Chapter Summaries

As Shrek Academy’s reputation collapsed and Mu En neared death, he sent Qingying Douluo to find Long Xiaoyao, his former brother and a hidden ally among the Evil Soul Masters. Long Xiaoyao reunited with Mu En and agreed to help rescue Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and the captured students from Mingde Hall, while Mu En’s final display over Shrek City suggested his time was nearly over.

• Reports that Yan Shaozhe had ties to Evil Soul Masters and Shrek’s defeat caused students to abandon the academy and rumors to spread that Mu En was already dead.
• Mu En collapsed from distress, and Elder Song brought Wang Xian'er to help revive him; afterward, Mu En sealed away his Dragon Core and sent it with a letter to Long Xiaoyao.
• Qingying Douluo found Long Xiaoyao, who learned of Mu En’s critical condition and rushed to Shrek Academy.
• Long Xiaoyao reunited with Mu En beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, and Mu En asked him to help rescue Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and the students captured by Mingde Hall.
• Mu En revealed that Yan Shaozhe was Long Xiaoyao’s grandson, then flew with Long Xiaoyao over Shrek City in their dragon forms for what both believed might be his final display.

Feng Ling brought Yan Shaozhe to Ye Xishui, who revealed that she was his grandmother, and the two began plotting to use each other. In Mingdu, the Sun Moon Empire dealt with its Shrek captives and rewarded its victorious students, leaving Chen Ming free to choose a treasure from the Imperial Family's treasury.

• Feng Ling carried Yan Shaozhe into a cave, where Ye Xishui revealed that she was his grandmother and confirmed their shared Bright Phoenix bloodline.
• Ye Xishui and Yan Shaozhe agreed to exploit each other's power and position, while Feng Ling speculated that Yan Shaozhe had influenced her transformation into an Evil Phoenix.
• The Sun Moon Empire honored its competing students with medals and divided the captured Shrek members among imprisonment, recruitment, negotiation, and brutal interrogation.
• Kong Deming used Xuan Zi as a power source in a secret chamber and subjected him to a degrading captivity.
• Emperor Xu Pingye rewarded the Royal Soul Engineer Academy team, granting Chen Ming the right to choose a treasure from the Imperial Family's treasury.

Emperor Xu Pingye brought Chen Ming into the Sun Moon Empire’s secret Imperial Treasury and offered him one treasure as a reward for the victory over Shrek. Chen Ming examined the treasury’s extraordinary but often difficult-to-use relics, and the chapter left him still weighing his options.

• Xu Pingye explained how rewarding Chen Ming from the Imperial Treasury would strengthen his standing after the victory over Shrek.
• Xu Pingye guided Chen Ming through the Imperial Palace’s hidden passages and revealed the treasury’s sealed collection.
• Chen Ming inspected rare exhibits, including a living Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye, an Ice Jade Scorpion King’s remains, and a Peerless Douluo’s solidified Weapon Spirit.
• Chen Ming considered Soul Bones and other treasures while discovering that many valuable remains had been seized from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Douluo Continent.
• Chen Ming finished surveying more than forty display platforms and continued weighing which single treasure to choose.

Chen Ming chose a sealed Golden Dragon crystal despite its deadly history among Purple Blazing Heaven Dragon Soul Masters, and its leaking aura stirred the awakening of his innate skill. Meanwhile, Mu En and Long Xiaoyao arrived over Mingdu as the Twin Holy Dragon and demanded Shrek Academy’s people, facing Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire’s unexpectedly large force of Rank 9 Soul Engineers.

• Chen Ming selected the Golden Dragon crystal from the treasury despite Xu Pingye’s warnings and signed a waiver accepting the risk of death and the crystal’s return to the Imperial Family.
• As Chen Ming carried the sealed crystal away, its leaking Dragon aura accelerated the awakening of his innate skill and awakened his craving for its power.
• Chen Li and Chen Ming left the Imperial Palace after Chen Ming signed the waiver, and Chen Ming began examining the crystal in Jing Hongchen’s meditation room.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao flew over Mingdu as the Twin Holy Dragon, swept away the city’s Soul Tool attacks, and forced soldiers and Soul Engineers to their knees with their power.
• Mu En demanded that Kong Deming release Shrek Academy’s people, while Kong Deming refused and the Rank 9 Soul Engineers of Mingdu rallied behind him.

