Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi gained a fused Martial Soul and renewed hope for her future with Yang Hao, while Ghost Nana chose to return to the Holy Spirit Cult for her mother’s sake. Three years later, Yang Hao accompanied Ju Zi to meet Xu Tianran and revealed that he had inherited the God of Love.

• Ju Zi discovered that her Golden Core had strengthened her fused Tree of Life and Orange Martial Soul, though cultivating more Soul Rings would require greater effort.
• Yang Hao kept Ju Zi hidden at Bright Peak and helped her try to conceive so she could overcome Xu Tianran’s suspicions.
• Ghost Nana confessed her feelings to Yang Hao, then left Bright Peak to return to the Holy Spirit Cult and seek her mother’s soul from Wan Hun.
• Yang Hao told Sleep Nightmare to alert Wan Hun and planned to receive Ghost Nana later as the Holy Son, using her as a pawn in the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Three years later, Yang Hao accompanied Ju Zi to the Ming Capital, where he admitted to Xu Tianran that he had inherited the God of Love.

Xu Tianran learned about the gods’ limits and considered how to prepare for their return, while Yang Hao warned that war was coming. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Yang Hao sensed Huo Yuhao’s infiltration of Mingde Hall, and Huo Yuhao planted bombs as the academy went into lockdown.

• Yang Hao told Xu Tianran that god-level power had appeared in the battle three years earlier and explained the God Realm’s restrictions, the limits on passing down godhood, and the difficulty of killing gods.
• Yang Hao encouraged Xu Tianran to pursue godhood by reaching level ninety-nine and gathering Faith Power, and Xu Tianran later ordered Ju Zi to bring their child to see him the following year.
• Yang Hao warned Xiao Hongchen that war was coming, then sensed Huo Yuhao’s Power of Luck near Mingde Hall and ordered the academy sealed and its defenses activated.
• Xiao Hongchen contacted Jing Hongchen, who locked down the academy and Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao, disguised as a woman, realized the lockdown might mean he had been discovered and planted ten Level Eight Soul Tool Bombs in the laboratory before leaving.

Yang Hao helped the Sun Moon Empire repel the Shrek infiltrators, and Mu En was captured after a battle that left him mortally injured. Yang Hao seized He Caitou and uncovered the infiltration, while Jing Hongchen moved to investigate those involved.

• Mu En broke through Mingde Hall's defenses and rescued Huo Yuhao, but Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Wave badly wounded him.
• He Caitou reached Mu En, but Yang Hao's planted blade and explosive Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell helped split Mu En's Martial Soul Avatar and injure Huo Yuhao.
• Elder Song carried Huo Yuhao away as Mu En prepared to sacrifice himself, but Yang Hao opened a Portal and Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue captured him.
• Yang Hao found He Caitou, preserved the Dreadclaw Soul Bone in his severed arm, and searched his memories to learn how he and Huo Yuhao had infiltrated the academy.
• Yang Hao ordered Xiao Hongchen to alert Jing Hongchen and arrest Xuan Ziwen; Jing Hongchen began investigating those connected to the spies.
• Yang Hao told Xu Tianzhen and Ye Guyi to stay inside while he left with He Caitou.

Yang Hao exposed Xuan Ziwen’s role in leaking Soul Tool technology and helped Jing Hongchen secure a way to defend himself before Xu Tianran. Xu Tianran ordered a brutal campaign to undermine Huo Yuhao, and Kong Deming killed Xuan Ziwen.

• Yang Hao questioned Xuan Ziwen about aiding Huo Yuhao, and Xuan Ziwen admitted the technology had leaked through him.
• Jing Hongchen condemned Xuan Ziwen for treason, while Yang Hao gave him the dismantled bombs Huo Yuhao had left in Mingde Hall as a possible merit to report to Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran ordered He Caitou executed by a thousand cuts and took Yang Hao’s warning about Huo Yuhao’s importance seriously.
• Xu Tianran ordered suspected associates of Huo Yuhao executed and their bodies sent to Shrek to shatter Huo Yuhao’s state of mind and hinder his God Trial.
• Xu Tianran left Xuan Ziwen’s fate to Kong Deming, who killed his former student by shattering his brain.

