Chapter Summaries

Lin Yaoyang and the Douling army broke Heaven Soul’s defenses after annihilating the Body Sect’s Titled Douluo, then advanced into Heaven Dou City. Long Aotian, Wei Na, Huo Yuhao, and the remaining disciples resisted the invasion, but Douling’s missile bombardment overwhelmed their defenses.

• Lin Yaoyang’s allies killed the Body Sect’s remaining four Titled Douluo, completing the destruction of its leadership.
• Xiao Xiao ordered the Douling army to advance on Heaven Dou City, while Mo Yunfei rallied the city’s defenders.
• Douling’s superior Soul Tool weapons breached the city walls, Mo Yunfei was killed, and the army entered Heaven Dou City.
• Long Aotian, Wei Na, Huo Yuhao, and over a hundred Body Sect disciples formed a last stand against the advancing army.
• Xiao Xiao ordered a saturation missile strike, and Long Aotian, Wei Na, and Huo Yuhao raised a barrier to protect the disciples.
• The missiles shattered the barrier and engulfed the defenders; Wei Na clung to Long Aotian and vowed to defend the sect with him.

Xiao Xiao’s Douling forces annihilated the Body Sect, captured Heaven Soul City, and executed its imperial family, officials, and nobles before beginning a citywide purge. Meanwhile, Ju Zi began a carefully planned assault on Star Luo’s defenses at the Mingdou Mountain Range, and the chapter left the battle there underway.

• After the bombardment destroyed the defensive position, Huo Yuhao, Long Aotian, Wei Na, and the Body Sect defenders were killed.
• Xiao Xiao’s troops surrounded Heaven Soul’s palace, broke through its gates, and forced the emperor and court to surrender.
• Xiao Xiao ordered the execution of Heaven Soul’s imperial family, officials, and hereditary nobles, then sent soldiers to purge their clans across Heaven Dou City.
• Unaware that Heaven Soul had fallen, Xu Jiawei mobilized Star Luo’s forces and fortified the Mingdou Mountain Range against the Sun Moon Empire.
• With Holy Spirit Cult agents supplying intelligence and sabotage, Ju Zi feigned a frontal assault and secretly maneuvered elite troops toward weak points in Star Luo’s defenses.

Ju Zi broke through the Mingdou Mountain Range and drove the defeated Star Luo forces back toward the capital, while Xu Jiawei sought aid and Dai Hao fought to defend the Star Luo River. The chapter then shifted to the Mysterious Underworld Sect, where its master emerged from seclusion and found Xue Lingxun and Xu Sanshi waiting.

• Ju Zi ambushed Dai Hao’s returning White Tiger Legion, inflicted devastating losses, and forced the survivors to retreat to Star Luo City.
• Ju Zi’s forces swept through the Mingdou Mountain Range and advanced into Star Luo territory, capturing seventeen cities in three days.
• Xu Jiawei sent Xu Jiujiu to seek help from the Sun Temple and Shrek Academy, then gave Dai Hao a new force of one hundred thousand troops to defend the Star Luo River.
• Dai Hao led Star Luo’s last elite troops against Ju Zi’s army at the river, as the defenses neared collapse.
• The Mysterious Underworld Sect’s master emerged from seclusion and found Xue Lingxun and Xu Sanshi waiting in the main hall.

The sect master discovered that Xu Sanshi had lost all his cultivation and confronted Xue Lingxun over their role in Douling’s succession before the Mysterious Underworld Sect came under a devastating attack. After Wang Dong’er and her companions defeated him and the Douling army occupied the ruins, Xu Jiujiu arrived at Shrek Academy and met Cai Mei’er.

• The sect master learned from Xue Lingxun that Xu Sanshi had been taken to Lingdou City to inherit the Douling throne, and he blamed them for involving the Mysterious Underworld Sect without his knowledge.
• Wang Dong’er, Wang Qiu’er, Wu Ming, and Zhang Lexuan led an artillery assault on the Mysterious Underworld Sect, devastating its grounds and killing or injuring disciples.
• Wu Ming accused the sect of sheltering former Douling and Heaven Soul forces, and Wang Dong’er defeated the sect master with her Clear Sky Hammer.
• The four attackers departed, and the Douling army entered the sect to clear the battlefield, count casualties, and detain prisoners.
• Xu Jiujiu reached Shrek Academy and was received by vice dean Cai Mei’er, who asked what had brought her there.

