire. As Xiao Lan prepared to crown a new emperor in Star Luo City, a human trafficker targeted her, unaware of her importance.

• Xiao Sheng told Xiao Qiang that Xu Tianqing had become Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire with the Hall of Souls' support, and that the empire had avoided large-scale war despite minor clashes.
• Xiao Qiang brought Xiao Sheng, Xiao Lan, and their companions to Star Luo City to persuade Emperor Xu Jiawei to end the war.
• Xu Jiawei was persuaded to step down, and one of his sons asked Xiao Lan to crown him as the new emperor.
• Huang Mu's subordinate reported that Xiao Lan was alone, and Huang Mu considered abducting her for the human-trafficking trade.
• Huang Mu hesitated because he felt uneasy, but his subordinate urged him to seize the opportunity, and Huang Mu began to agree.

Huang Mu decided to abduct Xiao Lan and sell her, believing she was an unprotected young woman, but his scheme collapsed when she revealed her overwhelming strength. Xiao Lan confronted Huang Mu and his men after resisting their drug and freezing one attacker’s hand.

• Huang Mu dismissed the possibility that Xiao Lan was powerful and decided to lure her into a shop his men controlled.
• Huang Mu's men assured him that Xiao Lan had no Guardian and planned to capture the other young women with her as well.
• Huang Mu discovered that the drug incense had no effect on Xiao Lan and ordered a middle-aged woman to frame her as a seductress.
• Xiao Lan froze the woman's outstretched hand and forced Huang Mu to his knees with her pressure.
• Xiao Lan accused Huang Mu and his men of following, drugging, and attempting to frame her, leaving Huang Mu stunned that she had known their plan.

With the Hall of Souls consolidating control across the former Three Douluo Kingdoms, Soul Spirits and Shrek’s exposed scandals drove many soul masters to question Tang San’s legacy and suspect his family had been Evil Soul Masters. Xiao Qiang’s attention turned to whether these revelations could help restore the Angel Spirit’s divine position.

• Xiao Qiang helped establish the former emperors as rulers appointed by the Hall of Souls’ Pope and faced resistance to worship of the Angel Statues.
• The Hall of Souls opened branches, stationed Titled Douluo in major cities, and introduced Soul Spirits, drawing large numbers of soul masters into its ranks.
• As Shrek’s teaching abilities and cheating scandal came to light, soul masters began arguing that Tang San and his family had been Evil Soul Masters.
• Soul masters cited the decline of Tang San’s allies, the spread of Evil Soul Masters, and Shrek’s connections to the Holy Spirit Cult as evidence against his legacy.
• Xiao Qiang asked whether the Angel Spirit’s divine position could be restored further.

Xiao Qiang decided to accelerate the exploration of other continents because restoring the Angel Godhood required faith that Douluo Continent might not provide. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi learned that another continent had been found and volunteered to lead students there to rebuild Shrek.

• Mu Qingxue told Xiao Qiang that she had not sensed any power of faith and that the requirements for restoring the Angel Godhood remained unknown.
• Xiao Qiang decided that the effort to develop the other two continents would have to begin sooner.
• Shrek Academy's enrollment had collapsed after its failures and misconduct became widely known, and Hall of Souls Academy had taken in the young Soul Masters Shrek could no longer seize.
• Zhou Yi blamed the teachers who had led students to hunt Soul Rings for Shrek's decline, prompting Xuan Zi to defend them and refrain from dismissing her.
• Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that they had found an undiscovered continent where Shrek could be rebuilt.
• Xuan Zi called for Shrek's best students and declared that he would personally lead them to develop the new continent.

Xiao Xiao reflected on how Shrek’s promises and training had failed her, while the Hall of Souls’ Saintesses had surpassed her. Captured after a battle, she now served Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and the group learned their new-continent mission might involve Titled Douluo.

• Xiao Xiao recalled how Shrek had promised her a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, spirit bones, and a future leadership position, only for Shrek’s decline to reveal how little it had truly nurtured her.
• Xiao Xiao compared her stalled cultivation as a Soul Emperor with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, who had become eight-ring Soul Douluo despite her greater talent.
• Xiao Xiao washed and dried Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo’s feet, enduring her role as their maid after the Hall of Souls captured her.
• Lan Susu asked how soon the group would reach the new continent, and an intelligence Soul Master warned that it might have Titled Douluo, requiring several Saintesses to fight.

After Shrek conquered Shrek Continent, Xuan Zi refused to hand over leadership and insisted on suppressing the land himself, despite the heavy losses among Shrek’s students. When a fleet from the Mighty Empire arrived, he rallied Shrek’s soul masters to confront it, only to see Xiao Sheng and other Hall of Souls leaders emerge from the ships.

• Du Wilun urged Xuan Zi to bring Yan Shaozhe to Shrek Continent, but Xuan Zi ordered everyone to wait another half year while he continued suppressing the local opposition.
• Xuan Zi boasted that the Hall of Souls would never find Shrek Continent, and Du Wilun warned that he feared they might discover them.
• A native Seven-Ring Soul Sage reported that dozens of ships carrying tens of thousands of people and several Titled Douluo had appeared off the coast.
• After learning the visitors belonged to the Mighty Empire, Xuan Zi ordered Du Wilun to gather Shrek soul masters above four rings and flew to confront the fleet.
• Xiao Sheng emerged from the ships with Ling Luochen, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, Nan Shui Shui, and other Hall of Souls leaders, leaving Xuan Zi stunned.

Xiao Sheng’s forces confronted Shrek on the Shrek Continent, where Ling Luochen revealed herself as a level ninety-five Extreme Ice Super Douluo and led the assault. With Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo restraining Xuan Zi, Ling Luochen killed him with Absolute Zero, leaving Shrek’s forces leaderless.

• Xuan Zi realized he could neither flee nor defeat Xiao Sheng’s forces without leaving Shrek devastated.
• Ling Luochen appeared as a level ninety-five Extreme Ice Super Douluo and killed Shrek’s high-level soul masters with her eighth spirit skill.
• Xuan Zi attacked Ling Luochen, but Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo slowed him with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ling Luochen used her ninth spirit skill and Absolute Zero to freeze and shatter Xuan Zi.

After reaching level one hundred with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s help, Xiao Qiang prepared to lead the attack on Shrek City. Shrek’s leaders accepted that the besieged city could not be saved, and Xiao Qiang ordered the assault to begin.

• Xiao Qiang absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, gained four Million Year Spirit Rings, and reached level one hundred.
• Xiao Qiang concluded that he had no divine trial waiting for him but believed he was strong enough to destroy Shrek without mishap.
• Mu Qingxue asked Xiao Qiang about his new strength, and they agreed not to delay the attack on Shrek.
• Wang Yan asked Yan Shaozhe how Shrek could survive the Sun Moon Empire’s three-month siege, and Yan Shaozhe said Elder Xuan could rebuild it elsewhere.
• Xiao Qiang arrived at the Sun Moon Empire’s encirclement, heard Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discuss Shrek’s defenders, and said they would attack now.