Chapter Summaries

After Shrek’s destruction became known, the Holy Spirit Cult claimed responsibility and drew the continent’s attention with its three Limit Douluo. The Four Great Empires began secretly uniting against the cult, while Huo Yuhao decided it was time to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Foreign merchants discovered that Shrek City and Shrek Academy had been emptied and reduced to ruins, and the news spread across the Four Great Empires.
• The Holy Spirit Cult claimed it had destroyed Shrek, announced Zhongli Wu’s breakthrough to Limit Douluo, and called for Evil Soul Masters to join it in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Bei Bei returned to Shrek City, found only ruins, transformed into the Evil Dragon in grief, and left.
• The Four Great Empires agreed not to attack Evil Soul Masters unless they slaughtered people in cities, while secretly investigating the Holy Spirit Cult and coordinating against it.
• The Four Great Empires and other factions began sending teams east to rescue the Sea God Pavilion’s Supervision Group in the Dou Ling Empire, as Evil Soul Masters traveled west to the Sun Moon Empire.
• After learning of events through his outside clones, Huo Yuhao decided it was time to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

After reaching the accumulation needed to become a Level One God, Huo Yuhao checked on Shrek’s surviving companions and helped Jiang Nannan advance her God of Love trials. He planned to leave the Core Region, while the Silver Dragon King watched and decided to wait before interfering with Jiang Nannan’s inheritance.

• Huo Yuhao finished settling himself and prepared to leave the Core Region before attempting to become a Level One God.
• Huo Yuhao checked on Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Cai Meier, whose injuries and cultivation had improved, while Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier kept their distance from him.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Jiang Nannan had completed her fifth and sixth God of Love trials, bringing her compatibility to eighty percent, and gave her his battle-technique insights for her seventh trial.
• Huo Yuhao took the Golden Ancient Tree into his body in front of Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Jiang Nannan, then went to check on the Ferocious Beasts.
• The Silver Dragon King recognized Jiang Nannan as the God of Love’s successor and decided to keep waiting rather than interfere with her inheritance.

Huo Yuhao removed the Ultimate Ice he had left in Bi Ji’s heart, while secretly planting the Demon Buddha Method’s power inside her. Bi Ji thanked him with a Life Feather and invested her hopes in his promise to create a path to harmony between humans and soul beasts.

• Huo Yuhao offered to examine Bi Ji and remove the lingering harm from his earlier attack, and Bi Ji agreed to let him examine her without protection.
• Huo Yuhao dissolved the Ultimate Ice around Bi Ji’s heart and secretly strengthened the Demon Buddha Method’s influence within her body.
• Bi Ji recovered and explained the treatment to the Ten Thousand Demons King, who said Huo Yuhao was only making up for the harm he had caused.
• Huo Yuhao told Bi Ji that becoming a god could let him create a cultivation method that freed Human Soul Masters from relying on soul rings.
• Bi Ji gave Huo Yuhao her Life Feather, which contained a hundred-thousand-year Beast King’s Life Force, as thanks and an investment in his future.
• Huo Yuhao promised Bi Ji he would pursue a way for humans and soul beasts to coexist in harmony.

After Shrek’s destruction, Huo Yuhao left the Core Region to search for the missing Supervision Group and elders, while his allies prepared for the next threats. Wang Dong’er learned that Shrek had fallen and set out to find Huo Yuhao and the others.

• Huo Yuhao refused Jiang Nannan’s offer to accompany him, telling her to complete her assessment and become Shrek’s last hope against a greater enemy.
• Bi Ji promised to help Yan Shaozhe and the others, then spoke with Jin Qiuer, who watched Huo Yuhao leave before returning to cultivate.
• Niu Tian and Titan discussed the news of Shrek’s destruction and a request for them to travel north.
• Wang Dong’er came out of seclusion, learned Shrek had been destroyed, and decided to go find Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Lan Yin, and the others.

The Dou Ling Empire’s zombie horde trapped Shrek’s rescuers, while the Four Great Empires assembled a larger rescue force. Huo Yuhao left Shrek’s ruins to prepare for his own plans and ended the chapter at Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, with Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng guarding the bedroom door.

• The Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation allowed the zombies to contain Old Song, Old Zhuang, the elders, and the Supervision Group in the Dou Ling Empire.
• The Four Great Empires and major sects assembled experts to rescue Shrek’s people, with Huo Yuhao shaping the operation to gather allies, conceal his actions, and assess other forces.
• Huo Yuhao visited Shrek’s ruins, found mourners searching for treasures, and left without sharing his gains.
• Huo Yuhao went to Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, where Mu Jin and Zhou Yi attended him and Xu QiuDi joined them.
• Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng guarded the bedroom door while Huo Yuhao declared that he and Dai Hao were fellow travelers.

