Recaps

Yue Zhengen mobilized the Southern Legion to secure the South Sea Giant Tower and explore it before rival factions could claim its rewards. He left for the island with special operations troops as the fleet sailed to establish a security zone.

• The Southern Legion’s officers discussed the tower as an opportunity for the Yue Family to gain power and possibly pursue godhood.
• Yue Zhengen ordered the First Fleet to secure the waters around the Giant Tower, the Second Fleet to block nearby sea lanes, and the Third Fleet to guard the rear.
• Yue Zhengen ordered the South Sea Fleet’s Third Detachment to establish a security zone and assigned two special operations battalions to accompany him onto the island.
• Yue Zhengen summoned three Titled Douluo elders and ordered intelligence officers to investigate the other factions’ forces and leaders without causing a stir.
• The fleet weighed anchor, and Yue Zhengen boarded the flagship to lead the expedition.

Yue Zhengen led the Southern Legion to the South Sea, where Shrek Academy and the Spirit Pagoda had gathered around the Miracle Giant Tower. He proposed that the Legion receive forty percent of the tower entry slots, but Xu Shengqun challenged the split, leaving negotiations unresolved.

• Yue Zhengen ordered his fleet toward the South Sea after learning that the Miracle Giant Tower had appeared there.
• Yue Zhengen landed on the island with the Special Operations Brigade and confronted Zhuo Shi and Xu Shengqun's groups.
• Zhuo Shi objected to Yue Zhengen treating the South Sea as the Southern Legion's territory, while Xu Shengqun explained that the factions had come to investigate the tower.
• Yue Zhengen proposed that the Southern Legion take forty percent of the tower entry slots, with Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda receiving thirty percent each.
• Xu Shengqun argued that the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek deserved a larger share because they had divine powers presiding over them.

Xu Shengqun, Zhuo Shi, and Yue Zhengen agreed to divide the forces' shares while waiting for the Giant Tower to appear at midnight. When the tower rose from the sea, its skeletal dragon guardian appeared, and an inscription announced strict entry requirements that excluded the older experts.

• Xu Shengqun and Zhuo Shi accepted Yue Zhengen's proposed division of forty, thirty, and thirty percent, agreeing that whoever claimed anything inside the tower would keep it.
• Yue Zhengen explained that the Giant Tower emerged from the sea only on the night of a full moon, and the three groups camped separately while they waited.
• At midnight, a golden, seven-story tower rose from a vortex beneath the moon, and a skeletal dragon on its roof released a roar that disrupted everyone's Soul Power.
• Golden script appeared above the tower gates, allowing only people under Soul Emperor rank and younger than fifty to enter the first floor.
• The gathered experts realized the age restriction barred the Titled Douluo present, who were all over a hundred years old.

Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun challenged the Prison King Dragon after he refused to waive the Star Dragon Tower’s age limit. Their coordinated attacks damaged his axe and horn, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Xu Shengqun asked the Prison King Dragon to make an exception to the tower’s age rule, but the guardian refused and offered to let the victors change every rule if they defeated him.
• Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun agreed to attack the Prison King Dragon together.
• Yue Zhengen struck with his Holy Sword, Zhuo Shi charged with dragon fire, and Xu Shengqun supported them with a shield and a spear of light.
• The Prison King Dragon blocked their attacks with Death God’s Axe, forcing Zhuo Shi back and deflecting Xu Shengqun’s spear.
• Xu Shengqun bound the Prison King Dragon with chains of light, and Yue Zhengen used the opening to carve a mark into the dragon’s horn with his Holy Sword.
• The Prison King Dragon broke the chains and began to take the three men’s coordinated attacks seriously.

Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun fought the Prison King Dragon on the tidal flats, but the dragon turned their coordinated attacks against them. After absorbing their holy power and strengthening his darkness, he unleashed another devastating assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Prison King Dragon wounded a Southern Legion Titled Douluo with his tail and killed two Shrek disciples with Dragon Tsunami.
• Yue Zhengen stopped Zhuo Shi from charging recklessly, and Zhuo Shi transformed into his Red Armored Dragon True Body to anchor the formation.
• Xu Shengqun suppressed the Prison King Dragon with Myriad Spirits Heavenly Domain while Yue Zhengen trapped him with Myriad Feather Divine Judgment Prison.
• The Prison King Dragon activated Demon Array and drained Soul Power as Zhuo Shi attacked with Myriad Flames Dragon Devour.
• Xu Shengqun's Heavenly Sacred Judgment split the Prison King Dragon's back, but the dragon absorbed its holy power and corroded Xu Shengqun's right arm.
• The Prison King Dragon unleashed Dragon Tsunami downward and sent dark spikes across the battlefield, while Yue Zhengen used Judgment Light to target his eye sockets.

