Chapter Summaries

At the Sea God Lake matchmaking event, Wang Yan confessed his feelings to Han Ruo Ruo, and she accepted him. They left together, while Zhang Lexuan watched them go with melancholy.

• Han Ruo Ruo asked the male students to step forward if they wanted to pursue her, but no one initially dared to speak up.
• Wang Yan rushed forward and confessed his feelings to Han Ruo Ruo, recounting how their connection began in the library.
• Han Ruo Ruo accepted Wang Yan's feelings, and the two left the event together.
• Xuan Zi warned Wang Yan to invite everyone to his wedding, while Xu San Shi eagerly anticipated the banquet.
• Zhang Lexuan watched Wang Yan and Han Ruo Ruo leave with envy and melancholy, and Qin Ze considered whether Wang Yan might be an ancestor of the Qiangu Family.

Wu Feng and Di Yue Li joined Qin Ze, while Jiang Nannan paired with Xu San Shi, as the fourth segment of the matchmaking event ended. The final bride-stealing segment began, and Gu Fan and Hua Yao, then Huo Yu Hao and Wang Dong'er, left without competitors challenging them.

• Wu Feng introduced herself and joined Qin Ze beside Ning Tian, explaining that she and Ning Tian had Yue Li's permission to watch the event up close.
• Ling Luochen withdrew, and when Di Yue Li approached, Qin Ze sent Ning Tian and Wu Feng floating away on an ice sheet before offering Di Yue Li a chair.
• Jiang Nannan joined Xu San Shi, and the fourth segment ended with thirteen female students and fewer than nine male students remaining.
• Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan explained the final bride-stealing segment, and Gu Fan chose Hua Yao; no one challenged them as they departed.
• Huo Yu Hao chose Wang Dong'er, and no one challenged them either, giving the event two consecutive couples who escaped bride-stealing.

Qin Ze carried Di Yue Li away after their matchmaking ceremony and took her back to the pavilion for time alone together. Di Yue Li shared how their destinies first connected, and Qin Ze kissed her and told her he loved her.

• Qin Ze lifted Di Yue Li and challenged the crowd to object to him taking her away, but no one spoke up.
• Zhang Lexuan declared Qin Ze and Di Yue Li’s Hundred Years of Harmony segment complete, and Qin Ze flew off with her.
• Qin Ze thanked Tang Ya, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan for helping, then returned to the Inner Court with Di Yue Li.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li sat together in the dormitory, held hands, and spoke about confessing and their future.
• Di Yue Li told Qin Ze she had been born from the Power of Destiny and had first encountered him when his own Power of Destiny stirred hers.
• Qin Ze kissed Di Yue Li and whispered that he loved her.

Qin Ze joined Shrek Academy’s leaders in welcoming visiting dignitaries and escorting them to the Soul Tool Department to inspect the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool. He also planned to warn Bear Lord about the Evil Soul Master brothers in five days, while the visitors prepared to see the test subject.

• Qin Ze asked Cai Mei'er about the Inner Court students who needed soul rings, and she explained that the academy had canceled the planned hunt to set an example with the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method.
• Qin Ze decided to leave in four days to warn Bear Lord about the three Evil Soul Master brothers he remembered encountering five days later.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi teased Qin Ze about his relationship with his wife and Xiao Kuangdao urged him to give him a disciple-grandchild, while Ning Guanqing said Qin Ze should decide for himself.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed Xiao Kuangdao, Ning Guanqing, Du Busi, Shattering Star Douluo, and their group at the Outer Court back gate, then led them to the Soul Tool Department.
• Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er guided the group into a secure experimental base, where they found the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool and a prepared test subject.

Shrek Academy demonstrated the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool to its guests, using Inner Court student Mo Xuan as its first test subject. As the machine began channeling purified energy into him, the guests watched live data showing the energy converging on the first acupoints in his limbs.

• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo welcomed the guests and arranged seats that rose from beneath the floor.
• Qian Duoduo brought ten Shrek Academy students forward and invited the Inner Court students to go first.
• Mo Xuan entered the machine's metal pillar, where energy beams attached to his arms and legs.
• Qian Duoduo activated the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool, and the ceiling supplied energy to the pillar.
• Mo Xuan felt purified energy filling his limbs as the guests watched the screen track its progress toward his first acupoints.

Mo Xuan underwent the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool procedure, successfully opening the acupoints in all four limbs with purified energy. In the activation room, he began drawing out the Acupoint Qi to activate his bloodline.

