Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunji met Jing Hongchen and offered him powerful cultivation methods in exchange for loyalty and faith power. Jing Hongchen accepted, and Qian Xunji assigned him to recruit soul engineers while teaching him how to manufacture Black-Rank Mecha.

• Jing Hongchen questioned Qian Xunji’s identity and reacted with shock when Qian Xunji told him to acknowledge him as master.
• Qian Xunji gave Jing Hongchen the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill and the first nine levels of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill, explaining their benefits and correcting his beliefs about their origins.
• Jing Hongchen read the methods and asked to teach them to his grandchildren, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen; Qian Xunji allowed it for anyone who acknowledged him and provided faith power.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Qian Xunji was pursuing godhood, and Qian Xunji offered him the Ten Tribulations Godhood Method in exchange for absolute loyalty.
• Jing Hongchen swore to serve Qian Xunji, who declared his intention to rule the Sun Moon Continent and tasked Jing Hongchen with recruiting soul engineers.
• Qian Xunji used Tsukuyomi to teach Jing Hongchen the knowledge needed to manufacture Black-Rank Mecha.

Qian Xunji confronted the Sun Moon Empire’s ninth-rank Soul Engineers and powerful families, compelling them to accept his rule and abolish the noble system. After ordering reforms to improve literacy and ordinary people’s living conditions, he went alone to the Evil Demon Forest to deal with the Evil Spirit Masters.

• Qian Xunji arrived at the gathering of ninth-rank Soul Engineers, demanded their submission, and revealed that he had once been a god with the power of a level ninety-nine Quasi-God.
• Qian Xunji threatened the assembled nobles and Soul Engineers, then persuaded them that resisting him would bring death or ruin.
• The imperial Xu Family abolished the noble system and nationalized the land, while nobles who resisted were arrested and rebellions were suppressed.
• Many imperial relatives and nobles fled to the Three Douluo Kingdoms, including Crown Prince Xu Tianran and Ju Zi, but Qian Xunji dismissed them and prioritized literacy and public welfare reforms.
• Qian Xunji left alone for the Evil Demon Forest to confront the Evil Spirit Masters.

Qian Xunji killed the Evil Emperor and began fighting Long Xiaoyao after Ye Xishui sent him to eliminate Qian Xunji. Their battle devastated Evil Demon Forest, and the outcome remained undecided.

• Qian Xunji killed the Evil Emperor, drained his power, collected his remains, and captured his soul in the Human Emperor Banner.
• Qian Xunji searched for the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters while Ye Xishui learned the Evil Emperor had fallen and asked Long Xiaoyao to kill him.
• Long Xiaoyao left to fight Qian Xunji, despite Zhongli Wu's concern that he should not face Qian Xunji alone.
• Qian Xunji attacked Long Xiaoyao with a Yellow Heaven Nuclear Strike Palm, and Long Xiaoyao countered with Silent Dark Domain and Black Dragon Devours Heaven.
• Their attacks collided in a massive explosion that devastated Evil Demon Forest and filled the sky with Spirit Rings.

Qian Xunji overwhelmed Long Xiaoyao in the scorched Evil Demon Forest, torturing him before transforming him into a woman. Ye Xishui and her family arrived to find the forest destroyed and Long Xiaoyao changed into a beautiful woman.

• Qian Xunji chased Long Xiaoyao through the Evil Demon Forest, burning him with Sun True Fire while collecting Spirit Beast remains and souls.
• Qian Xunji froze Long Xiaoyao’s meridians, making him fall unconscious onto the scorched ground.
• Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu, and Feng Ling arrived at the destroyed forest after Ye Xishui lost contact with Long Xiaoyao.
• Qian Xunji seized Long Xiaoyao and cut off his manhood, jolting him awake with the pain.
• Qian Xunji transformed Long Xiaoyao into a woman, and Zhongli Wu recognized him as Aunt Long.

Qian Xunji transformed Long Xiaoyao into a woman, sealed her martial abilities, and forced Zhongli Wu to train her while Ye Xishui and Feng Ling watched. The Holy Spirit Cult family witnessed Qian Xunji’s overwhelming power, and Ye Xishui grew furious as Zhongli Wu approached Long Xiaoyao.

• Long Xiaoyao begged Ye Xishui to kill her after Qian Xunji turned her into a woman, and Qian Xunji sealed her martial soul and Soul Power.
• Qian Xunji identified Ye Xishui, Feng Ling, and Zhongli Wu, then blasted a mountain apart with a casual Yellow Heaven Palm.
• Qian Xunji ordered Zhongli Wu to train Long Xiaoyao and used his aura to make the Holy Spirit Cult trio kneel.
• Zhongli Wu approached Long Xiaoyao while Qian Xunji faced Ye Xishui and Feng Ling.
• Ye Xishui watched Zhongli Wu and Long Xiaoyao together and grew enraged, thinking of it as a mother and son sharing a bedmate.

