Chapter Summaries

Tang San grew angry as his plans for Huo Yuhao and Xiao Qi became harder to control, while Xiao Wu worried about their daughter. At the God Realm Committee, the God of Destruction accused Tang San of abusing his power in the lower realm, and the Goddess of Life stopped their confrontation before it escalated.

• Tang San struggled to understand why his control over Huo Yuhao and the lower realm's destiny had weakened.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San whether something had happened to Xiao Qi, and he reassured her that it was only a minor accident.
• The God of Destruction mocked Tang San for scheming in the lower realm and accused him of treating the God Realm as private property.
• Tang San and the God of Destruction confronted each other, and their divine powers made the council chamber tremble.
• The Goddess of Life intervened, calmed their auras, and warned Tang San against interfering too much in the lower realm.

After the God Realm Committee meeting, Tang San brooded over Destruction’s accusations and feared his plans for Huo Yuhao would be exposed. He decided to deepen Xiao Qi’s bond with Huo Yuhao by using the control core hidden in a fragment of her Divine Soul, sending it toward Shrek Academy.

• Tang San accepted the Goddess of Life’s intervention and promised to submit a proposal about the God Realm’s population and resources, while Destruction privately mocked him.
• At the Sea God Temple, Tang San suspected several gods or the mysterious shadowy figure of revealing his interference in the lower realms and resolved to secure Huo Yuhao through Xiao Qi.
• Tang San admitted to Xiao Wu that he had chosen Huo Yuhao for his destiny and usefulness, and that he intended Xiao Qi and Huo Yuhao to marry regardless of what they wanted.
• Tang San activated Xiao Qi’s separated Divine Soul fragment, sending commands toward Huo Yuhao to make Xiao Qi trust him, depend on him, and fall in love with him.

Dai Tu sensed that the Eye of Destiny was slowly evolving his Mangekyō Sharingan toward the Six Paths Sage Eye, then received his second Life and Destruction trials. He chose to begin by healing injured Body Sect disciples.

• Tang San used the crystal to influence Wang Dong and his future, determined that Huo Yuhao would belong to the Tang Family, and claimed Douluo Continent and the God Realm for the Tang name.
• Dai Tu sensed the Eye of Destiny merging with him and accelerating a transformation of his Mangekyō Sharingan, which he suspected might lead to the Six Paths Sage Eye.
• Dai Tu considered seeking the Evil Eye Tyrant's spiritual power to fuel the transformation but decided to focus first on increasing his strength and completing his God Trials.
• Dai Tu received the second Life Trial to heal one hundred soul masters above rank thirty or ten above rank fifty, and the second Destruction Trial to undergo one hundred reincarnations and understand destruction.
• Dai Tu left his meditation chamber and headed to the Body Sect training grounds to begin healing its injured disciples.

Dai Tu used his Tree of Life Martial Soul to heal more than two hundred Body Sect disciples, earning their gratitude and completing over half the requirements for the Shepherd of the World life trial. After resting, he began the Heart Tempering destruction trial and faced a blood-red illusion of Konoha's massacre, where the Eye of Destiny opened slightly.

• Dai Tu offered to test his new healing soul skill on the training-ground disciples and treat their hidden injuries.
• Dai Tu healed the Iron Bone senior brother's old injuries, then treated more than two hundred disciples over three days.
• Dai Tu returned to his room with Long Aotian's help, having completed more than half of the Shepherd of the World trial and gained the sect's respect.
• Dai Tu rested for a day, then entered seclusion to begin the Heart Tempering destruction trial.
• Dai Tu relived the massacre of Konoha as a voice urged him to destroy his enemies, and the Eye of Destiny opened a narrow slit.

Dai Tu passed the Heart Tempering trial, earning Life and Destruction affinities, Soul Rings, and Domains. He and Du Busi arrived at Shrek City to bring Huo Yuhao back, and Dai Tu planned to enter the academy alone to meet him first.

• Dai Tu broke the blood-red illusion by awakening Kamui: Truth-Breaking and passed the Second Destruction Trial: Heart Tempering.
• Dai Tu received the Life Domain and Destruction Domain, along with increased affinities and a God-bestowed Soul Ring from each completed trial.
• Dai Tu reached Soul Power level thirty-nine and decided it was time to find Huo Yuhao.
• Dai Tu and Du Busi arrived in Shrek City disguised and discussed how to take Huo Yuhao from Shrek Academy.
• Dai Tu told Du Busi to wait outside while he entered the academy alone to see Huo Yuhao and signal if he needed help.

