Chapter Summaries

After the Demon Emperor’s attempt to possess Dai Huabin left him, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu’s souls linked together, the Demon Emperor learned that he had awakened during the era of the Peerless Tang Sect. He ended by offering to help Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu become deities, but they doubted his claims.

• The Demon Emperor failed to possess Dai Huabin and became linked with Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu in their shared Sea of Consciousness.
• Zhu Lu introduced herself and explained that the Sun Moon Empire had conquered the Tian Soul and Dou Ling Empires.
• The Demon Emperor recognized the era of the Peerless Tang Sect and asked about its leaders and strength.
• Zhu Lu told the Demon Emperor that Tang Ya led the Tang Sect, Beibei made its decisions, and Huo Yuhao was a Super Douluo connected to Shrek, where deities existed.
• The Demon Emperor asked Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu if they wanted to become deities and offered to act as their Portable Grandpa, but they stared at him skeptically.

After Demon Empress attacked Demon Shark Island to force Xiao Bai to help her find Zhou Huan, Zhou Huan appeared and stopped her strike. He asked whether she had been looking for him.

• Zhou Huan resumed his routine at Shrek Academy while Xiao Xiao and Wen Xiaoshuai stayed on Sea God Island playing cards with him.
• Demon Empress went to Demon Shark Island and demanded that Xiao Bai find Zhou Huan so she could ask him about the Abyss’s silence and the Holy Spirit Cult’s destruction.
• When Xiao Bai refused, Demon Empress threatened to destroy the island and summoned the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s phantom to attack it.
• Zhou Huan appeared, froze and shattered the phantom, then calmly asked Demon Empress whether she had been looking for him.

Zhou Huan drove the Demon Empress away from Demon Shark Island and reunited with Xiao Bai, who learned he had reached god-level. Bai Paopao asked to study at Shrek, and Zhou Huan agreed to watch over her as one of his students.

• The Demon Empress discovered Zhou Huan's power and abandoned her attempt to ally with him, then left after he warned her to stop troubling Demon Shark Island.
• Xiao Bai asked how Zhou Huan had become so strong, and he explained that he had reached god-level without becoming a Deity.
• Zhou Huan prepared to leave with Xiao Xiao while Xiao Bai considered how to host them amid the damage to Demon Shark Island.
• Bai Paopao begged Xiao Bai to let her study at Shrek, arguing that she wanted to experience the human world and help the future of Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Bai looked to Zhou Huan for reassurance, and he agreed to take Bai Paopao to Shrek and keep an eye on her.

Zhou Huan enrolled Bai Paopao at Shrek and later focused on creating a divine skill based on Snow Emperor’s Emperor Sword. Snow Emperor offered no easy solution, leaving Zhou Huan to continue experimenting with his Emperor’s Sword Nuclear Burst.

• Zhou Huan brought Bai Paopao to Shrek as a transfer student and concealed her Soul Beast form while she joined first-year Class One.
• Over the next two months, Bai Paopao befriended Xu Xiaomeng, who continued trying to persuade Zhou Huan to accept her as his true disciple.
• Zhou Huan researched divine skills in the Floating Pagoda, planning to develop stronger versions of Snow Emperor’s Emperor Sword to prepare for fighting Tang San.
• Snow Emperor criticized Zhou Huan’s Emperor’s Sword Nuclear Burst for being slow and inaccurate, then said creating divine skills could take her one hundred and eighty thousand years.
• Zhou Huan gave up on getting Snow Emperor to solve the problem for him and returned to experimenting with his own skill.

The Goddess of Life and Rong Nianbing went to the Phoenix God Realm to learn why Ma Hongjun’s wife, Bai Chenxiang, had died in the mortal realm while Ma Hongjun remained in the God Realm. They found Ma Hongjun cultivating in the Sea of Lava, where his progress impressed them.

• The Goddess of Life left the Destruction Temple and entered the Phoenix God Realm to ask Ma Hongjun about his wife.
• She encountered Rong Nianbing, who explained that he had come to investigate a message about the God of Phoenix’s wife and invited her to witness their conversation.
• Rong Nianbing explained that Huo Yuhao had told him Bai Chenxiang had died of old age in the mortal realm, prompting him to question why she had not been brought into the God Realm.
• The Goddess of Life and Rong Nianbing agreed to seek the truth directly from Ma Hongjun and went together to the center of the Sea of Lava.
• They found Ma Hongjun cultivating above the lava, and both praised how quickly he had refined the power of his Phoenix God Position.

