Recaps

Magic Brush Douluo revealed his Heavenly Eye and fought Long Zhanye while Huo Yuhao used simulated Chaos Qi to disrupt Long Zhanye’s control of the mist. Long Zhanye blocked their attacks and broke Magic Brush Douluo’s ink spear, leaving the three-way fight poised to continue.

• Trapped in Chaos Qi, Magic Brush Douluo painted a ghastly Heavenly Eye that pierced the mist and locked eyes with Long Zhanye’s Sky-Propping Eye.
• Long Zhanye sent his two Puppets after Magic Brush Douluo, but the old Douluo used ink chains and ghost flies to hinder them.
• Magic Brush Douluo painted an Ink Mountain and sent it crashing toward Long Zhanye, who shattered it with Chaos Dragon Claw.
• Huo Yuhao simulated Long Zhanye’s Chaos Qi and made it turn against him, creating a vortex that destabilized Long Zhanye.
• Magic Brush Douluo fired ink spears at the distracted Long Zhanye, who blocked them with Colorless Wall and snapped the final spear in his hand.
• Long Zhanye glared at Huo Yuhao and Magic Brush Douluo and invited them to attack him together.

Huo Yuhao and Long Zhanye joined forces against Magic Brush Douluo, combining mental attacks, ice techniques, and powerful Martial Soul abilities. Magic Brush Douluo transformed into his brush and unleashed his eighth soul skill, but Long Zhanye blocked Huo Yuhao’s Destiny attack with spiritual immunity.

• Huo Yuhao disrupted Magic Brush Douluo with Soul Shock while Long Zhanye wounded his eyeball with Void Bright Slash.
• Huo Yuhao weakened Magic Brush Douluo and attacked with Emperor Sword, while Long Zhanye summoned Thousand-Hand Buddha.
• Magic Brush Douluo used his seventh soul skill to fuse with his brush, then unleashed Hell Under the Brush against Long Zhanye.
• Huo Yuhao fired Destiny’s Sorrow, Soul Deprivation at Long Zhanye, but Long Zhanye’s Destiny Skull granted him spiritual immunity.

Long Zhanye used his Destiny Skull’s fate-based attacks to cripple Magic Brush Douluo, who then unleashed his ninth soul skill, Nightmare. Huo Yuhao countered with Ice Empress Pincer and Snow Dance—Extreme Ice Domain, leaving the battlefield engulfed in extreme cold.

• Long Zhanye launched Fate Verdict and Soul Blast, tearing at Magic Brush Douluo’s soul and forcing him out of his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Magic Brush Douluo recovered enough to unleash his ninth soul skill, Nightmare, filling the battlefield with venomous snakes made of hatred and ink.
• Huo Yuhao charged in and used Ice Empress Pincer to pierce and freeze several of the snakes.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Snow Empress and unleashed Snow Dance—Extreme Ice Domain, spreading sharp snowflakes and an extreme-cold field across the battlefield.

Huo Yuhao unleashed Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors against Long Zhanye and Magic Brush Douluo, but Long Zhanye revealed his domains and Martial Soul Avatar. The chapter ended with Long Zhanye catching and crushing Huo Yuhao’s Ice and Snow Silk Ribbon with his bare hands.

• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress phantoms appeared around Huo Yuhao as he invoked Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors.
• Huo Yuhao sent an Ice and Snow Silk Ribbon toward Long Zhanye and Magic Brush Douluo, while Magic Brush Douluo summoned waves of venomous snakes to stop it.
• Long Zhanye opened Divine Slaughter's Domain and God Eye Domain, disrupting Huo Yuhao’s Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain.
• Long Zhanye activated his Martial Soul Avatar, transforming in gray-white armor as a giant and thirteen vertical pupils appeared behind him.
• Magic Brush Douluo tried to block the attack with his body, while Long Zhanye caught the Ice and Snow Silk Ribbon in one hand.
• Long Zhanye clasped the ribbon between his palms and began crushing it, dispersing the Snow Empress's phantom.

Long Zhanye defeated the Ice Goddess, drove Huo Yuhao away, and killed Magic Brush Douluo before erasing the battle’s traces. As he flew toward Shrek City planning to exploit the Star Dou Great Forest’s coming turmoil, Huo Yuhao headed north to the Evil Demon Forest to obtain his seventh Soul Ring.

