Chapter Summaries

Otto expanded his influence within the Holy Spirit Cult and arranged for Kiritsugu Emiya's squad to join him in Mingdu. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen sent Xuan Ziwen and Mingde Hall Soul Engineers to Xilu City, where Xuan's admiration for its Soul Tool designs had already made him feel he belonged there.

• Otto questioned Nana about Ju Zi, then assigned her to guide Kiritsugu Emiya's group into the Holy Cult and manage its Mingdu stronghold.
• Otto reflected on his infiltration of the Holy Spirit Cult and his growing influence over Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Empire's military.
• Jing Hongchen showed Xuan Ziwen a photograph of a Soul Tool Machine Tool and offered him a secret trip to Xilu City.
• Xuan Ziwen accepted the assignment and prepared to travel with Mingde Hall Soul Engineers the following night.
• Xuan Ziwen recalled how studying Xilu City's civilian Soul Tools had convinced him that its mechanical designs represented the future of Soul Tools.

Jing Hongchen arranged for Mingde Hall Soul Engineers to relocate to Xilu City while Otto secretly helped him, then Huo Yuhao caught a Demon Soul Great White Shark in the Ice Sea. The shark revealed that a Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had awakened and was targeting her clan, leaving Huo Yuhao to face a threat caused by Little Planet Spirit’s attempt to control the ocean.

• Jing Hongchen read a court letter describing Xu Tianran and Otto’s plans to divide Mingde Hall, then arranged for Xuan Ziwen and other Soul Engineers to leave for Xilu City.
• Jing Hongchen messaged “Most Loves Kallen Fantasy” to ask Passion Sect to protect the Soul Engineers, unaware that he was speaking with Otto.
• Huo Yuhao and Su Tong hauled a Demon Soul Great White Shark ashore after it swallowed his bait, and Huo Yuhao freed it and asked how it had reached the Ice Sea.
• The shark told Huo Yuhao that a powerful current swept her from the Arctic Ocean and that a terrifying presence knocked her unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Little Planet Spirit, who admitted that her attempt to regain control of the ocean caused chaotic currents and awakened the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who was likely seeking revenge on the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan.

Huo Yuhao learned that a maddened Demon Empress was slaughtering Sea Soul Beasts, then discovered the stranded Demon Soul Great White Shark was named Bai Xiuxiu. He let her go with a request to bring back undersea specialties, expecting her to return because the Ocean had become dangerous.

• The Little Planet Spirit told Huo Yuhao that the nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Demon Empress had awakened consumed by hatred and was killing Sea Soul Beasts.
• The Little Planet Spirit explained that she had sent the Demon Soul Great White Shark to guide Huo Yuhao across the Ocean, and Huo Yuhao thanked her.
• Su Tong stopped the weakened Demon Soul Great White Shark from escaping while she pleaded not to be hurt.
• Huo Yuhao asked the shark her name, and she proudly introduced herself as Dong Qianqiu before Su Tong warned that they needed a Soul Ring.
• The shark admitted her name was Bai Xiuxiu, and Huo Yuhao let her go in exchange for bringing undersea specialties.
• Bai Xiuxiu promised to return in two days, and Huo Yuhao told Su Tong that the Ocean was no longer peaceful before they left to form her Soul Spirit Contract.

Huo Yuhao completed Su Tong’s Soul Spirit contract with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Drill Tyrannosaurus and sent a recording to Gu Yue Na. After the Star Dou Great Forest’s Fierce Beasts accepted cooperation, Gu Yue Na proposed the name Spirit Pagoda for the organization that would promote and protect Soul Spirit Technology.

