Recaps

Xu Yanli endured the first day of the Second Trial of the divine examination, then returned to his duties and told Xu Tianran that he had obtained the Eighth Soul Ring. He began a serious discussion with Xu Tianran about the widespread harm caused by Evil Soul Masters.

• Xu Yanli entered the Thunder Domain and endured an hour of lightning that repeatedly destroyed and restored his body.
• After surviving the trial, Xu Yanli contemplated the forces of Life and Destruction and resolved to continue the next day.
• Xu Yanli returned to his physical body at dawn, spoke briefly with Luo Xu, and prepared to resume his state affairs.
• Xu Yanli went to the Hall of State Affairs and told Xu Tianran that he had obtained the Eighth Soul Ring.
• Xu Yanli described attacks and abuses by Evil Soul Masters across the continent and began discussing the issue with Xu Tianran.

Xu Yanli persuaded Xu Tianran to establish the Purification Department and let the Angel Clan openly lead purges of Evil Soul Masters. A year later, Xu Yanli had formed a Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core with life-and-destruction attributes.

• Xu Yanli proposed creating a court agency to purge Evil Soul Masters and secretly deploying the Angel Legion against factions outside the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tianran approved the Purification Department under Prince Xiaoyao Mansion and agreed that Xu Yanli could target Evil Soul Master remnants among the Second Prince's and Fourth Prince's followers.
• Xu Yanli told Lezheng Ling that the Angel Clan could operate openly, and Lezheng Ling accepted command of the purges.
• Xu Yanli sent Lezheng Ling to inform the clan leader that the Angel Clan no longer needed to hide.
• One year later, Xu Yanli rose from cultivation after forming a Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core, crediting his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon bloodline for his body's strength.

After completing his year-long second God Trial, Xu Yanli learned that Lezheng Yang had become a Limit Douluo and that the Angel Clan had grown stronger by purging Evil Soul Masters. Xu Yanli went with Lezheng Ling and Long Xiaoyao to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, where Ye Xishui recognized the young man waiting outside.

• Xu Yanli completed the Second God Trial and formed a second soul core from Life and Destruction.
• Lezheng Ling reported that Lezheng Yang had reached Level ninety-nine and that the Angel Clan had gained twelve Super Douluo while purging Evil Soul Masters.
• Lezheng Ling said the Holy Spirit Cult had grown unnaturally quiet, and Xu Yanli decided to visit its main altar that night.
• Xu Yanli, Lezheng Ling, and Long Xiaoyao arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult, and Long Xiaoyao removed his mask before meeting Ye Xishui.
• Ye Xishui recognized Xu Yanli as Prince Xiaoyao and smiled bitterly at how much he had changed.

Ye Xishui destroyed her Blood God Demon Puppet Martial Soul and chose to live openly with Long Xiaoyao using her Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul. Xu Yanli learned that the Original Three Kingdoms had assembled forces to assassinate him, and three days later their army gathered at the Mingdou Mountain Range.

• Ye Xishui asked Xu Yanli whether she could be forgiven for her crimes, then destroyed the essence of her Blood God Demon Puppet Martial Soul.
• Long Xiaoyao steadied Ye Xishui as she revealed her Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul and said she wanted to walk in the sunlight with him.
• Xu Yanli left the stone chamber as the Ancient Tree of Life and Domain of Destruction Lightning fused in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Kong Deming sent Xu Yanli an urgent message that the Original Three Kingdoms had assembled Titled Douluo to target him.
• Xu Yanli ordered Lezheng Ling to notify the clan leader and bring everyone to the Black Palace.
• Three days later, forces from the Star Luo Empire, Heavenly Soul, and Dou Ling Empire gathered at the Mingdou Mountain Range to attack Xu Yanli.

Lezheng Yang led the Angel Legion to crush the Allied Army’s attempt to attack Xu Yanli, capturing its leaders and escorting them toward Ming Capital. On the journey, he challenged the captives’ claims to represent justice and explained why the Angel Clan had chosen to stand with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Six Titled Douluo from the Original Three Kingdoms planned to attack Xu Yanli’s Prince’s Mansion while Long Xiaoyao was away.
• Lezheng Yang arrived at the Allied Army camp with more than a hundred Angel Soul Masters, including twelve Super Douluo and a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo.
• The Angel Legion overwhelmed the Allied Army, disarmed its Soul Masters, and bound them with soul-guiding chains because Xu Yanli wanted them alive.
• Lezheng Yang escorted the captives toward Ming Capital, where the procession stirred up public anger against the Original Three Kingdoms.
• When the captives denounced the Angel Clan, Lezheng Yang accused the Original Three Kingdoms of oppressing commoners and persecuting his clan for ten thousand years.
• The captives fell silent as Lezheng Yang exposed their interests in stopping Xu Yanli’s purge of Evil Soul Masters.