• Long Zhanye battered the Ice Goddess until she shattered, forcing Huo Yuhao to flee while too exhausted to pursue him.
• Long Zhanye intercepted Magic Brush Douluo, weakened him with a Soul Tool, decomposed his body, and erased the evidence of the battle.
• Long Zhanye realized Wang Qiu'er had been the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and planned to use the spirit beasts’ expected revenge to hunt for Spirit Bones and advance to Title Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the danger from the Star Dou Great Forest and followed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s advice to seek his seventh Soul Ring at the Evil Demon Forest.
• Long Zhanye flew toward Shrek City while Huo Yuhao flew north, and both disappeared in different directions as dawn broke.

Long Zhanye completed his eighth God-Bestowed Soul Ring after half a month of absorbing it, reaching rank eighty-two at twenty years old. He sensed a possible future in which Ye Guyi became a Title Douluo, then faced her question about where they would go next.

• Long Zhanye endured the God-Bestowed Soul Ring’s transformation until it became a blood-red ring with seven golden lines, reaching seven hundred thousand years.
• Long Zhanye advanced from rank eighty to rank eighty-two and used his spiritual perception to sense everything within a hundred li.
• Long Zhanye glimpsed a blurry possible future in which Ye Guyi had become a Title Douluo, but an invisible force prevented him from seeing his own fate.
• Ye Guyi asked whether they would find Master Kong or return to the Body Sect, and Long Zhanye noticed that her seventh God-Bestowed Soul Ring had reached sixty-eight thousand years.
• Ye Guyi said she was now a Soul Saint and told Long Zhanye not to judge her by his extraordinary standards, while he struggled to stand after his seclusion.

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest to investigate possible Soul Beast movements, while Shrek City came under threat from a massive airborne Beast Tide. Beibei gathered the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy forces at the South City Wall as the Soul Beasts approached, with Huo Yuhao's whereabouts unknown.

• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest to investigate the Soul Beasts before seeking Elder Kong.
• Thunder and an unnatural darkness spread over Shrek City as black clouds advanced from the south.
• Beibei recognized that the darkness was tens of thousands of flying Soul Beasts and ordered the Tang Sect to prepare for an emergency.
• Xuan Zi issued Shrek Academy's highest alarm and summoned its inner court disciples to the South City Wall.
• Beibei sent Xu Sanshi to bring the Tang Sect's Soul Tools to the wall and led the others to defend the city.
• Beibei watched the Beast Tide approach, worrying that Wang Dong'er was asleep at the Clear Sky Sect, Huo Yuhao was missing, and Xiao Ya remained trapped in the Holy Spirit Cult.

Shi Xing prepared Shrek City's defenses as tens of thousands of Soul Beasts advanced toward the city in an organized assault. The defenders took their positions, confident in the Shrek Army's record, as the attack approached.

• Shi Xing watched dark clouds approach from the south and recognized the pressure of an impending battle.
• Shrek City's defense army deployed defensive Soul Tools, ammunition, and soldiers across the city walls.
• Three thousand Spirit Masters assembled on the walls, each paired with an auxiliary soldier, while reserves waited to reinforce them.
• Outer academy students and inner courtyard disciples rushed to help defend the city.
• Shi Xing saw tens of thousands of Soul Beasts moving through the clouds toward Shrek City and turned to face his prepared defenders.

A Beast Tide of one hundred thousand Soul Beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest advanced on Shrek City, breaking a century-old understanding between the forest and the academy. Xuan Zi and Shrek’s defenders prepared for a battle more dangerous than the previous Beast Tide as the enemy neared the city walls.

• The Soul Beast army emerged from the south, filling the sky and ground as it advanced toward Shrek City.
• Shi Xing watched the approaching army and wondered what had driven the Star Dou Great Forest’s powerful beings to break their peace with Shrek.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, the Sea God Pavilion elders, and more than forty inner courtyard students arrived at the South City Wall.
• Shrek’s teachers divided among the other three walls to command the outer courtyard students.
• Xuan Zi recalled the destruction caused by the previous Beast Tide and assessed the danger posed by one hundred thousand Soul Beasts.
• Xuan Zi told the defenders that Shrek City had never been defeated in ten thousand years, and they gripped their weapons more firmly.

With Shrek City facing a massive Beast Tide, Xuan Zi realized the Body Sect would not come to help and suspected the attack was connected to the golden light seen above Rising Sun City. He confronted Beast God Di Tian in the sky, and their restrained clash left the city and Soul Beast army untouched.

