Recaps

Yang Hao bullied Xu Tianzhen to discipline her, suppressing her Sun Martial Soul and defeating her repeated attempts to resist. After he caught up with her and offered pastries, she challenged him to a duel, and he suppressed and handled her Martial Soul with ease.

• Yang Hao kept Xu Tianzhen immobilized until evening, then freed her after she gave in and endured her need to relieve herself.
• Xu Tianzhen returned and attacked Yang Hao, but he suppressed her Sun Martial Soul with his Ultimate Fire Domain and struck her 108 times.
• Yang Hao threatened Xu Tianzhen with supposed recordings, though Ju Zi discovered the recording Soul Tools had captured nothing.
• Ju Zi gave Yang Hao pastries and ointment to take to Xu Tianzhen, whom he found punching a tree and crying.
• Yang Hao offered Xu Tianzhen pastries, asked whether she had washed her hands after relieving herself, and helped her when she choked.
• Xu Tianzhen challenged Yang Hao to a duel, but he suppressed her Little Sun Martial Soul and held it in his hand.

Yang Hao recruited Xu Tianzhen for his team by promising to help her gain power and escape a political marriage, then planned ways to strengthen his teammates’ Martial Souls. The Hongchen siblings convinced Jing Hongchen to fund the costly resources they needed, leaving their training plans underway.

• Yang Hao explained Xu Tianzhen’s royal constraints and invited her to join his team, promising to help her develop Ultimate Fire; she accepted and moved into the shared villa.
• Xu Tianzhen told Ju Zi and the others to call her Tianzhen, then went upstairs to bathe and apply ointment.
• Yang Hao asked Ju Zi to help recruit teammates and told Meng Hongchen he would try to help her gain the Ultimate Ice attribute through an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring.
• Yang Hao advised Xiao Hongchen to seek a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring and urged both siblings to strengthen their bodies with Whale Rubber and Soul Bones.
• The Hongchen siblings asked Jing Hongchen to invest in the resources, and he agreed to buy them despite the cost.

Xu Tianran considered the political risks of the Hongchen Family and Bright Cult while Yang Hao unlocked new powers in his vertical Evil Eye. Yang Hao then focused on research and cultivation and chose Ghost Nana, whose Ghost Martial Soul intrigued Jing Hongchen.

• Jing Hongchen decided to take a chance on Luo Feng's claim that deeply fusing Soul Ring origins could grant Ultimate Attributes to Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Ju Zi explained to Xu Tianran that the Bright Cult's wariness of court service made it less of a threat, and he agreed that its distance from imperial politics benefited him.
• Yang Hao discovered that refining the Evil Eye had changed it into a vertical eye and unlocked Evil Eye Gaze, Light of Time and Space, and the Fate Judgment skill.
• Yang Hao considered turning his Heavenly Eye into a Martial Soul because its current Soul Bone Skills were difficult to use and the bone would be hard to evolve.
• Yang Hao chose Ghost Nana, and Jing Hongchen guessed that her Ghost Martial Soul had influenced his decision.

Yang Hao recruited Ghost Nana to the academy's Reserve Team and used her as a potential route for the Holy Spirit Cult to obtain the Three Refinements Method and Soul Tool technology. After the Holy Spirit Cult ordered her to spy on the Bright Cult, Yang Hao revealed that he planned to use her as a cover for introducing Soul Armor and Soul Weapons within the cult.

• Yang Hao and Jing Hongchen discussed recruiting students with strong Martial Souls and agreed that the Bright Cult could secure Mingdou Mountain Range mining rights for twenty years after the Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Yang Hao invited Ghost Nana to join the academy's Reserve Team because her Ghost Martial Soul suited their Soul Tool project, then brought her to the team villa and made her Soul Armor.
• During an academy break, Ghost Nana met Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare, who revealed Yang Hao as the Holy Son and ordered her to steal the Bright Cult's Three Refinements Method and Soul Tool technology.
• Ghost Nana accepted the spying mission because the Holy Spirit Cult held her parents' souls and promised to free them in return.
• Yang Hao told Wan Hun that Ghost Nana would provide a cover for the Holy Spirit Cult to adopt Soul Armor and Soul Weapons without exposing its ties to the Bright Cult.

Yang Hao brought Tang Ya, now developing her Blue Silver Emperor powers, into his plans to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s Reserve Team. Their fusion skill strengthened his Blue Silver Domain and awakened the nascent domain in Tang Ya, who was left preparing to go to the academy that night.

