Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy’s main force escaped its pursuers by hiding in tunnels excavated with a new soul tool, while Eunuch Gao watched from the forest and prepared to bring Fan Yu together with his wife. The chapter left the group underground and safe for the moment, but under unseen surveillance.

• Ning Tian reassured Nan Qiuqiu that Nan Shuishui would return safely, while privately reflecting on her alliance with Huo Yuhao.
• Netherworld Douluo’s Evil Soul Masters were ambushed with soul cannon fire, and the attack gave Shrek Academy’s main force time to disappear.
• The main force hid in tunnels alongside Fan Yu, the missing Soul Tool Department teachers and students, and Soul Engineers from the three empires.
• Fan Yu explained that Shrek Academy’s digging soul tool, developed from Huo Yuhao’s tunnel tactic, had excavated the underground escape route.
• Xu Jiujiu, Tu Xijun, and the Heaven Dou representative sought to buy the digging soul tools, but Fan Yu declined.
• Eunuch Gao watched from the forest and said it was time to reunite Fan Yu with his wife.

The retreating forces were trapped by a blood-red mist, and Fan Yu encountered Zhou Yi’s soul. Zhou Yi asked him to leave with her, while Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier warned that she was dangerous.

• The main force continued through the underground passage as Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, Fan Yu, and others guarded the rear.
• A blood-red aura and thickening mist surrounded the group, and Cai Meier urged everyone to protect the passage entrance.
• Fan Yu recognized Zhou Yi emerging from the mist and tried to approach her, but Xian Lin'er restrained him.
• Cai Meier identified the figure as Zhou Yi’s soul and warned Xian Lin'er that it was terrifying.
• Fan Yu wept and apologized for failing to avenge Zhou Yi, who comforted him and asked him to come away with her.

Fan Yu chose to face Zhou Yi alone, sealing the passage so the others could not interfere, and vowed to avenge her before helping her find release. Eunuch Gao ambushed and killed Fan Yu, leaving Zhou Yi in the underground space.

• Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier prepared to take Fan Yu away from Zhou Yi, but Fan Yu asked to stay and see his wife off himself.
• Fan Yu convinced Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier to retreat, then used a Soul Guidance Cannon to collapse the passage entrance and keep them from returning.
• Cai Meier stopped Xian Lin'er from trying to rescue Fan Yu, arguing that he had already resolved to die and that they should respect his choice.
• Fan Yu told Zhou Yi he would help her find release after taking revenge on the person controlling her soul.
• Eunuch Gao appeared behind Fan Yu, pierced his chest, and tore out his heart, killing him.

Ye Xishui protected Tang Ya from Long Xiaoyao and urged her to seek Xu Tiancheng’s favor in exchange for security and power. Tang Ya accepted Ye Xishui as her master and agreed to use her beauty to gain the Sun Moon Emperor’s attention.

• Long Xiaoyao confronted Ye Xishui for stopping him from taking Tang Ya, then decided to save Bei Bei while warning that Tang Ya must not use him again.
• After Long Xiaoyao left, Tang Ya thanked Ye Xishui, who revealed that she was the Holy Spirit Cult’s Grand Elder, Death God.
• Ye Xishui advised Tang Ya to build her value to Xu Tiancheng and pursue the Sun Moon Xu Family Team’s stronger methods.
• Ye Xishui told Tang Ya that her beauty was the main leverage she could use with Xu Tiancheng, and Tang Ya agreed to do so.
• Ye Xishui offered to help Tang Ya and invited her to become her disciple, and Tang Ya accepted.

After Fan Yu’s sacrifice, Shrek Academy’s group reached the tunnel’s escape route, where Xian Lin’er discovered an enemy outside. The enemy collapsed the passage, burying most of the main force, and Zhou Yi appeared among the ghosts surrounding the survivors.

• Xian Lin’er and Cai Meier led the grieving group toward the backup escape route while Zhang Lexuan told the black-robed figure that Duke White Tiger’s Mansion might have been behind Zhou Yi’s death.
• Xian Lin’er opened the exit, saw a pair of eyes, and rushed outside to attack the hidden enemy.
• Cai Meier found Fan Yu’s severed head by the exit and realized the enemy knew their escape route, but the ground collapsed before she could warn everyone in time.
• Zhang Lexuan carried those near the exit to the surface, while Man Yi and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s Titled Douluo blasted escape routes for several teams; more than seventy percent of the main force remained buried.
• Ghostly qi darkened the sky, and Zhou Yi led a host of ghosts out of the forest toward the survivors.

Zhou Yi confronted Shrek Academy over her past expulsion and attacked Xian Lin'er, revealing that she had reached Titled Douluo strength. As blood-red ghosts swarmed the battlefield, Huo Yuhao watched from a distant mountain with Eunuch Gao, who explained how he had created the Blood Qi Souls.

