Recaps

Xuan Zi intervened in the match and attacked Xu Yanli, but Xu Yanli blocked and reflected his strike. Long Xiaoyao then forced Xuan Zi to his knees and demanded that he let the match continue, while Xu Yanli turned to the still-suppressed Ma Xiaotao.

• Xuan Zi rushed onto the stage, pinned the out-of-control Ma Xiaotao with his Soul Power, and struck Xu Yanli with his full strength.
• Xu Yanli activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Holy Wing Guard, withstood Xuan Zi's attack, and sent its force back at him.
• Long Xiaoyao emerged and used his Limit Douluo pressure to pin Xuan Zi down, asking whether Shrek would concede or follow the competition rules.
• Xuan Zi recognized Long Xiaoyao and stayed silent rather than refuse.
• Xu Yanli warned Xuan Zi that he would remember the strike, then went to Ma Xiaotao, who remained trapped by Xuan Zi's Soul Power.

Ma Xiaotao was defeated by Xu Yanli, and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy conceded the two-on-two match to proceed directly to the final team battle. After healing Dai Yaoheng, Xu Yanli led his team onto the stage as both academies prepared for the decisive match.

• Ma Xiaotao fainted after the black flames burned away nearly all her Soul Power, and Xuan Zi carried her off the stage.
• Xu Yanli taunted Xuan Zi, while the Sun Moon Empire's supporters celebrated Shrek's defeat.
• Xu Yanli announced that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy would concede the two-on-two round and proceed directly to the team battle.
• Xu Yanli healed Dai Yaoheng's injuries with Holy Prayer: Sun Moon Radiance so Shrek could use him in the team battle.
• During the ten-minute break, both teams prepared, and Xu Yanli told his teammates to fight as the situation demanded.
• Xu Yanli led the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy onto the competition stage as the crowd roared.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy clashed in the fourth team battle, with Huo Yuhao directing his teammates through Spiritual Sharing. The fight remained underway as Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannons overwhelmed Xu Sanshi’s defense and targeted Bei Bei.

• Xiao Hongchen opened fire, but Xu Sanshi blocked the beams with the Profound Darkness Shield Formation.
• Yu Xuanye attacked Xiao Hongchen with Fire Thunder Dragon Claw, and Ji Juechen deflected the strike with his sword.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to reveal Shrek’s planned attacks, while Shen Muqing poisoned and slowed the Vine Soul King.
• Xiao Hongchen’s barrage weakened the shield formation, and Dai Yaoheng’s White Tiger Intense Light Wave failed to hit Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Sanshi’s shield formation shattered, and Bei Bei’s Thunder Dragon Head was diverted by Meng Hongchen’s Vermilion Crystal Ice Explosion.
• Xiao Hongchen aimed all four Soul Cannons at Bei Bei and fired at full power.

The Sun Moon team overwhelmed Shrek Academy through Huo Yuhao's coordination, the Hongchen siblings' attacks, and their teammates' poison and support. Xu Yanli revealed his identity and unleashed his seven-ring angel form, leaving Dai Yaoheng to lower his head before the battle's decisive power.

• Dai Yaoheng shielded Bei Bei from Xiao Hongchen's cannons, while Huo Yuhao weakened Shrek Academy's team with Mass Weakness.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen attacked together as Shen Muqing poisoned Shrek's fighters and Zhao Tiesheng healed his teammates.
• Ji Juechen slashed Dai Yaoheng with his sword, and Huo Yuyao's warnings helped the Sun Moon team evade Yu Xuanye's strongest attack.
• Xu Yanli removed his mask, revealed his youthful face to the arena, and activated his seventh Soul Ring to summon a Twelve-Winged Angel.
• Xu Yanli spread his domain and overwhelmed Shrek Academy's fighters with holy pressure, then formed a massive Angel Light Blade as Dai Yaoheng lowered his head.

Shrek Academy surrendered to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and Wang Yan tried to explain that Shrek’s official team had been injured fighting Evil Soul Masters. Xu Yanli challenged his account and pointed out that the Sun Moon team’s competitors were just as young, leaving the Star Luo crowd questioning the explanation and noticing Xu Yanli’s resemblance to Emperor Xu Jiawei.