• Yang Hao ordered Wan Hun to keep Tang Ya’s parents’ souls under control and asked Sleep Nightmare about her behavior.
• Yang Hao returned to the base, changed his appearance and scent, and found Tang Ya cultivating the Martial Soul Golden Core system.
• Yang Hao coaxed Tang Ya into massaging his legs by claiming he had news about Bei Bei, then told her to join the academy’s Reserve Team under the name Xiao Lan.
• Yang Hao used their Martial Soul fusion to merge Tang Ya with himself and combine her Thunder Spirit Blue Silver Spear with his Holy Sword into a Holy Thunder Blue Silver Spear.
• Tang Ya awakened the nascent Blue Silver Domain, and Yang Hao helped stabilize it before telling her to pack for the academy that night.

Yang Hao and Ye Xishui planned to stop the Sea God from turning Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree into a Life Core and to compete with Huo Yuhao, the era’s Child of Luck. Yang Hao recruited Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen for his team, which prepared to face Shrek in the Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Ye Xishui told Yang Hao that the Angel God and Rakshasa God had confirmed the Golden Ancient Tree was developing into a Life Core, and they agreed to pursue their own plan to claim control of the Plane.
• Ye Xishui warned Yang Hao that Huo Yuhao was the Child of Luck and that a girl at Shrek Academy might be the Sea God’s daughter; Yang Hao vowed to suppress Huo Yuhao and take his opportunities.
• Ye Xishui told Yang Hao to recruit an Angel Clan descendant for the Imperial Academy Reserve Team, and Yang Hao welcomed Ye Guyi, whose Martial Soul was the Holy Angel.
• Yang Hao brought Ye Guyi and Tang Ya to the team villa and introduced them to the others.
• Ji Juechen returned to the team, and Yang Hao urged Ye Guyi and Tang Ya to learn from him and develop their own intent.

Yang Hao trained with Ji Juechen and his teammates at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy while helping advance Soul Tool technology. As the Soul Master Tournament approached, he prepared the team for Soul Ring hunts and began a plan to awaken Xu Tianzhen’s Ultimate Fire attribute.

• Tang Ya and Ye Guyi accepted Ji Juechen as a half-teacher, and Yang Hao invited them to watch his daily sparring with him.
• Yang Hao and Ji Juechen fought fiercely with their Sword Intent while Tang Ya, Ye Guyi, and the others watched and studied their techniques.
• After a month of packed training, Yang Hao planned a short break, practical training, and Soul Ring hunts for Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Xu Tianzhen.
• Xu Tianzhen said she could not join the hunt because her Soul Ring requirements were unusual, so Yang Hao offered to help awaken her Ultimate Fire attribute.
• Yang Hao brought Xu Tianzhen to a solar-energy gathering site, where Crown Prince Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Emperor had gathered for the plan.

Yang Hao helped Xu Tianzhen evolve her Sun Martial Soul by refining Sun True Fire, earning the Sun Moon Emperor’s favor and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. After the celebration, Yang Hao sought imperial support for the Bright Cult’s plan to obtain mining rights in the Mingdou Mountain Range, and the emperor declared that the empire would reclaim it.

• Yang Hao, Tang Ya, and Ye Guyi combined their power with Xu Tianzhen’s Sun Martial Soul and refined a small amount of Sun True Fire, strengthening Xu Tianzhen, Ye Guyi, and Yang Hao’s abilities.
• Xu Tianzhen emerged with her evolved Martial Soul and embraced Yang Hao, while the Sun Moon Emperor rewarded him with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Yang Hao explained that his evolution method required a candidate with Innate Full Soul Power or a Soul Beast with Ultimate Fire, disappointing the Sun Moon Emperor and reassuring Xu Tianran.
• Yang Hao told the Sun Moon Emperor that the Bright Cult needed twenty years of mining rights in the Mingdou Mountain Range to secure rare metals for its Soul Engineers.
• The Sun Moon Emperor declared that the Mingdou Mountain Range belonged to the Sun Moon Empire and that it was time to reclaim it.

Xu Tianran agreed to seize the Mingdou Mountain Range while Shrek Academy’s strongest fighters were vulnerable, and Yang Hao secretly obtained the Bright Cult’s desired technologies from Ghost Nana. He freed her father’s soul but kept her mother bound, then discovered that her mother had grown close to Wan Hun.

