Recaps

Yan Shaozhe’s team drove off a ninety-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger instead of killing it, preserving it as a possible future Soul Ring for Xia Ming. After Zhang Lexuan finished absorbing her Soul Ring, the group prepared to return to Shrek Academy.

• Yan Shaozhe identified the Golden Lion-Tiger as a potential future Soul Ring for Xia Ming and decided to drive it away rather than kill it.
• Elder Song watched for danger while Elder Zhuang prepared healing support as Yan Shaozhe attacked the Golden Lion-Tiger.
• Yan Shaozhe struck the beast with powerful Phoenix soul skills, scorching and wounding it until it retreated into the forest.
• Elder Zhuang restored Yan Shaozhe’s strength after the battle.
• Zhang Lexuan finished absorbing her Soul Ring, and the group set off to return to school.

On Sea God Island, Mu En assigned Xia Ming to break through Qian Duoduo’s defenses without Qian Duoduo fighting back. Xia Ming’s opening strike cracked Qian Duoduo’s Soul Tool shield but failed to move him, and the training continued.

• Xia Ming told Mu En that he had sensed a distant place since gaining his third Soul Ring, though he could not locate it.
• Mu En brought Xia Ming to a training ground and introduced Qian Duoduo as his sparring partner.
• Mu En challenged Xia Ming to make Qian Duoduo take three steps back while Qian Duoduo used his defenses but did not retaliate.
• Xia Ming activated his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff possession and Domination Domain, then charged Reign Over the World into Qian Duoduo’s Soul Tool shield.
• Xia Ming’s attack cracked the shield, but Qian Duoduo remained unmoved and sent Xia Ming staggering back seven steps.
• Qian Duoduo told Xia Ming to continue as Mu En watched the sparring.

After three months of training, Xia Ming reached level forty, and Mu En prepared him to hunt a ninety-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger for his fourth Soul Ring. Xia Ming absorbed the spiritual-power herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and transformed his Spirit Sea, then was told to stabilize his new spiritual realm before departing for the Star Dou Great Forest in three days.

• Xia Ming broke through to level forty during training with Qian Duoduo, while Mu En watched.
• Mu En said he would accompany Xia Ming to hunt a ninety-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger for his fourth Soul Ring, and gave him Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his spiritual power.
• Xia Ming drank the dew, which withered the herb, and entered a deep cultivation state as its power nourished his Spirit Sea.
• After absorbing the herb’s power, Xia Ming’s Spirit Sea turned purple-gold and his spiritual power crossed the threshold of Form Without Substance.
• Mu En told Xia Ming to stabilize his spiritual realm and absorb the remaining medicinal power before they set out for the Star Dou Great Forest in three days.

Three days after beginning their hunt, Xia Ming and Mu En found a dying Golden Lion-Tiger that had reached a hundred thousand years and offered to sacrifice itself as Xia Ming’s fourth Soul Ring. Xia Ming swore to protect its young descendant for a century, and the sacrifice began as Mu En guarded the sleeping cub.

• Mu En led Xia Ming through the Star Dou Great Forest to a valley where they found a mortally wounded, hundred-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger.
• The Golden Lion-Tiger recognized Xia Ming and offered to sacrifice itself if he agreed to raise and protect its young descendant for a hundred years.
• Xia Ming swore by his Martial Soul to protect the cub, and the Golden Lion-Tiger began transforming its life force into a blood-red Soul Ring.
• Xia Ming absorbed the Soul Ring as his Soul Power surged, while Mu En protected the sleeping cub nearby.
• Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, a pair of dark-golden eyes opened toward the valley and then closed again.

After gaining the Golden Lion-Tiger’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and right leg bone, Xia Ming discovered coordinates deep in the sea and decided to set out alone. Mu En agreed to let him leave if he could defeat Qian Duoduo, and their fight began at Shrek Academy.

• Xia Ming absorbed the Golden Lion-Tiger’s sacrifice, rose to level forty-nine, and gained a brilliant-gold right leg bone and four powerful soul skills.
• Xia Ming found coordinates deep in the sea in his Spirit Sea and returned to the academy with Mu En.
• Xia Ming asked to travel alone, and Mu En made his departure conditional on defeating Qian Duoduo without external assistance.
• Three days later, Qian Duoduo released his nine Soul Rings and Soul Tools in the martial arena.
• Xia Ming activated his Martial Soul Possession and Domination Domain, then revealed four Soul Rings as the duel began.

