Recaps

Bei Bei’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring forced his opponent to concede, deepening the tournament’s fear of Shrek. Meanwhile, Di Ruiqiu and Wang Dong’er completed their transformations, with Wang Dong’er free of Tang San’s bloodline and expecting her Soul Power to rise after she recovered.

• Bei Bei revealed his stabilized Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and the opposing Soul Ancestor surrendered before the fight began.
• The opposing sect conceded, and Shrek’s strength left rival teams wary; another opponent also conceded several days later.
• Di Ruiqiu and Wang Dong’er emerged from seclusion as Xia Ming watched over them.
• Di Ruiqiu demonstrated that her disguised Golden Dragon Martial Soul had gained a genuine Ultimate Attribute, while her original bloodline had grown stronger.
• Wang Dong’er confirmed that she had severed Tang San’s bloodline and karmic connection, and expected her Soul Power to approach level eighty after she recovered.

Xia Ming entered the Valley of Love and Emotion to erase the secret realm’s threat and attempt to awaken the fallen God of Love. After the realm’s rules began testing him, he focused his attention on its core and the authority now held by Ning Rongrong.

• Xia Ming investigated the golden-and-silver lake west of Ming Capital and let its light pull him into a crystal realm.
• The realm announced a test of love and emotion, but Xia Ming identified it as the Valley of Love and Emotion.
• Xia Ming recalled how Tang San had used the valley to control Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao, and decided the realm was no longer a danger he needed to avoid.
• Xia Ming resolved to destroy the valley’s potential threat and try to awaken the God of Love’s remnant soul and claim its First-Class God Position for someone close to him.

Xia Ming broke free of the Valley of Love and Emotion’s rules and captured Ning Rongrong’s divine consciousness, exposing her interference in the lower realm. As he traced her connection to the God Realm and struck across realms, Ning Rongrong transferred her connection and authorization to Oscar so he would take the blame.

• Xia Ming resisted the Valley of Love and Emotion’s judgment, revealed the power of the Qilin God Position, and freed himself from the secret realm’s restraints.
• Xia Ming’s assault destabilized the Valley of Love and Emotion and forced Ning Rongrong’s divine consciousness incarnation to appear.
• Xia Ming bound Ning Rongrong’s divine consciousness and blocked her attempt to destroy it or sever its connection to her true body.
• Ning Rongrong rushed to Oscar, explained the danger, and asked him for help as Xia Ming’s probing strike reached the God Realm.
• Oscar offered to take responsibility, and Ning Rongrong transferred her divine-sense connection and control authorization to him.

Xia Ming’s attacks struck Oscar across realms, leaving the Food God severely wounded despite Ning Rongrong’s support. The God of Destruction recognized the ancient aura of the Qilin God King in the attack and arrived at the Food God Temple to investigate.

• Xia Ming’s first three strikes hit Oscar, who endured them with his Second-level God cultivation while Ning Rongrong supported his defense and recovery.
• Oscar told Ning Rongrong they could not keep taking hits and that they needed to find Dai and Fatty for help.
• Xia Ming’s fourth strike reached First-Class God power, severely wounded Oscar, and revealed a forceful divine fluctuation to the God Realm.
• Rong Nianbing and other gods sensed the unfamiliar power and suspected that a newly ascended First-Class God had arrived.
• The God of Destruction recognized the faint aura of the long-fallen God King Qilin and connected the attack to Xia Ming and Tang San.
• The God of Destruction appeared outside the Food God Temple to investigate the conflict.

The God of Destruction discovered the interference with the lower realm and executed Oscar, who had taken responsibility to protect Ning Rongrong. He imprisoned Ning Rongrong with Tang San, where Tang San quickly set her to work on a new plan.

• The God of Destruction confronted Oscar and Ning Rongrong over the cross-realm passage and their interference in the lower realm.
• Oscar claimed he had led the plan and accepted sole responsibility, while the God of Destruction saw that he was protecting Ning Rongrong.
• The God of Destruction destroyed Oscar's body and soul, stripped Ning Rongrong of her freedom, and sent her to the Forbidden God Land.
• Ning Rongrong told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Oscar had died after taking the blame for her.
• Tang San briefly grieved for Oscar, then asked Ning Rongrong to support Xiao Wu with an urgent plan.

After the God of Destruction destroyed the passage between realms, Xia Ming explored the Valley of Love and Emotion and discovered the awakened remnant consciousness of the God of Love. She asked him to find a successor for her God Position, then chose to dissipate and purify the valley as she ended her long vigil.

