Recaps

Xia Ming gathered the continent’s major powers at the border of Shrek City and the Star Dou Great Forest to reveal Soul Spirits. He demonstrated the Scarlet King’s independent will and explained that willing Soul Beasts and Soul Masters could form equal, inheritable contracts that provided Soul Rings and combat support.

• Representatives from across the continent assembled, many drawn by Xia Ming’s feats in Ming Capital.
• Du Busi confronted Mu En about hiding Xia Ming’s true strength, and Mu En silently presented Xia Ming as his disciple and the future of the era.
• Beast God Di Tian arrived and showed his support for Xia Ming.
• Xia Ming addressed the gathering and summoned the Scarlet King from his body, shocking the human experts with the Beast Lord’s clear intelligence and independence.
• Xia Ming explained that Soul Spirits formed equal symbiotic contracts with willing Soul Masters, providing Soul Rings, skills, and a companion in battle.
• Xia Ming revealed that Soul Spirit contracts could pass to approved descendants or successors and continue across generations.

Xia Ming demonstrated the Soul Spirit Contract by guiding Bei Bei through a successful fusion with a twenty-thousand-year Sky Dragon Horse. After the ceremony convinced the gathered Soul Masters, Xia Ming proposed founding the Spirit Pagoda to oversee Soul Spirit Contracts.

• Xia Ming explained that Soul Spirit fusion required strong mental power and a soul beast's willing cooperation, then announced a public demonstration.
• Bei Bei stepped forward, prepared with two powerful Soul Bones and a body strengthened to withstand a twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Di Tian summoned the Sky Dragon Horse, and Xia Ming guided it and Bei Bei as their spirits and powers began to merge.
• Bei Bei endured the Sky Dragon Horse's source power and successfully gained a deep-black fourth Soul Ring and the Sky Dragon Horse as his Soul Spirit.
• Xia Ming declared the Soul Spirit Method proven and proposed establishing the Spirit Pagoda to research, regulate, guide, and protect Soul Spirit Contracts.

Xia Ming secured Di Tian’s and Snow Empress’s support for the Spirit Pagoda, prompting the continent’s major powers to join the new organization. With every invited faction stepping forward, he officially established the Spirit Pagoda.

• Di Tian publicly supported the Spirit Pagoda on behalf of the Star Dou soul beasts.
• Snow Empress revealed herself and declared the Far North’s support for the organization.
• Xia Ming invited the factions to help build the Spirit Pagoda and discuss its rules and membership.
• The three empires, the Sun Moon Empire, major sects, the Body Sect, and the other invited forces stepped forward to join.
• Xia Ming announced the official establishment of the Spirit Pagoda.

Two years after the Spirit Pagoda began changing how Soul Masters obtained Soul Rings, Xia Ming challenged Mu En to test his growth before enrolling at Shrek Academy. Their opening clash shook Mu En backward, but its spiritual impact briefly dazed both fighters, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Spirit Pagoda's credibility and popularity grew as more Soul Masters chose Soul Spirit Contracts over hunting in soul beast forests.
• Two years later, Xia Ming challenged Mu En outside Shrek City as experts from Shrek Academy and the Star Dou Great Forest watched.
• Xia Ming unleashed his full power and struck Mu En with a punch, while Mu En countered with the opening move of Reign Over the World.
• Their spiritual powers collided and briefly dazed them both before their physical attacks met.
• Xia Ming's punch drove Mu En backward through the bedrock, while Xia Ming remained in place but momentarily froze.

Xia Ming matched Mu En’s strength and forced him to unleash his Bright Sacred Dragon Avatar. After five minutes of enhanced, defense-ignoring attacks, Xia Ming withdrew, unable to seriously shake Mu En’s powerful avatar.

• Xia Ming and Mu En’s spiritual powers canceled each other out, and Xia Ming’s strength shocked Mu En and the watching spectators.
• Mu En acknowledged Xia Ming as an equal opponent and activated his hundred-thousand-year Seventh Soul Skill, the Bright Sacred Dragon Avatar.
• Mu En’s dragon avatar swept its tail at Xia Ming, who tripled his attributes and empowered his strikes to ignore defenses.
• Xia Ming darted around the dragon and attacked relentlessly, while Mu En’s avatar withstood the blows despite developing a few fine cracks.
• After nearly five minutes, Xia Ming’s enhancement began to fade, so he retreated and admitted that he had not truly shaken Mu En’s avatar.

