Chapter Summaries

Di Tian fought Niu Tian to protect Kraken, who escaped into the forest and healed Xiong Jun before asking the Dragon Kings to help kill Niu Tian. After they refused, Kraken returned to the battlefield, and the Ice Dragon King concluded that he had only come to test their stance.

• Di Tian blocked Niu Tian's attempt to kill Kraken and fought him while Kraken left behind a duplicate and slipped into the forest.
• Kraken found the Demon Eye Demon Tree King, Xiong Jun, and the three Dragon Kings, then healed Xiong Jun with an Energy Orb.
• Kraken asked the group to help kill Niu Tian, arguing that Niu Tian had illegally entered the lower realm and attacked him.
• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King warned that fighting a divine official was too dangerous, while the Mountain Dragon King asked how long Kraken could stall.
• Kraken said he had one hundred ninety-five Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year-level energy reserves, then returned toward the battlefield when the Dragon Kings declined to help.
• The Ice Dragon King said Kraken had come to test their attitude and learned that they would not help him.

Kraken returned to the battlefield and restored Di Tian’s Soul Power, then revealed that he could survive being killed and rapidly regenerate. Niu Tian attacked him and clashed with Di Tian, leaving Kraken behind Di Tian as the fight continued.

• Kraken restored more than half of the Soul Power Di Tian had spent on Dragon God Claw.
• Niu Tian vaporized Kraken with Azure lightning, but Kraken reformed within three breaths and revealed that he could not die.
• Niu Tian attacked again, and Kraken defended with his tentacles before regenerating the three that Niu Tian destroyed.
• Di Tian stepped between Niu Tian and Kraken and blocked Niu Tian’s Azure Annihilation Divine Thunder with Dragon God Claw.
• Kraken hid behind Di Tian and joked that he felt safe as Niu Tian threatened him.

Di Tian used the Heavenly Tribulation to pressure Niu Tian while Kraken secretly replenished his energy. Niu Tian discovered Kraken hiding inside a dead tree and blasted him out, leaving Di Tian unable to stop the attack.

• Kraken withdrew from the fight after his transparent Dan-Devour failed to harm Niu Tian, and Di Tian summoned a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Di Tian charged Niu Tian beneath the tribulation clouds, using heavenly lightning and Dragon God Claw to break four layers of Niu Tian's Nine-Transformation Divine Dragon Protection.
• Niu Tian realized Kraken was secretly supplying Di Tian with energy and searched the forest while continuing to defend himself.
• Niu Tian sensed a faint life aura inside a withered tree and fired Azure Annihilation Divine Thunder at its roots.
• Kraken emerged from the explosion badly injured, missing several tentacles, and asked Niu Tian how he had found him.

Di Tian endured Niu Tian’s assault while Kraken repeatedly revived during the lightning tribulation, helping Di Tian reach nine hundred thousand years. After the tribulation, Di Tian and Kraken defeated Niu Tian, and Di Tian prepared to question him about the Divine Realm.

• Niu Tian repeatedly killed Kraken and fought off Di Tian as the lightning tribulation shattered his nine shield layers.
• Di Tian crossed the threshold to nine hundred thousand years after the final tribulation bolt, while Kraken noted that six Energy Orbs remained.
• Di Tian challenged Niu Tian, but Niu Tian’s God Level attacks wounded him and drove him backward.
• Kraken used Transparent Dan-Devour as Di Tian restrained Niu Tian, forcing Niu Tian to sever his own right arm before Di Tian struck him down.
• Kraken consumed Niu Tian’s severed arm and gained fifteen Energy Orbs, then left for the Sunset Forest.
• Di Tian refused to kill Niu Tian because he wanted information about the Divine Realm, and Niu Tian vowed not to talk.

Kraken visited the Extreme North, promised the restless Auspicious Beast a future outing, and brought the Ice Empress to Sunset Forest to deal with its poisonous mist. There, before Di Tian and the Dragon Kings, Kraken claimed he knew what would happen in the future.

