Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao introduced Jin Li to Gu Yue as the Auspicious Beast from ten thousand years earlier and explained how Tang San had manipulated events to target him. Gu Yue warned Huo Yuhao about Tang San, while Na'er reconsidered her hostility toward him after Gu Yue defended their relationship.

• Huo Yuhao told Jin Li that Gu Yue was the Silver Dragon King's daughter, and Gu Yue recognized Jin Li as the Auspicious Beast.
• Huo Yuhao brought Gu Yue and Jin Li to his room and explained that Tang San had orchestrated events to draw him in as the Child of Luck.
• Gu Yue warned Huo Yuhao that Tang San was a God King, and Huo Yuhao reassured her that he was the heir of the God of Destruction.
• Jin Li noticed the closeness between Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue and worried that she would have to compete with Gu Yue for his affection.
• Na'er questioned Gu Yue about accepting Huo Yuhao's relationship with Jin Li, but Gu Yue defended Huo Yuhao and reminded Na'er that he had given her the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Na'er fell silent and realized she did not dislike Huo Yuhao as much as she had thought.

Cai Yue'er returned to the ruins of Shrek Academy and found the survivors hidden in its underground shelter. She learned that Long Yeyue was alive and went to meet her, renewing her hope that Shrek could be rebuilt.

• Cai Yue'er visited the ruins of Shrek Academy and entered a concealed underwater passage beneath Sea God Lake.
• Xu Yucheng attacked Cai Yue'er, but she stopped his scythe and identified herself as a member of Shrek.
• Wu Changkong recognized Cai Yue'er as the former Outer Court Dean and welcomed her return.
• Cai Yue'er learned that Long Yeyue was in charge of the survivors and asked Wu Changkong to take her to her.
• Cai Yue'er saw the surviving students in the underground shelter and felt renewed hope for Shrek Academy.

Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue agreed to announce Shrek Academy's planned reconstruction without revealing its students, using the announcement to gauge the continent's response. The Tang Sect spread the news across three continents, where ordinary people welcomed it but the major powers reacted with mixed intentions.

• Cai Yue'er met Long Yeyue and urged her to rebuild Shrek Academy while the continent was focused on Na'er's role in repelling the Abyss.
• Long Yeyue told Cai Yue'er that Na'er and Gu Yue could not separate after their Martial Soul fusion, and Gu Yue now controlled their shared body at the Spirit Pagoda.
• Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue agreed to announce Shrek Academy's impending reconstruction without exposing its students, allowing them to test the major powers' reactions.
• Long Yeyue traveled to Heaven Dou City and asked the Tang Sect to spread the announcement through its continental channels.
• The news spread across three continents, delighting many ordinary people while major powers divided between supporting Shrek and opposing its return.

Qiangu Dongfeng worried that surviving Shrek powerhouses and students could threaten him, while dismissing Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er as harmless. Later, Gu Yue brought Huo Yuhao and Jin Li to a cold drink shop, where Di Tian arrived unexpectedly.

• Qiangu Dongfeng ordered his subordinate to investigate Shrek's survivors and report on Huo Yuhao every day.
• Qiangu Dongfeng learned that Huo Yuhao had shown no unusual activity and that a young Soul Saint named Jin Li had appeared beside him.
• Huo Yuhao spent his days with Jin Li while Gu Yue continued working in the laboratory.
• Gu Yue invited Huo Yuhao and Jin Li for cold drinks and said someone else would join them.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a familiar aura and saw Di Tian approaching the shop.

Di Tian met Jin Li again after ten thousand years and admitted how deeply her death had affected him. He accepted her relationship with Huo Yuhao and gave her his Reverse Scale to take back to his past self.

• Gu Yue arranged for Di Tian to meet Jin Li, and he recognized her as the Auspicious Beast.
• Jin Li recalled Di Tian's past opposition to her relationship with Huo Yuhao, while Gu Yue explained how much Jin Li's death had hurt him.
• Di Tian initially repeated that he still disapproved of Huo Yuhao, then softened and said Huo Yuhao was acceptable after learning he had changed Jin Li's fate.
• Di Tian gave Jin Li his Reverse Scale and asked her to give it to his past self.
• Huo Yuhao silently accepted the exchange and reflected that he no longer needed to hide his time-travel secret.

The God of Destruction convened a full God Realm assembly after Huo Yuhao quickly uncovered evidence of Tang San’s hidden arrangements in the lower realms. He began confronting Tang San over abusing his authority, while Tang San sensed that the other God Kings were no longer supporting him.