Zhuo Shi, Yue Zhengen, and Xu Shengqun failed to defeat the Prison King Dragon and suffered heavy losses. Faced with the dragon’s demand to follow its rules or die, Xu Shengqun bowed and apologized, and Yue Zhengen silently accepted.

• Zhuo Shi unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill against the Prison King Dragon, but the dragon endured the attack and countered; Yue Zhengen intercepted its tail strike, and Zhuo Shi was thrown into the sea.
• The Prison King Dragon roared at the surviving Soul Masters and declared, “Rules or death.”
• Yue Zhengen weighed the party’s losses and realized that continuing to fight could kill him, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun.
• Xu Shengqun stepped forward, bowed to the Prison King Dragon, and apologized for offending it.
• Yue Zhengen suppressed his anger, folded his wings, and tacitly accepted Xu Shengqun’s apology.

After the Prison King Dragon opened the Star Dragon Tower, Yue Zhengen claimed all one hundred entry slots for the Southern Legion, the Spirit Pagoda, and Shrek. Wang Haoxuan, a newly ascended Second-Level God from the Tiandou Federation, arrived to challenge Yue Zhengen’s authority, leaving the allocation disputed.

• The Prison King Dragon opened the Star Dragon Tower and announced that only one hundred people could enter.
• Yue Zhengen divided the slots among the Southern Legion, the Spirit Pagoda, and Shrek, then ordered everyone else to leave.
• Independent Soul Masters resented Yue Zhengen’s decision but did not dare oppose him.
• Wang Haoxuan arrived and told Yue Zhengen that the allocation still warranted discussion.
• Yue Zhengen challenged Wang Haoxuan’s right to come to the South Sea, saying it lay within the Sun-Moon Federation’s defense zone.

Wang Haoxuan arrived at the South Sea Giant Tower and demanded that the Tiandou Federation receive a share of the tower-challenge places, forcing Yue Zhengen to confront the challenge of another god. As Yue Zhengen struggled to contain his anger, the Southern Legion's fleet appeared and advanced toward the tower.

• Wang Haoxuan challenged Yue Zhengen's attempt to exclude other cultivators and declared that the Tiandou Federation deserved a share of the opportunity.
• Wang Haoxuan demanded thirty of the hundred tower-challenge places, while insisting that unaffiliated cultivators should also receive a chance.
• Yue Zhengen objected that the South Sea belonged to the Sun-Moon Federation but recognized he could not safely refuse a Second-Level God.
• As Yue Zhengen silently seethed over the humiliation, a fleet of Southern Legion warships appeared on the horizon and headed toward the Star Dragon Tower.

Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun stood against Wang Haoxuan as the Sun-Moon Federation's Southern Legion brought its fleet alongside Star Dragon Tower. The confrontation ended with Xu Shengqun threatening to close the Spirit Pagoda's branches in the Tiandou Federation.

• The Sun-Moon Federation captain ordered the Southern Legion's warships to advance toward Star Dragon Tower.
• Yue Zhengen saw his old subordinates arriving with the fleet and cursed Wang Haoxuan for throwing his weight around.
• Wang Haoxuan restrained his anger after realizing he faced the Southern Legion as well as Yue Zhengen.
• Zhuo Shi joined Yue Zhengen and challenged Wang Haoxuan to kill him, warning that the Tiandou Federation would pay for it.
• Xu Shengqun stepped forward and threatened to close every Spirit Pagoda branch in the Tiandou Federation.

Wang Haoxuan was cornered by Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun, who threatened him with military force, Shrek’s strength, and the Spirit Pagoda’s withdrawal. Yue Zhengen offered an equal division of the South Sea Giant Tower’s slots, leaving Wang Haoxuan to weigh whether to accept.