After Mu En’s apparent death during the failed mission to steal Sun Moon Empire technology, Xu Tianran tightened controls on rare metals and kept Jing Hongchen in charge of Mingde Hall. Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek injured and grieving, while Shrek’s leaders resolved to unite the Three Great Empires against the Sun Moon Empire and the Bright Cult.

• Yang Hao told Xu Tianran that Dragon God Douluo was dead, and Ju Zi urged him to restrict rare-metal supplies and accelerate Soul Armor and Soul Tool research.
• Xu Tianran allowed Jing Hongchen to remain Master of Mingde Hall, ordered Xue Chen to eliminate anyone tied to the plot, and told Yang Hao to prepare for his wedding to Tian Zhen.
• Elder Song brought the one-armed Huo Yuhao back to Shrek, where the academy used a hundred-thousand-year-old arm Soul Bone, the Golden Ancient Tree, and the Sea God’s Light to regrow his arm.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to perfect the stolen Soul Armor and Soul Tool technology and surpass the Sun Moon Empire, while Elder Song told Shrek’s leaders that Mu En had been killed and He Caitou was missing.
• Yan Shaozhe called for Shrek to unite the Three Great Empires and avenge Mu En, and the leaders agreed to pursue a more aggressive plan.

After the Sun Moon Empire purged Ming Capital and tightened its grip on rare metals, Yang Hao married Xu Tianzhen and planned to return with her to Bright Peak. During a visit to Xu Tianran, they discussed Shrek’s likely response and the threat of divine intervention, leaving Yang Hao to reveal his chances of passing the God Trial.

• Xue Chen led the Shadow Guards in a bloody purge of Ming Capital, while Ju Zi moved to seize rare metals and hunt smugglers.
• Jing Hongchen secretly backed Fusion Forging research and scouted allies as he prepared for the possibility that Xu Tianran would turn against him.
• Yang Hao married Xu Tianzhen, and after their wedding night he told her they needed to leave Ming Capital for Bright Peak.
• Yang Hao and Xu Tianzhen visited Xu Tianran in the imperial garden, where Xu Tianran warned that Shrek might unite with the Three Great Empires of Douluo.
• Xu Tianran asked Yang Hao how likely he was to pass the God Trial and become a god, and Yang Hao answered that his chances were thirty percent.

Yang Hao returned to the Holy Spirit Cult after spending time with Xu Tianzhen and discovered Feng Ling had become a Limit Douluo. He gave Feng Ling and Ma Xiaotao Phoenix Swords while continuing to consider refining Ma Xiaotao into a weapon.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Huo Yuhao would meet people at Shrek's cafeteria and receive their keepsakes, as part of her plan to wound him emotionally.
• Yang Hao returned to Bright Peak with Xu Tianzhen, spent a month with her, and secretly went back to the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Yang Hao with her Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike, but he effortlessly countered and knocked her into a wall.
• Yang Hao offered to refine Ma Xiaotao into a Fire Phoenix Sword, then presented matching Phoenix Swords to her and Feng Ling.
• Feng Ling revealed that cleansing her Martial Soul with Yang Hao's help had let her break through to level 99.

Yang Hao helped Feng Ling refine the Bright Phoenix origin and condense a Mental Soul Core, strengthening her path toward Level 100 and the Phoenix God’s power. After leaving Feng Ling asleep in her bedroom, he returned to his lodgings and found Ma Xiaotao waiting for him.

• Feng Ling explained how her Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and Bloodline Soul Core had let her reach Level 99, and she advised Ma Xiaotao on cultivating Soul Cores.
• Yang Hao gave Feng Ling the Phoenix Origin and used his power to help her refine it, awaken Ultimate Light and Ultimate Darkness attributes, and absorb the Power of Creation.
• Yang Hao guided Feng Ling as she condensed a Mental Soul Core and balanced it with her Martial Soul Golden Core and Bloodline Soul Core.
• Yang Hao predicted that strengthening and balancing Feng Ling’s three Soul Cores could let her break through Level 100.
• Yang Hao carried Feng Ling to the bathroom, washed her, changed the bedding, and left porridge beside her bed.
• Yang Hao returned to his lodgings and found Ma Xiaotao waiting, where she asked where he had gone.