Mu En and Long Xiaoyao negotiated with Kong Deming for Xuan Zi’s release, each side wary of the other’s destructive power and concealed weakness. The Sun Moon Empire demanded an enormous ransom, and Mu En revealed that Shrek might no longer possess the Dragon Elephant Sect’s stolen Soul Bones.

• Mu En warned Kong Deming that a battle over Mingdu could kill millions, then promised to punish Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe and strip Shaozhe of his position as dean.
• Mu En displayed the Bright Sacred Dragon’s power, but Kong Deming held his ground as Chen Li arrived with a special Soul Tool that strengthened Kong Deming’s confidence.
• Kong Deming demanded three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and five Over 50,000 Year Soul Bones for Xuan Zi, while Mu En and Long Xiaoyao threatened him but could not use their Twin Holy Dragon fusion.
• Kong Deming threatened to kill Xuan Zi and take his Soul Bones, and the sides bargained until Mu En offered two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, five Over 50,000 Year Soul Bones, and rare treasures equal to another Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Kong Deming demanded that one of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones be one stolen from the Dragon Elephant Sect, and Mu En questioned how Shrek could still possess it after four thousand years.

Mu En and Long Xiaoyao negotiated with Kong Deming for Shrek Academy’s captured students, trading a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for Ma Xiaotao’s release. Afterward, Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers planned for the future and discussed his failing health, stalled cultivation, and last attempt to find a way forward without sacrificing his Sun Martial Soul.

• Mu En explained how Peerless Douluos refined Soul Bones and why Shrek Academy could not provide the bones Kong Deming demanded for the captured students.
• Long Xiaoyao gave Kong Deming a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Kong Deming released Ma Xiaotao in the Soul Tool coffin.
• After Mu En and Long Xiaoyao departed, Kong Deming’s strength faltered, and Chen Li and Jing Hongchen helped him return to Mingde Hall.
• Kong Deming met with the Rank 9 Soul Engineers to discuss the Sun Moon Empire’s future, then planned with Jing Hongchen, Chen Li, and Old Wang to counter the Light-Dark Twin Dragons and advance Soul Tool technology.
• Kong Deming gave Chen Li a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone for Chen Ming and explained that his existing right-leg Soul Bone prevented him from absorbing Long Xiaoyao’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Kong Deming decided to search ancient legends for a way to improve cultivation before abandoning his dormant Sun Martial Soul to finish the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.

After the Light Darkness Sacred Dragon’s invasion, Xu Pingye’s court rejected surrendering to Shrek, and Kong Deming took control of negotiations. Chen Ming awakened a powerful Dragon Transformation talent from the Golden Dragon King’s crystal, then emerged to find Kong Deming seeking a way to break through to Super Douluo; Chen Ming hinted that the Immortal Herbs might offer a solution.

• At court, Kong Deming, the Rank 9 Soul Engineers, and the military faction opposed conciliatory proposals to Shrek, forcing Xu Pingye to hand negotiations to Kong Deming.
• Xu Pingye considered asking the Holy Spirit Cult to ambush Long Xiaoyao so he could renew his plans for war.
• Chen Ming spent seven days absorbing the Golden Dragon King's crystal and awakened the Dragon Transformation talent, which could grow stronger as he cultivated.
• Chen Ming learned that Kong Deming's imbalanced Twin Martial Souls blocked his attempt to become a Super Douluo, and the others were searching old records and Tang Sect techniques for a solution.
• Chen Ming asked Chen Li, Jing Hongchen, and Kong Deming whether they knew the story of the Shrek Seven Devils and the Immortal Herbs.

Chen Ming persuaded Kong Deming that Sunset Forest might hide the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and clusters of immortal herbs, leading the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders to plan an expedition. He then received a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from Long Xiaoyao as a personal reward and began absorbing it.

• Chen Ming suggested that the immortal herbs used by the Shrek Seven Devils had come from Sunset Forest, and Kong Deming connected his theory to a note in the Mysterious Heaven Skill about the lost map to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chen Ming identified the Jade Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower’s poisonous miasma as a threat and proposed using Extreme Fire and Ultimate Ice to explore safely.
• Kong Deming ordered Jing Hongchen and Chen Li to prepare for an expedition into Sunset Forest within two months, and both agreed to trust Chen Ming’s theory.
• Chen Li and Jing Hongchen gave Chen Ming a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone that Long Xiaoyao had provided as compensation for the Shrek Academy girl Chen Ming had defeated.
• Chen Ming began absorbing the black right leg bone and sensed that it had come from a powerful Mountain Dragon with pure bloodline.