Qian Xunji forced Ye Xishui to evacuate the Evil Spirit Masters from the Sun Moon Continent, marking her family so he could track them and taking the Holy Spirit Cult’s treasure and souls. He then ordered the former Evil Demon Forest turned into farmland, while the cult’s followers began fleeing to the Douluo Continent.

• Qian Xunji placed Yellow Heaven Marks on Ye Xishui, Feng Ling, and Zhongli Wu, then gave Ye Xishui three months to remove the Evil Spirit Masters from the Sun Moon Continent.
• Qian Xunji slaughtered the nameless Evil Spirit Masters at the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, collected their souls, looted its wealth, and destroyed its underground main altar.
• Ye Xishui accepted that she had to obey Qian Xunji and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult’s followers to leave for the Douluo Continent.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s mass departure reduced crime across the Sun Moon Continent, though the cult was not completely eradicated.
• Qian Xunji told Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and the others to turn the former Evil Demon Forest into a granary.

After mastering Transformation Magic, Qian Xunji traveled to the Far North to subdue Snow Empress, whose 700,000-year tribulation was approaching. He effortlessly blocked her ultimate sword strike, and Ice Empress arrived to find Snow Empress confronting him.

• Qian Xunji gave Jing Hongchen alchemy and rocket-manufacturing materials, then secluded himself to cultivate Transformation Magic.
• Three months later, Qian Xunji mastered the spell and flew from Mingdu toward the Far North, killing flying Spirit Beasts along the way.
• Snow Empress lamented that she lacked the strength to survive her coming 700,000-year heavenly tribulation when Qian Xunji appeared and demanded she serve him.
• Snow Empress attacked Qian Xunji with Emperor Sword, Glacial Extremity Unrivaled, but he stopped the strike with one finger and absorbed its energy.
• Ice Empress arrived to see Snow Empress confronting Qian Xunji, took a combat stance, and protested when he called her a green scorpion.

Qian Xunji forced Ice Empress to submit by helping her survive her 400,000-year tribulation, then made her his contracted beast and gave her cultivation techniques. He turned to Snow Empress and told her it was her turn.

• Ice Empress questioned Qian Xunji and offered to submit if he could help her survive her 400,000-year tribulation, while making clear she would not become anyone’s wife.
• Qian Xunji summoned the heavenly tribulation, repeatedly healed Ice Empress after each strike, and kept her alive through four days and nights of tribulation Lightning.
• After the tribulation ended, Ice Empress signed Qian Xunji’s master-servant contract and became his contracted beast.
• Qian Xunji healed Ice Empress and taught her Ice Shaping Magic and the complete Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill, winning her admiration.
• Qian Xunji told Snow Empress that it was her turn.

Qian Xunji disguised the Ice Empress and effortlessly subdued A-Tai and Xiao Bai while the Snow Empress faced her Heavenly Tribulation. After healing the Snow Empress only enough to make her sign a contract, he restored her fully and assigned her to make pickled vegetables by stepping on them.

• Qian Xunji transformed the Ice Empress into a little girl resembling Mu Ningxue and concealed her Spirit Beast aura.
• A-Tai and Xiao Bai arrived to watch the Snow Empress's tribulation, but Qian Xunji transformed them into steel washbasins and stored them away.
• Qian Xunji swallowed a bolt of Tribulation Lightning and used his Recovery Technique to heal the Snow Empress during her seven-day tribulation.
• After the Snow Empress was gravely wounded, Qian Xunji stopped healing her until she signed his magical contract.
• Qian Xunji fully healed the Snow Empress, taught her how to pickle vegetables, and ordered her to press them beneath her feet.

Qian Xunji stripped the Far North of its Spirit Beasts and spirit plants before flying to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to claim its treasures. He entered the protected spring grounds, where the hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herb Spirit Beasts confronted him.

• Ice Empress complained that Qian Xunji wanted Snow Empress's foot-stomped pickled cabbage but not hers, and he explained that Snow Empress was a spirit born of heaven and earth.
• Qian Xunji transformed the Far North's Spirit Beasts into little bugs and took them away, uprooted every spirit plant, and left the region barren.
• The Douluo Plane Consciousness watched Qian Xunji depart and considered approaching him to obtain his methods and grow stronger.
• Qian Xunji found the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest and passed through Tang San's Jade-Scale Seven-Extremes Flower poison formation.
• Qian Xunji entered the spring grounds, where wary hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herb Spirit Beasts challenged him as an intruder.

