Chapter Summaries

After helping Di Yue Li absorb a strand of Mysterious Ice Marrow, Qin Ze attended Xue Lingxun’s secret meeting about the growing rebellion in the Dou Ling Empire. Xue Lingxun proposed an alliance with the Heaven Dou Empire and a federal system, and Qin Ze outlined a plan for Dou Ling to retain internal autonomy within a united empire.

• Qin Ze helped Di Yue Li absorb the first strand of Mysterious Ice Marrow, raising her cultivation to the peak of rank eighty-two and strengthening her meridians and Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe summoned Qin Ze to the Imperial Study, where Xue Lingxun and the empire’s leaders discussed reports that Northwest Province might join the rebellion.
• Xue Lingxun explained that rebel forces from multiple provinces threatened the empire and proposed joining forces with the Heaven Dou Empire as a last resort.
• Xue Lingxun said she hoped the alliance could turn the Dou Ling Empire into a federal state, prompting Marshal Li Wu to object and the enshrined to support her.
• Qin Ze proposed merging the two empires while granting the former Dou Ling territory federal autonomy, with its own council and limits on taxes and military strength.

Qin Ze helped the Dou Ling Empire prepare for war against the rebels by proposing defenses and recruiting allies, then gathered his companions to discuss the Sea God Family’s forces and distribute Profound Ice Marrow. The group began absorbing the treasure at the merchant association, while Qin Ze took extra pieces to strengthen himself before war arrived.

• Qin Ze proposed placing four worshipers with the armies guarding the empire’s four directions, and Xue Lingxun approved the plan while assigning the Prime Minister to recruit sects and soul master families with promises of future senator positions.
• Elder Lin confirmed that the Sea God Family had openly sent four Super Douluo worshipers and several hundred Sea Soul Masters, prompting Qin Ze to plan with Xu San Shi and Jiang Nannan to target them if they gathered as a corps.
• Qin Ze told the merchant association group to wait for intelligence before acting against the Sea Soul Masters, then asked Wang Dong'er whether her health had changed and heard that she was well.
• Qin Ze distributed Profound Ice Marrow to his companions and invited Su Tong to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect; Su Tong accepted, and Xiao Xiao also asked to join.
• Qin Ze reassured his companions that their support was mutual, and everyone accepted the Profound Ice Marrow before heading to the cultivation rooms to absorb it.
• Qin Ze kept Ma Xiaotao with him to guard against complications from her Extreme Fire attribute and began absorbing ten pieces of Profound Ice Marrow with the Extreme Ice attribute.

Yan Shaozhe discovered that Northwest Province was preparing for rebellion while the Sea God Family’s Consecrates coordinated an uprising against the Dou Ling Empire. Tang Hao appeared before the Consecrates and recruited them to help him kill Qin Ze by keeping Di Tian from interfering.

• Yan Shaozhe secretly investigated Mingguang City’s barracks, found weapons being stockpiled and Soul Masters carrying messages to rebellious provinces, and saw a letter ordering the rebellion to begin in ten days.
• Xue Kui told the four Sea God Family Consecrates that provincial armies and local sects were preparing to support their attack, and Sea Shark Douluo set the assault for ten days later.
• Sea Woman Douluo vowed revenge on Qin Ze, but Tang Hao suddenly appeared, restrained the Consecrates, and revealed that he intended to kill Qin Ze.
• Tang Hao asked the Consecrates to hold off Di Tian so he could strike Qin Ze, then departed after giving his name.
• Sea Spear Douluo recognized Tang Hao as the Lord’s father from ancient records, and Sea Shark Douluo warned him not to speak carelessly about it.

Tang Hao tracked the Sea God's bloodline toward Qin Ze and his granddaughter, while Xue Lingxun decided to seek an alliance with the Heaven Dou Empire. Qin Ze and Di Yue Li continued absorbing Profound Ice Marrow until the Sea Princess revealed the Sea God Family's location in the Northern Ice Sea.

• Tang Hao used a compass to sense his granddaughter's Sea God bloodline and set off toward her location, believing Qin Ze would be there too.
• Yan Shaozhe reported the rebels' strength to Xue Lingxun, who chose to secretly ally with the Heaven Dou Empire and travel there with Elder Lin as her guard.
• Yan Shaozhe found that the students had raised their cultivation by absorbing Profound Ice Marrow, but they refused to leave the Dou Ling Empire; he allowed them to stay as long as they did not act without permission.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li refined their Soul Power together after absorbing Profound Ice Marrow, then prepared to continue their secluded cultivation.
• The Sea Princess contacted Qin Ze through the Message Conch and told him she had found the Sea God Family's location in the Northern Ice Sea.

