Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianran rallied his loyal guards and launched a night raid on the Third Prince’s chambers to avenge the betrayal that had left him crippled. He ordered his brother’s branch executed and everyone in the palace killed, leaving the imperial palace awash in blood.

• The grand tutor told Xu Tianran that nobles would support his claim if he proved his worth by seeking justice for himself.
• Xu Tianran gathered his black-armored guards, warned them they might die, and led them to raid the Third Prince’s chambers.
• Xu Tianran confronted the Third Prince, who denied responsibility and recalled how Xu Tianran had once taken the blame for him.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Third Prince’s branch put to death by a thousand cuts and commanded that no one in the palace be left alive.
• Xu Tianran’s guards slaughtered the people in the chambers, covering the palace in blood.

Xu Tianran used the aftermath of Xu Mo’s execution to make the nobles believe he had broken with the Emperor and would become their puppet. After he revealed his breakthrough to Spirit Douluo, the Emperor rewarded him and gave him authority to deal with Xu Mo’s faction, leaving Xu Tianran poised to use the court’s conflict to his advantage.

• Xu Tianran publicly claimed Xu Mo had plotted to assassinate him and that he had executed him after Xu Mo resisted.
• Dai Mubai judged that Xu Tianran was forcing himself into a corner to gain the nobles’ support, while Bibi Dong admired his resolve.
• Nobles submitted memorials supporting Xu Tianran and pressuring the Emperor, as Xu Tianran secretly waited for their conflict to peak.
• News broke that Xu Tianran had become an eight-ring Spirit Douluo, nearing the Titled Douluo realm.
• The Emperor praised Xu Tianran, granted him rare metals, Soul Tools, and more guards, and authorized him to deal with Xu Mo’s accomplices.

After securing his position as crown prince, Xu Tianran secretly built alliances and used the court’s contempt to obtain permission to form the all-female Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion under Ju Zi. The chapter ended with Xu Tianran receiving the Holy Spirit Cult’s agreement and preparing to meet them.

• Xu Tianran reflected on his fragile position and began entertaining the nobles who had supported him, hiding his ambitions behind a show of triumph.
• Xu Tianran secretly persuaded his cousin Xu Tianyuan, commander of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion, to ignore certain orders when the time came.
• At court, Xu Tianran requested permission to establish a Soul Engineer Legion for his protection, naming it Fire Phoenix and appointing his maid Ju Zi as commander.
• The nobles mocked Xu Tianran’s proposal as an indulgence, then supported it, and the emperor granted permission.
• A black-robed messenger delivered the Holy Spirit Cult’s reply, and Xu Tianran burned the scroll after reading their agreement.

Xu Tianran negotiated an alliance with Holy Spirit Cult leader Zhongli Wu, offering the cult power and souls in exchange for help claiming the Sun Moon Empire’s throne. Zhongli Wu accepted and agreed to accompany Xu Tianran to the East Palace, where Xu promised to provide his first victims.

• Xu Tianran met Zhongli Wu alone in a ruined temple, and Zhongli Wu questioned what the Crown Prince could offer despite his disability.
• Zhongli Wu attacked Xu Tianran with his evil spiritual power, but the Purple Radiant Heaven-Slaying Dragon’s might shattered the assault and made him wary.
• Xu Tianran offered to make the Holy Spirit Cult the empire’s protector sect and later its state religion if it helped him become emperor.
• Xu Tianran promised that his ambition to unify the continent would bring the Holy Spirit Cult vast numbers of souls through war.
• Xu Tianran invited Zhongli Wu to the East Palace to deal with political enemies and offer their souls, and Zhongli Wu accepted the alliance.

Xu Tianran allied with the Holy Spirit Cult and used its help to purge his opponents, strengthen his military power, and secure the Sun Moon Empire. The chapter ended with him appointed Regent Prince and Ju Zi named Regent Princess.

• Xu Tianran accepted Zhongli Wu's offer to join forces with the Holy Spirit Cult, alarming viewers across the continent.
• The Holy Spirit Cult killed officials and nobles who opposed Xu Tianran, while he filled their vacant positions with loyalists.
• Xu Tianran obtained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, became a Titled Douluo, and used the Holy Spirit Cult to eliminate disobedient nobles.
• Ju Zi's Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion grew alongside the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion as Xu Tianran regained control of the Empire's power.
• The ailing Emperor appointed Xu Tianran Regent Prince and granted Ju Zi the title of Regent Princess.