• Xia Ming sensed that the God of Destruction had destroyed the passage from the God Realm, so he stopped attacking and turned his attention to the Valley of Love and Emotion.
• Xia Ming examined the valley and found a concealed core, but the God King Qilin stopped him and revealed the God of Love's awakened remnant consciousness.
• The God of Love told the God King Qilin that she had died from grief after her husband fell in the Dragon God calamity and she could no longer bear love.
• The God of Love asked Xia Ming to find a steadfast, strong successor to inherit her God Position.
• The God of Love decided to let her remnants and the Valley of Love and Emotion be purified together, and her consciousness began to dissipate as the realm's laws started to collapse.

Xia Ming escaped the collapsing Valley of Love and Emotion with the complete Seed of the God of Love Position, entrusted to him by the God of Love. After the secret realm vanished, he began planning how to find a worthy inheritor through the seed’s response to natural affinity.

• The God of Love gave Xia Ming the complete Seed of the God of Love Position and transferred control of the trials and their rewards to him.
• Xia Ming stored the seed in his Spirit Sea, bowed to the fading God of Love, and escaped the collapsing secret realm.
• The God of Love remained behind as the Valley of Love and Emotion was destroyed, then released her final attachment and accepted its end.
• Xia Ming returned to the ordinary valley, confirmed the secret realm had vanished, and bid farewell to the God of Love.
• Xia Ming decided to use the seed’s sensitivity to emotional resonance to identify a suitable inheritor without rushing the choice.

Xia Ming discovered that Huo Yuhao and Di Ruiqiu strongly resonated with the God of Love’s God Position, but he ruled out immediate inheritance for both. He planned to invite the team to undertake God Trials, which could test their compatibility and leave open the possibility of a future inheritance.

• Huo Yuhao greeted Xia Ming, whose God Position Seed detected Huo Yuhao’s strong affinity with the God of Love’s inheritance.
• Xia Ming decided that Huo Yuhao should not inherit the God Position because the God of Love had requested a female successor, and he considered the trials a way to prepare Huo Yuhao for the God of Emotion’s inheritance.
• Xia Ming told Huo Yuhao to quietly gather Wang Dong'er, Bei Bei, Xiao Hongchen, and the others in his room.
• Xia Ming tested the assembled team and found that Wang Dong'er and Meng Hongchen had only slight affinity, while Di Ruiqiu resonated strongly with the God of Love’s laws.
• Xia Ming concluded that Di Ruiqiu could not inherit a God Position while the laws restricting soul beasts remained in force, but lower-tier trials could still benefit her and the others.
• Xia Ming resolved not to force an incompatible inheritance and planned to let the trials determine whether anyone could eventually meet the God of Love’s requirements.

Xia Ming successfully guided Di Ruiqiu to receive the God of Love’s Red-Grade Eight Trials, and she unexpectedly completed the first trial by understanding true love. After returning to the hotel, he found the others waiting, shaken by the revelation that the God of Love’s inheritance was within his reach to guide, though none of them qualified to inherit it.

• Xia Ming guided Di Ruiqiu through the descent of a God Trial in a secluded forest, and she accepted the Red-Grade Eight Trials.
• Di Ruiqiu revealed that she had already completed the first trial, “Understand true ‘love,’” surprising Xia Ming.
• Di Ruiqiu told Xia Ming that the reward raised her Soul Power by two ranks and increased her true body’s cultivation age by the same amount.
• Xia Ming considered how the trial rewards could strengthen Di Ruiqiu’s soul beast origin and prepare her for future godhood.
• Xia Ming and Di Ruiqiu returned to the hotel, where the others waited, eager and anxious about the God of Love’s inheritance.
• Xia Ming’s companions learned that the God of Love accepted only female inheritors, and none of them currently qualified.

In the tournament semifinal, Bei Bei of Shrek faced Long Aotian of the Body Sect, whose mastery of Unity of Heaven and Man made him a formidable opponent despite his team’s disadvantage. Their opening clash ended without a clear winner, leaving both fighters ready to continue.

• The Shrek Team entered its semifinal against the Body Sect, whose chances were considered poor against Shrek’s powerful lineup.
• Long Aotian stepped onto the arena first to defend the Body Sect’s pride, and Bei Bei answered as Shrek’s captain.
• Bei Bei unleashed Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Split, and Long Aotian met it with a jade-white palm while drawing on the surrounding environment through Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Their attacks collided in a massive explosion that damaged the arena and shook its protective barrier.
• Bei Bei and Long Aotian slid back from the impact, neither defeated, and Long Aotian praised Bei Bei’s Bright Sacred Dragon.