Xu Jiujiu pleaded with Cai Mei'er to send Shrek Academy's forces to help Star Luo resist the Sun Moon Empire, and Cai Mei'er brought the request to the Sea God Pavilion elders for a vote. The discussion began with Yan Shaozhe and Elder Lin supporting intervention, while Shrek's decision remained unresolved.

• Xu Jiujiu described Star Luo's collapsing defenses and begged Cai Mei'er to aid the empire.
• Cai Mei'er initially refused, citing Shrek Academy's policy of neutrality and its weakened state.
• Xu Jiujiu argued that Shrek would be threatened after Star Luo fell and offered an alliance and resources in exchange for aid.
• Cai Mei'er said the Sea God Pavilion elders had to decide and told Xu Jiujiu's delegation to wait at Shrek's Post House.
• Cai Mei'er summoned Yan Shaozhe, Elder Lin, and Elder Zhuang to discuss sending aid to Star Luo.
• Yan Shaozhe and Elder Lin supported intervention to restrain the Sun Moon Empire and restore Shrek's prestige.

Shrek agreed to reinforce Star Luo and sent Xu Jiujiu to seek help from the Sun Temple, which allied with Star Luo to purge Evil Soul Masters. As the Red Sun Army prepared to enter the war, the Sun Temple secretly planned to bring Douling forces into Star Luo, while the battle at the Star Luo River continued to intensify.

• Cai Mei'er and the other Sea God Pavilion elders voted to send reinforcements to Star Luo, while Elder Zhuang opposed the decision.
• Elder Lin proposed that Xu Jiujiu ask the Sun Temple to send its Red Sun Army, and Shrek made that request a condition of its aid.
• Xu Jiujiu traveled to the Sun Temple and offered Ye Guyi territory and funding in exchange for military support.
• After Xu Jiujiu invoked the Holy Spirit Cult and its Evil Soul Masters, Ye Guyi agreed to an alliance and promised to send the Red Sun Army to Star Luo.
• The Sun Moon and Star Luo armies clashed at the Star Luo River as Holy Spirit Cult elders and Star Luo's Offering Hall fought on the front lines.

Zhongli Wu overwhelmed the Star Luo Offering Hall, killing five of its seven elders and leaving the survivors to flee. With Star Luo's high-level fighters defeated, Ju Zi's forces broke the Star Luo River line, and Dai Hao retreated toward Star Luo City.

• Zhongli Wu entered the battle and used his Death God Scythe to destroy Xuanji Douluo's umbrella and badly wound Shattered Star Douluo.
• Zhongli Wu's Death God Needle withered Giant Hammer Douluo, and the Holy Spirit Cult's attacks helped kill five of Star Luo's seven Offering Hall elders.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo and Great Strength Douluo fled as Star Luo's army lost morale under the Sun Moon Empire's artillery assault.
• Ju Zi ordered the Sun Moon Empire army to advance and bombard the Star Luo River defenses.
• Dai Hao led the White Tiger Legion in a desperate defense, but after heavy losses he ordered the troops to retreat toward Star Luo City.

Star Luo’s defenses collapsed, leaving Emperor Xu Jiawei to prepare for a desperate siege while Ju Zi manipulated Zhongli Wu into leading the Holy Spirit Cult toward the Star Dou Forest. Ju Zi hoped Di Tian would destroy the cult, and Star Luo’s fate remained unresolved.

• Dai Hao reported that the Star Luo River defensive line had fallen and the Sun Moon army had surrounded the city, while Xu Jiawei chose to keep him in command.
• Xu Jiawei urged Star Luo to hold out for reinforcements from Shrek Academy and the Sun Temple, citing the city’s defenses and remaining forces.
• Ju Zi summoned Zhongli Wu and persuaded him that capturing Di Tian could provide the power needed to defeat Lin Yaoyang and the Sun Temple.
• Zhongli Wu led Nangong Wan, Myriad Soul Douluo, and other Holy Spirit Cult elders toward the Star Dou Forest to seize Di Tian.
• Ju Zi watched the cult depart and revealed that she hoped Di Tian would kill them, leaving her free to focus on revenge against Star Luo.

