Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu sentenced Tang San to eternal torture in the Avici Hell, and Tang San was dragged into the darkness as the God Kings watched. Five of his former companions then rushed to mourn him, drawing the God Kings’ attention and scorn.

• Chen Yu listed Tang San’s crimes and sentenced him to suffer in the Avici Hell until the end of the universe.
• Black-red mist and pale hands seized Tang San, who begged for mercy before being dragged into the darkness.
• Chen Yu vanished as the golden light dispersed, and the silent God Kings prepared to leave.
• Dai Mubai and four others cried out for Tang San and rushed toward where he had vanished, prompting the God Kings to stay and watch.
• A God King questioned whether the Shrek Seven Devils had truly been brothers, and the others agreed that their privileged lives had made their supposed life-and-death bonds doubtful.

Chen Yu returned after appearing to leave and challenged Dai Mubai and the other four Shrek Seven Devils over their grief at Tang San’s judgment. He summoned them to a new judgment platform, where a haggard, excited middle-aged man emerged from the golden light.

• The God Kings questioned why the Shrek Seven Devils had not appeared earlier, then noticed the golden light flare up again.
• Chen Yu revealed that he had stayed behind after hearing Dai Mubai and the others cry, and privately criticized the group’s character and relationships.
• Chen Yu asked whether the five believed Tang San’s judgment had been unjust, and Dai Mubai admitted that they did not.
• Chen Yu announced another judgment, captured the five with golden chains, and made them kneel on the judgment platform.
• Chen Yu declared that anyone who had done no wrong could leave, then summoned a disheveled middle-aged man from a golden vortex.

Ning Chen confronted Ning Rongrong over her refusal to help the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s later generations, accusing her of leaving them with a grand name but no Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Souls. Ning Rongrong defended her choices and condemned her descendants, leaving their argument unresolved.

• Ning Chen emerged from a golden vortex and declared himself Ning Rongrong’s retribution.
• Ning Chen accused Ning Rongrong of enjoying the sect’s support and her own godhood while her descendants suffered mockery for lacking the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Ning Rongrong claimed that only she was worthy of the martial soul and that giving her descendants the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s name was already a great gift.
• Ning Rongrong said she regretted rebuilding the sect and wished her descendants had rotted in the ground.

Ning Chen asked Chen Yu to cleanse the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of Ning Rongrong, and Chen Yu erased her before granting Oscar’s plea for death. As Chen Yu turned his attention to Ma Hongjun, the River of Time descended into the universe.

• Ning Rongrong claimed that she had helped the sect by giving it the name Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the God Kings reacted with disbelief.
• Ning Chen revealed that he descended from one of Ning Fengzhi’s other brothers, said Ning Rongrong had left no descendants, and asked Chen Yu to cleanse the sect of her.
• Chen Yu granted Ning Chen’s request and erased Ning Rongrong, after which Ning Chen laughed and vanished into the golden light.
• Oscar asked Chen Yu to kill him and vowed to avenge Ning Rongrong, so Chen Yu erased him as well.
• Chen Yu turned to Ma Hongjun, who kowtowed and pleaded, while the River of Time descended into the universe.

Chen Yu summoned a fragment of Bai Chenxiang from the River of Time, and she condemned Ma Hongjun for hiding his past as a ladybug. After Ma Hongjun admitted he had concealed the truth, the golden-light presence burned him to ash, and Bai Chenxiang thanked it before fading away.

• Bai Chenxiang emerged from the river, and Ma Hongjun recognized his former lover.
• Bai Chenxiang called Ma Hongjun and the First-Generation Shrek Seven Devils liars, revealing that she knew he had been a ladybug.
• Ma Hongjun tried to justify his past by explaining the effects of his Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, but Bai Chenxiang demanded to know why he had hidden it.
• Bai Chenxiang asked the golden-light presence to uphold justice, and it burned Ma Hongjun to ash.
• Bai Chenxiang thanked the golden-light presence, bowed to it, and faded away as the River of Time continued flowing.

Chen Yu executed Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai, ending the judgment of the Shrek Seven Devils. After the heavenly display vanished, Gu Yuena refused Di Tian’s suggestion to seize the Federation, while Federation soldiers celebrated Tang San’s punishment.