• Kraken found the Auspicious Beast trying to escape her barrier while the Ice Empress chased her.
• Kraken asked the Ice Empress to accompany him to Sunset Forest to deal with its poisonous mist, and she agreed after arranging for A-Tai and Xiaobai to watch the Auspicious Beast.
• Kraken promised to take the Auspicious Beast somewhere fun when he returned, then departed with the Ice Empress.
• At Sunset Forest, Kraken and the Ice Empress met Di Tian, Demon Eye Demon Tree King, Xiong Jun, and the Fire, Ice, and Mountain Dragon Kings.
• When Di Tian asked what he knew, Kraken said he knew what happened in the future, drawing everyone's attention.

Kraken recounted how Huo Yuhao’s future involved the Auspicious Beast’s sacrifice and the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit system, explaining why he had altered events. He left the group with a way to verify his account by inspecting the Auspicious Beast for divine consciousness.

• Kraken told Di Tian that Ice Empress would become Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul and that Electrolux would help Huo Yuhao rise.
• Kraken revealed that the Auspicious Beast had taken the name Wang Qiu’er, left the Star Dou Forest, and grown close to Huo Yuhao; Fire Dragon King questioned Scarlet King, who said Di Tian had sent her to the Extreme North.
• Kraken recounted how Huo Yuhao chose Wang Dong’er over Wang Qiu’er, and how the Auspicious Beast later sacrificed herself and saved Huo Yuhao again.
• Kraken explained that Huo Yuhao helped establish the Spirit Pagoda, whose Soul Spirit system would bind Soul Beasts to humans and cost them their freedom.
• Kraken said he had changed the future by moving the Auspicious Beast and arranging for Huo Yuhao to be on the Sun-Moon Continent, and invited everyone to inspect her for divine consciousness.

Kraken explained how Tang San’s poison mist had devastated the Sunset Forest and revealed that he intended to seize or destroy everything in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After absorbing the poison and devouring the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extremes Flowers to strengthen himself, he emerged and led the group into the forest.

• Kraken told the group that Tang San’s Jade-Scaled Seven-Extremes Flowers had caused the Sunset Forest’s poison mist, and Di Tian confirmed that at least seventy percent of its tens of thousands of soul beasts had died.
• Kraken explained that he had brought Di Tian to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help him retrieve its Immortal Herbs, and declared that he would leave Tang San nothing.
• Kraken entered the poison mist, absorbed it, and sensed thousands of Jade-Scaled Seven-Extremes Flowers, including at least a thousand evolved Jade-Scaled Nine-Extremes Flowers.
• Kraken devoured the flowers for an hour, increasing his Energy Orbs from twenty-one to more than two hundred and greatly strengthening himself.
• Kraken emerged and told Di Tian they could enter, and Di Tian led the group through the now-thin poison mist.

Kraken and the others reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and divided its Immortal Herbs among their allies. After Di Tian forced Evil Emperor to concede his claim, Kraken gave him an herb as a gift, and the group set aside Lovesick Heartbreak Red for Demon Empress.

• Demon Eye Demon Tree King identified and distributed the Immortal Herbs, and the Dragon Kings gave suitable herbs to Ice Empress, Scarlet King, and Xiong Jun.
• Evil Emperor arrived and challenged the group’s right to keep the treasures, so Di Tian attacked him with the Dragon God Claw until he conceded.
• Kraken gave Evil Emperor Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as a gift, and Evil Emperor accepted it before leaving.
• Demon Eye Demon Tree King continued distributing the herbs and gave Black Jade Divine Bamboo to Kraken.
• Kraken decided Lovesick Heartbreak Red should be saved for Demon Empress, and Demon Eye Demon Tree King sealed it in a jade box for him.