Qian Xunji cleared the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, captured its sentient plants and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and set Sunset Forest ablaze while fighting the dragons. The banner became a divine-grade martial soul, while Tang San and the Douluo Plane Consciousness reacted to Qian Xunji’s growing power; Qian Xunji then discovered something unusual as he continued digging.

• Qian Xunji collected the sentient plants around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and excavated most of the site.
• Qian Xunji taunted the residual souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, then used his Pure Yang Force Field to set Sunset Forest ablaze.
• Qian Xunji pierced the Ice Dragon King’s and Fire Dragon King’s souls and captured them in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, upgrading it to a divine-grade martial soul.
• Tang San saw Qian Xunji’s power from Heaven Dou City and feared the reborn figure he believed was the fake Asura God.
• The Douluo Plane Consciousness worried that Qian Xunji’s destruction of Spirit Beast habitats would upset the plane’s balance and coveted his ability to wield its power.
• Qian Xunji continued digging at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and discovered something unusual.

Qian Xunji discovered the Angel Holy Sword and Rakshasa Demon Scythe beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, then captured the divine souls of Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue in his Ten Thousand Soul Banner. He left for Haotian with both divine artifacts while the Evil Emperor and Evil Eye Clan tormented the mother and daughter with illusions.

• Qian Xunji unearthed an underground chamber beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and found the Angel Holy Sword and Rakshasa Demon Scythe.
• Bibi Dong appeared and demanded that Qian Xunji accept the Rakshasa God Trial, but he enraged her with taunts and burned her divine soul with his Pure Yang Astral Force.
• Qian Xunji used the Ten Thousand Soul Banner to bind Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue emerged from the Angel Holy Sword to demand her mother's release.
• Qian Xunji mocked Qian Renxue before drawing both mother and daughter into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Evil Emperor and Evil Eye Clan to torment Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue with illusions, claimed the two divine artifacts, and left for Haotian.

Qian Xunji killed Da Ming and captured his soul before destroying Clear Sky Castle with Er Ming inside. Er Ming survived the blast, but Qian Xunji immediately moved to take his soul as well.

• Da Ming left Clear Sky Sect for Sunset Forest and encountered Qian Xunji in midair.
• Qian Xunji pierced Da Ming with Yellow Heaven Finger, extracted his soul, and trapped it in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Qian Xunji healed Da Ming’s body, transformed it into a little ant, and stored it away.
• Qian Xunji destroyed Clear Sky Castle with Nuclear Strike Palm while Er Ming was inside, killing the sect’s disciples.
• Er Ming emerged from the rubble, and Qian Xunji used Soul-Shifting Great Method on him.

Qian Xunji wiped out the Clear Sky Sect, transformed the young Tang San, and returned to Sun Moon Continent. Meanwhile, Mu En worried that the burning Sunset Forest would deprive Shrek Academy of the herbs it needed to produce Limit Douluo powerhouses.

• Qian Xunji beat Er Ming's soul and kicked it into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner alongside the souls of the Clear Sky Sect's dead, then left with everything useful from the ruins.
• Flying past Heaven Dou City, Qian Xunji spotted the nine-year-old Tang San and used Transformation Magic to give him enormous breasts and alter his body.
• Tang San ran home, discovered his transformation, and angrily vowed revenge while lamenting that he could not afford treatment.
• Qian Xunji left Tang San and returned to Sun Moon Continent as news of the Clear Sky Sect's destruction spread across the continent.
• Mu En learned that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed and worried that the still-burning Sunset Forest would cost Shrek Academy its supply of Immortal Herbs and medicinal plants.

Jing Hongchen relocated the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and Illustrious Virtue Hall to Purple Thorn Mountain, while Qian Xunji ordered the construction of an ecological battleship from Da Ming’s body. Qian Xunji also arranged to buy grain from the three Douluo nations, prioritizing the Sun Moon Empire’s food supplies despite the likely hardship for people elsewhere.

• Jing Hongchen explained that the academy and Illustrious Virtue Hall were moving to Purple Thorn Mountain on Qian Xunji’s orders, and Xiao Hongchen reluctantly accepted that he would work on soul tool biotechnology.
• Qian Xunji ordered Kong Deming to turn Da Ming’s body into an ecological battleship and boosted his cultivation while giving him techniques to combat fatigue.
• Qian Xunji reasoned that an ecological battleship might help break the barrier trapping living beings on the Douluo Plane, and considered adding Di Tian and Lord Bear if Da Ming proved insufficient.
• Qian Xunji gave Xu Yuanzheng funds to purchase grain from the three Douluo nations, and told him that the Sun Moon Empire’s citizens took priority even if people elsewhere starved.