• Dai Yaoheng and the Shrek Academy team accepted defeat, and the referee declared the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy the winner.
• Xu Yanli celebrated the victory with his teammates as they reacted with joy and tears.
• Wang Yan told the crowd that Shrek’s official team had been injured and one member killed when an Evil Soul Master detonated corpses in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xu Yanli questioned why Shrek’s Titled Douluo protection had failed and challenged the claim that youth explained the loss.
• The crowd reconsidered Wang Yan’s explanation, while Star Luo nobles noticed Xu Yanli’s resemblance to Emperor Xu Jiawei.

Shen Muqing publicly accused Shrek Academy of exploiting and neglecting commoner students, displaying her dead sister Shen Muxin’s bloodstained robe and reading her farewell letter. Zhao Tiesheng then tore up his Shrek uniform and began recounting how his expulsion had destroyed his family.

• Shen Muqing stepped forward with her sister Shen Muxin’s bloodstained robe and revealed that Shrek had withheld her sister’s compensation and charged her family tuition after her death.
• Shen Muqing told the crowd that her parents had died after selling their home to pay the fees Shrek demanded, and that she had to buy back her sister’s robe from an academy logistics supervisor.
• Shen Muqing read Shen Muxin’s farewell letter, which said the Inspection Team had been given defective equipment and insufficient medicine while better supplies went to inner-court disciples and nobles.
• Wang Yan could not answer Shen Muqing, while Xuan Zi sat in silence as the crowd turned against Shrek.
• Zhao Tiesheng joined Shen Muqing, tore up his Shrek uniform, and said Zhou Yi had expelled him for failing the physical fitness requirements.
• Zhao Tiesheng said his father had been hounded to death by creditors after borrowing money for his tuition, and his mother had gone mad and died within half a year of his expulsion.

Shen Muqing and Zhao Tiesheng publicly described how Shrek Academy had harmed them, prompting Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to condemn its treatment of commoners. Xu Yanli told the crowd their experiences reflected Shrek’s usual conduct, leaving its defenders silent.

• Zhao Tiesheng recounted being sold into mine slavery as a child and said Shrek expelled him for being poor and weak, while Shen Muqing displayed the bloodstained clothes left by her brother, who died serving Shrek.
• Xiao Hongchen accused Shrek of favoring nobles and core disciples, and Meng Hongchen praised the fair treatment at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Yanli comforted Shen Muqing and Zhao Tiesheng, then told the crowd their stories were true and not isolated cases.
• Xu Yanli accused Shrek of sacrificing commoner Soul Masters under the pretext of fighting Evil Soul Masters, and the crowd fell silent.

After defeating Shrek Academy, Xu Yanli revealed himself as Xu Wangshu’s son and announced he would confront Emperor Xu Jiawei. The next morning, he entered the Imperial Study with Long Xiaoyao to meet Xu Jiawei face-to-face.

• Xu Yanli left the competition stage after Shrek Academy’s defeat, while Xu Jiawei realized he had publicly exposed his identity as Xu Wangshu’s son.
• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao that he had no intention of keeping his identity hidden and said an Angel Martial Soul deserved to stand openly in the sunlight.
• Xu Yanli announced that he would meet Xu Jiawei the following day, and he said Long Xiaoyao would accompany him while Xiao Dingtian’s Imperial Guards waited outside the city.
• Xu Yanli told Lezheng Ling to stay behind and protect Huo Yuhao and the others, then went to the Star Luo Imperial Palace with Long Xiaoyao.
• An attendant led Xu Yanli into the Imperial Study, where Xu Jiawei waited, and Xu Yanli stopped before him.

Xu Yanli confronted Xu Jiawei about his mother's death and vowed to avenge her, then returned to the hotel and told Huo Yuhao he would move his mother's grave that night.

• Xu Yanli entered the Imperial Study with Long Xiaoyao and demanded to know how his mother died.
• Xu Jiawei denied knowing anything, but Xu Yanli accused him of betraying his sister and seizing the throne after Divine Punishment crippled her Martial Soul.
• Xu Yanli warned Xu Jiawei that he would avenge his mother and demanded that he withdraw the spies watching him.
• Outside the palace, Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao that Xu Jiawei feared losing his power, then decided to return to the hotel before collecting his champion's reward.
• At the Star Emperor Hotel, Xu Yanli found Huo Yuhao waiting outside his room and told him he would have his mother's grave moved that night.

Xu Yanli went to Huo Yun’er’s neglected grave at the Duke of White Tiger Mansion to move her remains to a proper coffin. He unearthed her decayed coffin and opened it, revealing her bones.