Kraken delivered the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to Left Guard for the Demon Empress, then returned to the Extreme North as Ice Empress and the others absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. He told the Auspicious Beast that they could not leave yet because she would stay in the Extreme North for three hundred years, then turned to Ice Empress to discuss business.

• Kraken met Left Guard at the God-Burial Sea Abyss and gave him the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to deliver to the Demon Empress.
• Left Guard told Kraken that the Demon Empress had not been doing well, and Kraken left for the Extreme North.
• Kraken found Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai sharing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, with A-Tai and Xiao Bai gaining more from it than Ice Empress.
• Kraken reassured the bored Auspicious Beast that he would take her somewhere fun after Ice Empress finished her matters.
• When the Auspicious Beast asked to leave, Kraken told her she would stay in the Extreme North for three hundred years, and she withdrew sadly into the ice hut.
• Kraken told Ice Empress they needed to discuss business.

Kraken took the Auspicious Beast from the Extreme North for five years to teach her caution, then brought her to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to have the Dragon Kings examine her divine sense. They found her immense mental power made the seal harmless, and Di Tian asked where Kraken planned to take her next.

• Kraken promised the Ice Empress he would protect the Auspicious Beast during their five years together, and she let them leave the Extreme North.
• Kraken told the Auspicious Beast to obey his instructions, and they set out for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• At the sect, Kraken knocked the Auspicious Beast unconscious so Di Tian and the three Dragon Kings could examine her.
• The Ice Dragon King and Mountain Dragon King found a powerful divine sense seal that they could not safely break, but said it only monitored her and could not control her.
• Di Tian revealed the Auspicious Beast had eaten four million fifty-one thousand five hundred hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, giving her enough mental power to overwhelm Tang San's divine sense.
• Kraken decided to let the Auspicious Beast sleep before continuing their journey, and Di Tian asked where he planned to take her.

Kraken’s avatar demonstrated a temporary white Soul Ring created through experiments balancing life and destruction, revealing that Soul Rings might theoretically be manufactured in batches. Fearing humans would use the technology to produce powerful Soul Masters and turn against soul beasts, the group destroyed the ring and agreed to conceal the discovery.

• Kraken summoned his avatar from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to report on its research.
• The avatar formed a gray crow that vanished when Kraken struck it, leaving behind a white Soul Ring.
• The avatar explained that balancing life force against destruction had created a temporary Soul Ring that could be absorbed and grant a soul skill.
• Kraken and the others realized that mass-produced Soul Rings could free soul beasts from being hunted but could also enable humans to threaten them.
• The avatar destroyed the Soul Ring, and Di Tian told everyone to pretend the discovery had never happened.

Kraken's true body sent his clone and the Auspicious Beast to Heaven Dou City while he stayed behind to absorb the Black Jade Divine Bamboo. The clone brought the Auspicious Beast to meet Tieshan, who agreed to care for her and discussed defending Loulan with Kraken.

• Kraken's true body transferred 195 Energy Orbs to his clone, then stayed behind to absorb the Black Jade Divine Bamboo as the clone took the Auspicious Beast to Heaven Dou City.
• The Auspicious Beast woke in Heaven Dou City, learned she would live there for five years, and followed Kraken's clone to the imperial palace with the three Dragon Kings.
• Kraken's clone presented his token at the palace gate, and the guard captain escorted the group to meet Tieshan.
• Kraken's clone advised Tieshan to use Hundred-Thousand-Year Giant Claw Crabs to guard Loulan's borders instead of raising three armies, and Tieshan agreed to go to the Deep Sea for them.
• Kraken's clone left the Auspicious Beast in Tieshan's care, and Tieshan promised to show her around Heaven Dou City.

Tieshan brought the Auspicious Beast to Kraken Academy, transformed her into a human, and helped her enroll. After discovering Kraken was the academy’s headmaster, she received a key to her own villa, where Tieshan left her to settle in.