Long Aotian awakened his Silver-Grade Body Martial Soul and clashed with Bei Bei’s Beast Lord Soul Bone-powered attack, leaving both injured and the arena devastated. As they prepared to unleash their Martial Soul Avatars, Ye Yulin took over as referee and shielded the competition area.

• Long Aotian used his Silver-Grade Body Martial Soul Second Awakening to launch a silver-white blade of energy at Bei Bei.
• Bei Bei revealed his Beast Lord Soul Bone and countered with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Split, unleashing a powerful fusion of dragon forces.
• Their attacks collided, destroying the arena and cracking the protective barrier; Bei Bei and Long Aotian were both wounded but remained ready to fight.
• Long Aotian announced that his next attack would be his full strength, alarming referee Zheng Zhan with its potential danger.
• Ye Yulin arrived, took over refereeing from Zheng Zhan, and deployed a light barrier around the competition area.
• Bei Bei and Long Aotian simultaneously activated their seventh Soul Skills and unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars.

Bei Bei narrowly defeated Long Aotian in a devastating clash, then Huo Yuhao swept the Body Sect’s remaining contestants in the individual elimination round. Du Busi accepted Bei Bei’s victory and resolved to forge Long Aotian’s path without outside help as the match ended with Shrek’s dominance.

• Bei Bei and Long Aotian unleashed their strongest attacks, and Bei Bei remained standing long enough to win before collapsing unconscious.
• Shrek Academy’s medical team and the Body Sect’s staff rushed to treat their respective fighters.
• Du Busi recognized Bei Bei’s inheritance from Mu En and regretted that Long Aotian lacked comparable Soul Bones and a more fundamental Body Martial Soul.
• Du Busi considered seeking Xia Ming’s guidance for Long Aotian, but he rejected the idea because of the Body Sect’s longstanding enmity with Shrek Academy.
• Gu Tong entered the individual elimination round, but Huo Yuhao quickly defeated him and then swept the Body Sect’s remaining contestants.

Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy advanced to the tournament final, where Ye Guyi stood as Sun Moon’s strongest fighter. With Bei Bei still recovering from his semifinal battle, Wang Dong'er volunteered to open the final for Shrek.

• Shrek defeated the Body Sect, while Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy defeated Sky Dragon Sect, setting up the final between the two academies.
• The chapter noted that Ye Guyi’s genuine Soul Saint cultivation and Holy Angel Martial Soul made her a formidable threat to Shrek.
• Bei Bei, still exhausted and injured from fighting Long Aotian, asked his teammates who would take Shrek’s first match.
• After considering the team’s options, Wang Dong'er volunteered to fight first, and Bei Bei approved her choice.

Wang Dong'er defeated Nana in the finals, overwhelming her Ghost Martial Soul with the Light Goddess Butterfly's radiance. Ye Guyi took the stage next, and Wang Dong'er recognized that the real test was beginning.

• Nana introduced herself and faced Wang Dong'er, while the story revealed that Ye Guyi's team had freed Nana's parents' souls from the Holy Spirit Cult's base.
• Nana used her Ghost Martial Soul and Ghost Possession to evade Wang Dong'er's first barrage of light blades.
• Wang Dong'er unleashed a torrent of light that left Nana unable to continue, and referee Ye Yulin stopped the match and declared the outcome decided.
• Nana apologized to Ye Guyi, who reassured her and promised to take over.
• Ye Guyi stepped onto the stage, and Wang Dong'er lost her calm as their confrontation began.

Ye Guyi, the Sun Moon Team’s over-age exception and Holy Angel Soul Saint, faced Wang Dong’er in the finals and unleashed her full power. Her sacred aura suppressed Wang Dong’er’s light as spectators recognized the legendary Holy Angel Martial Soul.

• Ye Guyi’s unclear age and exceptional strength had led the Sun Moon Empire to rely on her to carry its team into the semifinals.
• Ye Guyi resolved to fight Wang Dong’er without holding back, despite knowing that Shrek Academy’s other powerful competitors awaited.
• Ye Guyi released blazing platinum holy light and transformed her longsword into a sacred blade.
• Ye Guyi spread four white wings and summoned seven optimally configured Soul Rings, pressing her sacred aura over the arena.
• Spectators recognized Ye Guyi’s Holy Angel Martial Soul and reacted with astonishment at its legendary power.

