Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong intervened as Su Jinli challenged Qian Renxue, while Qian Renxue persuaded the disciples to repair their talisman and warned that their scheme could turn them against each other. At Shrek Academy, the supposedly missing Tang Wutong returned transformed and delivered Su Ran’s challenge to his disciples, with their relationship and future at stake.

• Bibi Dong appeared and told Su Jinli to stand up to Qian Renxue, who warned the disciples of Su Ran’s possible punishments and persuaded them to recover and repair the talisman.
• Meng Yiran took the talisman fragments, while Bibi Dong cautioned that the disciples would fight among themselves over Su Ran even if their plan succeeded.
• Tang Wutong returned to Sea God Pavilion with a transformed Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul after being missing for two months, astonishing Yan Shaozhe and Xiao Xiao.
• Tang Wutong presented a Divine Peach Blossom Branch and announced that she represented Su Ran in challenging Shrek and the Peach Blossom Spring ancestors.
• Tang Wutong explained that if the disciples won, Su Ran would acknowledge their superiority and accept their devotion, but if they lost, he would sever their ties and leave forever.

Tang Wutong delivered Su Ran’s challenge letter, prompting the Peach Blossom Spring disciples to accept a Dou Shen Competition two years later and punish three senior disciples named in its postscript. Hu Liena then found a possible clue that Su Ran was preparing a wedding in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the goddesses rushed there to investigate.

• Tang Wutong presented Su Ran’s challenge letter, and Qian Renxue, Dugu Yan, and the other disciples agreed to compete in the Dou Shen Arena two years later.
• The Peach Blossom Spring ancestors teased Tang Wutong and searched her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, leaving her overwhelmed by the marks and presences they found there.
• After reading the letter’s postscript, the junior sisters beat Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing for their earlier actions against Su Ran.
• Qian Renxue proposed selecting ten competitors and learning about Su Ran’s side, while Hu Liena said Tang Wutong could not provide useful information because her memories had been erased.
• Hu Liena recalled a blurry image of a silver-haired girl preparing a wedding with Su Ran, and the Peach Blossom Spring goddesses flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find them.

The Peach Blossom Spring Goddesses searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Su Ran and learned that the Ten Great Fierce Beasts may be involved in his disappearance, but found no trace of him. Su Ran was in the Abyss Plane with Gu Yue, ordering Di Tian and the others to break through its entrance within a year while Gu Yue pressed him about their relationship.

• The Peach Blossom Spring Goddesses scoured the Great Fiend Land and found wedding decorations at the Lake of Life, but Su Ran and the silver-haired girl were gone.
• Xiao Wu summoned Da Ming and Er Ming, who told her that the Ten Great Fierce Beasts had once lived in the Great Fiend Land and might be connected to Su Ran's crisis.
• Mu En and Xuanzi found no information about the silver-haired girl, so the Peach Blossom Spring Disciples decided to wait two years and challenge Su Ran.
• Su Ran pointed out the Abyss Plane entrance to Gu Yue and ordered Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others to break through within two years.
• Gu Yue demanded that Di Tian and the others break through within one year, then asked Su Ran when their relationship would count as having progressed.

Su Ran led his soul beast students into the Abyss Plane to train and recruit stronger disciples for the upcoming Dou Shen Tai battles, accepting the Evil Emperor, the Demon Empress, and Lan Fuzi along the way. Gu Yue grew jealous of the beautiful new disciples and confronted Su Ran over his refusal to marry her.

• Su Ran brought Di Tian and his other soul beast students to the Abyss Plane, where they could train and prepare to defeat the Abyssal Sage King.
• In the Evil Demon Forest, Su Ran defeated the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler and accepted the Evil Emperor as his disciple.
• The Evil Emperor went to the Deep Sea Demon Palace and announced that Su Ran was his teacher, then the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King met Su Ran and agreed to send the Demon Empress and Lan Fuzi with him to train.
• Su Ran also took the Snow Empress from the Sun Moon Empire, adding several beautiful soul beasts to his group of disciples.
• Gu Yue accused Su Ran of using her and choosing other women instead, while Su Ran insisted he wanted everyone to be safe; she demanded to know when he would marry her.

