Chapter Summaries

Shangguan Li introduced Xue Qinghe to the Happy Hot Pot Restaurant’s food and soul-power-storing heating device, and the shop quickly became popular. Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong arrived at the restaurant, while someone watching from the shadows was shocked and resentful to see Ning Rongrong alive.

• Shangguan Li explained how to cook the raw dishes with the stored-soul-power heating device and recommended her secret sauce and mashed shrimp to Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe tasted the hot pot and praised its flavor, while Shangguan Li and Shaohua discussed the restaurant’s popularity and its plans for the future.
• The chapter described how the restaurant attracted customers through its managers, varied menu, takeout service, the crown prince’s patronage, and its flavor.
• Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong arrived at the Happy Hot Pot Restaurant after Ning Rongrong had long hoped to visit.
• A hidden observer saw Ning Rongrong alive and called her a little bitch.

Shangguan Li joined Qian Renxue at the City of Slaughter, where she purified the corrupted area and freed a tormented Spirit Hall Empire soldier from his resentment. Afterward, Qian Renxue decided to join the war to bring about the Spirit Hall Empire’s unification of the continent and end the fighting sooner.

• Qian Renxue and Little Pear told Shangguan Li that the City of Slaughter had unleashed an ominous aura, and Yun Ming explained he had kept the crisis from her until backup was needed.
• Shangguan Li arrived near the City of Slaughter and used the Sea God Trident to purify the surroundings, but she found one patch of ground that resisted her power.
• Qian Renxue identified the source as a tortured Spirit Hall Empire soldier whose resentment had driven him mad.
• Shangguan Li combined Modified Sea God's Light with undead magic to cleanse the soldier's resentment, allowing his original soul to appear and be reborn.
• Qian Renxue said she would join the Spirit Hall Empire's war to hasten the unification of the Douluo Continent, explaining that it was her mother's and Grandpa's aspiration.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to preserve Tang San and Ning Rongrong’s engagement after learning Tang San might be a deity successor, while a Spirit Hall spy reported the claim to Qian Renxue. As Qian Renxue prepared for her enthronement, Qian Daoliu received the Angel God’s order to bring her back to Spirit Hall, and wondered about another person with an angel martial soul.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that she had overheard Tang San speaking about going to a certain place and believed he had inherited a deity’s legacy.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to keep Tang San and Ning Rongrong’s engagement and ordered Ning Rongrong and Jian Douluo to keep the secret.
• A Spirit Hall spy reported the suspected deity successor to Qian Renxue, who ordered Snake Lance Douluo to inform the Pope and the Great Enshrined.
• Qian Renxue reviewed the schedule for her enthronement ceremony, which would be attended by Spirit Hall, the Star Luo Empire, and major sects.
• The Angel God told Qian Daoliu to bring the Angel God’s successor to Spirit Hall, and Qian Daoliu recalled Qian Renxue’s report about someone with a non-six-winged angel martial soul.

Shangguan Li arrived in a wartime world similar to the Douluo Continent and reunited with Little Pear, who warned her not to investigate what was attracting her there. After Qiao Di scouted the area, he vanished, leaving Shaohua and the others to hope Shangguan Li would return safely.

• Shangguan Li arrived in a forest and found Little Pear, who explained that the world resembled the Douluo Continent but existed in a different time and was at war.
• Little Pear told Shangguan Li that his clan had left seclusion to search for a stolen Treasure, but refused to explain why the world seemed to be attracting her.
• Shangguan Li summoned Qiao Di and asked him to investigate the world and the source of her attraction to it.
• Little Pear said black fog had blocked his Spacetime Tunnel and suspected Wuxie was responsible for interfering across spacetimes.
• Qiao Di reported that the world was not the Douluo Continent, though its Bloodline-based battles resembled Martial Souls and Shangguan Li could use her Martial Soul there.
• After Qiao Di vanished from the Douluo Continent, Shaohua felt relieved, while Ning Rongrong sensed something and laughed.