• Xuan Zi recalled how Mu En and the Body Sect had helped repel the previous Beast Tide, but concluded the Body Sect would not aid Shrek City now.
• Elder Song questioned why the Star Dou Great Forest had broken the peace pact, and Xuan Zi linked the attack to the golden light above Rising Sun City.
• Xuan Zi told Elder Song to command the defense, then flew from the wall to confront Di Tian.
• Xuan Zi revealed his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul as he rose to meet the dark clouds above the city.
• Xuan Zi and Di Tian clashed in the sky while both held back their power to protect Shrek City and the Soul Beast army.

Di Tian confronted Xuan Zi over humanity’s continued hunting of Soul Beasts and revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had died, prompting his attack on Shrek City. The Beast God’s grief and fury mounted as he faced the city below.

• Xuan Zi called for Di Tian to explain why a hundred thousand Soul Beasts were attacking Shrek City.
• Di Tian accused humans of driving Soul Beasts toward extinction, while Xuan Zi defended Spirit Masters’ need for Soul Rings and invoked their pact.
• Di Tian rejected Xuan Zi’s assurances and asked whether he remembered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s importance to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and feared that something had happened to her.
• Di Tian revealed that the Soul Beasts had sensed the Auspicious Beast’s death days earlier, and his golden eyes fixed on Shrek City.

Di Tian revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had died after willingly becoming a human Spirit Master's Soul Ring, and he blamed Shrek for her fate. He demanded that Xuan Zi hand over the student who had met her or face the destruction of Shrek City.

• Xuan Zi questioned how the auspicious beast could have died under the Star Dou Great Forest's protection, and Di Tian explained that she had secretly left for the human world.
• Xuan Zi connected her death to the golden light over Rising Sun City but argued that humans could not be held responsible without proof.
• Di Tian revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had willingly Sacrificed herself to become a human's Soul Ring, shocking Xuan Zi.
• Di Tian said Scarlet King had reported that one of Xuan Zi's students had met the auspicious beast and blamed that student for what happened.
• Di Tian demanded that Xuan Zi hand over the student or he would destroy Shrek City.

Xuan Zi refused Di Tian’s demand to hand over Huo Yuhao, and Di Tian launched the Soul Beast army’s assault on Shrek City. As Di Tian overwhelmed Xuan Zi in the sky, Shi Xing rallied the defenders to prepare for battle.

• Xuan Zi realized Huo Yuhao might be connected to Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Sacrifice and regretted bringing him to the beast years earlier.
• Xuan Zi refused Di Tian’s demand, declaring that Shrek City would fight rather than surrender Huo Yuhao.
• Di Tian ordered the Soul Beasts to attack Shrek City and fought Xuan Zi in the sky.
• Di Tian’s darkness swallowed the sky and overwhelmed Xuan Zi, leaving Shrek’s defenders fearful as the battle raged above them.
• Shi Xing ordered the Soul Tool positions and Spirit Masters to prepare for defense, and the city’s soldiers readied themselves to fight.

Shrek City prepared its South City Wall for the Beast Tide’s frontal assault, relying on its defenses and a battery of Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons. Shi Xing ordered the first volley, leaving the charging soul beasts caught in a devastating barrage.

• Shrek City's defenders positioned thirty-two rank-six Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons along the South City Wall and readied them with four sealed Milk Bottles apiece.
• The inner-courtyard students took their places under the elders’ direction as the Beast Tide charged toward the city.
• Shi Xing shouted the order for the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons to fire their first volley.
• The thirty-two cannons blasted the advancing soul beasts, vaporizing many and blasting others apart with explosions and shockwaves.

Shrek City’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons devastated the Beast Tide’s vanguard, killing or crippling over ten thousand soul beasts and restoring the defenders’ morale. Shi Xing halted the cannons after their third volley so their overheated barrels could cool.

• Shi Xing rallied the city defenders after the first volley blasted apart the advancing soul beasts and left a vast field of Soul Rings.
• The defenders fired a second volley, while the soul beasts continued charging and their commanders struggled to understand the weapons’ range and power.
• Further explosions tore through the vanguard, and Shrek’s soldiers cheered as the Beast Tide suffered heavy losses.
• Shi Xing ordered the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons to stop firing after three rounds to prevent their overheated barrels from warping.

Bi Ji healed the wounded soul beasts and declared that humanity’s destructive weapons threatened their survival, so the soul beasts would fight the Beast Tide with all their strength. Elder Song challenged Bi Ji to stop the slaughter, but Bi Ji rejected her appeal, leaving the conflict between Shrek City and the Beast Tide poised to erupt.

