Chapter Summaries

The God Realm Committee stripped Tang San of control over the God Realm Hub, while Ji Dong pretended to side with him as part of a plan with Lie Yan. God of Destruction then sent the God of Lust to tell Ma Hongjun that Tang San had sabotaged his chance to inherit the Fire God’s position, leaving Ma Hongjun enraged and demanding proof.

• God of Destruction proposed removing Tang San as acting controller of the God Realm, and Lie Yan and Goddess of Life supported the motion.
• Ji Dong publicly opposed the motion but secretly coordinated with Lie Yan, then left with Tang San and pretended to remain his ally.
• Tang San handed over the God Realm Hub’s core key and left the committee hall with Ji Dong.
• Lie Yan explained to God of Destruction that she and Ji Dong were united against Tang San, and God of Destruction decided to revise his plans.
• The God of Lust subdued Ma Hongjun and learned that he grieved over being separated from Bai Chenxiang, who had been unable to ascend to the God Realm.
• The God of Lust revealed that Tang San had tampered with Ma Hongjun’s Fire God inheritance, and Ma Hongjun erupted in fury before Goddess of Ice and Snow’s Sigh appeared to restrain him.

Rong Nianbing and the God of Lust revealed to Ma Hongjun that Tang San had deceived him about the rules for bringing relatives to the God Realm and had manipulated his Fire God trial. Ma Hongjun pledged himself to the God of Destruction, while Tang San returned to Xiao Wu and concealed his recent setbacks.

• Rong Nianbing and the God of Lust told Ma Hongjun that Tang San had lied about the ascension rules and used Ma Hongjun to secure his loyalty.
• After learning the truth about Tang San and his cousin's death, Ma Hongjun ignited his divine power, drew on the Fire Source Vein, and agreed to serve the God of Destruction while keeping up appearances around Tang San.
• Rong Nianbing told Ma Hongjun that his descendant Ma Xiaotao was a student in Shrek Academy's Inner Academy and had been one of the previous generation's Shrek Seven Devils.
• Tang San returned to Xiao Wu after his seclusion and hid the damage to his divine soul, Ah Yin's death, and his loss of authority from her.
• Xiao Wu urged Tang San to deal decisively with the God of Destruction, and Tang San promised to handle their conflict while privately recognizing that he could not act against him yet.

Tang San discovered that he could no longer contact Wang Dong or the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and that his Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been devastated. He mobilized the Sea God Family to investigate while Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to Shrek City to assess earthquake damage and organize relief.

• Tang San tried to check on Xiao Qi through his Divine Sense but could not reach Wang Dong or the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then found his immortal herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well badly damaged.
• Tang San contacted Da Ming and Er Ming at the Clear Sky Sect, but learned that Wang Dong had disappeared and they did not know where she was.
• Tang San reached the Sea God Douluo and ordered the long-secluded Sea God Family to begin moving.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong traveled toward Shrek City after leaving Wang Dong under Electrolux's watch, with Qian Chaoguang inspecting earthquake damage and Huo Yutong coordinating disaster reports and relief supplies.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to earthquake-stricken Shrek City, where rescue efforts continued amid widespread destruction and the Golden Ancient Tree’s fall. Facing a looming famine that the Pixiu Merchant Association and Shrek could not prevent through purchases alone, Qian Chaoguang considered taking grain by force, while Zhong Liwu raged over the Holy Spirit Cult’s losses and a newly discovered Divine Angel.

• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong arrived at Shrek City and saw its residents sheltering amid the earthquake’s destruction as Soul Masters organized relief efforts.
• Zhang Bowen and Eternal God Cult clergy distributed Water of Life to the injured, while Qian Chaoguang’s faith power strengthened his Divine Fire.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong found Xuan Zi helping clear rubble and discussed the Golden Ancient Tree’s fall, the Sun Moon Empire’s possible response, and the risk of famine.
• Huo Yutong determined that grain purchases and Shrek’s reserves could not feed the affected region until the next harvest, prompting Qian Chaoguang to consider taking grain by force.
• In the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial palace, the Corpse Puppet Xu Tianran raged as Zhong Liwu worried about the missing Evil Soul Masters and the Four-winged Divine Angel who could become a threat to the Holy Spirit Cult.

The Sun Moon Empire learned that an Earth Dragon Overturn had devastated the Heaven Dou Empire’s remaining territory and that Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree had withered. Rather than attack Shrek, its court chose disaster relief and propaganda, while Di Tian reported the situation to his awakened lord at the Lake of Life.

