Chapter Summaries

Feng Zaixing visited the Eastsea Five, invited Tang Wulin to join the Primal Body Sect, and failed to recruit him. He then abducted Ling Zichen from the Tang Sect’s hidden underground arsenal with Lezhengyang’s help, and the two vowed to uproot the Tang Sect someday.

• Xie Xie worried about his prospects after graduation, while the others explained their advantages for entering Shrek or Ming Capital.
• Feng Zaixing said he was returning to Ming Capital and asked Tang Wulin to leave the Tang Sect for the Primal Body Sect, but Tang Wulin refused.
• Feng Zaixing told Xie Xie that his weak blood essence meant a Second Awakening could not raise his potential, then joked that he might bloom late at Seven Rings.
• Feng Zaixing admitted to Lezhengyang that he had failed to recruit Tang Wulin, then entered the Tang Sect’s underground world beneath Heaven Dou City.
• Feng Zaixing knocked Ling Zichen unconscious and took her away with Lezhengyang and her parents.
• Lezhengyang revealed that the Tang Sect’s underground arsenal supplied one-third of the Federation’s legions, and Feng Zaixing vowed they would uproot the sect someday.

Feng Zaixing learned that powerful freshmen, including Wu Sido, had joined the Nine Stars Association and agreed to fight her. He then confronted the broken Ye Xinglan, offered her a path to rebuild her Sword Heart through hatred of Shrek, and left her determined to grow stronger.

• Long Chen reported that Wu Sido and other formidable freshmen had arrived, and Feng Zaixing accepted Wu Sido’s challenge on the Soul Fighting Platform.
• Yu Xin told Feng Zaixing that Ye Xinglan had spent her days training and meditating since Shrek and her family abandoned her, leaving her swordsmanship powerful in form but without spirit.
• Feng Zaixing criticized Ye Xinglan’s empty sword forms, caught her Stargod Sword, and gave her copied swordsmanship insights.
• Feng Zaixing infused Sword Intent into Ye Xinglan’s martial soul and told her to turn her love for Shrek into hatred to strengthen her Sword of Persistence.
• Ye Xinglan asked whether he feared her future revenge, then watched him leave and vowed inwardly that Shrek and the Ye Family were more hateful than Feng Zaixing.

Na'er returned and challenged Wu Sido in the Soul Fighting Area, defeating her with the Silver Dragon Spear and a powerful Silver Dragon Body. After the match, Na'er teleported away with Feng Zaixing to speak with him, leaving Gu Yue frustrated.

• Feng Zaixing learned that Na'er had returned and was fighting Wu Sido on the Soul Fighting Platform.
• Na'er and Wu Sido began their match, and Na'er broke through Wu Sido's Hell Spirit Cat attacks with her Silver Dragon Spear.
• Wu Sido used her Twin Martial Souls to transform into the Hell White Tiger, but Na'er activated her Silver Dragon Body and defeated her.
• Luan Hongchen declared Na'er the winner, while Feng Zaixing wondered about the source of her transformation.
• Na'er teleported away with Feng Zaixing to talk privately, leaving Gu Yue angry at their departure.

Na'er reunited with Feng Zaixing and gave him a left leg Soul Bone from a two-hundred-thousand-year Golden Lion, while recounting the Golden Lion Clan’s history and her recent experiences. Though Feng Zaixing sealed the bone rather than risk absorbing it, the two resolved to grow stronger together and decide their own future.

• Na'er brought Feng Zaixing to a secluded garden and presented him with a Soul Bone left by a two-hundred-thousand-year Golden Lion.
• Feng Zaixing recognized the bone’s dangerous power, sealed it again, and asked Na'er to tell him about her experiences.
• Na'er recounted her battle with Tang Wulin, her cultivation in Star Dou, and how Di Tian had exterminated the battle-crazed Golden Lion Clan.
• Feng Zaixing decided he could not safely fuse with the Soul Bone yet, while Na'er said his strength reassured her.
• Feng Zaixing and Na'er agreed to visit their old friends, then cultivate together and determine their own future.

Feng Zaixing formed a physical contract with the Little Behemoth and tested their new power in battle against three powerful spider Soul Beasts. After defeating them with his fourth Soul Skill, Sacred War Universe, he turned to planning a trip to Shrek City.