• Yang Hao warned the Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianran that Dragon God Douluo was near death but might help Xuan Zi become a Limit Douluo, prompting Xu Tianran to take charge of capturing the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Yang Hao met Ghost Nana in disguise, and she gave him the Three Refinements Method and Soul Armor and Soul Weapon technology in exchange for her parents’ freedom.
• Wan Hun released Ghost Nana’s parents’ souls, and Yang Hao freed her father while refusing to release her mother.
• Ghost Nana left with her mother still captive, but Youyou said she was doing well and revealed her intimacy with Wan Hun.
• Yang Hao reacted with surprise to Youyou and Wan Hun’s relationship, calling Wan Hun an Undead Knight.

Yang Hao learned that Wan Hun had fallen in love with Youyou, then heard that their Soul Spirit research had succeeded and rewarded Wan Hun with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone. At Star Dou Forest, the group found a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and began fighting it so Xiao Hongchen could obtain its Soul Ring.

• Wan Hun explained that he and Youyou had fallen in love, while Youyou promised to persuade Ghost Nana not to oppose the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Wan Hun reported that Youyou had helped him create the first perfect Soul Spirit, and Yang Hao gave him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Yang Hao returned to the academy, where Ghost Nana struggled with the revelation about her parents as Jing Hongchen led the group to Star Dou Forest.
• The group found that the ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had been hunted and chose to target a much older bear instead.
• Yang Hao prepared to strike while Ji Juechen and the others drew the fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear from its cave; Ji Juechen attacked its face, and Meng Hongchen slowed it with ice.

Yang Hao killed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and helped Xiao Hongchen create an External Soul Bone from its Soul Core, then repeated the procedure on Xiao’s other hand with a second bear. As the group prepared to leave, Yang Hao sensed someone nearby with an unusual Martial Soul.

• Yang Hao and the others killed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Yang Hao used its Soul Core and Soul Ring to fuse its paw bones with Xiao Hongchen’s right hand as an External Soul Bone.
• Yang Hao explained that the External Soul Bone could evolve, while Xiao Hongchen passed out from the pain and the group discussed his recovery and Soul Ring.
• A second, smaller Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear charged at the group, and Yang Hao ordered everyone to attack so Xiao Hongchen could gain a Soul Bone for his left hand as well.
• Jing Hongchen woke Xiao Hongchen and urged him to endure the procedure, and Yang Hao successfully fused the second bear’s Soul Core with Xiao’s left hand.
• Jing Hongchen stored the second bear’s corpse and prepared to flee, but Yang Hao sensed someone nearby with an unusual Martial Soul.

Yang Hao found Shi Xianxian, a girl with a poison-mutated Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, and brought her to the Bright Cult. He purified and transformed her Martial Soul, then welcomed her as a new teammate.

• Yang Hao and Jing Hongchen found Shi Xianxian alone in Star Dou Forest beside a dead venomous snake, and Yang Hao knocked her unconscious when someone approached.
• Jing Hongchen took Yang Hao and Shi Xianxian away to the Far North, where Yang Hao offered to restore her Martial Soul in exchange for joining the Bright Cult.
• Shi Xianxian accepted, and Yang Hao fused with her Martial Soul, purged its poison attribute, and infused it with the origin power of Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Yang Hao helped Shi Xianxian form a white Soul Ring, restored her Nine Heart Begonia, and cleared the poison from her body.
• Yang Hao marked Shi Xianxian as a Bright Cult member and told Tang Ya to attempt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her.
• Yang Hao asked Xiao Hongchen how his Soul Ring was settling in.

Yang Hao led Meng Hongchen and the others through the Far North to obtain a powerful Soul Ring and External Soul Bone for her. The chapter ended with Meng Hongchen successfully absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring as its tail began fusing with her body.

• Yang Hao explained how Xiao Hongchen could develop Ultimate Gold and set a thirty-thousand-year limit for Meng Hongchen's next Soul Ring, while warning that creating and evolving an External Soul Bone was difficult.
• After Meng Hongchen broke through to level fifty, the group hunted Ice Jade Scorpions, abandoning one target when Yang Hao decided to seek a beast with a Domain ability.
• The group found a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion, and Jing Hongchen used a powerful Soul Tool to pierce its head before Yang Hao extracted its Soul Core, Soul Power, and soul.
• Yang Hao surgically attached the scorpion's tail to Meng Hongchen's coccyx, then helped her refine its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring until she became a Five-Ring Soul King.
• With Yang Hao's assistance and the Power of Fate, the scorpion tail and Soul Core began fusing with Meng Hongchen's coccyx as an External Soul Bone.