• Huo Yuhao performed a Soul Spirit contract between Su Tong and the Ice Drill Tyrannosaurus, which became a living Soul Spirit and left behind a Scarlet Soul Ring and a Left Arm Bone.
• Snow Empress and Water Dragon King sent Huo Yuhao recordings of the contract, and he forwarded them to Gu Yue Na.
• Gu Yue Na led a Passion Sect delegation into the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone, where Scarlet King escorted them to Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts.
• Gu Yue Na presented the contract footage, and Bi Ji recognized that the Ice Drill Tyrannosaurus remained alive as a Soul Spirit.
• Di Tian agreed that the Core Zone would cooperate in promoting Soul Spirit Technology and asked to discuss an organization to protect it.
• Gu Yue Na named the proposed organization the Spirit Pagoda.

Huo Yuhao and Di Tian agreed on the Soul Beasts’ demands and coordinated plans to establish the Spirit Pagoda, with Huo Yuhao becoming its first Tower Master. They left Gu Yue Na and Di Tian to work out construction details as the Soul Beasts prepared to support the new era.

• Di Tian presented the Soul Beasts’ modest demands, and Gu Yue Na sent them to Huo Yuhao, who approved them.
• Huo Yuhao and Di Tian discussed Passion Sect’s funding, technology, personnel, and Soul Spirit Contract tools for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Di Tian pledged the Star Dou Great Forest’s Beast Kings as high-level defenders and offered to bring scattered Beast Kings into the Soul Spirit Plan.
• Huo Yuhao and Di Tian divided responsibility for gaining support from the continent’s major powers and agreed Shrek Academy would join on its own.
• Di Tian proposed Huo Yuhao as Tower Master, and Huo Yuhao accepted the position before assigning Gu Yue Na to coordinate construction with Di Tian.

Bai Xiuxiu returned to the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan to find it slaughtered by the Demon Empress, who nearly killed her before Huo Yuhao rescued her through Dream Space. The chapter then introduced Huo Zhanji, who woke in a forest near Star Luo City after a series of errors in the Douluo World.

• Bai Xiuxiu hunted a Dragon Blood Tuna and carried it toward her clan's territory, unaware of the bloodshed spreading through the Arctic Ocean.
• Bai Xiuxiu found the remains of countless Sea Soul Beasts and rushed toward her clan after recognizing the blood of Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Bai Xiuxiu discovered her clan had been slaughtered and found the Shark Pearl, realizing her mother was dead.
• The Demon Empress attacked Bai Xiuxiu and dragged her toward her mouth, but Huo Yuhao rescued her through multicolored ripples and sent her into the Ice Sea to sleep.
• Huo Zhanji woke in a forest near Star Luo City, confused after the Douluo World crashed and its guidance voice disappeared.

Huo Zhanji arrived in an ancient Star Luo City after being swept into another era, then discovered that the Magic Net connected him with his sister Dai Ying. As they tried to reunite, Adam silently watched Huo Zhanji, while an unknown blonde girl watched Dai Ying.

• Huo Zhanji used his Spiritual Probe and Spiritual Appraisal to reach Star Luo City and enter without identification.
• Huo Zhanji explored the city, hid Little Evil and his unusual Soul Rings, and realized he had traveled through time with no money or safe way to use his Martial Souls.
• A Magic Net screen appeared, and Huo Zhanji registered under the username Spiritual Eye Youth.
• Dai Ying sent Huo Zhanji a friend request, and they exchanged messages about their situation and location.
• Adam appeared behind Huo Zhanji and silently observed him as Dai Ying, stranded near the White Tiger Duke's Mansion with her strength reduced, tried to contact her brother; an unknown blonde girl watched her.

Huo Yuhao rescued Bai Xiuxiu, who chose to pursue human form and revenge, and arranged for her to guide his fleet to another continent. He began establishing Passion’s Extreme North Shipyard and first open-ocean vessel, Sai’er, before Adam reported that two new guests had arrived on the continent.