• Zhu Zhuqing’s younger self emerged from the River of Time and confronted her for breaking her oath never to love Dai Mubai.
• Zhu Zhuqing wept, kowtowed to Chen Yu, and was killed; her younger self returned to the River of Time.
• Chen Yu killed Dai Mubai with golden light, then left the God Kings in stunned silence.
• The golden painting vanished from the Douluo Plane, and Di Tian proposed that Gu Yuena seize the Federation while Chen Yu was absent.
• Gu Yuena refused, citing her injuries and the risks of breaking the contract and provoking Chen Yu.
• Federation soldiers celebrated Tang San’s punishment in Avici Hell, believing the God Realm could no longer retaliate against them.

As the Federation army neared Star Luo City, Dai Tianling discovered that his officials and allies were abandoning him. He ordered an attack on the Spirit Pagoda after learning its former Tower Master, Qiangu Dieting, was leading the Federation force, then collapsed in despair.

• Pan Wen suspected that the golden figure was the Council Chairman, while Qiangu Dieting urged the Federation army to hurry toward Star Luo City.
• Dai Tianling found fewer than half his officials at court and learned that many had sent their families to welcome the Federation army.
• Dai Tianling summoned Tower Master Zhang, but an attendant revealed that the Federation quasi-god was Qiangu Dieting, the former Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda headquarters.
• Dai Tianling ordered troops to attack the Spirit Pagoda and summoned Hall Master Hu from the Tang Sect.
• Dai Tianling realized the Spirit Pagoda had defected and collapsed unconscious as the remaining loyalists cried out to him.

Outside Star Luo City, officials and clan leaders debated the imperial family’s origins and learned that Dai Tianling had fired the six shells that killed ten million people. Chen Yu listened from above the city and remained determined to destroy the Star Luo Empire as the crowd turned against its ruler.

• Officials, clan leaders, and Spirit Pagoda members led by Zhang Geyang gathered outside Star Luo City to await the Federation army.
• A furious man accused the crowd of welcoming enemies, but others argued that the Star Luo Imperial Family descended from the former Sun Moon Imperial Family and challenged its claim to legitimacy.
• Chen Yu listened from ten thousand meters above the city and pieced together the connection between the Dai Family, Huo Yuhao, and the rival empires.
• The man invoked the deaths of ten million citizens, but a clan leader said Dai Tianling himself had fired six Fixed Soul Guidance Shells and caused the destruction.
• The crowd learned that the explosion had killed many clan leaders too, and that the aristocratic families had already resolved to remove Dai Tianling from power.

The Dai Family's army attacked the Star Luo City Spirit Pagoda, enraging Zhang Geyang, who flew to stop the assault. Hu Jie blocked his way and accused the Spirit Pagoda of responsibility for the destruction of Shrek Academy and the Federation Tang Sect headquarters.

• The gathered clans and noble families learned that Dai Tianling had masterminded the explosion and waited for the Federation army to arrive.
• The Dai Family's army began firing Soul Guidance cannons at the Spirit Pagoda, whose protective barrier held against the bombardment.
• Zhang Geyang recalled how he had learned the Federation's plans from Qiangu Dongfeng and kept the Spirit Pagoda's members sheltered behind its barrier.
• Zhang Geyang flew toward the Spirit Pagoda, but Hu Jie appeared and stopped him.
• Hu Jie accused the Spirit Pagoda of attacking the Star Luo Empire and destroying Shrek Academy and the Federation Tang Sect headquarters, then threatened to fight Zhang Geyang.

Hu Jie fought Zhang Geyang to defend the Tang Sect, but Chen Yu arrived and revealed that Hu Jie was his former junior brother from the Body Sect. Hu Jie fled after Chen Yu confronted him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Geyang trapped Hu Jie in lightning, but Hu Jie absorbed the attacks and struck Zhang Geyang, badly injuring him.
• Zhang Geyang urged Hu Jie to join forces with him and bring the Tang Sect disciples into the Spirit Pagoda, but Hu Jie refused to abandon the Tang Sect.
• Hu Jie broke through Zhang Geyang’s vine defenses and sent him flying again.
• Chen Yu appeared and confronted Hu Jie, revealing that he had once spared his junior brother after Hu Jie betrayed the Body Sect.
• Hu Jie transformed into golden light and fled.

Chen Yu killed Hu Jie and ended the attack on the Spirit Pagoda by terrifying the Federation soldiers into fleeing. Zhang Geyang pledged loyalty to Chen Yu, then told the gathered clans and sects that the Sun Moon Federation's Speaker was a true god, prompting families to seek places for their descendants in the Spirit Pagoda.