Su Ran brought the soul beast team into the Abyss Plane, assigned their training goals, and gave them God Grade Flora to strengthen their Beast God Arts. Gu Yue received no gift and pressed Su Ran about whether he would give himself to her, only to be struck away by a Peach Blossom Branch.

• Lan Fuzi and the Deep Sea Demon Empress discussed Gu Yue's hostile attention, while the Snow Empress remained confused by Gu Yue's jealousy.
• Su Ran stopped Gu Yue's marriage complaints in the Abyss Plane's 108th layer and explained how the team should challenge the abyssal emperors and refine their Beast God Powers.
• Su Ran gave Di Tian, Xiong Jun, the Evil Emperor, the Demon Empress, and the other soul beasts powerful God Grade Flora tailored to their abilities.
• The soul beasts thanked Su Ran and pledged themselves to him after receiving the rare treasures.
• Gu Yue asked why she had received no flower and reached for Su Ran's hand, but a Peach Blossom Branch struck her away.

Su Ran gave Gu Yue a Life Primordial Spirit Flower, but she mistook it for a marriage proposal and was blasted away when she demanded a ring. He then led the soul beast disciples through the abyss, where their training rapidly turned them into divine beasts and brought them to the final thirty-six layers.

• Su Ran gave Gu Yue the Life Primordial Spirit Flower to heal her chronic injuries, and she mistook the gift for a proposal and asked him for a wedding ring.
• Su Ran opened a Space Door and blasted Gu Yue into the abyss, while Di Tian scolded Xiong Jun for trying to lick his God Grade Flora and the two renewed their rivalry.
• Su Ran trained the soul beast disciples to challenge abyssal emperors with varied tactics as they advanced through the layers.
• The disciples cleared the upper thirty-six layers in under half a year, then cleared the middle thirty-six layers in 168 days while several disciples surpassed a million years of cultivation and fused with God Grade Flora.
• At the threshold of the final thirty-six layers, a white-haired man in a black cloak watched the abyssal layers shatter and realized that the abyss had been invaded.

The Abyssal Sage King sent the Heavenly Ox Emperor and Black Empress to stop Su Ran’s group, but both were killed as the Soul Beasts advanced through the Abyss. The Sage King united the Abyss’s emperors for a decisive battle, while the silver-haired girl raged in the Far North and took her anger out on Xiao Bai.

• The Abyssal Sage King learned that the upper seventy-two Abyssal layers had been annihilated and ordered the Heavenly Ox Emperor and Black Empress to confront the invaders.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others killed the twenty-eighth-layer emperor and then beheaded the arriving Heavenly Ox Emperor and Black Empress.
• Su Ran used the Golden Heavenly Dao Sacred Flower to awaken the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Golden Dragon bloodline, and its cultivation reached nine hundred thousand years.
• Su Ran directed the Soul Beasts to feed the next layer’s Abyssal energy to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion so it could reach million-year cultivation and strengthen them in turn.
• The Abyssal Sage King ordered the remaining emperors to unite and attack Di Tian’s group, setting the Abyss’s hardest battle in motion.
• The silver-haired girl complained about Su Ran at the sealed Abyss entrance, then made Xiao Bai repeatedly fall and rise through the Far North sky.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion broke through to Million-Year Cultivation, empowering Su Ran’s group as the Abyss Emperors launched a massive assault. Di Tian and Xiong Jun fought their way through the enemy, while Su Ran intervened to save the Golden Lion from the Scythe Emperor, warning that a stronger foe had yet to appear.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s million-year bloodline awakened, and her blessing strengthened the surrounding allies.
• The Abyss Demon Emperor led an enormous invasion, and several powerful Abyss Emperors joined forces against Di Tian and the others.
• Di Tian and Xiong Jun tore through the Abyss Heavenly Net and attacked the enemy leaders, while an Evil Emperor ambushed and killed the Spirit Emperor.
• The Scythe Emperor struck at the Golden Lion’s breakthrough, but a Peach Blossom Branch from Su Ran shattered the attack and cracked the Abyss Scythe.
• Su Ran warned the Scythe Emperor that his combat ability was still insufficient and that their strongest enemy had yet to appear.