The Goddess of Life and Rong Nianbing visited Ma Hongjun and revealed that he could have applied to bring Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm, despite what Tang San had led him to believe. Ma Hongjun was left furious and alone in the Sea of Lava, while the visitors wondered how they had both learned of his wife from the Douluo Continent.

• Ma Hongjun greeted the Goddess of Life and Rong Nianbing when they arrived at the Sea of Lava.
• The Goddess of Life asked Ma Hongjun why he had not brought Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm, and he said he thought a Second-level Deity could not bring family members.
• Rong Nianbing told Ma Hongjun he could have applied to the God Realm Committee to bring his wife, and the Goddess of Life confirmed it.
• Ma Hongjun realized Tang San had concealed this option and bitterly condemned him before asking the visitors to leave.
• After leaving the Phoenix God Realm, Rong Nianbing asked where the Goddess of Life had learned about Bai Chenxiang, and she said Destruction had visited the Douluo Continent.

Zhou Huan visited Gu Yuena at Lake of Life, where he collected a Rare Soul Beast for his research and learned that the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor had escaped with Dai Huabin. He then brought Wang Qiuer back to Shrek Academy with Gu Yuena’s permission.

• Zhou Huan continued researching Divine Skills with Snow Empress’s help and received Gu Yuena’s summons to Lake of Life.
• Zhou Huan collected the one of five Rare Soul Beasts that interested the Floating Pagoda, and Gu Yuena sent the other four away.
• Gu Yuena told Zhou Huan that the captured Evil Soul Masters had died without revealing the Demon Emperor’s location, but that the Demon Emperor had taken Dai Huabin as a vessel for possession.
• Zhou Huan explained Dai Huabin’s history at Shrek to Gu Yuena after she learned he had once been a Shrek student.
• Zhou Huan invited Wang Qiuer to return to Shrek with him, and Gu Yuena allowed her to go.
• Zhou Huan left Lake of Life with Wang Qiuer.

After unlocking the Floating Pagoda’s third level with the Mysterious Cauldron Beast’s Soul Ring, Zhou Huan found a black Godhead and decided to give it to Xiao Xiao. With Zhou Huan’s help, Xiao Xiao refined it and broke through to Super Douluo, while Wen Xiaoshuai waited for a future Godhead.

• Wang Qiuer returned to Shrek, and Zhou Huan told her to report to Xuanzi before moving about freely.
• Zhou Huan absorbed the Mysterious Cauldron Beast’s Soul Ring, unlocked the Floating Pagoda’s third level, and found a black Godhead there.
• Zhou Huan asked Xiao Xiao and Wen Xiaoshuai to decide who would refine the Godhead first, and Wen Xiaoshuai yielded it to Xiao Xiao.
• Zhou Huan helped Xiao Xiao refine the Godhead over a day and a night, raising her Soul Power to level 95 and making her a Super Douluo.
• Xiao Xiao thanked Zhou Huan and left to consolidate her cultivation.

The Demon Empress brooded over the loss of the Holy Spirit Cult and the Abyss, and her continuing inability to avenge her husband, Tang San. Lan Fozi tried to comfort her, but a blood-red vortex appeared above the Demon Palace and a young man in black stepped out.

• The Demon Empress recalled how the Spirit of the Plane had helped her become a Half-god, then left after she took control of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The Demon Empress resented the Spirit of the Plane and Zhou Huan for gaining power while she remained unable to confront Tang San.
• Lan Fozi came to comfort her mother and urged her to stay by her side, but the Demon Empress told her to focus on cultivation and protect herself.
• A blood-red vortex appeared above the Demon Palace, and the Demon Empress pulled Lan Fozi behind her.
• A young man in black slowly stepped out of the vortex.

Dai Huabin confronted the Demon Empress and demanded everything she had in exchange for future revenge against Tang San, then fought and killed her when she refused. After the battle, he revealed that the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor had controlled his body, and the Demon Emperor blamed Dai Huabin's weakness for the injuries.

• Dai Huabin introduced himself to the Demon Empress as the Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult and offered to avenge her if she surrendered her blood, flesh, soul, and everything else.
• The Demon Empress refused and attacked Dai Huabin, while sending Lan Fozi through a purple passage to escape to Demon Shark Island.
• Dai Huabin's grotesque demonic faces trapped the Demon Empress in a blood-red net, and their battle devastated the North Sea for a day and night.
• Dai Huabin emerged from a distant undersea cave badly injured, dragging the slain Demon Empress's true form behind him.
• In Dai Huabin's Sea of Consciousness, the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor revealed that he had controlled Dai Huabin's body during the fight and blamed the injuries on Dai Huabin's weak body.