Ye Guyi and Wang Dong'er both unleashed their seventh Soul Skills and met each other’s supreme light attacks head-on. Their collision devastated the arena, leaving the outcome of the clash unresolved.

• Ye Guyi activated her Angel True Body and struck Wang Dong'er with a powerful Holy Judgment Sword Ray.
• Wang Dong'er answered by activating her Radiant Goddess Butterfly True Body and counterattacking with a slash from her golden butterfly wing.
• The two attacks collided in a blast of sacred and radiant energy that tore through the arena.
• The clash crushed a deep, molten-edged depression into the arena and sent shock waves against the Soul Guidance Shield.

Wang Dong'er and Ye Guyi fought evenly until Wang Dong'er revealed her new Super Martial Soul and activated a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The fusion sent her power surging, leaving Ye Guyi facing a transformation that frightened her.

• Wang Dong'er and Ye Guyi exchanged powerful attacks, exhausting their Soul Power while neither gained a decisive advantage.
• Ye Guyi realized that Wang Dong'er's Soul Power and cultivation rivaled or surpassed her own despite Wang Dong'er being younger.
• Wang Dong'er recalled how Xia Ming had removed Tang San's bloodline and helped awaken her new Super Martial Soul while preserving her fusion skill.
• Wang Dong'er fused her Light Goddess Butterfly with her new Martial Soul, causing her aura to rise beyond the power of her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Bei Bei and the Shrek Team were stunned by Wang Dong'er's Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Elder Song explained its rarity and glanced at Xia Ming.
• Ye Guyi sensed Wang Dong'er's power climbing toward a level that made her afraid.

Wang Dong'er defeated Ye Guyi with her Self Martial Soul Fusion and then defeated the Sun Moon Team's remaining fighters, winning the tournament for Shrek Academy. The competition ended with Shrek claiming the championship again.

• Wang Dong'er unleashed her Self Martial Soul Fusion and struck at Ye Guyi, but Ye Yulin blocked the attack with a Level Nine Soul Tool.
• Ye Yulin declared Wang Dong'er the winner after Ye Guyi acknowledged she could not have withstood the strike.
• Wang Dong'er stayed in the arena and defeated the Sun Moon Team's remaining five opponents.
• Wang Dong'er completed a one-against-seven victory, and the Shrek Team claimed the championship.

After the championship, Xia Ming returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian prepared to become his Soul Spirit and Gu Yuena offered her origin to help him become the Dragon God. As Gu Yuena planned to sacrifice alongside his God Position inheritance, Di Ruiqiu challenged the Ink Ice Python to test her strengthened bloodline.

• Xia Ming brought Di Ruiqiu back to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian discovered that her bloodline had grown stronger through Faith Power.
• Di Tian asked for one day to prepare to become Xia Ming’s Soul Spirit, and Gu Yuena revealed herself and offered her origin so Xia Ming could pursue becoming the Dragon God.
• Xia Ming accepted Gu Yuena’s offer, and she decided to sacrifice at the moment he began inheriting the Qilin God Position so its power could absorb her origin.
• Xia Ming stayed by the Lake of Life while Gu Yuena and Di Tian prepared, and he released Scarlet King and Xiong Jun to roam freely.
• Di Ruiqiu left the Lake of Life and challenged the Ink Ice Python, believing her strengthened bloodline made her strong enough to fight the Beast Lord.

Di Ruiqiu tested her strengthened bloodline against the Ink Ice Python, then sought comfort from Xia Ming after losing. The next morning, Di Tian sacrificed himself to Xia Ming, who gained his eighth Soul Ring, formed a third Soul Core, and reached level one hundred.

• Di Ruiqiu fought the Ink Ice Python with her full strength but lost to the two-hundred-thousand-year Beast Lord.
• Di Ruiqiu returned to human form and asked Xia Ming to comfort her, while Di Tian looked away in silence.
• The next morning, Di Tian activated the Soul Spirit contract and sacrificed himself to Xia Ming.
• Di Tian's power formed Xia Ming's eighth Soul Ring, and the sacrifice also produced an External Soul Bone.
• Xia Ming formed his third Soul Core, broke through to Limit Douluo, and then forced his Soul Power cultivation to level one hundred.