The Abyssal Sage King killed the surviving Abyss Emperors and attacked the Peach Blossom Domain, but Wang Qiu'er emerged to lead the divine beasts against him. As the battle began, Wang Qiu'er invoked Golden Critical Rate to strengthen their attacks and defenses.

• The Abyssal Sage King killed Bee Emperor and Devil Emperor, then rushed to the battlefield with the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd.
• The Abyssal Sage King's halberd strike was stopped by the Peach Blossom Trees, and Wang Qiu'er emerged with her Golden Dragon Spear.
• Wang Qiu'er told the divine beasts that defeating the Abyssal Sage King was their test, and she introduced herself as Princess Qiu'er.
• Bi Ji healed the divine beasts, who joined together and unleashed their true forms against the Abyssal Sage King.
• The Abyssal Sage King used his Super Divine Weapon to counter their attacks, and Wang Qiu'er activated Divine Beast Blessing: Golden Critical Rate.

After the Beast Gods defeated the Abyssal Sage King, Su Ran appeared to save them from the Crimson Mother, creator of the Crimson Plane. He offered to take her as his disciple and give her a Crimson Heart in exchange for disbanding the Crimson Plane.

• The Demon Empress and the Beast Gods defeated the Abyssal Sage King, but a stronger enemy attacked Wang Qiu'er before they could recover.
• Su Ran intercepted the Crimson Moon Blade, healed his disciples with peach blossoms, and revealed that he had been waiting for the Crimson Mother.
• The Crimson Mother explained that the Abyss Plane was one of many races she had created within the powerful Crimson Plane.
• Su Ran admitted that he had come to use the Crimson Plane’s energy and lifeforms to train his disciples, enraging the Crimson Mother.
• The Crimson Mother proposed conceiving a new Racial Plane with Su Ran as compensation, but he rejected the idea and offered her a Crimson Heart if she became his disciple and disbanded the Crimson Plane.

The Crimson Mother accepted Su Ran as her teacher in exchange for the Crimson Heart, helping him break through to Creator-level strength. As the Beast Gods and Peach Blossom Spring Goddesses trained for the coming Dou Shen Competition, the peach-blossom world containing the arena opened and invited witnesses from across multiple planes.

• The Crimson Mother imprinted her soul on a Peach Blossom Token and accepted Su Ran as her teacher after he gave her the Crimson Heart.
• Su Ran gained the Crimson Laws and other rewards, broke through to Creator-level strength, and assigned the Beast Gods and Crimson Mother a year of training in the Crimson Domain.
• Wang Qiu'er and the other disciples joined Su Ran's combat lessons, where they endured grueling training and rapidly improved their fighting skills.
• The Divine Realm held a vote and accepted Su Ran's challenge, then provided the Peach Blossom Spring Goddesses with training grounds and sparring partners.
• The peach-blossom cluster opened into the Dou Shen Tai, and a vast voice invited people from Douluo Continent, Saint Demon Continent, the God Realm, and other planes to climb the stairs and watch.

Spectators from the Saint Demon Continent and Douluo Continent gathered at the Dou Shen Arena as Sheng Cai'er warned that her side could not afford to lose. Tang Wutong reunited with her father Tang San, revealed that Su Ran was her grandteacher and the one she liked, and the chapter ended with Huo Wu’s companions eagerly awaiting the competition.