Xia Ming unleashed his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Qilin Transformation, and struck Mu En with enough force to overwhelm his defenses and alter the wilderness. After Xia Ming weakened the attack to spare his teacher, Mu En conceded defeat and acknowledged how quickly his disciple had surpassed him.

• Xia Ming warned Mu En that his next attack was the strongest he could control and that he could not fully rein it in.
• Xia Ming merged the origins of his two Martial Souls and activated his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Qilin Transformation, reaching Demigod-level power.
• Mu En raised his Martial Soul Avatar's defenses, but Xia Ming's strike shattered them and drove him back through the wilderness.
• Xia Ming reduced the attack's power at the last moment to prevent Mu En from suffering irreversible damage, then collapsed into weakness as the transformation faded.
• Mu En returned to human form, assessed the ruined battlefield, and admitted that he had lost.

Xia Ming completed the third Qilin trial, gained divine power and a stronger affinity with the Qilin God Position, and began considering how divine power could amplify his Qilin Transformation. The God King Qilin set the fourth trial as exterminating Evil Soul Masters, while the witnesses remained stunned by Xia Ming’s victory over Mu En.

• The God King Qilin rewarded Xia Ming with a fifteen-percent increase in affinity, raised all his Soul Rings by five thousand years, and granted him the right to use Qilin Divine Power.
• Xia Ming realized that combining Divine Power with Qilin Transformation could greatly increase his strongest technique.
• The God King Qilin announced that Xia Ming’s fourth trial was to exterminate Evil Soul Masters, with no limit on their number or level.
• Xia Ming returned to reality and found Shrek’s elders and elites and the Beast Lord rulers staring at him in shock after his battle with Mu En.
• King of Ten Thousand Demons and the other Beast Lords recognized Xia Ming as a lethal threat, while Snow Empress and Di Tian remained confident.
• Xia Ming calmly told his teacher and the other seniors that they should return.

Two years of change reshaped the Spirit Pagoda into a hub for the continent’s powers and Soul Masters. Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan arrived for major Soul Spirit fusions while Xu Sanshi and Ma Xiaotao sought Soul Spirits to advance their cultivation.

• The Spirit Pagoda headquarters in Shrek City became a center for political negotiations and Soul Spirit seekers, with representatives from many factions stationed there.
• Huo Yuhao arrived with Xu Sanshi, secretly preparing to fuse with a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Spirit after earning the opportunity through Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Xu Sanshi sought a compatible ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit after his Black Tortoise Bloodline awakened and his Soul Power reached rank forty.
• Jiang Nannan, now a confident Spirit Pagoda employee, welcomed Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi and guided them toward a quiet room for assessment and registration.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived to fuse with a hundred-thousand-year Blood Moon Sky Wolf Soul Spirit, while Ma Xiaotao came seeking a fire-attributed Soul Spirit for her sixth Soul Ring after breaking through rank sixty.

On Shrek Academy’s enrollment day, Xia Ming reunited with Ning Tian and Wu Feng before discovering that Wang Dong was registering as a boy despite having the female-exclusive Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul. After Wang Dong revealed her extraordinary strength, Yan Shaozhe confirmed Xia Ming’s claim and made her correct her gender on the form.

• Xia Ming welcomed Ning Tian and Wu Feng to Shrek Academy and noticed Ning Tian had reached Soul Ancestor at level forty-three.
• Xia Ming spotted Wang Dong registering as male and questioned her because the Light Goddess Butterfly appeared only in female Soul Masters.
• Wang Dong revealed four Soul Rings and her Soul Ancestor strength, stunning the students and staff gathered nearby.
• Xia Ming insisted that Wang Dong’s strength did not change what her Martial Soul indicated about her gender.
• Yan Shaozhe confirmed that the Light Goddess Butterfly was female-exclusive and told Wang Dong to register as female, and she reluctantly agreed.

Xia Ming oversaw freshman registration, welcomed Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy, and warned Xiao Xiao to protect the potential of her second Martial Soul. He learned that Zhang Lexuan would teach Freshman Class One, while Huo Yuhao arranged to share Xia Ming’s assigned dormitory and care for it.

• Xia Ming enrolled Huo Yuhao, whose Spirit Eye and Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Souls had reached level twenty-eight.
• Xia Ming recognized Xiao Xiao’s Twin Martial Souls and warned her not to attach Soul Rings to her second Martial Soul too early.
• Xia Ming observed the freshmen’s notable talents and discussed their prospects with Mu En.
• Huo Yuhao switched into Xia Ming’s assigned dormitory and explained that he had cleaned it so he could stay close to him.
• Huo Yuhao told Xia Ming that Zhang Lexuan had been appointed homeroom teacher of Freshman Class One, and Xia Ming said he already knew.