• Xu Shengqun warned Wang Haoxuan that the Spirit Pagoda could withdraw from the Tiandou Federation, leaving Wang unable to attack or retreat without serious consequences.
• The Prison King Dragon watched Wang Haoxuan’s humiliation with amusement as Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, and Xu Shengqun stood together against him.
• Wang Haoxuan asked Yue Zhengen what he wanted, and Yue decided to negotiate rather than risk an all-out war.
• Yue Zhengen proposed that the Sun-Moon Federation, the Tiandou Federation, Shrek, and the Spirit Pagoda each receive twenty-five slots in the South Sea Giant Tower.
• Wang Haoxuan recognized the offer as a significant concession and considered whether to accept the equal split.

Yue Zhengen and Wang Haoxuan concealed their plans while the factions argued over access to the Star Dragon Tower. After the Prison King Dragon warned that the tower would soon disappear, four leaders and their hundred selected elites entered, and the tower sank beneath the sea.

• Yue Zhengen and Wang Haoxuan each privately planned to seize the Star Dragon Tower for their own faction.
• The Prison King Dragon reminded everyone that the Star Dragon Tower appeared only on the full moon and would soon conceal itself.
• Yue Zhengen, Zhuo Shi, Xu Shengqun, and Wang Haoxuan each selected twenty-five people and secretly urged their strongest team members to claim Immortal Herbs and Divine Ore, even by killing rivals.
• The Prison King Dragon opened the tower gates, and the four leaders charged inside with their hundred elites.
• The Star Dragon Tower closed its gates and sank beneath the sea, leaving no sign that it would reappear.

A wounded Southern Legion Soul Emperor emerged from the Star Dragon Tower carrying a Storage Soul Tool, but a Tiandou Federation Soul Master killed him and passed it to Wang Haoxuan, who claimed it contained a Divine Artifact. Yue Zhengen ordered the Southern Legion to fire, but Wang Haoxuan shielded himself and the retreating Tiandou fleet, then brought the artifact to the flagship's command room.

• A wounded Southern Legion Soul Emperor escaped the Star Dragon Tower and tried to hand Yue Zhengen a Storage Soul Tool.
• A Tiandou Federation Soul Master stabbed the Southern Legion soldier, took the Storage Soul Tool, and threw it to Wang Haoxuan, declaring that it held a Divine Artifact.
• Yue Zhengen ordered the Southern Legion's ironclad warships to open fire on Wang Haoxuan.
• Wang Haoxuan blocked the artillery with his divine power and ordered the Tiandou Federation navy to withdraw to safe waters.
• Wang Haoxuan carried the Storage Soul Tool into the flagship's command room and set it on the table before the deputy commander of the Second Fleet's Soul Master Garrison Corps.

Wang Haoxuan questioned the deputy commander about the Divine Artifact found in the Star Dragon Tower, and the deputy recounted the expedition’s first two trials. The chapter ended with a Shrek Academy Inner Court student grabbing the flag on the second floor and fleeing as the four factions moved to stop him.

• Wang Haoxuan pressed the deputy commander to confirm the Divine Artifact and explain what had happened to the people who entered the tower.
• The deputy commander reported that the four factions joined forces to defeat the monsters in the first trial and received various rewards.
• The four factions found the second floor empty except for a black flag bearing ancient divine patterns, then agreed to send one person from each group to inspect it.
• An Inner Court student from Shrek Academy touched the flag, activated his Soul Power and Battle Armor, and tried to escape with it.
• The elites of all four factions rushed after the student to stop him.

A divine artifact sparks a chaotic fight in the tower after Shrek’s student realizes it offers a path to godhood. Wang Haoxuan learns the artifact is the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner, a blood-soaked method of forcing someone into godhood, and is left weighing its monstrous cost against the Federation’s need for another god.

• A Shrek student seized the banner, triggering a battle as the other factions fought to claim it.
• The deputy commander told Wang Haoxuan that the divine artifact could let someone achieve godhood.
• Wang Haoxuan touched the Storage Soul Tool and received the banner’s instructions, learning it required mass blood sacrifice to create a godhood Dao fruit.
• Wang Haoxuan learned that anyone who used the fruit would become a weakened Second-Level God with a soul corrupted by blood fiends and flimsy foundations.
• Wang Haoxuan considered the Federation’s many Limit Douluo who could not achieve godhood and remained conflicted over the banner’s value.