The Sky Screen revealed Xu Tianran’s plan to kill the dying emperor and use a bombing in Ming Capital to seize full control of the Sun Moon Empire. Once his plans were exposed, Xu Tianran launched his coup ahead of schedule, ordering a lockdown and directing Ju Zi to take control of military strongholds.

• A massive explosion caused by Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs devastated western Ming Capital on the night the tournament ended.
• Xu Tianran told the dying emperor that he would be remembered as a martyr, then watched as his father died.
• Ju Zi realized Xu Tianran had used his own father as a pawn and felt fear at his ruthlessness.
• Xu Tianran ordered the imperial palace and Ming Capital sealed and told the guard commander to inform Zhongli Wu that their game had begun early.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to mobilize the Fire Phoenix and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legions and seize military strongholds, killing anyone who resisted.

At the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, Xu Tianran arrived in the Golden Hall as officials demanded his execution or removal from the succession, but Sky Screen prevented an attack on him. As the old emperor faced the growing crisis, Sky Screen revealed the three reasons Xu Tianran had made the list.

• The old emperor listened as nobles urged him to strip Xu Tianran of his title, while Kong Deming silently protected the Golden Hall with his spiritual force.
• Ju Zi brought Xu Tianran into the hall, where he calmly faced the officials’ accusations of patricide, treason, and collusion with Evil Soul Masters.
• A grand duke attacked Xu Tianran, but Sky Screen’s protective barrier repelled the blow and threw the attacker back, leaving him injured.
• An old minister and most of the officials demanded Xu Tianran’s removal, citing his ruined legs and inability to produce an heir; Xu Tianran’s composure gave way to killing intent.
• Sky Screen’s images vanished and it announced that Xu Tianran had murdered his brother and kin, deceived the world with feigned virtue, and murdered his father to seize the throne and expand his territory.

The Sky Screen evaluated Xu Tianran’s crimes and ambitions, granting him the title Dragon-Snake Transformation before imposing Annihilation Punishment. As the punishment repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt his body, Xu Tianran remained defiant and vowed inwardly to return.

• The Sky Screen revealed accusations that Xu Tianran had murdered his brother, deceived the world with false virtue, and killed his father to seize the throne.
• The Sky Screen praised Xu Tianran’s ambition while condemning his disloyalty and cruelty, then granted him the title Dragon-Snake Transformation.
• The Sky Screen declared that Xu Tianran’s merits and crimes offset each other and sentenced him to Annihilation Punishment.
• Xu Tianran’s Purple Radiant Heaven-Slaying Dragon turned against him, and its destructive power blasted Ju Zi away when she tried to reach him.
• Violet-gold flames began destroying and rebuilding Xu Tianran’s body, while the old emperor watched with conflicted sorrow.
• Xu Tianran endured the agony without begging for mercy and stared toward the dragon throne, convinced he would return.

Xu Tianran survived the Destruction Origin’s punishment, regained his body, and emerged with a purified martial soul and level-ninety-five strength. With Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult behind him, he secured authority over the state as his father agreed to abdicate.

• Xu Tianran vanished inside the violet-gold cocoon, then reappeared transformed as his Purple Radiant Heaven-Slaying Dragon martial soul gained a living soul.
• Xu Tianran stood from his wheelchair and revealed nine Soul Rings, including a powerful hundred-thousand-year ring, while reaching level ninety-five.
• Zhongli Wu appeared in the Golden Hall and congratulated Xu Tianran, then withdrew at Xu Tianran’s gesture.
• Xu Tianran told the emperor and ministers that he was fit to remain Crown Prince and that the Sky Screen had shown only a possible future.
• The emperor declared that Xu Tianran would oversee state affairs and announced his eventual abdication; Xu Tianran accepted the decree with a formal salute.

Xu Tianran emerged from the Sky Screen’s destruction as the Sun Moon Empire’s cold-blooded emperor, while Ju Zi watched with fear. In Mingde Hall, Ji Xuan collected rewards that greatly strengthened him and then tried to persuade the Snow Empress Embryo to become his Myriad Manifestations Mirror’s soul spirit.

• Xu Tianran descended from the Golden Hall’s dais as the empire’s new master, and Ju Zi collapsed, unsettled by the man he had become.
• Ji Xuan settled the accumulated rewards for exposing Yu Xiaogang and Xu Tianran, raising his spiritual power to the Half-Step Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Ji Xuan received the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff as his second martial soul and gained its Domination Domain.
• Ji Xuan’s Mirror martial soul evolved into the Myriad Manifestations Mirror.
• Ji Xuan poured his spiritual power into the God Sealing Platform, awakening the Snow Empress Embryo and proposing that she become his Mirror’s soul spirit.