• Xu Yanli, Lezheng Ling, and Long Xiaoyao secretly left the Star Emperor Hotel and went to the back of the Duke of White Tiger Mansion.
• Xu Yanli found Huo Yun’er’s overgrown grave and noticed that someone had recently cleared the grass in front of it.
• Xu Yanli asked Long Xiaoyao to keep watch and used his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul to uncover the grave.
• Xu Yanli lifted Huo Yun’er’s rotten coffin from the earth and set it on clear ground before opening it himself.
• Xu Yanli saw that Huo Yun’er’s remains had been reduced to a small skeleton.

Xu Yanli moved Huo Yun'er's remains into a new coffin before attending the tournament awards ceremony, where Shrek Academy faced public outrage over its conduct. The chapter left Dai Yaoheng and his teammates receiving their second-place award amid insults and thrown objects.

• Xu Yanli carefully transferred Huo Yun'er's remains into a golden nanmu coffin while Lezheng Ling watched.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Xu Yanli about the words he had recited, and Xu Yanli called them traces of another world.
• Xu Yanli reflected that Huo Yuhao would have to walk his own road, though he had helped move his mother's grave.
• Xu Jiawei opened the awards ceremony, and Star Luo National Academy received third place.
• The Shrek Academy team accepted second place as spectators shouted insults and threw objects at the stage.

After the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won the tournament, Xu Yanli left the departing convoy with Long Xiaoyao to search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They found the poisonous valley, and Xu Yanli entered its miasma, where he saw something that stunned him.

• Xu Yanli accepted the trophy from Xu Jiawei and taunted him quietly before raising it to the cheering Sun Moon Empire spectators.
• Xu Yanli gave the trophy to Elder Ma and ordered the team to continue toward Ming Capital while he and Long Xiaoyao went elsewhere.
• Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao traveled to Sunset Forest and searched for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for three days.
• Xu Yanli sensed a faint ripple and led Long Xiaoyao to a valley shrouded in the Green Scale Seven Absolute Flower's poisonous miasma.
• Xu Yanli used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to enter the poison and, after fifteen minutes, stopped in astonishment at what he saw.

Xu Yanli reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found its immortal-herb Soul Beasts eager to serve him because they recognized the Goddess of Life and Golden Ancient Tree’s aura. He began gathering herbs with their help, while the Soul Beasts offered to leave with him and explained that the spring would remain stable.

• Xu Yanli entered the valley and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well surrounded by immortal herbs and human-shaped Soul Beasts.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot and the other Soul Beasts knelt before Xu Yanli, recognizing him as the Goddess of Life’s inheritor and the Lord of Nature.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass told Xu Yanli that Tang San had trapped and exploited them, and offered to accompany him.
• Xu Yanli put away the Golden Ancient Tree’s seed and asked the Soul Beasts to help him select herbs before discussing whether to take them along.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass guided Xu Yanli as he collected herbs and explained how to harvest and store them.
• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass gave Xu Yanli Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and told him it would benefit his spiritual power.

Xu Yanli collected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and brought the Immortal Herb Soul Beasts from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with him. He returned to Ming Capital to a public welcome, where he exchanged a quiet nod with Xu Tianran before heading to Prince Xiaoyao Mansion.

• Infernal Delicate Apricot gave Xu Yanli the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and offered to let the Immortal Herb Soul Beasts leave with him; he agreed to take them into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Yanli emerged from the poisonous miasma with Long Xiaoyao, sent Lezheng Ling a message, and stored the Immortal Herbs in his Storage Soul Tool for the journey.
• Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao caught up with the convoy, and Lezheng Ling welcomed Xu Yanli back before the party continued toward Ming Capital.
• The emperor greeted Xu Yanli at the city gates, while Xu Tianran watched from a wheelchair and nodded to him.
• As the emperor remarked on the stir Xu Yanli had caused in Star Luo City, Xu Yanli defended his actions and then headed toward Prince Xiaoyao Mansion.

Xu Yanli met with Xu Tianran, who revealed that the emperor had been slowly poisoned and laid out a plan to make Xu Yanli regent before taking the throne himself. They then discussed piloting Xu Yanli’s free compulsory education program in New City.

• Xu Yanli stored the rare treasures he had brought back from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in his mansion’s secret chamber.
• Xu Tianran told Xu Yanli that the emperor knew about his actions in Star Luo City and disapproved of his public reveal as Xu Wangshu’s son.
• Xu Tianran showed Xu Yanli records indicating that the emperor had been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin since the beginning of the year.
• Xu Tianran proposed that he continue poisoning the emperor while Xu Yanli became regent and consolidated power in court, after which Xu Tianran would ascend the throne.
• Xu Yanli selected New City as the site for a pilot program providing six years of free compulsory education and one free lunch each day.

