Chapter Summaries

The High Priest restored Sea God Island’s wounded fighters and unleashed divine punishment against Kraken, but the Demon Empress arrived with Tieshan and Mo Yuan and shattered the attack. The Demon Empress revealed she had survived for three thousand years and vowed to destroy Sea God Island as the deep-sea forces prepared to attack.

• The High Priest used the Sea God’s power to heal himself and the wounded Sea God Island Soul Masters, restoring their strength.
• The High Priest summoned Sea God’s Wrath and struck Kraken with a massive pillar of divine punishment.
• A spatial rift opened, and the Demon Empress’s claw shattered the divine punishment, leaving the High Priest injured by the backlash.
• The Demon Empress emerged with Tieshan, whose cultivation had reached two hundred thousand years, and Mo Yuan, whose cultivation had reached the peak of one hundred and ninety thousand years.
• Kraken revealed that he had been fighting alongside the Demon Empress and introduced her as his sovereign.
• The Demon Empress declared her return and vowed to settle old grievances by destroying Sea God Island as the four deep-sea powers unleashed their auras.

The High Priest and Sea God Island’s defenders fought the Demon Empress and her Deep Sea forces, with the High Priest holding the Demon Empress back while the other battles reached a critical point. Kraken’s apparent attack on Conch Douluo instead triggered a strange surge of power in Coral Douluo, leaving the true purpose of the staged battle unresolved.

• The High Priest assigned himself to fight the Demon Empress, sent Conch Douluo and Mu Yun to stall Tieshan and Moyuan, and ordered Coral Douluo, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle Douluo to tie down Kraken.
• The High Priest briefly gained an advantage over the Demon Empress by drawing on the Sea God Scepter and Sea God Island’s accumulated power, though he burned his origin to sustain it.
• Conch Douluo and Mu Yun fought Tieshan and Moyuan to a stalemate while Coral Douluo and the others staged a fierce-looking battle against Kraken and secretly watched the other fronts.
• As the battles worsened, Kraken hurled an unstable Energy Orb toward Conch Douluo, and Coral Douluo appeared to intercept it.
• The Energy Orb’s gray energy mingled with Coral Douluo’s origin, rapidly restoring her depleted Soul Power and strengthening her aura.

The Demon Empress’s forces ambushed and nearly killed the High Priest, then retreated after crippling Sea God Island’s defenses. Before dying, the High Priest appointed Coral Douluo as his successor, unaware that Coral Douluo had been deceiving him; Coral Douluo’s plan succeeded.

• Di Tian attacked the High Priest from the clouds with the Dragon God Claw, severely wounding him.
• The Demon Empress struck the wounded High Priest with Vortex Annihilation, leaving him on the brink of death.
• The Demon Empress, Tieshan, Moyuan, Kraken, and Di Tian escaped through a spatial rift.
• Coral Douluo and the others caught the High Priest, but their healing efforts could not save him.
• The High Priest appointed Coral Douluo as the next High Priest and ordered him to assist Mu Yun with the divine trial.
• After the High Priest died, Coral Douluo feigned grief while privately recognizing that his plan had succeeded.

After the High Priest’s death, Coral Douluo took charge of Sea God Island and pledged its resources to Mu Yun’s divine trial. In the Deep Sea, Kraken explained his secret bargain with Di Tian to the Demon Empress, then revealed plans to exploit Coral Douluo’s leadership and help Mu Yun complete his mission.

• Coral Douluo became Sea God Island’s new High Priest and ordered its resources devoted to helping Mu Yun complete the divine trial.
• Mu Yun vowed to honor the former High Priest’s trust and pass the trial as soon as possible.
• The Demon Empress questioned Kraken about arranging Di Tian’s attack, and Kraken described their limited agreement to cooperate against threats tied to the God Realm.
• The Demon Empress accepted Kraken’s explanation but warned him that future major agreements required her approval.
• Kraken told the Demon Empress that Coral Douluo was one of their people and that they would gradually digest Sea God Island while helping Mu Yun complete his mission.

