Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Xiao Wu inferred that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had died in the First Timeline, and the Heavenly Screen revealed how they met their ends. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were then pulled into a blood-red arena for the Life and Death Arena.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu realized Spirit Hall might have killed them in the First Timeline, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun agreed they had lacked the help of Dugu Bo and Chen Xin.
• Shui Bing'er revealed that she killed Ma Hongjun during the Spirit Master Competition, while Dai Mubai fought Qian Daoliu in Spirit City.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Qian Daoliu decapitating Dai Mubai and Shui Bing'er killing Ma Hongjun after he drew the Death stone.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Tang San questioned what had happened to the others and how the First Timeline had diverged.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo warned Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to consider the Life and Death Arena, and the Heavenly Screen summoned a blood-red arena that pulled them onto it.

Under the Heavenly Screen’s rules, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun fought to the death using only their martial souls, each hoping to survive without holding back. Their final collision sent them both crashing onto the arena, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ma Hongjun asked Tang San whether the rules required him to kill Dai Mubai, and Tang San said he could find no way around them.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Possession and attacked Ma Hongjun, who dodged and countered with scorching claws.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun exchanged blows, with Dai Mubai’s strength and Ma Hongjun’s growing flames wounding them both.
• After half an hour, Ma Hongjun declared his Sky Burning Flame would outlast Dai Mubai, but Dai Mubai charged again without fear.
• Ma Hongjun abandoned defense and struck for Dai Mubai’s heart as Dai Mubai aimed for Ma Hongjun’s head; their collision sent both flying onto the arena.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun died after their battle, leaving Tang San and the surviving Shrek members grieving and terrified. Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan arrived alongside Qian Renxue and revealed the corpses of Poseidon and two God Kings, leaving the Asura God stunned by the God Realm’s apparent collapse.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun succumbed to their wounds, and Tang San discovered that both of their souls had dispersed completely.
• Tang San’s grief and fury surged as Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar feared that they would all die.
• The Asura God questioned why the God Realm had not responded, and Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan descended before the assembled forces.
• Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing’er, and Ye Lingling greeted the newcomers, while Shui Hanyan called Qian Renxue her junior sister.
• Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan threw down the corpses of Poseidon, the God King of Goodness, and the Evil God King.
• Tang San recognized Poseidon, and the Asura God wondered what had happened to the other gods in the God Realm.

Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan revealed that they had destroyed the Second Timeline’s God Realm and showed the Silver Dragon King the dead Golden Dragon King. The Heavenly Screen then demanded Tang San predict the First Timeline Tang San’s fate, and his answer was contradicted by the revealed cause and timing of death.

• Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan said they had destroyed the Second Timeline’s God Realm, leaving the Asura God disbelieving and the Silver Dragon King hoping to free the Golden Dragon King.
• Shui Hanyan showed the Silver Dragon King the dead Golden Dragon King, provoking her fury and despair.
• Ye Muyun activated the Heavenly Screen, which demanded Tang San identify the First Timeline Tang San’s ultimate fate and threatened to erase the Allied Forces’ senior members for a wrong answer.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing encouraged Tang San, who answered that the First Timeline Tang San had been annihilated in body and spirit and would never be reborn.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that the First Timeline Tang San had died five years earlier from organ failure, prompting Oscar to point out that the timeline did not add up.

The Heavenly Screen showed how Qian Cheng destroyed Tang San’s Asura and Rakshasa godhoods, extracted his divine soul, and imprisoned it in a stray dog that lived miserably in Spirit City until it died of old age. Tang San learned the fate of his First Timeline self and erupted in fury at Qian Cheng.

• Ye Renxin explained that bodily organ failure meant dying of old age, and Tang San rejected the possibility that Qian Cheng would let him die that way.
• Dai Tianfeng demanded to see the full process of Tang San’s death, and the Heavenly Screen displayed a stray dog enduring years of hunger, abuse, and exposure.
• Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing questioned why the screen showed a dog, while Xue Beng and Tang San suspected it was Tang San from the First Timeline.
• The Heavenly Screen revealed that Qian Cheng shattered Tang San’s godhoods, extracted his divine soul, and forced it into the stray dog’s body, where it died of old age five years earlier.
• Tang San flew into a rage, unleashed his Blue Silver Grass across the ground, and shouted Qian Cheng’s name.