Ji Xuan subdued Snow Empress and persuaded her to become his intelligent soul spirit, promising partnership and the possibility of immortality. Their fusion transformed him into a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor and awakened his domain, leaving him ready to open more ranks as a continent-wide storm approached.

• Snow Empress tried to destroy herself, but Ji Xuan used the Ice Heart Art to calm her and counter her attack.
• Ji Xuan told Snow Empress that her origin was collapsing and offered her rebirth as his intelligent soul spirit, promising they would share his path to godhood.
• Snow Empress accepted on the condition that they remain equal partners, and Ji Xuan released the God Sealing Platform's restrictions so she could enter the Myriad Manifestations Mirror.
• Snow Empress's power transformed Ji Xuan, raised his Soul Power to Level 40, and gave him two additional 100,000-Year Soul Rings.
• Ji Xuan awakened the Fleeting Life, Myriad Manifestations, Mirror Flower Fate domain and called on the system to open more ranks.

After Xu Tianran rose to power as a level ninety-five Title Douluo, Shrek Academy’s elders debated how to respond and summoned Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to accelerate the Extreme Individual Soldier Plan. The Sky Screen then ranked Xu He fifth among the top ten hypocrites, and He Caitou recognized the name he had buried as the former Crown Prince.

• Xuanzi and the Sea God Pavilion elders feared Xu Tianran’s new power and argued over alliances and striking first.
• Xuanzi ordered word sent to the three Douluo kingdoms and summoned Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to advance the Extreme Individual Soldier Plan.
• The Sky Screen returned and revealed Xu He as fifth on the Top Ten Hypocrites List.
• Former Sun Moon Empire court elders recognized Xu He as the former Crown Prince and reacted with terror.
• He Caitou recognized Xu He as his abandoned, buried name and was overwhelmed by shock, shame, and confusion.

The Sky Screen exposed He Caitou as Xu He, the former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire, shocking Huo Yuhao and the Sea God Pavilion while revealing Shrek had built its plan around him. Xu Tianran saw the revelation as a chance to deflect blame, and public support for Xu He began to rise before the Sky Screen portrayed him as a monster consumed by hatred and desire.

• The Sky Screen revealed that He Caitou was Xu He, former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and the Sea God Pavilion members reacted with shock, while Xuanzi and another elder revealed they had long known Xu He's identity and Shrek had centered the Extreme Individual Soldier Plan on him.
• Xu Tianran saw Xu He's exposure as an opportunity to make himself seem less culpable for colluding with Evil Soul Masters.
• Sun Moon Empire citizens, especially elders who remembered the former dynasty, called for Xu He to return and reclaim the throne.
• The Sky Screen shifted to describe Xu He as a monster twisted by hatred and corroded by desire.

The Sky Screen exposed He Caitou, revealed as Xu He, as a traitor who planned to use Shrek Academy’s training to destroy the Sun Moon Empire and punish its people. The citizens’ support for his return turned to hatred, while Shrek Academy faced accusations of plotting to infiltrate and dismantle the empire.

• The Sky Screen named He Caitou as Xu He and accused him of bringing disaster upon the nation and taking revenge on its people.
• The Sky Screen showed young Xu He escaping a coup before Fan Yu brought him to Shrek Academy, where young Xuanzi offered to train him as a weapon against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Young Xu He agreed to infiltrate the empire and help destroy it, believing its people deserved death for submitting to the usurper.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Xu He’s revenge extended to the entire empire and its people, prompting citizens to curse him and reject his return.
• Xu Tianran welcomed the reversal in public opinion, while people condemned Shrek Academy for using its Extreme Individual Soldier Plan to train a spy.

The Sky Screen revealed Huo Yuhao, Xu He, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er bombing Ming Capital No. 7 Underground Transfer Warehouse, triggering a catastrophe that destroyed nearly a quarter of the city. The Scourge List ranked the Ming Capital Explosion fourth and named the five as responsible figures.

• The Sky Screen began explaining its second charge and showed He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao's Humanoid Soul Tool stealing rare metals from an underground warehouse.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Xu He to plant bombs and destroy the warehouse after the group cleared out its rare metals.
• Kong Deming recognized the site as Ming Capital No. 7 Underground Transfer Warehouse, connected to Mingde Hall's weapons depot and its stockpile of sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the group to retreat, and the bombs detonated, destroying nearly a quarter of Ming Capital and killing countless people.
• The Sky Screen named the catastrophe Sun-Moonless Destruction Day and ranked the Ming Capital Explosion fourth on the Scourge List, listing Huo Yuhao, Xu He, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er.