• The Auspicious Beast complained to Kraken that he had left her behind, so Tieshan suggested she attend a human academy.
• Tieshan brought the Auspicious Beast to Kraken Academy, where she questioned its name and asked why the grounds were empty during class.
• Tieshan used Soul Power to transform the Auspicious Beast into a human, and she repeatedly switched between her human and original forms for fun.
• The Auspicious Beast spotted a combat tournament poster and asked to enter, but Tieshan told her it was for upperclassmen.
• Tieshan took the Auspicious Beast to the headmaster’s office, where she learned Kraken was the headmaster and received her dormitory key.
• Tieshan showed the Auspicious Beast her villa and left her there to get used to the place.

After Tieshan left her alone, the Auspicious Beast met her neighbor Lan Fozi, a Soul Beast and Kraken’s goddaughter. Lan Fozi gave her a Soul Ring Simulator, then took her to the academy cafeteria, where the Auspicious Beast eagerly enjoyed grilled meat.

• Tieshan flew away, leaving the Auspicious Beast alone in the villa, but she soon decided she liked having the freedom to do as she pleased.
• Lan Fozi introduced herself as the neighbor next door, and the Auspicious Beast recognized her as a Soul Beast and asked about her connection to Kraken.
• Lan Fozi explained that Kraken was her godfather and gave the Auspicious Beast a Soul Ring Simulator, which she tried out by changing its simulated Soul Ring configurations.
• When the Auspicious Beast grew hungry, Lan Fozi invited her to the cafeteria and revealed she was a ninety-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale brought inland by her godfather.
• Lan Fozi bought them grilled meat set meals, and the Auspicious Beast eagerly ate hers and declared it delicious.

Lan Fozi showed the Auspicious Beast around Kraken Academy, where she met another of Kraken’s clones, Lan Yuan. Meanwhile, Di Tian put Demon Eye Demon Tree King and Xiong Jun in charge of restoring Sunset Forest, and the first group of relocated soul beasts arrived.

• Lan Yuan entered the cafeteria, and Lan Fozi explained to the Auspicious Beast that he was one of her godfather Kraken’s clones.
• The Auspicious Beast finished her meal and toured Kraken Academy with Lan Fozi, who identified the windowless building as the Soul Tool Research Building where Lan Yuan spent most of his time.
• Di Tian appointed Demon Eye Demon Tree King to lead the restoration of Sunset Forest, with Xiong Jun assisting, and said he would relocate soul beasts there from Star Dou Forest.
• Three days later, Scarlet King brought twelve hundred soul beasts to Sunset Forest as the first of several planned groups.
• Demon Eye Demon Tree King and Xiong Jun watched the soul beasts settle in and continued their work restoring the forest.

With Niu Tian missing, the Clear Sky Sect was overwhelmed and destroyed by an army serving the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Tang Hao returned to the ruins, killed the invading force, learned they acted on Tieshan’s orders, and found an unconscious girl in the sect’s hidden chamber before setting out toward the Sun-Moon Empire.

• The Great Elder ordered the leaderless Clear Sky Sect to prepare for an attack by more than a thousand approaching Soul Masters.
• The Iron Sword Sect Master led the allied army in attacking the Clear Sky Sect after its refusal to join the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the sect was destroyed over two days.
• Tang Hao arrived at the ruins and killed all 1,582 invading Soul Masters, including Soul Douluos whose Soul Rings were over ten thousand years old.
• Tang Hao questioned a surviving Soul Saint, who identified the attackers as Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders acting on orders from His Majesty Tieshan of Loulan.
• Tang Hao opened the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden chamber, found an unconscious young girl in good condition, carried her out, and headed toward the Sun-Moon Empire.

Ah Yin healed Yan Shaozhe and Long Xiaoyao and urged them to rebuild Shrek, but repeated rejection and attacks drove them across the empires. The chapter ended with the three reaching Loulan safely and Yan Shaozhe discovering that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was digging canals for rewards.