Shrek's reinforcements clashed with Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult while trying to reach Star Luo, but they were overwhelmed by the cult's combined attacks. Shi Xing and Gong Changlong were killed, leaving the surviving Shrek fighters under mounting pressure.

• Elder Lin led Cai Mei'er, Gong Changlong, Elder Zhuang, and Shi Xing toward Star Luo, where Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult blocked their way.
• Zhongli Wu ordered his forces to attack, and Shrek's group struggled to withstand his death domain and scythe strike.
• Nangong Wan, Myriad Soul Douluo, Abomination Douluo, Mask Douluo, and Nightmare Douluo unleashed poison, spirits, brute force, insects, and illusions to suppress the Shrek fighters.
• Gong Changlong questioned the absence of Xu Jiujiu and the Sun Temple reinforcements as the Shrek group was driven back.
• Shi Xing tried to divert Zhongli Wu's killing blow with the Temporal Silver Disk, but the attack shattered his defenses and killed him.
• Zhongli Wu seized Gong Changlong and drained his fire Soul Power, killing him after extinguishing his flames.

Lin Yaoyang and the Sun Temple reinforcements arrived in time to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult’s attackers, but Elder Lin blamed them for Shrek’s losses. Lin Yaoyang then accused Elder Lin and the others of being Evil Soul Masters disguised as Shrek members.

• Lin Yaoyang arrived with Ye Guyi, Wang Qiu'er, and Wang Dong'er, and his Corona Sword killed the Mask Douluo in one strike.
• Lin Yaoyang unleashed Corona Light and cleaved Zhongli Wu in half, killing the Holy Spirit Cult leader.
• Ye Guyi, Wang Qiu'er, and Wang Dong'er pursued and killed the four remaining Titled Douluo as Shrek’s surviving elders recovered.
• Elder Lin accused Lin Yaoyang of arriving too late to save Chang Long, Shi Xing, and Shrek’s forces, while Ye Guyi and Wang Qiu'er retorted that the losses were not their fault.
• Lin Yaoyang shocked everyone by accusing Elder Lin, Cai Mei'er, and Elder Zhuang of being Evil Soul Masters who had infiltrated Shrek Academy in disguise.

Lin Yaoyang accused three Shrek elders of being Evil Soul Masters after they demanded answers from the Sun Temple, then ordered their deaths. Afterward, he reassured Ye Guyi that Tang San was unlikely to punish them and turned the group’s attention to Star Luo.

• Lin Huiqun, Cai Mei'er, and Zhuang Yusen protested Lin Yaoyang’s accusations and demanded an explanation from the Sun Temple.
• Wang Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, and Ye Guyi surrounded the injured elders while Lin Yaoyang declared he would purge Shrek of its scum.
• Wang Qiu'er smashed Zhuang Yusen’s Tree of Life and wounded him, Ye Guyi cut Cai Mei'er in half, and Wang Dong'er crushed Lin Huiqun with her Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ye Guyi worried that Tang San might punish them, but Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong'er dismissed the danger and discussed their own prospects of becoming gods.
• Lin Yaoyang said they would deal with Star Luo next and told Wang Qiu'er to search the bodies for soul bones.

Lin Yaoyang and his companions reached Star Luo City as the Sun Moon Empire besieged it, and Lin Yaoyang unleashed a devastating attack that destroyed more than half the enemy army. As the defenders celebrated the sudden reversal, an enormous force approached from behind, leaving Xu Jiujiu uneasy.

• Wang Qiu'er collected the fallen soul bones after Lin Yaoyang and his companions defeated the Holy Spirit Cult elders, then Xu Jiujiu thanked them and led them toward Star Luo City.
• The group discovered that the Sun Moon Empire had besieged Star Luo City for two days while Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao directed its desperate defense.
• Xu Jiujiu spotted a vast force of tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft approaching from behind, but Lin Yaoyang dismissed it and prepared to attack the besiegers.
• Lin Yaoyang, Gu Yi, Dong'er, and Qiu'er charged the Sun Moon army, and Lin Yaoyang's Hear the Sun's Roar annihilated more than half its forces and supplies.
• Ye Guyi, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er tore through the remaining enemy troops as Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao celebrated the arrival of reinforcements.

