Recaps

Ye Xishui revealed that she had obtained a Divine Inheritance and offered Kong Deming access to the God Trial Grounds in exchange for one future favor. After he agreed, she prepared to take him there and planned to send the Holy Spirit Cult’s members through the trials to strengthen the cult and its alliance with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Tianran opened negotiations with Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Kong Deming in a sealed chamber after the regicide.
• Ye Xishui announced that she had obtained a Divine Inheritance, shocking Kong Deming while Xu Tianran recalled that the promise had secured his cooperation.
• Ye Xishui offered Kong Deming a chance to enter the God Trial Grounds and raise his Soul Power despite having no chance to inherit a God Position.
• Kong Deming agreed to perform one unspecified future task for Ye Xishui in exchange for access to the trials.
• Ye Xishui said she could take Kong Deming to the God Trial Grounds immediately and planned to send the Holy Spirit Cult’s core members and talented disciples there in succession.

One year after the Sun Moon Empire’s bloody change of power, political tensions mounted as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament approached. Xia Ming registered for Shrek’s team but said he would only fight in exceptional circumstances, then prepared to lead the students to Star Luo City himself.

• The Three Continent Empires accused Xu Tianran of murdering his father and colluding with Evil Soul Masters, while his government denied the charges and waged a propaganda campaign with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• As the tournament neared, the Sun Moon Empire’s team drew attention for its powerful Evil Soul Masters, including rumored Soul Saints, but both its own leaders and rival empires expected Shrek to win because of Xia Ming.
• Xia Ming told Shrek’s team he would register but leave the matches to them unless an exceptional situation arose, urging them to treat the tournament as a trial against the Sun Moon Empire’s Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, Ma Xiaotao, and the other team members accepted Xia Ming’s challenge, while he judged that Shrek’s stronger, healthier lineup had a real chance of victory.
• Xia Ming told the team to pack and gather at the academy gates in an hour, announcing that he would lead them to Star Luo City without any other academy teachers.

The High Priest of Sea God Island arrived over Shrek City, announcing himself as an old acquaintance of the Sea God Pavilion. Mu En welcomed him while privately remaining wary of Sea God Island’s sudden visit, and asked why he had come.

• The High Priest of Sea God Island covered Shrek City in azure radiance and overwhelming pressure, alarming the powerful figures throughout the city.
• The High Priest requested an audience with the Master of the Sea God Pavilion, claiming they were old acquaintances.
• Mu En answered with a golden domain and a Bright Sacred Dragon phantom, prompting the visitor to show respect for his strength.
• The visitor identified himself as the current High Priest of Sea God Island and apologized for arriving unannounced.
• Mu En recalled his suspicions about Tang San and the Tang Sect, then politely asked the High Priest why he had come.

The High Priest of Sea God Island visited Shrek Academy, claiming she had come to renew their old friendship, while Mu En suspected she was hiding her true intentions. After she spent half a day recounting their shared history, Mu En learned of a threat against Shrek’s geniuses and confronted her.

• The High Priest used her overwhelming aura to announce her arrival, then asked Mu En to receive her inside the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En let the High Priest enter while secretly ordering Shrek’s elders to monitor the academy and prepare defenses.
• The High Priest recounted the history between Sea God Island and Shrek, keeping Mu En occupied for half a day.
• Mu En abruptly erupted in anger and accused the High Priest of plotting to sever ties with Shrek and fight them.
• Bo Saixi claimed she had acted under Lord Sea God’s decree, and Mu En vowed to kill her before seeking answers from Tang San.

Mu En confronted Bo Saixi after learning that the reunion was a diversion and Xia Ming had been attacked. As Bo Saixi empowered herself with Sea God Divine Power, Mu En fought back, while Xia Ming's fate remained unknown.

• Mu En and Bo Saixi's clash tore open the Sea God Pavilion and sent them fighting into the sky as elders contained the destruction.
• Elder Song told Yan Shaozhe that Xia Ming had been attacked and suspected Bo Saixi was connected to it.
• Bo Saixi used Sea God Divine Power to enhance her strength, choosing not to use the Sea God Helmet so she could kill Mu En without sacrificing her life.
• Mu En resisted Bo Saixi's divine pressure and launched a Bright Sacred Dragon claw at her.
• Mu En and Bo Saixi's powers collided in the sky, beginning their battle at the limits of their strength.

Xia Ming detected an ambush near Star Luo City and ordered Bei Bei to lead Shrek Academy’s team to safety before confronting the attackers alone. Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, the Evil Emperor, and a Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion emerged, revealing the overwhelming force gathered against him.