As grain prices soared across the continent, Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan struggled to feed their families and decided to take the children in their care to Shrek City. Elsewhere, Shrek Academy rescuers saved Wang Dong'er and Tang Wutong from slave hunters and planned to bring them to the academy.

• Sun Moon Empire Spirit Masters bought grain in bulk, driving prices sharply upward as merchants hoarded their supplies.
• Tang Ya and Tang San ate painful, bitter sawdust bread, and Tang Ya decided to take Tang San to Shrek City.
• Tang San hoped Shrek City would let him reach the Golden Ancient Tree and awaken his mother, Ah Yin.
• Jiang Nannan fed Xiao Wu sawdust bread and promised to take her to Shrek City, where she urged Xiao Wu to seek a wealthy young husband.
• Xuanzi, Yan Shaozhe, and the others rescued Wang Dong'er and Tang Wutong from slave hunters, and Yan Shaozhe proposed taking them to Shrek Academy.

Qian Xunji organized public works, issued Da Ming Banknotes, and planned to grow stronger before provoking powerful enemies. After he rejected Meng Hongchen’s dinner invitation and entered seclusion, she browsed the books in his office.

• Qian Xunji put unemployed people to work building railways and highways, then ordered the production of Da Ming Banknotes to pay them.
• Qian Xunji threatened execution for counterfeiters and war against any country that flooded the Sun Moon Empire with counterfeit currency.
• Qian Xunji considered visiting Dai Yuhao and recording his mistreatment at the White Tiger Duke’s Estate, then decided to focus on building factories and producing sawdust bread.
• Meng Hongchen invited Qian Xunji to dinner and asked whether he found cultivation boring, but he refused and teleported to a secret chamber to cultivate.
• Meng Hongchen, disappointed that Qian Xunji had left, approached his bookshelves and found books on the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, Heavenly Gang Boy Skill, and Spirit Ring Condensation Method.

Meng Hongchen borrowed the Evil-Warding Sword Technique and Heavenly Dipper Youth Skill from Qian Xunji’s office, then showed them to Xiao Hongchen, who refused to cultivate either after learning their restrictions. Qian Xunji considered how the techniques might empower women and left open the possibility of a wave of female practitioners.

• Meng Hongchen asked Snow Empress about the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, and Snow Empress said it increased sword attack and movement speed but offered no ultimate rapid mastery.
• Snow Empress told Meng Hongchen that the Heavenly Dipper Youth Skill could only be cultivated by men, and Meng borrowed both books.
• Meng Hongchen showed Xiao Hongchen the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, but he refused to castrate himself to practice it.
• Meng Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen the Heavenly Dipper Youth Skill, but he rejected its requirement to remain celibate for life.
• Meng Hongchen proposed adapting the skill’s Indestructible Body into a Soul Power technique or defensive Soul Tool, while Qian Xunji speculated that women might widely cultivate the Evil-Warding Sword Technique.

Xu Tianran and Ju Zi began cultivating the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, while Shrek Academy’s elders debated what to do with the stolen techniques and Spirit Ring method. The elders leaned toward promoting the methods within the academy, despite the risks they posed.

• Xu Tianran praised the Evil-Warding Sword Technique and imagined building an army of cultivators, but decided to lie low until he mastered the Heavenly Dipper Youth Skill.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to cultivate the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, and she resolved to use it to gain strength for avenging her parents.
• Mu En convened the Sea God Pavilion elders to discuss the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, the Heavenly Dipper Youth Skill, and the secret Spirit Ring Condensation Method.
• Cai Meier suggested promoting the techniques within Shrek Academy, and Xian Lin'er, Song Lao, Lin Huiqun, and the other women agreed.
• Xian Lin'er considered how the techniques could benefit Qian Duoduo, while Yan Shaozhe feared the Evil-Warding Sword Technique’s castration requirement.

Xian Lin'er persuaded Qian Duoduo to undergo castration so he could practice the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, promising that Zhuang Lao could reattach what was removed. Meanwhile, Tang San arrived in Shrek City and was humiliated by a commoner practicing the same technique.

• Xian Lin'er convinced Qian Duoduo that Zhuang Lao could reattach Little Qian Duoduo after he practiced the Evil-Warding Sword Technique.
• Zhuang Lao performed the removal surgery on Qian Duoduo without anesthesia and agreed to store Little Qian Duoduo safely.
• Qian Duoduo practiced the Evil-Warding Sword Technique with Xian Lin'er and became a defense-type Battle Spirit Master with agility-attack-level speed.
• Tang San arrived in Shrek City and recognized the Evil-Warding Sword Technique, but refused to consider practicing it himself.
• A sissy practicing the technique dodged Tang San's attack and cut his clothes to shreds before fleeing after discovering Tang San was a man.