Dai Mubai found Zhu Zhuqing after five years of seclusion and tried to persuade her to return to the Star Luo Empire, warning her that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Zhu Zhuqing refused and went to Shangguan Li’s home, unaware that Dai Mubai secretly followed her.

• Dai Mubai recalled how the Star Luo Emperor had rejected cooperation over Spirit Hall and wondered whether Tang San had foreseen the sect’s destruction.
• Zhu Zhuqing ended her seclusion as a Soul Douluo and decided to seek out her teachers.
• Dai Mubai met Zhu Zhuqing and told her that Spirit Hall had wiped out the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then asked her to return with him.
• Zhu Zhuqing refused, insisting she would not return before reaching the strength of a true powerhouse.
• Dai Mubai pretended to leave, then secretly followed Zhu Zhuqing to Shangguan Li’s home, where she learned her teacher was away.

After Shrek Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, Shaohua and Shangguan Li confronted Ning Fengzhi over the trouble he had caused at their hotpot restaurant. Shangguan Li overwhelmed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with her strength, and the women left after Ning Fengzhi promised an explanation.

• Shrek Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, and its victory brought the team and Tang San widespread attention.
• Shaohua told Shangguan Li that she intended to confront whoever had caused trouble at her restaurant, and Shangguan Li agreed to go with her.
• Shaohua and Shangguan Li entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect openly and confronted Ning Fengzhi about the incident at the restaurant.
• Ning Fengzhi denied knowing what Shaohua meant, so Shangguan Li revealed her powerful soul rings and suppressed the sect members with her aura.
• Ning Fengzhi blamed the trouble on a man he had supposedly sent as a bodyguard, and Shaohua demanded a satisfactory explanation.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Shangguan Li whether she had other relatives, but she denied any connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before the women left.

After Tang San and Zhao Wuji were carried safely out of the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Hao returned to avenge his son by fighting the Titan Giant Ape. The battle turned against Tang Hao, but his desperate final attack left the Titan Giant Ape fatally wounded as Xiao Wu and Da Ming went to investigate.

• Qin Min organized the Shrek Academy students to carry the injured Zhao Wuji and Tang San safely out of the forest.
• Tang Hao saw his son leave safely, then returned to find the Titan Giant Ape and vent his anger.
• The Titan Giant Ape told Xiao Wu that the ferocious beasts had helped it and Da Ming grow stronger, while Xiao Wu explained why she hated Tang San and praised Li Pei.
• Tang Hao confronted the Titan Giant Ape, whose anger grew when it recognized that Tang Hao's seventh spirit ring came from one of its kin.
• Shangguan Li and Shaohua arrived as Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape fought, and the Titan Giant Ape gained the advantage with its Gravity Domain.
• Xiao Wu urged Da Ming to go check on Er Ming, unaware that Tang Hao's desperate final strike had inflicted fatal, irreversible wounds on the Titan Giant Ape.

Shangguan Li investigated the dangerous aura spreading across Douroland and learned that Tang San’s growing fortune had reduced her ability to kill him. At the aura’s source, she found villages full of corrupted people and began destroying them, while the number of fallen ones continued to rise.

• Shaohua ordered Shangguan Li and Qiao Di to watch for people possessed by the dangerous power and exterminate them.
• The system told Shangguan Li that her Tang San Abuse Value had fallen to fifty-five percent because Tang San had contacted the Asura God and reclaimed some of his fortune.
• During the promotional tournament, Shangguan Li and Shaohua investigated aura sources and found desolate places covered in bones and blood.
• Shangguan Li killed a man carrying the black aura, then discovered that the abandoned village was filled with corrupted people.
• After Shaohua explained that the corrupted were generally beyond recovery, Shangguan Li used her ninth spirit skill, Tide of Annihilation, to eliminate them.
• Shangguan Li encountered many more fallen ones across Douroland, confirming that the danger was spreading.

Shangguan Li learned that Wuxie had invaded the Divine Realm and agreed to travel to Sea God Island to inherit the God of Destruction’s position. After waking, she discussed the urgent inheritance summons with her family, while Shaohua remained worried about leaving Heaven Dou City and facing Wuxie.