• Feng Ling reported that an Earth Dragon Overturn had devastated the remaining province of the Heaven Dou Empire and that Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree had withered.
• Zhong Liwu urged an immediate attack on Shrek, but the prime minister warned that Shrek’s hidden strength and potential allies made a direct assault too dangerous.
• The prime minister proposed sending aid to the disaster zone to win over its people, and the Minister of Military Affairs suggested blaming Shrek for the calamity to weaken its standing.
• Corpse Puppet Xu Tianran ordered the Empress God of War to lead relief efforts, sent new armies to escort grain, recalled the Royal Soul Engineer Corps and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment, and ordered a ceremony proclaiming Sun Moon’s heavenly mandate.
• At the Lake of Life, Di Tian told his lord that he had formed a temporary alliance with the Angel God’s descendant and reported that the boy may have gained part of the Angel God’s authority.
• Di Tian apologized for the more than five hundred thousand casualties in the battle, and his lord warned him not to endanger their clan’s future through impulsive action.

After Wang Dong woke from two months of treatment in the Undead Research Department, Qian Chaoguang explained that her Soul Skill backlash had nearly killed her and that the deeper problem came from her identity and background. He warned that it could soon endanger Wang Dong, him and Xiao Tong, Shrek Academy, and the entire Douluo Continent.

• Di Tian watched the Second Martial Soul Bestowal Method restore a dying bear-type soul beast and believed the soul beast race had a bright future.
• Wang Dong woke in a Hibernation Pod after two months of unconsciousness and found herself restrained, unable to use her Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• Electrolux introduced himself as Qian Chaoguang's teacher, and Qian Chaoguang explained that Wang Dong's backlash had ruptured most of her meridians and cracked her Sea of Spirit.
• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that her rejection of Soul Tools and her Martial Soul stemmed from her background, not from a problem with her body.
• Wang Dong learned that her unknown identity could bring a severe crisis to her, Qian Chaoguang and Xiao Tong, Shrek Academy, and the Douluo Continent.

Qian Chaoguang revealed that Tang San had manipulated Wang Dong’s life and soul, and Wang Dong chose to sign a Soul Contract so he could remove the Thought Imprint. After a grueling operation, Qian Chaoguang extracted and destroyed the imprint, leaving Wang Dong unconscious and himself exhausted.

• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that her father, Tang San, had caused great calamities and implanted a Thought Imprint in her soul to control her.
• Wang Dong agreed to sign a Soul Contract with Qian Chaoguang so he could reveal the truth and remove the imprint.
• Qian Chaoguang used the contract, the Soul Network, and his authority over souls to cut away the imprint’s tentacles while repairing Wang Dong’s soul.
• Qian Chaoguang extracted the imprint’s root and destroyed it with black flames, then returned Wang Dong’s soul to her body.
• Wang Dong convulsed and passed out, while Qian Chaoguang confirmed that the treatment was finished and used Soul Crystals to recover.

After recovering from the removal of Tang San’s Thought Imprint, Wang Dong learned that Tang San and Xiao Wu were her biological parents and that her memories and identity had been altered. Qian Chaoguang began explaining that her original personality and soul had been cut away and that she and Qiu'er were connected as parts of the same person.

• Huo Yutong helped Qian Chaoguang recover after he removed the Thought Imprint from Wang Dong.
• Three days later, Wang Dong woke up, and Qian Chaoguang revealed that the Thought Imprint had suppressed her perception of a Divine Sense Mark bearing Tang San’s trident insignia.
• Wang Dong recognized Tang San as her biological father and Xiao Wu as her mother, then thanked Qian Chaoguang for saving her from the imprint.
• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that she and Qiu'er each possessed part of one person, and he explained that Tang San had fabricated her early memories.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Wang Dong’s original personality and soul had been cut away and that Electrolux and he had intercepted and destroyed the severed part.

Qian Chaoguang revealed how Tang San had erased Tang Wutong’s personality and created Wang Dong, leaving Wang Dong devastated but free of the imprints controlling her. He then moved to support her recovery and rushed to see the Second Martial Soul research team’s breakthrough, which suggested Martial Souls were projections of souls.