Mu En sacrificed his health to secure resources for Shrek Academy, forcing Di Tian to surrender three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Near death, Mu En prepared to seal himself away and asked Long Xiaoyao for one final favor, trapping his arm before he could refuse.

• Mu En nearly died after joining Long Xiaoyao to display their power, and Long Xiaoyao sacrificed ten years of his lifespan to save him.
• Mu En explained that he still needed Long Xiaoyao's help to protect Shrek Academy, and Long Xiaoyao agreed.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao confronted Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest and demanded three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts or equivalent Soul Bones.
• After consulting the Silver Dragon King, Di Tian gave Mu En three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Mu En returned to Shrek Academy in critical condition.
• Mu En told Long Xiaoyao he needed to seal himself away and asked for one final favor, then seized Long Xiaoyao's arm with his dragon claws.

Long Xiaoyao became Shrek Academy’s dean after Mu En collapsed and asked him to preserve the academy, leaving him torn between Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult. Meanwhile, Shrek and the Sun Moon Empire exchanged Xuan Zi for Soul Bones, and Shrek’s refusal to ransom its captured students pushed several of them toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Mu En collapsed after naming Long Xiaoyao Shrek Academy’s dean, and Long Xiaoyao reluctantly agreed to serve for ten years while the Sea God Pavilion Elders celebrated.
• Ye Xishui learned that Long Xiaoyao had become Shrek’s dean, dismissed the Sun Moon Empire Emperor’s assassination commission, and flew toward Shrek Academy to confront him.
• Chen Ming read that Long Xiaoyao had become dean and wondered whether the Holy Spirit Cult had infiltrated and taken over Shrek Academy.
• Long Xiaoyao publicly arranged an exchange in which Kong Deming returned Xuan Zi and the Sun Moon Empire received Soul Bones; Xuan Zi attacked a Shrek Elder before Long Xiaoyao subdued him.
• Long Xiaoyao asked the Sea God Pavilion Elders to trade for Shrek’s captured students, but they refused to spend their Soul Bones; the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect then redeemed several students, many of whom joined or pledged themselves to it.
• Dai Hao asked the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to advance a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to ransom Dai Yueheng, but the sect declined.

Kong Deming led Jing Hongchen and Chen Li into Sunset Forest, where they discovered that its poison miasma concealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and a vast gathering of dangerous plant-type Soul Beasts. After the group entered the treasure basin, a pink flower awakened the surrounding plants and drew their attention.

• Kong Deming prepared powerful Soul Tools, including Phoenix Soaring and an Ultimate Ice module for the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, before setting out with Jing Hongchen and Chen Li.
• Kong Deming investigated Sunset Forest and concluded that its decline and poison miasma concealed a powerful secret.
• Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and Chen Li entered the poison miasma and found the remains of high-age Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.
• Kong Deming used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield's Ultimate Ice to pass unharmed through a vast swarm of Jade Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers and Jade Scale Nine Absolute Flowers.
• Kong Deming's group reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered abundant rare medicinal herbs and Immortal Herbs.
• A large pink flower sent out a spiritual ripple, awakening the plant-type Soul Beasts and directing their attention toward Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and Chen Li.

Kong Deming negotiated with the plant-type Soul Beasts at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then accepted the Star Luo Spirit Pearl’s sacrifice and transformed into a powerful, rejuvenated cultivator. After promising to help Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot ascend to the God Realm, he released Chen Ming from the Soul Tool.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty questioned Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and Chen Li, then agreed to let them take medicinal essence and any willing companions without using force.
• The Star Luo Spirit Pearl sacrificed itself to Kong Deming, forming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and helping balance his Sun and Moon Martial Souls.
• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot gave Kong Deming some of their origin power, allowing him to reach Level 98 and a state he called “All Things Flourish, Heaven and Man Unite.”
• Infernal Delicate Apricot asked Kong Deming to bring her and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to the God Realm if he ascended, and he promised to try.
• Kong Deming released Chen Ming from the Soul Tool, leaving Chen Ming stunned by Kong Deming’s transformation.