• Shangguan Li declined to reveal Shaohua’s past-life memories and asked whether she could inherit a divine position without leaving the Douluo Continent immediately.
• The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction explained that Shangguan Li could stay on the continent for up to a hundred years after inheriting, and that Wuxie had consumed the Rakshasa God's divine position and seized most of the Divine Realm.
• The God of Destruction revealed that the deities had taken refuge in the Divine Realm Center and asked Shangguan Li to go to Sea God Island; the Sea God also asked her to check on the Sea Soul Masters.
• Shangguan Li agreed to complete her divine trial at Sea God Island and returned to find Ya Li and Yun Ming had also been urged to inherit their positions.
• Shaohua worried that Wuxie’s power had nearly recovered and resisted leaving Heaven Dou City, while Shangguan Li urged her to join the short trip to Sea God Island.

Ma Hongjun gained the Phoenix Wings Soaring skill, and Shangguan Li sent Tian Meng to confront Shrek Academy after sensing a powerful soul beast in the Sunset Forest. The chapter ended with Tian Meng challenging the group over Yu Xiaogang’s claim that soul beasts were resources for human cultivation.

• Ma Hongjun finished absorbing his soul ring and gained the Phoenix Wings Soaring skill.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender told the students to hunt for the remaining soul rings themselves, and Tang San arranged the team’s formation.
• Shangguan Li sensed a powerful soul beast in the Sunset Forest and asked Tian Meng to confront Shrek Academy without exposing the guardian soul beast.
• Shangguan Li realized that the realm’s rules restricted his power and that directly harming Tang San could get him banished.
• Tian Meng stopped the Shrek group and accused someone among them of calling soul beasts resources for human cultivation, shocking Tang San.

Shangguan Li and Qian Renxue tried to pull Bibi Dong out of the darkness consuming him, and Qian Renxue confessed that she loved her mother despite Bibi Dong’s rejection. Bibi Dong briefly responded with warmth before the darkness’s power surged again, and Shangguan Li confronted the entity behind it with the Sea God Trident.

• Shangguan Li explained that Bibi Dong’s hateful words came from grief and that the darkness was eroding his remaining consciousness.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that she loved him and offered to be someone who gave him a reason to live.
• Bibi Dong’s expression softened, but he soon screamed in pain and warned Qian Renxue and Shangguan Li to leave.
• Qian Renxue embraced Bibi Dong, who revealed that a strange power had grown inside him and that he had been unable to escape it.
• Shangguan Li transformed into Sea God attire and used the Sea God Trident’s sacred light to drive back the darkness.
• The darkness took human form, recognized Shangguan Li, and threatened her.

Zhao Wuji woke after two days and ordered the Shrek group to leave the inn, while the Imperial Fighting Team had already departed after growing resentful of Qin Ming’s perceived favoritism. The chapter ended with Yu Tianheng’s teammates trying to arrange time alone for him and Dugu Yan, though Dugu Yan remained focused on cultivation after meeting Shangguan Li.

• Qin Ming told Zhao Wuji that Xiao Wu had been found and Tang Sian and Tian Heng had obtained their spirit rings.
• Zhao Wuji asked Oscar for sausages, then instructed Dai Mubai to gather everyone and leave immediately.
• Dai Mubai told the girls that Zhao Wuji had awakened and ordered them to pack, while Ning Rongrong resented his commanding manner.
• Yu Tianheng, Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi Brothers complained that Qin Ming favored Shrek Academy and decided to leave the inn ahead of him.
• Yu Tianheng went to find Dugu Yan, as his teammates hoped to give him a chance to confess, but Dugu Yan remained devoted to cultivation after meeting Shangguan Li.

Tang San found a Bamboo Forest containing medicinal herbs that could treat his companions’ ice poison, where Purple Bamboo recognized him as Ah Yin’s son. After giving him herbs and a bamboo fragment that could help Xiao Wu, Purple Bamboo sent him away, leaving Tang San with questions about his mother and Xiao Wu’s fate.