Xia Ming gained powerful dragon-scale armor from Di Tian’s Soul Bone as Di Tian became a God Rank Soul Spirit. Xia Ming postponed inheriting the Qilin God Position until he could better stabilize the fusion of two Half-Step God King powers, while Gu Yuena agreed to become his Ninth Ring.

• Xia Ming covered his body in Di Tian’s dragon scales and found they could withstand God Rank attacks.
• Di Tian became a God Rank Soul Spirit, but discovered he could no longer use the Dragon God Claw after Xia Ming cleansed away the Dragon God’s imprint.
• Xia Ming assured Di Tian that his lost power would be replaced in another way.
• Xia Ming told Gu Yuena he needed time to prepare before inheriting the God Position, and she agreed to sacrifice herself as his Ninth Ring when he was ready.
• Xia Ming planned to spend one or two years deepening his understanding of the two God Positions and carefully stabilizing their fusion.

Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu returned from a secret mission with the Golden Dragon King's sealed divine consciousness, and Tang San proposed a deal to help him escape. Tang San planned to use the Golden Dragon King to hold off the God Realm while he killed Xia Ming, but the Golden Dragon King saw through his concealed hostility and considered using the chaos to flee.

• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu brought the Golden Dragon King's sealed divine consciousness back to the God Realm.
• The Golden Dragon King emerged as a phantom, mocked Tang San's cultivation, and asked how Tang San intended to cooperate with him.
• Tang San offered to help the Golden Dragon King escape if he held back the God Realm's deities while Tang San killed Xia Ming.
• Tang San secretly planned to kill the Golden Dragon King after Xia Ming, while the Golden Dragon King recognized Tang San's scheme and resolved to exploit the ensuing distraction to escape.

Tang San agreed to release a wisp of the Golden Dragon King's divine consciousness in exchange for his cooperation against the God Realm. After learning about the God Realm's current strength, the Golden Dragon King sought out the God of Emotion, only to flee when he sensed the god's overwhelming power.

• The Golden Dragon King agreed to cooperate with Tang San after demanding information about the God Realm and permission to release a wisp of his divine consciousness.
• Tang San reluctantly agreed, while secretly resolving to kill Xia Ming and dispose of the Golden Dragon King afterward.
• The Golden Dragon King's divine consciousness left the sealed land and assessed the God Realm's God Kings and First-Class Gods based on Tang San's account.
• Believing the God Realm was weak, the Golden Dragon King headed for the God of Emotion's residence to investigate him.
• When the God of Emotion sensed him, the Golden Dragon King recognized his power as comparable to a true God King and fled.

Rong Nianbing found Huo Yuhao as a suitable heir to the Emotion God Position, while Xia Ming arranged for Rong Nianbing to oppose the God of Ruin when he moved against the Sea God. Huo Yuhao agreed to inherit the position, and Rong Nianbing invited him and Xia Ming to share a meal.

• Rong Nianbing sensed an unfamiliar divine consciousness and decided to search the lower realm for someone to inherit the God of Emotion's position.
• Xia Ming traced the divine fluctuation to Huo Yuhao and Rong Nianbing, who had arrived after Huo Yuhao completed the God of Love's trial.
• Rong Nianbing said Huo Yuhao's emerging power over emotions made him a suitable heir to the Emotion God Position.
• Huo Yuhao said he would follow Xia Ming's choice, and Xia Ming asked Rong Nianbing to stop the God of Ruin when he moved against the Sea God.
• Rong Nianbing agreed, and Huo Yuhao accepted the Emotion God Position before Rong Nianbing invited him and Xia Ming to try his cooking.

Xia Ming guided the powers of the God King Qilin’s physical-body and elemental God Positions into a temporary fusion over the sea. Though he succeeded in unifying their power, he recognized that inheriting the complete Qilin God Position remained a dangerous step he would postpone until he had mastered the unstable fusion.

• Xia Ming told Huo Yuhao that Rong Nianbing’s Emotion God Position had the potential to reach God King level and that the Ghost Carving Divine Blade was a Super Divine Artifact.
• Xia Ming went out over the sea and summoned the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and Holy Qilin Martial Souls to combine the two halves of the God King Qilin’s power.
• The merging powers created a vast black hole that drew the attention of powerful beings across the Douluo Plane.
• Xia Ming forced the physical-body and elemental powers together, survived their explosive clash, and achieved a temporary balance that influenced the laws around him.
• Xia Ming decided not to begin inheriting the complete God Position until he had gained deeper understanding and control of the fused power.