The defeated allied army reached Ming Capital, where Xu Yanli offered its captured Titled Douluo a choice between serving the Sun Moon Empire and dying. Four submitted, while Xu Tianran killed the two who refused, and the new defectors were granted honored status.

• The defeated allied army entered Ming Capital as the people cheered for Xu Yanli and the Angel Legion.
• Xu Tianran confronted the captured Titled Douluo, and Xu Yanli offered them submission or death.
• Four Titled Douluo pledged allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire, while Heaven Sun Douluo and Pale Wood Douluo refused.
• Xu Tianran revealed his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul and destroyed Heaven Sun Douluo and Pale Wood Douluo with Destruction Force.
• Xu Tianran welcomed the four who submitted as honored guests of the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Yanli refused to choose a consort before adulthood, then spent four years cultivating until he became a nineteen-year-old Limit Douluo. He completed the God of Life’s Seventh Trial, earning greater godhood affinity, divinized Soul Power, and a divine soul.

• Xu Yanli read Jing Hongchen’s recommendation of Meng Hongchen and Lezheng Yang’s recommendation of Ye Guyi, but told Xu Tianran he would consider marriage after reaching adulthood.
• Xu Yanli decided to assign the four newly pledged Titled Douluo to the Angel Legion under Lezheng Yang’s watch, and postponed bringing Long Xiaoyao over so he and Ye Xishui could spend time together.
• Lezheng Yang told Xu Yanli that Ye Guyi called him the best person in the world, and Luo Xu informed him that Du Busi had arrived at Prince Xiaoyao Mansion.
• Four years later, Xu Yanli finished cultivating in seclusion and reached Level ninety-nine at age nineteen, mastering the merged origin power of life and destruction.
• The Goddess of Life declared Xu Yanli’s Seventh Trial complete and awarded him twenty percent more godhood affinity, divinized Soul Power, and a divine soul.

Xu Yanli completed the God of Destruction’s Seventh Trial as the Divine Realm’s barrier over the Sun Moon Empire weakened, while Tang San remained unable to see inside it. At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong prepared to compete in the next tournament as the academy faced decline and the loss of Mu En.

• Xu Yanli received the rewards for completing the Seventh Trial and learned that he needed five more Soul Rings to complete the Eighth Trial.
• Luo Xu brought Xu Yanli an invitation to the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, and Xu Yanli ordered preparations as usual.
• Tang San failed to penetrate the barrier concealing the Sun Moon Empire, learned Wang Dong had reached the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo level, and decided she would represent Shrek in one tournament.
• Wang Dong reflected on Shrek’s decline, her growing distance from Xu Yanli, and Mu En’s death as Xuan Zi told her she was expected to compete.
• Wang Dong agreed to compete and asked Xuan Zi whether Shrek could still win.

Xu Yanli planned for Xiaoyao Pavilion to enter the continental tournament, which Emperor Xu Tianran intended to use to expose and eliminate the realm’s sects. Meanwhile, Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao received orders to secure the tournament and its opening ceremony, echoing Prince Xiaoyao’s plan for a military parade.

• Ye Guyi returned after completing the Purification Department’s affairs, and Xu Yanli noted that she had reached the ninety-third rank.
• Xu Yanli told Ye Guyi that Xiaoyao Pavilion would enter the tournament and assigned her to serve as a judge while concealing her strength.
• Ju Zi oversaw an artillery drill at the imperial army camp outside Ming Capital as deputy commander of the Long-range Soul Guidance Cannon Unit.
• Huo Yuhao delivered Xu Tianran’s deployment order directing Ju Zi and him to lead three hundred elite soldiers and fifty Soul Cannons in tournament security.
• Ju Zi realized that Xu Tianran intended the tournament to display the Empire’s military strength, much like the military parade Prince Xiaoyao had proposed.

Xu Yanli completed the Xiaoyao Pavilion tournament team lineup and began planning for the competition in Star Luo City. As the Sun Moon Empire prospered, he sensed trouble beneath the calm and prepared for his eventual confrontation with Tang San.