• Saint Moon and the Saint Hall Alliance arrived at the Dou Shen Arena, where Sheng Cai'er explained that she might serve as a reserve in the competition and that her side had to win.
• The Old Day Angel God and Old Day Rakshasa God threatened Saint Moon, then fled after learning that Sheng Cai'er was Su Ran’s disciple.
• Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion members and other former students of Su Ran arrived to watch the competition.
• Tang Wutong confronted her father, Tang San, about the taboo he had placed on her and told him that Su Ran was the grandteacher she liked.
• Tang San celebrated that Tang Wutong had joined Su Ran’s Peach Blossom Sect and imagined her marrying him, while Huo Wu’s companions waited excitedly for the competition to begin.

Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi reunited at the Dou Shen Arena as Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang hosted the contest between Su Ran’s Peach Blossom System Goddesses and Beast Gods. With the competition about to begin, Su Ran arrived with Wang Qiu'er, Lan Fuzi, and the Snow Empress, while Gu Yue confronted him over an old grievance.

• Qian Daoliu greeted Bo Saixi, but she rejected his suggestion that they spend their long lives together because she still remembered Su Ran.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang announced the best-of-ten competition, its rules, and the opposing factions’ rewards for winning.
• Chao Tianxiang embarrassed Meng Yiran by openly declaring her affection for Su Ran, then spotted peach blossoms appearing above the arena.
• Xiong Jun, Di Tian, and the other Beast Gods emerged from the rift, but Gu Yue struck them and demanded that Su Ran appear.
• Su Ran arrived beside Wang Qiu'er, Lan Fuzi, and the Snow Empress, and told Gu Yue not to be angry because he had come.

Su Ran calmed Gu Yue after she threatened to destroy her God King-level godhead, then prepared his Beast God disciples for their Dou Shen Competition against the Peach Blossom System goddesses. The first duel began with Zhu Zhuqing selected to represent the goddesses, while the Beast Gods waited to challenge her.

• The Peach Blossom System disciples confronted Gu Yue over her past attempt to marry Su Ran, and she threatened to self-destruct before Su Ran calmed her; she bit his finger and returned to her seat.
• Su Ran greeted the God Kings and Dragon Duke, then the Peach Blossom System disciples and Beast Gods returned to their waiting areas and received his final warnings about the competition.
• Gu Yue claimed Little White as her pet, but the Snow Empress told her that soul beasts were friends, not pets, and promised to take Little White back after the competition.
• The Ice Empress recognized the Snow Empress as her missing friend and lamented that she had not been invited to study under Su Ran; she then silenced Meng Hongchen and Nan Qiuqiu when they cheered for him.
• Dragon Duke announced the first duel, with the Beast God side set to challenge and Zhu Zhuqing chosen as the Peach Blossom System's first contestant.

The Beast Gods chose the Demon Empress to face Zhu Zhuqing in the opening duel, and the two clashed inside the Dou Shen Space. Zhu Zhuqing was injured when the Demon Empress trapped her with Chaos Abyssal Pull, but she began a powerful counterattack by summoning the Ten Halls of Yama.

• The Beast Gods debated who should fight Zhu Zhuqing, and the Demon Empress volunteered after Snow Empress judged her abilities suited to the matchup.
• Di Tian and Xiong Jun agreed to compete over who could defeat a Peach Blossom Spring Goddess faster, while Gu Yue warned that any loser would face her in Single Combat.
• The Demon Empress entered the Dou Shen Tai, where she and Zhu Zhuqing introduced themselves before stepping through the Peach Blossom Gate into the Dou Shen Space.
• Zhu Zhuqing evaded the Demon Empress's attacks and wounded her with Nine Nether Divine Bone Claws, drawing blood from the Demon Kun's immense body.
• The Demon Empress used Chaos Abyssal Pull to slow Zhu Zhuqing and injured her with a Chaos Collapse Black Dot.
• Zhu Zhuqing tore out a Netherworld Blood Blade and invoked Yama, beginning to summon the Ten Halls of Yama against the Demon Empress.

Zhu Zhuqing and the Demon Empress fought to a devastating stalemate, while the spectators and judges watched in alarm. After hours of continued combat, Su Ran declared the duel a draw and healed both fighters, leaving them to reunite with their fellow disciples.

