Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin reunited with Tang Ziran and Lang Yue, told them Liu Ying had died in the disaster, and asked whether he should search for her across the universe. After his father urged him to choose for himself, Tang Wulin resolved to find Liu Ying and bring her back, and his parents promised to support him.

• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue told Tang Wulin how their lives improved after the Spirit Pagoda merged into the Douluo Peace Company.
• Tang Ziran teased Tang Wulin about Liu Ying, and Tang Wulin revealed that she died in the disaster.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue listened to Tang Wulin recount his experiences and comforted him over Liu Ying's loss.
• Tang Wulin asked his parents whether he should search the universe for Liu Ying, and Tang Ziran told him the choice was his.
• Tang Wulin decided to find Liu Ying and bring her back no matter the cost, and his parents vowed to support him.

Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, and the Spirit Pagoda collapsed or merged into Douluo Peace Company, marking the end of their dominance. Just as the continent celebrated a new era, Ms. Herta announced that Martial Souls restricted humanity and proposed replacing them with a cultivation system called the Path.

• Chen Xinjie and Qian Gu Dongfeng described destroying Shrek Academy as an act of kindness, and Shrek was declared completely destroyed.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin faced questions about the Tang Sect’s crushing debt, while its members remained trapped in endless repayment and decline.
• Leng Yaozhu announced that the Spirit Pagoda would merge into Douluo Peace Company, and Qian Gu Dongfeng’s schemes failed.
• Douluo News marked the withdrawal of Shrek, the Tang Sect, and the Spirit Pagoda as the end of an era and the rise of Douluo Peace Company.
• Ms. Herta revealed her theory that Martial Souls restricted humanity and proposed replacing them with a higher-level energy system called the Path.

After five million children across the three continents failed to awaken Martial Souls or Soul Power, panic spread and many suspected Herta had caused their disappearance. Herta appeared on a planet-wide broadcast to explain what had happened, greeting the people of Douluo Star with news of a new era.

• The Martial Soul Department discovered that none of the five million eligible children had awakened a Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• News of the zero successful awakenings spread across Douluo Star, sparking widespread panic and speculation.
• Some people linked the disappearance of Martial Souls to Herta's earlier proposal that they restricted humanity.
• Herta arranged a live broadcast across all three continents to reveal the truth behind the disappearances.
• Bing Bing introduced Herta on Douluo News, and Herta welcomed Douluo Star's residents to a new era.

Herta explained in a livestream that she had caused Martial Souls and Soul Power to disappear as part of a change to Douluo Continent’s rules. She revealed that her Path System had surpassed the world’s existing systems and declared that the world would now have to adapt to her.

• Bing Bing introduced Herta, who appeared on the broadcast through a puppet avatar to answer questions about Martial Souls.
• Herta confirmed that she had caused the Martial Soul Awakening failures and dismissed the rumors as accurate.
• Herta explained that Martial Souls held together powerful clans, whose influence and mistreatment of commoners she intended to undermine.
• Herta revealed that she had become a god in a way different from past Soul Masters and had invented the Path System, which did not require Martial Souls or Soul Power.
• Herta said her Path System had surpassed the limits of Douluo Continent and declared that the world would have to adapt to her.

After Herta’s broadcast, Douluo Star’s families and factions argued over her influence as the Path spread and Soul Power waned. Herta watched the world begin its transition to a new version, while a mysterious Honkai: Star Rail preview suggested the update had gone off schedule.

• After the broadcast ended, major families secretly investigated Herta, who had already placed information about her First Puppet online.
• The families used online trolls to oppose Herta, but progressives gained support and the supposedly imminent conflict remained only an online uproar.
• When public opposition failed, the great families switched to proclaiming loyalty to Herta.
• As Soul Power diminished and the Path spread across Douluo Star, powerful family members began researching the new system and some approached Herta for answers.
• Herta observed the world’s transition as a game update, while the appearance of a Honkai: Star Rail preview for version 3.1 raised questions about the timeline.

Herta transformed Douluo Star by replacing Soul Power with Path Energy and binding its people to her influence. With the planet under her control, Yao Lan renamed it Azure Blue Star and planned to build strength before expanding further.

• Herta changed the world’s energy, causing Soul Power to transform into Path Energy and Martial Souls to begin disappearing.
• Herta made the entire population of Douluo Star potential Pathstriders while placing their lives and power under her control.
• Herta observed that the unified planet’s former factions had lost their chance to start wars as the world adapted to her.
• Yao Lan and Ruan Mei watched the transformed planet from Herta Space Station and discussed using it as a base for future expansion.
• Yao Lan decided to wait and strengthen his position before targeting other worlds, then renamed Douluo Star Azure Blue Star.

The Crimson Mother arrived near Azure Blue Star seeking revenge for her son, but found the planet far stronger than the world described in the Abyssal Sage King's memories. As she prepared to retreat, a powerful figure appeared and offered to help her.