• Han Tianyi presided over Feng Zaixing's physical contract with the Little Behemoth, giving Feng Zaixing a dark-gold Fourth Soul Ring.
• The Little Behemoth entered Feng Zaixing's Spiritual World, where the Heavenly Sacred Winged Divine Tiger told it to find its own place.
• Han Tianyi created a Spiritual World battle against the Death Spider Emperor, the Man Faced Demon Spider, and the Cave Demon Spider so Feng Zaixing could test his new Soul Skill.
• Feng Zaixing fought the three spiders with the Little Behemoth's power and his Sea-Overturning Divine Fist, but the spiders repeatedly countered his attacks.
• Feng Zaixing activated Sacred War Universe, grew to enormous size, destroyed the Man Faced and Cave Demon Spiders, and killed the Death Spider Emperor with the Dark Gold Claw.
• Feng Zaixing told the stunned onlookers that his Soul Skill worked and suggested they discuss their trip to Shrek City.

Feng Zaixing planned to challenge Shrek’s Inner Court elites and began rallying powerful allies by giving Long Tianwu a swordsmanship manual and asking him and Su Mengjun to accompany him to Shrek. Seven months later, Yun Ming discussed Shrek’s declining student quality as the All-Federation Grand Competition approached.

• Feng Zaixing proposed changing the competition rules to target every Shrek Inner Court elite under twenty, and Luan Hongchen, Lezhengyang, Yu Xin, and Na'er pledged their support.
• Feng Zaixing suggested striking Shrek and the Tang Sect economically before the competition.
• Feng Zaixing gave Long Tianwu a swordsmanship booklet, which Long Tianwu praised as a treasure that could improve his chances of reaching the Sword God realm.
• Feng Zaixing persuaded Long Tianwu to cultivate in seclusion and then accompany him and Su Mengjun to Shrek for protection, promising to help Long Tianwu reach the Limit.
• At the Sea God Pavilion’s annual meeting seven months later, Yun Ming asked about Lan Muzi’s recovery and raised concerns about Shrek’s reputation and weak new students.
• Ya Li pointed out that the upcoming All-Federation Grand Competition, scheduled in three months, could provide Shrek with an opportunity.

Yun Ming and Ya Li recognized that economic pressure from the Four Great Families and Spirit Pagoda had weakened Shrek and Tang Sect, so they resolved to recruit allies and resist the Anti-Shrek Faction. Feng Zaixing then secured Qian Gu Dongfeng’s support for an arena beneath Spirit Pagoda, while Qian Gu chose to let Feng Zaixing and Shitang fight rather than help the Ghost Emperor eliminate him.

• Ya Li proposed expanding Shrek’s tournament exchange program to attract Federation allies, and Yun Ming warned that Shrek City’s trade and reserves were under severe strain.
• Yun Ming explained that the Yu Family, Yue Family, Hongchen Family, Kong Family, and Spirit Pagoda were economically pressuring Shrek and Tang Sect, prompting him and Ya Li to prepare to unite their allies.
• Yun Ming ordered Zhuo Shi to have Tang Sect monitor the Evil Soul Masters and kill some if possible.
• Feng Zaixing and Kong Yao met Qian Gu Dongfeng at Spirit Pagoda, where Feng Zaixing suggested that the Federation would support Spirit Pagoda establishing an academy.
• Feng Zaixing asked to set up an arena beneath Spirit Pagoda, and Qian Gu Dongfeng enthusiastically agreed to the plan.
• After Feng Zaixing and Kong Yao left, Qian Gu Dongfeng told the Ghost Emperor he would not help eliminate Feng Zaixing and preferred to let him and Shitang fight.