After becoming High Priest, Coral met Kraken, who brought her to a hidden cavern to show her that Sea Swallow and Sea Turtle's young relatives had received perfectly compatible Ten-Thousand-Year first Soul Rings. Kraken used the revelation to challenge Coral's faith in the Sea God and remind her that he had helped the other two Douluo survive their trials.

• Kraken confronted Coral near the Coral Family's forbidden grounds and ordered her to follow him.
• Coral followed Kraken through remote caverns and found Sea Swallow Douluo and Sea Turtle Douluo waiting there.
• Sea Swallow and Sea Turtle brought out their young relatives, Xiao Yu and A Yan, and had them reveal their Martial Souls and Soul Rings.
• Coral was stunned to see that both children had perfectly compatible Ten-Thousand-Year first Soul Rings.
• Kraken pointed to Mu Yun's rapid progress and reminded Coral, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle that they had needed his help to survive their Sacred Pillar trials.

Kraken offered Coral Douluo, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle Douluo freedom from their soul-bone poison, powerful soul rings, and hereditary influence in exchange for secretly spreading poisoned soul bones through Sea God Island. The three leaders realized the deal would make them accomplices in placing the island’s future under Kraken’s control, but they were left weighing the offer against their families’ prospects.

• Sea Swallow protested that Mu Yun had received blessings without enduring the trials the Sea God imposed on them, and Kraken rebuked him.
• Kraken offered to remove the leaders’ soul-bone poison, provide ten-thousand-year first rings and powerful future soul rings for them and their descendants, and help secure their families’ authority.
• Coral Douluo questioned how Kraken could provide enough high-age soul beasts, and Kraken said the deep sea held powerful beings willing to sacrifice themselves.
• Coral Douluo asked whether Kraken feared they would betray him after their poison was removed, and Kraken revealed his plan to distribute soul bones secretly implanted with a new toxin.
• Kraken told the three leaders to use their positions to spread the poisoned soul bones among Sea God Island’s influential soul masters and future leaders, binding the island’s leadership to his control.
• Coral Douluo, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle Douluo recognized that accepting would make them complicit in corrupting Sea God Island, but feared what refusal would mean for their families and the two children with ten-thousand-year first rings.

Kraken left two children with Ten-Thousand-Year first soul rings in Coral’s custody and waited for her answer to his offer. Coral, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle agreed to conceal the children’s true power and use Kraken’s soul bones to secure their clans’ influence, leaving Coral resolved to manage the rewards and control the risks.

• Kraken removed the children’s soul rings, left the children with Coral, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle, and vanished while awaiting Coral’s answer.
• Sea Swallow urged Coral to accept Kraken’s offer for the power and future it promised their descendants, while Coral worried that Ten-Thousand-Year first rings would attract scrutiny.
• Sea Turtle suggested using Coral’s High Priest authority to disguise the children’s rings as a confidential inheritance and a rare Sea God blessing.
• Coral devised a cover story claiming the children had obtained eight-thousand-year first rings through a Deep Sea resonance, and planned to distribute Kraken’s soul bones as rewards to bind or influence Sea God Island’s factions.
• Coral ordered Sea Swallow and Sea Turtle to keep the children’s abilities secret and said she would arrange their future soul-ring acquisitions and choose recipients for the first soul-bone rewards.

Conch’s faith in the Sea God collapsed as he suspected Coral Douluo and other Sacred Pillars had colluded with Deep Sea and questioned the fairness of Mu Yun’s divine trial. He stood on Sea God Island considering whether to remain loyal or accept the dangerous path represented by Kraken’s ring.

