Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang uncovered a plot to steal rare metals from a Sun Moon Empire strategic arsenal, then faced the Holy Spirit Sect alone in the semifinal to avenge his blood feud with Evil Soul Masters. He killed Jili in one strike and began fighting the sect’s second opponent, Wang Xiaolei, who unleashed a barrage of soul skills.

• Qian Chaoguang followed Chen An to a meeting with Li Chong, where they arranged to steal rare metals from a guarded warehouse for a ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin reward.
• The Tang Sect defeated Heavenly Dragon Gate in the morning semifinal, while public opinion rallied behind Shrek ahead of its match against the Holy Spirit Sect.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the afternoon match alone, and Zhong Liwu predicted that the Holy Spirit Sect had a seventy percent chance of winning.
• Qian Chaoguang killed Jili with a single strike, burning away his body and soul with Holy Flame and Xuan Hui’s Soul Curse.
• Long Aotian recognized that Qian Chaoguang had concealed his strength and concluded that he was fighting alone to take revenge on the Holy Spirit Sect.
• Wang Xiaolei entered the next round, revealed six Soul Rings, activated an Invincible Barrier, and unleashed multiple soul skills as Qian Chaoguang charged forward.

Qian Chaoguang killed Hong Dou with the Ice Jade Scorpion’s Extreme Ice, then forfeited the remaining individual matches to face the Holy Spirit Sect’s last four fighters together. The team battle began with Qian Chaoguang targeting Gu Yu, but the other three pressed their attack as he defended against them.

• Qian Chaoguang seized Wang Xiaolei’s Death Whip, purifying its Vengeful Spirits and causing divine punishment to kill Wang Xiaolei.
• Qian Chaoguang froze Hong Dou’s poisonous attack with Eternal Frost Domain and killed her with Wrath of the Ice Emperor.
• Qian Chaoguang forfeited the remaining individual matches and called for a team battle against Lu Genggeng, Yan Feng, Tang Dai, and Gu Yu.
• Qian Chaoguang bypassed Lu Genggeng and Tang Dai, forced Gu Yu out of Void with Light Impact, and wounded him with the Eight-Part Light Wheels.
• Lu Genggeng, Tang Dai, and Yan Feng attacked Qian Chaoguang together, and Qian Chaoguang raised five layers of Holy Guardian before releasing a dragon’s roar.

Qian Chaoguang defeated the Holy Spirit Cult’s team alone in the semifinals, killing all seven competitors and revealing the power of God of Light's Blessing. He left the tournament acclaimed as the God of Light, while the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders vowed revenge and Qian Chaoguang rested before the final.

• Qian Chaoguang used Dragon Emperor's Domain Shock to annihilate Tang Dai, badly injure Lu Genggeng, and force Yan Feng to retreat.
• Yan Feng detonated Lu Genggeng with his Dragon Breath, then transformed into a bone dragon and fought Qian Chaoguang head-on.
• Qian Chaoguang activated God of Light's Blessing and killed Yan Feng with his Third Style Saber Technique, Divine Wrath, wiping out all seven Holy Spirit Cult competitors.
• Zhong Liwu and Zhang Peng reacted with fury over their disciples' deaths, while Qian Chaoguang declared that he would continue killing Evil Soul Masters.
• Spectators hailed Qian Chaoguang as the God of Light, and Huo Yutong and the Shrek team celebrated his victory.
• Qian Chaoguang returned to the hotel and fell into a deep sleep to recover from the battle.

Qian Chaoguang and his companions joined the Xishui Alliance’s Soul Engineer tournament finals while secretly preparing a coordinated raid on the Sun Moon Empire’s armory and Mingde Hall. The competition began with Qian Chaoguang facing rival factions, including Ye Guyi, as the larger operation approached.

• Xu Tianran ordered heightened surveillance and prepared forces around Mingdu while the other factions gathered at the Taotie Hotel and awaited the Decapitation Operation.
• Qian Chaoguang, He Caitou, and Huo Yutong arrived at Qingse Hotel, where Nangong Wan offered a Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannonball and Cosmic Silver as prizes for winning the finals.
• The Xishui Alliance escorted the three contestants to the western outskirts, while Nangong Wan and Nether Thunder Douluo concluded that Qian Chaoguang belonged to a powerful hidden sect and hoped to recruit him.
• Qian Chaoguang secretly coordinated the coming operation through the Soul Network, planning raids on the secret armory and Mingde Hall during the palace assault.
• At the finals, the three factions presented their contestants, and Qian Chaoguang identified Ye Guyi among the Plain Alliance’s team before the crafting round began.