Dai Huabin devoured the Demon Empress’s remains with the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor’s method, while Zhu Lu learned that the process could help Dai reach Limit Douluo and might eventually let her become human again. The Demon Empress’s resentment appeared in their Sea of Consciousness, where the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor trapped it as Dai’s cultivation rose.

• The Holy Spirit Demon Emperor ordered Dai Huabin to return to his body and use the Blood Dissolving Soul Swallowing Method to devour the Demon Empress’s sealed remains.
• Zhu Lu worried that the method might turn Dai into a half-demon, and the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor assured her it would not and suggested she might become human again if Dai reached god-level.
• The Holy Spirit Demon Emperor told Zhu Lu that devouring the Demon Empress would likely bring Dai to Limit Douluo, and that he could grow stronger by consuming many Sea Soul Beasts.
• The Demon Empress’s resentment formed a face in the Sea of Consciousness, and the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor trapped it with Blood-Red Seals.
• The Holy Spirit Demon Emperor explained that the Demon Empress’s Demonic Thought could not be killed in his current state, and Dai’s rising cultivation caused the Sea of Consciousness to expand.

Lan Fozi fled the North Sea Demon Palace on her mother's orders and reached Demon Shark Island seeking help against a mysterious human Soul Master. Xiao Bai sent her west to find Zhou Huan at Shrek Academy, and Lan Fozi set off for the Douluo Continent.

• Lan Fozi swam for ten days from the North Sea Demon Palace to Demon Shark Island, obeying her mother's order while she fought to reach safety.
• Lan Fozi asked Xiao Bai for help against the human Soul Master battling the Demon Empress.
• Xiao Bai realized the Demon Empress had sent Lan Fozi to reach Zhou Huan, whom she believed could defeat the enemy.
• Xiao Bai told Lan Fozi to find Zhou Huan at Shrek Academy on the Douluo Continent and warned that human Soul Masters might hunt her for her Soul Ring or Soul Bone.
• Lan Fozi transformed into her Deep Sea Demon Whale form and swam west toward the Douluo Continent.

Ma Hongjun returned to Douluo Continent after learning that Tang San had brought Huo Yun'er, a mortal, into the God Realm and feeling betrayed by Dai Mubai’s concealment. He visited Shrek Academy in secret, where someone recognized his arrival and welcomed the God of Phoenix.

• Ma Hongjun recalled how he chose godhood over accompanying Bai Chenxiang, who grew old and died while he remained in the God Realm.
• After discovering Huo Yun'er in Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s home, Ma Hongjun left the God Realm in anger and returned to Douluo Continent.
• Ma Hongjun walked through Shrek City and reflected on his regret, his lost wife, and his strained bonds with his former brothers.
• Ma Hongjun secretly appeared at Shrek Academy to see whether it still felt like home.
• As Ma Hongjun crossed Shrek’s gates, a calm voice announced that the God of Phoenix had arrived and welcomed him.

Ma Hongjun visited Shrek Academy, where Zhou Huan recognized him and introduced him to Xiao Xiao and Wen Xiaoshuai. As Ma Hongjun prepared to leave, Zhou Huan offered him a chance to meet his and Bai Chenxiang’s descendants, leaving him silent and conflicted.

• Ma Hongjun appeared on Sea God Island after Zhou Huan detected his arrival, and found Zhou Huan, Xiao Xiao, and Wen Xiaoshuai playing cards.
• Zhou Huan introduced himself and identified Ma Hongjun as the God of Phoenix and a member of the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xiao Xiao warned Ma Hongjun that Shrek held a grudge against Tang San, while Wen Xiaoshuai cautioned her not to provoke him.
• Ma Hongjun said he had only come to visit his former academy and advised the others to be careful if they opposed Tang San.
• As Ma Hongjun turned to leave, Zhou Huan asked whether he wanted to meet his and Bai Chenxiang’s descendants, and Ma Hongjun fell silent.

Ma Hongjun met his descendant Ma Xiaotao and learned that Zhou Huan had cured the Evil Fire in her Martial Soul. He then asked whether she wanted to become the God of Phoenix.

• Zhou Huan brought Ma Xiaotao to meet Ma Hongjun, and she realized she had just embarrassed herself in front of her ancestor.
• Ma Xiaotao introduced herself and explained that Zhou Huan had used Blazing Gum from the Infernal Delicate Apricot to resolve her Evil Fire.
• Ma Hongjun thanked Zhou Huan and said he owed him a favor.
• Ma Hongjun asked Ma Xiaotao if she wanted to become the God of Phoenix.

Ma Hongjun offered Ma Xiaotao the Phoenix God Position, explaining that passing it on would free him from its limits rather than threaten his life. Ma Xiaotao accepted the inheritance but chose to delay completing it so she could remain at Shrek Academy.