• Qian Duoduo monitored Mo Xuan as purified Soul Power battered the acupoints in his limbs.
• Mo Xuan's first acupoints broke through, and energy then opened the remaining acupoints in all four limbs.
• Qian Duoduo stopped the energy transport after the light dots on Mo Xuan's limbs turned red.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Mo Xuan to the activation room and instructed him to use Acupoint Qi to impact the bloodline power in his acupoints.
• Mo Xuan sensed more than thirty opened acupoints and felt burning Acupoint Qi surging from them.

Mo Xuan activated his bloodline and infused its power into his soul rings before using it to condense a soul ring through his martial soul. As a transparent ring began to form, Du Busi recognized the value of the Bloodline Activation Method and decided to reward Qin Ze with an honorary elder position in the Body Sect.

• Mo Xuan activated his bloodline, drawing dense red power from his acupoint into the activation room.
• Mo Xuan guided the bloodline power into his five soul rings, strengthening them and forming blood-patterned armor on his body.
• Mo Xuan activated his bloodline a second time, formed a cloud of fused energy, and guided it into his ring-of-light martial soul.
• A transparent soul ring began to condense around Mo Xuan, and Qin Ze told Du Busi its color would change.
• Du Busi reflected that the Bloodline Activation Method would benefit the Body Sect and decided to arrange an honorary elder position for Qin Ze.

Mo Xuan condensed a twenty-thousand-year sixth soul ring, demonstrating the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method to the gathered factions. Qin Ze offered to share the method in exchange for the empires’ commitment to promote it, and representatives of both empires agreed.

• Mo Xuan used the bloodline cloud and his stored Soul Power to condense a black sixth soul ring, which he found was twenty thousand years old and raised his support amplification from ten percent to fifteen percent.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Mo Xuan into the observation room, where he displayed the pure, pitch-black soul ring to the gathered experts.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Qin Ze had created the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method, prompting the factions to turn their attention to him.
• Qin Ze said the method would be promoted after the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool could be mass-produced, but offered earlier access to factions if both empires agreed to publicize it and fund their own tools.
• Du Busi agreed on behalf of the Heaven Dou Empire, and Shattering Star Douluo also agreed.

Qin Ze secured support from the empires and other forces to promote the Self-Condensing Method, then told Di Yue Li about plans to help Bear Lord’s clan. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Huo Yu Hao was named a reserve member, and the elders discussed the method and the soul tool blueprints he brought back.

• Qin Ze left the Self-Condensing Method’s construction and promotion plans to the academy deans after representatives approved the project.
• Qin Ze told Di Yue Li that three Evil Soul Masters had noticed Bear Lord’s clansmen and said he planned to help them.
• The representatives returned to their forces, while Shattering Star Douluo and Du Busi stayed to discuss the next Soul Fighting Competition.
• Qin Ze attended a Sea God Pavilion meeting, where Huo Yu Hao was promoted to reserve member.
• Yan Shaozhe presented academy matters, including the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method and research into Huo Yu Hao’s soul tool blueprints from Mingde Hall.

Qin Ze and the Sea God Pavilion elders agreed to delay the wider rollout of the soul-ring methods until after the next Soul Fighting Competition and discussed protecting soul beasts from increased hunting. After Mu En privately confirmed Qin Ze and Huo Yu Hao’s intentions had not changed, Huo Yu Hao showed Qin Ze a sealed pouch from Dong’er, prompting Qin Ze to consider how it might free Huo Yu Hao from Tang San’s control.

• Qin Ze urged the elders to wait until after the next Soul Fighting Competition to promote the Acupoint Breaking Soul Tool and Bloodline Activation Method, and warned that easier soul rings could lead to soul-beast hunting for soul bones.
• Elder Song, the other Senior Elders, and the four deans supported Qin Ze’s proposal, while Mu En said they should eventually speak with the savage beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xian Lin’er raised the thousand blueprints Huo Yu Hao had brought back, and the elders decided to handle that matter alongside the rollout; Mu En classified the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method as a highest-level red secret.
• Yan Shaozhe teased Qin Ze about asking for leave, and Cai Mei’er smacked him; afterward, Mu En privately asked Qin Ze and Huo Yu Hao whether their original intentions had changed, and both said they had not.
• Huo Yu Hao gave Qin Ze a sealed blue brocade pouch from Dong’er, which she said her father had left for her to pass on to him.
• Qin Ze suspected Tang San’s seal might be inside the pouch and considered returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; he then asked Huo Yu Hao whether he trusted him.