Xia Ming used his Golden Domain, injury-enhancing Soul Bone skill, and other boosts to challenge Qian Duoduo, then unleashed his final trump card. He shattered Qian Duoduo’s Black Dragon Shield and defeated him, revealing power that could contend with a Super Douluo while the skill lasted.

• Xia Ming activated his hundred-thousand-year Golden Domain and suppressed Qian Duoduo’s combat strength.
• Xia Ming injured his own shoulder to trigger Indomitable Fighting Spirit, then raised his strength to the level of a Title Douluo and struck Qian Duoduo’s shield.
• Qian Duoduo withstood Xia Ming’s punch but said it had not broken his defense, and Xia Ming prepared to use another Soul Skill.
• Xia Ming activated his trump card and tore apart the Black Dragon Shield with his Dark-Gold Terrorclaw, sending Qian Duoduo crashing into the barrier.
• Qian Duoduo admitted defeat, and the spectators realized Xia Ming could contend with a Super Douluo while his trump card lasted.

Xia Ming reached the Dou Ling Empire's East Coast seeking a ship to take him into the far seas and learned of the damaged Soul Tool ship Black Pearl. He offered to avenge its crew by defeating the Sea Soul Beast that attacked it, but its captain dismissed him and attacked.

• Xia Ming arrived at the East Coast after leaving Shrek Academy alone and searched for a way to reach a distant place across the sea.
• A local man told Xia Ming that the Black Pearl had been wrecked by a powerful Sea Soul Beast and that its surviving crew wanted revenge.
• Xia Ming found the Black Pearl and offered to take it into the far seas in exchange for avenging its crew.
• The captain, a Soul King, refused to believe Xia Ming could defeat the beast and attacked him with his third Soul Ring.

Xia Ming avenged the one-armed man’s crew by killing an eighty-thousand-year whale soul beast in a single attack. A far more powerful Deep Sea Demon Whale then emerged from the depths and confronted him, intrigued by his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.

• Xia Ming proved his strength to the one-armed man, who agreed to lend him the Black Pearl in exchange for revenge against the beast that killed his crew.
• The one-armed man sailed the Black Pearl to the whale’s hunting grounds, where Xia Ming sensed the beast and flew out to meet it.
• Xia Ming used his Golden Domain and Sky-Rending Tear to split the eighty-thousand-year whale soul beast in two and kill it within ten breaths.
• After the whale died, a much greater presence stirred beneath the sea, and the Deep Sea Demon Whale emerged to examine Xia Ming.
• The Deep Sea Demon Whale recognized Xia Ming’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, then called him a human with many secrets.

Xia Ming confronted the Demon Empress, convinced her he hated Tang San, and was allowed to leave her waters. She offered him a trial and a fortuitous opportunity before he obtained his ninth Soul Ring, while she wondered whether a mysterious place might help her become a god.

• Xia Ming concealed his identity as a Shrek Academy student and told the Demon Empress that he bore an irreconcilable hatred for Tang San.
• The Demon Empress recognized Xia Ming's extraordinary talent and accepted that his grudge against Tang San could be genuine.
• The Demon Empress let Xia Ming leave, warning him not to kill Soul Beasts in her waters.
• The Demon Empress invited Xia Ming to seek her out before obtaining his ninth Soul Ring and offered him a trial for a fortuitous opportunity.
• After Xia Ming departed, the Demon Empress reflected on his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Martial Soul and wondered if a certain place could offer her a path to godhood.

Xia Ming followed the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Martial Soul’s resonance to a solitary island, where an ancient bloodline trial forced him to endure crushing pressure as he approached its center. He reached the altar and met the phantom of the God King Qilin, the progenitor of his Martial Soul.

• Xia Ming returned to the Black Pearl after killing the whale and ordered the crew to take him to the place calling to his bloodline.
• For half a month, Xia Ming guided the ship through increasingly strange waters until it reached a lone, lion-shaped island.
• Xia Ming flew to the island, where ancient patterns and a golden light curtain awakened and subjected him to overwhelming bloodline pressure.
• Xia Ming struggled toward the island’s center, enduring escalating pressure while golden energy repeatedly healed his injuries.
• Xia Ming reached the altar, where the phantom introduced itself as the God King Qilin, progenitor of his Martial Soul.

Xia Ming learned that the God King Qilin had left behind a damaged God Position and offered him the inheritance under two conditions: kill the Dragon God and repair the Qilin Crown. After Xia Ming accepted, the God King Qilin began the inheritance with a massive burst of golden light.