• Huo Yuhao healed Bai Xiuxiu and urged her to live on and grow stronger after she mourned the loss of her family.
• Bai Xiuxiu agreed to guide Huo Yuhao’s fleet to another continent and asked to keep following him after earning her freedom.
• Bai Xiuxiu chose to return to the sea and undergo the hundred-thousand-year tribulation so she could take human form and seek revenge.
• Huo Yuhao and Su Tong arranged the transfer of shipwrights and equipment to the Far North, where they would build the Extreme North Shipyard and Passion’s first open-ocean vessel, named Sai’er.
• The Snow Empress, the Water Dragon King, and Far North Soul Beasts arrived to help build the shipyard, and Adam told Huo Yuhao that two new guests had reached the continent.

Huo Yuhao learned that Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying, two travelers from a parallel timeline, had arrived on Douluo Continent and asked the Water Dragon King to investigate their time-travel phenomenon. She traced their auras to the lost Time Crown, whose appearance had been triggered by Huo Yuhao’s other Dragon Crowns, while Snow Empress announced that Bing'er was about to undergo her tribulation.

• Adam showed Huo Yuhao surveillance footage of Huo Zhanji, a Soul Elder with a Spiritual Eye Martial Soul, and Dai Ying, a once-First-level God whose power had been diminished.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying were time travelers from a parallel timeline and instructed Adam and Audrey to monitor them through the Magic Net.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Water Dragon King and Snow Empress about time travel, and the Water Dragon King sensed the Time Crown’s aura on the two newcomers.
• The Water Dragon King explained that Huo Yuhao’s Dragon Crowns had stirred the ownerless Time Crown, and said their combined Crown auras could help locate it.
• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao and the Water Dragon King that Bing'er was about to undergo her tribulation, and they agreed to go watch.

Phainon and Mydeimos met Shrek Academy’s Main Team, fought a mixed-team battle, and were recruited into the Shrek Inspection Team for a mission in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Castorice went through the Hundred Realms Gate to fetch her Shadow Cat, and Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying arrived in Xilu City to seek Huo Yuhao’s help.

• Phainon and Mydeimos walked through Shrek Academy’s renovations and discussed Soul Spirit Technology before joining the other students at the Battle Soul Arena.
• Xuan Zi introduced the Main Team and arranged a mixed-team battle, separating Phainon and Mydeimos onto opposing sides.
• The fourteen students fought until dusk, and Feng Jin healed their injuries with her Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi invited the Reserve Team members to join the Shrek Inspection Team and announced a mission against bandits in the Ming Dou Mountain Range the next morning, with Elder Song accompanying them.
• Castorice asked Tribbie to open the Hundred Realms Gate so she could bring her overweight Shadow Cat from Xilu City.
• Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying reached Xilu City, discussed the strange Timeline, and set out to find Huo Yuhao.

Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji traveled to Xilu City to seek help from Huo Yuhao after a message from another Huo Yuhao warned them not to ask their grandfather for help. They arrived at Huo Yuhao’s home, where Castorice answered the door and asked who they were.

• Dai Ying received a fragmented message from another Huo Yuhao warning her to be careful and not seek their grandfather’s help in that era, so she stopped the ritual to contact him.
• Dai Ying decided to find Huo Yuhao in Xilu City, and she and Huo Zhanji were admitted after the guards recognized them.
• Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji marveled at Xilu City’s advanced technology as they made their way to Huo Yuhao’s unusual villa.
• Adam and Audrey secretly watched the pair, and Adam admitted he found something amusing.
• Castorice opened the villa’s gate with a giant Shadow Cat and asked Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji who they were.

Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji found Huo Yuhao through Castorice, but his hostility toward Dai Ying’s surname led him to attack them. The chapter ended with Dai Ying wounded and calling Huo Yuhao “Dad” to make him stop, while he told her he despised her.

• Castorice told Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji that Huo Yuhao was her father and agreed to contact him after Adam appeared.
• Huo Yuhao started a video call from the Far North, where he was overseeing the Extreme North Shipyard, and spoke with Castorice before meeting the visitors.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Huo Zhanji from calling him Dad, then immobilized both visitors and took them to a forest outside Xilu City.
• Huo Yuhao attacked Huo Zhanji and embedded him in a rock wall, then challenged Dai Ying over her surname and fought her with powerful sword and spatial techniques.
• Dai Ying was wounded and weakened as the world rejected her, and she called Huo Yuhao Dad to stay alive; he said he despised her.

