Chapter Summaries

Jiang Siming returned from the Sea God Temple and went with Xiao Bai to watch Tang San and the others undergo their third trial. He decided it was time to leave Sea God Island, but Zhu Zhuqing’s closeness left him unable to tell her.

• The Asura God told the God of Evil to notify Rakshasa and Angel and proceed with their original plan.
• Jiang Siming was thrown from the Sea God Temple into the Ring Sea, then asked Xiao Bai to take him to Tang San and the others.
• Xiao Bai carried Jiang Siming through the sea, and he was hurled by a wave into Tang San during the Tidal Body Tempering trial.
• Jiang Siming returned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Tang San and watched the group finish their trial as he considered the dangers awaiting Shrek Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jiang Siming decided to go back, but when Zhu Zhuqing leaned against him, he could not bring himself to say so; she then asked what he wanted to tell her.

Jiang Siming left Sea God Island and returned to the mainland, where he reunited with Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, a powerful dragon-robed man attacked the Douluo plane’s barrier, and Shen Ming watched as the danger approached.

• Zhu Zhuqing encouraged Jiang Siming to return to the mainland but asked him to remember her and stay alive.
• Jiang Siming left Sea God Island and traveled back with the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.
• A dragon-robed man struck the Douluo plane’s barrier, but Shen Ming’s green shield blocked his attack.
• Shen Ming viewed the attack from the Demon Cave and said the barrier would not hold for long, leaving Jiang Siming to face the danger.
• Jiang Siming sensed something unusual in Tiantou City but dismissed it before arriving at Shrek Academy.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Grandmaster welcomed Jiang Siming back, and he told them Tang San and the others were still undergoing their trials.

Jiang Siming worried over Spirit Hall’s unexplained silence as Bibi Dong ordered its Soul Saint-level experts to serve the Elder Hall. Sword Douluo then visited Jiang Siming at Shrek Academy, while the reason for his unease remained unknown.

• Jiang Siming asked Flender and Grandmaster whether Spirit Hall had made any moves, and they said it had been quiet for two years.
• Bibi Dong completed part of her Rakshasa God assessment and ordered all Spirit Hall experts above Soul Saint rank to follow the Grand Pontiff of the Elder Hall.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu about Bibi Dong’s actions, and he said Spirit Hall owed Bibi Dong and wondered why the angel and Rakshasa gods were cooperating.
• Jiang Siming felt too restless to cultivate at Shrek Academy, then opened his door to find Sword Douluo, who teased him for not announcing his return.

Jiang Siming learned that Spirit Hall was preparing a major expedition to sea and feared its target was Sea God Island, so he sought Di Tian’s help. His attempt to awaken the Silver Dragon King failed, but Di Tian agreed to one condition, and Jiang Siming asked him to stop someone.

• Sword Douluo told Jiang Siming that Spirit Hall was sending two hundred Soul Saints and nearly thirty Title Douluo to sea, with the Grand Pontiff joining them.
• Jiang Siming suspected Sea God Island was Spirit Hall’s target and worried that Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others were in danger.
• Sword Douluo left to verify the report while Jiang Siming considered how to respond to Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Three days later, Jiang Siming asked Di Tian for a favor and used the Chaos Bell to try to awaken the Silver Dragon King, but the attempt failed.
• Di Tian offered to fulfill one reasonable condition, and Jiang Siming asked him to act and stop someone.

Jiang Siming prepared to confront Spirit Hall’s expedition to Sea God Island, despite the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s reluctance to risk its survival. He left for the island with Sword Douluo, Tang Hao, Dugu Bo, and six guards, still troubled by Spirit Hall’s motives and the Ancient King’s threat to take back his body.

• Jiang Siming named Qian Daoliu as the opponent Di Tian would stop, and Di Tian reacted with anger toward the Angel Clan.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo worried that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could not defeat Spirit Hall, while Jiang Siming argued Sea God Island had a chance and someone would oppose Qian Daoliu.
• The Ancient King offered Jiang Siming power, but Jiang Siming refused and argued with him before the Ancient King threatened to reclaim his body.
• Sword Douluo told Jiang Siming that Spirit Hall would sail for Sea God Island in three days, and Jiang Siming asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for one final favor.
• Three days later, Jiang Siming departed by ship with Sword Douluo, Tang Hao, Dugu Bo, and six Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect guards, intending to join Sea God Island’s defense.

