Chapter Summaries

Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to keep Flender invested in secretly capturing fugitive Soul Masters, while Qian San’s group gained new strength in Sunset Forest. As the teams departed for Spirit City, Shrek’s members looked forward to the benefits of Flender’s captures, which had helped Tang San and Dai Mubai advance.

• Tang San warned Yu Xiaogang that Flender would eventually stop helping unless Shrek’s success and profits gave him a reason to continue.
• Flender committed to capturing criminals at the Gold Sink, while Qian San’s group traveled through Sunset Forest to hunt for Spirit Rings and soul bones.
• Qian San killed a fifty-thousand-year Gilded Pangolin, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and gained the Geng Metal Shadowless Explosion skill.
• Xiao Qing absorbed two soul bones from a Shadow Pool Bone Dragon and advanced to Soul Emperor, while Dai Zhuqing gained a fifth Spirit Ring and reached Soul King.
• The advancement tournament ended with the Heaven Dou Royal Second Team first and Shrek seventh; the teams departed for Spirit City without incident.
• Flender’s secret captures supplied Shrek’s basement with fugitives, helping Tang San break through level fifty and Dai Mubai break through level forty.

Flender led Tang San and the others to Star Dou Forest, where they gained Spirit Rings and new abilities before rushing back toward Spirit City. While Shrek faced a difficult first-round draw, Yu Xiaogang began considering whether Tang San could Devour Bibi Dong.

• Flender broke through to level seventy-nine after Tang San fed him refined Soul Power, then took Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others to hunt for Spirit Rings.
• Tang San found a thirteen-thousand-year Netherworld Ghost Vine Flower and absorbed its ring, gaining the fifth Soul Skill Netherworld Calamity.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing obtained new Spirit Rings and skills, and Flender hurried the group back to Spirit City.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Second Team received a first-round bye, while Shrek drew Botanical Academy and Yu Xiaogang worried that Flender's group would not return in time.
• Yu Xiaogang considered Tang San's Twin Martial Souls and wondered whether Tang San could Devour Bibi Dong's power.

Yu Xiaogang went to Pope Palace to ask Bibi Dong for help cultivating his disciple Tang San, who had Twin Martial Souls. Bibi Dong recognized Tang San’s identity and deduced that he also possessed a Clear Sky Hammer, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to respond.

• Yu Xiaogang took his Pope’s Decree to Pope Palace and gained entry after the guards recognized him as an elder.
• Bibi Dong, injured and humiliated by Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu, ordered the hall cleared and disguised her swollen face before receiving Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong he had broken through Rank 30 and asked for help training his talented disciple with Twin Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong identified the disciple as Tang San and inferred that he had both Blue Silver Grass and a Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang stiffened at Bibi Dong’s deduction and remained silent.

Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong to help him cultivate by absorbing other Soul Masters’ life force, but she rejected him and threw him from Spirit Hall with a cultivation method and a spider token. The competition then began, with Shrek winning its first match and Godwind Academy facing Heaven Dou Royal Second Team.

• Yu Xiaogang revealed his plan to devour other Soul Masters’ life force and Soul Power to overcome his cultivation limit, then asked Bibi Dong to help him grow stronger.
• Bibi Dong struck Yu Xiaogang out of the hall, but he found a Twin Martial Soul cultivation method and a dark-purple spider token in his hand.
• Flender returned in time to send Tang San and the other Shrek members onto the stage for their first match.
• Tang San used his ten-thousand-year Evil God soul ring and Nether Death Calamity to restrain Botanical Academy’s plant-type martial souls, helping Shrek win.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing saw that Shrek’s next opponent was Star Luo Royal First Team.
• Feng Xiaotian asked Feng Qing to persuade her captain to go easy on Godwind Academy, and Feng Qing mocked his Self-Created Soul Skill.

Feng Xiaotian challenged Qian San to a one-on-one fight to test the gap between them, using his self-created Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes. Qian San decisively defeated him and left him with no choice but to surrender, then helped him to his feet.

• Feng Xiaotian asked Qian San for a one-on-one duel, and both teams cleared the arena.
• Feng Xiaotian launched his Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes while Qian San countered each strike with Light Swords.
• Feng Xiaotian unleashed his thirty-sixth slash, and Qian San fused his swords into a holy sword wrapped in molten Blue Silver Liquid Metal.
• Qian San's crimson greatsword shattered Feng Xiaotian's attack, wounded him, and carved a scorching mark into the arena.
• Qian San reshaped the molten metal into hidden weapons and halted them near Feng Xiaotian, who surrendered.
• Qian San recalled the weapons and helped Feng Xiaotian back to his feet.