• Xia Ming sensed hostile auras near the road and ordered Bei Bei to take command and retreat with the team toward Star Luo City.
• Xia Ming rushed away from the team to draw the battle away from them, and Ye Xishui appeared with Rakshasa Divine Power and the Rakshasa Demon Scythe.
• Snow Empress attacked Ye Xishui, but Long Xiaoyao intervened and engaged Snow Empress with his darkness domain.
• Xia Ming challenged the hidden attackers to reveal themselves, and the Evil Emperor emerged in the sky.
• Kong Deming appeared with three hundred elite Soul Engineers, exposing the ambush as a coordinated trap against Xia Ming.

Xia Ming faced Ye Xishui, the Evil Emperor, Kong Deming, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion in a prepared siege, but his Demigod-level power overwhelmed their attacks. After annihilating the legion with one punch, he confronted the remaining enemies as Ye Xishui prepared a final trump card.

• Ye Xishui and the Evil Emperor attacked Xia Ming alongside Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion.
• Xia Ming revealed seven Soul Rings and unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, forcing the Evil Emperor to recognize his Demigod-level strength.
• Xia Ming endured the enemy's attacks, shattered the legion's defenses, and annihilated all three hundred Soul Engineers with one punch.
• Kong Deming retreated behind Ye Xishui, who asked him and the Evil Emperor to buy her time to use her final trump card.
• The Evil Emperor charged to delay Xia Ming while Kong Deming drew his Level-Ten Void Sky-Splitting Bow and aimed a space-warping arrow.

Xia Ming fought the Evil Emperor and endured its three devastating attacks, including the Light of Time and Space. The battle left the Evil Emperor badly wounded, while Xia Ming remained largely unharmed thanks to the divine consciousness guarding his Spirit Sea.

• Xia Ming's Dark-Gold Terrorclaw clashed with the Evil Emperor's tentacles as Kong Deming's arrow struck Xia Ming and caused a massive explosion.
• The blast's aftershocks forced the Star Luo Empire's observers to retreat from the battlefield.
• The Evil Emperor lost half its tentacles to Xia Ming's first strike, then used Light of Destruction to disrupt his second punch before enduring it with Kong Deming's seven Soul Guidance shields.
• The Evil Emperor unleashed its final move, Light of Time and Space, and briefly stalled Xia Ming's third punch.
• Xia Ming's aura weakened only slightly, and he credited Electrolux's and God King Qilin's divine consciousness with protecting his Spirit Sea.

Ye Xishui unleashed her Cycle of Life and Death against Xia Ming while the Evil Emperor trapped him with its Light of Time and Space. Xia Ming survived the devastating attack through his right leg Soul Bone skill and moved to finish the exhausted Ye Xishui with Scar of Eternal Mourning.

• Ye Xishui revealed her Radiant Phoenix Twin Martial Soul and used her God Trial reward, the Self Martial Soul Fusion skill Cycle of Life and Death.
• The Evil Emperor used its second Light of Time and Space to freeze Xia Ming, trapping him with Ye Xishui's attack.
• Cycle of Life and Death grievously wounded Xia Ming, but his Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Leg Bone Soul Skill, Indomitable Fighting Spirit, activated and rapidly restored him.
• Long Xiaoyao tried to break free of the Snow Empress's ice and reach Ye Xishui, but he collapsed after rising only a few feet.
• Xia Ming appeared before the exhausted Ye Xishui and activated Scar of Eternal Mourning, which threatened to make her death unavoidable.

Xia Ming killed Ye Xishui, the Evil Emperor, and Kong Deming as the battle turned decisively in his favor. Long Xiaoyao sacrificed three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings to attack Xia Ming, but died after their fists collided, leaving Xia Ming and the Snow Empress victorious.

• Xia Ming killed Ye Xishui with a golden punch, then declared that the remaining enemies were next.
• The Evil Emperor and Kong Deming tried to retreat, but Xia Ming killed the Evil Emperor with Sky-Rending Tear, leaving its 790,000-Year Beast Lord Soul Ring behind.
• Kong Deming deployed more than a dozen Class 9 defensive Soul Tools, but Xia Ming cut through them and killed him.
• Xia Ming reached the Snow Empress and Long Xiaoyao as Long Xiaoyao shattered three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and charged in a desperate attack.
• Xia Ming met Long Xiaoyao's attack with a punch, and Long Xiaoyao died after saying he was going to join Ye Xishui.