Tang San and the Allied Forces camp faced erasure after giving the wrong answer, and Tang San’s attempt to resist the Heavenly Screen failed. The golden-red radiance descended over the camp and began annihilating its occupants.

• Tang San raged at Qian Cheng while Xiao Wu tried to calm him, as Xue Beng, Prince Xue Xing, and the Allied Forces panicked over their impending deaths.
• Dai Tianfeng rebuked those blaming Tang San, while Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar watched the camp descend into despair.
• Tang San vowed revenge against Qian Cheng as the Heavenly Screen’s golden-red radiance intensified.
• The Asura God urged Tang San to use his power, and Tang San unleashed Asura Judgment at the Heavenly Screen.
• The sword energy vanished against the radiance, and the Asura God admitted they could not stop the power.
• The golden-red radiance enveloped the Allied Forces camp, and Prince Xue Xing crumbled into ash.

The Heavenly Screen annihilated Tang San’s allies and Xiao Wu, driving Tang San to sacrifice his divine position in a futile attack before he too was destroyed. Shui Hanyan then turned her attention to the Spirit Beast Faction, and Xiong Jun answered her challenge.

• The Heavenly Screen’s golden-red light erased Xue Beng, Dai Tianfeng, Zhu Zhuqing’s mother, Oscar, and over a thousand Allied Forces soldiers as Tang San failed to protect them.
• Xiao Wu said goodbye to Tang San and vanished in the light, leaving him devastated by her death.
• Tang San fused his Sea God and Asura God powers and sacrificed his divine position to attack the Heavenly Screen, but its black pillar of Destruction destroyed him.
• After the Heavenly Screen’s light faded, Shui Hanyan declared that the Spirit Beast Faction was next.
• Xiong Jun defied Shui Hanyan and declared that Soul Beasts did not fear death.

The Silver Dragon King reluctantly answered the Heavenly Screen’s question about how many moves the merged Dragon God could withstand from Qian Cheng, and the revealed answer shattered her faith in her father’s strength. Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun spared the Second Timeline’s Fierce Beasts for an experiment and sent them back to the Lake of Life.

• The Heavenly Screen asked the Silver Dragon King how many moves the merged Dragon God could withstand from Qian Cheng, with the Fierce Beasts’ survival at stake.
• Urged by Di Tian, the Silver Dragon King answered that Qian Cheng and the Dragon God had fought for several hundred exchanges before Qian Cheng killed him.
• The Heavenly Screen showed Qian Cheng destroying the Dragon God in one move, leaving the Silver Dragon King in despair.
• Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts accepted their possible deaths, and the Silver Dragon King lamented that fate did not favor the Soul Beast race.
• Shui Hanyan stopped the Heavenly Screen’s punishment and explained that Qian Cheng wanted to study the Second Timeline’s world.
• Ye Muyun sent the Silver Dragon King and the Fierce Beasts to the Lake of Life.

Qian Cheng entered the ruins of Jialing Pass ten thousand years in the future and confronted four clansmen guarding it for Tang San. He killed Taishan with a single slap, leaving the others terrified.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Renxue whether the Sixth Generation Pope was coming, and she replied that he had other matters to attend to.
• Qian Cheng arrived at ruined Jialing Pass and lamented that Spirit Hall's descendants had failed to protect their foundation.
• Four members of the affiliated clans emerged and said they were guarding Jialing Pass under Lord Sea God's command and capturing Spirit Hall remnants for Shrek Academy.
• Qian Cheng mocked the four clans and Tang San, prompting Taishan to attack him with his Great Ape martial soul.
• Qian Cheng killed Taishan with one slap, and Baiyu, Yang Li, and Niu Ma froze in terror.

Qian Cheng slaughtered Baiyu and Niu Ma after they mistook his power for that of a Spirit Hall remnant, then captured Yang Li. He spared her for now so she could carry a message to Shrek Academy.

• Yang Li ordered Baiyu to flee and warn Shrek Academy that a Titled Douluo-level Spirit Hall remnant had appeared at Jialing Pass.
• Qian Cheng stopped Baiyu with his power and killed her with a slap.
• Qian Cheng tested his strength on Niu Ma, killing him after his head spun around and tore off his coccyx.
• Yang Li tried to escape and begged Qian Cheng to spare her, but he captured her and said he needed her to spread a message to Shrek Academy.