• Xu Yanli tasked Lezheng Ling with assembling the team, and Ye Guyi brought four elite Angel Soul Masters: Lezheng Xuan, Lezheng Yao, Lezheng Jin, and Lezheng Yu.
• Lezheng Ling reported that Yan Feng had arrived to join the team, and Xu Yanli questioned him about the Holy Spirit Cult's restrictions on his Bone Dragon Martial Soul.
• Yan Feng explained that Elder Yi had helped him remove the restrictions, and Xu Yanli accepted him as the seventh team member and assigned Lezheng Ling to organize training.
• Xu Yanli reviewed the empire's ongoing affairs, including the Body Sect's relocation, education reforms, aristocratic unrest, and the Purification Department's campaign against Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Yanli drafted the tournament plan, saw the Life God Seal on his palm, and resolved that defeating Tang San was necessary to unify the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Yanli insisted that the tournament rules allowed him to compete despite being a Limit Douluo, while he and Xu Tianran finalized plans for a grand military review. After three months of preparations and team training, the first visiting sect teams arrived in Ming Capital, and Xu Yanli went to greet them.

• Xu Yanli argued that no tournament rule barred a participant under twenty from competing as a Limit Douluo, and Xu Tianran reluctantly agreed.
• Xu Yanli outlined the military review’s troop formations, six Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons, venue, and accommodations for guests and competitors.
• Over the next three months, Ming Capital prepared for the tournament and military review while Xu Yanli’s team trained, with Huo Yuhao studying Spiritual Interference Soul Tools at Mingde Hall.
• Lezheng Ling reported that teams from major Heaven Dou Empire sects had reached Ming Capital, and Xu Yanli set out to welcome them.

Ming Capital hosted the opening ceremony of the continent-wide tournament after months of preparations and an influx of delegations. As Xu Yanli and Xu Tianran presided over the ceremony, Huo Yuhao led a disciplined Soul Engineer cavalry unit into the military parade.

• Xu Yanli welcomed the first visiting sects, and delegations from across the continent arrived in Ming Capital over the following months.
• Ming Capital filled with visitors as Xu Yanli spent his days receiving guests before the tournament's opening ceremony.
• Xu Tianran and Xu Yanli attended the ceremony, where Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Ning Tian, and representatives of the Body Sect and other groups watched from the stands.
• A bugle sounded and the military parade began with Huo Yuhao leading three hundred mounted close-combat Soul Engineers in precise formation.
• Huo Yuhao's cavalry marched past the reviewing stand and formed ranks at the left side of the square.

The Sun Moon Empire concluded its military review by displaying its elite forces and immense weaponry to the gathered powers. Xu Tianran officially opened the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament as the crowd applauded and cried, “Long live the emperor!”

• Ju Zi led three hundred cannon carriages carrying six hundred Level 7 or higher Soul Cannons past the reviewing stand.
• Xiao Dingtian led three hundred armored heavy cavalrymen, each at least a Soul Emperor, through the square.
• Lezheng Yang commanded more than a hundred Angel Legion members into formation and revealed his Limit Douluo strength, terrifying the foreign guests.
• Xu Yanli watched from the high platform as six Level 9 strategic Soul Cannons, pulled by Earth Dragons, completed the military display.
• Xu Tianran officially opened the tournament, prompting the gathered crowd to applaud and shout, “Long live the emperor!”

Xu Yanran watched the competition begin and reflected on his title, Qiyao, before encouraging Xiaoyao Pavilion to fight for the Sun Moon Empire. He expected Wang Dong to reveal her power and was prepared for the danger that might follow.

• Xu Tianran teased Xu Yanran about marriage, and Xu Yanran joined the competitors as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy was matched against Dragon Slaughter Sect.
• Xu Yanran judged that Wang Dong had reached Titled Douluo and suspected Tang San had sent her to trigger a powerful intervention.
• Xu Yanran recalled how Xu Tianran rejected his proposed title Xiaoyao and suggested Qiyao, a name that suited his Martial Soul.
• Xu Yanran urged Xiaoyao Pavilion to fight without holding back, while Yan Feng predicted the Regent had arranged for them to face a foreign team.

Gu Yuena and Gu Yuechan led the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to a series of overwhelming victories, while Xu Yanli watched from the sidelines. Their match against Red Flame Academy turned deadly when its captain tried to detonate his Martial Soul Origin, but a mysterious streak of white light stopped him, leaving even the Titled Douluos stunned.