Yang Hao visited the Holy Spirit Team and challenged its members to prove his strength as their captain. He defeated Yan Feng with a single strike, leaving the team stunned and setting the expectation that they would train harder under him.

• Yang Hao told Long Xiaoyao that Mu En was probably dead and said the Second Battle of Bright Peak had reinforced his opposition to war.
• Yang Hao confronted the Holy Spirit Team, whose members—especially Yan Feng—did not accept him as captain, and invited them to attack together.
• Yang Hao summoned his Demon Blade Martial Soul, revealed an Innate Domain, and pressured the team with his Soul Douluo strength.
• Yan Feng combined his Soul Power with Wang Xiaolei, Tang Dai, and Gu Yu, reached the Soul Saint level, and activated his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Yang Hao struck with the Heaven Severing Saber Technique, incapacitating Yan Feng and carving a deep scar through the ground and into the wall.
• Yang Hao judged the team's performance average and told its members they would need to train harder.

Yang Hao challenged Ma Xiaotao’s belief in Shrek by arguing that its choices had prolonged wars, and urged her to join his cause of unifying the continent. After returning to Feng Ling, he cared for her as she recovered, and she asked him to return in eight days so they could try for a child.

• Yang Hao welcomed the Holy Spirit Team’s submission and told them he would lead their training in three days.
• Yang Hao argued to grieving Ma Xiaotao that Shrek’s preservation of multiple nations had caused countless deaths and pressed her to choose whether to join his cause.
• Ma Xiaotao remained conflicted after Yang Hao warned her that she had little time to decide and reminded her that Feng Ling cared for her.
• Yang Hao returned to Feng Ling’s room, tended the porridge, and held her while she slept.
• Feng Ling woke, ate the porridge Yang Hao had prepared, and told him to return in eight days because she wanted a child.

Yang Hao and Feng Ling discussed hiding their expected child, taking control of the Holy Spirit Cult, and arranging for Ghost Nana to leave and give birth. Feng Ling then reported that the Sun Moon Empire had sent Shrek Academy food containing personal effects of its former students, leaving Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong devastated; the chapter ended with Shrek’s leaders blaming themselves for sending the students to infiltrate the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Feng Ling agreed to conceal her pregnancy and help Yang Hao take over the Holy Spirit Cult while preserving useful resources and personnel.
• Feng Ling told Yang Hao that Ghost Nana was pregnant, and he planned to arrange for her to leave and have the child elsewhere.
• Feng Ling reported that Shrek Academy had received food containing personal effects linked to its former students, leaving Huo Yuhao near madness and Tang Wutong violently ill.
• At Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er worried that the traumatized students could no longer eat and might grow physically weaker.
• Xian Lin'er regretted sending Huo Yuhao and the others to infiltrate the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er agreed to send Wu Tong and the other children to revive the Tang Sect under Clear Sky Sect protection, while Er Ming urged Shrek to seek a God Trial in the Golden Ancient Tree. In the Divine Realm, Tang San blamed Destruction God King for targeting his daughter and began planning to strengthen his allies through God Trials on the Douluo Plane.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er decided the children should leave Shrek Academy and join the Tang Sect, with the Clear Sky Sect protecting them.
• Er Ming revealed that he and his elder brother now led the Clear Sky Sect, promised his brother would help Shrek, and directed Yan Shaozhe to investigate the temple inside the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Tang San learned of Wu Tong's mistreatment, suspected Destruction God King had orchestrated the Sun Moon Empire's actions, and summoned Dai Mubai and the others.
• Tang San told his companions that their conflict with Destruction God King would be fought on the Douluo Plane through Godhood Inheritance and God Trials.
• Tang San proposed that he and his companions cultivate anew, create their own godhoods, and later fuse them with their inherited positions.

Tang San and the others discussed successors for their divine positions, while Ma Xiaotao negotiated with Yang Hao over her role in the coming conflict. Yang Hao agreed to her conditions and planned to show her the human cost of war, then returned to Feng Ling and began cultivating with her.