Dai Tu used Kamui to infiltrate Shrek Academy while Huo Yuhao returned from the Far North as a powerful Soul Grandmaster with two Martial Souls. At the start of the new term, he reunited with Wang Dong and headed with her to register.

• Dai Tu activated Kamui: Intangibility and vanished into the Kamui Dimension from an alley beside Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the outer courtyard as a rank twenty-two Soul Grandmaster with the Spirit Eye and Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Souls.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao to keep his secrets and stay low-key, and Huo Yuhao resolved to focus on his strength and revenge.
• Huo Yuhao walked toward registration and encountered Wang Dong, who was glad to see him after waiting through the break.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong a vague explanation for not replying to her messages, and they walked together toward registration.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong registered for the new term, but their trip to class was interrupted when Dai Huabin recognized Huo Yuhao and insulted him. Wang Dong defended her friend as the two sides confronted each other outside the registration office, until an older voice ordered Dai Huabin to stop.

• Huo Yuhao suppressed his growing feelings for Wang Dong as they walked together to the registration office.
• Huo Yuhao registered at Soul Power Level Twenty-Two, and Wang Dong registered at Level Twenty-Seven.
• Dai Huabin arrived with his lackeys, and Huo Yuhao struggled to contain his hatred upon seeing his half-brother.
• Dai Huabin called Huo Yuhao a bastard, and Wang Dong stepped between them to defend him.
• Dai Huabin's lackeys moved forward as the confrontation grew tense, then a hoarse voice told Dai Huabin to stop.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng at Shrek Academy, then wrestled with his grief and doubts about avenging his mother. An unknown voice tested his resolve, and Huo Yuhao vowed that he would dare to kill his enemies if given the chance.

• Dai Yueheng appeared in a wheelchair, and he and Dai Huabin insulted Huo Yuhao before leaving for the inner courtyard.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to make Dai Huabin, Dai Yueheng, and the White Tiger Duke Mansion pay, then walked away with Wang Dong.
• Dai Tu watched the confrontation while invisible and was pleased that Huo Yuhao still held onto his hatred.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong to go to class and, alone, grieved over his mother and his inability to take revenge.
• An unseen voice questioned whether Huo Yuhao truly wanted revenge and asked if he would dare kill Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng.
• Huo Yuhao declared that he would, and the voice promised to contact him again.

After a mysterious powerhouse offered Huo Yuhao help with revenge, Dai Tu appeared at the freight yard where Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng had gone expecting to face Huo Yuhao. Dai Tu summoned Dai Huabin with an icy command, leaving the brothers trapped in what they recognized as an ambush.

• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he would accept help from the mysterious voice if it let him avenge himself on Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Huabin pushed Dai Yueheng in a wheelchair to the abandoned freight yard for the duel Huo Yuhao had supposedly arranged.
• Dai Yueheng warned Dai Huabin that Huo Yuhao's rapid cultivation and invitation could mean he had powerful support.
• A black vortex opened in the yard, and Dai Yueheng recognized its aura as the one used by the youth who had appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Tu emerged from the vortex, ignored Dai Yueheng, and ordered Dai Huabin to come to him.

Dai Tu defeated Dai Huabin and trapped Dai Yueheng, then revealed that he was Dai Hao’s illegitimate son. Dai Yueheng recognized him as someone from Konoha.

• Dai Huabin attacked Dai Tu with two soul skills, but Dai Tu vanished and seized him from behind, disabling his Soul Power and injuring him.
• Dai Yueheng tried to intervene, but Dai Tu warned him that he would be next.
• Dai Tu bound Dai Yueheng and his wheelchair with vines, suppressing his Soul Power and taunting him for his injuries.
• Dai Yueheng asked who Dai Tu was, and Dai Tu revealed that he was Dai Hao’s illegitimate son whom Dai Yueheng and his family had tried to erase.
• Dai Yueheng recognized Dai Tu and began to ask if he was from Konoha.