Chen Ming searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for herbs that could strengthen his Martial Soul and learned that the Ten Thousand Beast Evergreen flower might unite its dragon and Behemoth bloodlines. As Kong Deming questioned Aromatic Silk Beauty about the flower, she revealed a book identified as the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

• Kong Deming explained the Immortal Herbs’ consent rules, and Chen Ming inspected them while asking about their identities and powers.
• Earth Dragon Golden Melon offered his essence to Chen Ming, then recommended the Ten Thousand Beast Evergreen flower as a way to fuse the powerful bloodlines in Chen Ming’s mutated Martial Soul.
• Earth Dragon Golden Melon explained the flower’s bloodline-reforming power, and Chen Ming considered using it to unite his Golden Dragon and Behemoth heritage.
• Kong Deming questioned Aromatic Silk Beauty about the flower’s risks, and she confirmed its transformation took months or even years to complete.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty pulled a book from beneath her roots, and Chen Ming recognized it as the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Kong Deming discovered that the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record contained far more advanced cultivation, medicine, poison, and hidden-weapon knowledge than Tang Sect’s surviving inheritance. After Chen Ming consumed Ten Thousand Beast Evergreen, his Dragon and Behemoth bloodlines reconciled into a stable, distinct Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, and he crossed into Extreme Power through a mysterious change in Soul Power purity.

• Kong Deming accepted the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and learned from Aromatic Silk Beauty that she could provide Ten Thousand Beast Evergreen, vines, and a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Kong Deming examined the Record, found its detailed Eight Extraordinary Meridians methods and additional medicine and poison sections, and used it to identify suitable herbs for Chen Li and Jing Hongchen.
• Kong Deming gave Chen Ming Heart Protection Purple Lotus seeds and a Ten Thousand Beast Evergreen flower, which caused his Dragon and Behemoth bloodline powers to clash and nearly split his Martial Soul.
• A chaotic power containing the Power of Great Love reconciled Chen Ming’s bloodlines, stabilizing his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul as an independent Exotic Species.
• Chen Ming’s strength surged after the transformation, his Soul Power fluctuated between levels thirty-nine and forty, and Kong Deming confirmed that its purity had surpassed his own and might mark Extreme Power.

Chen Ming and his companions harvested herbs and materials from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before returning to Mingde Hall. They were immediately ordered to prepare for war against Douluo Continent, leaving Chen Li and the others questioning the timing.

• Chen Ming’s Martial Soul continued transforming as his Soul Power crossed into an unusually powerful Extreme Attribute.
• Chen Li obtained part of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon’s origin and gathered body-strengthening herbs, while Jing Hongchen persuaded the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo to give him a section for Soul Tool research.
• Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, Chen Li, and Chen Ming collected several Immortal Herbs and other plants from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including Jade Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers and Nine Absolute Flowers.
• After the group returned to Mingde Hall, an Imperial Edict ordered Kong Deming to guard against Shrek, Jing Hongchen to lead Soul Engineers to the front lines, and Chen Li to take the Dragon Elephant Soul Engineer Regiment into battle.
• Chen Li, Kong Deming, and Jing Hongchen reacted with disbelief at the order to start a war while Douluo Continent’s Peerless Douluo could intervene.

Kong Deming learned that Xu Pingye had used Evil Soul Masters to seize the throne and was pushing an ill-planned war, so he forced the emperor to cancel the campaign and raised the succession question. Meanwhile, the Zhongli Brothers agreed to help the Fourth Prince target Xu Tianran, but planned to exploit the assassination for their own gain.

• Chen Li showed Kong Deming Kong Jie's records linking Xu Pingye to the Evil Soul Masters, and Kong Deming began considering removing the emperor.
• Kong Deming used a Camouflage Soul Tool to disguise his strength, met Xu Pingye, and pressured him to cancel the war and address the Crown Prince succession.
• The Zhongli Brothers learned that Kong Deming had disrupted the Holy Spirit Cult's plans and stayed hidden, wary of the Sun Moon Empire's powerful Soul Engineers.
• The Fourth Prince asked the Zhongli Brothers to help kill Xu Tianran, while his uncle protected him from Zhongli Tian's pressure.
• After accepting supplies, the Zhongli Brothers agreed to help but decided they might instead use the assassination attempt to seize control of Xu Tianran.

