Chapter Summaries

Liu Erlong explained how the Douluo Federation was bringing Heaven Dou City’s soul masters and academies under its control through stationed forces, government jobs, subsidies, and permits. Yu Xiaogang realized the Federation’s rule had crushed his plans for revenge and rebuilding the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and learned that even Sea God Island had joined.

• Liu Erlong described the Douluo Federation’s officials and powerful forces stationed in Heaven Dou City, as well as its plans to incorporate academies and tie soul master subsidies to government service.
• Yu Xiaogang realized he could no longer pursue revenge or use academies to rebuild the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan under the Federation’s policies.
• Yu Xiaogang clung to Sea God Island as a possible refuge, but Liu Erlong told him that Wang Xiaofei had brought it into the Douluo Federation.
• Liu Erlong explained that the Federation controlled every region and regulated access to soul beast forests, leaving Yu Xiaogang collapsed in despair.
• Those present worried that Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong could not restore their former powers, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar were largely unconcerned.

Yu Xiaogang learned that the Douluo Federation’s new textbooks had turned his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul into a negative example, and Liu Erlong explained the flaws in his theories. Yu Xiaogang fainted from the shock, while the six from Shrek Academy planned to rest and learn about the Federation’s laws before deciding what to do next.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Liu Erlong about the Ministry of Education’s plans to unify Soul Master education and hoped his theories would be included in the new textbooks.
• Liu Erlong told Yu Xiaogang that the textbooks acknowledged his contributions but treated his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul as a negative example.
• Liu Erlong explained that hundreds of experienced Soul Masters had found many errors in Yu Xiaogang’s theories, including his claims about Innate Soul Power and Martial Soul strength.
• Liu Erlong said the Ministry of Education affirmed Yu Xiaogang’s claim that there were no Waste Martial Souls as encouraging but inaccurate, and used his low Innate Soul Power to explain why cultivation could not overcome a Soul Master’s limits.
• Yu Xiaogang spat out blood and fainted, so Liu Erlong and Flender carried him to his room.
• The six from Shrek Academy decided to rest, learn about the outside world and the Douluo Federation’s laws, and then make plans.

Liu Erlong explained how the Ministry of Education had refuted several of Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Martial Soul Theories, and Yu Xiaogang struggled to defend his work. After Flender pointed out that Tang San’s later soul rings exceeded Yu Xiaogang’s absorption limits, Yu Xiaogang blamed himself and fainted again.

• Yu Xiaogang insisted on confronting the Ministry of Education, so Liu Erlong reluctantly described its objections to his theories.
• Liu Erlong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claims about martial soul categories, Soul Master development paths, soul beast classifications, and obtaining soul rings.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that his theories were merely incomplete and defended his Soul Ring Absorption Limit Table as a contribution to commoner Soul Masters.
• Flender noted that all but Tang San’s first two soul rings exceeded Yu Xiaogang’s limits, and Yu Xiaogang concluded that he had harmed Tang San before vomiting blood and fainting.
• Flender carried Yu Xiaogang back to his room and feared his condition was more serious than before.

After Yu Xiaogang collapsed, the Shrek members made plans for their separate futures while Wang Xiaofei discussed the Douluo Federation and Soul Master education with Huo Tianchen and Huo Lie. Wang Xiaofei and Huo Tianchen both decided they would rather step back from their official duties and spend time with family.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing planned to visit Dai Yutian, Ning Rongrong and Oscar planned to find Ning Fengzhi and prepare for marriage, and Ma Hongjun planned to visit Bai He with Bai Chenxiang.
• Wang Xiaofei stayed at Elemental Academy with his family while Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er approached childbirth.
• Huo Tianchen complained that Wang Xiaofei was avoiding Federation affairs, and Wang Xiaofei said the ministers could manage them without his involvement.
• Wang Xiaofei promised to find God Positions and divine artifacts for his companions, then asked about the Ministry of Education's research and new Soul Master textbooks.
• Wang Xiaofei and Huo Tianchen discussed errors in Yu Xiaogang's Ten Core Martial Soul Theories and wondered whether Yu Xiaogang would accept the truth.
• Huo Tianchen said he planned to remain at Elemental Academy and leave the Ministry of Education to his deputies, prompting Wang Xiaofei to realize they shared the same plan.

Wang Xiaofei convened a meeting in Phoenix City to review the Douluo Federation’s progress and direct its departments. He ordered Body Martial Soul users gathered for specialized training on Phoenix God Island, explaining that rigorous trials could awaken their Martial Souls further.