Huo Yuhao completed the transformation of his demi-plane into a divine kingdom, using the Golden Ancient Tree as its World Tree and bringing several secret realms and treasures into it. He began settling his companions and troops there, but still felt the kingdom needed more inhabitants.

• Huo Yuhao used the Golden Ancient Tree to stabilize and complete the divine kingdom, where landscapes formed and Duke White Tiger's Mansion and the Blood Slaughter Orb became treasure lands.
• Xu QiuDi explored the new world and felt alive again, while Eunuch Gao found that his level-one-hundred bottleneck had vanished and thanked Huo Yuhao.
• The Wisdom Secret Realm and Rakshasa Secret Realm merged into the divine kingdom as temples, and the Holy Spirit Feathered Serpent explained how Huo Yuhao could eventually grow it into a Divine Realm.
• Huo Yuhao granted the northern icefield to the Titan Snow Demon King and his troops, then invited the Bone Spirits and other souls and martial spirits to live in the divine kingdom.
• Huo Yuhao connected the Hao Emperor Banner to the Golden Ancient Tree, while the Scarlet King encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and wondered who remained in the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Region.
• Huo Yuhao surveyed the lively divine kingdom but still felt it was not enough.

Huo Yuhao converted the captured cauldrons into believers, then used immortal herbs and Snow Lotus’s help to complete his breakthrough to Level One God. He left the divine kingdom with newfound strength and planned to advance further while hoping the continent would keep Tang occupied.

• Huo Yuhao awakened the captured cauldrons, converted them, and appointed Lan Yin and the others as envoys in his Holy Cult.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to break through with the immortal herbs, whose power generated Creation Power and deepened his foundation.
• Snow Lotus emerged from Huo Yuhao’s Luck Golden Body, manifested as his Inner Demon, and helped temper him during the breakthrough.
• After three days, Huo Yuhao awakened as a Level One God and discovered Snow Lotus had left a blue-golden Snow Lotus mark on his chest.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that he could challenge Level One Gods without a Divine Rank and hoped the conflict on the continent would keep Tang occupied while he pursued God King.

Huo Yuhao used divine blood to help Feng Ling break through and begin recovering from Zhongli Wu’s control, while planning to use Ye Xishui to prepare a body for Snow Lotus. Meanwhile, Xu Tiancheng uncovered Zhongli Wu’s secret and found the Ancestor of the Sub-Dragons’ Burial Ground.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Zhongli Wu had controlled Feng Ling’s soul for decades and began gently expelling his influence.
• Huo Yuhao gave Feng Ling his divine blood, helping her break through from rank 97 to rank 98 and easing her pain.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he planned for Feng Ling to absorb phoenix bloodlines and for Ye Xishui to nurture a body for Snow Lotus.
• Huo Yuhao sealed Feng Ling in the cavern and prepared to go to the Dou Ling Empire to save people.
• Xu Tiancheng used Zhongli Wu’s memories to locate an underground ruin and recognized it as the Ancestor of the Sub-Dragons’ Burial Ground.

Xu Tiancheng explored the Ancestor of the Sub-Dragons' tomb after devouring Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King, learning how Zhongli Wu found it and what its inheritance required. He began the Baptism of Destruction Power, leaving the trial underway as his Purple Emperor Annihilation Heavenly Dragon Avatar grew stronger.

• Xu Tiancheng soul-searched Zhongli Wu, learned how the Holy Spirit Cult's records led him to the tomb, and devoured both Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King.
• Xu Tiancheng explored the tomb and learned that the inheritance required sub-dragon bloodline, surviving the Baptism of Destruction Power while conscious, and obtaining the Golden Ancient Tree to suppress the Heart of Destruction.
• Xu Tiancheng reached the inheritance pool and used his Purple Emperor Annihilation Heavenly Dragon Avatar to begin the Baptism of Destruction Power.
• The destruction power poured over Xu Tiancheng's avatar, strengthening its source power as the baptism and metamorphosis began.

The Four Great Empires’ Guardian Gods led a team to rescue the trapped Shrek Supervision Group, following a secret plan that concealed how the empires had been brought together under Huo Yuhao’s influence. They reached the town and rescued the group, but Old Song’s questions about Shrek’s absence left the leaders speechless.

• The Four Great Empires assembled five Super Douluo and nine Titled Douluo, including their Guardian Gods, for the rescue mission.
• Nanmen Yuzhi took command and warned the team not to expose their secret plan, which Corpse God's side would also support.
• Kong Deming, Lion King Douluo, and Dou Shen Douluo accepted Nanmen Yuzhi’s leadership and agreed to carry out the operation.
• The team located the trapped Shrek Supervision Group, fought through the zombies, and reached the town where they were held.
• Old Song asked why the Four Great Empires had come instead of Shrek’s powerful figures, and Nanmen Yuzhi and the other Guardian Gods fell silent.