Yang Hao watched the Shrek Inspectorate’s assault on the Death Messenger Bandit Group and intervened after the bandits’ Corpse Explosion Technique devastated the team. He rescued Chen Zifeng and Xixi, but Gongyang Mo died, and Yang Hao planned to use his Martial Soul Origin to strengthen the Nine Treasures Star Pagoda.

• Yang Hao advised Meng Hongchen to develop her Origin Soul Core into multiple Soul Rings, then traveled to the Mingdou Mountain Range and learned that Shrek Inspectorate members were hunting the Death Messenger Bandit Group.
• Yang Hao, Wan Hun, and Sleep Nightmare watched the Shrek Team search for the bandits, hoping to find people to recruit.
• Huo Yuhao sensed danger during the team’s attack but hesitated when he saw Dai Yueheng leading the charge, and the bandits’ Corpse Explosion Technique triggered a chain of blasts.
• Yang Hao had Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare rescue the badly injured Chen Zifeng, Xixi, and Gongyang Mo, then escaped with them as the bandit leader caused the cavern to collapse.
• Yang Hao could not save Gongyang Mo, who asked him to save his teammates, so Yang Hao ended Gongyang Mo’s suffering and extracted his Martial Soul Origin.
• Yang Hao decided to merge Gongyang Mo’s Martial Soul Origin into his Nine Treasures Star Pagoda.

Yang Hao helped Feng Ling purge her evil attributes, replace her Soul Core and Soul Rings, and transform her Martial Soul into an Ultimate Fire Phoenix. After Feng Ling survived Nirvana, Yang Hao prepared Phoenix Wings for her using the origins of her former Soul Rings.

• Yang Hao brought the unconscious Shrek students Xixi and Chen Zifeng to Feng Ling and said he planned to brainwash them for the Bright Cult.
• Feng Ling decided to purge her Martial Soul’s evil attribute and asked Yang Hao to help her transform at the volcanic base.
• Yang Hao fused with Feng Ling and devoured her evil attributes while using his domains, Holy Attribute, and Gold of Life to purify and stabilize her Martial Soul.
• Yang Hao helped Feng Ling dismantle her Soul Core, condense a Golden Core, and replace her Soul Rings until she gained seven black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and a Phoenix Domain.
• Feng Ling’s Martial Soul became a pure Ultimate Fire Phoenix, and she used Nirvana to recover before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Yang Hao carried Feng Ling back to her room and began placing the origins of her seven former Soul Rings into the cores of her Phoenix Wings.

Feng Ling recovered after Yang Hao removed the influence of her evil attribute, and she refined the Phoenix Wings Soul Tool so she could use her former Soul Ring Skills. Yang Hao then joined Ju Zi in Star Luo City for the Soul Fighting Tournament, where he shared intelligence on Shrek Academy with the Sun Moon team and proposed keeping his own team mostly off the battlefield.

• Feng Ling recalled how Yan Shaozhe’s betrayal had awakened her evil attribute and turned her into an Evil Soul Master, then thanked Yang Hao for helping her.
• Yang Hao gave Feng Ling the Phoenix Wings, which she connected to her Soul Armor and began refining as a Life Soul Tool.
• Feng Ling told Yang Hao that the Holy Spirit Cult would send a team to the next Soul Fighting Tournament, and Yang Hao agreed to help choose capable candidates.
• Yang Hao traveled to Star Luo City with Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare, met Ju Zi, and learned that most of Shrek’s main team appeared unwell and had stayed in their rooms.
• At the Star Emperor Grand Hotel, Yang Hao gave Ma Rufeng a detailed notebook on Shrek’s students and said his own team would only compete if needed.
• Ma Rufeng was startled by the intelligence, and Ma Rulong began copying the notebook.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy anticipated an easy victory after learning Shrek had lost five first-team members, while Xu Tianzhen decided she would marry Yang Hao. Shrek’s replacement team opened the tournament against Tianling Academy, but Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong’s planned attack failed, and a Soul Guidance Cannon blasted them off the stage, badly injured.

• Ma Rufeng learned Shrek’s first team had suffered losses and prepared Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to pursue a decisive victory.
• Xu Tianzhen confronted Yang Hao about his cultivation techniques, then resolved to marry him and make him her consort.
• At the tournament’s opening match, Huo Yuhao led Shrek Team onto the field against Tianling Academy’s full first team.
• Huo Yuhao simulated six 100,000-year Soul Rings, and he and Tang Wutong used their Golden Road Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tianling’s captain ordered his teammates to scatter, avoiding the attack, while a teammate fired a Soul Guidance Cannon that knocked Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong off the stage and injured them.