• Zhu Zhuqing and the Demon Empress unleashed their strongest attacks, destroying much of the star sea and leaving both gravely wounded.
• Tang San and the other spectators were stunned by the fighters’ power, while the Goddess of Goodness and Life Goddess showed interest in Su Ran and moved beside him.
• Zhu Zhuqing and the Demon Empress continued fighting for hours, repeatedly wounding and healing as the audience pleaded for a draw.
• Su Ran consulted the God Kings and judges, who agreed that the match should end in a draw.
• Su Ran entered the Dou Shen Space, declared the duel a draw, healed Zhu Zhuqing and the Demon Empress, and returned them to the Dou Shen Tai.

Ning Rongrong entered the second match against Xiong Jun and defeated him with her Indestructible Vajra body, Heaven-Opening Inch Strength, and Twelve-Layer Glazed Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. Xiong Jun refused to accept the loss, but his attacks could no longer hurt her, and he finally lay down in defeat.

• After Zhu Zhuqing drew with the Demon Empress, Ning Rongrong rallied the Peach Blossom System Goddesses and declared that they could win the next match.
• Xiong Jun volunteered to defend the arena, and Ning Rongrong stepped forward to fight him.
• Ning Rongjun?

Ning Rongrong defeated Xiong Jun in the second match of the Dou Shen Competition, and peach blossom blessings spread across the planes after the first day ended. The next morning, a man who had been missing for ten thousand years rushed into the arena and knelt before Su Ran, calling him Teacher.

• Ning Rongrong defeated Xiong Jun, who pretended to be dead until Di Tian and the others threatened to butcher him.
• Gu Yue dragged Xiong Jun away to punish him for losing, while Di Tian boasted that he would not lose as quickly.
• The first day of the Dou Shen Competition ended, and peach blossoms brought healing and breakthroughs to mortals and Soul Masters across the planes.
• A bearded middle-aged man emerged from the Far North and learned that a thousand years had passed since the year he remembered.
• The next morning, the man charged into the Dou Shen Tai, knocked Tang San aside, and knelt before Su Ran to greet his Teacher after ten thousand years away.

Wang Sheng returned to the Douluo Continent after being lost in spatial turbulence, revealing that he had guarded the world from the Abyss Plane and become lord of the Douluo Star plane. Ye Lingling warned that lingering abyssal corruption threatened his life, so Su Ran proposed making the next round of the Dou Shen Competition a contest to heal him.

• Wang Sheng appeared at the Dou Shen Competition and stunned the crowd, who recognized him as the long-lost guardian ancestor of the Douluo Continent.
• Wang Sheng greeted Su Ran and his fellow disciples, then explained that he had spent a thousand years guarding the boundary with the Abyss Plane and had become lord of the Douluo Star plane.
• Wang Sheng said the Abyss Plane had collapsed, sweeping him into spatial turbulence until he recently escaped and returned to the continent.
• Ye Lingling examined Wang Sheng and warned that a thousand years of abyssal corrosion had damaged his strength and lifeline, leaving him at most three hundred years to live.
• Su Ran proposed that the next round of the Dou Shen Competition have both sides send their strongest healing contestants to restore Wang Sheng's life value and lifespan.

Bi Ji and Ye Lingling competed to heal Wang Sheng, with Ye Lingling taking an early lead through the Nine Heart Divine Tang. As Ye Lingling’s strength began to fade, Bi Ji intensified her detailed, sustained healing, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Su Ran set the healing contest’s rules and had Wang Sheng sit at the center of the Dou Shen Tai as the test subject.
• Bi Ji and Ye Lingling began healing Wang Sheng simultaneously after the countdown reached zero.
• Bi Ji enclosed Wang Sheng in an emerald cocoon while Ye Lingling summoned the Nine Heart Divine Tang to heal him.
• Ye Lingling’s healing value surged ahead, exciting Shrek Academy while the Beast God Lineage worried over Bi Ji’s apparent disadvantage.
• After half an hour, Wang Sheng felt restored and the healing values reached ninety million and seventy million; Ye Lingling weakened as Bi Ji intensified her healing.