Qin Ze resumed refining the Mysterious Ice Marrow with Di Yue Li while the Heaven Dou Empire advanced its reforms. Xue Lingxun proposed merging the embattled Dou Ling Empire into Heaven Dou under an autonomous federal system, and Tianhe Duke Xue Leng rallied his troops to march against the rebels.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li resumed their cultivation after the Snow Empress restarted the flow of the Mysterious Ice Marrow energy.
• Wei Yan Jun reviewed the Heaven Dou Empire’s free martial-soul awakening decree as Xue Lingxun and Elder Lin arrived in Heaven Dou City.
• Wei Yan Jun summoned his officials, and Xue Lingxun proposed abolishing the Dou Ling Empire and merging its territory into Heaven Dou while retaining local autonomy.
• Wei Yan Jun agreed to discuss the merger and military aid, while Du Busi and Elder Lin observed their negotiations.
• Several days later, Xue Leng rallied more than one hundred thousand troops in Tianhe Province to march south toward Lingdou City and oppose the rebels.

Eight provinces launched a rebellion against the Dou Ling Empire, and Tianhe and Luoan Provinces began marching toward Chunfeng Pass. Xu San Shi ordered the empire to mobilize as the first news of the uprising reached Lingdou City.

• The armies of eight provinces gathered to overthrow the imperial family, while Xue Leng led Tianhe Province’s hundred-thousand-strong army south toward Chunfeng Pass.
• Scorpion Tiger Douluo dispatched over a hundred empowered soul masters to assassinate officials in cities behind the pass, as Crow Douluo and Scorpion Tiger Douluo discussed their alliance with the Sea God Family.
• Marshal Li Wu received word of Tianhe Province’s advance and ordered Chunfeng Pass closed and placed on level-one combat readiness.
• A messenger reported at court that Tianhe and Luoan Provinces had rebelled and would gather at Duchun City within two days.
• Xu San Shi declared the provincial lords traitors, ordered martial law and expanded recruitment, and called on officials to unite against the rebel armies.

Xu San Shi and Shrek’s experts prepared to counter the rebellion as the Dou Ling Empire mobilized its forces and Xue Leng’s army planned an attack on Chunfeng Pass. The chapter ended with Li Wu relying on two hidden Titled Douluo to defend the pass, while the rebels prepared to strike that night.

• The Prime Minister reported that he had recruited thirteen sects and seven Soul Master clans, and Xu San Shi entrusted him with arranging their forces.
• Yan Shaozhe assigned Shrek’s younger experts to operate in groups of five across northern cities and told them to avoid acting until they knew the targets had no powerful guards.
• The Dou Ling Empire announced that Tianhe Province and Luoan Province had rebelled, prompting a surge of enlistments and civilians transporting supplies to the front.
• Xue Leng and Xue Kui gathered their forces in Duchun City and used two High-Altitude Soul Tool Detectors to survey Chunfeng Pass before planning a nighttime assault.
• Li Wu revealed that he had deliberately left apparent weaknesses in Chunfeng Pass’s defenses, and asked the hidden Second Worship and Biolin Douluo to watch for a surprise attack.

Xue Leng’s forces launched a rain-covered assault on Chunfeng Pass, but the Second Worship and the defenders sprang an ambush and repelled the Vanguard Team. The Second Worship destroyed the incoming cannon barrage, then directed the Royal Soul Engineer Corps to counterattack the rebel artillery positions.

• Xue Leng’s soul engineer corps secretly positioned cannons near Chunfeng Pass and prepared the Vanguard Team to seize the gate after the bombardment.
• The rebels fired their cannons at the gate and the city’s warehouses, but the defenders had evacuated into safe tunnels after their alarm detected the attack.
• The Second Worship revealed himself behind the gate and killed five Soul Saints with his Chasing Wind Sword as the defenders emerged to attack the Vanguard Team.
• The Vanguard Team captain escaped and warned the rebel general that the gate was an ambush, while the defenders’ ranged attacks killed many of the advancing rebels.
• The rebel general ordered another volley, but the Second Worship used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to destroy the incoming shells in midair.
• The Second Worship informed the Royal Soul Engineer Corps of the rebel cannons’ location, and its cannons began firing on the mountain forest.

The defenders at Chunfeng Pass repelled a rebel night raid, but Evil Soul Masters began slaughtering civilians across Spring Breeze Plain and threatened the Royal Family’s supply lines. After Ma Xiaotao’s group arrived at Mai City in response to an explosion, Huo Yu Hao spotted black-robed figures fleeing, and Ma Xiaotao pursued them with him.