Qian Gu Dongfeng abandoned the Ghost Emperor’s demand to kill Shitang immediately and urged him to follow the Federation’s political plan, while Feng Zaixing maneuvered to use the Spirit Pagoda and negotiate with the Shen Family. The chapter ended with Feng Zaixing cultivating toward rank forty-four and aiming to become a Soul King by twelve.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng told the Ghost Emperor to delay killing Shitang, protect Feng Zaixing, and keep the plan to blow up Shrek unchanged.
• The Ghost Emperor raged at Qian Gu Dongfeng, threatened to kill him after their alliance ended, and decided to go to Shrek City.
• Feng Zaixing told Kong Yao he planned to use the Spirit Pagoda for now and deal with Qian Gu Dongfeng later.
• Kong Yao told Feng Zaixing that the Shen Family wanted him and his Nine Stars Association in the North Sea Legion, and Feng Zaixing demanded the Legion Commander position and a Federation generalship.
• Feng Zaixing rejected political marriage proposals and demanded the best treatment for his talented subordinates, then asked Kong Yao to arrange a flight in his teacher’s Red Mecha.
• Feng Zaixing began cultivating, pushing toward rank forty-four and directing Blood Qi toward his Yangqiao Meridian.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy arrived at the All-Federation Grand Competition with Feng Zaixing and powerful allies, provoking a confrontation at Shrek Inner City. As Feng Zaixing’s sword remained planted before the gates, the clash escalated between Shrek’s experts and their opponents, ending with Lezhengyang revealing the Angel Divine Sword and challenging Yun Ming’s control of the sky.

• Tang Wulin and the Eastsea Five entered Shrek Inner City with the Skysea Alliance delegation and learned the competition would be held at Spirit Ice Plaza.
• Feng Zaixing, Luan Hongchen, Long Tianwu, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s group flew into Shrek airspace despite Ya Li’s objection.
• Feng Zaixing declared that he was gifting everyone a sword and hurled the King's Way Sacred Sword toward Shrek Inner City’s gates, where it remained protected by Emperor Sword Qi.
• Long Yeyue attacked Feng Zaixing, but Qian Gu Dieting countered her, leaving her badly outmatched before Yun Ming and Shrek’s experts arrived.
• Lezhengyang appeared with an ancient Holy Sword, overpowered Yun Ming’s control of the sky, and revealed that his weapon was the Angel Divine Sword.

Feng Zaixing’s challenge and the clash between Shrek, the Federation, and Spirit Pagoda pushed Yun Ming into a humiliating retreat. Feng then issued a challenge to every prodigy under twenty, leaving Shrek’s honor at stake until noon the next day.

• Lezhengyang challenged Yun Ming to a fight to the death, while Ghost Emperor, Dark Blood Demon, and Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai watched from the void.
• Yu Guanzhi and Leng Yaozhu blocked Zang Xin and the Tang Sect from intervening on Shrek’s behalf.
• Feng Zaixing accused Shrek of provoking the crisis, and ten Limit-level powerhouses joined Yu Guanzhi’s forces in pressuring Yun Ming while artillery targeted Shrek Inner City.
• Ya Li urged Yun Ming not to fight, and Yun Ming lowered the Sky-Piercing Spear and bowed his head rather than risk a battle.
• Feng Zaixing challenged every prodigy under twenty to return the King's Way Sacred Sword to his hand before noon the next day, declaring he would claim the title of Number One Academy Under Heaven if none succeeded.

After Feng Zaixing humiliated Shrek, Yun Ming debated whether the Inner Court should accept his challenge, fearing that defeat would destroy the students’ confidence. Shrek finally mobilized its disciples, and the chapter ended as they emerged from the Inner City carrying coffins to face the challengers.

• Ghost Emperor stopped Dark Blood Demon and Leng Yulai from attacking Shrek, then left to survey the terrain with them.
• Yun Ming questioned the Inner Court Elders about suitable Battle Armor Masters and learned that Feng Zaixing possessed a Sword Soul.
• Lan Muzi and the Inner Court disciples urged Yun Ming to accept Feng Zaixing’s challenge, and Yun Ming ordered disciples above Soul King to fight.
• The disciples demanded that Soul Ancestors be allowed to join, and Yun Ming permitted them to fight anyone except Feng Zaixing.
• Feng Zaixing waited at the challenge platforms for a day as Shrek remained silent.
• At dawn, Yun Ming and the Elders led the Inner Court disciples out of Shrek Inner City with coffins, and Shrek accepted the challenge.

Feng Zaixing challenged Shrek Inner Court and effortlessly defeated Xuan Kui before killing Song Ying, who risked her life to fight him. He then drew the Overlord's Holy Sword and challenged all the remaining disciples to attack together.

• Feng Zaixing declared that the battle would be a life-and-death contest, and Xuan Kui stepped forward to defend Shrek's honor.
• Feng Zaixing used Holy Light Finger and a second sky-powered strike to badly injure Xuan Kui without using his sword.
• Song Ying entered the arena and ignited the Flame of Life, but Feng Zaixing restrained her with colorless chains and destroyed her dantian and Martial Soul with Void Annihilation.
• Feng Zaixing summoned the Overlord's Holy Sword and asked the remaining Inner Court disciples to fight him together.