• Qian Chaoguang explained that Wang Dong’s personality had formed anew after Tang San removed Tang Wutong’s memories and personality, and that Tang San had intended to combine her and Wang Qiu’er’s traits into a powerful Martial Soul weapon.
• Wang Dong broke down in tears over her origins, and Qian Chaoguang comforted her until she fell into a protective coma.
• Qian Chaoguang removed Wang Dong’s remaining restraints and ordered Liu Cai and Huo Yutong’s disciple with the Jade Dragon Pot Martial Soul to help her recover, while keeping the Sealed Box on her to hide her from Tang San.
• Huo Yutong reported progress on the Second Martial Soul Bestowal Method and the Jamming Bomb project, and Qian Chaoguang approved unlimited research funding.
• Qian Chaoguang visited the Martial Soul research team, whose experiments suggested that Martial Souls were projections of souls transformed by laws, rather than simply inherited energy organs.

Qian Chaoguang reviewed the mature Second Martial Soul Bestowal Method and began selecting candidates to receive its powerful benefits. After the continent’s political and military situation settled into a lull, he decided to enter seclusion and raise his Soul Power toward the Titled Douluo level.

• Undead Empire researchers established that Martial Souls depended on a Soul Master’s connection to Douluo Star’s laws, and Qian Chaoguang resolved not to rely on them completely.
• The Star Dou Great Forest team reported that Thousand Year and Ten Thousand Year soul beasts could almost always be bestowed as Second Martial Souls, raising aptitude and potentially providing compatible Soul Spirits and Soul Bones.
• Qian Chaoguang ordered records of subordinate Soul Masters and Soul Engineers so he could choose who would receive the limited number of Second Martial Souls.
• Wang Dong returned to her former self, agreed to condense a Soul Core before reaching Titled Douluo, and chose to remain in the Demi-plane near the Golden Ancient Tree.
• The Sun Moon Empire annexed the Heaven Dou Empire’s final province and paused its expansion to recover, while the Dou Ling and Star Luo Empires countered its propaganda about the Golden Ancient Tree.
• With outside affairs quiet, Qian Chaoguang decided to enter seclusion and use high-age Soul Rings to advance toward Titled Douluo.

Qian Chaoguang tested the Lingyu training ground and used its new Soul Ring Condensation Method and Third Generation Charging Tower to rapidly raise his cultivation. He successfully condensed a powerful Artificial Soul Ring and broke through to level 83, with his cultivation still climbing.

• Qian Chaoguang entered the new training ground, where its Artificial Soul Body introduced itself and played Electrolux's recording about its design.
• Qian Chaoguang named the facility's Auxiliary Soul Lingyu and activated its adaptive cultivation and Soul Ring assistance modes.
• Qian Chaoguang began cultivating with his Ice God Martial Soul, and Lingyu deployed the Third Generation Charging Tower to gather World Origin Energy.
• Qian Chaoguang condensed an Artificial Soul Ring, which rapidly turned blood-red as it absorbed energy and strengthened his cultivation.
• Qian Chaoguang broke through to level 83 while the Soul Ring reached eight and a half golden patterns and unexpectedly improved his Golden Body Art.

Qian Chaoguang reached Rank 90 but could not condense more Soul Rings or advance without understanding Power Liberation, while the Undead Empire grew stronger during a year of uneasy peace. He ended the chapter in the Pixiu Merchant Association’s Forging Room, struggling to make Heavenly Forging work despite repeated attempts.

• Qian Chaoguang completed a nine-pattern Soul Ring that nearly reached one million years, but could not cross the final threshold and blamed the Three Great Cultivation Methods for the obstacle.
• The Sun Moon Empire consolidated the former Heaven Dou Empire and strengthened its border blockade as the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire prepared for a future war.
• Qian Chaoguang reached Rank 90, but his body rejected further condensed Soul Rings, leading him to suspect that he needed to comprehend Power Liberation to advance.
• The Undead Empire’s cultivation methods rapidly strengthened its high-level personnel; Ji Juechen became the first to reach Rank 91 and took the title Sword God, followed by Ye Guyi with the title Angel.
• Qian Chaoguang spent the year cultivating and researching the Angel God Armor and Angel Holy Sword while repeated attempts at Heavenly Forging failed.

Qian Chaoguang concluded that the God Realm’s control over Elemental Tribulation Lightning was preventing him from achieving Heavenly Forging, then learned that the Sun Moon Empire had attacked Lingdou City and went there with Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen. He planned to stop the attack from triggering a civil war, while targeting the Soul Engineer Corps’ weapons and preparing to assault their hidden retreat position.