• The Dou Ling Royal Soul Engineer Corps bombarded the rebel forces at Chunfeng Pass, killing more than half of their soul engineer corps and forcing the rebels to retreat to Duchun City.
• Xue Leng and Xue Kui ordered the rebel army to withdraw, then began planning their next attack while Chunfeng Pass’s defenders restored their defenses.
• A Royal Family secret guard warned Li Wu that Evil Soul Masters were attacking Spring Breeze Plain, and Li Wu ordered extra vigilance at Chunfeng Pass.
• As rebel provinces mobilized against the Royal Family, Shrek Academy sent Ma Xiaotao’s group to investigate the killings across Spring Breeze Plain.
• Huo Yu Hao suspected the Evil Soul Masters were using a lifespan-consuming medicine and serving as expendable agents for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• After an explosion rocked Mai City, Ma Xiaotao’s group flew there, and Huo Yu Hao spotted black-robed figures leaving a rooftop; Ma Xiaotao took him after them while the others went to help at the City Lord’s mansion.

Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yu Hao tracked down Sea God Family Soul Masters responsible for attacking Mai City and captured their leader, uncovering a plot to draw out Shrek Academy and a mysterious target. They returned to Lingdou City with the prisoner as the Sea God Family’s leaders continued planning an ambush.

• Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yu Hao followed lingering Soul Power to the black-robed group, and Ma Xiaotao destroyed most of its Soul Emperor members with a barrage of flaming meteors.
• Ma Xiaotao fought the Sea Spirit Bird Soul Master, while Huo Yu Hao stunned him; they found a crystal marked with three black dots and decided to take the prisoner to Lingdou City.
• Sea Shark Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo discussed luring the target into a sparsely populated town and attacking, while their forces remained blocked outside Chunfeng Pass.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou helped Mai City’s residents after the city lord’s manor burned, then learned the Sea God Family had staged the attack to draw out their target.
• Ma Xiaotao ordered the prisoner taken to Lingdou City for questioning, and the group left Mai City with him.

After refining the Mysterious Ice Marrow, Qin Ze and Di Yue Li left seclusion and learned that the Sea God Family was using Evil Soul Masters to lure him out. Qin Ze decided to prepare a counter-ambush and summon Shrek’s Senior Elders, leaving the group readying for a confrontation.

• Ma Xiaotao’s group reached the outskirts of Lingdou City with a captured black-robed Sea God Family member, then arrived at the Nine Treasures Chamber of Commerce headquarters after dawn.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li completed their secluded cultivation, reaching ranks eighty-eight and eighty-three respectively, and responded to the Soul Guiding Lamp’s warning that something major had happened.
• Xu San Shi reported heavy pressure on the defensive lines, while Ma Xiaotao’s group told Qin Ze about the Sea God Family’s suspected plan to use Evil Soul Masters to draw him out.
• Qin Ze restrained the black-robed captive with the Power of Destruction, then ordered Huo Yu Hao to search the captive’s memories and Xu San Shi to notify Dean Yan and the Senior Elders.
• Qin Ze identified the crystal as an observation device linked to the three Evil Soul Masters Ma Xiaotao’s group had killed and concluded that the Sea God Family was targeting him.
• Qin Ze asked Ma Xiaotao to summon Shrek’s Senior Elders so they could set a trap and wipe out the Sea God Family’s forces when they appeared.

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li planned a trap to ambush the Sea God Family’s experts, while Di Tian warned them that the God of Destruction’s Intent of Destruction could prevent them from having children after Qin Ze became a god. Qin Ze promised to get engaged to Di Yue Li after the ambush, as reinforcements and enemy forces moved toward the escalating war.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li contacted Di Tian, who agreed to come to the Dou Ling Empire and said the Deep Sea Demon Whale would help them fight the Sea God Family.
• Di Tian warned Qin Ze and Di Yue Li that the Intent of Destruction could make having children impossible after Qin Ze ascended; Qin Ze reassured Di Yue Li and promised they would get engaged after dealing with the Sea God Believers.
• Electrolux proposed controlling the captured Sea God Believer’s soul so he could send false information and lure the Sea God Family’s experts into a trap, and Huo Yu Hao brought the plan to his companions.
• Xu San Shi reported that the rebel forces had intensified their attacks and the northwestern defensive line might hold for only another week, while the Heaven Soul Emperor prepared to send a million troops to support the Dou Ling Empire.
• Wei Yan Jun agreed to let Du Busi and Xiao Kuangdao join the journey to the Dou Ling Empire, and the two set out to meet Lin Huiqun.
• Golden Shark Douluo and six other Sea God Family soul masters flew toward their target, determined to kill him after their previous interception failed.