Feng Zaixing fought Shrek Inner Court’s enraged disciples, revealing the overwhelming power of his Twelve-Winged Angel and declaring that he would wipe out their generation. As the Holy Spirit Cult withdrew, the Nine Stars Association and Tang Wulin’s allies joined the battle, turning the Spirit Pagoda grounds into a bloody melee.

• A Ruheng and Sima Jinchi arrived to stop the Inner Court students from attacking en masse, while Zhuo Shi prevented Wu Changkong and Shen Yi from intervening.
• Long Yeyue urged the Inner Court disciples to defend their honor, and they charged Feng Zaixing together with Ma Tianzhao leading them.
• Feng Zaixing unleashed his Twelve-Winged Angel form and overwhelmed the Inner Court fighters, prompting the Ghost Emperor and the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat.
• Yu Xin led the Nine Stars Association and its Soul Beasts into battle against Shrek, while Na'er, Gu Yue, Long Chen, Yue Zhengyu, Yuan En Yehui, Wu Sido, and Xu Yucheng joined the fighting.

Feng Zaixing led Nine Stars Association to victory over Shrek Inner Court in a brutal battle broadcast across the continent, killing its disciples and crippling Ma Tianzhao. Shrek’s survivors were left facing the public declaration that their academy was no longer the continent’s strongest.

• Ya Li begged Yun Ming and Long Yeyue to stop the fighting as Shrek Inner Court disciples fell, but they waited for the aerial battle to conclude.
• Feng Zaixing killed Cai Yun and four Soul Kings with his World Purifying Flame Lotuses, then continued fighting while Shrek’s forces were overwhelmed.
• Yun Ming tried to intervene, but Lezhengyang blocked him and Yu Guanzhi threatened to destroy Shrek Inner City with Soul Cannons if he moved.
• Feng Zaixing defeated Ma Tianzhao with Ninefold Judgment, stripping away her cultivation and declaring Nine Stars Association the winner.
• Feng Zaixing returned Ma Tianzhao to Yun Ming and announced that Shrek was no longer the continent’s number one power.

After the Federation defeated Shrek Inner Court, Qian Gu Dieting began a long seclusion and Qian Gu Dongfeng moved to expand the Spirit Pagoda. Feng Zaixing’s victorious group celebrated, and Yuan En Yehui broke with her family’s Shrek ties to become Feng Zaixing’s disciple before the group prepared to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

• Qian Gu Dieting, freed from the shadow of his defeat by Yun Ming, left the Spirit Pagoda to attempt the final move of the Coiled Dragon Staff Technique, while Qian Gu Dongfeng began planning a Spirit Pagoda Academy.
• Ghost Emperor watched the defeat of Shrek Inner Court, rejected Leng Yulai’s idea of capturing Feng Zaixing, and decided the Holy Spirit Cult should let the Federation and Shrek’s supporters weaken each other.
• Feng Zaixing’s Nine Stars Association celebrated its victory, while Na'er and Gu Yue argued over their divided identities and their plans for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yuan En Yehui told Feng Zaixing that she had broken with her family by breaking with Shrek, then asked to become his disciple; Feng Zaixing accepted her and gave her the Titan Divine Fist manual.
• Feng Zaixing introduced Yuan En Yehui to Long Tianwu, who gave her a sword manual, and Yu Xin asked when the group would go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

Feng Zaixing returned from the battle against Shrek to find Dove Faction councilors and protesters accusing the Nine Stars Association of crimes. He shot one councilor, crushed another, and ordered the Nine Stars Association to kill the remaining protesters.

• Feng Zaixing told Yu Guanzhi that he planned to target the Tang Sect when an opportunity arose, while Yu Xin clasped his wrist possessively.
• The Federation forces departed, and Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, Xu Xiaoyan, and Principal Yu Zhen considered Shrek’s defeat and the turmoil it would cause.
• Feng Zaixing found protesters led by Dove Faction councilors blockading the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and accused them of serving Shrek and the Tang Sect.
• Feng Zaixing shot the young councilor who was chanting against the Nine Stars Association, and Wang Wen and Xu Miao attacked the Federal Central Guard Bureau guards.
• Feng Zaixing shot and beat the tall, thin councilor, crushed him underfoot, and ordered the Nine Stars Association to kill all the protesters.