Qian Chaoguang’s allies launched a coordinated assault on the Sun Moon Empire, drawing its strongest defenders to the imperial palace while infiltrating Mingde Hall and its arsenal. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe, Du Busi, and Elder Xuan fighting Long Xiaoyao as Qian Chaoguang’s team moved deeper into the arsenal.

• Qian Chaoguang forged a close-combat Soul Tool during the competition while Huo Yutong constructed a Humanoid Soul Tool, leaving chief judge Ye Yulin intrigued by both methods.
• Nana’s team completed a covert purchase of Soul Tool supplies, and Nana ordered the group to prepare for the Harvest Plan.
• Du Busi, Elder Xuan, and Yan Shaozhe confronted Long Xiaoyao at the imperial palace, where Elder Xuan revealed that Long Xiaoyao was Yan Shaozhe’s biological grandfather.
• The invading forces began the Decapitation Plan as hundreds of liches prepared to relocate Mingde Hall’s secret vaults using spatial magic.
• Qian Chaoguang’s team reached the arsenal, where Ji Juechen silently killed the guard Li Chong and took his keys.
• Qian Chaoguang’s team entered the arsenal’s underground level, and Ji Juechen and Afan killed two guards as the elevator doors opened.

Qian Chaoguang’s forces broke into the Sun Moon Empire’s underground arsenal while the coalition attacked Mingdu, and his plan exposed Xu Tianran to a coordinated assassination. Elder Song struck through Xu Tianran’s defenses, leaving him mortally wounded as his life faded.

• Qian Chaoguang’s undead emptied the arsenal’s first two levels, broke into the third, and began hauling away its vast stock of weapons and Rare Metals.
• During the Soul Engineer competition, Qian Chaoguang crafted a new Soul Tool saber as Feng Ling and the other hosts ignored the fighting around the palace.
• Long Xiaoyao fought Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe while allied forces assaulted the imperial palace and Zhang Lexuan’s strike team advanced toward Xu Tianran.
• Zhang Lexuan used Blood Moon Eclipse to destroy Xu Tianran’s imperial study and several defenses, forcing him to reveal his Titled Douluo strength and flight.
• Elder Song charged Xu Tianran, and Shadow Douluo Xuechen sacrificed his life to intercept her, but her strike shattered Xu Tianran’s defenses and gravely wounded him.
• Xu Tianran lost consciousness as blood poured from his wounds and his life rapidly ebbed away.

Elder Song’s strike left Xu Tianran fatally wounded, and the decapitation team withdrew as the palace defenses activated. While the empire scrambled to protect its crown prince, Qian Chaoguang’s allies looted Mingde Hall and prepared to destroy it, leaving the Sun Moon Empire’s leadership and military position in turmoil.

• Elder Song’s attack shattered much of Xu Tianran’s body and soul, and Ju Zi ordered the palace defenses activated as Jing Hongchen carried Xu Tianran and her toward the underground safe room.
• The decapitation team retreated along its planned routes, while Ju Zi issued orders to drive the attackers west and place the other Soul Engineer legions on high alert.
• Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and Yan Shaozhe regrouped with their forces and followed Qian Chaoguang’s escape plan, while Elder Song confirmed Xu Tianran would probably die despite any temporary treatment.
• At the Soul Engineer Competition, Ye Yulin mistook the quiet over Mingdu for the empire’s victory as Qian Chaoguang continued crafting and Feng Ling and Nangong Wan awaited the planned ambush in the west.
• Electrolux and Xuan Ziwen led the Undead Legion through Mingde Hall, killed the control-room staff, and carried away its research, equipment, and supplies.
• Xuan Ziwen prepared the stolen Earth Dragon Overturn cannonball to demolish Mingde Hall, and Electrolux urged him to accept the moral burdens of war before the returning guards reached the academy.

Xu Guozhong discovered that Qian Chaoguang had robbed the imperial arsenal while Ju Zi concealed Xu Tianran’s critical condition amid Mingdu’s turmoil. At the Soul Engineer Competition, Qian Chaoguang won his first elimination match with a space-cutting blade, killing Zhao Shouze in one strike.