• The God King Qilin told Xia Ming that he must eventually kill the Dragon God to inherit his God Position, though he could wait until he was strong enough.
• The God King Qilin explained that his damaged God Position had been split in two and that Xia Ming could either reunite them before ascending or inherit one first.
• The God King Qilin revealed that Xia Ming's Incomplete Crown was his damaged Super Divine Artifact, the Qilin Crown, and asked him to repair it after becoming a god.
• Xia Ming accepted the inheritance and explained that Tang San had monopolized the path to godhood by obscuring the God Realm's perception of Douluo Continent.
• The God King Qilin began the inheritance, shaking the island and sending a golden pillar through the clouds as the surrounding sea and sky turned gold.

Tang San tried to suppress the God King Qilin’s awakening inheritance on Douluo Planet, but the God Realm’s ancient gods chose to let the trial proceed. The Dragon Clan also set out to find and help the inheritor, hoping to change the fate of soul beasts.

• Tang San sensed a golden pillar of light rise from Douluo Planet and tried to suppress the God King Qilin’s God Trial.
• The God of Destruction and Goddess of Life recognized the God King Qilin’s remaining soul and refused to interfere with his inheritor’s trial.
• Tang San concealed his anger after the God of Destruction declared that the God Realm would not obstruct the trial.
• Xiao Wu comforted Tang San, who watched a pale blue-haired figure pass through the hall.
• An ethereal voice in the Lake of Life ordered the Dragon Clan to find and help the God King Qilin’s inheritor.

Xia Ming inherited the Qilin God Position trials and returned to the Black Pearl, only to encounter the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, Xiao Bai, who had been ordered by Tang San to intercept him. The chapter ended as they faced each other at sea, with Xiao Bai weighing the Sea God's command.

• The God King Qilin told Xia Ming that he must pass the Qilin Nine Trials, beginning with helping a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast survive a Heavenly Tribulation, and gave him two God-Bestowed Soul Rings.
• The God King Qilin entered the mark between Xia Ming's brows, and the damaged Qilin Crown merged into Xia Ming's chest to temper his bloodline.
• Xia Ming returned to the Black Pearl and ordered the captain to sail back to the continent; the voyage remained calm for seven days.
• On the eighth day, Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King, surfaced near the Black Pearl and faced Xia Ming.
• Xiao Bai recalled that Tang San had ordered her to intercept Xia Ming, kill him if possible, and let him go if she could not.

Xia Ming fought Xiao Bai at sea and used his control-immune Lion-Tiger Tyrant Body to land a devastating blow before she escaped. He kept one of her life-bound scales and turned his attention toward Tang San, while a divine presence withdrew and considered another method.

• Xia Ming unleashed his domains and stacked his enhancements as Xiao Bai attacked him with Demon Shark Fang.
• Xia Ming broke through Xiao Bai’s attacks, but her speed let her evade his Dark-Gold Terrorclaw.
• Xiao Bai used Despair Light Wave to appear to immobilize Xia Ming, but he had activated Lion-Tiger Tyrant Body and used the apparent paralysis to draw her close.
• Xia Ming struck Xiao Bai with Sky-Rending Tear, opening a deep wound across her body and tearing away one of her life-bound scales.
• Xiao Bai fled into the deep sea, while Xia Ming kept the scale and vowed to take Tang San’s first gift.
• The survivors aboard the Black Pearl celebrated as a divine presence withdrew and resolved to use another method.

Xia Ming returned to Shrek Academy after traveling with the Black Pearl and agreed to escort Luo En to the academy’s entrance examination. He told Mu En he had obtained a God Trial, and they planned to leave for the Far North to meet the Snow Empress the next day.

• Xia Ming reached the Dou Ling Empire aboard the Black Pearl, and the captain asked him to accompany his son Luo En to Shrek Academy.
• Xia Ming agreed, traveled with Luo En, and left him at the academy gates before returning to Sea God Island.
• Xia Ming told Mu En that he had obtained a God Trial and asked him to take him to the Far North to speak with the Snow Empress.
• Mu En agreed to leave with Xia Ming the next day so they could complete the God Trial as soon as possible.
• Xia Ming met Bei Bei, who said he would enroll that year and leave Sea God Island; Xia Ming said he would continue cultivating and travel with Mu En.

Xia Ming offered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress a secret realm’s Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in exchange for ten years of protection after they survived their Heavenly Tribulations. The Snow Empress accepted, and she, the Ice Empress, Xia Ming, and Mu En prepared to travel to Dragon City.