• Zhou Yi denied being controlled and blamed Shrek Academy for her humiliation and death, threatening to kill its people and later attack Mu Jin.
• Xian Lin'er attacked Zhou Yi with Dragon Descends Upon the World, but Zhou Yi transformed through Blood Slaughter Red Dragon possession and stopped and flung her spear aside.
• Zhou Yi revealed nine blood-red soul rings, while Zhang Lexuan identified them as rings condensed from blood and souls.
• Blood-red ghosts surged from the Forest Sea, and Cai Meier, Zhang Lexuan, and the others fought them as Xian Lin'er and Zhou Yi clashed with flames.
• Huo Yuhao praised the Blood Qi Souls from a distant mountain, and Eunuch Gao explained how he had created them to strengthen the Blood Slaughter Orb.

Huo Yuhao received Fan Yu’s soul from Eunuch Gao and sent it to the Hao Emperor Banner, while Zhou Yi fought Xian Lin'er as a Blood Slaughter Evil Soul. Xian Lin'er opened a path through the encirclement so Shrek Academy’s people could escape.

• Eunuch Gao explained that Blood Slaughter Evil Souls could be mass-produced and that Zhou Yi had become a powerful, rational Blood Slaughter Red Dragon.
• Huo Yuhao sent Fan Yu’s sleeping soul into the Hao Emperor Banner to reunite him with He Caitou, then burned Zhou Yi and Fan Yu’s old love letters.
• Wu Feng noticed that Zhou Yi’s Blood Slaughter Red Dragon Martial Soul resembled her own Red Dragon Martial Soul, while Ning Tian urged their team to flee.
• Zhou Yi used her ninth Dragon Soul Skill against Xian Lin'er, and the two fighters were sent flying apart.
• Xian Lin'er combined her Azure Flame Overlord Body with Dragon Descends Upon the World, then blasted a gap in the encirclement for Shrek Academy’s group to escape.

Huo Yuhao’s forces broke the ambush and scattered the fleeing army, while Huo Yuhao left with Zhou Yi in her transformed dragon form. Nan Shuishui wounded Zhongli Wu with Annihilation Light and escaped using Jade Transformation Flight.

• More than two hundred people escaped the Blood Qi Souls’ ambush, and Huo Yuhao ordered Eunuch Gao to stop pursuing them and handle those left behind.
• Zhou Yi returned to her normal appearance and submitted to Huo Yuhao, who rode away on her transformed Blood Slaughter Red Dragon body.
• Nan Shuishui’s Jade Dragon Clone shattered, leaving her to face Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King.
• Nan Shuishui struck Zhongli Wu’s arm with Annihilation Light, forcing him to expel its lingering power before it could cripple him.
• Nan Shuishui turned her body into jade and flew away with Jade Transformation Flight, leaving Zhongli Wu unable to catch her.

After the evacuation force scattered, Xu Jiujiu rallied the surviving Star Luo Empire group and led them onto a new route south, suspecting Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers had leaked the original paths. The Heaven Dou Empire group instead headed north and reunited with the Body Sect, while Long Aotian suspected Huo Yuhao had orchestrated the events.

• Xu Jiujiu reassured the surviving Star Luo Empire group that Man Yi and the hidden Zhu Family could protect them, then raised the possibility that recruited Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers had exposed their tunnel route.
• Xu Jiujiu promised to lead the survivors safely home and chose a new evacuation route south toward the Star Luo Empire border.
• The Heaven Dou Empire group traveled north and encountered the Body Sect, whose elder promised to protect them despite their heavy losses.
• Yu Mengdi vowed to take revenge on the Evil Soul Masters and Sun Moon Empire, then worried about Huo Yuhao's safety.
• Long Aotian suspected Huo Yuhao was behind the ambush and the Heavenly Soul Bai Family's survival, but decided it did not concern him.

Ning Tian organized the Dou Ling Empire survivors to escape by sea, while Huo Yuhao directed Zhou Yi and eight Holy Spirit Cult elders to relentlessly pursue Shrek Academy. The pressure helped Wang Dong break through, but Shrek Academy feared the pursuers intended to capture them alive.

• Hai Yunrui proposed that the survivors flee by sea, and Ning Tian chose a western Sun Moon Empire port as their destination.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that the Hai Family’s Sea God protection technique came from a tiny Snow Lotus he had left them.
• Huo Yuhao sent Zhou Yi and eight Holy Spirit Cult elders to harass Shrek Academy’s team and force them onward.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the elders he had gathered and considered collecting the remaining Holy Spirit Cult leaders and offerings.
• Wang Dong advanced to rank 63 under the pressure of repeated battles, while Hua Yao suspected the pursuers were trying to wear them down and capture them alive.