• Conch questioned where Coral Douluo’s extensive, carefully matched Soul Bone rewards had come from and suspected they had been supplied by Kraken and the Demon Empress.
• Conch concluded that Coral Douluo, Sea Swallow, and Sea Turtle Douluo might have colluded with Deep Sea for generations and deceived the Sea God’s tests.
• Conch compared Mu Yun’s easy divine trial with the brutal trials he and other Sacred Pillars had endured, and questioned why the Sea God had allowed loyal allies to die while suspected traitors kept their authority.
• Conch lost faith in the Sea God and wondered whether believers were merely tools serving divine interests.
• Conch clenched the ring from Kraken and considered whether to keep pretending to be devout or seize the chance it offered to gain strength and choice.

Conch Douluo absorbed a ten-thousand-year Wisdom Skull to prove he had chosen to cooperate with Kraken and the Coral Family. Kraken explained why they would leave Mu Yun alive: Shrek’s effort to use soul bones to rebuild its strength would violate Ye Qingning’s pact with powerful soul beasts and provoke a massive beast tide.

• Conch Douluo absorbed the Wisdom Skull and told Kraken he had joined as a realist seeking survival and strength, not as a compelled believer.
• Kraken welcomed Conch Douluo as a fellow traveler, and Conch Douluo asked why they would not kill Mu Yun before his god trial ended.
• Kraken said killing Mu Yun would risk drawing the Sea God’s attention and interfere with their plans, while Mu Yun’s return could lead Shrek to hunt powerful soul beasts for soul bones.
• Coral Douluo and Sea Turtle Douluo recognized that Shrek would need high-level soul bones to restore its fighting strength, and Kraken said Shrek would inevitably target soul beasts protected by Ye Qingning’s pact.
• Kraken predicted that Shrek’s large-scale hunts would break the pact and trigger a beast tide aimed at Shrek Academy and other human forces that slaughtered powerful soul beasts.

Kraken explained how Shrek Academy’s location in Hagendas could force Ye Qingning into a dilemma over her soul beast contract and leave her vulnerable to backlash. He ordered Coral Douluo and the others to help Mu Yun complete his trial and return grateful to Sea God Island, while Tide Sound Conch agreed to subtly influence him.

• Coral Douluo questioned how Shrek Academy’s actions could be attributed to Ye Qingning under her personal contract with Kraken.
• Kraken explained that Ye Qingning’s new Spirit Hall, as Hagendas’s nation-protecting sect, would be held responsible for dangerous soul-beast hunts within the kingdom, including those by Shrek Academy.
• Kraken laid out how Ye Qingning would either risk contract backlash by allowing Shrek to hunt high-level soul beasts or provoke conflict by trying to stop it.
• Kraken ordered Coral Douluo to help Mu Yun complete his God Trial quickly and make him view Sea God Island as his strongest support.
• Kraken instructed Sea Swallow Douluo and Sea Turtle Douluo to assist Coral Douluo and monitor the island, while Tide Sound Conch agreed to subtly guide Mu Yun’s emotions and decisions.

Mu Yun completed the Sea God Trial at level ninety-seven with five black and four red soul rings, gaining strength to rival a Limit Douluo. Coral Douluo persuaded him to return to restore Shrek while Sea God Island prepared to lock down and pursue its own plans.

• Mu Yun emerged from the trial with four hundred-thousand-year soul rings and thanked Coral Douluo and the Sacred Pillar guardians for their support.
• Mu Yun proposed joining Sea God Island to attack Kraken, but Coral Douluo urged him to focus on restoring Shrek instead.
• Mu Yun accepted Coral Douluo’s charge and departed for the continent with Sea Swallow escorting him.
• After Mu Yun left, Coral Douluo ordered Sea God Island locked down and barred anyone from approaching the southern deep sea.

Mu Yun led Shrek’s survivors on a hunt for hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and awarded a powerful soul bone to Tai Di. After several more hunts, Di Tian descended over Star Dou Forest, overwhelming the gathered soul masters with his terrifying presence.