Huo Yuhao followed a mysterious summons to an abandoned brick kiln, where Dai Tu had captured Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng and offered him a knife. Huo Yuhao hesitated over the consequences of killing them, and Dai Tu insisted he choose before revealing who he was or why he had helped.

• Huo Yuhao entered the abandoned kiln after a mysterious voice promised him a gift.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Dai Tu’s strange aura and recognized an uncanny resonance between them.
• Huo Yuhao discovered Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng bound inside the kiln.
• Dai Tu handed Huo Yuhao a knife and ordered him to kill the two captives.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Dai Tu’s motives and worried that the offer was a trap.
• Dai Tu said he would explain himself only if Huo Yuhao killed them.

Huo Yuhao nearly killed Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng after Dai Huabin insulted his mother, but he hesitated when they appealed to his future and ties at Shrek Academy. Dai Tu challenged his resolve by warning that he would eventually forgive the White Tiger Duke Mansion, leaving Huo Yuhao shaken and horrified.

• Dai Huabin insulted Huo Yuhao's mother, and Huo Yuhao's hesitation turned into killing intent.
• Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin pleaded for their lives, offering apologies, wealth, and a place for Huo Yuhao in the White Tiger Duke Mansion.
• Dai Huabin reminded Huo Yuhao that killing them could cost him his place at Shrek Academy, making Huo Yuhao hesitate again.
• Dai Tu accused Huo Yuhao of letting self-interest weaken his revenge and predicted that he would eventually forgive and reconcile with the White Tiger Duke Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao was horrified by Dai Tu's prediction that his future self would forgive those who had destroyed his life.

Huo Yuhao overcame his hesitation and killed Dai Huabin, while Dai Tu killed Dai Yueheng with Amaterasu. Dai Tu revealed that he was Huo Yuhao’s half-brother and promised to share his vengeance.

• Dai Tu challenged Huo Yuhao to prove his hatred by killing the men who had tormented him.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Huabin’s pleas and stabbed him to death.
• Dai Yueheng begged Huo Yuhao for mercy and blamed Zhu Yue, but Dai Tu killed him with Amaterasu.
• Dai Tu explained that he had his own vengeance to pursue because his younger sister Arin was among the fifty-three people of Konoha who had been killed.
• Dai Tu told Huo Yuhao that they were half-brothers and pledged to walk the path of vengeance with him.

After learning that Dai Tu was his half-brother and shared his hatred of the White Tiger Duke Mansion, Huo Yuhao agreed to flee with him to the Body Sect. As they prepared to leave, Huo Yuhao asked to say goodbye to Wang Dong, stirring Dai Tu’s suspicion that Wang Dong was part of Tang San’s plan to control him.

• Dai Tu told Huo Yuhao that Zhu Ye had slaughtered his family in Konoha Village and revealed that they were half-brothers with the same enemies.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Dai Tu as his brother and thanked him for killing Dai Yueheng and avenging his family.
• Dai Tu urged Huo Yuhao to leave for the Body Sect, explaining that his Spirit Eye and Ice Jade Empress Scorpion made him a valuable recruit.
• After hearing support from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Huo Yuhao agreed to go with Dai Tu but asked to say goodbye to Wang Dong first.
• Dai Tu suspected that Wang Dong was Tang Wutong’s altered divine-soul fragment and a tool Tang San had used to bind Huo Yuhao.

Dai Tu took Huo Yuhao to meet Wang Dong before they left Shrek Academy for the Body Sect. He revealed that Wang Dong was Tang Wutong, one of a god’s daughter’s Divine Soul fragments, implanted with commands to bind and control Huo Yuhao, leaving both of them shaken by the revelation.

• Dai Tu agreed to accompany Huo Yuhao to see Wang Dong, then erased the traces of Dai Huabin’s death and secretly brought Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong to meet him and told her he had decided to leave Shrek Academy for the Body Sect.
• Wang Dong confronted Dai Tu and tried to protect Huo Yuhao, but Dai Tu called her Tang Wutong and questioned her instinctive attachment to him.
• Dai Tu revealed that Wang Dong was one of three Divine Soul fragments implanted with commands to approach and control Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong denied the revelation and said her father would never do that, prompting Huo Yuhao to realize that her father might be a god.