• The God of Destruction was pleased that Huo Yuhao had gathered evidence against Tang San in less than a month and moved the expanded committee meeting forward.
• The God of Destruction summoned nearly every Deity in the God Realm, prompting speculation that the meeting would concern expanding the God Realm.
• Tang San attended the meeting confidently, expecting another familiar dispute with the God of Destruction.
• The God of Destruction raised the issue of God Realm expansion, and Tang San argued that the rules should remain unchanged and that gods could relinquish their positions instead.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of using the God Realm Hub to spy on and interfere in the lower realms, while Tang San denied the charges.
• Tang San grew uneasy when the Goodness and Evil God Kings remained silent instead of defending him.

At a God Realm meeting, the God of Destruction exposed Tang San for sending Niu Tian and Tai Tan to the Douluo Continent as Clear Sky Sect masters. Tang San admitted his wrongdoing but tried to implicate the God of Destruction, who revealed he had discovered the pair while testing a successor for the Destruction God Position.

• The God of Destruction asked Tang San where Niu Tian and Tai Tan were and revealed they had been sent to the Douluo Continent to lead the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San fell silent as the gods questioned him, then admitted he had been in the wrong but claimed he had no choice.
• Tang San challenged the God of Destruction to explain how he learned about the God Officials, suggesting he had secretly watched the lower realms.
• The God of Destruction said he had been monitoring the Douluo Continent because a promising junior was undergoing a Divine Examination.
• The God of Destruction announced that he would pass down the Destruction God Position and explained that the successor examination had allowed him to discover Tang San's actions.

Tang San tried to justify sending Niu Tian and Tai Tan to the lower realm, but the God of Destruction exposed that Tang Wutong had lost her memories because part of her soul was missing. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu confronting Tang San as the gods questioned whether he had torn apart his own daughter’s soul.

• Tang San admitted that sending Niu Tian and Tai Tan to the lower realm violated God Realm regulations, then claimed he had sent them only to protect Xiao Qi.
• The Goddess of Life questioned why Tang San had not brought Xiao Qi back to the God Realm, and Tang San said he had been too busy and believed she could return whenever she wished.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of lying and showed the gods an image of Tang Wutong saying she had learned that part of her soul was missing and that she no longer remembered her parents.
• The God of Destruction declared that Tang San had torn Wutong's soul apart and warned that her life could be in danger if her soul was not restored within two years.
• Xiao Wu demanded to know what had happened to Xiao Qi, while Tang San's silence left the gods suspecting that he had harmed his own daughter.

The God of Destruction exposed Tang San’s interference in the lower realm and revealed that Huo Yuhao was his chosen inheritor, leaving Tang San disgraced before the gods. The God Realm Committee approved stripping Tang San of his authority and sending him to God Realm Prison, and the God of Destruction asked whether he would resist.

• Tang San challenged the God of Destruction’s choice of inheritor and suspected he was using someone from the Clear Sky Sect to settle a score.
• The God of Destruction revealed that Huo Yuhao was his chosen inheritor, and Tang San admitted he had chosen Huo Yuhao first but never meant to pass down his God Position.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of manipulating Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong, including tearing apart Tang Wutong’s soul and sealing her memories, while Tang San angrily denied the charges.
• Tang San’s Asura God Power flared as the gods lost faith in him, and the God of Destruction proposed stripping him of his committee roles, sealing his cultivation, and casting him into God Realm Prison.
• The Goddess of Life and the Goodness and Evil God Kings agreed with the proposal, and the God of Destruction asked Tang San whether he intended to resist.

Tang San accepted defeat and had his cultivation sealed before being taken away, while the gods turned their attention to Tang Wutong’s soul problem. Huo Yuhao began separating the missing part of Wang Dong’er’s soul from Jin Li, leaving Xiao Wu watching the procedure with tears in her eyes.

• Tang San admitted defeat, warned the gods about the coming calamity, and was bound with the God of Destruction’s power, sealing his cultivation.
• Two God Officials escorted Tang San from the hall as the gods watched.
• Xiao Wu asked about Tang Wutong, and the God of Destruction showed the hall an image of Huo Yuhao helping her in the lower realm.
• Huo Yuhao explained that part of Wang Dong’er’s soul was with Jin Li, then prepared to resolve the problem with the Scepter of Destruction.
• Huo Yuhao’s spell drew a human-shaped figure, almost identical to Wang Dong’er, from Jin Li, while Xiao Wu watched in tears.

Huo Yuhao helped restore Wang Dong'er’s sealed soul, allowing her to remember that her real name was Tang Wutong. As Tang Wutong returned to the God Realm to confront her family, Huo Yuhao continued changing the war and the fates of people across the Douluo Continent.