• Wang Xiaofei asked Dean Huo Tianchen to notify the department heads of a meeting in Phoenix City and said he intended to gradually give up governing the Federation personally.
• Ten days later, Wang Xiaofei and Dean Huo Tianchen returned to Phoenix City, where the department heads and several Titled Douluo reported on the Federation’s administration, population, and Martial Soul awakenings.
• Huo Wushuang reported that the Administration Department had extended its authority across the Federation and that the population census counted 2.16 billion people, including 88,000 Soul Masters.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported on nationwide Martial Soul awakenings and the placement of awakened children in junior academies, and Wang Xiaofei directed him to cultivate high-potential Soul Masters and improve crop yields.
• Wang Xiaofei ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to gather Body Martial Soul users for specialized training, explaining that their Martial Souls could undergo Secondary or Tertiary Awakening through extreme physical trials.
• Wang Xiaofei chose Phoenix God Island, formerly Sea God Island, as the training base for Body Martial Soul users.

Wang Xiaofei reviewed the Douluo Federation’s departments and directed the Information Department to create a nationwide newspaper system. The Ministry of Education reported that it had brought soul master academies under Federation control and tied student subsidies to future service, while the Federation continued to manage resistance from powerful academies.

• Feng Xuan reported that the Information Department had established outposts across the Douluo Federation, and Wang Xiaofei instructed it to spread news to the public through inexpensive newspapers.
• Wang Xiaofei briefly reviewed reports from the courts, Judgment Department, and Supervision Department, then heard the Ministry of Education’s report.
• Huo Tianchen said the Ministry of Education had unified soul master academies under the Federation and required subsidized students to sign employment contracts and join after graduation.
• Huo Tianchen reported that three hundred soul masters were helping standardize academy textbooks, with the work expected to finish within a month.
• Wang Xiaofei approved the policy of tying subsidies to Federation service, while Bibi Dong reacted to his thoughts about Spirit Hall’s former subsidies.
• The Federation coordinated with the Judgment Department to control academies, stationed Titled Douluo in Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City, and offered compensation to private academy owners.

Wang Xiaofei reviewed the Douluo Federation’s departments and finances, then promised rewards and Soul Core assistance to officials who served the federation. The federation was stable, and Wang planned to remain in Phoenix City for several days to help those seeking to condense Soul Cores.

• Yang Wudi reported that the Research and Development Department had made little progress, and Wang Xiaofei asked him to gather people skilled in forging and Soul Tool research.
• The Construction Department continued building courts, academies, and prisons, while Wang considered enclosing the Star Dou Great Forest but worried about the cost.
• Liu Yan reported that confiscated noble assets, city shop leases, and state-owned Spirit Combat Arenas funded the federation, with income and expenditures expected to balance in about a year.
• Wang Xiaofei learned that former Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Beng had become a clerk and regretted losing the chance to uncover the empire’s hidden wealth.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo reported that Vast Sea City and Sea God Island were stable, and Wang proposed selling fishermen’s catches in Phoenix City and other cities.
• Wang Xiaofei declared the federation basically stable, promised contributors future opportunities, and asked Yang Wudi to explain Soul Cores before offering to help officials condense them in Phoenix City.

Wang Xiaofei and the Douluo Federation’s leaders advanced Soul Core research, while the postwar continent grew more peaceful under Federation law. Months later, Wang Xiaofei and Huo Wu welcomed their first child, a daughter.

• Wang Xiaofei watched the Federation’s Titled Douluo study and condense Soul Cores, with Yang Wudi organizing the research.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue also condensed Soul Cores, returning to the realm of Titled Douluo and contributing to the research.
• Wang Xiaofei and Dean Huo Tianchen returned to Elemental Academy, where Wang Xiaofei stepped back from public affairs as the continent settled into peace.
• Several months later, Huo Wu gave birth to a daughter, and Wang Xiaofei held their first child before bringing her to Huo Wu.

Twenty years after Wang Xiaofei’s children were born, both had become extraordinary Soul Saints while the Douluo Continent prospered under the stable Douluo Federation. The chapter ended with the federation’s tightly regulated sects operating under strict laws.

• Wang Xiaofei named his daughter Wang Lanfang and his son Wang Mingxu after Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er gave birth.
• Twenty years later, Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu had both awakened God-tier Fire Phoenix Martial Souls with Innate Soul Power Rank 20 and reached Soul Saint level.
• Wang Lanfang became a spirited, combative leader among the academy’s students, while Wang Mingxu became a scholarly and steady young man.
• Wang Xiaofei sensed that both children carried Douluo Star’s Origin Power and traces of divinity.
• The Douluo Continent prospered, with its population, economy, and number of Soul Masters growing during a long period of peace.
• Dai Mubai and other former sects established small, membership-limited groups that obeyed Douluo Federation laws or faced severe punishment.

Over twenty years, the Douluo Federation expanded Soul Tool research, founded a Body Academy, and established regulated coexistence with Soul Beasts. Wang Xiaofei became a half-step God King as the Federation and its Soul Masters grew stronger.