Feng Zaixing crushed a protest against Shrek with brutal force, then used evidence of the councilors’ ties to Shen Changyan to launch a campaign against the Shen Family. He left the two surviving councilors facing a forced choice: sign confessions implicating Shen Changyan or be controlled.

• Feng Zaixing used Black Mechas and a sniper rifle to silence protesting councilors and reporters, then ordered the survivors interrogated and their families threatened.
• Han Tianyi, Yu Guanzhi, and Long Tianwu backed Feng Zaixing as he accused the survivors of corruption and treason and sent Long to mobilize the War God Hall.
• Interrogators traced the protest to campaign funding from the Tang Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and to Shen Changyan, prompting Luan Hongchen and Kong Yao to condemn his role.
• Feng Zaixing ordered the Nine Stars Association to mobilize the people and attack Capitol Hill and the Shen Family Courtyard.
• Long Tianwu returned with the councilors’ family members, and Feng Zaixing presented the councilors with confessions naming Shen Changyan as the chief culprit.

Feng Zaixing led students, Soul Masters, and civilians in a charge on Capitol Hill to capture Shen Changyan and purge the Shen Family’s influence. The uprising overwhelmed the defenders, captured Shen Family officers, and ended with a Major dragging a bloody figure down the steps before the assembled crowd.

• Feng Zaixing forced two councilors to sign over their family assets, then rallied Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students to storm Capitol Hill.
• Long Tianwu, Su Mengjun, Yu Guanzhi, and other allies joined Feng Zaixing as the crowd marched on Parliament and demanded Shen Changyan’s capture.
• Feng Zaixing blasted through Parliament’s main gate, and Long Tianwu defeated the City Guard commander while Yu Xin and others captured Shen Family officers.
• Yu Guanzhi blocked Ming Capital’s City Guard Army from reaching Capitol Hill, and Lezhengyang beat Shen Tian when he tried to confront him.
• A cold-faced youth in a Major’s Uniform dragged a bloody figure down Capitol Hill as tens of thousands watched.

Feng Zaixing explained how rival factions had helped him crush the Shen Family and revealed that he wanted to purge Douluo Star’s evils. As Shrek Academy planned to rebuild its Inner Court, the Spirit of the Plane agreed to consider granting Feng Zaixing the identity of Child of Nature.

• Federation broadcasts announced that Shen Changyan and the anti-Federation councilors had been punished, while Shen Family officers were demoted and transferred out of Ming Capital.
• Feng Zaixing warned A Ruheng that their victory depended on powerful factions’ interests and explained how he had used their support to strike the Shen Family and Shrek’s supporters.
• Feng Zaixing told A Ruheng that he wanted to exterminate the world’s evils and use confiscated wealth to benefit the people.
• Yun Ming proposed searching across the continent and beyond for geniuses to replenish Shrek’s Inner Court.
• The crimson-gold old man asked the Spirit of the Plane to grant Feng Zaixing the identity of Child of Nature, and the Spirit of the Plane agreed.

The Spirit of the Plane persuaded Elder Jin to empower the Half Son of the Plane, while Shrek Academy’s leaders planned to rebuild and recruit talent. In Mingde Hall, Gu Yue overheard Kong Yao tell Ling Zichen that her parents’ former research group had died in an explosion, then questioned whether her devotion to research was truly her own.

• The Spirit of the Plane convinced Elder Jin that the newcomer could help Douluo Star and proposed sending Life Energy through the ocean, beyond the notice of the one who had seized his body.
• Zhuo Shi, Feng Wuyu, and the other Sea God Pavilion Elders agreed to cultivate disciples and offer loans to support new Inner Court students.
• Yun Ming assigned Lan Muzi, Yin Meng, and Chang Kong to recruit talent, and the Elders discussed seeking students from the Dou Ling and Star Luo Continents through the Tang Sect.
• Gu Yue explored Mingde Hall to study human Soul Guidance technology and overheard Kong Yao discussing an explosion at a Tang Sect research facility.
• Kong Yao told Ling Zichen that her parents’ former research group had been killed in the explosion, and Ling Zichen said research was worth risking death for.
• Gu Yue wondered whether Ling Zichen’s devotion was normal, while Kong Yao mocked the possibility that the Tang Sect had instilled that goal in her.