• Huo Yuhao used the Scepter of Destruction to guide the soul figure into Wang Dong'er, and she awoke remembering that she was Tang Wutong.
• Tang Wutong rushed to the Clear Sky Sect to demand answers, and Huo Yuhao followed before learning that the third trial had raised his Soul Power to Level 98.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Tang Wutong had returned to the God Realm and seen Tang San and her mother, while she took time to process what she had learned.
• Huo Yuhao turned back to the continent as the war continued, Spirit Hall’s Soul Tools expanded its influence, and Shrek Academy mourned Mu En’s death.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, helped Elder Jin resolve the Golden Tree crisis, and learned that the Blue Silver Emperor’s true body had not yet descended to the lower realm.
• Tang San remained imprisoned in the God Realm, while Huo Yuhao’s actions had altered the fates of the Auspicious Beast, Elder Jin, and others.

Huo Yuhao, Gu Yue, and Leng Yaozhu discussed waiting for stronger evidence before moving against Qiangu Dongfeng, while Gu Yue and Na'er discovered their fusion might be loosening through greater closeness to Huo Yuhao. Five days later, Leng Yaozhu summoned Huo Yuhao with news that Yu Lai had appeared at the Douling Spirit Pagoda, raising suspicions about its Tower Master, Hua Tao.

• Leng Yaozhu said Huo Yuhao had reached Soul Power Level 98 and proposed waiting until she had stronger evidence of Qiangu Dongfeng's collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Gu Yue held Huo Yuhao's hand as they left, while Na'er protested that Gu Yue was teasing her and then learned their fusion had become more harmonious and might eventually allow them to separate.
• Five days later, Leng Yaozhu summoned Huo Yuhao and Han Tianyi, explaining that her investigation had traced Yu Lai to the Spirit Pagoda on the Douling Continent.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that Hua Tao served Qiangu Dongfeng and asked Leng Yaozhu whether Hua Tao was also involved.

Leng Yaozhu, Huo Yuhao, and Han Tianyi traveled to Lingbo City to investigate Spirit Pagoda officials colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult. They exposed Tower Master Hua Tao’s involvement and sealed the Branch Tower, then ordered him to lead them underground.

• Leng Yaozhu told Huo Yuhao that the Douling and Star Luo Spirit Pagoda Tower Masters served Qiangu Dongfeng and that officials had leaked his whereabouts to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Leng Yaozhu, Huo Yuhao, and Han Tianyi secretly crossed the sea to the Douling Continent and flew to Lingbo City.
• Leng Yaozhu confronted Hua Tao at the Lingbo City Branch Tower and demanded that he surrender.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Soul Saint-level Evil Soul Masters were hidden in the underground laboratory, and Hua Tao admitted his involvement while asking that uninformed staff be spared.
• Huo Yuhao restrained Hua Tao with Soul Power Suppressors, and Leng Yaozhu sealed the Branch Tower and ordered Hua Tao to take them underground.

Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu uncovered the Spirit Pagoda’s secret laboratory and found Tang Wulin’s adoptive parents among its researchers. They arranged for Leng Yulai to come to the Lingbo City Branch Tower the next morning, leaving Leng Yaozhu ready to confront her sister.

• Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu entered the underground laboratory, where Huo Yuhao quietly incapacitated its staff and three Evil Soul Masters without killing them.
• Leng Yaozhu learned from Hua Tao that the laboratory was researching an emotion-suppressing drug for the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao recognized Tang Ziran and Lang Yue among the researchers.
• Leng Yaozhu questioned Zhao Qing and Hua Tao, learning that Dark Bell and Dark Phoenix were on the Douling Continent, though Hua Tao did not know their location.
• Leng Yaozhu ordered Hua Tao to contact the Holy Spirit Cult, and he persuaded Leng Yulai to come in person the next morning to inspect the research and collect the people.
• Han Tianyi assured Leng Yaozhu that the Spirit Pagoda would not leak their plans, and she ordered preparations for the next day.

Na Nali and Leng Yulai entered the Spirit Pagoda with five Holy Spirit Cult members, only to discover Huo Yuhao, Leng Yaozhu, and Han Tianyi had set a trap for them. Leng Yaozhu defeated her younger sister, while Han Tianyi and Na Nali continued their mental battle.

• Na Nali sensed an illusion around the plaza and warned the group to flee, but the five black-robed Holy Spirit Cult members collapsed and the surrounding people vanished.
• Huo Yuhao, Leng Yaozhu, and Han Tianyi appeared at the Spirit Pagoda entrance, and Na Nali recognized Huo Yuhao.
• Leng Yulai accused Leng Yaozhu of betraying her and attacked her with Dark Phoenix Flame, while Han Tianyi engaged Na Nali in a mental-force battle.
• Leng Yaozhu overwhelmed Leng Yulai and knocked her into the plaza, then held a sword of Heavenly Phoenix True Fire to her throat.

Leng Yulai learned that Leng Yaozhu had given up Yun Ming for her sake, and the sisters reconciled after years of hatred. Leng Yulai handed over evidence linking Qiangu Dongfeng to the Holy Spirit Cult, then turned a dagger on herself.