Xu Yanli and Xu Tianran finalized plans for compulsory education, imperial examinations, and an academy for commoner children, then discussed the deaths of the Second Prince and Fourth Prince. After leaving, Xu Yanli learned that Du Busi had decided to move the Body Sect to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Yanli presented textbooks to Xu Tianran and explained how they would control their contents.
• Xu Yanli proposed starting imperial examinations with minor officials and building an accessible academy in a commoners' district; the brothers settled the plans' details.
• Xu Tianran told Xu Yanli that the Second Prince and Fourth Prince were gone and remarked that only the two brothers remained among the living princes.
• Xu Yanli left the Crown Prince's Mansion and received a call from Du Busi, who announced that the Body Sect would move to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi asked Xu Yanli to help find land for the Body Sect and said he would cover the costs.

Xu Yanli agreed to help the Body Sect relocate to the Sun Moon Empire on the condition that it obey the empire’s laws. After planning a secluded new site near Ming Capital, he left the chapter preparing to oversee its construction and defend the decision against any objections.

• Xu Yanli told Du Busi that the Body Sect must follow the Sun Moon Empire’s laws, and Du Busi agreed to the condition.
• Xu Yanli selected a secluded, spacious mountain area southeast of Ming Capital and spent the night drawing plans for the Body Sect’s new grounds, including a private courtyard for Du Busi.
• Xu Yanli asked Lezheng Ling and Kong Deming to review the plans, and Kong Deming approved the site and layout.
• Lezheng Ling warned that preparing the large site would be expensive, so Xu Yanli ordered Xiaoyao Pavilion to cover the costs and provide building materials and craftsmen.
• Xu Yanli told Kong Deming that he valued Du Busi’s loyalty and insisted he would personally oversee important construction details.

Xu Yanli prepared to oversee the compulsory education pilot program in New City, while confronting the growing reverence surrounding his Angel Martial Soul. As the convoy departed, Huo Yuhao asked why Xu Yanli disliked people kneeling to him.

• Xu Yanli continued planning the Body Sect's relocation and reflected on the responsibilities that came with his power.
• Xu Yanli departed Prince Xiaoyao Mansion for New City with Lezheng Ling, supplies for the education pilot, and Huo Yuhao, while Kong Deming waited at the city gate.
• Lezheng Ling explained that people now revered Xu Yanli as an angel after witnessing his Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul in Star Luo City.
• Xu Yanli sensed Faith Force flowing into his Angel Martial Soul and ordered the townspeople to stop kneeling to him.
• Huo Yuhao asked why Xu Yanli disliked people kneeling, and said people did it out of reverence for power and strength.

Xu Yanli left Ming Capital with Huo Yuhao and stopped overnight at a roadside relay station, where he pondered the essences of life and destruction. When an Evil Soul Master attacked a nearby village, Xu Yanli killed him and healed the survivors.

• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao that he wanted people to trust him rather than fear him.
• Xu Yanli's convoy left Ming Capital, met Kong Deming, and stopped for the night at a roadside relay station.
• Xu Yanli went out to contemplate his divine trials, but a scream and a wave of sinister energy drew him toward a burning village.
• Xu Yanli found an Evil Soul Master draining villagers and used his Angel Martial Soul and Purifying Fire to destroy him.
• Xu Yanli healed the injured villagers, who wept and knelt to thank him.

Xu Yanli completed the first trials of the God of Life and God of Destruction, merging their powers into a Light of Chaos. He received the second God Trial: he had to meditate beneath the Ancient Tree of Life and endure the Domain of Destruction Lightning daily for a year.

• Xu Yanli completed the first trial of the God of Life and the first trial of the God of Destruction, earning increased godhood affinity, Soul Power, and Soul Ring age.
• Xu Yanli explained that life meant protecting those who deserved to live and destruction meant removing what should not exist, causing the two seeds to fuse into the Light of Chaos.
• Two pillars of light carried Xu Yanli to a secret realm divided between a lush landscape and a barren domain struck by purple lightning.
• The overlapping voices of the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction set Xu Yanli's second trial: one hour of meditation under the Ancient Tree of Life and one hour in the Domain of Destruction Lightning each day for a year.
• Xu Yanli accepted the trial, and his consciousness returned to reality.