Xia Ming survived Er Ming’s attack by unleashing his Qilin Transformation, but the God of Destruction intervened before Er Ming could kill him. Tang San’s unauthorized interference was exposed, leaving him facing the God of Destruction and the approaching Goddess of Life and other gods.

• Er Ming attacked Xia Ming while he was weakened, but Xia Ming revealed his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Qilin Transformation, and blasted Er Ming into the mountains.
• Er Ming survived and prepared to strike Xia Ming again, but the God of Destruction sent Destruction Divine Thunder through the barrier and struck him.
• Tang San’s blue-gold Divine Power failed to protect Er Ming, who was left severely wounded and returned to the Clear Sky Sect.
• The God King Qilin Remnant Soul told Xia Ming that the God of Destruction had intervened and agreed to make Er Ming part of Xia Ming’s God Trial.
• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San over his interference in the lower realm as the Goddess of Life and several First-Class Gods rushed to the Sea God Palace.

The God of Destruction defeated Tang San and exposed his false justification for interfering in the lower realm. The gods stripped Tang San of the God Realm Hub and sentenced him to the Forbidden God Land for ten thousand years, and Xiao Wu chose to accompany him.

• The God of Destruction struck Tang San down despite Tang San switching to the Asura God Position.
• The God of Destruction revealed that the Dragon God—not the God Realm—had established the restriction on Beast Race gods, and accused Tang San of twisting history to preserve his authority.
• The God of Destruction and the other gods demanded that Tang San surrender the God Realm Hub and remain in the Forbidden God Land for ten thousand years.
• Tang San proposed a bet based on Xia Ming's path to godhood, but the God of Destruction rejected it and bound him with divine chains.
• Xiao Wu stepped forward and said she would go to the Forbidden God Land with Tang San, and the God of Destruction agreed to imprison them together.

Xia Ming defeated Ye Xishui and the other attackers near Star Luo City, while Mu En held off the High Priest of Sea God Island in Shrek City until Di Tian arrived. With Mu En’s help, Di Tian killed the High Priest, then said he was repaying Xia Ming for offering soul beasts a path to godhood.

• Xia Ming told Xu Jiawei that Ye Xishui and the other attackers had died, while Xu Jiawei reported that Star Luo City had survived but the White Tiger Duke Mansion had been destroyed.
• Mu En evaded the High Priest’s attacks and urged him to flee, revealing that he had been buying time for Di Tian to arrive.
• Di Tian appeared in Shrek City and explained that he had partnered with the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy on behalf of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Mu En confirmed that he had expected Di Tian to come and had stalled the High Priest until his arrival.
• Di Tian and Mu En overwhelmed the High Priest, and Di Tian killed him after the Sea God gave no response.
• Di Tian told Mu En he was repaying Xia Ming for seeking a path to godhood for soul beasts.

Mu En discovered a parasitic vine draining the Golden Tree’s origin and resolved to remove it with Xia Ming’s help. Meanwhile, Xia Ming began absorbing the Evil Emperor’s 790,000-year Soul Ring as Star Luo forces cleared the battlefield outside Star Luo City.

• Mu En investigated the Golden Tree after it failed to respond to his attempt to draw on its Life energy.
• Mu En found a pale-blue vine attached to the Golden Tree’s origin, draining its power, and suspected it had fed on the souls and cultivation of past Sea God Pavilion masters.
• Mu En resolved to discuss uprooting the parasite with Xia Ming when his disciple returned.
• Xia Ming began absorbing the Evil Emperor’s 790,000-year Soul Ring for his Holy Qilin Martial Soul while Snow Empress guarded him.
• Star Luo Empire troops and Soul Masters cleared the ruined battlefield and collected the Sun Moon Empire forces’ belongings and Soul Tool wreckage.

After absorbing the Evil Emperor’s 790,000-year Soul Ring, Xia Ming returned to Star Luo City and confronted the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s Evil Soul Masters. He left the Shrek team in Bei Bei’s care while preparing to travel to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xia Ming absorbed the Evil Emperor Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to Rank 79, and collected the Evil Emperor’s External Soul Bone that he could not absorb.
• Xia Ming and Snow Empress went to Star Luo City, where the participating teams had gathered for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Xia Ming killed the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters among the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy members and ordered the academy to send normal Soul Masters instead.
• Xia Ming praised Bei Bei for protecting the Shrek team and confirmed that its members were safe despite the battle’s aftermath.
• Xia Ming told Bei Bei he would go to the Sun Moon Empire to handle important matters and entrusted the team’s safety to the Star Luo Empire’s imperial family while he was away.