• Mu En summoned the Snow Empress, restrained the Ice Empress, and briefly clashed with the Snow Empress before releasing her.
• Xia Ming promised to help the Snow Empress and Ice Empress survive their Heavenly Tribulations by leading them to Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• The Snow Empress accepted Xia Ming’s condition that the two soul beasts protect him for ten years after surviving their tribulations.
• Xia Ming revealed that the secret realm lay beneath the Earth Dragon Sect’s forbidden grounds in Dragon City.
• Mu En offered to accompany them and negotiate with the Earth Dragon Sect, and the Snow Empress agreed to depart with the group.

Mu En visited Earth Dragon Sect and offered a Sub-Dragon Spirit Bone and a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma in exchange for its secret realm. Nan Shui Shui went to consider the deal, while Snow Empress sensed something underground.

• Mu En brought Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xia Ming to Earth Dragon Sect instead of first approaching Sky Dragon Sect.
• Mu En introduced himself to the gate guards as Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion Master and asked to meet the sect master.
• Nan Shui Shui greeted Mu En, and he proposed trading for Earth Dragon Sect's secret realm.
• Nan Shui Shui denied knowing of a secret realm, but Mu En offered a thirty-thousand-year Sub-Dragon Spirit Bone and a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma.
• Nan Shui Shui asked for half an hour to decide, and Snow Empress sensed that something was underground.

Xia Ming helped Snow Empress and Ice Empress obtain Ice Extreme God Crystal, then learned that Snow Empress had survived her Heavenly Tribulation. Her success completed his first Qilin Nine Trials trial, and God King Qilin began granting his promised reward.

• Nan Shui Shui agreed to Mu En's deal and accepted a thirty-five-thousand-year left arm bone and a jade box in exchange for showing them Earth Dragon Sect's secret realm.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress descended into the well, retrieved Ice Extreme God Crystal, and returned strengthened by the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress announced they had to return to the Far North to face their Heavenly Tribulations, and Nan Shui Shui realized they were legendary Soul Beasts.
• After the thunderclouds dispersed, Xia Ming sensed that Snow Empress's Heavenly Tribulation had succeeded, completing his first Qilin Nine Trials trial.
• God King Qilin appeared in Xia Ming's Spirit Sea, remarked on how quickly he had finished the trial, and offered him a god-bestowed second Martial Soul.

The God King Qilin gave Xia Ming the Holy Qilin Martial Soul, raised his innate Soul Power to level twenty, and brought his current Soul Power to level fifty. Xia Ming began absorbing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and the ring continued growing more powerful under the strain.

• The God King Qilin awakened Xia Ming’s Holy Qilin Martial Soul to complement his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and granted him Ultimate All-Element affinity.
• The God King Qilin raised Xia Ming’s innate Soul Power to level twenty and told him to absorb the two God-Bestowed Soul Rings.
• Xia Ming told Mu En that his Soul Power had reached level fifty, and Mu En promised to guard him while he absorbed the rings.
• Xia Ming chose to add the first God-Bestowed Soul Ring to his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and began absorbing it.
• The Soul Ring rapidly became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and Xia Ming endured its violent pressure as his right leg bone’s Indomitable Fighting Spirit strengthened him.

Xia Ming absorbed two God-Bestowed Soul Rings, raising his fifth Soul Ring to two hundred thousand years and his second Martial Soul’s first Soul Ring to ten thousand years. After receiving a new God Trial and explaining the Holy Qilin’s overwhelming elemental abilities, he left Mu En, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress stunned.

• Xia Ming broke through to a two-hundred-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring and successfully absorbed it as Mu En stood ready to intervene.
• Xia Ming absorbed a second God-Bestowed Soul Ring in under two hours, then learned from the God King Qilin that he had earned fifteen percent affinity with the Qilin God Position and a five-thousand-year increase to his Soul Ring ages.
• The God King Qilin assigned Xia Ming a second trial to ease the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts, and Xia Ming chose to continue rather than submit it early.
• Xia Ming returned to find Mu En, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress shocked by his twin Martial Souls and God Trials.
• Xia Ming revealed that his second Martial Soul was the Holy Qilin and described its command over ultimate elements, time, and space, leaving Ice Empress calling it absurd.