Dai Tu forced Wang Dong to see a vision of Tang San dividing her Divine Soul into three fragments and shaping her life to bind her to Huo Yuhao. Wang Dong broke down after seeing the fate planned for her, while Dai Tu left her to confront the truth.

• Dai Tu accused Tang San of treating Wang Dong as a tool and told her that her life and feelings had never been her own.
• Dai Tu used his Third Soul Skill, Kotoamatsukami: Illusionary World, to show Wang Dong memories of Tang San splitting her Divine Soul into three pieces.
• Wang Dong saw how Tang San arranged her meeting and closeness with Huo Yuhao and planned to reunite her soul fragments into Tang Wutong.
• Wang Dong watched the vision of her becoming Tang Wutong, Huo Yuhao's wife and the God Realm's Crown Princess, while losing the identity of Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong collapsed in anguish and denied the vision as Dai Tu told her that her life had been a deception.

After Dai Tu used Kotoamatsukami to make Wang Dong believe Tang San had engineered her life and feelings, she broke down before resolving to resist her father’s control. She agreed to go with Dai Tu to the Body Sect to grow strong enough to fight back.

• Dai Tu watched Wang Dong collapse in grief after the implanted memories convinced her she had been made into a tool for Tang San’s plans.
• Huo Yuhao wanted to comfort Wang Dong but stayed back, while Dai Tu waited for her to recover.
• Wang Dong questioned Dai Tu about the truth, and he pointed to her memories and the panic she felt when resisting her father’s arrangements as proof.
• Wang Dong recognized that her fear had been a mechanism of control and developed a cold hatred for Tang San.
• Wang Dong agreed to go to the Body Sect with Dai Tu so she could become strong enough to break free and retaliate.

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao chose to leave Shrek Academy for the Body Sect, and Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao reaffirmed their friendship. Xuan Zi confronted them and Dai Tu, and Dai Tu’s accusations against Shrek Academy drove Xuan Zi to threaten him.

• Wang Dong told Dai Tu she had decided to join the Body Sect and seek revenge on Tang San, and Huo Yuhao agreed to leave with her.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao whether he blamed her for possibly being programmed to befriend him, and he assured her that their friendship was real to him.
• As the three prepared to leave Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi appeared and demanded to know what they were doing with Dai Tu.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong told Xuan Zi they were leaving for the Body Sect, but Xuan Zi insulted the sect and ordered them to stay away from Dai Tu.
• Dai Tu accused Shrek Academy of corruption and criticized Xuan Zi, its training, and its past actions in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Enraged by Dai Tu’s accusations, Xuan Zi threatened to teach him a lesson.

Dai Tu condemned Shrek Academy in front of Xuan Zi, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong recognized the truth in his accusations. They declared that they were leaving for the Body Sect, and Xuan Zi turned his fury on Dai Tu.

• Dai Tu's insults about Shrek Academy's training, the Shrek Inspectorate, and the Star Dou Great Forest incident left Xuan Zi unable to refute him.
• Wang Dong snickered at Xuan Zi, while Huo Yuhao agreed with Dai Tu and recalled how Shrek had denied him permanent core disciple status and provided little meaningful support.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Shrek Academy had not earned his loyalty, and he told Xuan Zi that he and Wang Dong were leaving for the Body Sect.
• Wang Dong stood beside Huo Yuhao and confirmed that she had had enough of Shrek Academy and was leaving.
• Xuan Zi felt humiliated by Wang Dong's decision and accused Dai Tu of bewitching them.

Xuan Zi attacked Dai Tu for trying to recruit Shrek Academy disciples, but Dai Tu broke free of his spatial confinement at great cost. Just as Xuan Zi launched a stronger strike, Du Busi intervened to protect his disciple and challenged Xuan Zi to fight.

• Xuan Zi confined Dai Tu with spatial power and tried to crush him.
• Dai Tu used Kamui: Distortion to shatter the confinement, badly straining his left eye and exhausting much of his Soul Power.
• Xuan Zi summoned a massive Taotie claw and brought it down on Dai Tu.
• Du Busi arrived, blocked the claw, and warned Xuan Zi not to touch his disciple again.
• Xuan Zi demanded to know why Du Busi had interfered, and Du Busi declared he would fight him if he objected.
• Xuan Zi insisted that Du Busi could not run wild on Shrek Academy grounds.