• Gu Yuena deflected the Dragon Slaughter Sect leader's attack and disarmed him with a wind blade.
• Gu Yuechan knocked the other six Dragon Slaughter Sect members into the air and defeated them, giving the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy a victory in under ten seconds.
• Xu Yanli learned that the academy's next opponent was Yunlan Academy and continued watching as his team and the Xiaoyao Sect won their later matches easily.
• During the match against Red Flame Academy, its fighters used vicious tactics, and their captain attempted to detonate his Martial Soul Origin after being forced back.
• A streak of white light struck Red Flame Academy's captain, suppressed and extinguished his Martial Soul Origin, and left him unconscious.
• The arena fell silent as the Titled Douluos searched for the source of the attack, while Xu Tianran briefly paused with his teacup before composing himself.

Xu Yanli protected the Sun Moon team from sabotage as Xiaoyao Pavilion overwhelmed the Mystic Ice Sect, leaving the tournament champion all but settled. During the three-day break, he read reports of border cities voluntarily welcoming Sun Moon troops, then received a summons from the Crown Prince.

• Xu Yanli secretly stopped attacks on Sun Moon team members, and onlookers realized he was a nineteen-year-old Limit Douluo.
• Yan Feng revealed his Dark Bone Dragon and overwhelmed all seven Mystic Ice Sect members with his draconic might, securing Xiaoyao Pavilion's victory.
• The preliminaries ended, and a three-day break began as Xu Yanli rested beneath an osmanthus tree at the Prince's Mansion.
• Xu Yanli read a report that two Heaven Dou border cities had surrendered voluntarily after Sun Moon troops aided their people and punished corrupt nobles and officials.
• Luo Xu told Xu Yanli that the Crown Prince had summoned him to discuss an important matter.

Xu Yanli and Xiaoyao Pavilion advanced to the tournament’s final four, where they were set to face Shrek Academy. Believing Xu Yanli was the only opponent Shrek had to overcome, Wang Dong'er decided to challenge him alone, and the packed arena awaited their match.

• Xu Yanli asked Luo Xu what people meant by calling the surrendered cities in the Heaven Dou Empire “the rightful line,” then left the Prince's Mansion.
• Xiaoyao Pavilion, Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and Star Luo Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced to the next round, and the public focused on Xu Yanli's expected strength.
• Wang Dong'er read a letter that said she could awaken the divine sense within her Martial Soul against a powerful foe.
• Bei Bei told Wang Dong'er that Shrek would face Xiaoyao Pavilion, and she declared she would fight Xu Yanli alone.
• Wang Dong'er stayed awake through the night but left no message, while Xu Yanli slept peacefully.
• The Soul Fighting Arena filled with spectators waiting for Xiaoyao Pavilion and Shrek to face each other.

Wang Dong'er and Xu Yanli faced off in the tournament, where Xu Yanli revealed he had reached level 99 at nineteen. He effortlessly deflected her attacks before unveiling his Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul and extraordinary Soul Rings, leaving the duel poised to escalate.

• Wang Dong'er and Xu Yanli entered the arena and began their duel before a crowd of 150,000 spectators.
• Wang Dong'er revealed her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul, nine Soul Rings, and level 91 cultivation.
• Xu Yanli announced he was a level 99 Limit Douluo, stunning the audience.
• Wang Dong'er launched successive Soul Skills at Xu Yanli, but he blocked each attack without moving from his spot.
• Xu Yanli released his Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul and illuminated all nine of his extraordinary Soul Rings at once.

Wang Dong'er invoked the divine thought within her Martial Soul, allowing Sea God Tang San to descend during her duel with Xu Yanli. Xu Yanli used his fused Life and Destruction powers to destroy Tang San's manifestation, and the backlash struck Tang San in the Divine Realm.

• Wang Dong'er summoned Sea God Tang San through her Ninth Soul Skill, Sea God's Descent, and his divine pressure overwhelmed the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Xu Yanli welcomed Tang San's arrival and fused his Life and Destruction powers into his Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Creation Judgment.
• Xu Yanli's Creation Judgment shattered Tang San's divine thought in a single strike.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San suffered a searing backlash as his divine thought was destroyed, and Xiao Wu rushed to his side.

Xu Yanli caught the unconscious Wang Dong'er, healed her injuries, and kept her from falling to her death. Da Ming and Er Ming confronted him on the arena platform and demanded that he release her.

• Wang Dong'er fell unconscious toward the arena floor as the Shrek spectators watched helplessly.
• Xu Yanli caught Wang Dong'er and used his Holy Prayer Sun Moon Light Heal to stabilize her and heal her injuries.
• Da Ming and Er Ming activated their Slow and Gravity Domains and landed on the platform beside Xu Yanli.
• Da Ming ordered Xu Yanli to let Wang Dong'er go while Er Ming intensified the pressure on him.
• Xu Yanli gently laid Wang Dong'er on the ground and cushioned her head with his arm.