• Bi Ji appeared over the battlefield and used her life energy to heal wounded soul beasts and absorb the Soul Rings around them.
• Bi Ji announced that she had come to support Di Tian’s war because human weapons threatened the soul beasts’ survival.
• Elder Song confronted Bi Ji, identified herself as the Emerald Swan, and argued that Di Tian’s planned assault would kill Shrek City’s civilians.
• Bi Ji explained that human advancement could eventually leave soul beasts with nowhere to live and rejected Elder Song’s appeal.
• Elder Song realized that the soul beasts stood united behind Di Tian and that Shrek City faced the Beast Tide without a path to peace.

Bi Ji shielded the soul beast vanguard from Shrek City's cannon fire and strengthened thousands of beasts, prompting Elder Song to attack her as the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle. Di Tian intervened to stop Elder Song, while another battle ended with the Godly Taotie Bull crashing from the sky.

• Bi Ji spread her emerald wings to block the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannon barrage and empowered at least three thousand soul beasts.
• Elder Song transformed into the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle and attacked Bi Ji, but Bi Ji's life-energy defense repelled her first strike.
• The Six-Winged Dark Gold Tiger charged at Elder Song, who struck it away with her wing and then dove back toward Bi Ji.
• Di Tian sent a beam of purple light to intercept Elder Song's attack, forcing her to evade before she resumed assaulting Bi Ji with azure feather-shaped strikes.
• The Godly Taotie Bull fell from the sky, wreathed in purple lightning, as another midair battle concluded.

Long Zhanye returned to the Body Sect as Shrek City faced a Beast Tide and tried to stop the sect from sending aid. He argued that the Body Sect should protect its own future, leaving Du Busi stunned as the elders and disciples awaited their response.

• Di Tian pursued the falling Xuan Zi until an aged voice warned him not to go too far.
• Long Zhanye sensed a massive battle near Shrek City and concluded that the Star Dou Great Forest had launched a Beast Tide.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi reached the Body Sect and found its disciples and elders preparing to march to Shrek's aid.
• Long Zhanye ordered everyone to stop and questioned why the Body Sect should help Shrek, but Elder Wu argued that the Beast Tide threatened the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Du Busi confronted Long Zhanye, who argued that the Body Sect should prioritize its survival and cited the decline of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Du Busi realized Long Zhanye's opposition went beyond his personal grudge with Shrek.

Long Zhanye tried to persuade Du Busi and the Body Sect to stay out of the conflict around Shrek by revealing powerful soul tools and proposing to block Star Luo reinforcements. Du Busi chose to test Long Zhanye’s strength, and their fight began with Du Busi overpowering Long Zhanye’s domains.

• Long Zhanye argued that the Body Sect should protect its own members and claimed he could deter the Sun Moon Empire using his connections to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen.
• Long Zhanye revealed three Level 9 Soul Tools and a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell as proof that he could threaten the Body Sect’s enemies.
• Long Zhanye asked Du Busi to stop Star Luo Empire experts from reinforcing Shrek City, signaling that the Body Sect would sever ties with Shrek.
• Du Busi noticed that Long Zhanye had reached Soul Douluo and challenged him to demonstrate his strength.
• Du Busi revealed his nine Soul Rings and Limit Douluo power, while Long Zhanye released his Sky-Propping Eye and eight Soul Rings, including four red rings and a White-Gold Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain and God Eye Domain, but Du Busi’s Soul Power broke through them and forced Long Zhanye backward.

Long Zhanye unleashed his amplified strength against Du Busi, forcing the Limit Douluo to retreat before striking him with his eighth Soul Skill, This Sword Is Avici. Du Busi withstood the attack without moving, and as Long Zhanye recovered his Soul Power to continue fighting, Du Busi seized the initiative with overwhelming pressure.

• Long Zhanye activated his Martial Soul Avatar, Silver-Grade Awakening, Unity of Heaven and Man, and Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone skill, then struck Du Busi with a powerful punch that forced him half a step back.
• Long Zhanye unleashed his eighth Soul Skill, This Sword Is Avici, summoning a gigantic sword from the sky.
• Du Busi transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and caught the descending sword with both hands, surviving the attack without shifting his position.
• Long Zhanye was left bloodied and drained, while Du Busi praised him and demanded another attack.
• Long Zhanye used two Level 7 Sealed Milk Bottles to recover more than half his Soul Power and prepared to attack again, but Du Busi struck first with overwhelming pressure.