• Ah Yin gave Yan Shaozhe and Long Xiaoyao Immortal Herbs and asked them to rebuild Shrek, and Ye Xishui agreed to help.
• Yan Shaozhe failed to secure permission to rebuild Shrek in Heaven Dou City, while Tieshan was away.
• Star Luo forces repeatedly attacked Yan Shaozhe, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui, and the Sun-Moon Empire withdrew its offer of support after initially welcoming them.
• Twenty Hundred-Thousand-Year Giant Claw Crabs opened a passage into Loulan and stopped the Star Luo pursuers from crossing the border.
• Near Heaven Dou City, Yan Shaozhe learned that Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples were digging canals in exchange for cultivation resources and Soul Tools.

After Loulan declined to help rebuild Shrek, Yan Shaozhe, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao traveled to the Spirit Empire, where Yan asked its leaders to let him establish Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Kraken Academy began selecting students for the upcoming tournament, and the Auspicious Beast easily advanced through her preliminary match.

• Ye Xishui met Tieshan, who explained that Loulan was concentrating its resources on the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament rather than helping Shrek.
• Principal Zhang persuaded the academy heads to pool resources and select seven core students and three substitutes to represent Loulan.
• The Auspicious Beast and Lan Fozi read the selection notice, and the Auspicious Beast defeated a level-fifty-six Soul King in her preliminary match.
• Long Xiaoyao urged Yan Shaozhe to seek refuge in the Spirit Empire, and Yan agreed after Ye Xishui reminded him that Shrek's spirit mattered more than its name or location.
• Yan Shaozhe, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao entered the Spirit Empire and received simple entry permits at the border.
• Yan Shaozhe met Ye Enli, Ye Chen, and Age-old Sin and asked to rebuild Shrek Academy in the Spirit Empire.

Yan Shaozhe secured an abandoned military camp to rebuild Shrek Academy, but drew no students until the academy opened enrollment to users of Farmed Soul Rings and seven powerful applicants arrived. Meanwhile, Wang Chun approached Huo Yuhao at Radiant City Soul Engineer Academy, and Tie Li prepared to act from the Iron-Blood Sect.

• Ye Chen offered Yan Shaozhe an abandoned military camp in Spirit City for Shrek Academy, and Yan accepted it.
• After half a month without applicants, Long Xiaoyao explained Shrek's declining appeal and told Yan that Ye Xishui had opened admissions to students using Farmed Soul Rings.
• Yan posted new admissions requirements, and Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun'er, Xiao Xiao, Nan Qiuqiu, Dai Luoli, and Zhu Lu enrolled.
• Ning Tian showed Yan a detailed renovation plan and arranged for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to sponsor construction, explaining that she was helping Shrek.
• Wang Chun introduced herself to Huo Yuhao as a newly transferred student assigned to get familiar with the academy through him.
• Tie Li learned that Wang Chun was in Huo Yuhao's class and decided it was time to act.

Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Chun carried a hidden aura of death and a divine imprint, then heard about a competition offering Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Tang Hao also reported to Tang San that Kraken was dismantling his mortal-world network and building faith to ascend to godhood, leaving Tang Hao as the only person Tang San could still trust.

• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that Wang Chun's soul bore a faint, sealed aura of death and a divine imprint, and Huo Yuhao decided to observe her before seeking the truth.
• Huo Yuhao woke from a disturbing dream and went to class with Wang Chun, where Dean Luo Ning announced a competition offering up to six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones to the winners.
• Xu Tianzhen, Vina, Long Aotian, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan reacted to the rewards, while Vina wondered where the empire had obtained so many soul bones.
• Tang Hao contacted Tang San and reported that Niu Tian, Tai Tan, and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had disappeared, and that Kraken was severing Tang San's connections in the mortal world.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Loulan's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and academies had joined Kraken's cause, and Tang San concluded that Kraken was gathering faith to form a divine seat.
• Tang San said he could not leave a Divine Realm meeting and admitted that Tang Hao was the only person he could still trust.