• Mu Yun killed a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Armored Earth Dragon and claimed the right arm soul bone that formed beside its corpse.
• Mu Yun gave the soul bone to Tai Di, whose Great Strength Ape martial soul and rank eighty-nine cultivation suited its earth and strength attributes.
• Tai Di began absorbing the soul bone while the Shrek group formed a guard around him, and Mu Yun sensed unease at how quietly the forest had reacted to their hunts.
• After the group had dealt with several more hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, darkness covered the sky and a destructive dragon's roar shook the soul masters.
• Di Tian appeared in the sky as the Beast God, and his immense pressure battered everyone below.

At the Holy Sword headquarters, Bai Yun described how the Beast God annihilated Shrek Academy’s expedition in the Star Dou Forest and warned of a beast tide. Ye Qingning learned that the Far North and the deep sea were also mobilizing, and realized Shrek’s hunting of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had broken her pact with the soul beasts; she faced the coming war without revealing her next move.

• Bai Yun told Ye Qingning that the Beast God killed Tai Di, gravely wounded Mu Yun, and left him as the sole survivor of Shrek’s expedition.
• Bai Yun reported that countless soul beasts were pouring out of the Star Dou Forest toward its borders.
• Yo-Yo revealed that the Far North was also moving toward human kingdoms and that the Demon Empress was gathering powerful sea dwellers.
• Ye Qingning reminded Bai Yun of the pact against hunting soul beasts with more than eighty thousand years of cultivation and accused Shrek of breaking it to obtain soul bones.
• Bai Yun’s silence confirmed Ye Qingning’s suspicion, and she acknowledged that the broken pact had brought three great beast tides down upon humanity.
• Yo-Yo asked Ye Qingning what she intended to do as the soul beasts’ attack threatened to become an all-out war.

After learning that the spirit-beast habitats had erupted into a beast tide, Ye Qingning realized that contracted guardians could protect villages but that Hagendas and Shrek remained in grave danger. She mobilized Holy Sword and allied forces, then led an expedition toward Hagendas to delay the Star Dou beast tide and rescue survivors.

• Yo-Yo told Ye Qingning that contracted spirit-beast guardians would protect their assigned villages, but warned that Hagendas and the battered Shrek remnants faced imminent destruction.
• Ye Qingning chose to defend Hagendas despite the cost and ordered Holy Sword to activate wartime defenses, warn other nations, assemble mobile forces, and seek aid from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Sea God Island.
• Ye Qingning ordered Holy Sword to prioritize the Star Dou beast tide in Hagendas, arguing that its fall would leave their other defenses isolated.
• Ye Qingning donned battle armor, gathered the Holy Sword elites, and led them toward Hagendas.

Ye Qingning and Holy Sword’s reinforcements rescued Shrek’s surviving Soul Masters while reports revealed that human forces were collapsing across the continent. The Star Dou Soul Beasts halted their assault at a roar from the forest, leaving Ye Qingning facing the need for a way to stop the wider catastrophe.

• Ye Qingning led Holy Sword’s elites into the ruins of Shrek Academy and ordered them to repel the Soul Beasts, rescue survivors, and avoid killing where possible.
• Ye Qingning and Holy Sword’s fighters pushed back the beast horde and pulled trapped Shrek Soul Masters to safety, while her holy light appeared to make some Hundred-Thousand-Year Beasts hesitate.
• Battlefield reports said Heaven Dou’s defenses had collapsed, the Far North Beast Tide was turning toward Dou Ling, Star Luo was under severe attack, Sea God Island could not send aid, and Sun-Moon refused assistance.
• Ye Qingning concluded that rescue and restraint alone would not stop the catastrophe and looked toward the depths of Star Dou Forest for a resolution.
• A deep dragon roar sounded from the forest, and the Soul Beasts stopped attacking and withdrew to the forest’s edge.

Di Tian halted the beast tide and demanded a brutal agreement that would let humans hunt one hundred-thousand-year soul beast every decade in exchange for soul beasts killing one Titled Douluo every decade. Ye Qingning asked for time to consult humanity’s factions, and Di Tian gave them three days before Haagenti would be attacked.