Huo Yuhao fought Dai Ying, then healed her and Huo Zhanji after learning they were his descendants from another Timeline. He brought them home for a meal, where they met Castorice and Audrey.

• Dai Ying unleashed the Nether Domain against Huo Yuhao, but both fighters held back as their clash devastated the surrounding forest.
• Huo Zhanji struggled to reach Dai Ying until Adam freed him from the rock wall and took him to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Ying for withdrawing her attack, then gave her his coat and healed her and Huo Zhanji with the Reversal Technique.
• Huo Yuhao invited Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji to his house, warning them not to use their surname when they visited again.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Castorice, lifted her up, and prepared dinner for her, Audrey, Dai Ying, and Huo Zhanji.

Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji had come to contact the God Realm, then revealed that their mother’s soul had been split into three parts and promised they could return to their timeline once he settled matters. As Shrek’s teams departed for the Ming Dou Mountain Range, Roman also set out to follow them.

• Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji told Huo Yuhao they had intended to contact the God Realm, but had obeyed their father’s warning not to do so.
• Huo Yuhao showed them Wang Dong’s incomplete, torn soul and explained that Tang San had split their mother’s soul into three parts; Dai Ying and Huo Zhanji reacted with shock and anger.
• Huo Yuhao promised the siblings they could return to their timeline after he settled matters, and planned to take them to the Far North to investigate the Time Crown.
• Castorice left for Shrek Academy, where she joined the others at the Battle Soul Arena with the Shadow Cat.
• Xuan Zi led the Main Team toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range, while Elder Song and Wang Yan took the Reserve Team and prioritized its safety.
• Roman handed his work to his subordinates and vanished to follow the teams.

Phainon and the Shrek teams flew for eight hours before landing near the Star Luo Empire’s Western Army Group, where Dai Hao received them and shared information about bandits in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. The chapter left Wang Yan reviewing reports on the Death Hand Bandit Group and the newly arrived Gehrman Bandit Group, whose members all wore monocles over their right eyes.

• Phainon lost his balance during his first flight, and Mydeimos steadied him before the group continued toward their destination.
• Elder Song guided the exhausted students safely down, and Xuan Zi dispersed the auras of an approaching Western Army squad and caused their Flying Soul Tools to fail.
• Dai Yueheng identified himself to Dureth, who led the Shrek group to the military camp to meet Dai Hao.
• Dai Hao gave Xuan Zi two sets of documents describing the Death Hand and Gehrman Bandit Groups in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Wang Yan learned that the Gehrman Bandit Group had one hundred members and that all of them wore a monocle over their right eye.

The Shrek teams split up to attack two bandit groups, with Dai Yueheng leading the Main Team against Death Hand and Wang Yan leading the Reserve Team toward Gehrman. The Reserve Team was surrounded by strange monocle-wearing figures who attacked Ling Luochen, while Dai Yueheng’s team entered the cave expecting an easy victory.

• Dai Yueheng volunteered the Main Team to handle the stronger Death Hand Bandit Group, and Ling Luochen agreed to accompany the Reserve Team to Gehrman.
• Xuan Zi sent the Main Team with Dai Yueheng and the Reserve Team with Wang Yan to their separate targets, while he and Elder Song followed in secret.
• Wang Yan identified blue Warm-Wind Trees as a sign that the Gehrman Bandit Group likely harbored Evil Soul Masters and warned the Reserve Team to stay alert.
• Tribbie detected powerful Soul Power ahead, and the Reserve Team discovered that strange figures had surrounded them in the forest.
• The figures donned monocles and used the word "Steal" to strike at Ling Luochen after she cast Ice Cage.
• Dai Yueheng rejected Xuan Zi’s offer to follow the Main Team into the Death Hand bandits’ cave, confident that the team could defeat its Soul King leader.

