Recaps

Rus Wang reassured Iyuda that he accepted her transformation and promised to take her across the strait after resting. Meanwhile, Star Luo officials abandoned a campaign against Dragon Valley Forest, and Shrek Academy and Spirit Pagoda officials began considering whether the powerful dragon indicated an unknown continent.

• Rus Wang reassured Iyuda that she would always be his daughter and promised to take her across the strait after he rested.
• Duke Libai confronted an imperial general over the decision to designate Dragon Valley Forest as unclaimed territory and was arrested for undermining the Empire’s military forces.
• The Thunder Profound Dragon Beast reported that the humans had withdrawn, and Monkey canceled the Fixed Soul Cannon Shell launch.
• Shrek Academy and Spirit Pagoda councilors discussed the six-hundred-thousand-year-old water dragon and chose to keep its appearance quiet.
• Shrek’s representative suggested that the dragon might have come from an unknown continent west of the Douluo Continent.

Rus Wang and his family showed the Dragon Valley Forest Soul Beasts that Elena had become a Titled Douluo without killing Soul Beasts, then helped Indigenous forces rout the Star Luo army. Meanwhile, Earl Libai learned that the Star Luo Empire had lost an army and that its Emperor was gravely ill, leaving him and Kallen wary of political upheaval.

• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts confirmed that Elena had no trace of killing Soul Beasts and returned to recover from their injuries.
• Rus Wang, Barus, and Yanjin watched the Star Luo army fight the Indigenous alliance and criticized its battlefield tactics.
• Rus Wang explained that Yanjin should set fire to the Star Luo beachhead, and the resulting panic sent the Star Luo army into a rout.
• Rus Wang told Barus that lasting cooperation between humans and Soul Beasts would require leaders like Huo Yuhao and that the Spirit Pagoda threatened that coexistence.
• Earl Libai learned from General Kallen that Dezuola had lost the 8th Army through poor logistics and that the old Emperor was gravely ill.
• Kallen advised Earl Libai to stay on his fief, plant crops, and build roads until the political situation settled.

After the Star Luo Empire’s new emperor took the throne, Zhang Cheng revealed a promising young candidate who might eventually replace him as its Limit Douluo. Meanwhile, Rus Wang prepared to move the Sun-Passing Ginkgo and other Soul Beasts to Folded Ear Continent, leaving the story with the relocation project underway.

• The old emperor died, and the new emperor secretly asked Zhang Cheng how long he could protect the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhang Cheng explained that Dai Zuoheng had died during the Soul Hunting Operation and identified Dai Ruoheng as a talented candidate for reaching Limit Douluo.
• The new emperor learned that Dai Ruoheng was his much younger half-sister and agreed to arrange for his son to meet her.
• Rus Wang and Yin Ji confirmed that the Star Luo Empire had paused its expansion, so Rus Wang ordered the Soul Beast relocation plan to begin.
• Rus Wang and Barus began building a heavily shielded trailer to haul the Sun-Passing Ginkgo tree to the Nanshan Rainforest on Folded Ear Continent.

Dai Ruoheng escorted Dai Xiuyuan to Star Dou Forest to find a new Soul Beast for his Soul Spirit, but Di Tian intercepted their group after sensing True Dragon auras. Count Libai's account of a distant continent left Di Tian weighing the risks of contacting its powerful Soul Beasts.

• Dai Ruoheng agreed to take Dai Xiuyuan to Star Dou Forest with Count Libai so he could hunt a thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Zi JI sensed the auras of multiple pure-blooded True Dragons and sent the Scarlet King to watch the Spirit Pagoda while she alerted Di Tian.
• Di Tian and two other Ferocious Beasts stopped the humans, and Di Tian questioned Count Libai about the True Dragon auras.
• Count Libai described an expedition to another continent where a six-hundred-thousand-year-old Water-attribute True Dragon had killed most of the team.
• Di Tian let the humans go, then told Bi Ji that the other continent held twelve kinds of True Dragons and many other hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts.