• Tang San and his companions entered a fog-shrouded Bamboo Forest, where Purple Bamboo mistook him for Ah Yin before learning he was Tang Hao’s son.
• Purple Bamboo recalled warning Ah Yin about her relationship with Tang Hao and realized that Ah Yin’s child had never known his mother.
• Tang San explained that his companions suffered from ice poison, and Purple Bamboo allowed him alone into the forest to gather medicinal herbs.
• Tang San asked about Ah Yin, and Purple Bamboo described her as gentle and kind while directing him to the medicinal garden.
• Purple Bamboo gave Tang San a small bamboo section to help Xiao Wu and warned him that he might share Tang Hao’s fate.
• Purple Bamboo sent Tang San back to the forest entrance before he could learn more about his mother or Xiao Wu.

Shangguan Li discovered that Ning Fengzhi had targeted her hotpot restaurant and noticed a dangerous force within Tang San as the Elite Tournament began. Ning Fengzhi’s reaction to Ning Rongrong’s sudden cultivation surge revealed why his opinion of Tang San had changed.

• Qiao Di identified Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as the person behind the trouble at Shangguan Li’s restaurant.
• Shangguan Li observed Shrek Academy’s students and concluded that their rapid increase in strength came from consuming their innate potential; she also spotted a black force within Tang San that Shaohua identified as likely from the Divine Realm.
• Dugu Yan entered the tournament while Shrek Academy’s students wore Flender’s mocked green uniforms, and Shangguan Li regretted being too powerful to compete herself.
• Ning Fengzhi gave a speech alongside Xue Ye and Salas, then smiled and nodded at Tang San.
• In a flashback, Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that Tang San’s medicinal herb had raised her to level thirty-three in one day, and Sword Douluo examined her before signaling Ning Fengzhi with a darkened expression.

Shangguan Li watched Tang San obtain medicinal herbs from Purple Bamboo, then followed the Shrek Seven Devils to Heaven Dou City, where they recovered and grew stronger. Ning Rongrong’s martial soul evolved into the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she rushed to tell her father.

• Shangguan Li saw Tang San take herbs from Purple Bamboo and noticed he gave Xiao Wu a piece of bamboo that concealed her identity and aura.
• Flender led the Shrek Seven Devils out of Sunset Forest so they could safely absorb the herbs and recover.
• Shangguan Li met the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in Heaven Dou City and encouraged him to enjoy his human life.
• The Shrek Seven Devils purged the poison from their bodies and discovered that the herbs had raised their soul power, while Ning Rongrong’s martial soul evolved.
• Ning Rongrong hurried to Seven Treasure City to tell her father about her Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Yu Xiaogang explained its potential to reach the Soul Douluo rank.

Shrek Academy began the Promotional Tournament, where Xiao Wu was badly injured by a Sunflower Martial Soul Master and Tang San rushed to avenge her. Tang San secretly used his Eight Spider Lances to drain his opponent’s power, then considered absorbing other Soul Masters to grow strong enough to defeat the Heaven Dou Team.

• Emperor Xue Ye opened the Promotional Tournament, and Shrek Academy prepared to face an Advanced Soul Master Academy from the Balak Kingdom.
• Xiao Wu entered Shrek Academy’s match and quickly defeated the first two opponents before the third, a Sunflower Martial Soul Master, injured her and caused her to lose consciousness.
• Tang San rushed onto the stage to catch Xiao Wu, but Yu Xiaogang calmed him and reminded him to follow the tournament rules.
• Tang San faced the Sunflower Martial Soul Master and used the poisonous mist as cover to stab him with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances absorbed the opponent’s Soul Power and life force, leading Tang San to consider draining more Soul Masters to reach the Soul King realm and defeat the Heaven Dou Team.

Tang San secured Xue Qinghe’s support for secretly recruiting powerful Soul Masters and establishing the Tang Sect, while both men concealed their intentions toward Spirit Hall. Afterward, Tang San persuaded Ning Rongrong to help him, and Shangguan Li and Shaohua discussed his ambitions and vowed to stop him from uniting the continent.