Wang Qiu'er killed Ju Zi and then defeated Luanfeng, leaving the Sun Moon army leaderless and doomed. Star Luo forces surrounded the fleeing soldiers and annihilated the army, while Ye Guyi, Lin Yaoyang, Wang Dong'er, and the others prevailed on the battlefield.

• Luanfeng used her Fire Phoenix martial soul and Level 9 Soul Tool to hold Ye Guyi back from reaching Ju Zi.
• Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er cut through the Sun Moon forces, and Wang Qiu'er reached the commander's platform.
• Wang Qiu'er pierced Ju Zi's chest with the Golden Dragon Spear, killing the Sun Moon Empire's commander-in-chief.
• Luanfeng launched a furious counterattack against Wang Qiu'er, but Wang Qiu'er shattered her Fire Phoenix Sword and killed her.
• With Ju Zi and Luanfeng dead, the Sun Moon soldiers abandoned their weapons and fled as Star Luo's forces attacked from both sides.
• Xu Jiawei, Dai Hao, the Sun Temple, and the Red Sun Army helped rout and annihilate the Sun Moon army within half an hour.

Lin Yaoyang revealed that he had engineered Star Luo and Sun Moon’s mutual destruction so the Heaven Dou Empire could conquer the weakened realm. Xu Jiawei refused to surrender and led the Star Luo imperial family and court officials in taking their own lives, while Wang Qiu'er addressed the stunned Dai Hao.

• After the Sun Temple defeated Sun Moon’s army, Xu Jiawei thanked Lin Yaoyang and offered him Gold Soul Coins, soul bones, and a mineral vein.
• A vast Heaven Dou army appeared, and Lin Yaoyang explained that it had waited for Star Luo and Sun Moon to exhaust each other before seizing the realm.
• Lin Yaoyang told Star Luo’s leaders to kill themselves or face execution, and Xu Jiujiu realized that he had used her and Star Luo in his scheme.
• Xu Jiawei rejected surrender, removed his crown, and declared that Star Luo’s imperial family would not be humiliated.
• Xu Jiawei killed himself, and Xu Jiujiu and the other leaders followed; Wang Qiu'er then asked the motionless Dai Hao why he was still standing there.

Dai Hao tried to bargain for his life by pledging to serve Lin Yaoyang, but Lin Yaoyang had him killed along with Star Luo’s officials and clansmen. In the Sun Moon palace, Xu Tianran learned that Ju Zi and his army had been destroyed by the Sun Temple and Heaven Dou, leaving him to order the empire to prepare for a final defense.

• Dai Hao asked Lin Yaoyang to spare him so he could help avenge Star Luo, but Lin Yaoyang ordered him to die with the other leaders.
• Lin Yaoyang ordered the Heaven Dou army to occupy Star Luo Imperial City, pacify its people, and bring the territory under Heaven Dou rule.
• Xu Tianran read a military report that revealed Douling had annexed Heaven Soul and Star Luo before attacking Sun Moon.
• A minister told Xu Tianran that Ju Zi had died and Sun Moon’s hundreds of thousands of troops had been wiped out by the Sun Temple and Heaven Dou.
• Xu Tianran ordered nationwide combat readiness and commanded Sun Moon’s Soul Engineers and Soul Masters to defend the empire against invasion.

The Heaven Dou Empire demanded Shrek City and Shrek Academy disarm, disband, and evacuate, leaving the academy isolated as its alumni refused to help. When Shrek’s leaders still hoped the order was only a threat, the deadline arrived and Heaven Dou aimed Level 9 artillery shells at the city, ordering its destruction.

• The Heaven Dou Empire issued a decree requiring Shrek City’s residents to evacuate and Shrek Academy’s teachers and students to disband within a month, or face forced demolition.
• Yan Shaozhe contacted Shrek alumni for support, but they refused to intervene or severed their ties with the academy.
• Heaven Dou’s troops emptied Shrek’s treasure vaults, leaving the academy’s buildings and plazas vacant.
• Yan Shaozhe, Bei Bei, and Zhou Yi insisted that Heaven Dou would not truly destroy Shrek, believing the decree was meant to force submission.
• At the deadline, Heaven Dou’s forces aimed Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Artillery Shells at Shrek City and Shrek Academy, and the commander ordered them to flatten Shrek.