Yin Ji celebrated the birth of two new Sun-Passing Ginkgo Soul Beasts at Rus Wang’s manor on Zheer Continent, while the Star Luo Empire’s plan to capture a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast failed because the Dragon Valley Forest beasts had been relocated. Dai Ruoheng instead killed an eighty-thousand-year-old lizard and gained two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, bringing her closer to becoming a Limit Douluo.

• Yin Ji welcomed Xiongxin and Cixin, two young Sun-Passing Ginkgo Soul Beasts, and celebrated with Soul Beasts and Elves at Rus Wang’s manor.
• Yin Ji praised Ximing’s young dragon and sent her to play with the elven children she had grown up alongside.
• Count Libai and Kallen found Dragon Valley Forest’s core empty when they attempted to lure out a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for Dai Ruoheng.
• Count Libai returned with an eighty-thousand-year-old lizard, and Dai Ruoheng killed it at the ambush site.
• Dai Ruoheng’s Soul Rings changed to three purple, four black, and two red, and she handed the lizard’s right-leg Spirit Bone to the Imperial Grandson.

Zi JI disguised herself as a Star Luo prospector and traveled toward the New Continent to seek contact with its hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts. In Dragon Valley Forest, Rus Wang prepared the Elves and Soul Beasts for future human expansion, while Riven promised her observing companions a closer look at human society.

• Zi JI disguised herself with gold hair, arranged travel papers and funds through controlled Star Luo officials, and headed to Eastsea City to board a ship for the New Continent.
• Rus Wang sent Soul Douluo-level Elves and the Giant Mountain Golden Ape to Dragon Valley Forest to learn about humans and prepare for war.
• Rus Wang considered the long period before the Abyss invasion and the threat posed by human powers, but decided not to seek the Demon Empress's help before becoming the Lord of Blades.
• Riven returned from observing the Great River Defense Line with Colonel Elion and Major Marius, who criticized the human armies' crude fighting and wars over land.
• Riven told the Elves she would take them to a Star Luo port city to witness how Martial Soul Awakening shaped human class and status.

Zi JI reached Xinluli and tracked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Riven, forcing two Elves to lead her to Riven’s suite. Zi JI introduced herself as an envoy from the Soul Beasts of Star Dou Forest, and Riven revealed that the people with her were Elves rather than humans.

• After four months at sea, Zi JI arrived in Xinluli and sensed the aura of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Elion and Marius observed the human Martial Soul Awakening ceremony before Zi JI bound them with her power and ordered them to take her to their superior.
• Riven detected Zi JI’s aura at her hotel suite and prepared with the Elves before letting the unexpected visitor inside.
• Zi JI revealed her identity as the Hell Demon Dragon King and said she had come as an envoy to contact the True Dragon clansfolk.
• Riven identified the Silver Dragon King as the one the Soul Beasts had been protecting, then exposed the Elves’ concealed ears.

Rus Wang and the Light Dragon King discussed developing the Elf Kingdom and learned that Zi JI had arrived as an envoy from Douluo Continent. Rus Wang met Zi JI in Dragon Valley Forest and invited her to hold their talks in Dragon Valley.

• Rus Wang reviewed plans with the Light Dragon King, who urged him to expand the Elf population and strengthen ties between the Dragon Race and the Elves.
• Rus Wang and the Light Dragon King learned that the Hell Demon Dragon King had come as an envoy, and the Light Dragon King went to search for a technique to help her cross the spatial rift.
• Riven brought Zi JI and the undercover Elves to Dragon Valley Forest and explained that the forest had become a military zone after Rus Wang relocated many dragons and Soul Beasts.
• Rus Wang appeared behind Zi JI, who introduced herself as the envoy from Star Dou Forest on Douluo Continent.
• Rus Wang invited Zi JI to meet in Dragon Valley, and she reacted with surprise.

Ben, an eight-star Grey Feather Division agent, described his work teaching a kindergarten shared by Elf and Dragon children and explained the close ties between the two peoples. After discussing Dragon reproduction and the Elves’ view of Barus’s marriage, Scher realized Ben might pursue a similar relationship with a dragon, and Ben warned her not to seek a transfer.