In the God Realm, Tang San schemed to draw Wang Dong'er closer to Xia Ming by planting the idea of a Self Martial Soul Fusion Technique in her mind. Wang Dong'er became curious about asking Xia Ming for guidance, while Tang San believed his plan was under control.

• Tang San discovered that Xia Ming had exposed Wang Dong'er's disguise and decided to have her keep approaching him despite the setback.
• Tang San concluded that Wang Dong'er needed a reason to interact with Xia Ming and planned to guide her toward developing a Self Martial Soul Fusion Technique.
• At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong'er complained to Xiao Xiao about Xia Ming before feeling a sudden dizziness and sensing new Martial Soul knowledge.
• Wang Dong'er wondered whether she could cultivate a Self Martial Soul Fusion Technique and asked Xiao Xiao who could explain profound Martial Soul theory.
• Wang Dong'er thought Xia Ming might be able to answer her questions, while Tang San withdrew his divine power and declared that nothing could go wrong.

Xia Ming and Zhang Lexuan discussed the outstanding freshmen in their class and Zhang Lexuan’s recent rise to Rank 85. In the classroom, Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a fight over the seating arrangement, while Xia Ming watched without intervening.

• Zhang Lexuan credited Xia Ming for attracting the academy’s best freshmen and revealed that absorbing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring had raised her to Rank 85.
• Xia Ming left the teachers’ office to visit Freshman Class One.
• Dai Huabin berated Huo Yuhao for questioning the temporary seating arrangement and mocked his lower Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao stood his ground, and Dai Huabin challenged him to settle the dispute in the Soul Fighting Zone.
• Xia Ming arrived at the classroom door and watched the confrontation, confident that Huo Yuhao’s abilities surpassed Dai Huabin’s.

Xia Ming entered the freshman classroom and stunned the students by revealing an overwhelming six-ring Soul Emperor configuration. Wang Dong'er withdrew her challenge after recognizing the golden patterns as marks of Beast Lord Soul Rings, but vowed to catch up to him.

• Xia Ming appeared at the classroom doorway, drawing attention away from Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao's planned fight.
• Wang Dong'er challenged Xia Ming, who questioned whether she wanted to fight despite her Soul Ancestor talent.
• Xia Ming released his aura and revealed three black and three red Soul Rings, with golden patterns on his last two rings.
• Dai Huabin dismissed the rings as fake, while Wang Dong'er recalled that golden patterns marked Beast Lord Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong'er admitted she could not defeat Xia Ming now but vowed to catch up to him.

Zhang Lexuan appointed Xia Ming class monitor and led Freshman Class One to learn about Soul Tools. When Wang Dong'er reacted with intense disgust, Tang San temporarily sealed the suggestion he had planted in her soul, leaving the class on its way to the Soul Tool Testing Area.

• Zhang Lexuan introduced herself as head teacher and warned that freshmen who failed the assessment in three months could not remain at Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan appointed Xia Ming class monitor, and the class accepted the decision while Dai Huabin privately resented it.
• Zhang Lexuan announced that Martial Soul Department students had to learn basic Soul Tool use and led the class toward the testing ground.
• Wang Dong'er recoiled at the mention of Soul Tools because of a suggestion Tang San had planted in her soul.
• Tang San temporarily sealed Wang Dong'er's disgust, and she calmed down before following Zhang Lexuan to the testing area.

Zhang Lexuan brought Freshman Class One to Shrek's modernized Soul Guidance Department, where Huo Yuhao demonstrated basic Soul Tools. Dai Huabin openly resisted the lesson but complied after Zhang Lexuan warned that students who failed to learn the required skills could be expelled; Xia Ming realized many freshmen shared his hostility.

• Zhang Lexuan described how Jing Hongchen's arrival had driven sweeping reforms that transformed Shrek's Soul Guidance Department.
• Fan Yu welcomed Freshman Class One to the renovated testing area and assigned Huo Yuhao to explain the basic Soul Tools and their safe use.
• Dai Huabin called the Soul Tools crooked tricks, disrupting Huo Yuhao's demonstration.
• Zhang Lexuan told Dai Huabin that learning Soul Tools was mandatory and that students who failed to meet the requirements could be expelled.
• Dai Huabin reluctantly examined the equipment as Huo Yuhao continued, while Xia Ming noticed that many freshmen also resisted Soul Tools.