• Chen Yu trapped Hu Jie in a giant hand of heaven-and-earth energy and refined him after reminding him that he had already been given a chance.
• Chen Yu's gaze broke the soldiers' resolve, and they abandoned their soul-guided cannons and fled, ending the crisis at the Spirit Pagoda.
• Zhang Geyang bowed to Chen Yu, who vanished after telling him to deal with the loose ends.
• Zhang Geyang told the gathered clans and sects that Chen Yu was the Sun Moon Federation's Speaker and should be addressed as He.
• The great family heads crowded around Zhang Geyang, eager to place their descendants in the Spirit Pagoda, while the sect masters realized they could not join it.

Dai Tianling learned that Hall Master Hu had been killed by a true god and watched his attendants abandon him. Chen Yu led the Federation army to Star Luo City, where Qiangu Dieting asked the assembled officials and clan leaders where Dai Tianling was.

• Dai Tianling awoke and was told that the Spirit Pagoda was unharmed and Hall Master Hu had been erased by a true god.
• Dai Tianling rejected the news and called the departing attendants traitors as they left him alone.
• Qiangu Dieting asked Chen Yu whether the Demon Empress had been slain, and Chen Yu confirmed that she had fallen.
• Chen Yu ordered the Federation army to advance on Star Luo City and demanded that its Emperor kneel outside the gates to welcome them.
• Zhang Geyang and other surrendering leaders gathered outside Star Luo City to greet Qiangu Dieting, who asked where Dai Tianling was.

Qiangu Dieting ordered Star Luo's ministers to bring Dai Tianling out to kneel before the Federation, and they dragged him from his bed and handed him over. Dai Tianling accepted that Star Luo had fallen and knelt as Chen Yu approached with the Federation army.

• Qiangu Dieting demanded that Dai Tianling kneel outside the city to welcome the Federation, so Star Luo's ministers hurried to the palace.
• Dai Tianling mistook the ministers' arrival for a sign of loyalty, but they seized him, gagged him, and carried him to the city outskirts.
• The ministers delivered Dai Tianling to Qiangu Dieting and competed to claim credit for capturing him.
• A noble told Dai Tianling that Star Luo had fallen, and Qiangu Dieting announced that the emperor had come to kneel before the Federation.
• A Peak Quasi-God's pressure forced Dai Tianling to his knees, and Chen Yu approached along a red carpet as a military song played.

Chen Yu took control of the Star Luo Empire, renamed it Star Luo State, and ordered its imperial system replaced with a republic. A month later, as reforms continued under Pan Wen, Gu Yuena had become Chen Yu’s chief secretary.

• Chen Yu declared Star Luo an overseas state under the Federation, abolished the imperial system, and entered Star Luo City while its nobles pledged loyalty.
• Chen Yu ordered Star Luo Palace demolished and a Parliament Building constructed, then ignored Dai Yuner’s protest as attendants carried her away.
• Chen Yu recognized the danger Dai Yuner faced but chose not to intervene, finished inspecting the city, and returned to the Federation.
• A month later, Chen Yu reviewed Star Luo State’s construction progress while Pan Wen governed the region and Gu Yuena served as his chief secretary.

Chen Yu ordered Di Tian to eliminate the Clear Sky Sect after one of its disciples injured a passerby, revealing that he knew Di Tian and Gu Yuena had once discussed seizing the Federation. Gu Yuena and the Beasts realized Chen Yu was using the mission to get rid of Di Tian, leaving her unable to protect him because of the restriction and contract.

• Gu Yuena told Chen Yu that a Clear Sky Sect disciple had severely injured a passerby for mocking Tang San, and Chen Yu ordered Di Tian to deal with the sect instead of sending the army.
• Chen Yu implied that he knew about Di Tian and Gu Yuena’s past conversation, and Gu Yuena left his office without arguing.
• Gu Yuena relayed Chen Yu’s order to the Beasts, and Di Tian concluded that Chen Yu had learned of their former plan to seize the Federation.
• Di Tian recounted the conversation, while the Ten Thousand Demon King explained that Chen Yu would care about their intentions even if they had never acted.
• Bi Ji asked Gu Yuena whether she would let Di Tian go to his death, and Gu Yuena recognized that her restriction and contract left her unable to save him.

Di Tian accepted that Chen Yu would kill him and entrusted the Soul Beast clan to Gu Yuena, while the weakened Clear Sky Sect debated whether to rescue Xiao Yan from Federation custody. Di Tian arrived at the sect intending to destroy it, but Da Ming and Er Ming appeared and questioned his actions.