Huo Yuhao watched Shrek Academy’s group break through the ghosts and flee toward the West Mountain Range, where they stopped to rest. He recognized the mountains as the route to Qiankun Wenqing Valley and prepared to investigate the forbidden area as Shrek’s exhausted survivors began keeping watch.

• Zhang Lexuan used her Soul Core’s power and Moonlight Meteor to blast aside an Evil Soul Elder, opening a path for Shrek Academy’s group.
• Wang Dong led the Main Team forward while the teachers and senior students held back Zhou Yi and the other Holy Spirit Cult elders.
• Huo Yuhao identified the distant Qiankun Wenqing Valley and said he would investigate the forbidden area, while the Evil Emperor warned him to be careful.
• Shrek Academy’s group fled into the West Mountain Range near Mingdu and found no sign that the Evil Soul Masters had followed.
• Xian Lin'er ordered the group to take turns keeping watch and rest, then began the first watch beneath the dark sky.

Huo Yuhao and his companions planned how to exploit Qiankun Wenqing Valley and its Love God's Inheritance. After Electrolux rejected the godhood, Huo Yuhao's group waited near West Mountain until the valley opened.

• Electrolux explained that Qiankun Wenqing Valley was a dangerous place of God Inheritance, and Jin Qiuer and Golden Xuanwu argued over who might be suited to receive it.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm proposed sending Huo Yuhao's disguised stand-in and Wang Dong through the plot first, then secretly entering to claim whatever remained.
• Huo Yuhao said the God Realm could not retrieve everything remotely and planned to consume the Love God's divine power to bypass the trials and pursue the godhood.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux whether he wanted the Love God's inheritance, but Electrolux refused and returned to the Hao Emperor Banner.
• Huo Yuhao led the group to surround West Mountain and wait; at sunrise, Qiankun Wenqing Valley opened.

Shrek Academy’s party was trapped in the forest and swept into Qiankun Wenqing Valley, where a mysterious love trial began. Huo Yuhao observed the changed trial from outside, while its first participant was killed for answering that he had no one he loved.

• Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier investigated after Shrek Academy’s party repeatedly returned to the same place, but found no soul skill or soul tool formation causing the trap.
• Golden and silver light engulfed the party, carrying them through dense fog to Qiankun Wenqing Valley, where they were then separated inside bubbles in the lake.
• A voice announced that the trial of asking about love had begun, and Huo Yuhao noted that everyone had been drawn in despite changes from the original events.
• The first participant, a Fourth Level Soul Engineer, was asked whether he loved someone and answered that he did not.
• The voice declared him loveless, and he exploded into a mist of blood as the others watched in horror.

People trapped in bubbles faced a deadly truth-or-dare trial, and Hua Yao realized honest answers could let them leave. The trial reached Shrek Academy’s teams, beginning with Ou Ou.

• The first three contestants died after lying or refusing to answer whether they loved someone.
• A man truthfully named his lover, Yu Zhu, and they both chose not to continue the trial, allowing them to leave together.
• Hua Yao recognized the third question as a test of whether couples could make matching choices, while many trapped contestants lacked partners.
• A contestant who admitted he loved cultivation was allowed to leave, and Cai Meier concluded that the first question demanded an honest answer.
• Other contestants escaped by declaring what they genuinely loved, including Soul Tools and unusual personal interests.
• Ou Ou became the first member of Shrek Academy’s Main Team and Reserve Team to face the question and answered that he had someone he loved.

Ou Ou declared her love for Huo Yuhao and agreed to sacrifice herself to heal him, while Huo Yuhao realized the questions were part of God King Tang’s scheme. Huo Yuhao’s consciousness emerged from the Ice Coffin and vowed to sacrifice himself rather than let his lover be harmed, leaving the coffin trembling in a burst of light.

• Ou Ou named Huo Yuhao as her lover and agreed to give up her life for a chance to heal him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Little Mutated Frost Centipede to learn what was happening and deduced that God King Tang intended to sacrifice the women connected to him to create an opening for Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao sent his consciousness mental body out of the Ice Coffin and thanked Ou Ou and the others for their love.
• Huo Yuhao declared that he would sacrifice himself rather than let his lover suffer or die for him.
• Ou Ou rushed toward the Ice Coffin, but its light blasted her away as the coffin rose and began to tremble.

Huo Yuhao survived the Little Mutated Frost Centipede’s explosion and earned the right to take part in Qiankun Wenqing Valley’s God of Love trial, though his impure love disqualified him from inheriting the Love God Seat. The trial drew twelve women connected to him onto the platform, and Huo Yuhao learned the rewards for his Red Trial.

