Recaps

As the Holy Spirit Cult massacred Star Luo City, Shrek Academy’s leaders refused to intervene, hoping the suffering would strengthen the faith needed to revive Yun Ming. Yang Xiaotian left to help his homeland, and Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu supported him as he prepared to face the cult.

• Survivors fled Star Luo City toward Shrek Academy, while Long Yue secretly resolved to act despite the academy’s orders.
• Yang Xiaotian challenged Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue for letting the Holy Spirit Cult slaughter people, and Long Yeyue showed Yun Ming’s message explaining the plan to revive him through faith.
• Long Yeyue warned Yang Xiaotian that leaving could delay Yun Ming’s revival, but he said he could not abandon the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhuo Shi allowed Yang Xiaotian to go, and Feng Wuyu gave him the Peacock Plume to help him fight the Holy Spirit Cult.

Yang Fan arrived at the Tang Sect’s Star Luo branch to help counter the Holy Spirit Cult’s takeover of Star Luo City. He learned that Smiling Douluo had entered the city without authorization and had yet to report back.

• Deng Sha organized Tang Sect reinforcements and supplies while Long Yue returned after fighting Green Skull looters.
• Deng Sha healed Long Yue and told him the acting sect master and Federation aid were expected.
• Yang Fan appeared through a spatial curtain and proved his identity with the Tang Sect master’s token.
• Long Yue sensed a strange familiarity with Yang Fan and wondered whether he had a Dragon King Martial Soul.
• Yang Fan asked where Hu Jie was and learned that Smiling Douluo had infiltrated Star Luo City but had sent no information.
• Yang Fan grew angry that Smiling Douluo had acted without authorization and wondered whether the Level 98 Super Douluo had been captured.

Hu Jie and Old Wu set out to capture Dark Blood Demon, believing he was alone in Star Luo City. Dark Blood Demon revealed that the Tang Sect had walked into a trap, with Underworld Emperor’s true body waiting to ambush them.

• Hu Jie urged Old Wu to help him capture Dark Blood Demon and avenge Guo Xiaoxu, while Old Wu voiced his unease.
• Dark Blood Demon collected blood and souls, then prepared to face the intruders as he absorbed Dai Tianling’s soul.
• Old Wu sensed the danger and wanted to flee, but Hu Jie insisted they attack to save the emperor.
• Hu Jie ordered Old Wu to fire the signal flare, and the refugees saw the Tang Sect’s arrival as a sign that Star Luo City could be saved.
• Dark Blood Demon revealed that Underworld Emperor’s clone had gone to the Dou Ling Empire while his true body waited to ambush the Tang Sect.

Yang Fan appeared at the Star Luo Imperial Palace as the Underworld Emperor and the Dark Blood Demon overwhelmed Hu Jie and Old Wu. He faced the two Holy Spirit Cult fighters while Hu Jie recovered behind a show of weakness.

• Yang Xiaotian joined the Tang Sect's counterattack in the former capital as its fighters moved through the city.
• Old Wu and Hu Jie battled the Dark Blood Demon, but his curse weakened them as he replenished himself by devouring souls.
• The Underworld Emperor Ha Luosa struck Hu Jie from behind, and the Dark Blood Demon bound the wounded fighter with scarlet chains.
• Old Wu tried to escape with a talisman, but the Underworld Emperor severed him in half and the Dark Blood Demon captured his soul.
• Yang Fan arrived and identified himself as Error, while Hu Jie secretly recovered and the Dark Blood Demon focused on devouring Yang Fan's soul.

Yang Fan defeated the Dark Blood Demon and drove off Ha Luosa’s clone, while the surviving Dai Tianling was found inside a skull-shaped Soul Tool. Ha Luosa later revealed that he had escaped with the operation’s spoils, claiming he had not lost.

• Ha Luosa attacked Yang Fan with his Netherworld Aria, but Yang Fan stopped the strike with his Golden Dragon King’s claw and recognized that Ha Luosa was using a clone.
• Ha Luosa tried to recruit Yang Fan, but Yang Fan rejected him and challenged him to fight alongside the Dark Blood Demon.
• Yang Fan used his Monocle’s power to turn the Dark Blood Demon’s cursed souls against him, and they escaped his body and killed him.
• Ha Luosa tried to soothe the Dark Blood Demon’s departing souls with his Death Domain, but failed, then withdrew and conceded the round to Yang Fan.
• Hu Jie found Dai Tianling’s voice coming from a skull-shaped Soul Tool, and Yang Fan learned that the former emperor might still be revived.
• Ha Luosa appeared elsewhere in the imperial city and entered the Netherworld with the operation’s spoils, declaring that he had not lost.

After the Dark Blood Demon’s death, Dai Tianling prepared Dai Yun’er to take on the burden of ruling the weakened Star Luo Empire, while Yang Fan led a Tang Sect postwar meeting and ordered the recruitment of Yang Xiaotian. The chapter ended with Yang Fan wondering why Shrek Academy had not responded to the crisis.

• Dai Tianling told Dai Yun’er to prepare to shoulder the realm and gave her a secret record of compromising information she could use to keep the powerful in line.
• Dai Tianling asked Dai Yun’er what she thought of Yang Fan and decided to arrange opportunities for them to spend time together; Dai Yun’er shyly agreed.
• Yang Fan reprimanded Hu Jie for the Tang Sect’s inadequate response, then accepted Cao Dezhi’s plea for leniency and assigned Hu Jie to oversee Star Luo City’s reconstruction.
• Yang Fan ordered Hu Jie to investigate and recruit Yang Xiaotian, a former Monster Academy teacher who had carried a Tang Sect Peacock Plume.
• After the meeting, Yang Fan wondered where Shrek Academy was and whether its elders would remain unmoved by the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack.