Qian San defeated Feng Xiaotian, deepening Tang San’s unease about the gap between them. In the Spirit City Arena, Shrek revealed a four-person fusion technique that empowered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger against Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, while Tang San restrained the opposing team’s other members.

• Qian San defeated Feng Xiaotian, who regained his resolve and thanked him for showing him how much farther he could go.
• Tang San watched Qian San’s display and, shaken by his strength, left to cultivate despite Ma Hongjun calling after him.
• Shrek faced Star Luo Royal Academy First Team, and Dai Weisi mocked Dai Mubai before the match began.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai joined hands to fuse their Soul Power, raising Dai Mubai to high-rank Soul King strength.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed a towering Hell White Tiger that overwhelmed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s smaller fusion, while Ning Rongrong boosted it.
• Tang San trapped Star Luo’s other five team members with Blue Silver Grass as they prepared to help Dai Weisi.

Shrek Academy defeated Star Luo First Team, but Dai Mubai’s multi-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill left him badly injured and unable to use it again. Zhu Zhuqing took his place as the fusion vessel as Shrek advanced to the final three, where Yu Xiaogang faced the dilemma of matching Tang San against a Soul Emperor without revealing his Clear Sky Hammer.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger crushed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s fusion, securing Shrek Academy’s victory.
• Dai Mubai humiliated Dai Weisi and warned him that he would take everything upon returning to Star Luo.
• Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy merged, but Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu’s team lost to Claes’s Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team.
• Dai Mubai collapsed after the battle, and Yu Xiaogang warned that another multi-person fusion through him could destroy his mind.
• Zhu Zhuqing volunteered to become the fusion vessel, and Shrek used the tactic to win subsequent matches and reach the final three.
• The tournament’s final three were announced, and Yu Xiaogang worried that Tang San could not face a Soul Emperor without risking his life or exposing his Clear Sky Hammer.

Shrek Academy and Martial Soul Hall Academy both forfeited the individual matches, leaving them to face each other for the final place in the finals. Shrek used Ma Hongjun’s fire to break Demon Charm’s Red Mist Domain, then defeated the Martial Soul Hall team and won the match.

• Yu Xiaogang and the Martial Soul Hall team’s teacher both forfeited their individual matches, sending Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team directly to the finals.
• Tang San led Shrek Academy into its afternoon match against Martial Soul Hall Academy as Xie Yue and Hu Liena activated Demon Charm and spread their Red Mist Domain.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Hell White Tiger to hold Demon Charm back while Ma Hongjun, empowered by the four-person fusion skill, burned away the red mist with a rain of fire.
• Tang San hurled stone fragments at the Martial Soul Hall formation as the Hell White Tiger broke Demon Charm, injuring Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• Ma Hongjun attacked Martial Soul Hall’s rear ranks with Phoenix Fire Line, while the Hell White Tiger knocked Yan aside and Tang San sent the remaining opponents out of bounds.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner after the Martial Soul Hall team was defeated.

Shrek faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team in the tournament final, and the teams revealed their powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skills. As the Hell White Tiger charged into battle, Tang San unleashed his fifth soul skill to restrain their opponents and control the field.

• Bibi Dong recognized Qian San as the son of the man she had Devoured and hoped Shrek would win so the Qian Family would not triumph.
• Tang San led Shrek into the final against Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team and ordered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to pressure their opponents while he controlled the field.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused into the Hell White Tiger and charged Heaven Dou Second Team.
• Yu Rongrong summoned a Snow Ape and a Sky-Rending Armor-Piercing Eagle, then joined Dai Zhuqing to form the Dark Sword Tiger King, which was stronger than Shrek's fusion beast.
• Dai Mubai charged the Dark Sword Tiger King, and Tang San spread his Blue Silver Grass across the arena with his fifth soul skill, Nether Death Calamity.

Qian San used Liquid Metal armor to nullify Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and force Shrek to abandon the Hell White Tiger fusion. Tang San gathered the seven’s Soul Power into the Clear Sky Hammer as Qian San revealed his Ten-Winged Angel form, and both sides unleashed their strongest attacks.

• Qian San covered his allies and himself in Liquid Metal armor, which blocked Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Nether Death Calamity.
• The Dark Sword Tiger King struck the Hell White Tiger hard, so Tang San ordered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to break their fusion and retreat.
• Tang San had the Shrek Seven channel their Soul Power into him and summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, surprising Hu Liena.
• Qian San withdrew the armor and revealed his Ten-Winged Angel form, startling Xue Qinghe.
• Qian San combined 2,415 Light Swords into a transparent giant sword with Light Martyrdom, while Tang San raised the Clear Sky True Body to counter it.