Jiang Siming and his allies were surrounded at sea by Spirit Hall, which had come specifically for him and Zhu Zhuqing. As Jiang Siming began fighting Qian Daoliu’s forces, the God Kings Goodness and Evil weighed the cost of letting him claim the Plane Source.

• Jiang Siming ordered Sword Douluo to follow Spirit Hall until they disappeared from sight, while the God of Goodness questioned the God of Evil’s plan to let Jiang Siming become the Plane Master.
• Zhu Zhuqing felt a stabbing pain and an unexplained sense of dread after her Tidal Body Tempering, then left to rest despite Tang San’s concern.
• Jiang Siming and his companions spotted more than a dozen Spirit Hall steamships surrounding their freighter and prepared for battle.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that Spirit Hall had come for Jiang Siming and Zhu Zhuqing, though he did not know why they were targeted.
• Jiang Siming unleashed his Soul Power and seventh soul ring as Tang Hao and the others released their martial souls.

Jiang Siming and his allies were overwhelmed by Spirit Hall’s forces under Qian Daoliu, but the Snow Empress intervened to protect him. Di Tian then arrived to face Qian Daoliu, and the opposing sides prepared to fight.

• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall’s forces to attack Jiang Siming and his allies, while Sword Douluo and Tang Hao engaged several Title Douluo.
• Jiang Siming unleashed his skills against the encircling army but was wounded and nearly overwhelmed.
• The Snow Empress raised an iceberg to block Spirit Hall’s attacks and declared that she was protecting Jiang Siming.
• Qian Daoliu prepared to attack the Snow Empress, but Di Tian arrived in his Black-Eyed Golden Dragon King form and confronted him.
• The Snow Empress told Jiang Siming that he had to survive because half of her Origin Mark was on him, and Qian Daoliu chose to fight Di Tian and the Snow Empress.

Jiang Siming fought off Spirit Hall’s forces while the Snow Empress and Di Tian held back their strongest opponents. After exhausting his Soul Power and rejecting the God of Evil’s offer, Jiang Siming detonated a Soul Tool full of gunpowder, while the Dragon-Robed Man breached the Plane Barrier and entered the plane alone.

• Di Tian confronted Qian Daoliu while the Snow Empress froze the sea and fought the Golden Crocodile Douluo, four Title Douluo, and dozens of other experts.
• Jiang Siming used Sword Reflects Shadow to attack the surrounding Spirit Hall experts, but they destroyed his clones and continued to overwhelm him.
• The God of Evil offered Jiang Siming power in exchange for accepting his inheritance, but Jiang Siming refused and unleashed Dual Sword Fusion, Sword Flight Immortal.
• Jiang Siming’s sword beam killed dozens of Spirit Hall experts, but it emptied his Soul Power and left him barely standing.
• Jiang Siming activated a Soul Tool containing gunpowder, creating a massive explosion that incinerated the Spirit Hall members caught at its core.
• The Dragon-Robed Man tore through the Plane Barrier and entered the plane, leaving the otherworldly army trapped outside.

The Dragon-Robed Man’s planar challenge triggered a war that affected the God Realm, Douluo Continent, and the worlds beneath it. Jiang Siming was pulled into a white space and revived, but the Dragon-Robed Man immediately seized him by the throat.

• The Dragon-Robed Man declared planar war, and the system began a king-against-king challenge while Jiang Siming was unconscious.
• A white pillar of light lifted Jiang Siming out of the sea, scattering the mushroom cloud as Sword Douluo and the others watched in shock.
• Tang San and the others saw the pillar from Sea God Island, while Zhu Zhuqing felt pain and realized something had happened to Jiang Siming.
• The Dragon-Robed Man healed Jiang Siming in a pure-white space and mocked his weakness as he regained consciousness.
• The Dragon-Robed Man identified himself as Jiang Siming’s opponent and lifted him by the neck with an invisible force.

Jiang Siming borrowed the Ancient King's power to defeat and seal the Dragon-Robed Man, but the strain left his body badly cracked. As the heavenly pillar of light sank into the sea, Jiang Siming was frozen in a massive block of ice while his injuries began to heal slowly.

• The Dragon-Robed Man taunted Jiang Siming and kicked him away, leaving him injured and gasping for breath.
• The Ancient King granted Jiang Siming power, and Jiang Siming froze the Dragon-Robed Man and erased his attack.
• Jiang Siming, under the Ancient King's control, bound the Dragon-Robed Man in runic shackles and sealed him in the chaos.
• The Ancient King removed the purple mark and Sword Seal from his brow and cast them into the chaos.
• The pillar of light sank beneath the sea with Jiang Siming, whose cracked body was encased in ice as it began to heal.