• Tang San identified candidates for several divine positions, including a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon descendant, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's young sect master, and Ma Hongjun's descendant Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Hongjun worried that Ma Xiaotao had been taken by an Evil Soul Master sect, and Tang San said he had ordered his Divine Thought at the academy to arrange her rescue.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yang Hao she would not attack people she knew or join the Evil Soul Masters, and Yang Hao agreed while urging her to refine the Phoenix Sword into her Life Soul Tool.
• Yang Hao told Feng Ling he would take Ma Xiaotao to see families devastated by war so she would understand its cruelty and support unification.
• Yang Hao returned to Feng Ling's room, and they began a physical struggle while fusing Soul Power to cultivate and strengthen his Phoenix Fire.

Yang Hao inspected Huang Yuan’s restorative Food-type Soul Skills and began guiding Yan Feng and the others to cultivate balanced life and death attributes. After teaching them at headquarters, he left with Ghost Nana following him, and she wondered who had told him to return.

• Ma Xiaotao gave Yang Hao detailed files on the Soul Masters he would train, and he tested Huang Yuan’s four Food-type Soul Skills by eating the meatballs.
• Yang Hao praised Huang Yuan’s restorative abilities and considered whether self-generated Soul Rings could be fused with Soul Beast Soul Rings to improve Food-type Soul Masters.
• Yang Hao told Yan Feng, Tang Dai, Wang Xiaolei, and Gu Yu to cultivate death attributes alongside life attributes instead of focusing on evil attributes.
• Yang Hao advised Yan Feng to separate ice from Ice Evil Power and seek water attributes, and he explained how Gu Yu could apply life and death attributes to his support skills.
• Yang Hao promised to guide the group for three months, explained how to cultivate life and death attributes, and then left as Ghost Nana followed him.

Yang Hao sent Ghost Nana on a mission to leave the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and continued preparing his allies for the Underworld Project. As he planned a visit to the Far North, Ma Xiaotao grew suspicious of his relationship with Feng Ling, who was three months pregnant.

• Ghost Nana told Yang Hao she needed to return, and he refused her request to see Wan Hun while the soul-pregnancy research continued.
• Ma Xiaotao confronted Yang Hao about smelling like Feng Ling, but he dismissed her suspicions.
• Yang Hao spent three months guiding Yan Feng and the others in cultivation, then encouraged them to aim for rank ninety-nine and promised a reward for their progress.
• Ghost Nana asked to pay respects to her father, and Yang Hao gave her a mission at Bright Peak that let her leave headquarters without drawing suspicion.
• Ma Xiaotao suspected Yang Hao and Feng Ling were involved after Feng Ling stopped using her perfume, while Yang Hao visited Feng Ling and discussed traveling to the Far North to assess cooperation with the Soul Beasts.

Yang Hao learned that Huo Yuhao and his companions were rebuilding the Tang Sect and seeking an alliance, so he planned to travel to Heaven Dou City to disrupt them. Meanwhile, he and Feng Ling transferred her fetus into Ma Xiaotao, leaving Ma Xiaotao furious and refusing Feng Ling’s suggestion that she consider Yang Hao as a partner.

• Feng Ling told Yang Hao that Huo Yuhao’s group had rebuilt the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City, begun researching Soul Tools and Hidden Weapons, and contacted the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect about uniting the empires.
• Yang Hao decided to go to Heaven Dou City to interfere with the alliance and investigate whether the protagonist group had received a God Trial.
• Yang Hao and Feng Ling discovered Ma Xiaotao eavesdropping, pulled her into their room, and used a trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill to transfer Feng Ling’s fetus into her.
• Ma Xiaotao demanded that the fetus be transferred back, but Yang Hao warned that doing so would be risky.
• Feng Ling urged Ma Xiaotao to consider Yang Hao as a suitable partner, but Ma Xiaotao rejected the idea.

Yang Hao reunited with Meng Hongchen and the Far North Soul Beast clans, whose Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave had grown into a vast cultivation sanctuary. After warning them about Huo Yuhao’s threat, he argued that Soul Beasts needed to adopt the new cultivation system to avoid falling behind.