Shrek Academy's reserve team narrowly defeated the Heavenly Spirit Team despite a devastating ambush, leaving Jiang Nannan grievously injured. As Shrek's leaders sought reinforcements and investigated a leak, Yang Hao and Ye Xishui planned to capture Life Douluo Elder Zhuang and discussed replacing Tang Ya if she refused to submit.

• Ma Rufeng revealed that he had leaked Shrek Team's intelligence to the Heavenly Spirit Team, whose members ambushed Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong and badly injured them.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi used desperate techniques to empower themselves, helping Shrek's reserve team defeat the Heavenly Spirit Team at the cost of severe injuries and exhaustion.
• Jiang Nannan declared Shrek the winner before collapsing, and the referee confirmed Shrek Academy's victory.
• Elder Zhuang used his Tree of Life Martial Soul to stabilize the injured students but could not restore Jiang Nannan's lost arm, damaged eye, or facial tissue.
• Zhou Yi told Xuan Zi that Shrek's intelligence had been leaked, and Xuan Zi agreed to bring in reinforcements so the team could continue competing.
• Yang Hao and Ye Xishui planned to capture Elder Zhuang for his Tree of Life Martial Soul, while Yang Hao considered extracting Tang Ya's Martial Soul Origin if she would not submit.

Yang Hao explained his plans to weaken the Star Luo Empire by provoking conflict between its royal and White Tiger factions, and he prepared a Nine-Colored Star Pagoda to lure Seven Kill Douluo to the Bright Cult. Ye Xishui gave him a God-Slaying Dagger to strengthen his God-Slaying Spear, while Yang Hao took Tang Ya shopping and warned her to forget Bei Bei.

• Yang Hao told Ye Xishui he would exploit Xu Tianran’s staged assassination and the Star Luo Empire’s factional tensions to weaken the royal faction and stir conflict with the White Tiger line.
• Yang Hao explained that he planned to use a Nine-Colored Star Pagoda to attract the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and lure Seven Kill Douluo to them.
• Yang Hao declared that he would win over or eliminate powerful clans and sects to unify the continent, and Ye Xishui gave him a God-Slaying Dagger to fuse with his God-Slaying Spear.
• Yang Hao took Tang Ya around Star Luo City’s trading houses and auction houses to buy valuable items, especially Soul Bones.
• Yang Hao warned Tang Ya to forget Bei Bei, but she admitted she still wanted to rescue Sister Lexuan and return her to Shrek.

Yang Hao outbid Huo Yuhao for a Gold of Life dagger, then arranged for Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare to capture Body Sect Soul Masters for research. After studying Gu Tong’s Eye Martial Soul, Yang Hao learned from Ye Xishui that he might be able to turn his Heavenly Eye into a Martial Soul.

• Yang Hao threatened Tang Ya, then won the Gold of Life dagger after outbidding Huo Yuhao, who could not afford the final price.
• The Body Sect tried to recruit Huo Yuhao, but Xuan Zi drove its members away, and Yang Hao sent Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare after them.
• Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare captured the Body Sect members and brought them to Yang Hao and Ye Xishui for study.
• Yang Hao examined Gu Tong’s Eye Martial Soul, while Ye Xishui reviewed the captives’ memories and the Body Sect’s research.
• Ye Xishui said Yang Hao could potentially make his Heavenly Eye a Martial Soul by refining and fusing Gu Tong’s Martial Soul Origin into it.

Yang Hao completed the transformation of his Heavenly Eye into an acquired Martial Soul, then lured and captured Red Dragon Douluo and two companions. In an underground cavern, Yang Hao challenged Red Dragon Douluo and revealed his Five Elements Domain, leaving the Titled Douluo suppressed and countered.

• Yang Hao fused his mental power with the Heavenly Eye, using Gu Tong’s Eye Martial Soul Origin to create an acquired Body Martial Soul.
• Wan Hun reported that Red Dragon Douluo had arrived with the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, so Yang Hao arranged for Ma Rulong to draw their attention away from the hotel.
• Red Dragon Douluo’s group followed Ma Rulong into an alley, where Yang Hao killed one attacker and Sleep Nightmare and Wan Hun’s combined skill transported the others to an underground cavern.
• Yang Hao gave Ma Rulong a thirty-thousand-year-old Soul Bone, then confronted Red Dragon Douluo inside a Soul Tool barrier.
• Yang Hao activated the Five Elements Domain, suppressing Red Dragon Douluo’s fire attribute with his Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire domains.