• Di Tian appeared over the battlefield and warned that Star Dou would destroy humanity unless the deaths of soul beasts were repaid.
• Ye Qingning urged Di Tian to negotiate rules that could prevent both sides from being ruined.
• Di Tian proposed restrictions on hunting powerful soul beasts and offered humans one supervised hunt for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast every ten years.
• Di Tian demanded the right for soul beasts to kill one announced Titled Douluo every ten years, and threatened to resume the war if humanity refused.
• Ye Qingning said the factions needed time to decide, and Di Tian paused the beast tide for three days before making Haagenti his first target.

Ye Qingning convened humanity’s surviving leaders to debate Di Tian’s terms as the deadline neared. She revealed that Shrek had hunted at least ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, prompting the leaders to blame Shrek for the catastrophe and consider making it bear responsibility in negotiations.

• Humanity’s leaders argued over whether to accept Di Tian’s humiliating terms, with several warning that they lacked the strength to resist the beast tides.
• Chen Wenyuan noted that most surviving Titled Douluo could not qualify to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, suggesting Di Tian’s offer was impossible to fulfill.
• Ye Qingning cited Bai Yun’s account and the investigation, revealing that Shrek had hunted at least ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Forest.
• The leaders erupted in anger and accused Shrek of provoking the beast tide and causing the deaths and destruction across the continent.
• Ye Qingning restored order and said the leaders should consider accepting Di Tian’s terms while establishing Shrek’s responsibility and making it bear consequences.

The chapter described the No. 77 “Abundance” complex, where workers used Soul Tools to harvest eggs and juveniles from captive soul beasts for industry and consumption. It left the workers enduring exhausting shifts in exchange for steady pay, food, and modest comforts within a tightly controlled system.

• Workers at the No. 77 complex harvested eggs and juveniles from docile captive soul beasts using precise Soul Tool machinery.
• A foreman pressured the workers to meet the day’s Blue Light Pearl quota, while they continued their long, exhausting shifts.
• After work, the workers used the dormitory’s meals, showers, and massage chairs to recover from their labor.
• At supper, workers ate barbecue made from elderly ten-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbits and discussed layoffs and the strain of their work.
• Old Wang urged his companions to endure for their children as the workers relied on the system that exploited both humans and soul beasts.

More than two thousand years earlier, the Blue King’s digging crew uncovered a powerful Dragon Core, and Di Tian immediately moved to claim it. Kraken took control of the Pangolin Dragon Beast and offered the Dragon Core to Di Tian, leaving the Beast God wary of the Blue King’s motives.

• The Pangolin Dragon Beast supervised three Soul Beasts as they dug a tunnel for the Blue King.
• The Rock Armor Iron Rhino struck through a wall, revealing a crystalline cavern containing a Dragon Core of immense power.
• The Pangolin Dragon Beast stored the Dragon Core in a spatial scale and prepared to report to the Blue King.
• Di Tian tore open space and demanded that the Pangolin Dragon Beast hand over the Dragon Core.
• Kraken used his connection to the scale to possess the Pangolin Dragon Beast and negotiate with Di Tian.
• Kraken told Di Tian that the Dragon Core was his, while Di Tian suppressed his anger and demanded terms.

Kraken watched a memory of Du Busi and Mu En seeking Bi Ji’s healing after their battle left both near death. Bi Ji’s five-finger gesture was mistaken for a price of five hundred million Gold Soul Coins, and Mu En left without treatment because Shrek could not pay.

• Kraken watched the image of the wounded Du Busi and Mu En arriving at Star Dou Forest to seek Bi Ji’s healing.
• Bi Ji held up five fingers, and Du Busi and Mu En assumed she demanded five hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Du Busi agreed to pay the sum on behalf of the Body Sect, while Mu En realized Shrek could not afford it.
• Bi Ji stabilized Mu En’s remaining life force but did not heal him, then allowed Du Busi to stay for treatment.
• Shrek elders carried Mu En out of the forest as Du Busi followed Bi Ji toward the Lake of Life.