Wang Haoxuan brought the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner back to the Tiandou Federation and considered the cost of using it to create another god. A month later, he revealed it to Dai Tianling and En Ci, whose reactions showed that the artifact affected them both profoundly.

• Wang Haoxuan decided the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner would remain in the Tiandou Federation, despite its price of sacrificing 99,999 beings who had died violent deaths.
• Wang Haoxuan returned with the fleet to the Heaven Dou Continent and watched the citizens before withdrawing to his cabin.
• One month later, Wang Haoxuan met Dai Tianling and En Ci in the Star Luo Empire's Imperial Palace, where En Ci mocked his status as a god and his theft from the Sun-Moon Federation.
• Wang Haoxuan opened his Storage Soul Tool and revealed the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner to Dai Tianling and En Ci.
• Dai Tianling was transfixed by the banner, and En Ci froze after grabbing its shaft.

Wang Haoxuan urged Dai Tianling and En Ci to use the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner to fight for their nations’ survival against the Sun-Moon Federation. After Wang Haoxuan left, Dai Tianling and En Ci acknowledged the threat but remained alone to consider the Star Luo Empire’s options.

• Wang Haoxuan argued that the Sun-Moon Federation vastly outmatched the Star Luo Empire and Tiandou Federation, and said he would fight rather than regret letting his country fall.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci privately exchanged a look, then En Ci asked Wang Haoxuan to wait in a side hall while they discussed the matter.
• Wang Haoxuan left, believing the Star Luo Empire had no other path to take.
• Dai Tianling told En Ci he could not refute Wang Haoxuan’s argument, and En Ci agreed.
• En Ci listed the Sun-Moon Federation’s institutions and military legions as evidence of the pressure facing the Star Luo Empire.

En Ci persuaded Dai Tianling that the Star Luo Empire had to risk everything to overcome its weakness, and Dai agreed to join the plan involving the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner. Wang Haoxuan revealed that the banner required a mass blood sacrifice and proposed using war to supply its victims.

• En Ci warned Dai Tianling that the Star Luo Empire lacked the talent and strength to rival the Sun-Moon Federation, and urged him to join the gamble.
• Dai Tianling agreed to stake the empire’s future and summoned Wang Haoxuan to discuss the banner.
• Wang Haoxuan explained that the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner could refine a Dao Fruit capable of raising a Second-Level God, but required countless deaths.
• Wang Haoxuan assured Dai Tianling and En Ci that neither empire’s citizens would be sacrificed, then proposed starting a war to gather the deaths and blood the banner required.

Wang Haoxuan persuaded En Ci and Dai Tianling to ally the Star Luo Empire with the Tiandou Federation, using wars to create divine godhood Dao fruits and weaken the Sun-Moon Federation. The alliance was agreed, and Wang Haoxuan offered Star Luo the first Dao fruit while asking Tiandou to receive the second.

• Wang Haoxuan proposed attacking the Green Skull resistance organization to refine the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner and create a god for their camp.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci discussed the Sun-Moon Federation’s internal divisions and concluded that its factions could be kept occupied while the allies fought at the mortal level.
• Wang Haoxuan outlined a plan to accumulate and conceal divine godhood Dao fruits, then use them together to cripple the Federation.
• Dai Tianling formally allied the Star Luo Empire with the Tiandou Federation and agreed to follow Wang Haoxuan’s plans.
• Wang Haoxuan entrusted the Myriad Spirits Blood Fiend Banner to En Ci for safekeeping and offered Star Luo the first divine godhood Dao fruit in exchange for Tiandou receiving the second.

En Ci refused Wang Haoxuan’s offer of the first Dao Fruit, warning Dai Tianling that it would turn a promising Limit Douluo into a stagnant false god and let the Tiandou Federation gauge Star Luo’s potential. With war approaching, En Ci and Dai Tianling decided to eradicate the Green Skull Resistance Organization and its court supporters.

• En Ci declined Wang Haoxuan’s offer, and Wang Haoxuan said he would return in a week to strike with them and condense the first Dao Fruit.
• En Ci explained to Dai Tianling that consuming the Blood Fiend Dao Fruit would ruin a potential independent god and allow the Tiandou Federation to assess Star Luo’s strength.
• En Ci and Dai Tianling agreed that the Green Skull Resistance Organization had to be destroyed before war began, despite having previously allowed it to exist as a way to contain society’s dark elements.
• Dai Tianling said he knew Green Skull’s court supporters had used the organization to amass wealth and build private factions, and agreed to eliminate them.
• En Ci ordered the Offering Hall to deploy covertly while Dai Tianling mobilized troops, with plans to seize Green Skull’s supporters within three days and attack its lair within five.