Qin Ze assembled Shrek’s Senior Elders and other allies to lure the Sea God Family’s forces into an ambush at Wanhe City. Di Tian prepared a sealed space to weaken the enemy, and the group made arrangements to evacuate nearby villagers before the trap began the next day.

• Qin Ze proposed using a captured Sea God believer to send false information and lure the Sea God Family’s experts into an ambush, while Xue Lingxun arranged for the Heavenly Soul Empire Southern Army to cross Nanchun Province.
• Ma Xiaotao returned with Xuan Zi, Elder Song, and other Senior Elders, bringing Shrek’s force in Lingdou City to eight Senior Elders; Du Busi and Elder Lin also joined Qin Ze’s group.
• Qin Ze selected Wanhe City as the staging area, gathered the elders and juniors, and agreed that Ji Juechen, Ye Guyi, Bei Bei, and the others could fight ordinary believers only if they appeared.
• Qin Ze led Huo Yu Hao and three level-98 Super Douluo to meet Di Tian, who agreed to help and created a Silver Dragon Pattern Space at a remote forest battlefield.
• Di Tian explained that the space would block water-element world energy and weaken the Sea God Family’s fighters, so Qin Ze planned to pay nearby villagers to leave before the ambush began the next day.

Qin Ze prepared a trap near Wanhe City to lure the Sea God Family’s consecrates, evacuating nearby villagers and arranging a staged Evil Soul Master attack. After Qin Ze sent a location signal to the Sea God Family, Sea Shark Douluo and Golden Shark Douluo decided to gather their clansmen and kill any villagers near him.

• Qin Ze and the Senior Elders arranged for four villages to be evacuated, while villagers prepared blood-like traces and controlled fires to make the area look attacked by Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Ze told his companions to wait outside the trap and planned to stay alone as bait, despite Di Yue Li wanting to remain with him.
• At dawn, Qin Ze used the controlled Sea God Believer to send a message revealing his location to the Sea God Family.
• Di Tian hid Qin Ze’s allies in an alternate space while Qin Ze waited beside the believer for the Sea God Family to arrive.
• Sea Shark Douluo received the location signal, and Golden Shark Douluo ordered the clansmen to gather there and kill any nearby villagers, blaming the deaths on Evil Soul Masters.

Tang Hao sent the Sea God Supporters to kill Qin Ze, but Qin Ze and the Senior Elders trapped them in Dragon Pattern Space and turned the ambush into a battle. After Qin Ze killed several consecrates, Tang Hao finally intervened with a blood-lit hammer aimed at him.

• Tang Hao ordered the Sea God Supporters to attack Qin Ze and said he would follow, waiting for the right moment to strike.
• Qin Ze detected the approaching consecrates and lured them into a trap, where Di Tian's Dragon Pattern Space sealed them in and weakened their water-based abilities.
• Qin Ze, Xiao Kuangdao, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and the Senior Elders engaged the consecrates, with Qin Ze and Yan Shaozhe targeting Sea Soul Douluo.
• Xuan Zi broke Sea Turtle Douluo's Martial Soul Avatar, allowing Qin Ze to freeze Sea Turtle Douluo and Sea Soul Douluo with Ice Impact and destroy them with Ice Burst.
• Qin Ze used Soul Devouring Demon Sealing Slash to immobilize Sea Spear Douluo, but a blood-red domain appeared and Tang Hao's hammer descended toward Qin Ze.

Tang Hao pursued Qin Ze and struck him with divine attacks, but Di Tian, Qin Ze’s newly awakened power, and the Lake of Life’s protective barrier kept him alive. After Tang Hao’s concealed divine power ran out, the God of Destruction appeared and stopped him from leaving.

• Tang Hao struck Qin Ze with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Di Tian used Dragon Pattern Convergence to send Qin Ze away before Tang Hao heavily injured him and killed Sea Spear Douluo.
• Tang Hao followed Qin Ze through a whirlpool to the Lake of Life, where Qin Ze fused the Source of Destruction and the Life Origin and survived Tang Hao’s second attack amid seven-colored light.
• Tang Hao launched Haotian's Wrath, but a Light Membrane from the Lake of Life protected Qin Ze and the surrounding soul beasts, while the barrier drew Qin Ze into the lake.
• Tang Hao tried to escape after his three attacks were spent, but the God of Destruction sealed the space and confronted him across Douluo Planet.

The God of Destruction captured Tang Hao and used the crisis to plan a confrontation with Tang San over the God Realm Core and expansion. The Goddess of Life strengthened Qin Ze’s inheritance before leaving him in Bi Ji’s care, while the God of Destruction revealed that Tang Hao was not actually imprisoned and set out to recruit the Good and Evil God Kings.