Jiang Siming awakened after sleeping for ten thousand years, and his return unleashed sword intent that shook the continent. He learned that the system’s final reward required completing plot missions and repairing its functions, leaving his path to godhood unresolved.

• The Snow Empress sensed that Jiang Siming was still alive and returned to the Extreme North, while the God of Goodness and the God of Evil realized he had succeeded and discussed making amends.
• Deep beneath the sea, an octopus soul beast attacked Jiang Siming’s icy prison, but his sword intent destroyed it and broke him free.
• Jiang Siming’s sword intent surged across the sea, and powerful sword intents erupted at the Sea Sword Pavilion, in the Heaven Dou Empire, the Heavenly Spirit Empire, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jiang Siming walked through a bustling street and learned from the system that he had to complete plot missions and repair its functions to unlock the final reward tied to becoming a god.
• Jiang Siming reflected on his ten-thousand-year sleep and the possibility that Zhu Zhuqing and the others had become gods.

Jiang Siming learned from Shen Ming about the Era Resetter, the Gate of Two Worlds, and the possible dangers posed by his system, then accepted an invitation to join the Watchers. He left for the Extreme North, where a young figure trudged through the snow and asked Sky Dream when they could return for revenge.

• Jiang Siming met Shen Ming and saw a vision of the Era Resetter slaughtering powerful figures on the Slaughter Battlefield.
• Shen Ming explained that the Era Resetter emerged from the Gate of Two Worlds to destroy worlds, and recounted how an ancient king had once blocked the gate.
• Shen Ming warned Jiang Siming that his system might be delaying his rise to godhood and could eventually replace him.
• Shen Ming invited Jiang Siming to join the Watchers, an alliance that opposed corrupted Plane Masters and demonic creatures, and Jiang Siming accepted.
• After Jiang Siming left, Shen Ming realized that Jiang Siming had bluffed him.
• In the Extreme North, a young figure struggled through the snow and asked Sky Dream when they could return for revenge.

Huo Yuhao was saved from an Extreme North Demon Wolf by the long-missing Jiang Siming, who concealed his identity as Jiang Sima. Jiang Siming asked Huo Yuhao to guide him to Shrek Academy, while Ice Empress suspected he might be the man she had waited ten thousand years to see again.

• Huo Yuhao complained to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about his slow cultivation, and Sky Dream praised Jiang Siming's strength while Ice Empress angrily recalled his disappearance.
• An Extreme North Demon Wolf ambushed Huo Yuhao, but Jiang Siming killed it before it could reach him.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Jiang Siming and introduced himself, while Ice Empress recognized a strong resemblance between him and the man from her memories.
• Jiang Siming introduced himself as Jiang Sima and asked Huo Yuhao to guide him to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao said he was a Shrek Academy student and wondered whether Jiang Sima could really be Jiang Siming.

Jiang Siming traveled with Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy, where they reunited with Huo Yuhao’s friends. After slipping away to the academy’s back mountain, Jiang Siming found the unchanged cabin and reunited with Zhu Zhuqing’s awakened phantom.

• Jiang Siming agreed to travel with Huo Yuhao and reached Shrek Academy with him a month later.
• Wang Dong and the others welcomed Huo Yuhao, and Jiang Siming introduced himself as the senior who had saved him.
• Jiang Siming followed the familiar path to the back mountain and found the cabin preserved after ten thousand years.
• Jiang Siming joined the two halves of a jade pendant, dispelling the golden restriction and awakening Zhu Zhuqing’s phantom.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Jiang Siming and wept as he tried to embrace her.

After returning from a ten-thousand-year sleep, Jiang Siming reunited with the familiar house and drew the attention of Shrek Academy by entering its forbidden rear mountain. When Xuan Zi confronted him, Jiang Siming revealed overwhelming strength and prepared to fight, while the Sea God Pavilion’s master stopped the elders from intervening.

• Jiang Siming returned to the little house, and a woman in the God Realm rejoiced at his return.
• Xuan Zi confronted Jiang Siming in the forbidden ground, but Jiang Siming struck him flying with a single punch.
• Xuan Zi summoned his Taotie phantom and nine soul rings, while Jiang Siming revealed his martial souls, soul rings, and Juexian Sword.
• Jiang Siming shielded the little house with the Donghuang Bell and unleashed an aura stronger than Xuan Zi’s.
• The Sea God Pavilion’s master ordered the elders to stay back as students across Shrek Academy reacted to the battle.
• Huo Yuhao suspected Jiang Siming was behind the commotion, and the Ice Empress recognized him while refusing to explain to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Jiang Siming defeated Xuan Zi, revealed himself to Mu En as the ancestor who had returned after ten thousand years, and asked to hide his identity at Shrek Academy. Mu En accepted his request and explained the prophecy behind the rear mountain's restriction.