• Azure Blue Star and the Douluo Peace Company were renamed as the planet's culture and ambitions expanded.
• The Crimson Mother observed Azure Blue Star and realized its energy surpassed that of her Crimson Realm.
• The Crimson Mother suspected a higher-level world had influenced Azure Blue Star and feared attacking it would lead to her destruction.
• The Crimson Mother struggled between her desire to avenge her son and her fear of the planet's power.
• A blue-gold figure appeared behind the Crimson Mother and told her not to be nervous, saying they had come to help.

Tang appeared before the Crimson Mother, protected her despite her suspicion, and revealed that he had come to correct the course of the world. He left her facing the revelation that one person’s arrival had ruined the planet’s future.

• The Crimson Mother provoked the blue-gold figure, detonated the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, and fled through a spatial gate.
• The figure caught up to the Crimson Mother, stopped the halberd’s self-destruction, and returned it to her.
• The figure revealed his handsome appearance, but the Crimson Mother could not hear his true name, so he told her to call him Tang.
• Tang repaired the shattered space and explained that one person’s arrival had destroyed the planet’s proper future.
• Tang declared that he had come to set the world back on its proper course.

Tang told the Crimson Mother that Shrek Academy had been the center of Douluo Continent and that its removal had derailed the world's planned future. He persuaded her that her son's memories in the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd carried the Shrek Spirit, and they agreed to work together to restore Shrek and defeat the invader.

• Tang explained that Shrek Academy had shaped Douluo Continent and that its destruction had disrupted the world's intended future.
• The Crimson Mother asked Tang why he had come, and he said he had sensed the Shrek Spirit with her.
• Tang identified the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd and her son's memories as the vessel of the Shrek Spirit.
• Tang declared the Crimson Mother the next inheritor of the Shrek Spirit, and she vowed to spread it across the universe.
• Tang proposed that they cooperate to defeat the invader and restore the world, and the Crimson Mother agreed in the name of Shrek.

Tang created a powerful cage-like array to test the strength of the invaders on Azure Blue Star, while Herta watched over the conversion of Soul Power into Path Energy from Herta Space Station. The array reached Herta and formed a cage in front of her, leaving her to face Tang’s attack.

• Crimson Mother asked Tang how they could fight the invaders, and Tang said they needed to test their strength with cannon fodder.
• Tang drew a cage and sent its pillars of light toward Azure Blue Star, while Crimson Mother wondered at his power.
• Herta monitored the unstable conversion of Soul Power into Path Energy aboard Herta Space Station and reflected on her former life.
• Herta stopped the first pillar of light with an energy cannon, but the following pillars assembled into a giant cage before her.
• Tang named his attack the Ten Earths Nine Heavens God Extinguishing Great Array.

Herta investigated the Ten Earths Nine Heavens God Extinguishing Great Array while it attacked her, discovering that it contained power beyond the God King level and a trace of energy foreign to the Douluo World. Yao Lan’s main body struck Tang and the Crimson Mother with a Light Arrow, but their final words suggested they could return, and the transformed array began producing a black-haired, black-eyed man.

• Herta recognized the Ten Earths Nine Heavens God Extinguishing Great Array and realized it exceeded the God King level and carried power that did not belong to the world.
• Herta let the array trap her and interpreted its attacks to uncover its secrets and locate the force behind it.
• Tang infused the array with a streak of black light and called upon an inheritor of Shrek’s will to fight the invaders.
• Yao Lan’s blue centaur-like main body appeared near Herta Space Station and fired a Light Arrow that passed through Tang and the Crimson Mother, incinerating their bodies.
• Tang promised to return, while the infused array gathered its pillars of light and formed a black-haired, black-eyed man.

Herta defeated and captured the mindless Feng Xiu created from the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars, saving Azure Blue Star. At Herta Space Station, Herta, Ruan Mei, and Yao Lan concluded that an unknown force from beyond the universe had altered this world, and Yao Lan prepared to confront its mastermind.

• Herta recognized Feng Xiu as an unintelligent artificial copy and reduced the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon to a powerless worm before killing it.
• Herta trapped Feng Xiu in four mirrors and took him away as experimental material, erasing the effects of his attack and saving Azure Blue Star.
• An hour later, Herta and Ruan Mei examined Feng Xiu at Herta Space Station while Yao Lan considered whether the mastermind had survived his attack.
• Herta, Ruan Mei, and Yao Lan concluded that an outside force had altered the world's past and future, particularly around Douluo Continent.
• Yao Lan resolved to deal with the mastermind, confident that his own power from beyond this world might match theirs.

Yao Lan decided to use the power of Preservation to shield Douluo Continent from beings entering from beyond the world. He simulated the complete Aeon Klippah and began building walls across the cosmos.

• Herta and Ruan Mei asked Yao Lan how he would respond to the threat posed by people from beyond the world.
• Yao Lan explained that the world had grown strong enough for him to unleash his Aeon powers without destroying it.
• Yao Lan chose to use Preservation to build barriers around the world and planned to use the Hunt and Destruction to remove other outside influences.
• Yao Lan flew into the universe as amber light gathered around him, while Herta and Ruan Mei watched.
• Yao Lan transformed into the simulated Aeon Klippah, raised his hammer, and struck the void while declaring, "Build—Walls—!"