• Ma Xiaotao rejected the idea of marrying Yang Hao, while Feng Ling explained that she and Yang Hao had both pursued their relationship and that she had wanted a child.
• Yang Hao stayed at the main altar for another week to ensure Ma Xiaotao’s fetus was safe, then advised her and Feng Ling to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill regularly before leaving for the Far North.
• Yang Hao arrived at the Titan Snow Demon clan’s burial ground and reunited with Meng Hongchen, Ling Luochеn, Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and the two Beast Kings.
• Meng Hongchen showed Yang Hao how the Far North clans had expanded the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave with preserved Soul Beast remains and united around the shared cultivation grounds.
• Meng Hongchen reported that Huo Yuhao had killed the last 100,000-year Ice Jade Scorpion, and Yang Hao warned the Ice Bear King and Titan Snow Demon King to stay together and guard against him.
• Yang Hao explained that Snow Empress and Ice Empress could grow powerful through the human cultivation system, and urged the Soul Beasts to adopt it before they were left behind.

Yang Hao secured an alliance with the Far North Soul Beast tribes by warning them about Tang San's forces and offering technology and covert military support. After the tribes agreed to attack nearby human sects and academies, Yang Hao joined the force heading for Dragon City, where he began eliminating its guards.

• Yang Hao told the Ice Bear King and Titan Snow Demon King that Tang San, his daughter, and Huo Yuhao threatened Soul Beasts by seeking powerful Soul Rings.
• Yang Hao explained that he and the Soul Beasts shared enemies, and promised they would not need to join human wars openly.
• Yang Hao provided detection and communication devices and agreed to support the tribes with supplies, healers, intelligence, and covert attacks.
• The Titan Snow Demon King proposed avenging the Ice Empress and Ice Jade Scorpion as a pretext for war, and Yang Hao agreed.
• Sleep Nightmare gathered intelligence, and the Ice Bear King and Titan Snow Demon King led over a hundred thousand Soul Beasts in eighteen coordinated attacks.
• Yang Hao joined the force targeting Dragon City and used his Flying Sword to shoot down sentries and kill Soul Masters outside the city.

Yang Hao led the Far North Soul Beasts in a surprise assault on Dragon City, targeting the Heavenly Dragon Sect while sparing civilians. After the sect was nearly destroyed and the city burned, the Soul Beasts withdrew north, and their wounded were treated by human Soul Masters.

• Yang Hao concealed the Soul Beast advance with a thunderstorm, cleared the city walls of Soul Masters, and reminded the Titan Snow Demon King to spare civilians.
• Yang Hao and Wan Hun discussed looting Dragon City, controlling the Earth Dragon Sect, destroying the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and forging the Human Emperor Seal.
• The Titan Snow Demon King and three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts attacked the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and the former sect master ordered a retreat after learning the Soul Beasts blamed them for the Ice Empress's murder.
• Yang Hao detonated the ice beneath the fleeing sect members, and the Soul Beasts killed nearly all of the Heavenly Dragon Sect while allowing a few survivors to escape with the news.
• Wan Hun's Soul Spirits looted Dragon City and destroyed its defenses and sect buildings before the Soul Beasts withdrew north at sunrise.
• Yang Hao arranged treatment for wounded Soul Beasts and used Gold of Life to save those with fatal injuries, persuading some wary Soul Beasts that cooperation with humans could benefit them.

After the Far North beast tide, Shrek Academy tried to hide Huo Yuhao’s role while Dai Hao planned to reclaim the Star Luo throne. In the Far North, Yang Hao dealt with Ling Luochеn’s competing personalities and agreed to stay with her for a month before heading to Heaven Dou City.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered Shrek Academy to conceal Huo Yuhao’s involvement in the beast tide and the loss of Ice Empress’s Soul Bone.
• Nan Shuishui learned that Huo Yuhao had caused the Far North clans’ revenge, while Dai Hao learned that Giant Strength Douluo had been killed after sensing Ice Empress’s aura on him.
• Dai Hao reassured Dai Yaoheng that he would inherit the White Tiger title and revealed plans to reclaim the Star Luo throne when its palace defenses weakened.
• Ling Luochеn’s main personality woke and threatened Yang Hao, but her alternate personality took control again and asked him to help her conceive a child.
• Yang Hao agreed to stay with Ling Luochеn for a month, refused to involve Xiao Meng before her wedding, and heard Ling Luochеn suggest Snow Empress instead.