Xia Ming visited He Caitou in Shrek City and revealed that he knew He Caitou’s true identity as Xu He. He offered to help Xu He kill Xu Tianran and reclaim the throne in exchange for the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool research secrets, then departed with him for the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xia Ming returned to Shrek City and found He Caitou carving a Level Five Soul Tool core in the laboratory.
• Xia Ming addressed He Caitou as Xu He, revealing that he knew Xu He’s hidden identity and desire for revenge.
• Xia Ming offered to take Xu He to the Sun Moon Empire, kill Xu Tianran, and place Xu He on the throne in exchange for the empire’s Soul Tool research secrets.
• Xu He accepted the bargain, while Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu waited outside; Fan Yu urged his student to go.
• Xia Ming opened a spatial rift, and he and Xu He vanished through it.

Xia Ming and Xu He confronted Xu Tianran in the Sun Moon Empire’s palace, where Xu He revealed his identity and demanded vengeance for his family. Xia Ming killed Xu Tianran, leaving Xu He to face the emptiness and burden that followed his revenge.

• Xu Tianran imagined using Xia Ming’s presumed death to destroy Shrek and conquer the continent.
• Xia Ming and Xu He appeared before Xu Tianran, who recognized Xu He as the prince long believed dead.
• Xu He accused Xu Tianran’s family of slaughtering the royal family and vowed to reclaim what was his.
• Xu Tianran revealed his Soul Douluo cultivation and tried to break through a wall to escape.
• Xia Ming pierced Xu Tianran’s defensive Soul Tools with a single punch and killed him.
• Xu He felt empty after his vengeance, while Xia Ming walked to the window and gazed into the distance.

After Xu Tianran's death, Xia Ming forced the Sun Moon Empire's senior soul engineers and legion commanders to choose between death and signing Electrolux's contracts under the new emperor, Xu He. By the next morning, Xia Ming controlled the Empire's decisive military power, though the ordinary people had not yet realized that its ruler had changed.

• Xia Ming told Ye Yulin that Xu Tianran was dead and Xu He would become emperor, then secured Ye Yulin's agreement with a contract.
• Xia Ming subdued Wang Yiheng and the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion's leaders, appointed Xia Xuanchen commander after he signed, and killed Wang Yiheng and three loyalists.
• Xia Ming killed Luan Feng and most of the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion's senior officers, while incorporating Xu Tianyuan's Imperial Dragon Legion and Liao Mengkai's Dreadclaw Legion.
• Xia Ming visited the remaining Level Nine Soul Engineers, killing those who refused to submit and making many others sign contracts after they learned Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion had been slain.
• By the next morning, Xia Ming had taken control of the Sun Moon Empire, while its common people remained unaware of the change in rulers.

Xia Ming destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters to complete his fourth Qilin trial. The God King Qilin awarded him greater affinity and Soul Ring lifespan, then gave him a fragment of his shattered Half God Position to study as he prepared to reforge the complete God Position.

• Xia Ming traveled to the Evil Demon Forest to find the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and kill its Evil Soul Masters.
• Xia Ming used Dragon Emperor Domain Suppression to erase the headquarters and kill its core Evil Soul Masters.
• Xia Ming reported his kills to the God King Qilin, who granted him the highest trial reward: fifteen percent more Qilin God Position affinity and ten thousand years of lifespan for all Soul Rings.
• The Evil Emperor's Soul Ring gained another golden pattern and became an eight-hundred-thousand-year Beast Lord Soul Ring.
• The God King Qilin gave Xia Ming a fragment of his shattered Half God Position, and Xia Ming began connecting with and studying the incomplete God Position.

Xia Ming set out to destroy Sea God Island as his Fifth Trial, bringing Di Tian and Snow Empress while the island’s Sea Soul Beasts gathered to defend it. He summoned the Demon Empress Soul Spirit to seize control of the ocean, and the battle began with Di Tian confronting Sea Princess.

• Xia Ming told Di Tian he planned to destroy Sea God Island, and Di Tian agreed to accompany him as Snow Empress joined them.
• Sea God Island’s Sacred Pillar Guardians learned that the High Priest had fallen and that the Sea God’s divine decrees had stopped.
• A divine command to protect Sea God Island awakened four ocean overlords and rallied countless Sea Soul Beasts around the island.
• Xia Ming arrived with Di Tian and Snow Empress, then summoned the Demon Empress Soul Spirit, who asserted control over the sea and suppressed the Sea Soul Beasts.
• Snow Empress and Di Tian engaged the defenders, and Di Tian advanced on Sea Princess before enveloping the sea around them in darkness.