• Di Tian told Gu Yuena he was leaving the Soul Beast clan in her care, and she agreed despite her grief.
• At the Clear Sky Sect, the First Elder begged Tang Wenzong to rescue his grandson Xiao Yan, but Tang Wenzong warned that provoking Chen Yu could endanger the sect.
• The Second Elder urged Tang Wenzong to consider Xiao Yan's capture and reminded him that the sect needed to keep people's faith.
• A massive black dragon with golden eyes appeared above the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Wenzong identified Di Tian as the Beast God and greeted him respectfully.
• Di Tian raised a claw to attack the sect, but Da Ming and Er Ming emerged from a rift and asked why he was targeting it.

Di Tian agreed to move the Clear Sky Sect into Da Ming and Er Ming’s minor plane instead of destroying it, hoping to avoid violating Chen Yu’s contract. Chen Yu overheard their plan and vanished from his office; after the sect relocated, an amused voice appeared in the minor plane.

• Da Ming and Er Ming told Di Tian that destroying the Clear Sky Sect would cut off the faith sustaining their minor plane, and Di Tian revealed that Chen Yu had ordered the attack because the sect had provoked him.
• Da Ming proposed moving the Clear Sky Sect into his minor plane, and Di Tian agreed after deciding that would satisfy his task without harming the Soul Beast race.
• Chen Yu sensed Di Tian mention his name, saw the conversation, and vanished from the Parliament Building with a cold expression.
• Three hours later, the Clear Sky Sect had relocated to Da Ming’s minor plane, where Tang Wenzong thanked Da Ming and Er Ming for their help.
• Da Ming explained that Di Tian could anchor his soul in the minor plane but would have to remain there, and an amused voice then commented on the plane’s flaws.

Chen Yu confronted Di Tian over his resistance to humanity and declared that he would kill every hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast and erase the Soul Beast race’s history. Di Tian destroyed the Clear Sky Sect in a desperate attempt to atone, but the contract’s power erased him, leaving Da Ming and Er Ming stunned.

• Di Tian explained that he opposed Gu Yuena’s agreement with Chen Yu because he could not accept the Soul Beast race becoming humanity’s vassal after once witnessing its ancient glory.
• Chen Yu announced that he would eliminate every hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast and erase the Soul Beast race’s history to prevent future rebellion.
• Terrified, Di Tian attacked and annihilated the Clear Sky Sect, then begged Chen Yu to spare the Soul Beast race after claiming he had atoned.
• The contract’s power erased Di Tian’s body and soul despite his plea, while Da Ming and Er Ming watched in shock.

Chen Yu severed Da Ming and Er Ming’s connection to their small plane, defeated Er Ming in a physical clash, and claimed the plane as compensation. He then trapped both brothers in an ancient cauldron to refine them and strengthen the plane, ignoring their pleas to become his servants.

• Da Ming and Er Ming confronted Chen Yu, arguing that the plane’s protection made them difficult to defeat.
• Chen Yu resonated with the plane and forcibly severed the brothers’ connection to it.
• Er Ming attacked Chen Yu with his Titan Giant Ape strength, but Chen Yu blasted him into a trench with one punch.
• Chen Yu declared that he would take the small plane as compensation, while Da Ming resigned himself to the loss.
• Chen Yu summoned an ancient cauldron and sucked Da Ming and Er Ming inside to refine them and improve the plane.
• Da Ming and Er Ming begged for their lives and offered to serve Chen Yu, but he continued with his plan.

Chen Yu repaired the minor plane Da Ming and Er Ming had concealed, then confronted Gu Yuena and the Beasts over Di Tian’s betrayal. After killing Zi Ji and demanding the deaths of all Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, he questioned Gu Yuena’s understanding of how the Dragon God died.

• Chen Yu refined Da Ming and Er Ming, used their energy to repair the rift, and claimed the restored minor plane.
• Chen Yu entered the Fifth Minor Plane and told Gu Yuena and the Beasts that Di Tian had fled there with the Clear Sky Sect instead of fulfilling their agreement.
• Chen Yu offered the Soul Beast race extermination or the death of all Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then killed Zi Ji with a punch when she objected.
• Gu Yuena asked Chen Yu to give the Soul Beasts another chance, but he argued that strength determined the fate of humanity and the Soul Beast race.
• Chen Yu asked Gu Yuena how the Dragon God had died, and she repeated that the Dragon God’s power had driven his mind out of control.