• The Elven Council of Sages elected a prime minister while the Grey Feather Division monitored officials, and Ulides served as its Grand Mentor after joining to avenge his poisoned family.
• Ben introduced his work leading a Grey Feather Division border regiment and teaching Elf and Dragon cubs alongside his Turquoise Dragon Mental Contract partner, Scher.
• Ben explained that the Division distinguished True Dragons from Soul Beasts and that the Dragon Race had long cooperated with Rus Wang and the Elves.
• After class, Ben drank medical disinfectant and complained to Scher about caring for fourteen cubs while she ate air-dried Brachiosaurus meat.
• Scher asked how outsiders viewed the mixed kindergarten, and Ben described Barus as a fairy-tale prince who married an ordinary Elf girl.
• Scher realized her pseudo-Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation might make her a possible partner for Ben, who warned her not to seek a transfer and joked that he would eat her if he remained single at 215.

Zi Ji traveled with Rus Wang to the Dragon Valley World and met the Light Dragon King, who questioned her about the history of Douluo Continent. Her account of the Dragon Race and Soul Beasts’ failures left him appalled, and he hoped the Silver Dragon King would eventually set them straight.

• Rus Wang carried Zi Ji through the spatial rift to the Dragon Clan Graveyard, where he explained that the Light Dragon King wanted to hear about Douluo Continent.
• The Light Dragon King appeared as a white dragon and asked Zi Ji to call him Senior before questioning her using notes from his notebook.
• Zi Ji told the Light Dragon King that she and Di Tian had slept through the upheaval around the humans’ ascension to godhood two thousand years earlier.
• The Light Dragon King condemned the Star Dou Forest’s failure to protect the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and criticized Di Tian for stopping the beast tide after Huo Yuhao introduced Soul Spirits.
• The Light Dragon King scolded Rus Wang to keep a closer eye on his son, then hoped the recovering Silver Dragon King would set the Soul Beasts straight.

Light Dragon King concluded that the Divine Realm had manipulated events to plunder the Dragon Race and urged Rus Wang to take greater responsibility while the Silver Dragon King recovered. He gave Rus Wang two treasures to aid the Dragon Race, leaving the Dragon God Core’s successor undecided.

• Light Dragon King questioned Zi JI about Shrek Academy and learned of its connection to Sea God Island, then accused the Divine Realm of plotting against the Dragon Race.
• Light Dragon King told Zi JI to study Dragon Clan Secret Techniques and teach them to the Dragon Race and the recovering Silver Dragon King.
• Light Dragon King warned Rus Wang that Di Tian could not lead strategically and asked Rus Wang to shoulder more responsibility.
• Light Dragon King gave Rus Wang the Dragon God's Tear, which could summon power from Dragon Race minor planes.
• Light Dragon King gave Rus Wang his preserved dragon blood as the missing material for Barus to forge a Dragon Ascension Pillar.

Rus Wang returned from the Dragon Valley Forest with a warning from the Light Dragon King and spent time with his family before explaining the Dragon Race’s danger to Barus. He urged Barus to help build a Dragon Ascension Pillar and prepare Zheer Continent for the coming conflict.

• Rus Wang told Riven that the Dragon Race and Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent were negotiating peace with humans by handing over Soul Beasts, and said Zheer Continent needed to strengthen its defenses.
• Rus Wang visited Barus, Elena, and their two-year-old daughter Toriya, while Thalassa took charge of the child’s care.
• Rus Wang and Barus discussed the Dragon Ascension Pillar materials the Light Dragon King had provided, and Rus Wang explained the history of the Dragon God’s fall and the threats facing the Dragon Race.
• Rus Wang warned Barus not to rely on the Silver Dragon King and urged the Dragon Race to learn from human Soul Guidance Technology and ally with the Elves.
• Rus Wang said the Dragon Race would build up Zheer Continent, increase the populations of the Elves, dragons, and Soul Beasts, and prepare for the coming darkest hour.

The chapter explained the Folded Ear Continent’s vulnerability to humanity and described the Elf Kingdom’s industrial and educational development. Decades later, Toriya revealed extraordinary abilities, while Rus Wang and Barus tested the Dragon Ascension Pillar using Rus Wang’s blood.