• Ma Hongjun offered Ma Xiaotao his Phoenix God Position, surprising her, Xiao Xiao, Wen Xiaoshuai, and Zhou Huan.
• Ma Hongjun explained that refining the divine power of a God Position had freed him from its constraints, and Zhou Huan reconsidered how quickly Tang San might have grown stronger.
• Ma Hongjun warned Ma Xiaotao that becoming a Deity would bind her to the Douluo God Realm and its laws.
• Ma Xiaotao asked to delay completing the inheritance because she did not want to leave Shrek Academy yet.
• Ma Hongjun agreed that Ma Xiaotao could accept the inheritance while postponing its final step, and she accepted the Phoenix God Position.

Ma Hongjun stayed at Shrek while Ma Xiaotao prepared to inherit the Phoenix God Position, and Zhou Huan hoped to earn the legendary ancestor’s trust over time. A month later, Lan Fozi arrived at Shrek injured and asked Zhou Huan to save her mother.

• Ma Xiaotao began showing Ma Hongjun around Shrek and arranged a quiet place for him to stay while she prepared for the inheritance.
• Zhou Huan hoped Ma Hongjun would grow attached to Shrek and eventually side with him, while Ma Hongjun kept his identity concealed from most people at the academy.
• After a peaceful month, Lan Luoluo brought a weary, injured Lan Fozi to Zhou Huan’s office.
• Lan Fozi explained that she had fought her way across the sea and killed a Titled Douluo before reaching Shrek, leaving her afraid of humans who offered help.
• Lan Luoluo refused to leave the office, and Lan Fozi knelt before Zhou Huan and begged him to save her mother.

Lan Fozi told Zhou Huan that the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor had attacked the Demon Empress, her mother, and begged him to help. Zhou Huan and Gu Yuena found the Demon Palace of the North Sea destroyed, failed to locate the emperor, and brought Lan Fozi to Demon Shark Island to seek the Sea Soul Beasts’ help.

• Lan Fozi told Zhou Huan that Dai Huabin, claiming to be the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son, had attacked the Demon Empress and that her mother had sent her to seek help.
• Zhou Huan took Lan Fozi to the Lake of Life and informed Gu Yuena about the attack.
• Zhou Huan, Gu Yuena, and Lan Fozi traveled to the submerged ruins of the Demon Palace of the North Sea, where Gu Yuena sensed only a faint trace of the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor.
• Zhou Huan concluded that the emperor was likely hiding in the ocean to recover and suggested that Gu Yuena rally the Sea Soul Beast clans against him.
• Zhou Huan, Gu Yuena, and Lan Fozi set out for Demon Shark Island, while Gu Yuena agreed to protect Lan Fozi.

Zhou Huan spent time discussing Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix God inheritance and the God Realm with Ma Hongjun, while the war between the Sun Moon Empire and Star Luo Empire continued. The chapter left Zhou Huan anticipating Ju Zi’s next move in the Mingdou Mountain Range.

• Zhou Huan returned from Demon Shark Island after introducing Gu Yuena to Xiao Bai and arranging for them to share information about the Holy Spirit Demon Emperor.
• Zhou Huan’s research on Emperor Sword 2.0 reached eighty percent completion as Ma Xiaotao began inheriting the Phoenix God Position.
• Zhou Huan and Ma Hongjun discussed the limits of inheriting God Positions and the possibility of unifying the Douluo Continent.
• Ma Hongjun noted that Ju Zi had slowed her advance after capturing most of the Mingdou Mountain Range, and Zhou Huan suspected she was waiting because Xu Tianran was still alive.
• Zhou Huan anticipated a confrontation between Ju Zi and Huo Gua, who was in the Mingdou Mountain Range with Tang Wutong.

Ju Zi halted the Sun Moon Army’s advance so Xu Tianran could arrive and claim the victory, then invited Huo Yuhao to meet with her privately. With the Star Luo Army surrounded and defeat near, Huo Gua accepted the invitation despite Tang Wutong’s jealousy.

• Ju Zi told her generals that Xu Tianran would arrive in five days and ordered General Zhao to arrange a private meeting with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Gua received Ju Zi’s invitation, while Xu Sanshi joked that Huo Yuhao might persuade her to end the war.
• Huo Gua recognized that Star Luo’s defeat was only a matter of time and decided he had to attend the meeting.
• Tang Wutong said she wanted to go with Huo Gua, but he explained that her presence would interfere with the private negotiations.
• Huo Gua reassured Tang Wutong by taking her hand and kissing it, though she remained doubtful.