Qin Ze gave Huo Yu Hao instructions about opening a sealed pouch, then received a Humanoid Soul Tool from Du Busi and delivered it to Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er for study. That night, he and Di Yue Li prepared to visit the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

• Qin Ze told Huo Yu Hao to have the Skydream Iceworm undo the pouch’s seal and wait for him before dealing with its contents, then learned that a former Class 9 Soul Engineer lived in Sea Soul City.
• Qin Ze visited Du Busi, who gave him the Starlight Sapphire Ring containing a Humanoid Soul Tool as repayment for Shrek Academy’s Bloodline Activation Method.
• Long Aotian challenged Qin Ze to a future match, and Qin Ze agreed as long as they avoided getting injured before later stages of the Soul Fighting Competition.
• Qin Ze brought the Humanoid Soul Tool to Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, who planned to consult Mu En before taking it out for study.
• Qin Ze confirmed with Di Yue Li that Di Tian knew they would visit the Star Dou Great Forest, and they decided to leave after lunch the next day.

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li reunited with Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Qin Ze discussed promoting the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method and protecting soul beasts. He also asked Di Tian to summon Bear Lord after his Power of Destiny showed him a vision connected to Bear Lord’s clansmen.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li said goodbye to Xu San Shi and Jiang Nannan before leaving Shrek City for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian welcomed Qin Ze and Di Yue Li and brought them through a Gate of Space to the Great Ominous Land, where Di Yue Li reunited with Bi Ji.
• Qin Ze told Di Tian that the Star Luo and Heaven Dou royal families had agreed to promote the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method after the next Soul Fighting Competition.
• Qin Ze warned that people might hunt soul beasts for soul bones once soul rings no longer required hunting, and asked Di Tian to help develop countermeasures with humans.
• Qin Ze asked Di Tian to summon Bear Lord because his Power of Destiny had shown him a vision involving Bear Lord’s clansmen, and Bear Lord arrived in human form.

Qin Ze warned Bear Lord that Evil Soul Masters planned to attack a pregnant Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and Bear Lord used his bloodline call to locate her. Qin Ze also told Di Tian that the Demon Empress was behind the attacks on Star Dou Great Forest, prompting Di Tian to recall his past encounters with her and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

• Qin Ze told Bear Lord that three Soul Douluo Evil Soul Masters would target a pregnant Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and had tortured her mate to death, turning him into a vengeful soul.
• Bear Lord used his bloodline call to find the pregnant Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and promised Qin Ze a favor if his warning proved true.
• Qin Ze told Di Tian that the Demon Empress was cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult and had planned the burrows that drained Star Dou Great Forest's Life Origin.
• Di Tian recalled meeting the Demon Empress while fighting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and witnessing Tang San kill the whale king ten thousand years earlier.
• Di Tian said he could not locate the Demon Empress, then asked whether Qin Ze and Di Yue Li would stay the night in the forest.

Qin Ze learned from Di Tian that the god who chose him might be connected to the Purple Blazing Sky Annihilating Dragon and its remains on Douluo Continent. Meanwhile, Bear Lord found a pregnant Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear he believed was being hunted by Evil Soul Masters, restored her strength, and prepared to protect her.

• Qin Ze told Di Tian that a god had chosen him and promised to guide him to an Inheritance Temple.
• Di Tian explained that a Purple Blazing Sky Annihilating Dragon had fallen onto Douluo Continent and that the God of Destruction had suppressed its corpse.
• Qin Ze realized Xu Tianran's martial soul was the Purple Blazing Sky Annihilating Dragon and thought He Caitou might know its origins.
• Di Yue Li chose to stay with Bi Ji for the night, and Di Tian welcomed Qin Ze to remain with them.
• Bear Lord reached the pregnant female Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, confirmed she would give birth by the next day, and restored her to peak condition.
• Bear Lord left after erasing his tracks and wondered whether he should gather all his clansmen together.

Qin Ze reached Rank 69 at the Lake of Life and planned a future home with Di Yue Li before carrying her to their wooden house. The next day, three Zhong Li brothers tracked a female Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and plotted to lure her away from her newborn cubs.

• Qin Ze broke through to Rank 69 as the Lake of Life and spirit fruits nourished him.
• Bi Ji told Qin Ze and Di Yue Li they could stay in a nearby wooden house, but Di Yue Li was disappointed when Bi Ji and Di Tian left for a meeting.
• Qin Ze embraced Di Yue Li, suggested they live somewhere like the Lake of Life after marriage, and carried her toward the house.
• Zhong Li Tian, Zhong Li Di, and Zhong Li Ren tracked a female Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and found her near two newborn cubs.
• Zhong Li Tian ordered Zhong Li Di and Zhong Li Ren to test the bear while he prepared to use the male bear's beast soul to lure her away.