• Leng Yulai blamed Leng Yaozhu for confessing to Yun Ming and declared her an enemy, while Leng Yaozhu struck her and demanded she ask what had really happened.
• Leng Yaozhu used Thought Concretization to reveal that she had given up Yun Ming for the sake of her family and Leng Yulai.
• Leng Yulai realized she had misunderstood her sister, broke down in tears, and apologized.
• Leng Yaozhu said Leng Yulai must pay for her crimes but promised she would not suffer torment in the final stage of her life.
• Leng Yulai gave Leng Yaozhu a metal sphere containing evidence that Qiangu Dongfeng had contacted the Holy Spirit Cult, then stabbed herself in the chest with a dark red dagger.

Leng Yulai sacrificed herself with the Demon God Sword, and Leng Yaozhu secured evidence of Qiangu Dongfeng's collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult. As the evidence stirred turmoil within the Spirit Pagoda, Qiangu Dieting confronted his son.

• Leng Yulai stabbed herself with the Demon God Sword and died in Leng Yaozhu's arms, asking to be her little sister again in another life.
• Huo Yuhao subdued Na Nali with a Soul Power Suppressor, and Leng Yaozhu decided to use the evidence to impeach Qiangu Dongfeng.
• Qiangu Dongfeng learned that Leng Yaozhu, Huo Yuhao, and Han Tianyi had disappeared and grew suspicious of their plans.
• Leng Yaozhu's evidence and witnesses accusing Qiangu Dongfeng of colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult reached the Spirit Pagoda, prompting his opponents to call for an early assembly.
• Qiangu Dieting entered Qiangu Dongfeng's office, and Qiangu Dongfeng greeted his father with respect.

Qiangu Dieting told Qiangu Dongfeng that his fate was sealed after evidence of his collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult surfaced. At Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, Leng Yaozhu led the unanimous vote to remove Qiangu Dongfeng as Tower Master and said she would report his crimes to the Federation.

• Qiangu Dieting revealed that he had known about Qiangu Dongfeng's dealings with the Holy Spirit Cult and said the family heirloom had foretold Qiangu Dongfeng's only possible fate.
• Qiangu Dongfeng told Qiangu Dieting that his collusion was his alone and would not implicate the Qiangu Family.
• After returning to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, Leng Yaozhu called a meeting attended by the Spirit Pagoda's high-ranking members.
• Leng Yaozhu proposed removing Qiangu Dongfeng as Tower Master, and the attendees approved unanimously.
• Leng Yaozhu said she would contact the Federation to have Qiangu Dongfeng convicted, despite a Councilor's objection.
• Qiangu Dongfeng accepted responsibility for colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult and asked Leng Yaozhu not to let others be implicated or use the scandal to target political opponents.

Leng Yaozhu proposed Huo Yuhao as the Spirit Pagoda’s next Tower Master, but Qiangu Dieting and others questioned his age and strength. Huo Yuhao revealed his Level 98 cultivation and second martial soul, while Leng Yaozhu presented him as the bloodline inheritor of Spirit Ice Douluo, leaving the meeting stunned.

• Qiangu Dongfeng accepted Leng Yaozhu’s assurance that the Spirit Pagoda would investigate secret ties to the Holy Spirit Cult without sparing anyone.
• Leng Yaozhu proposed Huo Yuhao as the next Tower Master, prompting Qiangu Dieting to object that he was too young and Da Mo to say his strength was insufficient.
• Huo Yuhao defended his ability to lead the Spirit Pagoda, and Leng Yaozhu invited him to demonstrate his strength.
• Huo Yuhao released an aura near Qiangu Dieting’s level, and Leng Yaozhu revealed that he was a Level 98 Super Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao displayed his Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul, and Leng Yaozhu announced that he was Spirit Ice Douluo’s bloodline inheritor.

Huo Yuhao was unanimously appointed the Spirit Pagoda’s one hundred and ninety-eighth Tower Master. After Xu Jiujiu sought help finding people abducted by the Sun Moon Empire, Yun Ming revealed their location and a chance to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult, leaving Huo Yuhao ready to act.

• Leng Yaozhu announced that Huo Yuhao had been unanimously appointed the Spirit Pagoda’s one hundred and ninety-eighth Tower Master, with Qiangu Dieting among those who supported him.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Huo Yuhao and explained that the Sun Moon Empire had kidnapped commanders’ families and royal family members while the war continued.
• Xu Jiujiu asked the Spirit Pagoda to use its detection Soul Tools to locate the captives so the Star Luo Empire could rescue them.
• Yun Ming contacted Huo Yuhao and reported that the captives were held at the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest, where Evil Soul Masters had gathered to ambush rescuers.
• Yun Ming said the gathering offered a chance to wipe out the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao agreed to make arrangements before telling Xu Jiujiu that he knew where the captives were.