• Wang Xiaofei brought Soul Tool books and engineers from the Sun Moon Continent to Yang Wudi and Huo Tianchen, and the Federation developed a research academy that trained three thousand Soul Engineers.
• Niu Meng led the Body Academy on Sea God Island, where Body Martial Soul users trained at restored cultivation sites and several Silver Rank Awakened Soul Masters emerged.
• Wang Xiaofei negotiated with the Silver Dragon King to build walls around Soul Beast forests, restrict human access, protect the beasts, and require them to provide treasures and Gold of Life.
• Wang Xiaofei drew on Douluo Star's growing Origin Power to condense his fourteenth Soul Ring, surpass level 140, and approach the God King realm.
• Sword Douluo and Golden Crocodile Douluo reached level 99, while other powerful Soul Masters advanced and the Federation began offering God-Bestowed Soul Rings and Divine Power Comprehension.

Dai Mubai learned from Dai Yutian why the Star Luo Empire and the Dai Family had fallen, then spent years reflecting on the Douluo Federation Laws. He established the White Tiger Sect under those laws, as other family-based sects also began to rebuild.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Phoenix City, where Dai Yutian told his son that the Star Luo Empire was gone and warned him against resisting Wang Xiaofei or the Federation.
• Dai Mubai accepted a copy of the Douluo Federation Laws, bowed to his parents, and returned with Zhu Zhuqing to the Dai Family ancestral land.
• After three years of training and studying the laws, Dai Mubai left the ancestral land with trusted clansmen and founded the White Tiger Sect.
• Huo Wushuang warned Dai Yutian that the sect could operate as long as it obeyed Federation law and did not use its past merits to justify illegal acts.
• The other former great sects began rebuilding as family-centered organizations and strictly restrained their members under the Federation Laws.

After the Douluo Federation unified the continent, the surviving Shrek Seven Devils and their allies struggled to rebuild their lives as their old factions declined. The chapter leaves Ning Rongrong leading her family, Ma Hongjun settled at Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang crushed by the Federation’s scholarship.

• Ning Rongrong and Oscar reunited with Ning Fengzhi, who dissolved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and passed family leadership to her before approving their marriage.
• Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang found the Tang Sect near collapse after the Federation barred it from producing Hidden Weapons, then married and became teachers at Shrek Academy.
• Tai Tan refused to dissolve the Tang Sect, which survived by forging ordinary goods after its weapon business was prohibited.
• Yu Xiaogang read the Federation’s extensive textbooks and became despairing as they surpassed and refuted his theories.
• Liu Erlong and Flender focused on their education work, leaving Liu Erlong little time to support Yu Xiaogang.

After studying the Douluo Federation Laws, the weakened Clear Sky Sect decided to emerge from seclusion and seek a place in the changed Soul Master World. Huo Wushuang approved its return on the condition that it obey the law and focus on blacksmithing.

• Tang Yuehua explained the Federation's laws and the sect's dwindling prospects to Tang Chen and Tang Xiao.
• Tang Yuehua taught the Clear Sky Sect's members the laws, and Tang Chen enforced their studies until they could recite them.
• Tang Chen visited Phoenix City to discuss the Clear Sky Sect's reemergence with the Federation.
• Tang Chen met Rank 99 Sword Douluo and Rank 98 Huo Wushuang and was struck by the Federation's strength.
• Huo Wushuang supported the sect's return after reviewing its plan to make blacksmithing its main business and comply with Federation law.

After the Clear Sky Sect returned, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect also reemerged, each rebuilding its livelihood as a business. The three former Upper Three Sects received little recognition and ended by declaring their businesses would obey Douluo Federation laws.

• Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and Dugu Yan rebuilt the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to more than one hundred members, then decided to reemerge after the Clear Sky Sect returned.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar visited Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, received their advice on rebuilding the sect, and returned without them.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar announced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's return, completing the reemergence of the Upper Three Sects.
• The Clear Sky Sect founded the Clear Sky Blacksmith Company, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect established Seven Treasures Mineral Company, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan opened a security company.
• The Upper Three Sects faced skepticism over their small size and influence, then declared their businesses would comply with Douluo Federation laws.

Wang Xiaofei raised his gifted children, Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu, while Elemental Academy recovered its strength and his former colleagues took up prominent posts. The siblings asked to leave the academy to gain experience, and Wang Xiaofei asked where they planned to go.

• Wang Xiaofei spent nearly twenty years raising Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu at Elemental Academy while leaving government affairs to his subordinates.
• Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu awakened Fire Phoenix Martial Souls at age six with Innate Soul Power at level 20, then quickly advanced through their studies and cultivation.
• Wang Lanfang became a feared challenger who fought students, teachers, and unscrupulous merchants, while Wang Mingxu read widely and kept pace with her cultivation.
• Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er focused on academy education as Elemental Academy rebuilt its strength, and Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian rose to senior positions in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu told Wang Xiaofei they wanted to leave the academy to gain experience, and he asked where they planned to go.