• Xu Guozhong returned to the arsenal, found its elevator disabled and its rooms emptied, and ordered his Soul Engineers to break through the sealed door.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran’s subordinates that he was only slightly injured while Healing System Soul Masters struggled to keep him alive as his Soul Core disintegrated.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou finished first, second, and third in the technique assessment, while an Aodu Merchant Association contestant was eliminated.
• Xu Guozhong’s group escaped the elevator and began dismantling the arsenal’s defenses to reach the damaged inner door.
• Qian Chaoguang faced Zhao Shouze in the elimination tournament and killed him with a single blade strike that cut through his weapon and used the Power of Space to consume his body.
• Ye Yulin declared Qian Daoliu the winner and examined the Space Blade.

Qian Chaoguang defeated Ye Guyi while maintaining his disguise as an Evil Soul Master, then secretly revealed his identity as the God of Light and arranged for her escape. He left the arena having staged Ye Guyi’s apparent death, while Feng Ling applauded his performance.

• Huo Yutong defeated the blue-dressed girl with one punch, and He Caitou withdrew from the semifinal against her.
• Qian Chaoguang faced Ye Guyi and countered her attacks before she revealed her Divine Angel Martial Soul and unleashed the Holy Sword.
• Qian Chaoguang used his Undead Beings and Death Breath Power to restrain Ye Guyi, then revealed himself as the God of Light and told her not to disrupt his infiltration of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Qian Chaoguang and Ye Guyi staged her apparent death, and Big Guy carried her through the Gate of the Undead while the audience watched.
• Qian Chaoguang resumed his sinister disguise and claimed to have consumed Ye Guyi’s soul, while Ye Yulin realized he believed Qian Chaoguang was an Evil Soul Master.
• Feng Ling led the applause as Qian Chaoguang stood before the stunned audience.

Qian Chaoguang won the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament, secured the Xishui Alliance’s prizes, and escaped the Holy Spirit Cult as two Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannonballs devastated Mingdu. The chapter ended with Zhong Liwu emerging from the ruined imperial palace and wondering whether Xu Tianran had survived.

• Qian Chaoguang defeated his opponent, and she conceded the final match, making him the tournament champion for the Xishui Alliance.
• Qian Chaoguang collected the Sun Moon Divine Needle, Rare Metals, Cosmic Silver, Death Storm, and the alliance’s other rewards, then rejected Feng Ling’s offer to join the Holy Spirit Cult.
• A Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannonball destroyed much of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while another demolished the Sun Moon Imperial Palace.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, He Caitou, and Chen An vanished through a Hexagram Magic Array, leaving Nangong Wan a note thanking him for the gifts.
• Outside Mingdu, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, Princess Veena, and the others watched the explosions before turning to rescue survivors at the academy.
• Zhong Liwu and the Holy Spirit Cult’s survivors emerged from the palace rubble, and Zhong Liwu wondered whether his mother could save the badly injured Xu Tianran.

Qian Chaoguang secured the spoils from the Mingde Hall raid, recruited Chen An, and brought Ye Guyi into his fold. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Empire faced the destruction of its palace and Soul Tool institutions, and Ye Xishui proposed turning the dying Xu Tianran into an Undead Creature to preserve him.

• Afan briefed Ye Guyi and Chen An on the demi-plane, while Qian Chaoguang reviewed the raid's valuable materials and ordered expansions and preparations for the Divine Kingdom Plan.
• Qian Chaoguang gave Ye Guyi and Chen An Soul Contracts; Chen An signed and accepted a transfer to develop himself in the Dou Ling Empire, while Ye Guyi left with Afan to explore the demi-plane.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Palace, Mingde Hall, and much of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy were devastated, leaving Xu Tianran barely alive and Jing Hongchen unconscious from shock.
• Kong Deming warned that Xu Tianran's death could plunge the Sun Moon Empire into civil unrest, but Ye Xishui said she could preserve his consciousness by converting him into an Undead Creature, with a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance of success.

Ye Xishui planned to turn Xu Tianran’s corpse into a controlled undead puppet while Kong Deming managed the Sun Moon Empire’s crisis and accepted the Holy Spirit Cult’s support. At West Mountain, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion and began investigating its connection to the God Realm.