• The chapter clarified that Santang watched Douluo Planet, that the sealed islands between the continents could become battlegrounds, and that Dragon Valley Forest’s Dragon Kings maintained order among its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• The Elf Kingdom expanded its industrial society with free housing, factory work, childcare, compulsory education, vocational training, and new Soul Tool inventions such as a film projector.
• After decades of development, Toriya awakened her Soul Power at twelve and demonstrated that she could switch among Elf, Dragonkin, and True Dragon forms while using Iyou’s attack skills.
• Rus Wang and Barus conducted final tests on the Dragon Ascension Pillar, and Barus poured Rus Wang’s blood into it as its core material.

Rus Wang and Zi JI learned that aging Limit Douluo were destabilizing the balance between the empires, while the Sun Moon Empire had gained a young Level 99 expert. The chapter left Shrek Academy and the Star Luo Empire facing the prospect of a final war and an early evacuation plan.

• Zi JI lamented that it had taken her twenty years to learn three Dragon Clan Secret Techniques from the Light Dragon King, while Barus had mastered them in three.
• Rus Wang told Zi JI that Star Luo Empire reports showed a major crisis at home, and Zi JI deduced that the Dou Ling Empire’s Limit Douluo had died while the Star Luo Empire’s was nearing the end of his life.
• Zi JI asked Rus Wang to take her to Folded Ear Continent to visit her granddaughter Toriya before returning to Star Dou Forest.
• On Sea God Island, Mu Huican told Zhang Cheng that the Sun Moon Empire had gained a young Limit Douluo and that a Tang Sect investigator had died confirming it.
• Zhang Cheng warned that the Star Luo Empire would have to begin the Mountain Relocation Plan ahead of schedule.

Zi Ji returned to Star Dou Forest after spending twenty years with the dragons of Dragon Valley World, bringing secret techniques, supplies, agents, and a teleportation array. The Silver Dragon King and the Light Dragon King grew suspicious that divine interference had shaped Zi Ji’s journey and ordered urgent countermeasures.

• Rus Wang told Zi Ji that Grey Feather Division agents had infiltrated Douluo Continent and gave her a blood-bound Communication Book linked to the Light Dragon King.
• A Star Luo shipyard manager secretly reported that a sea journey had taken half the expected time and that the current had flowed eastward.
• Zi Ji reunited with Di Tian, explained how she had reached Dragon Valley World, and gave him dragon techniques, communication books, and a long-range teleportation array.
• Di Tian informed the Silver Dragon King about Zi Ji’s return, and she questioned Zi Ji about the dragons and events in Dragon Valley World.
• The Silver Dragon King suspected divine interference in Zi Ji’s journey and the Auspicious Beast’s feelings for Huo Yuhao, then asked the Light Dragon King for advice.
• The Light Dragon King ordered emergency countermeasures, while Toriya discovered a transparent orb emerging from her head as she studied math.

The chapter explains Torina’s Seer Elf heritage, abilities, and three forms, then follows her visit to Aunt Thranduil’s manor to see Noelle. Thranduil tells Torina that Scher has gone to mate with a female Turquoise Dragon and may be away for years.

• The chapter details Torina’s bloodlines, Soul Seal, engravings, and formidable abilities in her Zheer Elf, Dragon-born Elf, and True Dragon forms.
• Rus Wang had examined Torina five years earlier and insisted she attend school in her Dragon-born Elf form, where she later graduated and entered Ravenna No.1 High School as a top student.
• Torina rode a Heron Eagle Dragon to Thranduil’s manor during winter vacation, intending mainly to visit Noelle.
• Thranduil told Torina that Noelle was still asleep and that she could wait for her to wake up.
• Thranduil explained that Scher had gone with the Dragon Clan Committee to mate with a young female Turquoise Dragon and might not return for a decade or two.

Rus Wang and the Light Dragon King discussed the Divine Realm’s soul-splitting technique and the danger it posed to the Silver Dragon King, while the Star Luo Empire faced a coming war and political collapse. As the Sun Moon Empire began its campaign, Barus successfully tested a device that let different races launch elemental attacks with Soul Power.