Kong Deming and the Four Great Empires told Shrek’s survivors that the Holy Spirit Cult had destroyed Shrek City and killed its people, leaving Huo Yuhao and other leaders missing. Old Song rallied Shrek to break through the corpse tide, while the empires pledged to help the survivors escape and rebuild Shrek.

• Kong Deming reported that Zhongli Wu, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao had led the Holy Spirit Cult in destroying Shrek City and blood-sacrificing its people, while Huo Yuhao and other leaders remained missing.
• Old Zhuang blamed the Sun Moon Empire for the Holy Spirit Cult’s rise, but Kong Deming argued that many of its members had been persecuted by Shrek and the other empires.
• Old Song called on Shrek’s survivors to break through the corpse tide and join the Four Great Empires in fighting the Holy Spirit Cult and rebuilding Shrek.
• Old Song ordered Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo to gather the Supervision Group, while she and the elders prepared to sacrifice themselves to protect the younger survivors.
• Old Song asked the Four Great Empires to escort Shrek’s children if necessary, and their representatives pledged support and offered territory and resources to rebuild Shrek.

The rescue team charged into the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation to escort the Supervision Group out, but corpse qi, zombies, and the formation’s interference left them struggling to find a way forward. Members poisoned beyond saving sacrificed themselves to clear the corpse qi, and the breakout continued along a path marked by their deaths.

• The elders of the Sea God Pavilion led the rescue teams from the Four Great Empires into the formation while Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo protected the Supervision Group.
• Old Song warned everyone to raise their Soul Guidance Barriers against the poisonous corpse qi, but the fog and the moving horde soon disrupted their senses and direction.
• Kong Deming ordered the group to keep pressing forward, and Nanmen Yuzhi urged them to hold on because allies waited outside the formation.
• A Supervision Group member whose body had been infected with corpse poison refused his companion’s Milk Bottle, shared his last words, and detonated himself to clear the corpse qi.
• Other poisoned members followed his example, blowing apart the fog with their flesh and martial souls so the survivors could continue toward the exit.
• Old Song and the other higher-ups watched in grief as the group advanced along the path made by the Supervision Group’s sacrifices.

The Supervision Group sacrificed themselves to break through the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation, then joined a relief force led by Nan Shuishui and Sky Dragon Douluo. Their hope collapsed when the Corpse God appeared and used his newly developed Oolong Pagoda Grand Formation to crush their resistance.

• Wang Yan refused Milk Bottles that members of the Supervision Group gave him as they sacrificed themselves to clear a path, and he blamed himself for developing their method of self-detonation.
• The breakout team reached the relief force led by Nan Shuishui and Sky Dragon Douluo, who had brought soul-recovery Milk Bottles and experts from other sects.
• The Corpse God descended before the combined forces, revealing that four of his soul rings had transformed and that he could fuse the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Oolong Shield martial souls.
• The Corpse God cast the resulting Oolong Pagoda Grand Formation over the team, crushing barriers and forcing everyone below Super Douluo to their knees.

Corpse God suppressed Shrek’s elders with corpse poison and prepared to turn them into zombies for his Zombie Army. Niu Tian broke into the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation to rescue them, but Corpse God strengthened the formation and counterattacked as Niu Tian struck toward the elders.

• Corpse God used the Oolong Shield’s power to suppress Old Song, Old Zhuang, and the other elders while corpse poison began transforming them.
• Corpse God considered which elders’ martial souls could strengthen his Zombie Army and fill his remaining soul-ring slots.
• Niu Tian broke through the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation with his God Rank Slow Domain and confirmed the elders were alive.
• Niu Tian demanded that Corpse God release the elders and revealed his divine aura.
• Corpse God fused the Death God Messenger and Lion Scorpion powers into the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation, overpowering the Slow Domain.
• Niu Tian struck toward the Oolong Pagoda Grand Formation to rescue the elders as Corpse God ordered them refined.

Niu Tian broke the Oolong Pagoda Grand Formation, but Old Song and the other elders completed their transformation into zombies, leaving Zhang Lexuan and the others trapped in the strengthened Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation. Huo Yuhao arrived with the Golden Ancient Tree to protect them and confronted the Corpse God.

• Niu Tian used the Azure Sky Extinction God Claw to break the Oolong Pagoda Grand Formation and free the team from its restraints.
• The Corpse God told Niu Tian that his three-second charge had allowed Old Song and the other elders to complete their transformation into zombies.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Nan Shuishui and the others to destroy the zombified elders, then led the survivors to try to escape as the zombies merged with the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation.
• Nan Shuishui warned that the Death Qi and corpse qi were too dense for a self-detonation to open a path, leaving the group on the verge of being overwhelmed.
• The Golden Ancient Tree descended and shielded the group, with Huo Yuhao seated at its roots, and he confronted the Corpse God over a debt to settle.