Xia Ming continued his journey with the Ice and Snow Emperors and arrived in Star Luo City seeking the Gold of Life. There, he unexpectedly encountered the young Dai Yuhao, while Tang San watched the meeting from the God Realm and cursed the Plane Will.

• Mu En explained how Xia Ming's ultimate attributes gave him a major advantage over Shrek Academy's powerful Soul Masters, then returned to the academy while Xia Ming chose to keep traveling.
• Xia Ming agreed that Snow Empress and Ice Empress would stay by his side for ten years as they continued their journey.
• After crossing half the continent, Xia Ming reached Star Luo City to search for the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade and its Gold of Life, which had not yet appeared in auction records.
• A blue-haired boy collided with Xia Ming near the city gates and hurried to gather the medicinal herbs he had dropped.
• Xia Ming recognized the boy's age and appearance, asked his name, and learned that he was Dai Yuhao; Tang San watched their meeting from the God Realm and blamed the Plane Will.

Xia Ming suspected the Plane Will had brought Huo Yuhao to him and decided to intervene in Huo Yuhao’s fate to gain a chance to contact Electrolux. He offered to help Huo Yuhao’s dying mother, then kept his reasons from Snow Empress.

• Xia Ming reasoned that the Plane Will, rather than Tang San, had guided Huo Yuhao to Star Luo City because Xia Ming could oppose Tang San’s plans.
• Xia Ming recognized Huo Yuhao’s herbs as an attempt to keep someone near death alive and asked whether his family was in trouble.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that his mother was gravely ill, and Xia Ming offered to help her.
• Huo Yuhao said outsiders could not enter his home and agreed to bring his mother to meet Xia Ming the next day.
• Snow Empress questioned why Xia Ming cared about Huo Yuhao, but he said he would explain in the future.

Xia Ming and Snow Empress discovered a concealed Super Douluo-level Evil Soul Master in Star Luo City and alerted Emperor Xu Jiawei. After the city evacuated civilians and assembled reinforcements, Snow Empress attacked the hotel and killed one of the infiltrators.

• Snow Empress sensed an evil aura comparable to a Super Douluo in a top-floor room at Star Glory Hotel and detected three people inside.
• Xia Ming went to the imperial palace, showed Xu Jiawei his Shrek Academy badge, and warned him about the Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Jiawei ordered civilians evacuated and sent Star-Shattering Douluo, Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu, and other experts to support Xia Ming.
• Snow Empress sensed two Title Douluo and one Super Douluo in the hotel, whose calm auras suggested they were waiting for an attack.
• Snow Empress froze a figure in the top-floor suite and shattered him, killing a Title Douluo.

Feng Ling revealed herself as a Rank 98 Super Douluo and challenged Star Luo City, but Xia Ming stepped forward to fight her. Xia Ming exploited his three ultimate attributes and injured her with attacks that pierced her defenses.

• Feng Ling exposed her identity and Rank 98 cultivation after her Soul Power erupted over the hotel.
• Xia Ming stopped Snow Empress from attacking and confronted Feng Ling, while she mocked him for being only a Soul King.
• Xia Ming unleashed his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Martial Soul and used Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Darkness, and Ultimate Light to disrupt Feng Ling's control of her elements.
• Xia Ming struck Feng Ling with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Split, breaking through her defenses and forcing her backward.
• Xia Ming followed with Sky-Rending Tear, leaving three deep claw marks across Feng Ling's chest and making her realize the attack ignored defenses.

Xia Ming overwhelmed Feng Ling, the rank ninety-eight Evil Phoenix Douluo, with his ultimate attributes, speed, and physical strength. He revealed that his fifth Soul Skill prevented her injuries from healing, made them worsen over time, and ensured she could not be resurrected if he killed her, then prepared to finish the fight.

• Feng Ling tried to attack Xia Ming with her Evil Phoenix flames, but his Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Darkness suppressed and absorbed them.
• Feng Ling folded away her phoenix wings and chose close combat, but Xia Ming used Ultimate Wind to appear before her and struck her with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Split.
• Xia Ming pursued Feng Ling with a barrage of punches, worsening her injuries while the Star Luo Empire's two Title Douluo watched in disbelief.
• Feng Ling realized her wounds were worsening and her life force was draining because of Xia Ming's fifth Soul Skill, Scar of Eternal Mourning.
• Xia Ming explained that Scar of Eternal Mourning made his injuries unhealable for three hours, caused them to worsen, and prevented resurrection if he killed the marked target.
• Xia Ming raised his hand and gathered Ultimate Light as he announced that it was time to end the fight.