The Sky Screen exposed Huo Yuhao, Xu He, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er as responsible for the Ming Capital Explosion, prompting horror and condemnation across the continent. It showed Xuanzi fleeing with Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, then Bei Bei trying to shield the Tang Sect and academy from blame, before He Caitou dismissed the disaster as people thinking too much.

• The Sky Screen named Huo Yuhao, Xu He, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er as the culprits behind the Ming Capital Explosion, leaving Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao terrified and Xuanzi privately pleased.
• Xu Tianran raged at Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy but welcomed the exposure as a way to regain the people's support.
• The Sky Screen showed Xuanzi fleeing Ming Capital with Huo Yuhao and He Caitou and ordering them to conceal their role, provoking condemnation of Shrek Academy.
• At West Mountain, Huo Yuhao admitted his role, Wang Dong'er defended the attack as a way to stop the war, and Bei Bei claimed responsibility while asking the academy to expel him and the Tang Sect members.
• He Caitou shrugged off the disaster, saying that it had already happened and nobody knew they were responsible, shocking the viewers.

The Sky Screen showed He Caitou defending the destruction of Ming Capital’s underground warehouse with claims that the blast could only have spread upward, while Huo Yuhao and their companions accepted his reasoning. Huo Yuhao set aside his guilt and declared that he did not regret the deaths, provoking fury across both eras.

• He Caitou claimed the underground warehouses’ thick defenses would have confined the explosion and insisted the casualties could not have reached a third of Ming Capital’s population.
• Jing Hongchen and the Soul Engineers at Mingde Hall condemned He Caitou’s analysis as ignorant and absurd.
• Xiao Xiao praised He Caitou’s reasoning, and Huo Yuhao’s guilt began to fade.
• Jiang Nannan defended the massacre as a possible means of ending the war, angering people watching the Sky Screen.
• Huo Yuhao apologized to Ming Capital, asked for time to prepare for peace, and declared that he did not regret his actions.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi tried to shift blame for the Ming Capital explosion onto the Body Sect, enraging its sect master, Du Busi. Du Busi ordered the sect to mobilize and declared war on Shrek Academy.

• Bei Bei said the Ming Capital incident had nothing to do with the Tang Sect and suggested the Body Sect was more suspicious.
• Xu Sanshi admitted he liked the idea of diverting blame, and Jiang Nannan called him and Bei Bei thick-skinned.
• Du Busi watched the Sky Screen and celebrated Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire suffering setbacks.
• After hearing Bei Bei implicate the Body Sect, Du Busi spat out his tea and destroyed his throne in fury.
• Du Busi summoned the Body Sect's elders and disciples, declared the sect irreconcilable enemies with Shrek Academy, and vowed to storm Shrek.

The Sky Screen judged Xu He for betraying the Sun Moon Empire and killing innocents, then began his punishment in front of the Sea God Pavilion and viewers across both realms. Its first punishment transformed He Caitou into a fur-covered, ape-like beast while leaving his consciousness intact.

• The Sky Screen named Xu He “Human Face, Beast Heart” and condemned him for inviting enemies into his homeland and harming innocent people.
• The Sky Screen announced its judgment and declared that Xu He would be punished as citizens of the Sun Moon Empire cheered.
• A black-purple pillar of light struck He Caitou through the Sea God Pavilion’s defenses and triggered bloodline atavism.
• He Caitou transformed into a hulking, black-furred beast, remained conscious, and lost control of his body as he smashed the pavilion’s furnishings.
• Huo Yuhao and the other Shrek Seven Devils watched in horror while Sun Moon Empire citizens celebrated He Caitou’s transformation.

The Sky Screen made Xiao Xiao He Caitou’s only chance to regain human form, but she rejected him in terror and struck him with her cauldron. In another time and space, Er Ming became excited by He Caitou’s beastly appearance, forcing Da Ming to remind him that He Caitou was male.

• The Sky Screen revealed that Xiao Xiao had secretly admired Xu He and declared her and He Caitou fated lovers, saying their mutual connection could restore his human form.
• Xiao Xiao panicked and refused to be with He Caitou, while he approached her hopefully and begged for help.
• Xiao Xiao struck He Caitou with her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and shouted that she would never be with him.
• Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao, and the others watched the confrontation uneasily as viewers laughed at the pair’s punishment.
• At the Lake of Life, Er Ming excitedly admired He Caitou’s beast form until Da Ming told him to control himself because He Caitou was male.