Qian San shattered Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and unleashed a fatal attack on the Shrek team during the finals. Tang Hao arrived too late to save Tang San, while Yue Guan and Ghost moved to confront him.

• Qian San split Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, causing Tang San and the Shrek members to suffer severe backlash.
• Qian San launched a storm of metal needles and detonated them across the arena despite Yu Xiaogang’s surrender call.
• Tang Hao descended with his Clear Sky True Body, but Bibi Dong held back while Yue Guan and Ghost rushed to intervene.
• Tang Hao found Tang San dead in the crater, pierced by metal spikes, and knelt beside his body.

After dying in the arena, Tang San awakened in the God Realm, where the God King of Evil explained how Qian San had exploited the divine trial rules to kill him. The God King revealed that another world and a parallel Douluo Continent existed, leading Tang San to realize that Qian San and the Heaven Dou Second Team were outsiders like him.

• Tang San awoke as a spirit body in the God Realm and learned from the God King of Evil that he had died in Qian San's arena attack.
• The God King of Evil explained that Qian San had used a large-area soul skill to exploit a loophole in the divine trial rules.
• The God King showed Tang San a remnant of foreign Divine Power after revealing that he had destroyed the divine consciousness hidden within Tang San.
• Tang San remembered Zhu Muhei's claim that he came from another world and connected him to the foreign Divine Power.
• The God King confirmed that a parallel Douluo Continent and God Realm existed, and Tang San realized that Qian San and the Heaven Dou Second Team were counterparts from another world.

The God King of Evil spared Tang San and tasked him with helping the God Realm find a way into Qian San’s world. In Spirit City, Tang Hao’s rampage sparked a standoff between Spirit Hall and the forces protecting the injured Shrek students, while Qian Xunji watched from above.

• The God King of Evil explained that the God Realm would not punish Qian San and offered Tang San a chance to return to life in exchange for scouting Qian San’s world with his surviving teammates.
• The God King of Evil planted a divine thought in Tang San and ordered him to deliver it to the other world’s God King of Evil once the God Realm found a way to follow Qian San’s group.
• Tang Hao attacked Spirit Hall in grief over Tang San’s death, and Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall personnel to execute him.
• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi intervened to protect Tang Hao and the injured Shrek students, while Ning Fengzhi tried to save Ning Rongrong.
• Flender stopped Dai Weisi from taking the unconscious Dai Mubai, and Qian Xunji watched the plaza’s standoff from the Worship Hall without intervening.

After a god revived Tang San, Qian Xunji decided the group had to leave the Surface World before the God Realm could target them. He brought Qian San and the others to the Star Dou Forest and used the [Oath of the Angel] to return them to the Inner World.

• A dark-purple divine light revived Tang San, and Qian Xunji realized a god of this world had intervened.
• Qian Xunji told Qian San to leave the arena, and Qian San quietly led his companions out while Golden Crocodile Douluo created a commotion to cover their escape.
• Qian Xunji transported Qian San's group from outside Spirit City to the Star Dou Forest.
• Qian Xunji explained that the group had to report what happened to the Angel God King, then gathered them to cross back to the Inner World.
• Qian Xunji used the [Oath of the Angel] to take the group across the barrier between worlds.

Qian Xunji returned to the Inner World and reported his achievements in the Surface World to the Angel God King, concealing that Xiao Qing might inherit the God King of Evil's Godhood. After learning that a Surface World god had revived Tang San, the Angel God King ordered Qian Xunji and the others to return to the Lower Realm while he consulted the other God Kings.

• Qian Xunji left little Huang Tian with Xiao Qing outside the Angel Temple and went in to report to the Angel God King.
• Qian Xunji described completing the first three Angel God Trials, Qian San's tournament victory, and Qian San's qualification to inherit the God King of Goodness's Godhood.
• The Angel God King counted Qian Xunji's journey as completion of the third trial and awarded him increased Godhood affinity, stronger soul rings, and the Angel God Armor left arm bone.
• Qian Xunji reported that a dark-purple divine light had revived Tang San after Qian San killed him in the championship match.
• The Angel God King said the Surface World gods' intervention had been expected and ordered Qian Xunji to take everyone back to the Lower Realm while he discussed countermeasures with the other God Kings.

Qian Xunji and his companions returned to Kelaishi Academy as the God Kings discovered the cross-world route and brought the wounded Shrek group to the God Realm. The Five Great God Kings agreed to wage war and prepare an expedition into the parallel world, with Tang San realizing he could use the others as cover.