Dai Yun'er took the throne as empress and issued an amnesty and three years of tax relief as Star Luo recovered. Yang Fan negotiated the Star Luo Empire’s return to the Federation, agreed to become Dai Yun’er’s teacher, and signed the agreement that preserved the Dai Family’s rule while placing key affairs under Federation coordination.

• Dai Yun'er was inaugurated as empress and issued a general amnesty and three years of tax reductions and exemptions.
• Yang Fan met Dai Yun'er and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had killed or consumed most of Dai Tianling’s potential heirs.
• En Ci told Yang Fan that Dai Tianling would accept the Federation’s terms if Yang Fan became Dai Yun’er’s teacher, and Yang Fan agreed.
• Yang Fan reviewed and signed the agreement restoring Star Luo Empire’s Federation membership while retaining its self-governance and cultural inheritance.
• En Ci affixed the imperial seal, and Yang Fan promised Federation help against terrorist groups and Evil Soul Masters and support for the imperial family’s governance.

The Demon Empress completed the Holy Spirit Cult’s ritual beneath the Extreme North, triggering the collapse of glaciers as she prepared to open a passage. Meanwhile, Na Nali imprisoned Yuanen Yehui and used a bell’s power to awaken the demonic presence within her Fallen Angel bloodline.

• The Ghost Emperor reported that the Holy Spirit Cult had gathered the sacrifices needed to complete its ritual, and the Demon Empress declared her intent to destroy the world that had taken everything from her.
• The Demon Empress invoked the power of heaven and earth, activating the nine-tiered altar and unleashing a purple pillar of power as the Ghost Emperor and Underworld Emperor watched.
• The Demon Empress’s ritual caused glaciers across the Extreme North to collapse and fissures to spread from her hidden cavern.
• Yuanen Yehui awoke shackled in a dungeon and learned that her captor, Na Nali, intended to use her Fallen Angel Martial Soul to open a passage to the Demon Plane.
• Na Nali used the Fear Bell to infuse Yuanen Yehui with the Fallen God's Guide, forcing her Fallen Angel bloodline to consume the power of her Titan Giant Ape Martial Soul and awaken the Lesser Demon within her.

Yuanen Yehui opened a passage to the Demon Plane and led a vast Demon Legion into the Douluo Plane, where Demon Lord Alba arrived to conquer it. A meteor attack devastated the Flying Demons, and Alba confronted the blond figure wielding the Golden Dragon Spear.

• Yuanen Yehui awakened her Fallen Angel Martial Soul, opened the Demon Passage, and transformed into a purple-gold demon as Na Nali escaped.
• Yuanen Yehui opened nine gates and summoned a Demon Legion, while nine Greater Demons stabilized the passage.
• Demon Lord Alba emerged through the gates and ordered his thirty-thousand-strong legion to slaughter and devour living beings.
• Alba sent Flying Demons to investigate the lights in the sky, but the lights proved to be meteors that struck the legion after a voice declared the Douluo Plane off-limits.
• Alba looked up and challenged a blond figure in golden dragon-scale armor who held the Golden Dragon Spear.

Yang Fan arrived at the demonic passage and used his domain and Soul Spirits to crush Alba’s invading demon army while absorbing its energy into the Plane Seed. As Alba charged him, Di Qiu'er took up the Golden Dragon Spear to confront the demon monarch.

• Yang Fan revealed his identity, restrained the demons with his domain, and sent Yuanen Yehui outside as Alba and his greater demons attacked with flames.
• Yang Fan nullified the demonic flames and explained that he had arrived after sensing the passage opening, while Alba wondered why such a powerful human was waiting for him.
• Yang Fan released Di Qiu'er, the Sen Luo Myriad Phenomena Flower, the Silver Mirror Beast, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, who slaughtered the demon army as he absorbed its energy into the Plane Seed.
• Alba charged Yang Fan to stop him from absorbing the demons, but Di Qiu'er stepped in and asked Yang Fan for the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Yang Fan handed Di Qiu'er the spear, and she thrust it toward Alba’s flaming sword after he dismissed her as an unworthy opponent.

Di Qiu'er and Yang Fan's other Soul Spirits defeated Demon Lord Alba while Yang Fan absorbed the demons' energy and advanced to rank 95. Yuanen Yehui confronted Alba over her family's deaths, and Yang Fan killed him, learning that Ujie had arranged the earlier attack.

• Di Qiu'er held back as she fought Alba, while Yang Fan channeled the demons' energy into the Tree of Life and advanced through the ranks.
• Alba tried to escape, but Yang Fan used planar power to force him back into the battle.
• Alba recalled the nine Greater Demons and unleashed his final attacks, but Di Qiu'er and the other Soul Spirits overcame them with Yang Fan's guidance.
• Yuanen Yehui confronted Alba about the slaughter of her family, and Alba claimed Ujie had given him the opportunity but that he had not led the original attack.
• Yang Fan destroyed Alba with his Golden Dragon Claw, turning him into nourishment for the life core and reaching rank 95.