Yang Hao defeated Red Dragon Douluo with his Five Elements Domain, rapid sword attacks, and Vajra Dharma Body before Ye Xishui subdued him. Yang Hao proposed turning Red Dragon Douluo into a Fire Dragon Bio-Mecha, and Ye Xishui agreed the idea was worth pursuing.

• Yang Hao used his Five Elements Domain and Storm Style to suppress and slash Red Dragon Douluo, who could not withstand the assault despite expecting Yang Hao to tire.
• Red Dragon Douluo transformed with Red Dragon Avatar, but Yang Hao summoned his Vajra Dharma Body and shattered the avatar with an axe.
• Ye Xishui stopped Red Dragon Douluo from detonating his Soul Core and knocked him unconscious with her Divine Sense.
• Yang Hao asked Ye Xishui to raise Red Dragon Douluo's Soul Power so his Martial Soul could evolve, then explained his plan to merge it and his soul into a Fire Dragon Mecha.
• Ye Xishui approved Yang Hao's Bio-Mecha approach, and Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare welcomed the project as a way to advance their Soul Spirits.

As the Sun Moon Empire's emperor and crown prince fell into comas from poisoning, Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu worried about Shrek's powerful rising generation and its threat to Star Luo. Meanwhile, Jiang Nannan decided to leave Shrek after seeing Xu Sanshi recoil from her severe disfigurement, and she departed without saying goodbye to him.

• The Sun Moon Emperor and Crown Prince were poisoned into comas, prompting Jing Hongchen to return to Ming Capital and neighboring empires to reconsider their plans.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed the Sun Moon Empire's succession crisis and feared Huo Yuhao, Shrek's Reserve Team, and their powerful allies could threaten Star Luo's imperial family.
• Xu Sanshi visited Jiang Nannan and promised to seek Medicine Immortal Douluo's help, but recoiled when she showed him her badly scarred face.
• Jiang Nannan told Xu Sanshi to stop pursuing her, then informed Zhou Yi that she would withdraw from Shrek and leave to see the world.
• Jiang Nannan left without saying goodbye to Xu Sanshi, while Zhou Yi glared at him and he felt helpless about her injuries.

Yang Hao recruited the injured Jiang Nannan into the Bright Cult by promising to heal her and using her mother to pressure her. Later, he learned that Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang was targeting Huo Yuhao and went to test his improved Nine-Colored Star Pagoda.

• Jiang Nannan recalled spying on Shrek Academy for the Mysterious Underworld Sect and wandered the streets, uncertain about her future.
• Sleep Nightmare brought Jiang Nannan to Yang Hao, who examined her injuries and offered to heal her if she joined the Bright Cult.
• Yang Hao revealed that Jiang Nannan's mother had been brought to the cult and threatened to inform her mother of her condition until she agreed to cooperate.
• Yang Hao explained to Ye Xishui why Shrek Academy would prioritize a talented girl with the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.
• Wan Hun reported that Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang was pursuing Huo Yuhao, so Yang Hao set out to test his improved Nine-Colored Star Pagoda.

Yang Hao captured Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang and handed him over to Ye Xishui for experimentation, while Ye Xishui incapacitated two Star Luo Empire Douluos sent to investigate. Xu Jiawei suspected Shrek and the White Tiger Duke Mansion were behind the disappearances, leaving the Star Luo Empire’s internal tensions poised to escalate.

• Wan Hun and Sleep Nightmare transported Cheng Gang to Yang Hao, who overwhelmed him in close combat until they joined forces to disable and capture him.
• Yang Hao, Wan Hun, and Sleep Nightmare delivered Cheng Gang to Ye Xishui so she could use him in her Bio-Mecha experiments.
• After Giant Hammer Douluo and Moon Deer Douluo investigated Cheng Gang’s disappearance, Ye Xishui destroyed their consciousnesses with Sword Intent and took them away.
• Xu Jiawei learned that both investigators had vanished and heard Xu Jiujiu report clues linking Cheng Gang’s last known movements to Huo Yuhao and Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi.
• Xu Jiawei suspected Shrek and the White Tiger Duke Mansion, and sank into anger and resentment.