The Zhong Li brothers were surrounded by more than a hundred Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears after they tried to attack a female bear and her cub. At the Lake of Life, Bear Lord brought a blood-colored sphere to Di Tian and asked Qin Ze for help.

• Zhong Li Ren and Zhong Li Di approached the cave, where the weakened female Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear emerged and faced them without attacking.
• Zhong Li Tian summoned a blood-colored Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and the female bear recovered her strength as the three brothers watched in confusion.
• Bear Lord and more than a hundred Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears surrounded the Zhong Li brothers, and Bear Lord asked Zhong Li Tian how he wanted to die.
• Qin Ze caught a fish at the Lake of Life while Di Yue Li asked him to make grilled fish with pickled pepper flavor.
• Bear Lord arrived beside Di Tian with a blood-colored sphere and asked for the Child of Destiny's help, so Di Tian called Qin Ze over.

Qin Ze purified the corrupted soul of Bear Lord’s clansman, earning Bear Lord’s promise of future help. He later shared a grilled-fish dinner with Di Yue Li, Di Tian, and Bi Ji, and he and Di Yue Li agreed to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest a few more days.

• Qin Ze used his Azure Dragon’s purifying power to cleanse the evil aura from the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s soul, though he said the soul would disappear within an hour.
• Bear Lord thanked Qin Ze, promised to help him in the future, and left with the cleansed soul.
• Di Yue Li caught a fish, and Qin Ze cooked it with pickled peppers for dinner beside the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian, Di Yue Li, and Qin Ze enjoyed the grilled fish, while Bi Ji ate only a little.
• Di Yue Li helped Qin Ze clean up, and the two relaxed beneath the meteor-filled sky.
• Qin Ze asked Di Yue Li to stay a few more days, and she agreed.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest with Di Yue Li, Qin Ze returned to Shrek Academy and learned that Huo Yu Hao was worried about Wang Dong'er’s supposed hidden illness. Qin Ze doubted the claim and took Huo Yu Hao to the Sunset Forest to investigate the place indicated by a parchment.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li said goodbye to Di Tian and Bi Ji, and Di Tian asked Qin Ze to bring more pickled pepper soup base and search for the Purple Blazing Sky Annihilating Dragon.
• Huo Yu Hao fretted over a parchment claiming Wang Dong'er might die before turning twenty, then welcomed Qin Ze back and showed him the parchment.
• Qin Ze dismissed the hidden-illness claim, told Huo Yu Hao to pack, and secured leave from Yan Shaozhe before the two set out for the Sunset Forest.
• Qin Ze and Huo Yu Hao flew around Heaven Dou City and reached the declining Sunset Forest, where Qin Ze led the way into the woods with his wings summoned.

Qin Ze brought Huo Yu Hao through the poisonous miasma of Sunset Forest and descended into the valley protected by the Jade Phosphor Seven-Leaf Flowers. They discovered a hidden paradise around the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot, where Qin Ze recognized the enormous plant beside it.

• Qin Ze used the Heart of Glazed Tile to neutralize the miasma as he and Huo Yu Hao flew over Sunset Forest.
• Qin Ze told Huo Yu Hao that the Jade Phosphor Seven-Leaf Flowers had poisoned most of Sunset Forest’s soul beasts and guarded something beneath the valley.
• Qin Ze guided Huo Yu Hao down the valley’s center, avoiding the attacking vines.
• Qin Ze and Huo Yu Hao emerged from the miasma into a clear valley filled with life around the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot.
• Qin Ze spotted the enormous plant beside the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot and recognized it.

At a meeting of the five God Kings, Destruction proposed placing vacant divine inheritances in powerful lower planes to increase the God Realm’s power of faith, while Tang San opposed the plan and abruptly departed. Destruction then revealed to the Goddess of Life that he had raised the issue because someone was acting dishonestly, and showed her a vision of two youths on Douluo Continent.

• Destruction proposed opening more Deity Positions and placing vacant inheritances, including the Ice God, Angel God, and Rakshasa God, in powerful lower planes.
• Evil, Good, and Tang San raised concerns about the God Realm’s limited Immortal Spiritual Qi and the effects of changing how faith was distributed.
• Tang San argued that the First-level Main Gods should discuss the proposal and warned that assigning gods without regard to a plane’s existing faith could upset its balance.
• After Tang San sensed something and vanished, Destruction agreed to postpone the discussion, and Ji Dong and Lie Yan left.
• The Goddess of Life asked Destruction why he had raised the proposal, and he said certain people were acting dishonestly before showing her two youths on Douluo Continent.