• Qian Xunji and his companions left the Angel Temple and returned to Kelaishi Academy in the Inner World.
• The God King of Evil and the God King of Goodness found the residual coordinates of the parallel world and brought the matter before the God Realm Committee.
• The God King of Evil transported the Shrek group from Spirit City to the God Realm, restoring their injuries on arrival.
• The Five Great God Kings viewed the evidence of cross-world infiltration and agreed to open a passage and wage war.
• The God King of Evil ordered Tang San and the others to depart, while Tang San realized the group could serve as scouts and shields in the parallel world.

The Inner World’s God Kings discussed the Surface World’s discovery of their infiltration just as a group from the Surface World arrived in their Universe. The Angel God King decided to monitor the newcomers rather than provoke an immediate conflict, while the other God Kings took interest in Qian Xunji’s Angel God inheritance.

• The Five Great God Kings opened a spatial passage and sent Tang San, Shrek’s group, Flender, and the others through to scout ahead.
• The Inner World’s God Kings reviewed Qian Xunji’s intelligence and learned that the Surface World’s gods had intervened to protect Tang San.
• The Inner World’s God Kings detected a spatial breach over Douluo Continent and realized that the Surface World had sent people into their Universe.
• The God King of Destruction proposed capturing the newcomers and extracting their souls, but the Angel God King rejected the plan and ordered secret surveillance.
• The Evil Goddess questioned how Qian Xunji had received the Angel God inheritance, and the Angel God King said the other Angel God might be testing their limits.

The God Kings sent Tang San and the others to a parallel Douluo Continent, where Flender discovered that Haotian Hall was the strongest power and its Clear Sky Hammer was an advanced form. The group planned to settle in Star Luo City, while Tang San resolved to discover how his hammer could evolve.

• The God King of Evil ended the meeting and ordered his colleagues to monitor events in the Lower Realm.
• Tang San and the others emerged from a spatial passage in a forest outside Star Luo City, and Flender went to scout while Yu Xiaogang and Zhao Wuji kept the students hidden.
• Flender returned and told the group that the Star Luo throne was contested by Dai Zhuyun and Dai Zhuqing, with no Dai Mubai in this world's imperial family.
• Flender revealed that Haotian Hall, not Spirit Hall, was the continent's strongest power and that its Clear Sky Hammer was a higher-tier form than Tang San's.
• Tang San resolved to find a way to evolve his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang proposed that they settle in Star Luo City to gather information.

Tang San and Flender's group approached Star Luo City under the assumed name Qian San, while Qian Xunji returned to the Inner World with Yu Rongrong and learned how the continent had changed. Yu Fengzhi revealed that Haotian Hall had investigated the major powers and that Pope Bibi Yin had uncovered the Seven Treasure Overlord Sect's role in the Haotian Academy students' deaths.

• Flender warned Dai Mubai to keep a low profile in Star Luo City, and Tang San silently repeated the name Qian San as their new game began.
• Qian Xunji and the others returned to Kelaishi Academy, where Yu Rongrong asked to visit the Seven Treasure Overlord Sect and show her evolved martial soul to her father.
• Yu Rongrong revealed her Eight Treasure Overlord Pagoda to Yu Fengzhi, who was astonished that she had gained an eighth tier.
• Qian Xunji privately asked Yu Fengzhi about events on the continent, and Yu Fengzhi reported that Haotian Hall had used its investigation to probe the major powers before its inquiry into the Angel Sect abruptly ended.
• Yu Fengzhi told Qian Xunji that Pope Bibi Yin had found conclusive evidence linking the Seven Treasure Overlord Sect to the deaths of Haotian Academy students, and Qian Xunji asked why she had spared the sect.

Yu Fengzhi told Qian Xunji that Bibi Yin had forced the Seven Treasure Overlord Sect to promise her support and pay a heavy price, while Qian Xunji noted the turmoil within Haotian Hall. In Star Luo City, Yu Xiaogang concluded that the Shrek group needed to find Ning Dagang to secure a way forward.

• Yu Fengzhi explained that Bibi Yin had secured the Seven Treasure Overlord Sect's unconditional support in a future conflict and extorted one million Gold Soul Coins and three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Qian Xunji reassured Yu Fengzhi that the payment had preserved the sect and pointed out that his daughter's Martial Soul had evolved.
• Xiao Wu lamented that Xiao Qing had attacked her mercilessly, while Tang San reflected on the similarities between the two worlds and wondered whether another Tang Sect existed.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang reported that the group could not safely establish themselves in Star Luo City and that Dai Mubai could not show his face.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that his Clear Sky Hammer was inferior to Haotian Hall's inherited Martial Soul and could bring danger if exposed, but Tang San resolved to make it evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang said the group needed to find Ning Dagang.