Long Zhanye endured Du Busi’s crushing pressure and awakened both martial souls to Gold-Level, gaining enough strength to challenge a Super Douluo. With Du Busi gone, Long Zhanye took command of the Body Sect and dispatched elders to prevent reinforcements from reaching Shrek.

• Du Busi increased the pressure on Long Zhanye until it forced open a meridian and raised his Soul Power from rank eighty-two to rank eighty-two and a half.
• Long Zhanye’s Qilin Arm emerged, then two bursts of golden light revealed that both his martial souls had achieved Gold-Level Awakening.
• Long Zhanye’s spirit rings gained ten thousand years of age, and his third ring transformed into a hundred-thousand-year ring; Du Busi declared he could now contend with a Super Douluo.
• Du Busi ordered the elders to obey Long Zhanye from then on and departed toward the Star Luo Empire border.
• Long Zhanye sent Great Elder Golden Roc to stop Sir Tian Yang from reinforcing Shrek, assigned five elders to guard the sect, and ordered four others to block reinforcements from the Dou Ling Empire.

Mu En emerged from the Golden Tree as the Bright Sacred Dragon and saved Xuan Zi from Di Tian, turning the battle for Shrek City. By joining with Xuan Zi, Mu En transformed his Martial Soul into the Taotie of the Nine Sons of the Dragon, leaving the two poised to face Di Tian together.

• Mu En appeared as a giant golden dragon, caught Xuan Zi, healed him, and struck Di Tian back.
• Mu En confronted Di Tian and revealed that his soul and power had endured within the Golden Tree to protect Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion elders recognized Mu En and bowed to him.
• Xuan Zi recovered under Mu En's light and returned to the battlefield as Mu En spiraled around him.
• Mu En fused his power with Xuan Zi's Martial Soul, transforming him into Taotie of the Nine Sons of the Dragon.

Xuan Zi fused with Mu En’s remnant soul and awakened the Taotie bloodline, shocking Di Tian. As Di Tian unleashed his full fury against Shrek City, Mu En guided the Golden Tree to raise a barrier that protected the city.

• Mu En’s remnant soul awakened Xuan Zi’s Taotie bloodline by suppressing his weaker bovine bloodline, creating a Taotie transformation capable of challenging Di Tian’s bloodline.
• Di Tian recognized Taotie’s form and briefly mistook Xuan Zi for his ancient relative before rejecting the transformation as a desecration of the Dragon Clan.
• Di Tian unleashed his full power, forcing the humans and Soul Beasts below to prostrate themselves as his might threatened Shrek City.
• Mu En guided the Golden Tree’s accumulated power into a golden barrier that shielded Shrek Academy and Shrek City while repelling the Soul Beast army.
• The Golden Tree’s barrier held against Di Tian’s purple-black Destruction Storm, and the two powers collided above Shrek City.

Xuan Zi and Mu En combined their power with the Golden Tree to awaken Taotie and seal Di Tian inside a golden space. With the Golden Tree's protection temporarily gone and the soul beasts still attacking, Shrek City began its counterattack.

• The Golden Tree strengthened Xuan Zi and Mu En's fusion, letting Taotie grow to a thousand meters and resist Di Tian.
• Di Tian unleashed Ten Thousand Dragon Flames, but Taotie swallowed the attack and bit down on Di Tian's tail.
• Taotie dragged Di Tian completely into a golden space, while Di Tian ordered the Star Dou forces to attack Shrek City.
• The Golden Tree's barrier vanished, leaving Xuan Zi and Mu En sealed away with Di Tian and the soul beasts still advancing.
• Yan Shaozhe rallied Shrek City's soldiers, and the city launched its counterattack with Soul Cannons and Martial Souls.

Shrek City’s defenders used cannon fire and Soul Guidance Rays to inflict devastating casualties on the soul beast army, while Elder Song harassed Bi Ji and disrupted her healing. Beibei and the Tang Sect disciples joined Yan Shaozhe atop the wall as both sides prepared for a more brutal clash.

• Shi Xing ordered the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons to fire three volleys of High-Explosive Shells into the soul beast army.
• Bi Ji used a wide-ranging healing ability to revive injured beasts, but Elder Song wounded her and forced her healing to falter.
• Soul beasts at the front climbed Shrek City’s walls, where a thousand Spirit Masters swept them with Soul Guidance Rays.
• The Tang Sect disciples arrived on the wall under Beibei and offered to follow Yan Shaozhe’s orders.
• The Soul Cannons neared the end of their cooldown as both sides prepared for the next collision.