• The God of Destruction descended over the Star Dou Great Forest, seized Tang Hao, and returned to the God Realm after noticing Qin Ze.
• The Goddess of Life restored Qin Ze’s heart mark, named herself to Bi Ji, and asked her to care for him while his powers fused.
• Gu Yuena concluded that the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life intended to remove the restriction preventing beasts from becoming gods, and Bi Ji took Qin Ze to the Wooden House.
• The God of Destruction and the Seven Original Sins Gods discussed forcing Tang San to surrender control of the God Realm Core, spare Tang Hao, and support God Realm expansion at the Council of Gods.
• The God of Destruction gave the God of Ruin a key to guard Tang Hao, then revealed that the captive was only a fake and left to approach the Good and Evil God Kings.

Ji Dong and Lie Yan negotiated with the God of Destruction over Tang Hao’s punishment and the Sea God’s authority, while Lie Yan chose to support expanding the God Realm. Back in the Sea God Palace, Tang San planned a ruthless response to the pressure against him, and the Evil God arrived.

• The God of Destruction showed Ji Dong and Lie Yan evidence that Tang Hao had attacked his Deity Inheritance successor and demanded accountability.
• Ji Dong proposed removing the Sea God’s future authority over the God Realm Core and sealing Tang Hao for a hundred years; the God of Destruction also demanded that the Sea God support expanding the God Realm.
• Lie Yan agreed to the expansion plan, citing the lack of god positions, and proposed postponing the Council of Gods while the First-level Main Gods planned the expansion and the Sea God’s friends counseled him.
• Lie Yan told Ji Dong that the Sea God had refused to help the Phoenix God bring his lover to the God Realm, and said she no longer wanted to preserve a false peace by supporting him.
• Zhou Weiqing informed Tang San that Tang Hao was imprisoned and warned him that the Seven Original Sins Gods had been assigned secret tasks; Tang San refused to attempt a rescue and suspected the God of Destruction was targeting his control of the God Realm.
• Tang San resolved to find a way to keep the God of Destruction occupied and considered having Da Ming and Er Ming kill the successor; then a dark stream of light from the Evil God appeared outside the Sea God Palace.

Tang San prepared to use the Rune Key to release the Golden Dragon King and exploit the chaos to regain control of the God Realm Core, while the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life discussed Qin Ze’s recovery and the coming divine council. Qin Ze awoke in the Star Dou Great Forest at Titled Douluo rank with two soul cores, and Di Tian told him the Goddess of Life had saved him.

• Tang San received notice that the Council of Gods had been postponed, then revealed his plan to open the Forbidden Land of Gods with the Rune Key and use the Golden Dragon King's escape to attack the God of Destruction's position.
• The God of Destruction and Goddess of Life discussed Qin Ze’s brief release of Creation Power, his completed trial, and an investigation into why Ma Hongjun had failed to inherit the Fire God’s position.
• The Evil God announced that the Council of Gods was postponed and summoned all First-level Main Gods to the Hall of Myriad Gods; the God of Lust and God of Gluttony then questioned Ma Hongjun.
• Di Tian recovered from his injuries as Bi Ji explained that the Goddess of Life had visited the lower realm and suggested the ban on beast gods might soon be lifted.
• Qin Ze awoke with his cultivation raised to rank ninety-two, a Destruction Soul Core and a Life Soul Core, and learned from Di Tian that the Goddess of Life had saved him.

The Goddess of Life’s intervention left Qin Ze with a Life Soul Core, a ninth soul ring, and the strength of a Titled Douluo, while Di Tian recovered from his injuries. Qin Ze returned to Wanhe City, rescued the hostages from Sea God Family believers, and reunited with his companions, who were stunned by his seven-colored ninth soul ring.

• Di Tian told Qin Ze that the Goddess of Life had saved him and the God of Destruction had taken away his attacker; Qin Ze then used his Life Soul Core to heal Di Tian’s injuries.
• Di Tian agreed to take Qin Ze back to Wanhe City, where Di Yue Li, Ma Xiaotao, and the Shrek Supervisory Group had cornered Sea God Family believers holding residents hostage.
• Di Yue Li pretended to retreat with the group, and Qin Ze appeared in the street, severed the believers’ arms with his Power of Destruction, healed the little girl’s wound, and freed the hostages.
• Qin Ze reunited with the Supervisory Group and told them to deal with the subdued believers while he shielded the onlookers from the scene.
• The group noticed that Qin Ze had nine soul rings, including a striking seven-colored ninth ring, and he promised to explain after they dealt with the believers.