Qian Cheng reached the Strength Clan’s village after extracting Yang Li’s memories and leaving her unable to deliver his message unaided. There, he refused to heal a badly wounded woman, demanding a reason as her family pleaded for help.

• Yang Li agreed to help Qian Cheng, but he forcibly read her memories and left her an idiot, telling her she would understand what he had planted after reaching Shrek Academy.
• Qian Cheng learned from Yang Li’s memories that the Strength Clan lived beyond a bald hill and arrived at its isolated village, where white mourning silk hung from every household.
• Qian Cheng saw two men pushing an injured woman named Xiao Juan on a cart, while her young children followed in tears.
• The thinner man mistook Qian Cheng for a powerful healing-type Soul Master and begged him to treat Xiao Juan, offering the family’s savings.
• Qian Cheng refused the money and demanded a reason to save Xiao Juan, suspecting that a female Soul Master had inflicted her strange wounds.

Qian Cheng forced two villagers to explain who Tai Lu Shan was and learned that the Strength Clan heir brutalized commoners for his pleasure. He headed toward the Strength Clan’s territory, known as Paradise, where villagers were treated as a renewable resource.

• Qian Cheng seized the thin man and threatened the brawny man until they repeated their warning about Tai Lu Shan.
• The brawny man revealed that Tai Lu Shan had arrived five years earlier as a direct descendant of a major force and mutilated women for his amusement.
• Qian Cheng gave the men gold for answering, explaining that rewards and punishment were separate matters.
• Qian Cheng continued toward Two Realms Mountain, beyond which lay Paradise, the Strength Clan’s domain.
• The narration identified Tai Lu Shan as the Strength Clan patriarch’s second son and the one who controlled the commoners treated as resources.

Qian Cheng attacked a Strength Clan factory on Two Realms Mountain and discovered its secret workshop, where civilians were tortured and killed to produce Soul Bones. He left the imprisoned people’s fate unresolved as the slaughter continued above ground.

• Qian Cheng killed the guards at the factory gate and began slaughtering the Strength Clan members inside.
• Qian Cheng forced a trembling clansman to lead him to a concealed underground entrance.
• Qian Cheng found civilians imprisoned in electrified cages and two tortured corpses in the soundproof workshop.
• Qian Cheng learned that the Strength Clan and its allies used civilians as test subjects for a Soul Bone technique with a one-percent success rate.

Qian Cheng slaughtered his way through the Strength Clan’s underground processing factory and reached the surveillance room, while Tai Lu Shan desperately alerted Tai Heng. The chapter ended with Qian Cheng killing Tai Lu Shan and dismissing the clan’s motive as a fight over a low-grade Secret Method Soul Bone.

• Tai Lu Shan contacted Tai Zhong and reported that an intruder had killed the warehouse guards and released the captives.
• Tai Heng and Niu Lang discussed increasing production by abducting vagrants and beggars before Tai Zhong brought news of the attack.
• Tai Heng heard Tai Lu Shan’s panicked report, but the communicator went silent when Qian Cheng broke into the surveillance room.
• Tai Lu Shan begged Qian Cheng for mercy and blamed Tai Heng, but Qian Cheng killed him with a single strike.
• Qian Cheng learned the Strength Clan had killed people over a Secret Method Soul Bone worth less than ten thousand years and expressed disdain.

After Qian Cheng threatened the Strength Clan, Tai Heng recalled his clan members and prepared for battle. Meanwhile, Yang Li reached Shrek City after fleeing for seven days and told Du Weilun that Spirit Hall had been restored and the Breaking Clan had been wiped out.

• Qian Cheng identified himself to Tai Heng and warned that the Strength Clan would be next.
• Tai Heng ordered all Strength Clan members to return and prepare their Soul Tools for battle.
• Yang Li arrived at Shrek City's gates exhausted, repeating that Spirit Hall had been restored.
• Du Weilun recognized the Breaking Clan's energy in Yang Li's spear and questioned her.
• Yang Li told Du Weilun that Spirit Hall had returned and killed Brother Shan, Xiao Bai, Niu Ma, and the others.
• Du Weilun took Yang Li into Shrek City to bring her to the academy.