• The Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao never to provoke Jiang Siming, whose strength had grown immensely over ten thousand years.
• Jiang Siming battered Xuan Zi on Shrek Academy's rear mountain until Mu En intervened and recognized him as Ancestor Jiang Siming.
• Mu En introduced himself as a descendant of Yu Xiaogang's line, and Jiang Siming ordered him to keep his identity secret.
• Jiang Siming asked Mu En to give him a student identity under the name Jiang Sima and arrange a dorm beside Huo Yuhao.
• After Jiang Siming left, Mu En told Xuan Zi that the rear mountain's restriction had been left by Tang San as part of a prophecy about Jiang Siming's return.

Mu En and Xuan Zi accepted that Jiang Siming had returned, while Tang San and Xiao Wu sensed his presence in the God Realm. At Shrek Academy, Jiang Siming joined Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao on their way to an assessment and encountered Dai Huabin.

• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Jiang Siming had returned and said they should respect his wish to remain unnoticed.
• Tang San sensed Jiang Siming through a mark on his daughter, and he and Xiao Wu speculated about their daughter’s admiration for him.
• Jiang Siming met Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao outside their dormitory, then agreed to accompany them to the Beast Fighting Arena.
• Jiang Siming noticed Dai Huabin and the girl beside him, while Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Huabin with suppressed anger.

Jiang Siming slapped Dai Huabin away after Dai released killing intent, then watched Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong prepare for their assessment. He received an Inner Court core disciple Identity Token, and Xuan Zi hurried Yan Shaozhe away before he could question Jiang Siming’s appointment.

• Jiang Siming slapped Dai Huabin dozens of meters away after Dai tried to dodge his hand and showed killing intent.
• Dai Huabin left with Zhu Lu after warning Huo Yuhao about their wager and threatening Jiang Siming.
• Jiang Siming joined Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, who praised him and thanked him, though Huo Yuhao remained wary.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong went to register for the assessment while Jiang Siming took a seat in the Beast Fighting Arena.
• Xuan Zi delivered Jiang Siming an Inner Court core disciple Identity Token from Elder Mu.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Jiang Siming’s qualifications, but Xuan Zi dragged him away before Jiang Siming answered.

Jiang Siming watched the assessments at Shrek Academy, where Huo Yuhao stunned the arena with the Ice Empress’s aura and Dai Huabin grew more intent on killing him. Jiang Siming rescued Jian Tongming from a Gale Demon Wolf and took him away, while Yan Shaozhe wondered about Jiang Siming’s background.

• A savage beast aura erupted from the Beast Fighting Arena, and Jiang Siming recognized the Ice Empress as the system issued him a plot mission to kill Dai Huabin’s assassins without offering a reward.
• Huo Yuhao’s aura overwhelmed his opponent, and Dai Huabin resolved to kill him rather than accept losing their bet.
• Jiang Siming noticed Jian Tongming struggling against a five-hundred-year Gale Demon Wolf during an assessment.
• Jiang Siming appeared in time to destroy the Gale Demon Wolf and save Jian Tongming, whose martial soul was the Seven Kill Sword.
• Jiang Siming led Jian Tongming away from the assessment grounds, and Yan Shaozhe asked Xuan Zi about Jiang Siming’s background.

Jiang Siming rescued Jian Tongming from the Beast Fighting Arena and took him as his disciple, despite Ning Tian’s suspicions. At Shrek Academy’s forbidden back mountain, Jiang Siming began Jian Tongming’s sword training by asking why he wielded the sword.

• Yan Shaozhe realized Jiang Siming had smashed the Gale Demon Wolf apart using only his physical strength, while Xuan Zi worried about explaining away the display.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng confronted Jiang Siming as he led Jian Tongming away, and Jiang Siming said he wanted to make Jian Tongming his disciple.
• Jian Tongming agreed to become Jiang Siming’s disciple, and Jiang Siming took him to the academy’s forbidden back mountain to train.
• Jiang Siming released his sword intent, then asked Jian Tongming why he practiced the sword.
• Jian Tongming said he wanted to become strong like his ancestor, and Jiang Siming told him to remember that as his reason for practicing.