• Qian Chaoguang failed to forge Heavenly Forged metal and deduced that the God Realm’s control of Elemental Tribulation Lightning blocked his attempts.
• After receiving news that the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps had attacked Lingdou City, Qian Chaoguang contacted Huo Yutong and asked her to inform Elder Xuan and Xu Sanshi.
• Qian Chaoguang took Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen toward Lingdou City, intending to seize the Sun Moon Empire’s Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannonballs and help prevent the Dou Ling Empire from descending into civil war.
• Qian Chaoguang surveyed Lingdou City and found the imperial palace destroyed, its royal family and defenders apparently killed, and the city under attack by the two Soul Engineer Corps.
• Qian Chaoguang located the Soul Engineer Corps’ concealed Soul Tool Array Position thirty li outside the city and sent Ye Guyi to watch while he and Ji Juechen approached it.
• Qian Chaoguang challenged Ji Juechen to break the position’s Linked Defense Shield, which could withstand a Super Douluo’s full-force attack.

Qian Chaoguang and Ji Juechen raided a Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool Array Position, killed its defenders, and stripped it of everything valuable. Meanwhile, Sun Moon forces seized Lingdou City while leaving the Pixiu Merchant Association untouched, and Qian Chaoguang reflected on the influence his business had gained.

• Ji Juechen shattered the Linked Soul Guide Shield with one strike, and Qian Chaoguang joined him in attacking the Soul Tool Array Position.
• Qian Chaoguang and Ji Juechen killed all fifty Soul Engineers, including a Level 8 Soul Engineer in a Humanoid Soul Tool, within ten seconds.
• Qian Chaoguang summoned Silver Skeletons and ordered them to strip the position clean; they recovered its Soul Tools, remains, and bloodied soil.
• The Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps nearly eliminated resistance in Lingdou City and looted the city without touching the Pixiu Merchant Association or its Taotie Hotel.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia Xuanchen reassured the association’s employees, praised their past cooperation with the Sun Moon Empire, and ate at the Taotie Hotel before leaving with food packed for the road.
• Qian Chaoguang watched the city through the Faith Network and considered how the Pixiu Merchant Association’s spices and restaurants had won influence among the Sun Moon Empire’s elite.

Xu Tianyuan and Xia Xuanchen led their Soul Engineer Corps away from Lingdou City with plundered supplies, only to find their Soul Tool Array Position had vanished. Ji Juechen ambushed them and held off their combined firepower, while an unseen attacker descended from above.

• Xu Tianyuan ordered the two Soul Engineer Corps to withdraw from Lingdou City after their attack and looting, and Xia Xuanchen celebrated their haul.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia Xuanchen found their Soul Tool Array Position and the surrounding forest missing, so Xu Tianyuan ordered the troops to form defenses and retreat.
• Xu Tianyuan told Xia Xuanchen that a mysterious force had once made supplies and people vanish, including powerful members of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ji Juechen emerged from the Void and killed dozens of Soul Engineers with a sword strike that pierced their linked shields.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia Xuanchen ordered their Soul Engineer Corps to attack, but Ji Juechen split their barrage apart with his sword.
• As the Soul Engineers focused on Ji Juechen, a Rank 8 Soul Engineer spotted a humanoid figure descending from the blazing sun with a sword.

Ye Guyi used her Ninth Soul Skills to shatter the Sun Moon Empire’s linked defense and devastate its Soul Engineer Corps. Qian Chaoguang then broke through the regrouped forces, killed Prince Xu Tianyuan, and left Xia Xuanchen facing the furious survivors.

• Ye Guyi unleashed Heavenly Kingdom Descends and Divine Grace: Judgment, destroying the linked shield and killing dozens of Soul Engineers.
• Qian Chaoguang ambushed Xu Tianyuan and Xia Xuanchen, but Xia Xuanchen’s warning and Golden Turtle beast core protected them from his attacks.
• Xu Tianyuan regrouped the surviving Soul Engineers and ordered them to use Circular Linkage and Linked Barrage against Qian Chaoguang.
• Qian Chaoguang evaded the linked attacks, cut through the defensive barrier, and beheaded Xu Tianyuan with Xuan Hui.
• Qian Chaoguang collected Xu Tianyuan’s soul and took his corpse and Storage Soul Tool as the surviving Soul Engineers surged forward to avenge their commander.

