Chapter Summaries

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.

Shi Xing used his Space-Time Silver Disk to erase hundreds of spirit beasts as the Star Dou Great Forest began a full-scale assault on Shrek City. He saw the Scarlet King leading the eastern attack and Bear Lord approaching from the west, while the empire reinforcements had been intercepted.

• Shi Xing unleashed Space-Time Turbulence, erasing hundreds of spirit beasts and briefly slowing their charge.
• Shi Xing realized the spirit beasts had chosen Shrek City because it could unite the three great empires, though he did not know their reinforcements had been intercepted.
• The Star Dou Great Forest launched a full-scale assault, and the Scarlet King led the charge toward the eastern wall.
• Shi Xing spotted Bear Lord, the 470,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, approaching the western wall.

The King of Ten Thousand Demons, a Demon Eye Demon Tree, led the soul beast army attacking Shrek City’s northern wall. The chapter recounted how he betrayed and devoured a Fairy Spirit Grass after guarding it for a thousand years, beginning a painful fusion that continued for a century.

• The King of Ten Thousand Demons appeared as the fierce beast commanding the soul beast army at Shrek City’s northern wall.
• As an ordinary Demon Eye Demon Tree, he discovered a Fairy Spirit Grass growing nearby and used his foul odor to protect it from other soul beasts.
• He guarded the Fairy Spirit Grass for a thousand years while secretly waiting for it to mature.
• The King of Ten Thousand Demons killed the Fairy Spirit Grass with his corrosive venom and smeared its remains over his body to fuse with it.
• The Fairy Spirit Grass’s resentment and the tree’s determination drove an agonizing fusion that slowly transformed him into a new existence over a hundred years.

The King of Ten Thousand Demons appeared with the other great fierce beasts around Shrek City as the Star Dou Great Forest prepared an all-out assault. Shrek’s defenders waited for reinforcements while the four beasts aimed to break the city before help arrived.

• The King of Ten Thousand Demons’ centuries of endurance had made him a 530,000-year soul beast who ruled most plant-type soul beasts in the forest’s outer region.
• Di Tian had ordered the King of Ten Thousand Demons to keep his plant-type forces out of the Beast Tide so they could protect the forest’s retreat if the battle went badly.
• Scarlet King, Bear Lord, the King of Ten Thousand Demons, and Bi Ji took positions around Shrek City’s eastern, western, northern, and southern walls.
• The four fierce beasts agreed to lead an all-out assault, seeking to destroy Shrek City before human reinforcements could arrive.
• Shi Xing and Beibei watched the encircling enemies from the wall as Beibei looked toward the direction reinforcements might come from.

The Beast Tide launched a full assault on Shrek City from all four directions, while the defenders prepared for a desperate battle. At the west wall, Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo faced Bear Lord as it charged toward them, and their fight was about to begin.

• Bear Lord led the western charge as Bi Ji, Scarlet King, and the Demon Eye Demon Tree King of Ten Thousand Demons launched attacks from the other three directions.
• The elders of Sea God Pavilion, inner courtyard disciples, and All-Terrain Soul Guidance Artillery Platforms took positions along Shrek City's walls.
• Bi Ji summoned more than a hundred Emerald Swans to heal the wounded soul beasts across the battlefield.
• The Beast Tide vanguard reached the city walls, and Bear Lord charged toward the west battlements defended by Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo.
• Xian Lin'er challenged Bear Lord and raised her spear as Bear Lord leaped toward the wall.

Long Zhanye reached Shrek City during the Soul Beast assault and saw its defenses nearing collapse, including Shi Xing and Xuan Ziwen fighting on the South City wall. Driven by his hatred of Shrek and Xuan Ziwen, he launched two spiritual attacks at them, leaving both in mortal danger.

• Long Zhanye flew toward Shrek City with Ye Guyi following and found all four walls under attack by powerful Soul Beasts.
• Long Zhanye identified Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and King of Ten Thousand Demons among the attackers, while suspecting that the Taotie fighting Di Tian might be Xuan Zi.
• Long Zhanye saw that Shrek City's defenses were crumbling, though Shi Xing and Xuan Ziwen were helping hold the South City wall.
• Long Zhanye recognized Xuan Ziwen as a traitor from Mingde Hall and decided to strike while he was vulnerable.
• Long Zhanye used Soul Deprivation and Fate Verdict to attack Shi Xing and Xuan Ziwen without warning.