After Xu Tianran was named Crown Prince, assassins attacked his secret celebration, forcing him to flee while Shadow Douluo Xue Chen fought an Evil Soul Master. Xu Tianran escaped toward Mingdu but was intercepted by a Soul Douluo wielding a strange Level 8 Soul Tool, which left him plunging through the sky in pain.

• Xu Pingye named Xu Tianran Crown Prince and announced that the other princes would receive fiefs within a year.
• Black-clad assassins ambushed Xu Tianran and his allies at a hidden residence outside Mingdu, and Shadow Douluo Xue Chen confronted an Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo.
• Xue Chen and the Evil Soul Master revealed their Blood and Shadow Body Martial Souls and became trapped in a battle of attrition as Xu Tianran fled in his Martial Soul Avatar.
• A Soul Douluo emerged from the darkness near Mingdu and attacked Xu Tianran with a Sun Martial Soul and an icy, sinister Level 8 Soul Tool.
• The Soul Tool struck Xu Tianran's leg, causing intense pain and sending him spiraling through the sky.

Xu Tianran fought a Black Man wielding a bloodline-suppressing whip, but was gravely wounded and cut in half before the Zhongli Brothers intervened. They revived him as a living dead man and sent him stumbling into Mingdu, unaware of his condition and trusting them.

• The Black Man used a whip that suppressed Xu Tianran's bloodline and weakened his defenses, then drove him to dismiss his Martial Soul Avatar and expend Soul Tools to survive.
• A Zombie Legion rose underground and kept the Rank 9 Soul Engineer and city forces occupied while the Zhongli Brothers rushed to Xu Tianran's location.
• Xu Tianran tried to detonate a Rank 8 Soul Cannon Shell, but the Black Man knocked it away and slashed him nearly in half.
• Zhongli Tian killed the Black Man with a claw through his chest, then the Zhongli Brothers used an eerie method to reattach and animate Xu Tianran's lower body.
• Xu Tianran survived as a living dead man, lost sensation below his chest, and trusted the Zhongli Brothers as they watched him stumble into Mingdu.

After Xu Tianran’s assassination left him crippled and triggered a violent succession struggle, Kong Deming concealed most of the Immortal Herbs and withdrew into research. The chapter ends with Chen Ming and Xiao Hongchen still waiting for Soul Rings while Meng Hongchen’s Immortal Herb rapidly brought her to level 40.

• Xu Tianran’s assassination and the deaths of his confidants threw Mingdu into chaos, and Xu Tianran retaliated by having Fourth Prince Xu Tianba brutally killed.
• Xu Pingye considered removing Xu Tianran as Crown Prince as the princes and their factions fought for power, while Kong Deming briefly suppressed the unrest before retreating into closed-door cultivation.
• Chen Li returned to the Dragon Elephant Sect with Immortal Herbs, and Jing Hongchen entered closed-door cultivation after consuming the Primal Chaos Immortal Grass.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen a Golden Jade Ganoderma and Meng Hongchen a Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone, which strengthened their respective abilities and cultivation.
• Meng Hongchen’s Soul Power rose from far behind Chen Ming and Xiao Hongchen to the level 40 threshold, while they remained blocked from advancing by their missing fourth Soul Rings.

After Dai Yueheng returned to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Dai Huabin brutally attacked Huo Yun'er and Dai Yuhao, killing Huo Yun'er and leaving Dai Yuhao near death. A Dragon Elephant Sect agent saved Dai Yuhao, who buried his mother, took the name Huo Yuhao, and vowed revenge on the Dai Family.

• Dai Yueheng returned to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, and Dai Huabin grew furious at the attention his Brother received.
• Dai Huabin attacked Huo Yun'er and Dai Yuhao, killing Huo Yun'er and leaving Dai Yuhao gravely injured before a guard stopped him.
• The undercover Dragon Elephant Sect agent treated Dai Yuhao, whose life force strengthened as he absorbed medicine and Soul Power.
• Dai Yuhao regained consciousness, learned Huo Yun'er had died, and buried her with help from the undercover agent.
• Dai Yuhao declared he would seek revenge, shaved his head, took the name Huo Yuhao, and limped into the back mountain to recover.