Chen Xinjie summoned five Limit Douluos to discuss signs that the Tiandou Federation and Star Luo Empire were preparing for war. Their military movements gave the Sun-Moon Federation reason to take precautions, though Chen Xinjie could not determine whether they intended to attack.

• Chen Xinjie reflected on the threats and political pressures confronting the Sun-Moon Federation as he handled government affairs.
• Guan Yue, Ao Rui, Long Tianwu, Dong Zi'an, and Yin Moshang arrived after Chen Xinjie summoned them.
• Chen Xinjie told the five that intelligence from the military and Tang Sect suggested the Tiandou Federation and Star Luo Empire might strike.
• Dong Zi'an dismissed the two rival powers, while Guan Yue asked whether the intelligence was reliable.
• Chen Xinjie showed the five a map documenting fleet movements, troops gathering near borders, and supplies being assembled, and said the Federation had to prepare for the possibility of war.

Chen Xinjie prepared the Sun-Moon Federation for possible war and gave its five strongest fighters his insights into attaining godhood. At Shrek Academy, Yun Ming reassured a guilt-ridden Zhuo Shi after the deaths of disciples in the South Sea.

• Chen Xinjie ordered Dong Zi'an and Yin Moshang to station troops from the Western and Northwestern Legions in Ming Capital and told Guan Yue to prepare the War God Temple.
• Guan Yue suggested that Wang Haoxuan had involved the Star Luo Empire to help protect the Star Dragon Tower, but Chen Xinjie insisted that the Federation remain ready for war.
• Chen Xinjie gave Dong Zi'an, Yin Moshang, Guan Yue, Ao Rui, and the fifth council member booklets containing his insights into attaining godhood and urged the five to grow stronger quickly.
• At Shrek Academy, Yun Ming told Zhuo Shi that the deaths of the disciples who had gone to the South Sea were not his fault and that they had known the risks.

Zhuo Shi broke down over the deaths of twenty-five disciples at the Star Dragon Tower, but Yun Ming urged him to live on and protect Shrek. Ya Li returned from seclusion close to godhood, while Yun Ming faced the truth that Shrek had lost its former power and could no longer act without restraint.

• Zhuo Shi confessed his guilt to Yun Ming over the deaths of Shrek members in repeated attacks and the loss of twenty-five disciples at the Star Dragon Tower.
• Yun Ming told Zhuo Shi to honor the dead by living on and protecting Shrek, and Zhuo Shi vowed to keep the academy safe.
• Ya Li entered the Sea God Pavilion, revealed that she had not reached godhood but felt the barrier beginning to loosen, and Yun Ming urged her to focus on her breakthrough.
• Zhuo Shi left the pavilion in grief, and Ya Li told Yun Ming that he needed to work through his loss on his own.
• Yun Ming reflected on the Golden Ancient Tree’s loss, Shrek’s humiliation by Doulong Technology, and the Holy Spirit Cult’s bombardment, recognizing that Shrek was no longer the world’s greatest power.

Yun Ming planned to visit Long Yeyue’s secluded cultivation grounds after Ya Li raised concerns about her long absence. Meanwhile, the Star Luo Empire assembled a massive force on its western coast to launch a military campaign toward the Douluo Continent, with Emperor Dai Tianling and Imperial Preceptor En Ci overlooking the army.

• Ya Li asked Yun Ming whether Long Yeyue had emerged from seclusion, and Yun Ming admitted he did not know.
• Ya Li wondered whether something had happened to Long Yeyue, but Yun Ming believed she might be waiting for an opportunity.
• Yun Ming told Ya Li he would personally visit Long Yeyue’s secluded cultivation grounds after Ya Li returned to seclusion, and Ya Li agreed.
• The Star Luo Empire assembled mecha battalions, Soul Master divisions, Soul Engineers, and support troops at its largest naval port for an expedition to the Douluo Continent.
• A general rallied the assembled troops, who roared that they would follow him into battle.
• Emperor Dai Tianling and Imperial Preceptor En Ci stood on the command platform overlooking the million-strong army.