• The Light Dragon King told Rus Wang that the gods had used soul-splitting on Toriya and the Auspicious Beast, and warned him to prepare for the Silver Dragon King’s vulnerability.
• Zhang Cheng advised the Star Luo emperor on the empire’s future, then learned that Sun Moon Empire troops were advancing on his camp and suspected the emperor’s movements had been betrayed.
• Count Libai escorted the emperor back to the palace, killed suspicious figures near its entrances, and returned to the border to fight alongside Zhang Cheng.
• The Sun Moon Empire launched a probing attack on Zhang Cheng’s camp, beginning the war of unification as towns across the mainland fell into turmoil.
• Barus completed the Two-Horned Imprint, a device that let elves, dragons, and Soul Beasts use Soul Power for elemental attacks beyond their natural abilities.

Rus Wang reviewed Barus's promising Two-Horned Imprint tests while keeping Zi JI at a distance, and Toriya learned that Elf workers were demanding better conditions. The chapter left Toriya agreeing to appeal to her grandfather, Rus Wang, on the workers' behalf.

• Rus Wang learned that Zi JI wanted to return to Light Dragon King for further study and told her he would recommend her only after Barus examined her.
• Barus reported that the Two-Horned Imprint worked for contracted Elves, Dragon kin, and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but subjects differed in how many Imprints they could use.
• Rus Wang suggested that Imprint capacity might depend on cultivation, physical capacity, and Soul Cores, and urged Barus to explore other uses for the Imprints.
• Venicia explained to Toriya that Elf workers faced long hours and low wages and asked her to petition Rus Wang for reforms.
• Toriya agreed to speak to Rus Wang and ordered a proper meal for Venicia.

Toriya asked Rus Wang to address the exploitation of Elf workers, and he revealed that the government had been testing economic reforms in pilot cities. The Elf Kingdom moved to replace private industry with state-owned enterprises and a planned economy, while Toriya learned why the changes had taken years to prepare.

• Toriya told Rus Wang about the worker abuses and asked him to intervene.
• Rus Wang ordered Ulides Roderick to have factory owners who broke labor laws arrested and tried according to the law.
• Rus Wang discussed the pilot cities’ reforms with the chancellor, who reported that the cabinet had prepared a nationwide planned economy.
• Rus Wang approved converting private enterprises into state-owned enterprises and setting hourly wages starting at three copper coins.
• Toriya realized the government had delayed action while testing the reforms, and Rus Wang explained the need for cautious, stable policies.

As Levant Year 299 ended, the Elf Kingdom celebrated three centuries of rapid development under Rus Wang and set plans to expand its railway network across the northern Zheer Continent. The chapter leaves the kingdom welcoming Levant’s fourth century as Rus Wang began his New Year’s radio address.

• The elves celebrated the new year as the kingdom marked its transition from tribal society to an industrial age, and the cabinet planned to extend railways throughout the continent’s north.
• Rus Wang approved fifteen-year prime ministerial terms, limited to two consecutive terms, and allowed Ulysses Taylor to seek a second term.
• At a Construction Corps camp, Henderson received a delivery of fireworks from Hank as the workers prepared to celebrate the new century.
• The Construction Corps camp’s residents celebrated with a feast and sang “Drifting Rootless Grass.”
• Rus Wang watched fireworks with his family, then began a New Year’s address broadcast across the Elf Kingdom and its settlements.

Ulides and Toriya dealt with concerns about the Star Luo Empire’s intelligence efforts and the growing attention around Toriya’s friends. Star Luo agents discovered the Elves’ role in disrupting supply lines but postponed investigating them, leaving the Elves aware that they had been noticed.

• Rus Wang reported that Star Luo intelligence was investigating Shrek members of the Spirit Pagoda and their Soul Tool trade with the Indigenous People.
• Ulides discussed Irwin’s new Titled Douluo status and explained how he had dealt with her involvement in the Holy Dragon Church.
• Venicia told Toriya that strangers were visiting her family and pressuring her for access to the princess.
• Toriya asked Irwin to investigate the people approaching Venicia and warned Venicia that others now saw her as a close aide.
• A Star Luo intelligence agent reported that disguised long-eared humans and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had disrupted army supply lines, but his superior prioritized stopping Soul Tool smuggling.
• The Grey Feather Division in Dragon Valley Forest received a message that the Star Luo People had started noticing the Elves.