Huo Yuhao and Niu Tian fought the Corpse God while the surviving Shrek members escaped the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation. Huo Yuhao unleashed a powerful attack against the Corpse God, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao shielded the survivors and sent Zhang Lexuan and the others out of the formation while he and Niu Tian stayed to face the Corpse God.
• Huo Yuhao and Niu Tian combined their domains and attacked the Corpse God, but they could not break through his defenses.
• Wang Dong'er reunited with Zhang Lexuan and the others, then told Xu San Shi she did not know what had happened to the academy or Nannan.
• Huo Yuhao joined his power with the Golden Ancient Tree and asked Niu Tian to hold the Corpse God back while he prepared a killing move.
• Niu Tian transformed into the Sky Azure Bull Python and restrained the Corpse God as Huo Yuhao unleashed Pinnacle Punch, sending a radiant ice dragon at him.

Huo Yuhao and Niu Tian drove off the Corpse God, but Huo Yuhao collapsed after using a powerful attack that endangered his future if repeated. After waking, he told the Supervision Group that Shrek and the Sea God Pavilion had been destroyed and named the few survivors he knew.

• Huo Yuhao and Niu Tian struck the Corpse God together, forcing him to absorb the attacks through the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation before fleeing with it.
• Niu Tian caught Huo Yuhao as he fell unconscious and later warned that using the same method again could shorten his life and prevent future advancement.
• Huo Yuhao woke in an inn, reassured Wang Dong'er and the others, and thanked her and Niu Tian for helping.
• Niu Tian explained that the Clear Sky Sect learned of Shrek's destruction too late and that the Corpse God was beyond the Limit realm.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan and the other Supervision Group leaders that Shrek Academy and the Sea God Pavilion were destroyed, with only a few named elders and Jiang Nannan alive besides him.

Huo Yuhao refused to rebuild Shrek Academy and gathered the Four Great Empires to plan a future campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult. He set the counterattack for one to three years later, while hinting that he would first target one of Tang’s connections.

• Shrek’s remaining force was counted at forty-eight, and Huo Yuhao rejected the Four Great Empires’ offers to rebuild Shrek Academy before vengeance was complete.
• Niu Tian said the Clear Sky Sect could help after he or Titan returned, and Huo Yuhao noted that Titan, Elder Xuan, and Di Tian had gone to the North Sea.
• Huo Yuhao decided to return with the survivors to Shrek City and invited the Four Great Empires’ experts to discuss joining forces against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Kong Deming asked when the counterattack would begin, and Huo Yuhao said it would be as soon as one year or as long as three, after he broke through.
• After the empire representatives departed, Huo Yuhao hinted that he would cut off one of Old Farts Tang’s tentacles, while Niu Tian warned him to treat Wang Dong'er well.

Bibi Dong, Zi Ji, and Cain launched a night raid on Haotian City, where the Haotian Sect’s elders and clansmen fought off a supernatural bat swarm. Zi Ji and Bibi Dong descended to attack the defenders, while Cain watched from above.

• The patrol Soul Saints spotted a bat-shaped mark on the blood-red moon and raised the alarm as bats descended on Haotian City.
• Third Elder Tang Ming, Fifth Elder Tang Yang, Ninth Elder Tang Kun, Eighth Elder Tang Hao, Thirteenth Elder Tang Bin, and Tang Zhe led the defense while other Haotian Sect Soul Masters joined the fight.
• Bibi Dong, Zi Ji, and Cain watched the battle from the sky as Huo Yuhao’s pets carried out their mission to destroy the Haotian Sect.
• Zi Ji transformed into the Abyssal Demon Dragon King and used the Devouring Domain against Tang Ming, while Bibi Dong descended with her Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul.

Zi Ji and Bibi Dong attacked Haotian City, overwhelming the Clear Sky Sect elders and slaughtering its disciples. After the city’s destruction, Cain flew to Haotian Fortress in Where Clouds Lie Deep.

• Zi Ji trapped Third Elder Tang Ming in her Devouring Domain and absorbed the attacks of Tang Ming and four other Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong targeted Seventh Elder Tang Zhe and used her Death Spider Emperor transformation to overwhelm him and corrupt the Clear Sky Sect disciples’ minds.
• Bibi Dong’s attack turned Tang Zhe against the descendants he had been protecting, and slaughter spread through the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bibi Dong blamed the Sea God for provoking Huo Yuhao and reflected that his help might have changed the outcome of her struggle ten thousand years earlier.
• Cain left the sky above Haotian City and flew to Haotian Fortress in Where Clouds Lie Deep.