Tang saved the Crimson Mother from The Hunt's Light Arrow and persuaded her to establish a Shrek Academy in the Crimson Realm. After a barrier sealed the Douluo Universe and trapped him inside, Tang proposed marriage and children to the infatuated Crimson Mother as part of his plan to restore Douluo Star.

• Tang brought the Crimson Mother safely into the Crimson Realm after The Hunt's Light Arrow struck her.
• Tang convinced the Crimson Mother to build a Shrek Academy using the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd and the Abyssal Sage King's memories.
• A great impact erected a barrier around the Douluo Universe, preventing Tang from returning to his original place.
• Tang asked the Crimson Mother to marry him and bear his children, and she accepted after he assured her that her having a son did not matter.

Trapped in the Crimson Realm, Tang used his bloodline and the concept of Shrek to transform Crimson Mother into Shrek Mother and create the Shrek God Realm. He sent her and its newly empowered forces to devour the Dragon Horse Star System for energy.

• Tang concluded that he needed to cultivate his bloodline as an ally against the invader, and he turned Crimson Mother into his Zitong.
• Tang infused Crimson Mother with his power, renamed her Shrek Mother, and transformed the Crimson Realm into the Shrek God Realm.
• Tang told Shrek Mother to devour the universe’s worlds to nourish their child and spread Shrek.
• Shrek Mother gathered the Shrek God Realm’s forces, including ten thousand Level 1 Gods and over a hundred God Kings.
• Tang selected the Dragon Horse Star System as their first target, and Shrek Mother ordered her forces to attack it.

Yao Lan strengthened the Douluo Universe against outside threats and sent The Hunt searching for the concealed enemy. At Herta and Ruan Mei's request, he created The Wisdom, establishing the Genius Society in the Douluo Universe with them as its first members.

• Klippah descended and reinforced the universe's barriers, while Yao Lan sensed a hostile force that vanished before he could locate it.
• Yao Lan sent The Hunt, embodied by Brother Lan, drifting through the universe to attack targets and prepare for future exploration.
• Herta and Ruan Mei asked Yao Lan to create another Aeon incarnation so they could establish the Genius Society.
• Yao Lan brought forth The Wisdom, and Nous looked toward Herta and Ruan Mei at Herta Space Station.
• Herta became Genius Society Member #1, and Ruan Mei became Member #2.

Humanity celebrated its first successful public rocket launch and connection to the Herta Space Station as Himeko taught her students about the risks of exploring the universe. She revealed that an alien species had already been found—and that its members were canned as food.

• The Interstellar Peace Corporation launched a rocket carrying astronauts and connected it to the Herta Space Station, thrilling people across Azure Blue Star.
• Himeko told her students that space exploration required strength and caution, including preparation for alien life and language barriers.
• Himeko said Herta was researching tools to overcome language barriers, and the students praised Herta’s many achievements.
• Himeko took out a can and revealed that it contained an alien creature called a Starfish, a delicious, unintelligent species from a sea of stars.

The students enjoyed alien starfish meat brought by Himeko, and Tang Wulin remembered Liu Ying as he shared the meal with his friends. After lunch, Himeko revealed that the class had been invited to visit Herta City, where Ms. Herta's laboratory was located.

• Himeko gave the students pieces of canned starfish, which Tang Wulin and his five companions found delicious.
• Tang Wulin remembered Liu Ying and wished that she could have been there with them.
• Himeko showed the class a luxurious ticket bearing Herta's image and explained that the Interstellar Peace Corporation had arranged a visit to the Scientific Frontier Institution.
• Himeko announced that the visit's destination was Herta City, the location of Ms. Herta's laboratory.

The students of Douluo Peace Academy arrived at Herta City and discovered that it had been built over the ruins of Shrek City. Himeko revealed that the city they had entered was only an outer district, then opened a passage to the real Herta City in another dimension.

• The students traveled by train to Herta City and recognized it as the site of the former Shrek City.
• Tang Wulin and the others saw that the Tang Sect had sold its Shrek City headquarters to the Interstellar Peace Corporation before the city became a wasteland.
• The students explored Herta City and found research buildings in place of the familiar shops and streets.
• The students gathered beneath a forty-two-meter statue of Herta, and Himeko explained that they were only in the city's outer district.
• Himeko tossed her ticket into the air, opening a passage that revealed the real Herta City was in another dimension.

Himeko brought her students to Herta City, an independent space created with Grotto-heaven technology, where they met Herta through one of her puppets. After Star traded ridiculous insults with the puppet, Herta led the group toward the city center and hinted at another show for Tang Wulin.

• Himeko explained that Herta City was an independent space built with Grotto-heaven technology and introduced the students to its Herta Puppets.
• A Herta Puppet greeted the group, and Himeko and Herta discussed the improved state of the continent and the Evil Soul Masters.
• Star greeted the puppet as little Herta, then made an embarrassing offer to lick its shoes after Herta mocked her height.
• The Herta Puppet singled out Tang Wulin and mentioned hoping there would not be another accident like last time.
• Herta agreed to give the students a basic tour, led them toward the city center, and told Tang Wulin that the show was about to begin again.