Yang Li reached Shrek City after a massacre at Jialing Pass, warning that Spirit Hall had returned. Her sudden self-destruction left Shrek Academy’s elders uncertain about the enemy and debating how to respond.

• Du Weilun brought the terrified Yang Li to a reception room and summoned Yan Shaozhe and Xuanzi.
• Yang Li warned that Spirit Hall had returned and said Taishan, Baiyu, and Niu Ma were dead, but could not explain what had happened.
• When Yan Shaozhe used Soul Power to calm Yang Li, an implanted force triggered her self-destruction, and Xuanzi shielded the others from the blast.
• Xuanzi and Yan Shaozhe concluded that a powerful enemy had attacked Jialing Pass and deliberately prevented Shrek from learning the truth.
• Xuanzi convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting, where the elders considered possible Spirit Hall remnants and debated how to investigate without provoking the Sun Moon Empire.

Shrek Academy sent Yan Shaozhe to assemble an investigation team led by Lexuan to look into the crisis at Jialing Pass. Meanwhile, Qian Cheng reached the Strength Clan’s residence and slaughtered the clan members gathered at its gates.

• Xuanzi agreed to send Lexuan and several tournament contestants to investigate the four clans and ordered Yan Shaozhe to keep watch on Jialing Pass.
• Qian Cheng arrived at the Strength Clan’s mountain estate after destroying the processing plant.
• Several collateral members of the Strength Clan mocked Qian Cheng and boasted about the clan’s power as he approached.
• Qian Cheng killed the young men with black lightning, including the one who tried to flee into the compound.

Qian Cheng stormed the Strength Clan estate and confronted Tai Heng over the clan’s crimes. After Tai Sha attacked him, Qian Cheng killed him with black lightning, leaving Tai Heng stunned and devastated.

• Qian Cheng slaughtered the guards and disciples at the Strength Clan gates as he entered the estate.
• Tai Heng learned that Qian Cheng had destroyed the clan’s processing plant and killed Tai Lu Shan, then went out to confront him with Niu Lang.
• Qian Cheng said he had come to train beasts and called the Strength Clan members dogs and slaves who needed to be taught their place.
• Tai Sha swore revenge for his brother, released his Martial Soul, and charged at Qian Cheng.
• Qian Cheng struck Tai Sha with black lightning, which made his body explode in front of Tai Heng and the Strength Clan disciples.

Qian Cheng confronted Tai Heng over the Strength Clan's contempt for ordinary people and crushed Tai Heng's ninth spirit skill with a single slap. Tai Heng survived the blow beneath a collapsed pavilion, while Niu Lang watched and assessed Qian Cheng's strength.

• Tai Heng revealed his nine spirit rings, transformed into an armored black gorilla, and declared that ordinary people existed to serve the Strength Clan.
• Tai Heng attacked Qian Cheng with his ninth spirit skill, Titan Nova, while Niu Lang watched from the sidelines.
• Qian Cheng struck Tai Heng with a black-lit slap that shattered Titan Nova and sent him crashing into a pavilion.
• Niu Lang wondered whether his superior defense could withstand Qian Cheng's attack.
• Qian Cheng sensed that Tai Heng had survived, despite the force of the blow.

Qian Cheng continued destroying the Strength Clan after defeating Tai Heng, killing the clansmen who tried to rescue their leader. Niu Lang stepped forward to plead for the ordinary clansmen and wagered that he could withstand one of Qian Cheng’s slaps, then activated his martial soul as Qian Cheng attacked.

• Qian Cheng cleared the rubble from Tai Heng and taunted him while declaring that the Strength Clan would be destroyed.
• The Strength Clan’s descendants charged at Qian Cheng to save Tai Heng, but he killed them before they could reach him.
• Niu Lang worried that leaving would make him seem complicit and asked Qian Cheng to spare the Strength Clan’s ordinary members.
• Niu Lang wagered that he could withstand one slap from Qian Cheng, who immediately attacked him.
• Niu Lang activated his martial soul, and his body transformed as Qian Cheng’s overwhelming force struck.