Heaven Dou's artillery began its assault on Shrek as Lin Yaoyang ordered Gu Yuena to reclaim the Golden Tree for the Star Dou Forest. After the tree was returned to the Lake of Life, Shrek City and Shrek Academy were destroyed in a half-hour bombardment.

• Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Artillery Shells rained down on Shrek City, leaving Yan Shaozhe and Zhou Yi stunned by Heaven Dou's attack.
• Lin Yaoyang told Gu Yuena to take the Golden Tree back to the Lake of Life instead of claiming it for the Sun Temple.
• Gu Yuena uprooted the Golden Tree from Sea God Island and replanted it at the center of the Lake of Life, where Di Tian saw its return.
• Shrek's teachers and students watched the Golden Tree vanish and realized their cultivation foundation was gone.
• Heaven Dou's artillery barrage buried the remaining Shrek teachers and students and reduced Shrek City and Shrek Academy to scorched ruins.
• The Soul Guidance Legion commander declared that Shrek no longer existed and ordered the army to withdraw.

Gu Yuena explained the paths to godhood and revealed that every godhood required a supporting realm or plane, while the God Realm was already near capacity and soul beasts could not become gods by orthodox means. Lin Yaoyang vowed to find a way for his companions to ascend, then received—and rejected—a Godly Trial from the Fire God.

• Gu Yuena described inheriting a godhood or creating one through faith or strength, explaining that each godhood needed a supporting realm and that the God Realm could become saturated.
• The Snow Empress asked whether soul beasts could become gods, and Gu Yuena confirmed that soul beasts of the Douluo Plane could not ascend through orthodox means.
• Lin Yaoyang comforted the Snow Empress and promised to bring her and the other soul beasts into the God Realm, then considered creating his own godhood despite the God Realm's saturation.
• A crimson divine light enveloped Lin Yaoyang as a Godly Trial descended, and Gu Yuena realized a god had chosen him.
• The God King of Destruction revealed that he had persuaded the Fire God to offer Lin Yaoyang his inheritance, but the Fire God reported that Lin Yaoyang had rejected the first-class Fire God Godly Trial.

Destruction became frustrated after Lin Yaoyang rejected the Fire God's Godly Trial, while he and the Goddess of Life discussed the strain of governing the God Realm and decided to speak with Wang Dong'er. A beam of purple light then carried Wang Dong'er from the Sun Temple to the God Realm, where she met Life and Destruction.

• Lin Yaoyang rejected the Fire God's Godly Trial, leaving the Fire God and Destruction surprised and disappointed.
• Destruction returned to the Temple, where the Goddess of Life comforted him as they discussed his workload and disagreed over whether to release Tang San.
• Life and Destruction made up, then decided to tell Wang Dong'er the truth as her cultivation neared its limit.
• Lin Yaoyang told the Snow Empress, Bi Ji, Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, Ye Guyi, and the others that he had rejected the Godly Trial because the godhood did not suit him.
• A beam of purple light transported Wang Dong'er to the God Realm, where the Goddess of Life and Destruction greeted her.

The Goddess of Life and Destruction revealed to Wang Dong'er that Tang San had split his daughter Tang Wutong's soul into three, creating Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er while keeping the remaining strand. Wang Dong'er met Xiao Qi, the soul who had been Tang Wutong, and learned that the Goddess of Life would give her a body; the chapter ended with Wang Dong'er unsure whether she could face her mother, Xiao Wu.

• The Goddess of Life and Destruction told Wang Dong'er that Tang San had divided Tang Wutong's soul into three without anyone's consent.
• Destruction showed Wang Dong'er Tang Wutong's preserved soul and explained how its strands became Wang Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, and the soul Tang San kept.
• Xiao Qi told Wang Dong'er they were now independent people and did not need to merge back into Tang Wutong.
• Wang Dong'er learned that Xiao Qi had no body, and the Goddess of Life promised to reconstruct one for her.
• The Goddess of Life asked Wang Dong'er whether she wanted to meet Xiao Wu, leaving Wang Dong'er conflicted about facing her mother.