• Ye Xishui told Zhong Liwu that Xu Tianran was dead and that she would create a puppet from his body to bring the Sun Moon Empire under the Holy Spirit Cult’s control.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi left the tournament site together after discussing a possible exchange program between Shrek and the Body Sect.
• Kong Deming ordered rescue efforts, public order measures, and a cover story blaming the explosion on rival factions while concealing Xu Tianran’s death.
• Zhong Liwu urged Kong Deming to prepare for war, delay rebuilding Mingde Hall, and eliminate political opposition before Xu Tianran’s return.
• Zhong Liwu revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had activated a deadly place at West Mountain to trap the departing Shrek groups, and Kong Deming agreed to rely on the cult.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion, where they began recording experiments as Electrolux examined the strange space.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion and were transported to its central trial area, where its controller tested their devotion. Huo Yutong passed the first trial by choosing her own death, and the chapter ended with Qian Chaoguang shrugging off the controller’s attack.

• Qian Chaoguang analyzed Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion’s spatial structure and warned Huo Yutong that escaping its lockdown would take time.
• A golden-and-silver light carried Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong through the fog and into the valley’s central area.
• Qian Chaoguang sensed a controller in the valley’s control room and suspected it was Ning Rongrong.
• The controller asked Huo Yutong whether she loved Qian Chaoguang and whether he loved her, then demanded that she choose which of them would die.
• Huo Yutong chose to die herself and passed the first trial of sincerity.
• The controller questioned Qian Chaoguang, then struck him with golden light; the attack barely marked his skin.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong confronted Ning Rongrong over her cruel trial, forcing her to send them into the Deep Adventure. They began the mission to protect Dai Hao, and Qian Chaoguang revealed a White Tiger Token that shocked him.

• Qian Chaoguang endured Ning Rongrong’s hundred lashes, rejected her demand that he choose between his life and Huo Yutong’s, and condemned the First-generation Shrek Seven Devils for manipulating mortals.
• Huo Yutong joined Qian Chaoguang in criticizing Ning Rongrong, who panicked, admitted her identity after they departed, and sent them into the Deep Adventure.
• Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion assigned Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong to rescue Dai Hao from an assassin, and they chose to protect him despite Huo Yutong’s resentment.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong joined Dai Hao’s patrol, and Qian Chaoguang warned him that he had come to save his life.
• Qian Chaoguang showed Dai Hao an old White Tiger Token, and Dai Hao recognized it as the token belonging to his uncle Qichen.

Qian Chaoguang revealed Old Zhu’s death to Dai Hao, warned him that the Sun Moon Empire had tracked his troops and planned an ambush, and led the White Tiger Guards through a series of aerial and ground attacks. The group escaped the collapsing mountain road on Qian Chaoguang’s Bridge of Holy Light while Huo Yutong destroyed the incoming bombs, and they continued toward camp under attack.

• Qian Chaoguang returned the White Tiger Token, then told Dai Hao that Old Zhu had died eight years earlier and that he had buried his ashes.
• Qian Chaoguang warned Dai Hao that an ambush with at least four Titled Douluo and two Rank 9 Soul Engineers awaited ahead, and Dai Hao spotted the Sun Moon Empire’s High-Altitude Surveillance Soul Tool and ordered his troops back to camp.
• The Sun Moon Empire launched cluster bombs at the White Tiger Guards, but Huo Yutong used over a hundred Level 6 Floating Soul Tool Cannons to intercept them.
• A Level Eight Mountain Collapse and Earth Crack Fixed Soul Cannonball blasted apart the road, but Dai Hao shielded his troops and Qian Chaoguang protected them with the Heavenly Kingdom Barrier.
• Qian Chaoguang formed a Bridge of Holy Light across the gap, and the White Tiger Guards crossed it while Huo Yutong’s cannons destroyed a second wave of Soul Tool High-Explosive Bombs.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong saved Dai Hao from a Sun Moon Empire ambush, passed the second adventure, and met Rong Nianbing during their teleportation to the final trial. Rong Nianbing offered Huo Yutong his God of Emotions divine position and explained the limits and costs of entering the God Realm, leaving her to consider the inheritance.

• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong helped Dai Hao escape the ambush, and the Sun Moon Empire attackers retreated when they judged the fight too risky.
• Dai Hao thanked Qian Chaoguang, who warned him to return to Star Luo City and see his wife before Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong vanished.
• Qiankun Valley of Love and Emotion declared the second adventure passed, raised both their Soul Power levels, and began the True Love Adventure.
• Their teleportation stopped midway, and Rong Nianbing appeared to apologize for another god's actions and offer them a Nine-Colored Divine Pill each.
• Rong Nianbing asked Huo Yutong to inherit his God of Emotions divine position, explaining that her compatibility was exceptionally high while Qian Chaoguang was unsuited to it.
• Huo Yutong asked whether she could bring loved ones to the God Realm, and Rong Nianbing said a Rank 1 god could bring close relatives and even seek to revive deceased loved ones.