Wang Xiaofei let Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu set out on their travels while secretly protecting them. Tang San then visited as the Asura God to demand that Wang Xiaofei stop interfering in Douluo Continent and leave Tang San’s parents alone, but Wang Xiaofei challenged his claims and rejected his reasoning.

• Wang Lanfang planned to visit Vast Sea City and Phoenix God Island, while Wang Mingxu planned to travel across Douluo Continent, and Wang Xiaofei agreed to let them go.
• Wang Xiaofei reassured Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er and secretly placed divine sense on both children so he could protect them.
• Tang San appeared before Wang Xiaofei and demanded that he stop meddling in mortal affairs, but Wang Xiaofei pointed out that gods had repeatedly interfered in Douluo Star.
• Tang San threatened to ask the God Realm Committee to remove Wang Xiaofei from Douluo Star, and Wang Xiaofei challenged him to convene the committee and explain his own actions.
• Tang San asked Wang Xiaofei not to interfere when his parents returned to Douluo Star, and Wang Xiaofei objected that suppressing their Soul Power to level 99 would not erase their divine strength.

Wang Xiaofei confronted Tang San over his parents’ return to Douluo Star, the Federation’s treatment of Soul Beasts, and his companions’ God Position inheritances. Tang San accepted Wang Xiaofei’s conditions and left, though their future relationship remained uncertain.

• Wang Xiaofei told Tang San that Tang Hao and his wife could return only if they obeyed Douluo Federation Laws, then gave Tang San a copy of the laws to take to them.
• Tang San questioned whether the Federation was colluding with Soul Beasts, and Wang Xiaofei argued that unchecked Soul Beast hunting threatened the future of cultivation.
• Tang San asked Wang Xiaofei not to interfere with his former Shrek companions inheriting God Positions, and Wang Xiaofei required them to use inherited positions and leave Douluo Star immediately afterward.
• Tang San agreed to Wang Xiaofei’s conditions, wondered why he would risk offending a God King, and then tore through space and departed from Douluo Star.

Wang Xiaofei considered Tang San’s plans and potential schemes while his children, Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu, decided to travel across the Douluo Federation. The siblings settled on visiting Heaven Dou City first, though Mingxu worried that his sister’s casual preparations would leave them ill-equipped.

• Wang Xiaofei suspected Tang San wanted to bring his former Shrek Academy companions to the God Realm to expand his influence and wondered what Tang San meant about the Soul Beasts.
• Wang Xiaofei concluded that Tang Hao and Ah Yin posed little threat and that his children were protected from being plotted against.
• Wang Mingxu chose to begin his tour in Heaven Dou City and proposed visiting Phoenix City, Angel City, and Star Luo City to judge whether the Federation treated everyone equally.
• Wang Lanfang decided to join her brother in Heaven Dou City and declared that she would travel, uphold justice, and become known as Heroine Wang.
• Wang Mingxu questioned how the Federation functioned without its absent emperor, while Wang Lanfang suggested they could ask their parents to handle any problems they found.
• Wang Lanfang said she had only a few million Gold Soul Coins and planned to buy supplies along the way, so Wang Mingxu explained they needed provisions, medicine, and maps.

Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu traveled to Heaven Dou City and went to its Great Soul Arena to watch a Soul Emperor-level team match. They learned about the competing teams and the changed status of the former Upper Three Sects, then watched as the match began.

• Wang Lanjin and Wang Mingxu prepared supplies and left home, while Wang Xiaofei, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er worried about their children’s journey.
• Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu traveled by carriage for five days before reaching Heaven Dou City.
• Wang Lanfang persuaded Wang Mingxu to visit the Great Soul Arena, and they bought expensive tickets for a Soul Emperor-level team match.
• Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu listened as spectators discussed the Thunder Team, the Clear Sky Team, and the history and businesses of the former Upper Three Sects.
• The match began, and the packed audience fell silent to watch.

Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu watched a Soul Battle, explored Heaven Dou City, and attended its auction. Wang Lanfang bought a Ten Thousand Year Ghost Tiger Soul Bone for 3.5 million Gold Soul Coins.

• The Blue Lightning Team defeated the Clear Sky Team after both sides revealed their abilities, and Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu discussed the strengths and drawbacks of Dragon Transformation and the Fire Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Wang Lanfang and Wang Mingxu spent the next day shopping, sampling Heaven Dou City's food, visiting Moonlight Pavilion, and checking out businesses run by the Upper Three Sects.
• At the Heaven Dou City Auction House, Wang Lanfang bid against other guests for a Ten Thousand Year Ghost Tiger Soul Bone.
• Wang Lanfang won the Soul Bone with a bid of 3.5 million Gold Soul Coins, while Wang Mingxu remained unsurprised by the purchase.