Xu Yanli effortlessly defeated Da Ming and Er Ming after they disrupted the competition, overpowering their strongest attacks and restraining them with Destruction Force. He declared that the Clear Sky Sect deserved death for the disturbance.

• Er Ming attacked Xu Yanli with Thousand Jun Throw, but Xu Yanli dispelled the domains, stopped the sphere, and knocked Er Ming out with one punch.
• Da Ming trapped Xu Yanli with Falling Devil Coiling Dragon Ring and struck with Azure Annihilation Thunder, but Xu Yanli's Martial Soul Avatar destroyed both attacks.
• Xu Yanli bound Da Ming and Er Ming with Destruction Force chains, leaving them unable to resist.
• Xu Yanli said that disrupting the competition was a crime for which the Clear Sky Sect deserved death.

Xu Yanli defeated Da Ming and Er Ming in the arena, then took them and the unconscious Wang Dong'er into custody. He left Da Ming and Er Ming in separate underground cells while a physician prepared to treat Wang Dong'er.

• The arena fell silent after Xu Yanli's victory, and the Sun Moon Empire's spectators began cheering for Prince Xiaoyao.
• Xu Yanli bound Da Ming, Er Ming, and Wang Dong'er with chains of Destruction Force and led them off the stage.
• Da Ming and Er Ming recognized how thoroughly Xu Yanli had overwhelmed them as they were dragged through the arena's passageways.
• Lezheng Ling and Angel Legion soldiers escorted the group to the underground cells.
• Da Ming and Er Ming were locked in separate cells, while Wang Dong'er was placed in a clean room with a physician summoned by Xu Yanli.

After Xu Yanli ensured Wang Dong'er would survive, the fleeing factions from the Original Three Kingdoms were trapped inside Ming Capital by the Sun Moon Empire's forces. The chapter ended with the surrounded sects and families in despair, while Shrek's residence was identified as a secluded courtyard in the city's east.

• A physician told Xu Yanli that Wang Dong'er was out of danger but needed half a month to a month to recover.
• Xu Yanli ordered the guards to keep Wang Dong'er alive, then told Lezheng Ling the tournament would not continue because everyone had fled.
• The factions from the Original Three Kingdoms fled the stands, and Ju Zi's Soul Cannons blocked those heading toward Ming Capital's southern gate.
• The Fire Phoenix Legion, Dreadclaw Legion, and Purple Brilliance Legion sealed the other gates while Lezheng Yang and the Angel Legion guarded the skies.
• Lezheng Yang announced that none of the fleeing factions would be allowed to escape, leaving them trapped and desperate inside Ming Capital.
• The narration identified Shrek's residence as a secluded courtyard in the eastern part of the city.

Shrek’s remaining team spent a sleepless night trapped under Angel Legion patrols in the Ming Capital after the tournament’s public confrontation. Bei Bei realized Xuan Zi had fled, while Xu Tianran prepared the city’s defenses.

• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Ling Luochеn, and Dai Huabin waited in the brightly lit courtyard as Angel Legion patrols circled overhead.
• Bei Bei told Dai Huabin that none of them could escape their confinement.
• Bei Bei recalled that Xuan Zi had vanished after the Sea God’s projection was shattered and Xu Yanli took Da Ming, Er Ming, and Wang Dong'er away.
• Bei Bei saw that most of Shrek’s accompanying inner court disciples had scattered or been taken by Sun Moon Empire soldiers.
• Xu Sanshi urged the others to rest, but nobody slept that night.
• Xu Tianran studied a defense map of the Ming Capital marked with the positions of the empire’s legions.

Xu Yanli returned to the Imperial Study and proposed using his wedding as a reason to keep the captured sect leaders in Ming Capital. Xu Tianran agreed to arrange the wedding while Xu Yanli set out to hunt the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and complete his Eighth Trial.

• Xu Tianran ordered the sect leaders confined for now, while the envoys from the Original Three Kingdoms remained under house arrest and those with clean records could eventually go free.
• Xu Yanli reported that Wang Dong'er was recovering and that Da Ming and Er Ming were securely imprisoned.
• Xu Yanli proposed his wedding as a legitimate excuse to keep the captured sect leaders in Ming Capital until the celebration.
• Xu Yanli said he would hunt the 870,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant Lord to complete the Eighth Trial of the God of Destruction.
• Xu Tianran approved the plan and agreed to arrange the wedding, and Xu Yanli asked him not to choose an outrageous bride.