Tang San used his divine power to force a potential Martial Soul Fusion Skill between Wang Dong'er and Xia Ming, but the God King Qilin absorbed the power and condemned the crude treatment of Wang Dong'er's soul. The chapter left the Qilin noticing that her soul essence had been forcibly divided and stitched back together.

• After three months at Shrek Academy, Xia Ming had earned most classmates' respect, and Wang Dong'er had become comfortable talking and training with him.
• Tang San decided their relationship was progressing too slowly and resolved to force a closer bond through a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wang Dong'er suddenly sensed a resonance between her Martial Souls and Xia Ming's and proposed that they test for a fusion.
• As Wang Dong'er grasped Xia Ming's wrist, Tang San restrained Xia Ming with divine power and sent another strand into him to create fusion compatibility.
• The God King Qilin absorbed Tang San's divine power and treated it as a useful little reward for Xia Ming's future God Trial.
• The God King Qilin examined Wang Dong'er and recognized that her soul essence had been crudely divided and forcibly stitched back together.

The God King Qilin uncovered that Tang San had torn Wang Dong'er's soul into three pieces and began repairing the remaining fragment. Tang San appeared through the Poseidon Mark and ordered him to stop, calling the damage a family matter tied to the God Realm's greater situation.

• Tang San lost contact with the divine power he had sent into Xia Ming and realized the God King Qilin had detected and absorbed it.
• The God King Qilin broke through Tang San's barrier in Wang Dong'er's Spirit Sea and discovered that her soul had been forcibly split into three fragments.
• The God King Qilin judged that Wang Dong'er's damaged soul could suffer severe consequences and began using Creation Force to mend it.
• Tang San manifested through the Poseidon Mark and told the God King Qilin to stop, insisting that Wutong's soul and its arrangements were his family matter.

The God King Qilin devoured Tang San’s divine consciousness and resumed repairing Wang Dong’er’s soul, while Tang San suppressed his fury and resolved to eliminate Xia Ming through covert means. He contacted Ye Xishui at the Holy Spirit Cult, who realized the Holy Emperor might truly exist and felt renewed confidence in the cult.

• The God King Qilin rejected Tang San’s excuses, destroyed his divine consciousness phantom, and devoured its essence.
• The God King Qilin directed his Divine Power into Wang Dong’er’s cracked soul to continue repairing it.
• Tang San restrained himself from descending to Douluo Planet because doing so would invite punishment from the God Realm Committee.
• Tang San concluded that Xia Ming was a threat he could not control and secretly reached out to Ye Xishui.
• Ye Xishui heard the Holy Emperor’s voice, suspected the legend was real, and rejoiced at the possibility that a god supported the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao followed the Holy Emperor’s decree to Jialing Pass, where Tang San used the remnants of the Rakshasa God Position to initiate their trials. He granted Ye Xishui Rakshasa Divine Power and branded them both with an eighth trial to kill Xia Ming.

• Ye Xishui received the Holy Emperor’s command to go to the old site of Jialing Pass and brought Long Xiaoyao with her.
• Ye Xishui sensed a powerful attraction at Jialing Pass, and she and Long Xiaoyao stepped onto charred earth that triggered a purple-black Divine Power barrier.
• Long Xiaoyao’s Soul Power was suppressed by the barrier, while Ye Xishui’s Evil Soul Power began to condense as she absorbed the Rakshasa Divine Power.
• Tang San watched them through a water mirror and used the damaged Rakshasa God Position’s authority to grant Ye Xishui a controlled God Trial and Divine Power.
• Tang San branded Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao with the eighth Rakshasa trial, ordering them to kill Xia Ming.

After her memories of Tang Wutong returned, Wang Dong'er rejected that name and struggled with the truth that her life had been shaped by Tang San. Xia Ming urged her to focus on growing stronger, while a sudden divine warning convinced him that Tang San's plans were advancing.

• Wang Dong'er told Xia Ming that Tang Wutong had died and that she wanted to live as herself, offering to seek help from Destruction and Life if Xia Ming fought his way into the God Realm.
• Wang Dong'er questioned whether she was a tool or the result of a conspiracy and confessed that she did not know how to feel about Tang San or the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Ming sensed a cold, malicious divine presence and suspected Tang San, but set the warning aside to address Wang Dong'er's distress.
• Xia Ming advised Wang Dong'er to cultivate and grow strong enough to confront Tang San and ask him about his plans.
• Wang Dong'er accepted Xia Ming's advice, and he left after offering to help with her cultivation.
• As Xia Ming walked beside Sea God Lake, he concluded that Tang San's shadow was moving faster than expected and resolved to grow stronger quickly.