Huo Yutong refused Rong Nianbing’s godhood because she feared being separated from Qian Chaoguang, while her account of Bai Chenxiang’s fate made Rong suspect that Tang San was hiding something. After the siblings returned safely to Shrek, they received valuable rewards, and the continent’s factions faced the prospect of an approaching war.

• Huo Yutong questioned Rong Nianbing about why Tang San had not brought Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm, and Rong admitted he did not know.
• Huo Yutong declined Rong’s godhood rather than risk separation from Qian Chaoguang, so Rong gave Qian three levels of Soul Power and Huo a culinary inheritance that purified her Spiritual Power.
• After the siblings departed, Rong told his master that he suspected Tang San was not the upright man he appeared to be and hinted that Ma Hongjun’s story held explosive secrets.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong reappeared beside Xuan Zi and Du Busi, who had defeated Holy Spirit Cult attackers while waiting for them.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi escorted the siblings back toward Shrek City, where Qian considered his coming breakthrough to Soul Saint and the consequences of the disrupted Sun Moon Empire’s plans.
• Xuan Zi reached the conclusion that war would eventually reshape the continent, despite the temporary disorder in the Sun Moon Empire.

Qian Chaoguang entered seclusion in the Undead Demi-plane to consolidate his cultivation and break through to Soul Saint, discovering that the Nameless Ancient Art and Blade Art formed the foundation of his path. After compressing all his Soul Power into a crystalline core, he began a dangerous final attempt to open the first acupoint of the Circulation of Stars realm.

• Shrek Academy and the Body Sect agreed to exchange students and teachers, and Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong were promised honorary sect master titles if they inherited the Body Seed.
• Qian Chaoguang entered seclusion in the Undead Demi-plane, where he organized his abilities around the Nameless Ancient Art and Blade Art and prepared to advance to Soul Saint.
• Qian Chaoguang compressed his Soul Power while the Golden Ancient Tree, Electrolux, and three Charging Towers supplied energy, and the resulting pressure shook the demi-plane.
• Qian Chaoguang formed a crystalline point of Soul Power, inscribed his understandings of Light and Undead into it, and began fusing them through Yin-Yang.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke as part of his soul and the abilities fused into Qian Chaoguang were pulled back, while Qian Chaoguang absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and charged his power into the first acupoint of the Circulation of Stars realm.

Qian Chaoguang advanced the Nameless Ancient Art to its Golden Core stage and reached the Soul Saint realm. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, he used clear footage to prove that the newly crowned Xu Tianran was a corpse being controlled by the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Qian Chaoguang opened seven Acupoints, formed a Golden Core, and advanced to the Soul Saint realm.
• Xu Tianran ascended the Sun Moon Empire's throne while the continent remained unnervingly peaceful.
• The Sea God Pavilion and representatives of the Body Sect and two empires reviewed unclear footage of Xu Tianran's coronation and debated whether he was an impostor.
• Qian Chaoguang arrived with clearer footage and showed the gathering signs that Xu Tianran was dead and moving through the power of Undead Flame.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that the Holy Spirit Cult had revived Xu Tianran as a corpse puppet and likely controlled his movements.

After the failed decapitation plan left the Three Douluo Kingdoms unable to act openly against the Sun Moon Empire, Qian Chaoguang helped them strengthen their forces while expanding his own network and Soul Armor production. In the Undead Demi-plane, he offered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm a chance to rebuild his body and learn magic, and Sky Dream chose to undergo the dangerous transformation.

• Qian Chaoguang explained that Xu Tianran was a Corpse Puppet made from his corpse and shattered soul, leaving the Sea God Pavilion to debate how the empires could respond without admitting to the attack.
• Vina and Xu Jiujiu returned to their empires with Qian Chaoguang's advice to spread rumors about the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Imperial Family, while the Three Douluo Kingdoms prepared for war and expanded their arms purchases.
• The Pixiu Merchant Association rapidly produced Soul Tools and supplied rare metals, while Qian Chaoguang gave Qian Duoduo laboratory tables, blueprints, and Fixed Soul Cannonballs to help Shrek's Soul Tool Department grow.
• Qian Chaoguang told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that his Spiritual Origin had been restored and that he could rebuild a body through Old Yin's research, though the process could fail and kill him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chose the Transformation Ritual, determined to cultivate the soul system and learn magic so he could stand before Bingbing with the strength to protect her.