Roman watched the Shrek Main Team enter the Death Hand Bandit Group’s cave and warned Huo Yuhao about their dangerous formation. The Death Messenger triggered a trap amid the team’s slaughter of the bandits, leaving the Main Team facing an imminent explosion.

• Dai Yueheng led the Main Team into the cave in a formation that Roman judged poorly suited to its three-dimensional tunnels.
• Roman exchanged Magic Net messages with Huo Yuhao, who told him to watch over Dai Shounan and capture him if the situation turned chaotic.
• The Death Messenger prepared corpses and Soul Guide Bombs to ambush the Shrek Inspection Team, while Otto condemned Dai Hao for failing to eliminate the bandits.
• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Xi Xi, and the others found human remains in the cave and advanced into a chamber where the bandits attacked.
• The Main Team slaughtered the bandits, and the Death Messenger detonated the corpses as the buried Soul Guide Bombs began charging.

A bomb-and-corpse explosion collapsed the mountain where Dai Yueheng’s team was trapped, leaving the Shrek seniors presumed dead and Ma Xiaotao barely alive. As Elder Song took the Reserve Team back to camp, the Death Messenger fled into the forest and was confronted by a monocled man.

• Xi Xi, Chen Zifeng, and Gongyang Mo were knocked unconscious by the blasts, while Dai Yueheng, Ma Xiaotao, and Yao Haoxuan tried to protect the team as the cave collapsed.
• Roman dragged Dai Yueheng into Imaginary Space and sheltered Ma Xiaotao, while Xuan Zi’s aura threatened to crush her until Roman reinforced her shelter.
• Elder Song rescued Ma Xiaotao, ordered Xuan Zi to take her for treatment, and brought the unharmed Reserve Team back from its fight with the Amons.
• Wang Yan analyzed the Amons’ power to steal Soul Skills and Soul Rings, but Elder Song arrived and destroyed the remaining puppets with a hurricane attack.
• The Death Messenger boasted about his attack on the Shrek Inspection Team as he led the Bandit Group through the forest, then encountered a monocled man who blocked their escape.

Amon turned Death Messenger and the bandits into his monocle-wearing copies, then reunited with Adam and discussed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's slaughter of Sea Soul Beasts in the South Sea. Amon planned to keep playing pirate, meddle with the Holy Spirit Cult, and take an interest in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Competition.

• Amon took control of Death Messenger, who then helped transform the Bandit Group members into Amons.
• Amon greeted his brother Adam, who had been watching from a nearby tree, and discussed his clash with Phainon and the others.
• Amon told Adam that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had devastated the South Sea Allied Force, killing twelve of its forty Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts before the survivors fled.
• Adam explained that he was concerned the Ocean's turmoil could complicate Huo Yuhao's upcoming voyage to search for other continents.
• Amon said he would continue being a pirate, seek amusement in the Holy Spirit Cult, and follow the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Competition; Adam warned him not to anger their Father.

After the Main Team suffered catastrophic losses in a mountain collapse, Ma Xiaotao survived with severe injuries and Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the disaster. The Sea God Pavilion made the Reserve Team the new Main Team and considered Anaxa as their supervising teacher.

• Feng Jin used Rainbow Radiance to stabilize Ma Xiaotao's life-threatening injuries, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Dureth reported that the White Tiger Personal Guard found no clues in the rubble, and Dai Hao blamed the Sun Moon Empire and ordered the Western Army Group to prepare for battle.
• Huo Suier urged Xuan Zi to take responsibility, and he returned Ma Xiaotao to the Sea God Pavilion before joining its emergency meeting.
• Xuan Zi accepted punishment and agreed to compensate the families of the dead; Mu En assigned Long Xiaoyao as deputy leader of the Inspection Corps and Xuan Zi as his assistant.
• Mu En ordered the Reserve Team to compete as the Main Team, while Xian Lin'er proposed Anaxa, whose real name was Anak Sargas, as their supervising teacher.