• Tang San argued that Heaven Dou should use its alliance against a common enemy to secretly strengthen itself against Spirit Hall, and Xue Qinghe admitted he disliked Spirit Hall’s power.
• Tang San offered to recruit powerful Soul Masters and promised the Tang Sect would supply Hidden Weapons to the Imperial army, and Xue Qinghe accepted while secretly reporting the scheme to the Pope and the Great Enshrined.
• Tang San told Ning Rongrong that Spirit Hall had killed his mother and crippled his father, and she agreed to help him while he privately planned to use her.
• Shangguan Li and Shaohua questioned whether Tang San wanted to destroy Spirit Hall or unite the continent, and they resolved to prevent him from threatening their lives.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Shangguan Li was the daughter Yun Qin had abandoned, but Yun Qin hesitated to acknowledge her, and Shangguan Li refused to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After the sect’s investigators were eliminated, Chen Xin offered to investigate the household himself.

• Ning Fengzhi confronted Yun Qin about Shangguan Li’s resemblance to her, and Yun Qin confessed that she had given birth to a daughter after their first night together and left the child behind.
• Ning Fengzhi identified Shangguan Li as their daughter and urged Yun Qin to acknowledge her because of her strength, but Yun Qin worried about Rongrong and opposed disrupting their family.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to assess Shangguan Li, and Sword Douluo judged her to be at least a level 95 Titled Douluo whose strength, alongside Shaohua’s, could overwhelm them.
• Shangguan Li told Shaohua that she had no intention of keeping a low profile or acknowledging Ning Fengzhi, while Qiao Di reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had sent people to watch her household.
• At Shangguan Li’s signal, Qiao Di eliminated the investigators, and Chen Xin offered to investigate the household himself after the news reached Ning Fengzhi.

Ning Fengzhi led Tang San and the others to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s hidden vault to recover its wealth, while Shaohua, Shangguan Li, and Little Pear discussed the danger posed by Li Pei occupying Ning Rongrong’s body. The group opened the vault and entered its guarded tunnel, where Tang San’s curiosity about the sect’s secrets drew a warning from Ning Fengzhi, though Tang San secretly reacted with a sinister smile.

• Shaohua urged Shangguan Li and Little Pear to keep watching Ning Rongrong, and Little Pear warned that Li Pei’s soul had to be destroyed before it fully formed.
• Ning Fengzhi brought Tang San and the others to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and revealed that its true wealth was in a secret vault.
• Ning Fengzhi used a stone Ning Rongrong had once played with to reveal the vault entrance, then remembered his wife Yun Qin as Sword Douluo urged him to focus on rebuilding the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the tunnel attacked anyone without the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul and refused to reveal the vault’s construction secrets to Tang San.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang San not to pry into sect secrets, and Tang San concealed a sinister smile.

The puppet emperor tried to secure Tang San’s loyalty by proposing that three-year-old Tang Wutong become his imperial concubine, while Tang San left for the Clear Sky Sect to complete the Rakshasa trial. Qian Renxue intercepted him, defeated him, and accepted his challenge to a weapon-only wager.

• The puppet emperor proposed marrying Tang Wutong to bind Tang San to the Star Luo Empire, but Tang San refused to decide her future and left the palace with her.
• Shangguan Li prompted Tang San to finish the Rakshasa trial, and Tang San headed to the Clear Sky Sect while the puppet emperor planned an alliance against the Spirit Hall Empire.
• At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San found his path blocked and faced Qian Renxue, who had advanced to Soul Douluo while he had become a Titled Douluo and an Evil Soul Master.
• Qian Renxue used her domain and purifying power to defeat Tang San, who proposed a wager: they would fight without soul power using his Clear Sky Hammer and her Angel Holy Sword.
• Qian Renxue accepted after Tang San promised the Tang Sect’s weapon-making blueprints and his life, while Shangguan Li realized the wager favored Qian Renxue’s divine weapon.