• Huo Yuhao’s Light Explosion Technique triggered the Little Mutated Frost Centipede’s self-destruction, but Qiankun Wenqing Valley protected him and recognized his sacrifice.
• Qiankun Wenqing Valley allowed Huo Yuhao to continue the trial but barred him from the final test and the Love God Seat because his love was not pure.
• The trial summoned twelve women who loved Huo Yuhao, including Xian Lin'er, whose appearance shocked the others.
• The trial marked Huo Yuhao with a golden sun and the women with silver moons, then gave them its instructions.
• Huo Yuhao learned that his God of Love Red Trial required him to receive love from all his lovers and make the God of Love Flower bloom, with recovery, a divine skill, and a God-given Soul Ring as rewards.

Huo Yuhao and the women learned the ranks, requirements, and rewards of their God of Love Trials, then Xian Lin'er admitted her complicated relationship with Huo Yuhao and her estranged marriage to Duoduo. The group remained trapped on the platform, needing to complete their trials before they could leave.

• Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wei Na revealed their Red Trials and rewards, while the Seven Jades described their Black Trials and Zhang Lexuan shared hers.
• Xian Lin'er hesitated under the women’s suspicious gazes, and Zhang Lexuan took her hand and urged her to explain after they escaped.
• Xian Lin'er admitted she had wronged Duoduo, said their marriage existed in name only, and promised to accept responsibility for what happened with Huo Yuhao.
• Xian Lin'er revealed her Black Trial rewarded her with a fifteen-thousand-year increase to her ninth soul ring, prompting Cai Meier to realize it could become a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Cai Meier reflected on Xian Lin'er's concealed relationship with Huo Yuhao and decided she would bring Yan Shaozhe to the trial in the future.

Huo Yuhao and the women completed the God of Love’s assessment by confessing their love aloud, causing the God of Love Flower to bloom far beyond its original size. As Zhang Lexuan stepped forward, the black-robed figure in the bubble finally took notice.

• Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao confessed their love, turning the flower bud pink and raising its blooming progress to seventy percent.
• Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao exchanged heartfelt confessions, making the flower bloom and bringing its progress to one hundred and forty-two percent.
• Wei Na and Huo Yuhao confessed their love, raising the blooming progress to two hundred and thirteen percent.
• The Seven Jades each confessed to Huo Yuhao, and the flower’s progress climbed to six hundred and sixty-seven percent as it grew into a bouquet of sixty-six roses.
• The women and onlookers reacted to the confessions, and Zhang Lexuan stepped forward while the black-robed figure watched her seriously.

Zhang Lexuan and Xian Lin'er confessed their love for Huo Yuhao, raising the God of Love Flower's blooming degree and completing the test beyond its requirements. The test awarded everyone powerful rewards as golden and silver light enveloped the platform.

• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao she loved him and wanted to face the future by his side, while revealing her former betrothal to Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao promised to face the future with Zhang Lexuan, and their love raised the God of Love Flower to seventy-seven blossoms and a blooming degree of 736 percent.
• Bei Bei clapped in support of Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao, explaining that he regarded Zhang Lexuan as family and had already ended their betrothal.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xian Lin'er to come with him, and she accepted, raising the flower to eighty-eight blossoms and a blooming degree of 801 percent.
• The God of Love test ended and awarded everyone a God of Love Cleansing, a fifty-thousand-year-level Soul Bone or External Soul Bone, fifty percent greater Soul Power compatibility, and fifty additional years of lifespan.
• Golden and silver radiance enveloped the platform and swallowed Huo Yuhao and the others.

Huo Yuhao and the women completed the God of Love’s Baptism, gaining divine skills, soul rewards, improved compatibility, and extended lifespans before choosing to watch the next trials. Xiao Xiao confessed her love to Wang Dong, and the chapter ended as he was about to answer whether he accepted it.

• The Baptism healed the Little Mutated Frost Centipede, granted it the God of Love skill First Encounter in Life, and gave Huo Yuhao hidden soul rewards and a Soul Bone.
• The God of Love’s Power improved the group’s spiritual power and Soul Power compatibility, while its lifespan reward made the women look younger.
• The women celebrated Huo Yuhao’s recovered injuries, and he urged them to remain cautious and stay to watch the remaining trials.
• Cao Jinxuan passed his trial and left safely after saying he had no one he loved.
• Xiao Xiao told the questioning voice that she loved Wang Dong, prompting Wang Dong to descend to the platform.
• Xiao Xiao admitted to Wang Dong that her feelings were one-sided, then waited for him to answer whether he accepted her love.