Xia Ming attacked Sea God Island with the ocean’s power, but its seven Sacred Pillars raised a faith-fueled barrier that endured his first strike. He battered the barrier until its light nearly failed, then gathered strength for a final blow as the island’s defenders and inhabitants faced collapse.

• Xia Ming unleashed his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Martial Soul Avatar and struck Sea God Island with a punch infused with Qilin Divine Power and the ocean’s elements.
• The seven Sacred Pillars joined their power to form a barrier that absorbed Xia Ming’s strike by drawing on ten thousand years of stored faith.
• Xia Ming resolved to overwhelm the barrier with repeated blows and began pounding it until the island shook and the barrier’s light flickered.
• Sea Dragon Douluo and the other Sacred Pillar Guardians burned through their strength and life essence to sustain the barrier as Sea Soul Masters across the island panicked.
• Xia Ming gathered power for a final, devastating strike, and the barrier dimmed to its limit.

Xia Ming shattered the Sea God Barrier, punched through Sea God Island, and killed its remaining defenders as the island sank beneath the sea. With Sea God Island destroyed, the Sea Soul Beasts' defeat became inevitable against Di Tian, Snow Empress, and Demon Empress.

• Xia Ming broke the Sea God Barrier and struck Sea God Island's core, splitting the island and sending it sinking into the sea.
• Sea Soul Masters tried to flee, but Xia Ming's pressure trapped most of them, and he killed the Title Douluos who escaped into the air.
• The Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians attacked Xia Ming with the Sea God's Divine Power, but he tore them apart with a dark-gold claw strike.
• Sea God Island disappeared beneath the waves, and the Sea Soul Beasts were shaken as their mission failed.
• Di Tian and Snow Empress overwhelmed their Limit-level opponents while Demon Empress slaughtered the Sea Soul Beast army.

Xia Ming arrived at the sea battlefield and swiftly annihilated the Sea Soul Beast forces, joining Snow Empress and Di Tian after the destruction of Sea God Island. The God King Qilin announced the Sixth Trial: Xia Ming had to go to the Clear Sky Sect, kill Er Ming, and seize his Soul Ring, though Da Ming and Er Ming were both God Officials.

• Xia Ming killed the Limit Beast Lord fighting Snow Empress, the wounded Sea Soul Beast fighting Di Tian, and the Sea Princess.
• Xia Ming unleashed his composite domain to slaughter the Sea Soul Beast legion and its remaining Beast Lords in moments.
• Demon Empress returned to Xia Ming's Spirit Sea, relieved after witnessing Sea God Island's destruction and the deaths of its followers.
• The God King Qilin confirmed the Fifth Trial's rewards and assigned Xia Ming the Sixth Trial of killing Er Ming at the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Ming considered the threat posed by Er Ming and Da Ming, both God Officials, and wondered how to strengthen his Holy Qilin Martial Soul.

Xia Ming successfully fused the Evil Emperor Soul Bone into his External Soul Bone, bringing it close to God Rank and pushing his mental power toward a breakthrough. By absorbing the Sea Princess Skull and resisting its resentment, he broke through to God Rank mental power.

• Xia Ming completed a secret technique for fusing Soul Bones of the same source and considered how it might enable Artificial Soul Bones.
• Xia Ming fused the Evil Emperor's eyeball Soul Bone into his Evil Eye External Soul Bone, greatly strengthening it and pushing his mental power close to the Demigod threshold.
• Xia Ming began absorbing the Sea Princess Skull and endured its powerful resentment, illusions, and curses.
• Xia Ming's mental power broke through its bottleneck and reached God Rank.

After Xia Ming’s spiritual power broke into the God Domain and his Soul Power reached Rank 80, he allowed Ma Xiaotao to compete in the finals on the condition that she showed restraint. Shrek Academy overwhelmed Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and the tournament ended when its opponents surrendered.

• Xia Ming’s fusion of two top-tier Soul Bones advanced his spiritual power into the God Domain and his Soul Power to the threshold of Rank 80.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Xia Ming to let her compete, and he agreed after warning her not to seriously injure or kill anyone.
• Xia Ming selected Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Gongyang Mo, Bei Bei, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao for the final team battle.
• Xia Ming appeared at the arena, ending speculation that he had left Star Luo City and dispelling the final suspense surrounding the match.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Meteor Shower shattered the Sun Moon Team’s barriers, and Ma Rulong surrendered after seeing her prepare another attack.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy forfeited the individual and two-two-three matches, conceding the finals to Shrek Academy.