After the Star Luo People noticed the Elves, Rus Wang ordered an investigation into whether military observers had compromised their secrecy in Dragon Valley Forest. Ulides Roderick and Massena selected Thranduil Frederick to lead the inquiry, and a black Soul Guidance Car arrived at her manor to notify her.

• Rus Wang ordered the military and Grey Feather Division to investigate the Dragon Valley Forest observation teams and punish any personnel who had broken regulations.
• Ulides Roderick and Massena discussed how to investigate without disrupting Dragon Valley Forest or the Black Water River front, while also checking for involvement by human gods.
• Ulides proposed Thranduil Frederick, citing her military service, Grey Feather Division record, Dragon connections, and Titled Douluo status.
• Massena agreed to submit Thranduil's name, and Rus Wang approved her appointment to lead the investigation.
• A few hours later, a black Soul Guidance Car pulled up in front of Thranduil's manor to notify her.

Thranduil received orders to investigate a major security leak at Dragon Valley Forest and traveled there to question the officers responsible. She arrived to find Riven, Elion, and Stias awaiting the investigation, but they could not explain how their hidden observation post had been exposed.

• Thranduil left her estate after receiving urgent orders from Ulides and learned she would need to use the military’s space-transmission array.
• She read a top-secret dossier about the leak and took a ring that allowed the Light Dragon King and Rus Wang to observe the situation in real time.
• Riven, Elion, and Stias discussed how their concealed underground observation post had been exposed, despite its Dragon Clan Rune Array and lack of visible human intruders.
• Riven learned that the Grey Feather Division investigator had arrived and went with Elion and Stias to the military teleportation array.
• Thranduil emerged from the array, surprised Riven, and asked her and the other officers to cooperate with the investigation.

Thranduil investigated the leak of military personnel photos and found that the rune inscription records were intact, pointing to the underground observation post as the likely source. When the teleportation array failed and a human Titled Douluo approached, Thranduil prepared for battle while the Light Dragon King warned Rus Wang to be ready to lead the Dragon Clan Committee.

• Thranduil inspected the outpost’s rune inscription facilities and confirmed that the leaked personnel appeared in the unaltered Image Recording Stone records.
• Elion told Thranduil that Grey Feather Division agents and a Crimson Fire Dragon were stationed at the underground observation post, so she ordered Riven, Elion, Stias, and Scher to join her investigation there.
• The Light Dragon King concluded that the leaked images came from an Image Recording Stone inside the observation post and suspected interference from the Divine Realm.
• The Light Dragon King told Rus Wang that he would put the Dragon Clan Committee under Rus Wang’s command and warned that the gods had disabled the Dragon Clan Rune Array for teleportation.
• After the Grey Feather Division reported the array failure and a human Titled Douluo’s approach, Thranduil told Riven, Elion, and Stias to prepare for battle.
• Dai Ruoheng flew alone to a mountain fifteen kilometers behind the battlefield and struck it with her Martial Soul Avatar.

Dai Ruoheng uncovered Thranduil and her allies hiding inside a mountain and ordered her Star Luo guard to capture them. Thranduil defeated Dai Ruoheng’s first attack with a Dragonflame Alloy shield and spear, and both sides charged into battle.

• Dai Ruoheng discovered the hidden elves, dragons, and Soul Beasts after the mountain was shattered, recognizing them from spy agency intelligence.
• The Light Dragon King warned Thranduil that Dai Ruoheng might have been secretly empowered by a god, so Thranduil planned to retreat with Riven and Scher.
• Dai Ruoheng ordered her forces to capture the unfamiliar group and attacked Thranduil in her White Tiger True Body.
• Thranduil met Dai Ruoheng’s attack with a Dragonflame Alloy shield and spear, knocking her back and breaking her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Dai Ruoheng’s guard rushed toward Thranduil, and Riven, Scher, and the other allies charged to defend her.