Xu Yanli left the devastated village after giving its survivors money, then arranged a free school in New City and helped a sick mother and her daughter. Two days later, he unveiled the completed New City Academy.

• Xu Yanli gave an old villager Gold Soul Coins to distribute among the survivors and told Huo Yuhao he wanted to protect ordinary people from suffering.
• Xu Yanli arrived in New City, approved an abandoned warehouse as a school site, and ordered renovations, supplies, and meals for the children.
• Xu Yanli bought a little girl's wild greens with a Gold Soul Coin and healed her sick mother with his First Soul Ring.
• Xu Yanli told the mother to send her child to the free school, then returned two days later to unveil the New City Academy signboard.

Xu Yanli opened New City Academy, then headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek an Eighth Soul Ring, revealing that he knew Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King. The chapter ended as Gu Yuena reacted with a surge of pressure and golden light in her eyes.

• Xu Yanli officially opened New City Academy, offering free schooling and meals to children aged six to twelve in exchange for future service to the imperial court or Xiaoyao Pavilion.
• Xu Yanli considered asking the Emerald Swan to provide his Eighth Soul Ring in exchange for help after he became a god.
• Xu Tianran dismissed an old official's objections to the academy and condemned the court for failing to oppose Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao that he planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his Eighth Soul Ring and bring Gu Yuena to negotiate.
• Xu Yanli told Xu Tianran about his plan, and Xu Tianran agreed to let him go with Long Xiaoyao and Gu Yuena.
• Xu Yanli found Gu Yuena at the academy and addressed her as the Silver Dragon King, prompting her to unleash a terrifying pressure.

Xu Yanli convinced Gu Yuena to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest, promising Bi Ji a new way to live and the Soul Beast Clan a path to greater power. There, his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul made Di Tian recoil, but the Ferocious Beasts turned hostile when Gu Yuena revealed Xu Yanli wanted Bi Ji as his Soul Ring.

• Xu Yanli told Gu Yuena he knew where Dragon Valley was and promised to help the Soul Beast Clan, restore Bi Ji with a new body, and bring back the Golden Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena agreed to take Xu Yanli to meet Bi Ji, while warning him that Bi Ji would decide for herself.
• Xu Yanli, Gu Yuena, and Long Xiaoyao flew to the core of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts appeared.
• Xu Yanli released his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul, and its superior bloodline pressure forced Di Tian to step back.
• Gu Yuena told the gathered Ferocious Beasts that Xu Yanli wanted Bi Ji to become his Soul Ring, provoking anger and killing intent.

Xu Yanli gained Bi Ji as a Soul Spirit after she accepted his offer, receiving an orange-gold Eighth Soul Ring and a left leg Soul Bone. As he left the Star Dou Great Forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion followed him, and Xu Yanli insisted it could not come with him.

• Bi Ji agreed to gamble on Xu Yanli's promises, despite Di Tian's objections.
• Electrolux formed a contract that turned Bi Ji into Xu Yanli's Soul Spirit and gave him an Eighth Soul Ring and a left leg Soul Bone.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion joyfully reunited with Xu Yanli, and Gu Yuena led the group back toward the forest's outskirts.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion followed Xu Yanli closely, while Gu Yuena explained that it had taken a liking to him and that great luck surrounded him.
• Xu Yanli said the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not leave the forest because it carried the Soul Beast Clan's fortune, but it whined and pressed against him.

Xu Yanli proposed rules to Long Xiaoyao for sparing Evil Soul Masters who reformed while executing those who continued harming innocents, and Long Xiaoyao agreed to discuss them with Xi Shui. Back at the Prince Xiaoyao Mansion, Xu Yanli entered his secret realm to heal his hidden injuries with the Ancient Tree of Life.

• Xu Yanli said goodbye to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, and she reluctantly returned to its depths.
• On the road, Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao that the Holy Spirit Cult had entrenched itself in the Sun Moon Empire and proposed sparing Evil Soul Masters who reformed while killing those who persisted in harming civilians.
• Long Xiaoyao agreed to discuss Xu Yanli's rules with Xi Shui and persuade her to accept them.
• Xu Yanli returned to the Prince Xiaoyao Mansion and entered his secret realm to meditate beneath the Ancient Tree of Life.
• The Ancient Tree of Life nourished Xu Yanli and healed his accumulated injuries for an hour before its force pushed him away.