Qian Chaoguang killed Sun Moon Empire commander Xia Xuanchen after allowing his Soul Engineers to escape, then joined Xu Sanshi outside Lingdou City to help restore order. After the city guards opened the gates, Qian Chaoguang confronted a general who refused to leave his post, and Xu Sanshi revealed a royal necklace bearing the words “Dou Ling.”

• Qian Chaoguang ordered Xia Xuanchen's surviving Soul Engineers to retreat, and Xia stayed behind to buy them time.
• Xia Xuanchen accepted his death without fighting, and Qian Chaoguang killed him, preserved his body, and marked his soul so he could find it again after reincarnation.
• Huo Yutong brought Xu Sanshi to Lingdou City, where Qian Chaoguang explained the crisis and asked him to help save the Dou Ling Empire.
• Qian Chaoguang presented his Shrek Academy token to the city guards, and the young general opened the gates and reported the city's devastation.
• Qian Chaoguang kicked the general for refusing to leave the gates and help restore order, then Xu Sanshi displayed a necklace marked with the words “Dou Ling.”

After the palace’s destruction left the Dou Ling Empire leaderless and Lingdou City in chaos, Xu Sanshi took charge with Qian Chaoguang’s support and confronted the empire’s incompetent officials. Xu Sanshi killed the corrupt prime minister, appointed the capable warehouse clerk Roland to replace him, and accepted the officials’ call to become emperor, while Qian Chaoguang ended the chapter warning the remaining ministers that he was a master at killing.

• Xu Sanshi used his royal pendant to rally the surviving city-defense troops and help restore order in Lingdou City.
• Qian Chaoguang challenged the officials and Imperial Prime Minister for failing to assist with relief efforts or understand the city’s needs.
• Xu Sanshi choked the prime minister, then killed him when he objected to Roland’s appointment.
• Roland, a low-ranking Grain Official who knew the city’s food supplies and disaster-relief situation, was named the new Imperial Prime Minister.
• The officials urged Xu Sanshi to ascend the throne, and he accepted the responsibility of saving the Dou Ling Empire.
• Qian Chaoguang told the remaining ministers that he was an amateur at governing but a master at killing.

Qian Chaoguang forced Dou Ling’s officials to obey Xu Sanshi and arranged support to stabilize the empire, then returned to Shrek Academy and learned that Tang Ya was close to death. He saw her at the Tang Sect and began facing the urgent question of how to save her.

• Qian Chaoguang crushed the ruins of the imperial palace with his pressure and intimidated Dou Ling’s officials into accepting Xu Sanshi’s plans.
• Xu Sanshi agreed to lead the weakened empire, while Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen promised to help defend him and Qian Chaoguang pledged resources and administrative support.
• Qian Chaoguang returned to Shrek Academy, sent Nana and other experts to aid Xu Sanshi, and declined Elder Xuan’s request that he become Sea God Pavilion Master for now.
• Beibei knelt before Qian Chaoguang and begged him to save Tang Ya, explaining that her vitality and Bloodline Power had been rapidly draining away.
• Qian Chaoguang flew Beibei to the Tang Sect and found Tang Ya severely emaciated, with her Life Aura near its lowest point.

Qian Chaoguang discovered that Tang Ya was near death because her body and soul could not withstand her awakened Dark Blue Silver King Martial Soul. He stabilized her with life force, brought Beibei and Tang Ya to the Undead Empire, and began treatment, leaving Tang Ya in a hibernation pod while her Martial Soul was sealed.

• Qian Chaoguang used Water of Life and Holy Light to restore some of Tang Ya’s vitality, then explained that her body was failing under the strain of her Dark Blue Silver King Martial Soul.
• Qian Chaoguang warned Beibei that Tang Ya’s condition was grave and offered to use a device to seal her Martial Soul in exchange for Beibei signing a Soul Contract and keeping the matter confidential.
• Beibei accepted the contract, and Qian Chaoguang teleported him and Tang Ya to the Undead Empire, where Afan welcomed them and Dragon One carried them to the medical department.
• Qian Chaoguang had the medical team activate the Conceptual Projection Blocking Device and Sealed Box, halting Tang Ya’s decline and placing her in a specialized Hibernation Pod.
• After reviewing Tang Ya’s severe examination results, Qian Chaoguang ordered cautious doses of Soul Power, potions, and restorative extracts to support her recovery.