Xia Ming told Yan Shaozhe he would skip the new student assessment and travel overseas to obtain his seventh Soul Ring. He confirmed he had reached rank seventy, leaving Yan Shaozhe curious about the power of his future Martial Soul Avatar.

• Xia Ming informed Yan Shaozhe that he would not participate in the new student assessment, and Yan Shaozhe agreed that his strength would make it meaningless.
• Xia Ming announced that he had reached rank seventy and planned to obtain his seventh Soul Ring, shocking Yan Shaozhe.
• Xia Ming explained that Scarlet King's Soul Ring had raised his Soul Power to rank sixty-six, while his own cultivation added four ranks over two years.
• Xia Ming declined Yan Shaozhe's offer of assistance, saying he already had a plan and might travel overseas to obtain the ring.
• Yan Shaozhe wished Xia Ming well as he left and wondered how strong he would become as a Soul Saint.

Xia Ming met the Demon Empress at sea and asked her to become his seventh Soul Spirit, explaining that Soul Spirits could preserve a Soul Beast’s consciousness and offer a path beyond its lifespan. She accepted in principle but required him to defeat her first, leaving Xia Ming facing the trial he had sought.

• Xia Ming flew to the agreed sea region and called for the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress emerged from the sea and challenged Xia Ming for coming only three years after their agreement.
• Xia Ming explained how Soul Spirits worked and how they could preserve a Soul Beast’s consciousness and help it seek a higher realm.
• Xia Ming asked the Demon Empress to become his seventh Soul Spirit, and she questioned whether he expected her to give up her freedom and cultivation.
• The Demon Empress agreed on the condition that Xia Ming defeat her, promising he could return later if he failed.

Xia Ming fought the Demon Empress at sea for five days and five nights, and she conceded defeat despite his unrevealed trump cards. They agreed to leave the ocean and travel to the Far North for her sacrifice, while Xia Ming remained wary of Tang San.

• Xia Ming accepted the Demon Empress's challenge and unleashed his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Possession.
• Xia Ming and the Demon Empress exchanged devastating attacks across the sea, fighting for five days and five nights.
• The Demon Empress admitted defeat after exhausting most of her Soul Power, and Xia Ming acknowledged that he still had trump cards.
• Xia Ming proposed that they leave the sea and perform the sacrifice ritual on land in the Far North to avoid Tang San and other ocean dangers.
• The Demon Empress said she had made preparations for Lan Fozi, and she and Xia Ming flew toward the continent.

Tang San chose not to attack Xia Ming after the sea battle and planned to wait until he left Di Tian's protection. In the Far North, the Demon Empress sacrificed herself as Xia Ming gained a Nine-Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Lord Soul Ring and awakened a Martial Soul Avatar with Demigod-level power.

• Tang San assessed Xia Ming's injuries and Snow Empress's presence, decided an attack was too risky, and resolved to strike after Xia Ming left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Snow Empress joined Xia Ming and the Demon Empress in the Far North, and the Demon Empress confirmed she was ready for the sacrifice.
• Electrolux guided the Demon Empress's origin into Xia Ming while Snow Empress contained the resulting disturbance.
• The Demon Empress's power formed a Nine-Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Lord Soul Ring beneath Xia Ming's feet.
• Xia Ming activated his Martial Soul Avatar and gained power that he judged sufficient to reach the Demigod level, surpassing Di Tian in a direct clash.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Xia Ming was left outside the Sun Moon Empire’s palace coup, where Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao killed the emperor. Crown Prince Xu Tianran covered up the assassination, and Kong Deming accepted the official explanation rather than challenge the new ruler and his powerful allies.

• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao killed the ailing emperor in the imperial bedchamber, but Kong Deming arrived and caught them there.
• Xu Tianran entered the chamber and claimed he had invited Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao to try to save his father, calling the emperor’s death a misunderstanding.
• Ye Xishui’s shared agreement with Xu Tianran became clear as he used the incident to secure his succession with the Holy Spirit Cult’s support.
• Kong Deming recognized that Xu Tianran’s account was a political notice backed by overwhelming power and chose not to expose the truth.
• Kong Deming let the confrontation subside, allowing the emperor’s death to be officially recorded as illness and the encounter as a coincidence.